April 2009

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• art

  Make Something Cool Every Day

  04.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Brock Davis, the guy responsible for those ‘Messin With Sasquatch’ beef jerky commercials, made a new years resolution to create something cool everyday.  His creations are mostly little gag setups, though there are a few serious shots of his children, but I suppose when you do a project like this all the different sides of [...]

• Uncategorized

  Things I Need

  04.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  + More Time to Write Music + The Ability to Pause Time + Brew Iced-Coffee + Order the Black Teeth 7″ – The only thing I can find from this band is a low quality webrip… Get at me if you can hook it up [heythisismyemailaccount[at]gmail.com] + Get My Hands on all of Monument‘s Releases. [...]

• art

  Ron Mueck and the Hirshhorn

  04.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The first time I stood in a room with Ron Mueck’s work was at the Brooklyn Museum in 2006. There are only a few exhibitions that I’ve experienced that I seriously think about on a regular basis years later- and this is definitely one of them. Ron Mueck is an Australian born artist, self-taught and [...]

• music, suggestions

  Suggestions: Justin Lloyd

  04.13.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This weeks suggestions come from musician/artist Justin Lloyd. Justin has been involved with a wide range of musical projects including Sawhorse (post-rock), Age Sixteen (screamo), The Human Excuse (acoustic), Surf Nazis on Ecstacy (power violence), A Perfect Kiss (Indie), BatComputer/Compresser (shoegaze), and finally Liulu Dallas (grind).  He’s currently involved in 5 bands that are active!  How [...]

• music

  mewithoutyou – every thought a thought of you

  04.09.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The debut song for their new album was released today.  While I still have faith that this album will rule, what the fuck is up with that lame ass chanting at the end of the song? Download HERE. http://www.myspace.com/mewithoutyou

• art, photography

  Look Closely

  04.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Don’t Judge People According to Their Appearance. Peter Chmela (via Things I Have Learned in my Life so Far)

• music, review

  Double Dagger – More

  04.08.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Double Dagger is a musical trio from Baltimore – comprised of just bass, drums, and vocals – who play a thoughtful mix of minimalistic hardcore and dancy post-punk. I relate Double Dagger to bands like Sinaloa and Q and not U because the focal point of the music that they create, at least for me, [...]

• art

  Collecting on a Budget

  04.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chad and I have been thinking a while about starting our own small collection of prints and artwork. Maybe it’s some phase of life that fits with why I’ve been saving away spatulas and pillows too. Besides asking around for trades with a few fellow photographers and artists I happen to know, I’ve been browsing [...]

• art, photography, suggestions, video

  Suggestions: Jonathan Knobel

  04.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This weeks suggestion article is packed full of cool stuff.  Jonathan Knobel tells you about a film featuring burning oil fields, a photographer named Boogie, Nietzsche, an illustrator with a morbid sense of humor, and a graphic novel based in 1980′s Iran. Jonathan is a photographer/artist/musician living in Davidsonville, Maryland.  He plays bass in the [...]

• art, photography

  First post/Burn Magazine

  04.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  So one characteristic both of my jobs seem to share is an abundance of time in front of a computer. Chad has been asking for a while that I start to regularly contribute to stokingtheroots, and I’ve only recently felt like that computer time has amounted to so much that I could attempt to do [...]