Posted in Art, Humor, New Sounds, tagged bottle bank arcade, escalator, fun theory, musical stairs, odenplan, piano stairs, stockholm, the fun theory, volkswagen, world's deepest bin on 1st Nov 09 (Sun) | Leave a Comment »
“We believe that the easiest way to
change people’s behaviour
for the better is by making it fun to do.
We call it the fun theory.”
- TheFunTheory.com
Stairs temporarily a piano.
Sorry for the convenience.
~Dan – np: Tegan and Sara – Sainthood thainthood
PS- The Bottle Bank Arcade and World’s Deepest Trash Bin videos are also on [...]
Posted in Art, Classical, Concert Photos, Jazz & Avant, tagged Bill Morrison, block ice and propane, cello, Classical, concert photos, concert review, erik friedlander, john zorn, lee friedlander, masada, oregon, PICA, portland, set list, setlist, T:BA:09, TBA festival, winningstad on 13th Sep 09 (Sun) | Leave a Comment »
FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM
Erik Friedlander grew up spending many of his summers on the road with his family due to his photographer father, Lee Friedlander. I knew his dad was a photographer with some notoriety, but I hadn’t known about the long, cross-country summer road trips – which were the basis [...]
Posted in Art, New Sounds, tagged animated video, animation, awesome, cgi, gabe askew, grizzly bear, michel gondry, music video, pixar, two weeks on 23rd Aug 09 (Sun) | Leave a Comment »
Someone should have a job at Pixar really soon… here is Gabe Askew’s fan-made video for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks.” It’s very Michel Gondry-esque, but I think all done in the computer… it’s pretty damn amazing…
http://vimeo.com/5904993
~Dan – np: Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant – Sister Phantom Owl Fish
Posted in Art, tagged Art, art gallery, awesome, dirty, dirty car, dirty pictures, dust, filthy, filthy pictures, painting, scott wade, wash me on 20th Aug 09 (Thu) | 2 Comments »
So… yeah… Scott Wade is a genius.
This is a dirty car…
This too…
And this…
And this…
Check more out at:
http://www.dirtycarart.com/
~Dan – np: Bill Frisell – Disfarmer
Posted in Art, Music News, New Sounds, tagged anti-sweden jeans, art gallery, art opening, avant-garde, commercial, fine art, mike bragg, ogle, ogle gallery, optician, oregon, portland, sunn 0))), sunn O))) on 7th Aug 09 (Fri) | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I went up with some friends (including the featured artist) to see the opening of Mike Bragg’s Pulled from the Ground at OGLE in Portland. Fun times, too much food, great art, and voodoo donuts were had by all. If you’re up in Portland within the next two months, go check it out. [...]
Posted in Art, Music News, New Sounds, tagged Art, asthmatic kitty, curse your branches, david bazan, graphic design, illinois, illinoise, Jax de León, osso, pedro the lion, run rabbit run, senior project, sufjan, sufjan stevens on 17th Jul 09 (Fri) | Leave a Comment »
Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan is finally releasing his full-length debut. It’s not his first release under his own name. He had an EP out in 2006 (Fewer Moving Parts) and has released a few iTunes EPs/singles and some 7″ vinyl releases since Pedro the Lion’s last “band” record, Achilles Heel (in 2004). David’s album [...]
Posted in Art, Humor, tagged a perfect circle, Club Nokia, drawings, erotic art, fake out, funny drawings, los angeles, maynard james keenan, naked, nude, puscifer, tool on 23rd Feb 09 (Mon) | Leave a Comment »
It’s a fake-out drawing… good stuff… but get your mind out of the gutter. 
Posted in Art, Music News, tagged album art, album cover, animal collective, awesome, eye trick, Merriweather Post Pavilion, optical illusion on 22nd Oct 08 (Wed) | 8 Comments »
I was gonna post a blog about a reminder about Orange Tulip Conspiracy’s upcoming West Coast tour, Opeth and wrapping their latest video, or Will Ferrell and his George W. Bush stage production, or Wynton Marsalis on the Colbert Report, or a too cute for school puppy, or Kevin Smith doing a space film next… [...]
Posted in Art, New Sounds, tagged drum table, drums, furniture, marimba, musical art, musical furnishings, musical instruments, oregon country fair on 15th Jul 08 (Tue) | 1 Comment »
While I don’t want to cheapen anything posted 12 hours ago, this one tries to move on slowly from a sad note of last night’s blog…
While at the Oregon Country Fair this past weekend, we stumbled upon the Musical Furnishings booth. This was the company mentioned back in this blog. They’re based in [...]
Posted in Art, Concert Photos, World Music, tagged american tribal style, balkan, belly dance, eugene, indigo, indigo belly dance, mardi love, oregon, oregon country fair, rachel brice, tribal dance, tribal fusion, veneta, zoe jakes on 14th Jul 08 (Mon) | 3 Comments »
FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM
Rachel Brice, Mardi Love & Zoe Jakes are three tribal fusion belly dancers from San Francisco who go by the name The Indigo Belly Dance Company. I’d heard of them before, and my wife has gone to performances & workshops of theirs in the past when we [...]
Posted in Art, Music News, New Sounds, tagged art installation, contemporary art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, exhibit, Guzik Foundation, jewish, john zorn, judaism, MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Fellowship, museum, special event on 1st Jun 08 (Sun) | 3 Comments »
reposted from here
John Zorn Presents the Aleph-Bet Sound Project
June 8, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Aleph Bet Project
About the Exhibition
Highly-acclaimed musician and MacArthur Fellow John Zorn was commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum to curate a series of sound pieces for the Museum’s Special Events/ ‘yud’ gallery, a unique space featuring a 65-foot ceiling, 36 diamond-shaped [...]
Posted in Art, Politics, tagged ass, collage, george w bush, modern art on 18th Apr 08 (Fri) | Leave a Comment »
Heard about this from Pharyngula (oddly enough, a science blog)…
UK artist Jonathan Yeo has created a telling post-modern piece…
http://www.jonathanyeo.com/gallery.asp?pid=143 (for detail)
On first glance, it just looks like a painting of GWB. If you click the detail links, it’s made up of clipping from pornographic magazines (mainly assholes).
Fitting…
~Dan – np: Béla Fleck & the Flecktones – [...]
