Women: The Google challenge
August 12, 2008
The band’s called Women and their debut album is called Women. They were recommended to be by ’thelovelygemma‘ and they’re very good.
So, here a little internet challenge. See how much info you can find about this band by searching for them in Google. Tricky huh?
Perhaps there’s something in it. Trying to come up with band names that no one can google. If you can’t google it, you can’t find it, you can’t download it and you have to resort to legitimate sources to buy it. Clever.
Shyness
June 25, 2008
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you’d like to.
The Smiths
We’re on a family holiday in Greece. Its a lovely warm evening. The sun is on it’s way down and everything is the most amazing sunset red. We’re wandering past a pretty restaurant playing “traditional Greek music”. My little girl, she’s 4 going on 14, looks up at me and says “Daddy, I want to take my shoes off and dance”. I say that it would be lovely and of course I’m more than happy for her to, but I can see the noticeable change in her face as she is overcome with “shyness”. Such a dreadful word. It’s like a disease. Shyness. God forbid anyone should be shy.
So I said “Ok, let’s find somewhere to dance where no one can see you”. Well that was no good. What’s the point of dancing if no one can see you.
“Ok then, what’s the deal?” I say (we do this often). “I’ll do a twirl over here if you give me a cuddle after”, she says matter of fact. Well who’s going to argue with that. She does the twirl, she smiles the biggest most beautiful smile and gives me a big cuddle.
A half hour later she’s still dancing, getting lots of praise and attention. Even my little boy’s joined in. I’m smiling proudly, feeling a little shy myself now. Then she comes running over, grabs my hand and says “Thank you daddy, I’m not shy anymore”.
Those we miss the most
June 09, 2008
Sir John Betjeman
Play Balloonacy
June 03, 2008
See that little balloon floating from the bottom left bottom right side of the page? It’s part of an awesome project I’ve been working on at POKE. It has just launched and registration is now open for the World’s first internet balloon race.
Get yourself a balloon here and if you’ve got a website or blog make it part of the the race course by signing up and adding it here.
Crystal Stilts
May 26, 2008
Love isn’t glycerin, it’s nitroglycerin
Crikey, I’m on a roll. I thought this might be a punk album from 10 years ago but I ‘googled’ Crystal Stilts. It’s very recent and of course Pitchfork are all over it. Very lo-fi, very punk, very good.
The Tallest Man on Earth
May 26, 2008
I grew up with a very healthy dose of Bob Dylan so a little folk music doesn’t scare me shitless like it does some. So on discovering The Tallest Man on Earth, I didn’t run away covering my ears. I’m particularly fond of the track ‘The Gardner’. It’s melodic, it’s poignant, it’s clever.
I tried to retrace my steps but I’ve no idea how I discovered this. I was hunting around looking for something to listen to. Something to satisfy an audio (not audible) lust. Shallow Graves quenches… briefly.
Simon Høgsberg
May 16, 2008
Over a period of 3 months I stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they were thinking about the second before I stopped them… then took a picture of them.
South Bank
May 13, 2008
South Bank HD from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
I enjoy discovering something interesting or beautiful in the seemingly prosaic. So it’s with great pleasure that I stumbled (via Matthew Buchanan) across the work of Philip Bloom. This video in particular. The South Bank is my favourite place in London and I’ve walked the route from Waterloo to the Tate Modern many times yet this beautifully observed video is full of images I feel ashamed to admit I’ve completely missed.
There’s more work on Philip’s site and it’s all beautifully observed. Great stuff.
Of Montreal
May 10, 2008
The past is a grotesque animal and in its eyes you can see how completely wrong you can be.
Freedom Riders
May 06, 2008
I decided to try to find as many of the Mississippi riders as I could and make contemporary portraits to accompany these earlier photographs.
The mug-shot. Usually a photograph of a felons face made for police record. Or, in the case of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, a visceral account not of justice served but of a massive injustice.
By the photographer Eric Etheridge, this is an enlightening project about an important part of history, not be lost or forgotten, and testimony to the power of the individual to make a difference.
The book, Breach of Peace - Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders , is available on Amazon here.
‘bad night’ for Labour
May 02, 2008
Oye Modern re:vision
April 28, 2008
I’m not a big fan of jewellery but these mens bracelets from Oye Modern are a great idea. I’m guessing one made from a Leica Noctilux would be super expensive but I would definitely wear that.
Autolux - Transit Transit
April 17, 2008
AUDIENCE No.2 is the first single that is being released from the next/new AUTOLUX record, entitled: TRANSIT TRANSIT
I’m slightly excited!
CSS Variables
April 17, 2008
I don’t like talking shop but look, I couldn’t care less for most of the utterly pointless features proposed for CSS3. Animations (super useful interface shit like wobble and bounce), transitions (fade everything on the page at least once you utter noob), gradients (oh, for fuck sake) and web fonts! (god help us)
Now take note. A proposal for CSS variables. This idea is so excellent that on it’s own it makes up for all the other petty proposals. This is something genuinely useful.
The presence of David Hyatt (Apple, Inc.) and an Apple Copyright on the document is also somewhat encouraging but if you can’t wait for the actual implementation you could start with Shaun Inman’s CSS Server-Side Pre-Processor implementation on which, it would appear, this proposal is based.
Matt Stuart
April 17, 2008
It all happened so quickly that I wasn’t exactly sure what I had got but something felt right.
A fascinating insight into the thinking behind the photography of Matt Stuart.
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