the intersection of Halloween and hip-hop beats needs to happen way more often

oooh! There's some great art to buy here https://t.co/0yNZFFVAeZ

The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election http://t.co/YWtLxNDjl2

Netflix's W/ BOB & DAVID proves its worth with this great first trailer http://t.co/mt2gsNS1el http://t.co/kfBhgJt3vW

I just made this Dancing Baby GIF. It will take a full year to finish animating?one frame every 4.74 days. Enjoy. http://t.co/xH7RIXnufA

Lol. "Contemporary Conformists wear loud neutrals to try to shock you with their naturalism." http://t.co/lnOt1hnspi

while I have weird feelings about the management change at MONDO, I do think these posters look great

really want this, not sure why but I do.

only interesting to Nashvillians but this is infuriating. I would love to hear the VALID argument against more public transportation. Infuriating this wasn't pushed through.

Video trailer for two new Feral House books on photographer William Mortensen. A few decades ago we spent a good deal of time at Anton LaVey’s “black house” in San Francisco’s Richmond District. On the walls and on the shelves were a lot of items to look at and consider. One photograph, seen in the kitchen, was a framed and signed photograph of a hunching woman overlapped by a depraved cloaked ghost. The photo was called “Fear,” and it was the work of the now obscure William Mortensen. Anton spoke of Mortensen’s influence in guiding him to understand the mechanics of “Lesser Magic,” or what affects people's reaction to what they see and absorb. Mortensen’s photographs like “Fear” are fascinating, but for years I resisted Mortensen’s reductive ideas regarding human behavior. It all seemed too reptilian to me. But there came the time when researcher Larry Lytle approached me about publishing a monograph on William Mortensen. This was a book we needed, a major figure of 20th century photography who was put aside by a new school of photography. Time had come to reconsider “The Master.” The interesting thing about Mortensen, I felt, was his bravery in approaching occult, grotesque and extreme material. And that's the emphasis of the American Grotesque book. A large, 300 page book that includes his life story, techniques, aesthetic battles, and loads of images never before published. We realized that we had published Mortensen’s work before, as the cover image of Manly P. Hall for the Process Media book, Master of the Mysteries. American Grotesque could not begin to cover everything interesting about William Mortensen and his work. So we decided to reprint Mortensen’s The Command to Look, and expand it with background on Mortensen's own beliefs and his influence upon occultists like Anton LaVey. These two Feral House books aim to recover appreciation for this extraordinary photographer and his methods. The printer proofs have arrived. What an exciting time at Feral Acres. We’ll have the two books available in October, at which time there’s going to be a large Mortensen exhibition at the Stephen Romano Gallery in Brooklyn, and following that a Mortensen exhibition at Roq LaRue Gallery in Seattle, then a December exhibition at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles. William Mortensen’s time has come again.

@yewknee the ?panini? https://t.co/WtdKHjAKfn

It's October! Okay, technically it was October last week but I was out of town and not really quite feeling the excitement of the Halloween season descending upon us. You know what I love the most about this time of year? Candy corn. Yea, that's right - the waxy, questionable, candy treat that's plagued kids treat bags for years is one of my favorites. Now you know a little something about me.

Enjoy these distractions:

• Pumpkin Dance - I'm going to post this every week until Halloween because it needs to be seen as much as humanly possibly. 3 million views? We can do better than that.
• American Ninja-saurus - nothing like an obstacle course in an extremely awkward dinosaur suit.
• Hey Folks - an hour of Marc Maron saying Hey Folks. How much can you endure??
• Sarah Moody on Hardly Art Records - Moody's take on what role a record label should play with an artist is exactly what I'm trying to do with yk records, though she states it way more eloquently than I ever could.
• Will Butler "Anna" - entertaining music video featuring Emma Stone dancing around. Not too shabby. There's a solid Song Exploder episode about this song too.
• Input/Output - I can't even begin to express what is happening here but there's a myriad of unexpected output from the inputs.
• Breakmaster Cylinder - Chordettes - I've been listening to a lot of Reply All lately and when they mentioned this Chordettes remix put to Horror movie clips, I knew it was an appropriate introduction to the Halloween season. And the song is bonkers.

They can't be embedded unfortunately but I highly suggest this series of Saddam Hussein replacing sad movie deaths series. Ridiculous.

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Mikey Burton the other week. His talk at Creative Works was hilarious and educational as a peek behind the curtain of how someone with such an immense portfolio goes about continuing to feel inspired and churn out new work, not just the same ole American Flag.

He has a great deal of amazingly balanced line work, subtle textures and entertainment throughout his undertakings. If you don't know, he's great. Pore over the work, please.

Really enjoying the latest from Memphis' artist Jake Vest, Summer Knowledge. It's the kind of air-y indie-rock that works great for hot summer days or brisk fall roadtrips - its just the right mix of upbeat feels and a twinge of melancholy. My favorite. I suggest just loading up track 1 and letting it roll. If you're not hooked by the time the rolling force of "Weeds in the Woods" comes through, you're a loon. Hear the whole thing here or on your preferred streaming music service.

When I think of InVision, I think of web software that aids designers not documentaries. However, they're the folks behind Design Disruptors, a documentary focused on the likes of Dropbox, Netflix, Pinterest, Spotify and the kind of company that has a focus on design as a means of driving their product. Granted, that focus can be questionable for some of the companies involved but the trailer looks to be pretty interesting.

In the end, cultivating more appreciation for Design and the world surrounding it can only be good for InVision so I applaud them for reaching into new media types to preach their philosophy.

i hope this amazingly cute puppy is also somehow tied to Avon Barksdale from The Wire

another quality mix from @jeremyokai

We are releasing our 6th full length LP on October 16th!!! It's called Thank Your Lucky Stars. More info soon.....

Guess what? It's October 8th. That means it's prime time for you to start embracing Halloween themed music because you've only got 23 days to fully enjoy it before it becomes a little weird. In my opinion, there is no better spooky album to achieve that goal than Shaboi's Curse Walk.

I have long admired the work of Bryce McCloud and his print studio Isle of Printing - the ongoing Can Wall Project never ceases to impress me. This recent interview with him contains a few insights into the methods behind his madness that I find myself inspired by. His concious decision to move back to Nashville after school in an attempt to garner a tighter community was, obviously, a wise decision. It may have taken him 17 years to make the impact he was hoping for but it's tough to meet someone around town that isn't aware of the self-portrait Our Town project or his McCloudWall. Maybe you remember him from this Mystery Twins 7" he designed and I released. It's a long list of great work.

His philosophy to bring art to a wider community through public art projects seems like the kind of undertaking that might evoke some eye-rolling but his approach isn't cheesy (or producing art that isn't worthwhile). The article ends with this quote that I think I'll keep tumbling around in my head for awhile:

McCloud's goal, he says, is to make fine art as popular as NFL football.

"It has a place in everyone's lives and it doesn't need to be for just one small group of people. It's a huge part of what makes a city livable and interesting and a place that people want to be. Art and music, those are things that bring people together from all walks of life to become friends and community members together, and can be used as a common language for folks that don't really have one otherwise."

Read the whole thing, please.