Today, these merry makers were playing in Park Guell just as they are in this clip shot in late December:
Category: art
Number Stations
Our dear pal, Alec (aka Catigator), contributed a track to this compilation, titled cooly-enough: Number Stations File under experimental and have a listen:
The Graffiti
in Barcelona is colorful, artful, so expressive and anything but:
Designer: Justin Lund
Old pal, Justin Lund, is a gifted designer and is featured in this short film:
The Irony of Beauty
This is an astounding metaphor for our culture and the gravity of our situation as lifeforms on a planet we know next-to-nothing about: enveloped by the inelegance of our current technology, with wires and all kinds of ugly schwack running up and down the walls surrounding and protecting him, Ed Lu is aboard the International…
Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal
#henrydarger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger hats off for the tip from
Alec Johnson on PublicSpacesLab
My pal Alec Johnson [aka Carbon Productions] is having lotsa talent: his skills to pay the bills: Landscape Architect. His way to play: stop-motion-making dad, husband, athlete, tinkerer and gifted musician, which is especially why he’s being featured here today: Alec submitted some of his musical work to PublicSpaces Lab, where it’s being released as…
Trent Harris
Trent Harris is great for having made Rubin and Ed, which has been one of my favorite movies ever since my pal, Alec, turned me onto it prolly more than 11 years ago. Trent’s made other stuff, too, and continues to make stuff, such as random video posts @ Fling A Ding: Thanks, Trent
Projections on Buildings
I could watch stuff like this endlessly…
Taxing the Artist
The five months of furious short-story writing in 1923-24 had left him with a stake of $7,000. In Great Neck, that would only cover two and a half months of expenses. How could he stretch the $7,000 to gain the time to finish Gatsby? Earlier, as he was struggling to save, a friend wrote from…
The Pines : Tremolo
The Pines‘ latest album, Tremolo, has earned some great reviews fresh out of the chute, including Penguin Eggs, which reviewed it in this month’s issue: Potent, poignant, minimalist country from Iowans David Huckfelt and Benson Ramsey (son of Greg Brown sideman Bo, who produced this record). The duo spin spare, haunting melodies and imagistic words…
Player Piano evolved
Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.
MOBY in MPLS
Moby was in town @ The Current this past week and, in addition to hosting Theft of the Dial, left us with some great live recordings, including this moving Gospel rendition:
Alex Glawion : Evolution Solution Animation
Evolution from Alex Glawion on Vimeo. hats off to @brainpicker for the nod
On Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: Sound as Image
translating information from one sense into another, especially sound to image, is one of the things technology does well case in point is Close Encounters of the Third Kind is this captivating? in the case of Close Encounters it is. however, personally, i can only say that in other cases, such as the one below,…
Maurice Sendak : Where The Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze worked with Lance Bangs on this new documentary about Maurice Sendak, who wrote and illustrated Where The Wild Things Are, which is in post-production having been directed by Jonze. Click on the image to see the trailer for the documentary.
satellite browser
NASA hopes we enjoy J-Track 3-D. Clicking on the thumbnail below or here or there will activate JTrack3D and it will appear in its own window and begin loading a database of over 900 satellites. What you will see (presuming the system you’re on supports Java) is a plot in 3-dimensions showing the position of…