links for 2006-01-31
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This trailer, as the Stranger points out, is ridiculously awesome.
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Good Juno-influenced band.
January 30, 2006 at 9:18 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-30
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More world as scale model photography
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Holy crap! New music from Arlie Carstens of Juno!
January 29, 2006 at 9:18 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-27
January 26, 2006 at 9:19 PM | TrackBack
Busy, busy, busy.
I've been busy, busy, busy. Big things on the horizon! More on that later, though. I'm just dropping back in for a moment to share some songs that I have had on a virtual loop for the last week or two:
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Editors - Camera
This song is just about perfect, especially the 2:41 mark. Wow.
I missed not one but two opportunities to see these guys last week, and the kicking-of-self commenced immediately. Interpol comparisons be damned - they may draw from the same well of influences, but they don't sound like they wouldn't exist w/o Interpol (She Wants Revenge, I'm looking at you here). -
Midlake - Roscoe
The immediate reference is CSNY, whom I've never really listened to, but there's something else going on here in a late 1970s rock sort of way that I can't quite put my finger on. But I like it. A lot. -
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
Perfect pop from their first album, which I finally got around to getting. Fantastic!
Good stuff!
January 25, 2006 at 11:03 AM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-24
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Fantastic aerial photos with tilt-shifted focus to make the city look like a miniature scale model. A friend of mine at school was doing work like this from atop the hill next to Dodgers Stadium. Uncanny results.
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Something in the water here. More of the same type of photography (here and the next three links).
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this is pretty great.
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I think this is the camera I'm going to work towards buying.
January 23, 2006 at 9:18 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-23
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I want this poster.
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I drove past this the other night and was going to return with my camera. But someone beat me to it. Sigh.
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This lineup has me buying tickets to my first ever coachella. It's gonna be awesome. I just hope Bell Biv Devoe and Ace of Base aren't playing at the same time - how can I choose?
January 22, 2006 at 9:18 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-22
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UO strikes again!
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Holy crap - James Karen - Frank from Return of the Living Dead is playing Uncle Ben? This is the first time I've felt even remotely interested in watching this film.
January 21, 2006 at 9:22 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-21
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Bill Thomas confided to a group of lobbyists that the GOP slashed social programs for the poor by $40 billion to help pay for $90 billion in new tax cuts...The net result of the Deficit Reduction Act will be a $50 billion increase in the deficit.
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Because it's always good to review and get angry.
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Nice write-up on some friends of mine for their work putting up the Tri-City Music Archives, an online archive of their local music scene.
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The song is from a 1983 PSA? Awesome. Stereogum has a brief, hilarious comparison video.
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This applies to naming just about anything, I think. And any post that digs at both Star Wars and L.Ron gets a good vote from me. Also: hilarious.
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The designer that put up this site borrowed (ahem) from Adaptive Path. And they didn't change the alt tags.
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Interesting story of the recent history of Snapper lawnmowers, and their decision to pull their products from Wal-Mart.
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In keeping with the apparent theme of the week, here's Ticketmaster stealing images from Kathryn. And here's Ticketmaster being served with a cease-and-desist.
January 20, 2006 at 9:23 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-20
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Cowscapes!
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As pointed out by preshrunk, Urban Outfitters has a recent history of plagiarizing designs, as evidenced here in Crownfarmer's experience.
January 19, 2006 at 9:24 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-19
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When not busy handing cash over to Rick Santorum, Urban Outfitters steals designs. Why would anyone shop there again, exactly?
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Side by side gallery of ads and their apparent admireres (ie, companies that stole and recreated the idea).
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I want this foam and tape, but I don't know Japanese.
January 18, 2006 at 9:25 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-18
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"Of the nine films I mentioned above, I’ve only seen two." Then why, exactly are you writing this article?
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Need to remember to check this out before it's over.
January 17, 2006 at 9:22 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-17
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"Only two kinds of grownups in modern American life who show up in public with as many contusions, lacerations, and bruises on their faces on such a regular basis as George W. Bush: 1. Prizefighters; and 2. Falling down drunks."
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Bush, visiting troops in a veteran's hospital, jokes that he too has sustained injuries, while fighting a cedar. Thankfully, he "eventually won."
January 16, 2006 at 9:23 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-16
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Sad, bizarre story about Eric Red, the writer of Near Dark (best vampire movie ever). If the story is true, he's a selfish, irresponsible man, whose suicidal tendencies led him to kill two others, and he's evading the consequences.
January 15, 2006 at 9:22 PM | TrackBack
Night of Fire!
I don't know if this has already pinged its way across the web of the world of the wide world wide web, but a good friend of mine just tipped me off to this video. Let's run it through the Star fantasy checklist and see how it does:
- gold lamé capes - check
- fire, including the breathing of - check
- hot girls in coordinated outfits singing in engrish - check
- tanks - nope
- large man in a speedo showing said hot girls how it's done (dancing, that is) - check
- gargoyle/dragon imagery - check
- vaguely masonic symbols - check
- well-placed, enthusiastic "yeah!"s - check
- handclaps - nope
- snacks, and eating thereof - check
January 14, 2006 at 1:17 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-14
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Not much new here for anyone familiar with Wachowski's SM/crossdressing story, except for the revelation that he's now going by Laurenca legally. Oh, that, and they're framing this as the reason the Matrix sequels didn't do as well as the original.
January 13, 2006 at 9:21 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-13
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3 Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against this. I'm curious to know who.
January 12, 2006 at 9:21 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-12
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One of the few new cars that I'd actually want to drive. Course, I could take the original, too.
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Why is there still no US DVD release of this?
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I know nothing about this, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Oh, Google stock, why do I continue to be too poor to buy you?
January 11, 2006 at 9:25 PM | TrackBack
He's an actor, but...
... what he really wants to do is rap. According to Allhiphop, Patrick Swayze "is finally experimenting with rap music." (Their words, my emphasis. Who was waiting for this? Oh, right, ME.) In the Swayzlestick's words, he's using “rap rhythms as an emotional undercurrent for ballads.”
I'd make some jokes about this (or his recent appearance in a Ja Rule video), but everybody knows nobody puts Baby in the corner, lest they invoke the throat-ripping wrath of Dalton.
Instead, I'll try to be constructive, and point Mr. Swayze in the direction of my good friend Alex, who has at least one hot rhyme up for grabs in his Free Unused Rap Lyric Compendium. That should help start Swayze on his undoubtedly illustrious rap career, even if it does indebt him to a private performance for Alex.
January 10, 2006 at 9:34 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-11
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So JT Leroy possibly never even existed? Weird. I could have sworn I saw a picture of a guy with long hair shaved on the sides that was supposed to be him at some club. I certainly hadn't seen this mid-80s-Richie-Sambora-hatted housewife before.
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completely missed this, but it's pretty definitive/comprehensive, and gives a lot more info than the nytimes story. and seriously, what's up with that hat?
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Of the awful, awful Crash: "I know the scene where Racism pushes Sandra Bullock down a flight of stairs deserves some kind of award."
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This image works on at least four levels. Fantastic.
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The "growing sand" in Vernon, Florida was real? (Not sand, but gypsum, which responds to changes in humidity).
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Check the audio samples!
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Very remniscient of Catherine Opie's "Ice Houses."
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A very good year for funeral coaches, apparently.
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The Washington Post's "official mashup center?" Are there any other major media outlets doing this?
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Woah. Four family members lived downstairs, and the caregiver checked in on the body every day? Watch the video and find out why they thought she might come back to life.
January 10, 2006 at 9:21 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-10
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"Is anyone else tired of living in a parody of a real country?" (Note, that as a followup to the f the south & f xmas pieces from the same author, there's a lesson: buy a new domain name rather than post to a single blog, and get linked every time.)
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James Frey's "autobiography," A Million Little Pieces, is apparently a little less than truthful. His lies made Oprah cry - tsk, tsk.
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Handy app - adobe's response to aperture?
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Well, timing makes it a response to Aperture, despite the fact that it's been in development for years.
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It's rare to see an artist with this much of his work up online and so accessible. Fantastic stuff here.
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good good good.
January 9, 2006 at 9:23 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-07
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My title, not his. His guesses (his term, not mine) at what happens over the next year doesn't look good. Except for the part about the Republican party being relegated to junk status.
January 6, 2006 at 9:21 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-06
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I was going to take a stern admonishing tone about this, but then I thought of the number of times I've self-cauterized Viet-Cong-inflicted bullet wounds with my knife since I saw Rambo and thought it might come across as hypocritical.
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Slightly less deep thoughts than usual from Jack Handey.
January 5, 2006 at 9:20 PM | TrackBack
The Bronco Swap Meet Biennale
The Bronco Swap Meet Biennale occurs this weekend in El Paso. The described "Project on Mercantilism and Society" reconfigures the notion of the gallery, placing art and cultural production in the ultimate commerce context - a large swap meet along the southern border. As described on the Biennale's page:
The twenty-eight (28) national and international participants include artists, writers, and lawyers, all with an interest in creative and non-traditional modes of cultural production, inter-relations, and artistic dictates. Although the project will only take place over a two-day period, the residue will remain on this site as an archive of the event. Some participants have expressed an interest in sharing their ideas, concepts, challenges, and procedures as they relate to this project. These thoughts and reflections will also be shared with the viewing audience...the experience and event will reside in the cultural and social capital created by the belief in, and experience and conviviality created by, this mode of expression, dissemination, and exchange.
I was invited to participate in The Bronco Swap Meet Biennale by a former professor (and current good friend) of mine, Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento. I'm honored and excited to be in such good company.
Sergio is documenting the entire process digitally and placing it online - right now, you can see most of the contributions, and there's some pretty fantastic stuff up. (I'm especially excited to see Joey Lehman Morris' "Another Bouquet for Bas Jan Ader: Old Man of My Dreams, Old Man of the Sea (From Sunrise to Sunset December 27, 2005),” an unfixed silver-gelatin print that will "will rapidly begin to diminish once exposed to light." (If you're not familiar with the work and legacy of Bas Jan Ader, do yourself a favor and get to reading.))
I don't know yet if Sergio only plans on selling the items at the Swap Meet itself, or if any unsold items will be available for purchase online afterwards. If so, get to buying, people - all proceeds will go to establishing a grant for anyone interested in studying the relation between law and visual culture.
Update: This post is opened up for updates (and feedback) for Clancco and those interested in the project via the comments, as a makeshift blog for the project. Keep an eye open here for developments!
January 5, 2006 at 7:52 PM | Comments (13) | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-05
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The total price tally here makes me wonder if it isn't more economical to just buy one of these outright from one of the many manufacturers that have sprung up in the past three years or so.
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I wish I were talented enough to do this.
January 4, 2006 at 9:20 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-03
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Hmm ... how difficult will it be to make a 10 foot pane of this stuff to jump through? Because I think the world needs footage of me jumping through a sugar glass window.
January 2, 2006 at 9:20 PM | TrackBack
links for 2006-01-02
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I used to draw out mazes on graph paper. They were never any good, as I'd invariably make a pretty direct route and then add unconvincing dead ends to the path. This would have made things much easier.
