This is a plot made based off my top artists in the past 12 months, and gives the average age and gender of people who listen to the same bands. Thought it was pretty cool, click on my plot to make one of your own!
people can be such fearful creatures.
Cache Rules Everything Around Me
Everyone’s blogging this now, but shit, its SO GOOD. I’m jumping on the viral train. Evan Roth, you are my hero.
In case you didn’t know: Girl Talk fan vid made entirely of animated GIFs found on the internet. Doesn’t get more meme than that!
Beach House - Walk in the Park
I’ve been raving about the Teen Dream DVD for a while now. I often sit friends down in my living room and make ‘em watch several, if not all of the vids to each song on the album.
Up until now, the videos haven’t been online, but I’m so stoked to see Allen Cordell’s video for this song up. Its by far my favorite. I absolutely love the juxtaposition of the song to the violent imagery reminicent of 50’s zombie films all played up like an 80’s teen dream pic. People have such a visceral reaction to this video - they either love it or absolutely hate it or don’t get it. There’s no in between. And I think that, my friends, is what makes great art.
makes me happy everytime
that is all.
i want to make something powerful.
Morphologic reminds me a lot of the excellent Yo La Tengo marine science film collab and resulting album The Sounds of the Sounds of Science.
I just stumbled across this mind scrambling project called Morphologic. It’s a heavenly combination of art and science. The marine biology of Colin Foord and the spectral sounds of Jared McKay bring something so unique to the table that I seriously just can’t stop watching. Go cruise their blog for the goods. It’s really something you just have to discover for yourself.
From their “About” section:
“MORPHOLOGIC is a scientific art endeavor led by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay. With the aquarium as our primary medium, we explore the artistic possibilities of living coral reef organisms via HD videography and site-specific artworks. Our laboratory/studio is a state certified aquaculture facility perpetuating marine life within the confines of downtown Miami.”
You Are Damo Suzuki.
If you decide to chant images from your subconscious over this dark groove, turn to page 36.
If you decide to wait until the screaming guitar line returns, turn to page 40.
(via whatafoolbelieves:Faux Pas)
it turns out that chimps actually lose their ability to discern themselves as individuals in later age, unable to recognize their reflection as themselves:
…what could be the utility of this?
…ernest becker couldn’t have said it better. from the denial of death wiki:
…when chimps (or any species, domestic or alien) develop an intelligence too great, that’s exactly the point at which they’ll establish something worthy of the name “culture.” they’ll absolutely have to, in order to deal with the ultimate dilemma: paraphrased from camus, suicide v. illusions.
