Monday, April 4, 2011

You Took My Name

nice

How to Steal Like an Artist

this really hits home for me, this also keeps in line with my philosophy and not seeing movies like the Titanic or wasting time listening to top 40 music.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Regulate on Toy Instruments

this is really is Fucking Fantastic!

R.I.P. Nate Dogg

New SLAYER Jersey

nice

Hollywood is Out of Ideas

but of course you didn't need me to tell you that, here's a list of 10 low budget flicks that changed hollywood and movie making.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Hidden Images on Album Covers

Gonna dig a few of these up so I can see 'em myself

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

365 Days of A

this guy is driving a Model A for a year and blogging about it.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Stephan Tillmans

Takes pictures of TV sets the split second after they turn on. Killer.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

1965 Vespa SS

this guy mounted a camera to his chest and is riding in Santa Barbara on one of my favorite Vespa's the 1965 Vespa Super Sport. A pretty shot of how it feels to ride an old scooter.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

JCPenny Rebrands

the P and E in the new logo fucks with my eye.....I prefer the old logo, JCP BOLD!

Misery Bear Goes to Work

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

While My Turntables Gently Weep

this is a pretty decent rant on why DJ's are so boring today - and the state of clubs and scenes built around music these days. It goes much deeper than the vinyl vs digital DJ but there is a good arguement there as well.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Rocky Mountain Diner Closes!

man, I love this joint in the famous "Ghost Building". What a shame.

Friday, February 18, 2011

2011 Skateboarding

there is some serious work going on here

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wisconsin Democrats Flee State

Wow! there is some interesting stuff going on in our country. I can't believe that they have left the state in order to hold up a vote. And since there's no money government workers are being asked to cover more of their medical benefits and their pensions. Hmmmmm just like the rest of us!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Caligraphy

R.I.P. Rick Kulwicki

Sad news in Denver today. Read more

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011

Obama

This is not right, stop spending money we don't have. How can he run a trillion over budget this year alone but tell us he's saving a trillion over 10 years? Utterly irresponsible - President Barack Obama released a $3.73 trillion budget for fiscal-year 2012 Monday.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

We Are the Doorways

new record from RJD2, sounds like a break from his usual stuff..... now onto his obsession with SciFi Movies form the late 70's and Early 80's..... the Insane Warrior you can definately hear RJ though.....

Friday, February 4, 2011

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Tolstoy's 10 Rules for Living

Get up early (five o’clock)
Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock)
Eat little and avoid sweets
Try to do everything by yourself
Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for evry minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater
Keep away from women
Kill desire by work
Be good, but try to let no one know it
Always live less expensively than you might
Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer

Friday, January 28, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Sampled Room

I love this!

Monday, January 24, 2011

SPOTS

this is so cool, having myself spent tons of time in parking lots and other ignored concrete areas - - - I can relate brother.


TRAVIS COLLIER 'SPOTS' from Mike McKinlay on Vimeo.

the Beast Publishes it's 50 Most Loathsome Americans

full of gems like this:

34) Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga)
Charges: A Madonna doppelganger with scoliosis and a knack for trite, overproduced and formulaic drivel. Not nearly as controversial as she imagines. She pissed off Jerry Seinfeld? Meh. My heart’s not really in this one. She makes shitty music. Who fucking cares. Probably you. You sicken me. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Aggravating factor: Excessive consonant repetition.
Sentence: Tracheotomy.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Stars on Bikes

love the old pics..... thanks Coudal!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Stranahan's Sells to an East Coast Company

fuck the East Coast
'tis my favorite whiskey though and I wish them luck!

What Diplo has Been Playing Out this Month

some bangers in here

Friday, January 7, 2011

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Best MashUps of 2010

some good ones in here

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

My Top Ten Albums for 2010

I'm not a writer as you probably know by now and I sure as hell hate describing music but we're gonna keep this tradition going. These are my top albums of 2010. Again if it didn't come out on vinyl it doesn't exist. I'm sure I forgot a few but here goes.... in no order:

Forrest Swords - "Dagger Paths" - super trippy dubstep-esque

Grinderman - "2" - straight ahead rock and roll with some good noise

Ted Leo + Pharmacists - "Brutalist Bricks" - I can sing this in the shower, Ted keeps rolling

Spoon - "Transference" - best pop crafted songs, I never get enough SPOON

unFact - "Bleached Valentine" - David WM. Sims experimental bass/guitar project - etherial and dron

Four-Tet - "There is Love in You" - trippy repeative music with vocals as an instrument

Kvelertak - "Kvelertak" - metal album of the year for me, so good, in the same vein as Turgonegro

Coliseum - "House With a Curse" - another good rock record, nothing you haven't heard before but I'm feeling it

Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - sparse beats and all around electro weirdness

Caribou - "Swim" - more electronic goodness

the Roots - "How I Got Over" - just cause they're on TV doesn't mean they don't rip - a solid hiphop chunk for 2010

Black Mountain - "Wilderness Heart" - kinda retro, fun to pull on the influences and I love the male/female lead vocal swaps

SKREAM - "Outside the Box" - king of Dubstep makes a more accessible album, but it still kills

Sharon Jones + Dap Kings
- "I Learned the Hard Way" - sweet, sweet soul this album just kills it

High on Fire - "Snakes for the Divine" - crushing metal from Matt Pike and the boys - you know what it sounds like just turn it up

Dead Weather - "Sea of Cowards" - more heavy on the Jack White than the last album but rocky and groovy

Aloe Blacc - "Good Things" - this one hit me from nowhere a solid modern soul record

Flaming Lips - "Dark Side of the Moon" - this doesn't hit the decks too much but I love the effort, "Embryonic" is good too...

OFF! - "First Four EP's" - makes me wanna go skate

Thou - "Summit" - the most brutal sludge Baton Rouge has to offer this one just slays

White Hills - "Dead in Circles" - reissue but killer, wall of sound knock your teeth out space rock

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Jan Jones for Versace

The 'Mad Men' actress poses completely nude, covered up by a well positioned hand bag for the Spring/Summer campaign for Versace accessories.

Monday, December 13, 2010

New Comedy Central Identity

I know this is getting the cranky designers out there talking about about how lame this is, but I disagree. This is great.

the old logo was weak - blue buildings and the talk bubble - I never liked it. This one is clean and simple, AND I like that it looks like the Copyright mark too. Bring on the new. Good job CC designer.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Friday, December 3, 2010

Henry Gets Violent for National Geographic

“During shows, I have been burned with cigars and cigarettes, butane lighters. Keys have been stabbed into me. I’ve been hit with ashtrays, fists, feet, whatever.”

10 Slowed Down Pop Songs

now I can get into Katy Perry

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010

Interesting Article on Airliine Security

FTA:
"A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.

Take all the money spent on new security measures and spend it on investigation and intelligence.

This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it."

New Album from Electric Wizard

Black Masses

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

30 Rock is Really Just the Muppet Show

what a ripoff!!!! - great read!

Hourly Cost to Fly the President Around in AF1

$181,000 an hour I know we gotta protect him and he needs this, but man to hear the actual number is a bummer to say the least.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

US Budget

If I had to pick one thing about politicians in this country it would be to ask them to balance the fucking budget. This is a nice interactive graphic that lets you slash budget items and see how they play out in the future. Well done graphic designer, well done.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Danny MacAskill

another video from Danny, beautifully shot by RedBull

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Fifty Stars with Lipdub Kid

this made me wet myself a little bit

Monday, November 8, 2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Caught Dead in That

Indeed

Vote Against

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!

Tuesday, October 26, 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.

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.

Banksy Takes on the Simpsons

nice one!

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."

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

Pantone VISA Cards

these are bloody brilliant!

Monday, September 27, 2010

He's Fucking Dead

Pat Tillman's brothers speech at his funeral. Balls, and the right call.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Joy Division Law Firm

this is a gag right? with the Factory logo and all??

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

Free Climbing a Ridiculous Tower

this makes my hands sooooooooooooo sweaty

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

Tashi Mannox

some killer calligraphy from Mr. Mannox

Friday, September 3, 2010

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Is It Because?

sweet soul on a Thursday afternoon, check this track from Syl Johnson.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Yahoo Answers

holy cow these are funny

Barry McGee Bombs Houston Corner

Simple red tags all over the wall, a nice bit.