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posted August 9, 2017 #

@jamiebradley @AshSpurge cool group text

posted August 9, 2017 #

I bought Serge Gainsbourg's 1987 synth-rap album from the .99 cent bin and it's such a breathtaking trainwreck I ca… https://t.co/smniemLP6a

Gloria Petyarre

posted August 9, 2017 #

There is no digital representation of the paintings of Gloria Petyarre that can do them justice. The Australian Aboriginal artist creates enormous canvas pieces depicting Bush Medicine Dreaming. A bit more on that:
Bush medicine leaves derive from a particular native shrub which grows abundantly in the desert regions of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. During the life of the plant, the leaves change colour and exhibit different medicinal properties. The artists who paint this story represent the leaves as they float to the ground, and they employ a range of brush strokes and colours to represent the leaves at different times of the year.
Peruse the Leaves collection and you will see intricate, massive, wavelike patterns. It's hard to imagine the process of actually creating these pieces and an immersive experience to see them in person at the scale they were intended.

posted August 9, 2017 #

here it is. the most amazing scene in television history. this was written, filmed, edited and broadcast on actual… https://t.co/l0LAyV1whh

posted August 9, 2017 #

Let's try to redirect the visceral physical panic and fear we feel for ourselves (hi) to the people in, say, Seoul

George Blood, The Great 78 Project

posted August 9, 2017 #

The Internet Archive has undertaken a new endeavor, The Great 78 Project, in which they aim to digitize as many 78rpm records as they are able to. The first batch of results looks to be nearly 26,000 records courtesy George Blood, L.P. digitization. That's an overwhelming amount of music to parse through and I can only hope someone starts compiling playlists to help grapple with the largess of it all.

In the meantime, just cruise through the listings and click whatever catches your eye. Chop Suey Mambo, Pickin' the Chicken, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas and Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition seem like a good a place to start as any. Or you could go a bit more classic with the likes of Baby, It's Cold Outside, Jeepers Creepers, House of the Rising Sun or Over the Rainbow.

The crackle and static of the recordings may be a bit distracting at first but I find it somewhat charming.

BANANA - Live

posted August 9, 2017 #

During the recent Bandcamp initiative to donate their profits to Trans Rights, I revisited my wishlist and rediscovered some gems I'd always meant to spend more time with but hadn't gotten around to. One such treasure was LIVE album from BANANA, a collection of artists with just one release as far as I can tell.
It's a Saxophone meets Vibraphone Swirl and I can't stop listening to it. It's a bit jazzy improvisational, a bit Philip Glass and all delightful.

posted August 9, 2017 #

But guys, how great is the punk rock

posted August 8, 2017 #

Best funeral home name I’ve ever seen https://t.co/9uFQTtohHx

TMBG - Frank O'Toole 1987

posted August 8, 2017 #

The other day I awoke with They Might Be Giant's "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" stuck in my head. Obsessive morning listening led me to discover a 1987 radio show appearance from the band that I'd never heard before - The Frank O'Toole Show. O'Toole was a WFMU DJ and, clearly, a friend of the band. They spend a solid hour goofing around, playing Dial-A-Song recordings and early demos of their own. It embodies everything that I loved about the band when I first discovered them; it's weird, legitimately funny and filled with great songs. You can get the full TMBG Wiki insight on the performance right here.

Oh, and you can hear the original demo for "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" - which led me there in the first place.

Oats Studios

posted August 8, 2017 #

Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium director) launched an experimental film studio called Oats Studio. They've posted a number of films on YouTube and a handful of them are absolutely worth watching. Rakka feels pulled straight from Blomkamp's playbook with a dystopian future overrun by aliens, Fluke is an uncanny valley animation of depressing weaponry experiments and Cooking with Bill is.. well, just gross.

But there's a twist! For Oats Studio is not just a studio, it's a "Lab". Here's the official writeup:
The Studio is an independent incubator of ideas with the capacity to handle all aspects of production from start to end. Oats Studios works in an open source format with the audience by allowing the fans to interact with the filmmakers and the studio directly, and allowing the fans access to the actual film's assets to then merge with their own creativity.
That last bit is certainly the outlier from any other movie studio. You can actually Download the assets from each film and then do... whatever? It's possible that your ideas might even get worked into a future volume of works. How that works with royalties and IP is probably a little murky but that seems like a problem to worry about when it becomes a problem.

For those of us that aren't going to be creating new works, it's an interesting user to follow on YouTube as you do get a variety of work from some rather clever filmmakers.

American Vandal

posted August 8, 2017 #

Have you seen the trailer for Netflix's American Vandal? Is this satire? Is this a parody that will only be revealed in the last minutes of the final episode? Or will the story come to expose some horrible reality that's hard to swallow? Whatever it is, I'm amused, a bit baffled and certainly intrigued.

posted August 7, 2017 #

about to eat a peach in public. plz pray for me

posted August 7, 2017 #

Pauly Shore... still got it* https://t.co/PdAhpfI5qr

posted August 7, 2017 #

CSS attribute position:sticky? Where was that when I was a web developer??

posted August 7, 2017 #

5 years ago today, team @VHXtv assembles in my apartment for the first time https://t.co/HR9HcGU2b4

posted August 7, 2017 #

My favourite subset of internet video is dogs that think their owners are drowning and this one is gold https://t.co/Yiv2MMZHFt

Tyler Hildebrand

posted August 7, 2017 #

I caught The Retirement Party exhibition from Tyler Hildebrand over the weekend and rather enjoyed the massive installation of works. Much like his portfolio site, the works are presented as a huge wall of works crammed side-by-side. Stylistically it ranges from strange folk art (see Peanuts rugs and toilet seat covers), bizarre character sketches and collages with just the right amount of pop-culture references. I won't lie, the Roseanne series of images caught my eye not because of their overt nostalgia but because they just served as a familiar jumping off point for something interesting.
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