If you happen to see either of these men…

…ask them when they are going to get off of their fat asses and produce something close to good music again.
Damn!

Sincerely,
Bart Silverfish
Blissink Records

Black Lips

Black Lips
Good Bad Not Evil
[Vice; 2007]

Rating: 8.3

Black Lips can, to date, be depended on for raucousness, irresponsibility, occasionally pissing in their own mouths onstage, and sloppy garage tunes indebted to noise and punk as much as the band's Southern roots. Given all that, the idea of them hitting anything outside of a niche audience seemed slim. They're a go-to band for filth-rock puritans, even as their unhinged live shows have helped them slowly gain a larger audience with each album's release.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com

Print enlightenment

Art as interaction

Local Projects is turning museums into places where people interact with information—and each other. Its latest commission will have the whole country joining the conversation.

By Angela Starita


SOURCE: PrintMag.com

Animal Collective

Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
[Domino; 2007]

Rating: 9.3

In March, Animal Collective's Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) had his breakout moment with the release of Person Pitch. It was his first solo album that didn't sound like what we'd previously heard from Animal Collective; sample-heavy and based on loops, the album's songwriting devices favored expansion and contraction over conventional chord changes. Person Pitch reflected Panda's interest in dance music-- even when it veered toward the angelic pop innocence forever associated with the harmony-drenched hits of the 1960s and 70s. Both the album and its transcendent centerpiece, "Bros", are deservedly being widely considered among the year's best.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com

I love you, in Irish

Gilliam's Island

The alternative to
the All-American,
family-fun movies
of the last 5 years.

NOTE: Not for the faint of heart

Salad Fingers (7 episodes)

OMG!

A poem: If I Owned the Internet

How many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? "If I were in charge of the Internet," Rives says, "You could Mapquest your lover's mood swings/Hang left at cranky/Right at preoccupied/U-turn at silent treatment ..." Enjoy a unique talent.

About Rives


SOURCE: TED.com

A Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

A Cross-modal, cross-user, multidimensional experience
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

About Blaise Aguera y Arcas

SOURCE: TED.com

Dave Eggers: Where you at?

Before he started reading, he was talking about his process
for twisting Deng's voice into his own. This excerpt is one
of the first things he wrote when working on the book.
Moe's Books, Berkeley


There seems to be a suspicious lack of Dave Eggers on television these days. A scant few years ago you couldn't swing an old issue of Might without hitting a mention of the D to the E. He was last sighted at the 2005 Hay Festival of Literature & Arts.*
Upon further investigation we found this at McSweenys.com:

… In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent book-publishing house in San Francisco that puts out the McSweeney's quarterly literary journal; the monthly magazine The Believer; a daily humor website, www.mcsweeneys.net; and Wholphin, a DVD quarterly of short films. In 2002, Eggers opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of San Francisco, where he teaches writing to high-school students and runs a summer publishing camp; there are now branches of 826 in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and Ann Arbor, and in 2007 a seventh center will open in Boston. With the help of his workshop students, Eggers edits a collection of fiction, essays, and journalism called The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is also the co-editor of the Voice of Witness series of oral histories.
His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, Punk Planet, and The New Yorker. He has recently written introductions to new editions of books by Edward Wallant, John Cheever, and Mark Twain.
His most recent work is What Is The What:
Valentino Achak Deng, real-life hero of this engrossing epic, was a refugee from the Sudanese civil war-the bloodbath before the current Darfur bloodbath-of the 1980s and 90s. In this fictionalized memoir, Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) makes him an icon of globalization. Separated from his family when Arab militia destroy his village, Valentino joins thousands of other "Lost Boys," beset by starvation, thirst and man-eating lions on their march to squalid refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, where Valentino pieces together a new life. — Publishers Weekly

*In 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind".

SOURCE: zelo research

Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows

September 12, 2007–February 25, 2008 Painted or printed images on glass were among the earliest forms of projected "motion picture" entertainment. Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and dissolving views. Brightly colored, handcrafted slides, depicting human activity, fantasy figures, and landscapes, were typically presented with live narration, music, and sound effects, in what became popular by the 1870s as Magic Lantern shows. Experimental media artist Ernie Gehr's Panoramas of the Moving Image (2005) is a synchronized five-channel video installation that uses eighty-seven original slides and views selected from Gehr's personal collection and that of renowned pre-cinema collector David Francis. Projected side by side, the slides create a mesmerizing wide-screen spectacle. A selection of vintage paper Zoetrope strips and Phenakistiscope discs—complementary artifacts of nineteenth-century moving-image technology—are also on display.

Organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, and Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, Research and Collections *All dates are subject to change
SOURCE: MoMA.org

This video inspires smiles

Caribou's 'Melody Day' Song of the Week on BBC Radio 2

Melody Day is this week's record of the week on Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's show on BBC Radio 2.


SOURCE: www.caribou.fm

PJH, again!

The name is Hawk…Thomas Hawk

Photo courtesy of Zoomr.com

Only because you asked…

Absolutely heaven for fans of the genre.
Enjoy!

It tickles a little

St. Moist

MoistWorks is an audioblog started by James Morris* in April of 2004. A year later it was hijacked by a number of additional writers, many of them divas. We update Monday through Friday, putting up all sorts of music and as much text as the occasion seems to call for.

*JAMES MORRIS is the founder of moistworks. He played wide receiver briefly in the AFL. He is the editor of The Roxanne Diaries, the UTFO fan club newsletter.

Juicy Temples makes me thirsty

Klaus Heesch
Creative Director/Principal

Klaus learned his craft at various ad agencies and design studios. He was let out for good behavior and founded Juicy Temples in 1999. In the last eight years, he has won more than 100 awards at shows across the country. Besides his obvious talents, “Klaus makes this a refreshing place to work,” says Amanda Hutton. “Even when he starts singing — which happens all the time.”

Raised in Florida and a graduate of UCF, Klaus Heesch is a
nationally recognized designer. His work has been honored in
numerous publications and competitions including Communication
Arts, STEP Magazine, Print Regional Design Annual, Rockport’s
“1,000 Type Treatments”, “Great Graphic$ on a Budget”, and
“1,000 Greetings: Creative Correspondence Designed for All
Occasions,” the ADDYs, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA),
Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, and the Marketing
and Interactive Excellence (MIXX) Awards. He was also named Art
Director of the Year by the Orlando Advertising Federation.
Prior to founding Juicy Temples in 1999, Klaus served as an art
director and designer for various advertising agencies and design
studios working with clients as diverse as the United Way, Wet n’
Wild, Disney Cruise Lines and the House of Blues.

He has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences
and events. Recently an 8-page article in HOW Magazine featured
Klaus’s career path and the design work at Juicy Temples.

Side Note: An accomplished musician and songwriter, Klaus penned
the only song heard in ‘The Blair Witch Project.’



2424 E. Robinson St.
Orlando, Florida 32803
phone 407 895 5015
fax 407 895 1883
juicytemples.com

This just in from the Village Voice…

Clearing the Air
Sorting solid claims about the 9/11 toxic cloud from the obscuring haze of uncertainty

To understand how deeply New Yorkers hold the conviction that 9/11 environmental fallout is killing people, you need only to have attended the August 21 public meeting that was held in a chamber across from City Hall.


The topic was the disastrous August 18 fire in the heavily contaminated Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, which killed two firefighters. Only three weeks before the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks, here were city, state, and federal officials once again trying to downplay the possibility that the fire released environmental toxins into the neighborhood.

By Graham Rayman
September 4th, 2007 6:18 PM

SOURCE: VillageVoice.com, Wikipedia.org