Double Die Antwoord

Its been a while since I've posted anything about Die Antwoord, and its important to me to remind everyone how amazing they are.  So here you go:

David Lynch on iPhones

In my research for the design of a film house for school, I found this video to be incredibly insightful.

Song of the Day: La Verdad

Today I can't stop listening to this song. Juana Molina, La Verdad.  I made a Juana Molina station on Pandora, and its been playing all this great music including some sweet Afro-Peruvian beats.

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William Castle: The Tingler!

After watching a video of a lecture by one of my creative role models John Waters, I was compelled to watch William Castle's The Tingler, made in 1959.  Its a movie about a parasite that lives in every human's spinal column that becomes bigger and stronger when a person experiences fear.  His movies were usually interactive and multi-sensory - at the screenings of the Tingler, the chairs would deliver an electric "tingle" to the viewers' spines, and in some movies he would provide scratch and sniff cards to the viewers, to be smelled at different points in the movie.






Next, I hope to watch Zotz, another William Castle movie about a coin with magical properties.

Röyksopp: Senior

Finally Bought Sufipants Stevens' New Album, Its Pretty Good

And this is here just for kicks and because I love the costumes.

Venhoeven CS: I Should Go To Holland!

Venhoeven CS

Chinese Hip-Hop

The Shanghai Restoration Project.  I like it.

200 Posts; 200 Impressions

I just realized that my last post was the 200th post, so in honor of this very small special occasion, you can watch this video.  Do you think its funny?

John Cleese On Creativity

John Cleese is a genius.

Happy Rosh Hashana. Eat A Fish Head.

They can't play baseball, they don't wear sweaters, they can't dance well, they can't play drums.

An Important Message From Wayne

Ed Soja - The Postmodern City

Extract from an Open University program shown on BBC2 in the early 90s. Ed Soja discusses the postmodern nature of the Bonaventure Hotel.


Discovered via Archinect.  I like this video.

Wayne Coyne's Interview With Ian Quigley of OPEN HOUSE

Computer Error

Nat's camera broke

Private Living In Times Square

Just found this video of Tanaz on YouTube. Made me smile.

LightFall

Light Fall
Installation, Spring 2007
In collaboration with Tanaz Moddaber




A multi-layered curtain of hair was suspended outside the house, across two support columns of the elevated subway track in Brooklyn, New York.  The curtain of hair becomes a landscape through which one can traverse, and is a physical manifestation of the vibrations and wind created by the subway just outside of a bedroom window.  At first it is observed from a distance.  After observation, complete submersion.

In addition to assisting with the installation, my role was to photograph the hair and record a video of Tanaz submerging herself in the hair.  To the right are still frame images from the video are shown on the upper right.

Tanaz, if you're reading this...I miss you and I'm coming to visit you in Berlin!

MVRDV Brabant Library

The music is a bit scary, but this is really cool.


The animation of the never realised plan for a central library for the Dutch province of Brabant. The project ran from 2000 - 2001 and is published in KM3 (Actar, Barcelona) and of course on the MVRDV website.

Tommy Guerrero

Photo via TommyGuerrero.com





Skateboarder + Musician = Tommy Guerrero = GOODNESS





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