A Chemicanical Perspective

This video was inspired by zoomquilt. Its interesting in the same regards but doesnt have as much flow as zoomquilt. Once i find a good vid. of it ill post it. Katie and i watch it all the time on the website and zone out. For now there is this industrial digital complex.



A Chemicanical Perspective from criticalend! on Vimeo.

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!

Dan and I went to the Newport last night to catch the live Tim and Eric tour. If you have never seen the show on adult swim its 11 minutes of madness, check it out and be confused. The show was fantastic, really really funny. The place was packed and the crowd was really into it. People dressed up like characters from the show including the Beaver Boys. They had some of the regulars from the show make appearances and do bits. It was like a pyschedelic deranged comedy show.

JR and the new participatory Art

JR is blowing up, he hails from France....i think. He is pretty secrective and stays anonymous given the large scale narture of his artwork. He has done massive urban assaults then has had the cities ask him to do major buildings wrapped in his photos. The guy has a great eye and has applied his pictures beautifully to many diverse landscapes ranging from the favelas of brazil to the separation wall in israel. His face to face project gained him notoriety and can be checked out on dailymotion.com along with his other works. This month there is a feature on him in the new Juxtapoz magazine.

JR - TATE MODERN
by JR

Nancy Callan

Tracy and I along with Jan and Ryan made a trip up to Hawk Gallery last night to check out the opening for the new Nancy Callan exhibit. I think i have seen her stuff up there in the past some older works. I've liked it because its sort of a superimposition of design and craft. But now i like it more after hearing her speak, she is really nice and sincere and has a good spirit to her.

Black Holes

Again reverting to my fascination with this genre. I've been listening to Black Holes non stop all week. I love this booty house buzzed out electro stuff. The buzzed beats just kicks you in the mouth. They are coming in from Chicago to play Sweatin on friday along with Bearries and Adulture. Should be a pop lock and droppin good time. Not a super fan of the video, lots of jiggling girl parts which is played.....but guilty fun non the less. The song is pretty dope though.


SMASHWORKS from CRAZYCHRISFILMS on Vimeo.

Fleet Foxes

I've been diggin these guys today especially this song. They are called Fleet Foxes and they are from washington, the song is called Mykonos. Such a well structured song, very nice, great vocal harmonizing as well. They did a great job on SNL.

Inauguration

I got to see the inauguration today at work. They set up a projection screen and showed the whole thing. It was great, I went with some friends and checked it out. His speech was great lots of good lines in it for sure. The thing that got me the most was the crowd. It was massive, I love seeing when people get together and converge on something, especially something meaningfull and positive.

Cometbus

Lately i've been in this mode of documentation, pretty much about anything really. So i started to think how much i like the zince Cometbus. First off i like zines in general and i like the fact that they are still around and that not everyone has sold out to the blogosphere like the rest of us :) Aaron Cometbus has been handwriting this zine since 1983 documenting the punk scene and lifestyle in the bay area. Everything from band and show reviews to squatting. Ups to my girl karen out in the left coast for turning me on to this and for being the major contributor to my cometbus collection.

Killin the Masses

Jesus these guys are killin peeps across the globe. They are on the cover of BPM and good for them. They gig all the time all around the world and people are losing their minds when they play. A local DJ (and a great one at that) her name is Moxy got to play with them in France and she said they Kilt the decks and were nice dudes. So ups to them.

Haka

I love the Haka dance the new zealand rugby team, the all blacks, does the haka before they start the match. I think im going to start doind the haka in the mornings before i go to work...just to get my blood moving. The Haka isnt necessarily a war dance but i'm pretty sure the all blacks are doing the peruperu haka to invoke the god of war. I need to watch this full match i'm sure the game was ugly.

Click languages

Click languages are amazing. Language development and speach pathology in general is really interesting as far as social observation goes and in regards to developing cultural identity. Thanks Wiki for letting me bite off some info.

Clicks are speech sounds such as English tsk! tsk! used to express disapproval, or the tchick! used to spur on a horse. In many languages of southern Africa, and in three languages of East Africa, they are ordinary consonants, found for example in the name of the language Xhosa. Clicks are best known in the West through the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy. In 2003 clicks were in the news with an announcement that the original human language may have had clicks, but most linguists consider that to be utter speculation.

Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The pocket of air enclosed between is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue. (That is, clicks have a velaric/lingual ingressive airstream mechanism.) The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejective stops.

Lino Tagliapietra

I got to meet this guy a few years ago at Hawk Gallery for one of his opening exhibits. He is a really down to earth nice guy who is extremely talented and really technical at his skill of glass blowing. In my humble opinion one the best glass blowers in the world right now. It was great meeting a master and someone who is a cool dude as well. just a nice old guy with skill ya know.

ENVY

These guys rule, i got to see them when they played at the high five and they are cool dudes and just ripped the stage. I dont know what they sing about but at the risk of sounding cheeseball i felt it. Really passionate hardcore that pulls at your heartstrings that really isnt being done in any other band at the moment. Cant wait till they come back to ohio.

M.I.A.

You know i've always liked this song. And it's remixability, some of the horn tracks are kinda tacky and the video itself is trying too hard at times. But the track is always fun at a club.


M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun from Jesika Novoa on Vimeo.

Frank Gehry

Recently I've become interested in the works of architect Frank Gehry primarily his work in Bilbao. I was watching a series on WOSU called Spain on the road again. Its a pretty interesting and food focused show that travels all over Spain experiencing the country gastronomically, yets its pretty holistic in its documentary style of filming the show. They talk a lot about the art, culture and lifestyle of each region of Spain then move onto the food. In one episode they were in Bilbao Spain, which is in the northeastern part of Spain. There is a Guggenheim modern art museum there that is amazing. Both the structure itself ,conceived by Gehry, and then what is contained within its walls. Then out in the sticks of Bilbao, Gehry designed another building, this time a hotel called Hotel Marque de Riscal, which again is crazy beautiful. Here are some pics.

Garrrrrrridge

So I was talking to 'this just in' a few weeks ago and i mentioned that we need some British Garage in town. He told me that he is working on starting a night where it's all brit garage and drum and bass. SWEEEEEET! Can't wait I havent listened to good D&B in a long time and I'm a big sucker for a rippin' bassline via some English GARRRRRRIDGE! Here is one of my fav. speed tracks, propa.

Clutch

I got to go see Clutch at the newport last week, thanks to paul for the tix he won. I've liked them for years but wasnt really sold on them, the studio stuff is a solid jammy metal mashup. But everyone has always said that they are way better live. We got there right at they took the stage and right away I noticed that everyone was really nice. Much to my surprise, every rock and/or metal show ive been to has a peppering of assholes. It was a sold out show and I jumped in the pit and mixed it up for the entire set, everyone was abiding by pit etiquette as well which is always good. Had a fantastic time, clutch tore it up, they are great live. There was a ton of beards...like metal beards....dude.

Where it's at

This song is fantastic ,Gil Scott Heron was amazing. This track totally captures the feeling of that era and scene. This is one of my favorite songs.