awesome mix of instrumental tracks for a proper food coma

Mount Sharp recently released a new video for "Crazy Eyes" that cuts together performances from TT the Bear's in MA, Cake Shop in NY, Asbury Lanes in NJ and Casablanca Cruise Lines in ME. Yea, that's right, they played a boat. It's a solid representation of the goodness that is a Mount Sharp show and, of course, it's a nice way to showcase their EP Weird Fears, which you can get here.

It's difficult to encapsulate the work of Will Bruno into a single representative image. It's best to dive into a full series of work - Comics with Still Life: Finding the Inevitable Place is a good spot to start with as it gives you an idea of the kind of variety he's offering. There are bits of sculpture, more traditional leaning still life paintings and pieces that seem to straddle the line between visual journal entries and comic book.

He's also got some more straightforward illustration offerings like these MOCAD pieces that should be suitable to appreciate the man's skill. Go follow his blog and maybe even his inspiration blog.

Josh recently clued me in to this massive archive of Old Robots. I can't even begin to describe the ridiculous amount of documentation here covering industrial robots to movie robots to toys - it's rather unbelievable. However, I will suggest taking some time to browse the Tomy Toy Robot collection from the 1980's. Designs like Mr. Money and Robie Jr are quite familiar but there are other delights like Kitbot or Hootbot in there that I was unfamiliar with.

As rudimentary as some of these may seem there doesn't seem to be a huge progression between designs of the 80's and something like a Furby or even Asimo - one could argue they have similar foundations. Even if you disagree, you can enjoy in their designs and ability to make something cute out of something so seemingly cold on paper.

gorgeous print

I'm a big fan of Austin Kleon. Period. His art is interesting, his books are fascinating and his insight into art is both simple and worthy of note. This hand scrawled note about the preciousness of art may seem obvious on the surface but it's often hard to remember when you're working on something and feeling quite precious about it.

Being inspired is one thing but actually acting on that inspiration is another. It's good to remember that the process of loving the creation is every bit as important - if not moreso - as putting it out into the world.

Also be sure to read this Steve Albini quote that's right along the same lines.

Similar in theme to the Gail Albert Halaban series I posted last week, this series of voyeuristic images from Amie Siegel - The Sleepers - is right up my alley. Unlike the Halaban series, these images are culled from a 16mm film documenting the observations and are certainly not art directed or setup beforehand.

Is it somewhat creepy? Is it a violation of private space even if your windows are wide open to the world? These are the questions being posed! And the answers are certainly an interesting discussion to have.

I know zilch about Alvin Risk beyond the fact that he's an EDM artist. And, moreso, one that seems to understand the power of a good community powered art project to augment his audible releases. I know a similar small amount about Venture, a collection of five songs and five artist redentions of variations on the same theme. This piece from Andrew Archer is my favorite among the group. I recommend checking out the other variations but diving deep into the Archer portfolio is the real gem to be found here.

nice little story behind the script mark

beautiful looking office

nice writeup on one of my favorite albums from said band and excellent insight on the thematic concept that runs throughout

i chortled so hard

new EP available for pre-order

I found myself browsing some galleries this weekend thanks to a visitation from Mr Jeremy Okai Davis and encountered a massive installation by Geoffrey Farmer at the Casey Kaplan gallery - preview that show here.

Farmer dabbles in a lot of different media - photography, video, even a little audio but he's definitely found his niche with the series of paper cutouts. He's done previous shows that featured LIFE magazine images in an equally grandiose and more chaotic way. It's some form of collage sculpture installation hybrid that I'm quite entranced by.

Magnum Photos is a lot of things but, at the core, it's a collective of passionate and talented photographers - founded by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour - that's been documenting our planet beautifully since 1947. The recently asked several of their members to dive into their archives and release a new photo - something from the contact sheet that they'd just not published - and share it with the world.

You can see many of the results from this 'Archive Dive' here (and more here and here). I can't seem to find the official collection anymore but I highly suggest jumping around to see these beautiful images and their backstories.

The aggregate of ideas from Apps I'll Never Make has a surprising amount of useful and fun ideas mixed in with the humorously terrible ones. How long until this thing is mined for actual product development? I give it a week.

yea, gonna need to purchase this

It's a weird one this week. I don't know what happened but the offerings that came my way this week were either strange or adorable but quite entertaining. Enjoy!

• Rollie, a southern three-banded armadillo, playing - I bet you thought Armadillo's weren't cute didn't you. Here's some solid proof you're wrong.
• [SFM] Saw Hero - you know what's extreme? Woodworking!
• R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit - this is one of those commercials that many may not find that amusing but the sincere oddness of it really delights me beyond words.
• Star Trek Pizza Pool Party - an undeniable combination. The presentation is odd to say the least but who doesn't love these two things?
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Salmon Cannon (HBO)
• Fortin' with Will - I've grown a little tired of this aesthetic and approach to humor but I have not grown tired of Will Forte, in the slightest.
• Everytime I visit this owl it gives me this face - there's a parody of this already but I'm more prone to the original, just a delighted owl. That's all.

Have a great weekend!

Take a moment to watch this trailer for Suzanne Ciani: A Life in Waves - a, hopefully, forthcoming documentary about a pioneer in electronic music that often gets overlooked. She's responsible for the "Pop and Pour" Coke sound effects as well as this rad theme song for Atari's "Liberator." Seriously, listen to that song now.

She did a ton more than that but that should be enough to convince you to give the Kickstarter a fair shake. Her career story in a world of music that was almost entirely unknown to the world at large through an industry largely dominated by men is nothing short of fascinating.

I recently revisited the work of Paul Octavious and realized that I've really been missing out. His official site has a smattering of beautiful new projects (I'm still into this long exposure of LP's) but his Instagram is overflowing with visual treats. This or this or this or... well.. just about everything he's put out into the world is worth staring at for awhile. Consider this a highly suggested Follow for everyone.