Sophie Grimes’s article, “The Art of Hoarding” sparked a great little conversation between members of the Anobium team about physical hoarding vs. hoarding of more immaterial things–information, or even identity (and are these the same thing, nowadays). The conversation stayed in my head for a few days, flipping on switches and connecting all sorts of […]
This is what you get when you paint an unflattering portrait of your friends, I guess. By the way, there’s an interesting explanation of Gertrude Stein’s scientific influences, and her influence on the sciences, in Jonah Lehrer‘s Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Worth a look.
The more the possibilities for self-directed musicianship multiply, the more blindingly corporate radio fodder becomes. It’s difficult sometimes to consider mainstream pop as anything other than advertisement, a smorgasbord of easy feelings with which casual listeners saddle themselves. Even bands with the indiest intentions that filter into Clear Channel soon find themselves regurgitating smoothly packaged products. The […]
Song from “Weed Siezure”, being released today. http://vimeo.com/37454339
“It is generally thought that the first movie poster was created in 1890 by French painter and lithographer Jules Cheret for a short film called “Projections Artistiques”. Most of the early film posters prior to 1910 were simple signs with block text announcing the title, producer, and director.”¹ Over the decades this process evolved to […]
