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  The Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait

  08.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Arcade Fire just released a new video for their song We Used to Wait.  The video was written and directed by Chris Milk in conjunction with a team at Google using the new HTML 5 web standard – which is worth noting because all of the interactive elements of the video are displayed without [...]

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  James Franco, Science, Touche Amore/La Dispute split

  08.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s funny just how boring the internet becomes when you can’t watch videos/download music/stream anything.  I’m stuck tethering through my cell phone until Friday when Comcast will finally come and plug me into the real deal.  Since I haven’t been able to view all of the above, I’ve been reading a bunch of random articles. + Who [...]

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  it has begun

  05.08.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  When I started this blog one of my first posts was about me preparing to build a guitar.  Flash-forward two years later and I have finally begun.  This afternoon I cut the body blank out of a joined block of 3/4 inch sugar maple and sanded down the sides. The cutting took about 30 minutes [...]

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  Links

  03.31.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Make Money Five of the top career fields for the future.  Nothing that surprising, but if you’re looking for a career change then become a nurse. + Buy Coffee and insulate it with an endothermic reaction… Get a free heatswell HERE. + Buy Furniture Brent Comber + How will Obamacare affect you? Here’s a nice concise [...]

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  Fucked Up, Gaia, Alexa Meade

  03.24.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Fucked Up – Year of the Ox/David’s Plan Here’s an awesome 20 minute video of Fucked Up playing a couple of songs for the French (French-Canadian?) website Bandeapart.fm. After dismissing this band for so long, watching this video really pumps me up to check out their old releases. + Gaia in Baltimore Anyone know [...]

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  The meaning behind Lady Gaga’s Telephone

  03.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  These two articles explore the artistic substance in Lady Gaga’s video for her new single Telephone.  Be sure to watch the video before reading the articles. This article from Vigilant Citizen focuses on Illuminati references, mind control and the elite’s manipulation of the population via mass media. Just when I thought I’d written everything I had [...]

• art, books

  Vajazzling

  02.27.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Vajazzling is basically when a woman pays someone to wheat paste a bunch of tiny crystals to/around her vagina. Jennifer Love Heweit’s new self-help romance book, The Day I Shot Cupid, includes a chapter discussing how Vajazzling helped her get through a tough break up – I bet that’s going to sell well.  I’m sure [...]

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  Sketches

  02.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I really like the loose caricature styling of these illustrations from German artist wischnik.  If think this style of illustration would transfer really well to tattoo design.

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  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 [...]

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  New Jeremy Geddes Painting

  11.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is the final painting submitted by Jeremy Geddes for the 3A HK Venture show in Hong Kong.  So awesome.  I posted about some of his other work that’s in a similar vein HERE. + Steve Albini Interview HERE. + Risky Business Fail