Player
/ February 27, 2009 /
Amazing , Music / Posted by Michael
I’ve been really nostalgic as of late for some good old fashioned yacht rock. The band “Player” has taken me where I need to be taken!
Camera Obscura
/ February 27, 2009 /
Art , Video / Posted by Michael
A great little series about Caravaggio by Simon Schama’s Power of Art. PS, The links for episode 4-5 aren’t working, sorry.
“I wish they made fajita cologne, cause that shit smells good.”
/ February 26, 2009 /
Music / Posted by Michael
got the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album “It’s Blitz!” the other day… really, really good… here’s a sneak peak.
Let it Rock
/ February 24, 2009 /
Amazing , Design / Posted by Michael
Lifetime book / Keep a Breast
/ February 23, 2009 /
Art , Design / Posted by Michael
Got the new lifetime book this morning with some art direction I worked on with Jody Rogac and old man Trevor Flemming in Spain last November.. Also packed safely in the box was a ceramic bust, which I’ll be painting for a show Lifetime and Keep a breast have coming up. Keep u posted once it’s finished!
Data Moshing
/ February 23, 2009 /
Culture , Video / Posted by Michael
So i’ve been collecting photos of my computer screen freaking out in these wild color explosions for the last couple years… It just started happening one day, and would leave me with these nice little happy accidents on my screen. I guess I’m not the only one this has been happening to.. As of recently this computer malfunction has been labeled “Data Moshing”. It all happens when a compression algorithm slip-up can introduce surprising colors and patterns but retain strange motion memories of video or images on your video card (ie: the desktop image you are looking at right now while you read this)
Music videos are eating this stuff up.
Chairlift - “Evident Utensil”
Kanye West - “Welcome To Heartbreak”
Falling
/ February 23, 2009 /
Random & Interesting / Posted by Michael
Random & Interesting photos of people falling.
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
/ February 21, 2009 /
Documentary / Posted by Michael
From the Sundance Film Festival program:
“At 14, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the “demigods of Canadian metal,” releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982’s Metal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generation, including Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, that went on to sell millions of records. But Anvil’s career took a different path - straight to obscurity.
Director Sacha Gervasi has concocted a wonderful and often hilarious account of Anvil’s last-ditch quest for elusive fame and fortune. His ingenious filmmaking may first lead you to think this a mockumentary, but it isn’t. Gervasi joined the legendary heavy-metal band as a roadie for a tour of Canadian hockey arenas, so he has intimate insight into the members’ eccentricities. It’s fascinating to see the reality of their day-to-day lives as they struggle to make ends meet, take a misguided European tour, and engage in antics on the road - which is not always lined with fans. Gervasi even finds a softer center to this raucous film, introducing us to band members’ ever-supportive, but long-suffering, families. At its core, Anvil! The True Story of Anvil is a timeless tale of survival and the unadulterated passion it takes to follow your dream, year after year. Anvil rocks - it has no other choice.”
Imposter among us
/ February 21, 2009 /
Life / Posted by Michael
“Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.”
- Thomas Merton
toes and fingers
/ February 21, 2009 /
WTF? / Posted by Michael
