The weather has been too nice to be spending time on the computer here in Bend, OR – so a tiny apology for the lack in updates recently. Here are some up-lifting tracks to arm you for the week ahead. (thanks to Freebreaksblog for the image!) GOOD LUCK OUT THERE!!
Categories: Audio, Stellar Jams
A master of aesthetics, Olafur Eliasson has been blowing minds with his installations for nearly two decades. Establishing a design studio / laboratory dedicated to ‘spatial research’, Eliasson is a deep thinker to say the least. One of his most famous endeavors thus far, was “The Weather Project” (2003) which was held within London’s Tate Modern – the last pics in the gallery are snips of the install. Below are some of his more recent projects. CONSTRUCTED REALITY.
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An apple a day is all very well and good, but I once heard from a wise doctor that the real key to health is a daily dose of grungy, gritty, guitar. Below you’ll find a potion that’ll remedy any sort of day and or health issue (+ a couple bonus tracks fir fun). (Thanks to Martin Rietze for the very appropriate photo of volcanic lightning in relation to Spirits of the Sky.) DOCTOR’S ORDERS
Categories: Audio, Stellar Jams
So, apparently Stockholm has the most awesomely decorated subway system known to man. Brilliantly combining minimalistic engineering with shocking colors and ornamentation, the city has created an aesthetic underground-cum-tourist attraction. Alex Dragunov is a photographer who specializes in documenting international subway systems and has captured Stockholm’s system with GET DOWN THERE!
Categories: Architecture, Art, Modern Events, Travel
Checking the New York Times Photojournalism blog, the discovery of Scottish photographer Stephen McLaren was made. McLaren has an adept ability to capture the lunacy and bizarre outcomes of human culture. ONWARDS! ( via NYT LENS )
Categories: Art
Wowwww…. this video clip of performance art by Maedir Eugster is impressive in a very big way. Finding exact points of balance on a dozen+ palm frond ribs, Eugster’s art is microcosmic – with such delicate balance in systems, a feather’s movement can alter an entire structure. If you are an impatient viewer make sure to skip through towards the end to see the final product- gnarly. (via Juxtapoz) DELICATE EQUILIBRIUM
Performing his own take on a compilation that Kid Capri created entitled “52 Beats”, the late GrandMaster Roc Raida provides a serious audio treat mixing hit after hit with unreal precision and dexterity. ROC RAIDA BRILLIANCE
Categories: Audio, Stellar Jams
Rounded up from the past 10 days of New York Times LENS photojournalism happenings, here are some modern events worth contemplating. Probably my favorite is the Vatican’s dinky chimney – one would think that with the seemingly standard opulence of the church city would carry over to the signaling device for the new pontiff? MULLLL
Categories: Modern Events, Nature, Photojournalism, Travel
Who thinks of coursing 15,000 volts of electricity through pieces of wood? Apparently Melanie Hoff does. In a very extraordinary experimental piece of conceptual art, Hoff has time-lapse documented the strange erosion that occurs whence passing such a large current through the fibers of wood. SHOCKA
Categories: Art, Modern Events, Nature, Photography, Sculpture
This Al Green Edit is HAWT off the press from Disco Tech’s Soundcloud page, and by cheezewhiz if you don’t enjoy it, you should get your head checked. Here’s to a grand ol weekend and that you get up to something “for the feeling”! THE REVEREND!!!!
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Capturing Capacity