1. Warm earth music for plants… and the people who love them.

    The overall feel of [Mort Garson’s Plantasia] is playful, with psychedelic Moog melodies sprinkled over swinging drum machines and basslines. Basically, the exact kind of stuff you want at your next sci-fi cocktail party, not at your weekly home gardeners meeting. The album was given out free with the purchase of a Simmon’s mattress at Sears in 1976, and as a bonus, came with extensive instructions on plant care. 

    3 months ago

  2. Cyriak’s Video For Bonobo’s “Cirrus” Is A Cascading Visual Mantra

    The film’s partly inspired by Zbigniew Rybczynski’s Tango (at least, this is what Cyriak points out in a YouTube comment). Rybczynski won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film in 1982 which shows 36 people interacting in a room, looped over and over. Made in the pre-digital era it took Rybczynski seven months to make using 16,000 cell-mattes.

     

    3 months ago

  3. Faye Wong, Kar-Wai Wong and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai on the set of Chungking Express (1994)

    Faye Wong, Kar-Wai Wong and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai on the set of Chungking Express (1994)

    (via fuckyeahdirectors)

    3 months ago  /  Source: pickledelephant

  4. StoryCorps | Eyes On the Stars

    Carl McNair tells the story of his brother Ronald, an African American kid in the 1950s who set his sights on the stars.

    3 months ago

  5. Why 2013 Is The Year You Need To Get Serious About Tumblr Tumblr is a highly visual experience, so brands can appeal to us on a visceral level through stunning images or animated GIFs that capture brief, emotional moments. This kind of visual storytelling has been missing from digital advertising, but is what we’ve come to expect from the best TV ads. Tumblr makes that kind of brand experience finally possible online.

    Why 2013 Is The Year You Need To Get Serious About Tumblr

    Tumblr is a highly visual experience, so brands can appeal to us on a visceral level through stunning images or animated GIFs that capture brief, emotional moments. This kind of visual storytelling has been missing from digital advertising, but is what we’ve come to expect from the best TV ads. Tumblr makes that kind of brand experience finally possible online.

    3 months ago

  6. Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an an enormous reward. You will have created something.
    – Kurt Vonnegut

    3 months ago

  7. Moog Sub Phatty: New Machine For Living

    In honor of the new Moog Sub Phatty analog synthesizer’s release today, experimental multi-genre music producer, Flying Lotus, and Adult Swim veteran, Adam ‘Lilfuchs’ Fuchs collaborated on [this] short animation… You can hear the new Sub Phatty analog synthesizer in Flying Lotus’s original score, called ‘Such a Square’, for the animation.

    3 months ago

  8. 21 Things I Learned Running Hyperlocal News Sites 7. Readers go to where the information is, and are generally not brand loyal. This was a tough lesson to learn. While [Center Square Journal] and every other publication has a core group of devotees, that group was never more than 20% of our total readership. Our reader surveys, analytics results and discussions with readers over the years showed that news consumers go where they see useful information – first. This could be from SEO, Google News or it could be from an aggregated list of stories.

    21 Things I Learned Running Hyperlocal News Sites

    7. Readers go to where the information is, and are generally not brand loyal.

    This was a tough lesson to learn. While [Center Square Journal] and every other publication has a core group of devotees, that group was never more than 20% of our total readership. Our reader surveys, analytics results and discussions with readers over the years showed that news consumers go where they see useful information – first. This could be from SEO, Google News or it could be from an aggregated list of stories.

    4 months ago

  9. The Existential Adventures of Tim Maia: Nobody Can Live Forever

    This is the story of Tim Maia, possibly the greatest (and craziest) soul singer you never heard of. Infamous in Brazil, Tim was a soul grenade that exploded in the 70s. He single handedly revolutionized Brazilian popular music and had the best time ever doing it. His story is one of humourous excess in every way imaginable and there’s something for all the family: drugs, women, money, guns and even a UFO cult thrown in. He REALLY lived the dream, always with a smile.

    4 months ago

  10. January is a generative music tool. You walk around and lick snowflakes with your tongue, and the tool uses a set of rules to make choices about what the next note (or notes) will be. It also gives the player freedom to play various types of chords, and choose when and how notes will be played. 

    January is a generative music tool. You walk around and lick snowflakes with your tongue, and the tool uses a set of rules to make choices about what the next note (or notes) will be. It also gives the player freedom to play various types of chords, and choose when and how notes will be played. 

    4 months ago