“Laughing at one’s own jokes — that’s a brief stroke toward schizophrenia.”
Raymond Pettibon, as interviewed by Jesse Nathan for the excellent More Things Like This
March 12, 2010
children & olafur eliasson by Ryan Jeffery
Beautiful little video by Ryan Jeffery, whom you may recognize as the guy who made that awesome Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose video I posted a couple days ago. Epic.
“Swinging the Lambeth Walk” by Len Lye
This is really wonderful. Circa 1939, filmed in awesomely-named Dufaycolor.
(via La Boca)
March 11, 2010
Christoph Niemann delivers another predictably wonderful blog post. This is fast becoming one of the things I most look forward to on the internet. So great.
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose “Younger”
Really lovely video by my very talented friend Ryan Jeffery. The album, Bridge Carols, is out now on my label, Holocene Music. More info and digital/physical purchase options here.
March 2, 2010
Beaumont Hannant “Psi-Onyx (Autechre Mix)”
Is there anything better than stumbling onto new-to-you tracks from a favorite period in a favorite artist’s discography? I just heard this song on Autechre’s Oversteps Radio stream (they’re mixing it live right this minute, and it’s very much worth listening to) and someone in the chat box there (which is maybe not as worth listening to) identified it for me. It sounds straight off Tri Repetae or Anvil Vapre, which is far and away my favorite Autechre musical period, and probably always will be (can’t say I’m super impressed with anything after the still-stunning LP5). Here’s a five (!) year old post I wrote featuring a couple gorgeous tracks from this era. The sense of infinite atmospheric space, crystalline precision and future-nostalgic yearning they had going back then still gives me chills. Since then they’ve gotten murkier and way, way less melodic. It’s (mostly) all texture, and sloppy texture at that. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for a return to form, but in the meantime, this will do. And maybe *cough* this too.
February 26, 2010
Graphic machine (Soulellis Studio)
This is a really nice-looking poster. Click through for more shots.
February 22, 2010
Kumisolo “Cheap Pop Song”
Directed by Rhett Dashwood
Playful, cute video featuring a whole bunch of fingers.
February 16, 2010
February 12, 2010
What’s Next in Web Design? →
People started using Twitter and Facebook for direct messages instead of E-mail because they require less physical manipulations to send a message. Future web designers will focus less on surface design but on speeding up processes by cutting [and] reducing physical manipulations. The best way to learn about speedy interfaces is to study everyday interfaces as doorknobs, drawers, shampoo bottles. Web designers need to learn more from traditional product designers.
Thought-provoking and largely right-on post over at Information Architecture. Not sure if I’m quite as on-board with CSS frameworks revolutionizing the web though. I find it’s a battle to keep them from making your code way less semantic, and I don’t like not understanding everything that’s going on behind the scenes — and yes, it’s not rocket science and I probably should understand this stuff, but hey, I’m learning. That said, the general goal behind these frameworks — focusing on functionality and not getting caught up in code and inane tweaks — is definitely something I can get behind.
February 11, 2010
February 9, 2010
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose →
The new release on the label I co-own, Holocene Music, is officially out today. This is exciting. It’s a really lovely, lush, ambient, emotive album, and I highly recommend checking it out. More info plus digital/physical purchase links here, and you can stream the whole thing below.
February 6, 2010
Procrastination by Johnny Kelly
This is really amazing. Love the mix of hand-drawn, digital, and stop-motion animation. Also, it’s way more colorful than the thumbnail would lead you to believe.
(via rgrjnr)
Nice Nice “Everything Falling Apart” (buy me)
Video by Yoshi Sodeoka. I wrote a bunch of stuff about how much I love Nice Nice here.
(via yacht)
February 5, 2010
“This week, we invite you to bring an article of bad news from a newspaper near you. They are not hard to find, I’m sure you can quickly find one about the economy, health care, hunger, food security, etc. We’re going to take that bad news and after sheet mulching it into soil it will become good news.”
Chris Burley, Hayes Valley Farm
So yeah, pretty stoked about this new urban farm starting up two blocks from my apartment. Seems like they’ve got the right idea.
