I love this pixel street art that is apparently taking place in my hood - The East Village!
This summer I’ll be living in a video game, yay!
….hmmm……
Now how do I get my hands on some real-life cheat codes?
I have nothing more to say about this awesome moment captured on video other than to second Piebald’s Travis Shettel: “it’s the end of an era!!”
I have found myself listening to more Piebald lately and even though I have grown out of most of my more embarassing pop-punk jams — I never grew tired of Piebald.
Also, having had occasion to interview them and hang out — totally the super nicest guys ever.
….really sweetens the cow bell, ya know?….
And I am happy to be immortalized on their page at Side One Dummy Records for my review of their nostaligia-thick and super fun CD/DVD, “Killa Bros and Killa Bees.” (although embarassed enough by my disasterously gushing review that I will not link it here)
Piebald - you’ll never be dead to me, bros!
Okay, maybe I think this is incredibly funny/amusing because it’s Monday and I am extra distractable.
But maybe, just maybe, it could be that The Spinto Band is already quirky and dorky-cute enough to make these mock Bustelo commercials are all the more fun.
Whatever the reason - this one is probably my fave. But there are tons more on Youtube to make you wish you were stuck in a Pennsylvania basement with your new favorite nerds!
Enjoy your Monday - Bustelostyle!
And now we can hear Thurston Moore, Ian McKaye, Brian Poole and even Noam Chomsky talk about it!!
Record stores = over.
Music? yes please.
Sushi? yes please.
Bento box music-themed food art? DOUBLE YES PLEASE!
(or insert double happiness joke here)
So apparently this group of Japanese “food hackers” called Obachi Jacket Lunch Box has created a number of edible renditions of famous album covers using all bento box ingredients.
Check out a few of the top selections (listed in English along with ingredients)…
pretty much, this is rad. ’nuff said.
I really love this.
And I’m not sure why.
Which is probably what has drawn (no pun intended, promise!) so many people to these little projects.
My favorite is this one: from November 17, 2004 to February 17, 2005, John Ralston drew the entire senior class of Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1925 — each photo drawn in one hour a night. The result is kind of beautiful and oddly personal (for obvious reasons involving the nostalgia fodder of yearbooks and the visual embodiment of potential/innocence and eventual ”where they are now” ponderings blablablabla).
Anyway, on Ralston’s flickr page devoted to the project, each picture description lists the student’s various clubs, his or her major and what he or she wrote in the yearbook. Also — look how many girls were graduating from college in 1925! Rock on suffragettes and liberated ladies!!
Check out all of ’em HERE.
And in an arguably less interesting variation, Ralston’s friend, Johnny Martz, redrew (and renamed) each student from his mother’s actual 1968 high school yearbook. He called the final product ”The 1968 Excelsior,” a high school yearbook for the fictional Bristol County Secondary School in the fictional Staedtler, Ontario.
Check out Martz’s ”The 1968 Excelsior” HERE.
And apparently you can buy it.
Stay cool.
H.A.G.S.
The Suburban Kids With Biblical Names song, “Trees and Squirrels,” has been in my head for three days - so here, put it in your head too.
Now that it’s looking more like spring time, scandinavian happy jams feel just right.
Anyone want to hop a flight to Malmo and hang with these Silver Jews-lovin’ Swedes?
Cool.
We’ll start the weekend early.
Meet you at JFK in an hour…..
Offended yet?
Well LA-based artist, Brendan Fowler, has decided that indeed you are.
In fact, he’s “making a statement” about potentially offensive band names in his latest issues-over-aesthetics art project titled Disaster - opening at Rivington Arms today.
The project is described as such:
Fowler’s most recent performance project/band, Disaster, began as a direct address to what he sees as the growing roster of bands with socially questionable names (Aids Wolf, Jay Reatard etc.). In doing so, Fowler created a project he himself would find morally negligent in hopes of understanding their motives.
But what is so amusing about this work/statement is not just the tenuousness of his ”art about rock/rock about art” concept, but that he actually chooses two incredibly benign band names to peg as “socially questionable!”
Apparently Fowler has overlooked an entire movement: hardcore (which comes to mind first for aggressively rejecting social standards/norms and thus producing some of the craziest in-your-face band names, far more than its parent genre - straight away punk) or various sub-genres that have bred confrontational and shock-oriented titles. PLUS! Such bands’ “motives” are fairly well documented in the many chroniclings of the punk, hardcore and other counter-culture movements, which begs the question: I thought we did “understand?”
Anyway, I find the concept thin and the artist statement downright silly. So for a little perspective - here’s an old Black Flag flyer. And that oh-so-offensive subject heading? That’s from this craaaazy “morally negligent” band called Blink 182. Oh the silliness!
Hey Fowler - The kids are alright, k?
