Words

August 16, 2010 | In Film, Inspiration

Everynone, NPR, Radiolab,

via +KN.

So Gone

August 13, 2010 | In Thoughts

Let’s get the fuck out of here. Drink wine and live some…

Burn Burn Burn

August 12, 2010 | In Heros, Thoughts

The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk,
mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn,
burn,
burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars
and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop
and everybody goes ‘Awww!‘

~Kerouac

Mad mad mad mad mad

I’ve come to look for America. And all the great territories…

Moonhearts

August 10, 2010 | In Live, Music, Video

Moonhearts. CA garage rock.

I’ll Probably Be The Last To Know

August 9, 2010 | In Live, Music, Video

Ben Folds covers Elliott Smith

They want you or they don’t
Say ‘Yes’

One of my favorites covering one of my favorites…

Three Frames

August 8, 2010 | In Cycling, Film, Photography

You should be in my gang. We roll prrrrrretty hard.

You Make The Wind Blow

August 6, 2010 | In Music

Have a heart
Have a heart
Have a heart
Sixteen Six Six Six and you fell apart…

Sleighbells, 2010.

Sweet syrupy satanic pop music.

This song has a sample of Can You Get To That by Funkadelic. So good.

The rest of this record has the same syrupy vocals and a lot more grinding and distortion and saw wave sounds. Stadium rock. Hand claps. Fun stuff…

Sweet Thing

August 5, 2010 | In Music

And I shall drive my chariot down your streets and cry:
‘Hey, it’s me, I’m dynamite and I don’t know why’
And you shall take me strongly in your arms again
And I will not remember that I ever felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk in gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never, never, never grow so old again…

After being completely consumed by this record, I do some research.
In 1979 Lester Bangs writes:

Van Morrison was twenty-two or twenty-three—years old when he made this record; there are lifetimes behind it. What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend.

One of the greatest albums ever recorded. And it touched a deep part of me.

Homecoming. Redemption. Sadness & Hope.

Design Crush: Impactist

August 5, 2010 | In Design, Inspiration, Motion

Husband and Wife team of filmmakers and designers: Impactist, Portland. They even do their own music and sound design and the work they make is incredibly smart and thoughtful. I aspire to make things this good. You guys are terrific.

You should probably watch Steps To A Healthier You & Smilefaucet: Undo. At least.

Some process shots and notes from their short for Undo:

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August 4, 2010 | In Thoughts