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Category: art
Necessity and Invention = Peas and Carrots
Yet another great example and sniff at the trail of a very elusive thing: discovery and innovation. After all, it only took us how many thousands of years to think of all sorts of simple things that R U L E ? We make these tremendous breakthroughs and stand there and wonder, “How come it…
BFIS Barcelona
Welp, here’s where I’ll be an Artist-in-Residence in Barcelona in 2009. Watch as Dr. David Penberg introduces this short about the Benjamin Franklin International School: = c
Area Man Writes Blog
LITTLE CANADA, MNâ€â€ÂLocal resident Steve Bachman, the self-styled “Bachster†of Internet obscurity, has announced plans to publish a blog. Family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and checkout clerks are bracing themselves for the expected onslaught of hintsâ€â€Âsubtle and not-so-subtleâ€â€Âof the “you ought to check out my blog†variety. Bachman believes that his catchy graphical hook, a…
Lars’ dad
Backcountry When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc. Driving a tank is very impressive, or a car with official lettering on the side. If that isn’t to your taste you could join the revolution, wear an armband, carry a homemade flag tied to a broom handle, or…
Sing
Brian Eno said in an article on NPR that: “A capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings — to stop being me for a little while, and to become us.†i surely quickly got into his latest work with David Byrne: = c
Paul Draper : The Dancer, not the Winemaker
From Wikipedia: Paul Draper, a nephew of Ruth Draper, was a famous dancer, born in Italy. Draper taught dancing at an Arthur Murray dance school. In 1930 he took tap dancing lessons at Tommy Nip’s Broadway dance school. After only six lessons, he sailed for London, confident that he would find work as a dancer….
Crooked Fingers : Forfeit/Fortune
My pal Bryan and I went to listen to Crooked Fingers at the Turf Club last week. Eric Bachmann and his band were in town to help promote their new album : Forfeit/Fortune I’ve been biased towards his work ever since I first met him while living in Chapel Hill, NC all those years ago…
Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Part II
If you’re not hip to Black Cab Sessions, you are in for a treat! …if you touch me, well i just think i’ll scream cuz it’s been so long, since someone challenged me. and made me think… about the way things are… made me think…about the way they could be. i believe it- why? oh…
Farewell, Mr. Carlin – Thanks for the Balance
Surely, there are many people who strongly disagreed with his views. More conservative folks especially would rather he hadn’t reached the levels of success he did. He made a career out of stirring the pot and providing balance to the hard right and its overwhelming amount of political correctness and closed-mindedness about the world. Known…
Zach Falcon writes amazing stories. For kids, too.
Zach Falcon is a great storyteller because his whimsical muscles are completely intact and functioning optimally. Most of us stop using these muscles somewhere between the ages of 8 and 10. We start conforming to our risk-averse culture, playing it safe as we say, leaving the inspirations of youth behind and stop listening to voices…
Powderhorn Empty Bowls
Our pal, Jennie the Potter, works with a group of other folks on Powderhorn Empty Bowls, a community-based, volunteer-driven organization who’s goal is to eliminate hunger from the neighborhood in and around Powderhorn Park in MPLS. They throw each and every bowl by hand. Then, for an in-kind donation they fill your bowl with homemade…
Buckley : Legacy
I just finished watching Tim Buckley : My Fleeting House, produced by my friend, Rick Fuller, a superb documentary about a true and fearless artist who resisted industry sensibilities and even Western culture at large and who remains a testament to the creative gifts that have influenced music. His son, Jeff Buckley, inherited these gifts…
Machinima
Some of you may remember this rather unorthodox, though, significant event in online history : Machinima (pronounced /məˈʃiËÂÂnÉ™mÉ™/ or /məˈʃɪnÉ™mÉ™/), a portmanteau of machine cinema, is a collection of associated production techniques whereby computer-generated imagery (CGI) is rendered using real-time, interactive 3-D engines, such as those of games, instead of professional 3D animation software. Engines…
why Frank Black is a god among men
“Where is My Mind” Oh – stop With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there’s nothing in it And you’ll ask yourself Where is my mind [3x] Way out in the water See it swimmin’ I was swimmin’…
Lynch : Retrospective
If you’re in Vegas the next coupla days and are bored of drinking and gambling, you COULD check this out : = c
Odd Fellow of the Week : Ricky Jay
Sure, he looks familiar. Ricky Jay has been in movies you’ve seen both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Here’s the list. But here’s the most interesting part. How does one work in the entertainment biz for so long and stay almost completely off the radar? = c
Throwback to ANSI Art
For those of us that remember things like connecting at 33 baud and acronyms like BBS, here’s a current tribute to the art of that era : = c
Legos turn 50
It’s the fiftieth anniversary of LEGO Group founder Ole Kirk Christiansen’s patenting of the now-iconic brick. This year is also the 30th anniversary of the minifig and 10th anniversary of LEGO MINDSTORMS. (The company has actually been putting out toys since the ’40s but only settled on the perfect brick architecture in 1958.) Who can…
Neon Bible
Just can’t seem to get enough of Arcade Fire : = c