I totally agree with this article, people are not voting for candidates in this election they are voting against candidates - in my opinion this is not a smart course of action. This fully illustrates that the general public has lost all faith in politics, me included. It's a game in which I will not participate, go ahead and vote.....how's that going for you?
FTA:
"More precisely, it is a rejection of a bipartisan political elite that's lost touch with the people they are supposed to serve. Based on our polling, 51% now see Democrats as the party of big government and nearly as many see Republicans as the party of big business. That leaves no party left to represent the American people."
thanks Wes!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Seth Kills it Again
"Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year.
Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here."
Deliberately Uninformed.
Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here."
Deliberately Uninformed.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Simpsons Explains How Banksy Did the Opening Scene
"I think that we should always be able to say the holes in our DVDs are poked by unhappy unicorns."
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
New Halloween Mix from MAD DECENT
so good, I haven't heard most of these jams in over a decade. 10000 HOMO DJ's doing Sabbath? man that takes me back, I need to find that 12" great shit! Early 90's flashsback!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
the Vinyl Conflict
still looking for some of those elusive SLAYER records that have been out of print? Yeah me too - I'm missing a couple. Anyway SLAYER is repressing all of them from Reign in Blood to now as a special box set. Thanks for the tip Colin!
Brooklyn Space Program
these guys launch a camera and an iPhone into space via a weather balloon. This is so cool!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Chipotle Ditched Ad Agencies
Mr. Crumpacker(Chief Marketing Officer) points out that the chain hasn't added a menu item in 17 years and it also does not have a regular cadence of pricing promotions. For those reasons, he said, agencies' experience with other fast food chains is irrelevant.
"We've looked at TV; we've looked at it all," Mr. Crumpacker said. "Chipotle was built on word-of-mouth marketing. We're focused on reigniting word-of-mouth marketing, rather than big advertising campaigns."
Love this kind of attitude, and I still love Chipotle.
"We've looked at TV; we've looked at it all," Mr. Crumpacker said. "Chipotle was built on word-of-mouth marketing. We're focused on reigniting word-of-mouth marketing, rather than big advertising campaigns."
Love this kind of attitude, and I still love Chipotle.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Facebook to Become Bigger than Google in 5 Years
Pretty cool read if you're into this kind of stuff.....
FTA:"Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that."
FTA:"Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that."
Monday, October 4, 2010
Golf Photo
This shot of Tiger Woods is cool – but check out the dude on the right side of the picture with the turban and the cigar, wtf???
Friday, October 1, 2010
Why Are Records 12 Inches Across?
Around the same time that Thomas Edison was working on recording and playing back sound on cylinders, Berliner was doing similar experiments with flat discs.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Overcoming a Bias - You May Have an Opinion!
Signs that your opinions function more to signal loyalty and ability than to estimate truth. #9 - You find it easy to conclude that those who disagree with you are insincere or stupid.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Murakami at Versailles
The Takashi Murakami show features 22 works including 11 site-specific pieces which aim to create a story within a story. Curator Laurent Le Bon states, "The unique experience seeks above all to spark a reflection of the contemporary nature of our monuments and indispensable need to create out own era." Murakami ties the past to the future by placing bizarre brightly-coloured creatures in ornately decorated stately rooms. The show will be running until 12 December 2010.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Artworks by Leonid Afremov
I love this guy's work, so much paint he's using on the canvas, like frosting.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Big Joe Williams
Of course I was turned onto this by AC/DC as a kid, but man Big Joe was the first to play it and he's playing a 9 string guitar. I bet Matt Pike digs this 9 stringer.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Digging in the Crates
this is pretty good short essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic on why Andy Rooney doesn't know music. A friend of mine in college would always argue with me about music, I was into anything outside the mainstream and he was into classic rock. All of our arguments ended the same way - I could talk about any band he knew of, but he could never talk about bands I knew of. Ta-Nehisi breaks it down - "Whatever you think of the music, no self-respecting hip-hop head, at that time, could ever get away with saying, "Man, I don't be listening to no Ella Fitzgerald!" Your friends would have looked at you like you were crazy. Knowledge—not the kind of ignorance Rooney evinces here—was prized."
Friday, August 13, 2010
Women in the Tattoo Subculture
maybe because I have been watching so much Miami Ink on the Wii/Netflix - I've had tattoos on the brain, anywhoo here's a brief photoessay on girls that have some ink. NSFW
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Campbell's CEO Sends Letter to Warhol
this is so cool, can you imagine what would happen today with all the lawyers and copyright nonsense?
Monday, August 2, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
On July 25th 1980
Back in Black is released by AC/DC. The first album I ever had on vinyl that was my very own. My Uncle Mickey gave it to me on my 10th birthday in 1980. Yes, I still own it. I loved it so much and with some dough from my Grandma from the same birthday I went to the record store and bought Highway to Hell. And then my love affair with Bon Scott began. I truly believe Back and Black is a stellar album but can't to think of what it might have been if Bon had stayed alive. Anyway here's some more on Back in Black.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
the Real Life Social Network
brilliant deck from a UX Designer at Google. If you're interested in what's happening right now and where the web is trending this is a must read for you. Thanks Paul.
RIP Harvey Pekar
forget the stupid news about a basketball player leaving Ohio. The real news, sad news is that Harvey Pekar has passed on. Brilliant writer and fellow record enthusiast, at least we have the comics.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Cut Chemist
Different than the traditional mix CD using two turntables, this exclusive offering was created live using only one turntable, a mixer, a loop pedal and all original vinyl pressings.
Friday, July 2, 2010
the Death of Touch and the Lost Joy of the Unexpected
great read FTA:
"I spent much of my youth, from the moment I could drive, rifling through the musty bins of the used record stores on Coventry Road in Cleveland looking for hidden gems (where I first heard Yo La Tengo playing while I shopped). After college, in NYC, I spent even more hours on St. Mark's rifling through even bigger bins at five or six stores along one small block - they are all gone now. After moving to San Francisco, just over a decade ago, I was introduced to Amoeba Records, a massive former bowling alley on Haight Street still filled with literally millions of pieces of music. Although it still survives, I haven't been in years. I have probably spent a few thousand hours of my life collecting music, flipping through vinyl, inspecting the grooves, breathing in the unique smells of the stores, chatting with the overeducated clerks and peering over the shoulders of the surrounding hipsters looking for tips. "
"I spent much of my youth, from the moment I could drive, rifling through the musty bins of the used record stores on Coventry Road in Cleveland looking for hidden gems (where I first heard Yo La Tengo playing while I shopped). After college, in NYC, I spent even more hours on St. Mark's rifling through even bigger bins at five or six stores along one small block - they are all gone now. After moving to San Francisco, just over a decade ago, I was introduced to Amoeba Records, a massive former bowling alley on Haight Street still filled with literally millions of pieces of music. Although it still survives, I haven't been in years. I have probably spent a few thousand hours of my life collecting music, flipping through vinyl, inspecting the grooves, breathing in the unique smells of the stores, chatting with the overeducated clerks and peering over the shoulders of the surrounding hipsters looking for tips. "
Thursday, July 1, 2010
DAIM
check this guy out. Some of the coolest 3D graf I have ever seen. More on his own personal site here.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
July New Yorker Cover
only posting for imagery and my love for Escher, not for any political comment on the gulf accident. Excellent illustration from Bob Staake ala M.C. Escher.
Monday, June 28, 2010
I LOVE the New High Life Cans
these are bloody brilliant and I bought a pack last week just because of the packaging, well and that and my love for cheap beer!
I saw a great flick last night
The King of Comedy De Niro and Scorsese in 1982. Bloody brilliant, lots of Taxi Drivers parallels.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Happy Birthday LP!
1948: Columbia Records puts the needle down on history’s first successful microgroove plastic, 12-inch, 33-1/3 LPs in New York, sparking a music-industry standard so strong that the digital age has yet to kill it.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Inforgraphic on Major Oil Spills of the Past Century
Interesting stuff and puts in to perspective the current spill in the Gulf
Thursday, June 17, 2010
I'll Be Your Love
Truly, Madly, Deeply sung by Hooligans, I fucking love this stuff. An ad from the genius that is PUMA.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Ebert Reviews *cough* Sex in the City 2
Electric Boogaloo...... no, kidding. I mean Evert does review it, I'm not sure why though? I'd much rather read his take on Human Centipede but he has vowed not to review that one.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Crazy Train
Randy Rhoads......still got so much soul, yeah I know we've all heard Crazy Train ten thousand times from TV, sport events, elevator muzak etc...... but man it's clips like this that get me through the afternoon......
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
RIP Frank Frazetta
Truly a legend.
Illustrator, comic artist and book cover artist, Frank Frazetta died today at the age of 82. Through his iconic paperback covers of muscular men and half-naked women, he defined what many of us now think of as fantasy. Frank thanks for the amazing art and giving us a hero like Conan. You will be missed.
Illustrator, comic artist and book cover artist, Frank Frazetta died today at the age of 82. Through his iconic paperback covers of muscular men and half-naked women, he defined what many of us now think of as fantasy. Frank thanks for the amazing art and giving us a hero like Conan. You will be missed.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Fantastic Interview with Jerry Casale of DEVO
really stop what you are doing and read this.
Going back to your early days. You were present at the Kent State shootings in 1970. How did that day affect you?
Jerry Casale: Whatever I would say, would probably not all touch upon the significance or gravity of the situation at this point of time? It may sound trite or glib. All I can tell you is that it completely and utterly changed my life. I was white hippie boy and than I saw exit wounds from M1 rifles out of the backs of two people I knew. Two of the four people who were killed, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, were my friends. We were all running our asses off from these motherf&*$#ers. It was total utter bullshit. Live ammunition and gasmasks – none of us knew, none of us could have imagined. They shot into a crowd that was running. I sopped being a hippie and I started to develop the idea of devolution. I got real, real pissed off.
Going back to your early days. You were present at the Kent State shootings in 1970. How did that day affect you?
Jerry Casale: Whatever I would say, would probably not all touch upon the significance or gravity of the situation at this point of time? It may sound trite or glib. All I can tell you is that it completely and utterly changed my life. I was white hippie boy and than I saw exit wounds from M1 rifles out of the backs of two people I knew. Two of the four people who were killed, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, were my friends. We were all running our asses off from these motherf&*$#ers. It was total utter bullshit. Live ammunition and gasmasks – none of us knew, none of us could have imagined. They shot into a crowd that was running. I sopped being a hippie and I started to develop the idea of devolution. I got real, real pissed off.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Make It Rain
no, no not Fat Joe and Lil' Wayne..... it's Tom Waits with Russell Simmons and Judah Bauer from the Blues Explosion.
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