December 2009

The Archives

• art

  Baltimore is covered in a sheet of ice

  12.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Work is very very slow so here’s an early morning post.
  + David Galbraith top Ten
  David Galbraith posted an article on the Top Ten things that Defined the ‘Noughties’
  I really like his explanation of Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God crystal encrusted skull:

  “Nothing defines the decade in more compact form than this diabolically expensive piece [...]

• shows

  Solomon Solomon @ The Golden West Cafe

  12.29.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  If any of you Baltimorians are up for a show this Tuesday night my friend Ted’s band Solomon Solomon is playing at the Golden West cafe with:

  MIGRATIONS
  FAIR ROOT
  HEAVINESS OF THE LOAD

  10PM. The Golden West Cafe.
  1105 W. 36th St. Hampden.

  I haven’t personally been to a show at Golden West yet but I hear that they go [...]

• video

  High School Rivalry

  12.28.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The amount of effort that these two Seattle area high school production teams put into making rival lip sync videos is astounding.  It’s impressive that they were able to pull these videos off without any cuts.
  Shorecrest High School’s Hey Ya!
  Shorewood High School’s You Make My Dreams Come True

• photography

  Al Heishman Photography

  12.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  When he’s not cracking skulls as a bouncer, Baltimore based photographer Al Heishman is shooting sweet sweet nudes in my living room.  Be sure to stop by his brand new website and check out some of his work.

• links

  A Festivus for the rest of us

  12.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sorry about the lack of updates as of late.  Festivus preparations are taking up all of my time.
  Frank Costanza: “Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be [...]

• photography

  2009 Best of LA Times Photography

  12.19.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Do yourself a favor and go visit the LA Times photography site to read the captions that go along with these photos.

• links

  Friday links

  12.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Mayo Clinic researchers show brain waves can ‘write’ on a computer in early tests

  In the study, the two patients sat in front of a monitor that was hooked to a computer running the researchers’ software, which was designed to interpret electrical signals coming from the electrodes.
  The patients were asked to look at the screen, [...]

• video

  Dock Ellis’ LSD No-Hitter

  12.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  On June 12, 1974 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis ingested a tab of the hallucinogenic drug LSD and pitched a ‘no-hitter’ against the San Diego Padres.  According to this Snope’s article he was also quite the badass motherfucker;  Saying, ”We gonna get down.  We gonna do the do.  I’m going to hit these motherfuckers,” before hitting 4 batters [...]

• photography

  Sketchy Santas

  12.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you enlarge this photograph you can see that Santa has some creepy red eye going on which really adds to the creep factor.  Also, be on the lookout for the lurkin’ elf in the third picture.
  More at Sketchy Santas.

• photography

  100 Photographs that Changed the World

  12.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dead on the Beach, George Strock; 1943
  When LIFE ran this stark, haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943, the magazine felt compelled to ask in an adjacent full-page editorial, “Why print this picture, anyway, of three American boys dead upon an alien shore?” Among the reasons: “words are never [...]