Category: Blog
Fumble
oops from Chris Beckman on Vimeo. Love LOve LOVE this video. It’s the winner of the 2010 Vimeo awards for experimental film. Camera fumbles are the new dissolve! via Vulture
Que es mas macho, Snow Leopard or Yeti?
Scott and I updated our computers to Mac OS X Snow Leopard a couple of days ago. So far so good. Purportedly these are the enhancements and refinements that we are now enjoying: *Larger Icon Sizes *More Reliable Disc Eject *Sortable Search Results Source = www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html But rumor has it there’s a new OS X[…]
Eagle Nebula/Pillars of Creation Album Art
I’m thinking about starting a Eagle Nebula/Pillars of Creation Album Art tumblr page. I know there are more out there. So far, here’s what’s I’ve got:
Who’s That Microphone
There’s lots of amazing photos in the Nasa on the Commons photo stream. This shot of Kennedy touring Blockhouse 34 at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex is awesome. In this photo’s comments several people have asked about the possible identity of the man in sunglasses seated behind Kennedy. Is it Dr Evil? When I[…]
Never Kill A Snake With Your Bare Hands
TELEPHONEME | MK12 from MK12 on Vimeo. Whoa. Now that is some truly superb sound design. I am talking earache-of-the-sublime good. Plus, to these ears, it sounds like a new take on sonic hauntology. Sure there are some glitch elements at play in the piece but the way in which the sound designers placed the[…]
Eurovision Explained
Last year, we wondered aloud about the Eurovision song contest and… well… nobody could help us. Thankfully, now, FINALLY, our questions have been answered. In the June 28th edition of the New Yorker, Anthony Lane explains Eurovision. Gods of songs be praised! Just it time too, because Eurovision 2010 has unleashed this demonic meme-ster. If[…]
Vuvuzela Konzert
Brahms and Ravel on vuvuzela via Alex Ross. Yo Scott, what are these dudes sayin? (I got “Hello.”)
Sloganeering
Today I spent the morning at Rose City Middle School for career day. A friend of mine who teaches art there asked me to come and talk to his class about audio work and advertising. I talked to three different groups of students. All of the groups wanted to know if we ever produced spots[…]
National Poetry Month: The Mixtape
It’s been awhile since I’ve cooked up a book mixtape so let’s let this national poetry month playlist I worked up for my biweekly radio show on KABF stand in for my usual book music. The relation between the poems and song selection is fairly arbitrary. In some cases there is an obvious connection, in[…]
Mock Voyage
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 Considering starting a line of postcards starring Lucky. Mock up above. Thoughts?
Chronic City: A Mixtape
Image by Will Amato “By the time I found myself delivered to the lobby of Le Parker Meridien, I felt bullied, bruited about by staff and handlers, like David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, an incomprehensible film Perkus had weeks before insisted I watch, a treatise on luxuriant self-pity that now felt[…]
Background Rockstar
Watch CBS News Videos Online Lucky Dog Charles Wyrick runs up to NYC with local songwriter James Scott Cook to play with Julian Lennon on the CBS Early Show. I know! Check out Charles’ vest-less performance (above) and the interview. Proceeds to benefit Lupus research. We’re pleased to present one of Charles’ many brushes with[…]
Pedal Talk Vol. 2: Real Estate
The Pedals of Martin Courtney, IV: •MXR Phase 90 •Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory[…]
PODCAST PREMIER! Pedal Talk Vol. 1
At long last we’ve launched Pedal Talk, our new podcast devoted to talking about magic and mischievous guitar effects pedals. In this installment we focus on a quartet of stomp boxes currently residing in the esteemed pedal-board of Chris Michaels. Check it, in this episode we demo: • MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay • Electro-Harmonix[…]