Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Young Death Quadrilogy
Here are the trailers from Gus Van Sant's Young Death Quadrilogy.
Gerry
Elephant
Last Days
Paranoid Park
Have lots of Lithium on hand.
Gerry
Elephant
Last Days
Paranoid Park
Have lots of Lithium on hand.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Not Too Novel a Hypothesis
Norman Mailer's theory on casting actors:
He liked to take people who were able to talk themselves in and out of trouble, and cast them in situations which he tried to make sufficiently intense so that they would not be too aware of the camera. Whether they had ever acted before, did not often concern him. It was his theory--not too novel an hypothesis--that many people who had never acted, and could never begin to act on stage without training, still had several extraordinary characterizations they could bring film provided they spoke their own words and had no script to remember.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
National Center for Experiments in Television
"Machines that show the human organism itself as a working model may eventually destroy the need for psychology as we know it today." -Les Levine
"A medium is available. A very sophisticated, complex technology which human beings invested is available to us. It is dumb, inarticulate, contains no magic. It is available and manageable and probably stunningly beautiful when managed by graceful people who are bent on acts of expression.... This newer medium is swift in nature. It demands a new kind of perception. It moves like light sparked into life as through a nervous prism. It is another paint, another dance, another music of sound. Another message meant to catch the quick vision of the inner eye."
Brice Howard, Videospace, 1972
The above videos are parts 2 & 3 of a six segment video, all of which are available on youtube for your viewing pleasure if you're interested.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
you're gonna miss me.
edit: i just realized that this isn't the documentary that i watched but rather one from 1983. probably still interesting but i haven't watched it yet. still try to get your hands on the 2005 documentary if it's at all possible.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
This is the visual component to an article that seems interesting (I have only read the first page), but I wanted to post it before I forgot because this website is really great. I'm pasting it twice because I have yet to get links to work.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/massmedia/visualsummary/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/massmedia/visualsummary/
This video is a tribute to some men and one woman of the avant-garde (circa Fluxus). In my mind they are rock stars artistified, so I thought it would be a fitting post. Plus, towards the end it gets very TV heavy. I do have to say that among the others, Joseph Beuys seems to be the biggest rock star, and might be someone to look to for character inspiration...maybe for the Glue Boiler more than anyone else, though. Also, Charlotte Moorman was incarcerated for public indecency after Opera Sextronique (which is shown briefly), and became known as the Topless Cellist. Afterwards she went on several national talk shows to discuss the incident. I'm sure those interviews are hilarious, but again, I haven't been able to find any, so if you have any luck...get to posting.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
More on TV As A Creative Medium
The following are my favorite excerpts from the exhibition brochure, but if you have the time it is a very interesting read (). There are links to quicktime files of some of the videos that were at the exhibition, but neither Frank nor I could get them to work on our computaters. Maybe you guys will have some luck. I think all of this might be useful to think about in terms of manipulating people on a massive scale and through images and sounds, and in subverting that sort of mass control by exploiting the same mechanisms. In case you have not already checked it out, I am getting most of this information from , which is an informational goldmine. Anyways...
"Ever since Marshall McLuhan has become a household name, people have become aware of the tremendous force, both actual and potential; that TV is having and will have on their lives.
The machine is obsolescent. Magazines, books, newspapers and other publications making use of the written word as we have known it are threatened. The relationships of nations, classes, generations and individuals are deeply affected. Education will be revolutionized, schools transformed if not eliminated (why interrupt your child’s education by sending him to school?). TV is at the cause, or at least at the root of the cause, of all of these changes that are transforming our civilization.
Why has not art been affected by this pervading influence? Perhaps quite simply because, up until now the time was not right. Perhaps it had to await the maturing of the generation who were in their sub-teens in the 1950’s, those who were “brought up” on TV. They read 'do-it-yourself' books on how to make radios and TVs. They earned pocket money repairing the neighbor's broken sets. Or they were trained in the technology while they were in the armed forces. As in every generation, some were artists. These have been at work for two, three, five and even more years, scrounging around second hand shops for parts, working with TV because they were fascinated by the results they were able to achieve, and because they sensed the potential of TV as the medium for their expression." -Howard Wise
“The real issue implied in ‘Art and Technology’ is not to make another scientific toy, but how to humanize the technology and the electronic medium, which is progressing rapidly—too rapidly. Progress has already outstripped ability to program. I would suggest ‘Silent TV Station.’ This is TV station for highbrows, which transmits most of time only beautiful ‘mood art’ in the sense of ‘mood music.’ What I am aiming at is TV cersion of Vivaldi…or electronic ‘Compoz,’ to soothe every hysteric woman through air, and to calm down the nervous tension of every businessman through air. In that way ‘Light Art’ will become a permanent asset or even collection of Million people. SILENT TV Station will simply be ‘there,’ not intruding on other activities…and being looked at exactly like a landscape…or beautiful bathing nude of Renoir, and in that case, everybody enjoys the ‘original’…and not a reproduction…
‘TV Brassiere for Living Sculpture (Charlotte Moorman) is also one sharp example to humanize electronics…and technology. By using TV as bra…the most intimate belonging of human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers NOT for something mean but stimulate their phantasy to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.’” –Nam June Paik
AC/TV (AUDIO-CONTROLLED TELEVISION)
“As a child I would often close my eyes and ‘see’ music as colored patterns. One day two years ago, I woke up in the middle of a dream with an intense desire to recreate this experience electronically. This developed into an obsession, and I created dozens of Audio Controlled lighting effects, culminating in a work in which the speed of a motor was controlled by music.
As soon as I became aware of the Color Cathode Ray Tube, I realized that the red, blue and green guns in the CRT were ideally suited for audio control by the low, middle and high frequencies of music.
I view the Color Television receiver as one of the highest technological achievements of mankind, and the fact that it is generally used to transmit sub-human material points out in dramatic fashion the imbalance between man’s technological and social progress. The AC/TV is radical art because it allows the viewer to turn off the endless stream of garbage and use his Color TV in a personal aesthetically satisfying way.” –Joe Weintraub
P.S. I don't think that any of the links I am adding are working. I'll figure it out eventually.
"Ever since Marshall McLuhan has become a household name, people have become aware of the tremendous force, both actual and potential; that TV is having and will have on their lives.
The machine is obsolescent. Magazines, books, newspapers and other publications making use of the written word as we have known it are threatened. The relationships of nations, classes, generations and individuals are deeply affected. Education will be revolutionized, schools transformed if not eliminated (why interrupt your child’s education by sending him to school?). TV is at the cause, or at least at the root of the cause, of all of these changes that are transforming our civilization.
Why has not art been affected by this pervading influence? Perhaps quite simply because, up until now the time was not right. Perhaps it had to await the maturing of the generation who were in their sub-teens in the 1950’s, those who were “brought up” on TV. They read 'do-it-yourself' books on how to make radios and TVs. They earned pocket money repairing the neighbor's broken sets. Or they were trained in the technology while they were in the armed forces. As in every generation, some were artists. These have been at work for two, three, five and even more years, scrounging around second hand shops for parts, working with TV because they were fascinated by the results they were able to achieve, and because they sensed the potential of TV as the medium for their expression." -Howard Wise
“The real issue implied in ‘Art and Technology’ is not to make another scientific toy, but how to humanize the technology and the electronic medium, which is progressing rapidly—too rapidly. Progress has already outstripped ability to program. I would suggest ‘Silent TV Station.’ This is TV station for highbrows, which transmits most of time only beautiful ‘mood art’ in the sense of ‘mood music.’ What I am aiming at is TV cersion of Vivaldi…or electronic ‘Compoz,’ to soothe every hysteric woman through air, and to calm down the nervous tension of every businessman through air. In that way ‘Light Art’ will become a permanent asset or even collection of Million people. SILENT TV Station will simply be ‘there,’ not intruding on other activities…and being looked at exactly like a landscape…or beautiful bathing nude of Renoir, and in that case, everybody enjoys the ‘original’…and not a reproduction…
‘TV Brassiere for Living Sculpture (Charlotte Moorman) is also one sharp example to humanize electronics…and technology. By using TV as bra…the most intimate belonging of human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers NOT for something mean but stimulate their phantasy to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.’” –Nam June Paik
AC/TV (AUDIO-CONTROLLED TELEVISION)
“As a child I would often close my eyes and ‘see’ music as colored patterns. One day two years ago, I woke up in the middle of a dream with an intense desire to recreate this experience electronically. This developed into an obsession, and I created dozens of Audio Controlled lighting effects, culminating in a work in which the speed of a motor was controlled by music.
As soon as I became aware of the Color Cathode Ray Tube, I realized that the red, blue and green guns in the CRT were ideally suited for audio control by the low, middle and high frequencies of music.
I view the Color Television receiver as one of the highest technological achievements of mankind, and the fact that it is generally used to transmit sub-human material points out in dramatic fashion the imbalance between man’s technological and social progress. The AC/TV is radical art because it allows the viewer to turn off the endless stream of garbage and use his Color TV in a personal aesthetically satisfying way.” –Joe Weintraub
P.S. I don't think that any of the links I am adding are working. I'll figure it out eventually.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
TV is Art, or The Medium is the Medium
The first generation of "television babies" is now reaching maturity.
The average American home has one and one-third television sets; American homes have more television sets than bathtubs, refrigerators or telephones; 95 percent of American homes have television sets; portable video-tape equipment for home use is available to the general public right now...The generation which has grown up with television and other sophisticated media has evolved a new perception in processing information.
A process-level analysis of the art experience is concerned with art as a process of perception, a way of experiencing, how one sees rather than what one sees. Therefore the concept of art becomes an inclusive one, and everything is or isn't art, according
to one's experience...Looking at TV for fixed periods of time, as if in a theater of
movie, denies its function as a continuous flow of assorted information to be processed by the individual according to his perception. Television can become part of a regular like style, a fabric of individual perception, a super-real reflection or the city, country, world.
Television has made multiple focus acceptable; as a result we can see many different focal planes all at once. We can go from one focus to another and refocus all at once. When you focus your eyes from one thing to another, it’s necessary not to keep any one thing in focus too long, otherwise you can’t immediately change to another."
Art, therefore, becomes a two-step process-formulation or creation of an idea
and communication of this idea -- and the two steps are inextricable related. At the level of communication, the importance of the idea is linked to the number of people who can experience the idea. So it is quite logical for the artists to seek out the greatest audience possible, and to wind up in the field of television...In communicating information, television not only translates images, but transforms them into a unique and powerful superreality which has an independent life.
The above are quotes from TV-The Next Medium, by John S. Margolies(Full Article: ), which was a review of the 1969 exhibition, TV As A Creative Medium, which notably was the first show dedicated to television and video art in the US, and also marked the end of Kinetic Art. I thought it would be interesting to look at television specifically used for art in conjunction with all of the musical performances and bizarre televised interviews that we've been watching. More on this later, though, because I am being beckoned to watch If..., which I highly recommend if you haven't already seen it. Talk about a revolution.
The average American home has one and one-third television sets; American homes have more television sets than bathtubs, refrigerators or telephones; 95 percent of American homes have television sets; portable video-tape equipment for home use is available to the general public right now...The generation which has grown up with television and other sophisticated media has evolved a new perception in processing information.
A process-level analysis of the art experience is concerned with art as a process of perception, a way of experiencing, how one sees rather than what one sees. Therefore the concept of art becomes an inclusive one, and everything is or isn't art, according
to one's experience...Looking at TV for fixed periods of time, as if in a theater of
movie, denies its function as a continuous flow of assorted information to be processed by the individual according to his perception. Television can become part of a regular like style, a fabric of individual perception, a super-real reflection or the city, country, world.
Television has made multiple focus acceptable; as a result we can see many different focal planes all at once. We can go from one focus to another and refocus all at once. When you focus your eyes from one thing to another, it’s necessary not to keep any one thing in focus too long, otherwise you can’t immediately change to another."
Art, therefore, becomes a two-step process-formulation or creation of an idea
and communication of this idea -- and the two steps are inextricable related. At the level of communication, the importance of the idea is linked to the number of people who can experience the idea. So it is quite logical for the artists to seek out the greatest audience possible, and to wind up in the field of television...In communicating information, television not only translates images, but transforms them into a unique and powerful superreality which has an independent life.
The above are quotes from TV-The Next Medium, by John S. Margolies(Full Article: ), which was a review of the 1969 exhibition, TV As A Creative Medium, which notably was the first show dedicated to television and video art in the US, and also marked the end of Kinetic Art. I thought it would be interesting to look at television specifically used for art in conjunction with all of the musical performances and bizarre televised interviews that we've been watching. More on this later, though, because I am being beckoned to watch If..., which I highly recommend if you haven't already seen it. Talk about a revolution.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Moondog/Sun Ra
Do you like Moondog?
Ignore the visuals.
Do you like Sun Ra?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Un6pmJK_ZE&feature=related
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This i is awesome, not allowed to embed it, but check it out.
Do you like football?
Ignore the visuals.
Do you like Sun Ra?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Un6pmJK_ZE&feature=related
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This i is awesome, not allowed to embed it, but check it out.
Do you like football?
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Here is a great episode of Dick Cavett with the guys from Husbands. It's a bit long, but it's worth sitting down and watching it all. Also, it would be really helpful to watch this in conjunction with Husbands. So here it is, complete with commercials (which would be a nice addition to the film, commercials between False Media, any ideas?).
casual thursday
this video has nothing at all to do with Low basic. I just think it's creepy, weird and makes me giggle. let your hair down and enjoy some phil collins...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
why are you bleeding?
i can't believe we haven't posted any iggy pop yet. here's a televised performance of the stooges playing TV eye at the cincinnati pop festival in 1970.
the announcer cracks me up. everyone in my office turned to see what i was laughing at when he says "that's peanut butter!"...
here's a great interview with tom snyder...
i think "if you toned it down a little do you think you'd have a wider audience...why are you bleeding?" sums up iggy pop perfectly.
this next one's a little on the long side and the video lags but it's interesting.
the announcer cracks me up. everyone in my office turned to see what i was laughing at when he says "that's peanut butter!"...
here's a great interview with tom snyder...
i think "if you toned it down a little do you think you'd have a wider audience...why are you bleeding?" sums up iggy pop perfectly.
this next one's a little on the long side and the video lags but it's interesting.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
I think the blog is really blossoming. There is some really great stuff here. One thing that keeps catching my attention is this juxtaposition between footage of live performances and televised ones. I know this is obvious, but the live ones are just explosive and the televised ones usually seemed contained, or neutered, even when the bands are trying desperately to bust through the screens.
I guess I've been thinking a lot about what does it really take to deliver a solid punk performance when you're trapped in a box with knobs on it, and there are a lot of guys who obviously don't understand you at all or have any idea how you work pointing lights and cameras at you, and some fat pervert has created these swirling checkerboard graphics on his computer to spaz out behind you, because he thinks it really captures what you;re all about. It just seems humiliating and likely knocks the musicians way the fuck out of their comfort zones.
I mean, I guess someone like Madonna or Dashbored are good at being on T.V., but that's sort of what they were made to do in the first place. How long can you go on like that and take yourself seriously? You'd probably have to be really good at denial. And then there are guys like Mudhoney who just look so uncomfortable it deflates whatever good music they make...it's just so insincere for them. There's this weird balance with performers between taking yourself too seriously and not taking yourself seriously enough. For example, the dude in Flipper, I get the impression he is trying too hard not to try, and he sucks because of it (in my opinion), but if you try too hard to look good on T.V. you also come off the d-bag, if you're Dashbored and you're talking about why it's so awesome working on Laguna Beach immediately nobody whose opinion is worth anything can ever take you seriously again, and you have to beg MtV to let you keep working on Laguna Beach for the rest of your life (incidentally I kept imaging a guy in a giant foam MTV mascot white gloves and all pointing a gun at Chris just off camera while he sweated and talked about why Laguna Beach rocks.)
What do you do in a situation like that? Do you turn down being on T.V.? Do you play along? Do you pretend like you are going to play along and then do your own thing? Sometimes seeing your favorite band on T.V. is almost like a subversive experience, the show is so contained and planned and well-rehearsed and then your band comes along and fucks the show hard in the ear so the brain squirts out the other side. This has only happened to me once or twice, and it's usually the first time of heard about that band (remember the days when you could learn about a band by watching the TV???). Usually watching your band play on T>v is a very deflating experience. What did that ant-semetic poet say, a whimper and not a bang or whatever...can you imagine deflating The Wipers of their bang, and reducing them to a whimper? I bet you T.V. could do it.
And what happens when the television comes at you wearing the skin of your friend, and convinces you that you can trust him? he controls everything, even reality, so even the truths you know inside yourself aren't true if he says they aren't.
Gonna start writing the latest draft tomorrow.
The Dark Knight is a masterpiece.
I guess I've been thinking a lot about what does it really take to deliver a solid punk performance when you're trapped in a box with knobs on it, and there are a lot of guys who obviously don't understand you at all or have any idea how you work pointing lights and cameras at you, and some fat pervert has created these swirling checkerboard graphics on his computer to spaz out behind you, because he thinks it really captures what you;re all about. It just seems humiliating and likely knocks the musicians way the fuck out of their comfort zones.
I mean, I guess someone like Madonna or Dashbored are good at being on T.V., but that's sort of what they were made to do in the first place. How long can you go on like that and take yourself seriously? You'd probably have to be really good at denial. And then there are guys like Mudhoney who just look so uncomfortable it deflates whatever good music they make...it's just so insincere for them. There's this weird balance with performers between taking yourself too seriously and not taking yourself seriously enough. For example, the dude in Flipper, I get the impression he is trying too hard not to try, and he sucks because of it (in my opinion), but if you try too hard to look good on T.V. you also come off the d-bag, if you're Dashbored and you're talking about why it's so awesome working on Laguna Beach immediately nobody whose opinion is worth anything can ever take you seriously again, and you have to beg MtV to let you keep working on Laguna Beach for the rest of your life (incidentally I kept imaging a guy in a giant foam MTV mascot white gloves and all pointing a gun at Chris just off camera while he sweated and talked about why Laguna Beach rocks.)
What do you do in a situation like that? Do you turn down being on T.V.? Do you play along? Do you pretend like you are going to play along and then do your own thing? Sometimes seeing your favorite band on T.V. is almost like a subversive experience, the show is so contained and planned and well-rehearsed and then your band comes along and fucks the show hard in the ear so the brain squirts out the other side. This has only happened to me once or twice, and it's usually the first time of heard about that band (remember the days when you could learn about a band by watching the TV???). Usually watching your band play on T>v is a very deflating experience. What did that ant-semetic poet say, a whimper and not a bang or whatever...can you imagine deflating The Wipers of their bang, and reducing them to a whimper? I bet you T.V. could do it.
And what happens when the television comes at you wearing the skin of your friend, and convinces you that you can trust him? he controls everything, even reality, so even the truths you know inside yourself aren't true if he says they aren't.
Gonna start writing the latest draft tomorrow.
The Dark Knight is a masterpiece.
checkerboard mountain
some interesting set design in this mudhoney video along the lines of the nirvana performance i posted a while ago.
there's something really intriguing to me about placing each band member on a different podium. it seems so divisive. the point seems to be to call attention to each member of the band individually rather than as a cohesive unit. the only other podium instance that came to mind was the final scene in that thing you do (shut up, i like that movie) so here's a crappy picture of that.
this design is an interesting idea to think about as a way to highlight the fractured relationship between me and thomas. mostly i just think it'd be fun to get worked up in the performance, jump off, destroy the set and start yelling "Low basic!"
there's something really intriguing to me about placing each band member on a different podium. it seems so divisive. the point seems to be to call attention to each member of the band individually rather than as a cohesive unit. the only other podium instance that came to mind was the final scene in that thing you do (shut up, i like that movie) so here's a crappy picture of that.
this design is an interesting idea to think about as a way to highlight the fractured relationship between me and thomas. mostly i just think it'd be fun to get worked up in the performance, jump off, destroy the set and start yelling "Low basic!"
Avengers and Flipper
Here are three videos by the band The Avengers and one by Flipper, both are late 70s SF bands. I'm especially intrigued by Flipper's lead singer, the way he spends most of his performance wandering the stage, back to the audience, smoking and drinking a beer. Does he not give a shit or is that just his shtick? The Avengers on the other hand seem like they're having a grand ol' time.
p.s. Thanks to Max for the Avengers tip.
Avengers
Avengers
Avengers
Flipper
p.s. Thanks to Max for the Avengers tip.
Avengers
Avengers
Avengers
Flipper
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
8 Miles High
So I ignorantly thought that the song "8 miles High" was written by this band called The Index (download their album HERE), but it turns out that they're actually covering a song by the Byrds who I hate, or thought I hated. The Index's version is better, but the Byrds have this sweet video. Then I discovered the video below: Husker Du doing the same Byrds song at the Pink Pop festival in 1987. Those dudes play it fucking loud.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
It's been a while since I've seen Dig, and that post reminds me I should re-watch it. Watching Anton Newcombe is like watching a car crash in slow-motion. If it weren't a documentary I'd write his shenanigans off as a poorly executed cliche. But I guess he is the real-deal as far as self-destructive rock stars go.
I remember watching the film and being fascinated by how immature Newcombe is. He's obviously got some brilliance in him, but he acts like a little boy. This is reaching pretty far, but it's almost as if he spent so much time developing his musical abilities, he neglected to develop emotionally. Rocstars often seem imbalanced. Maybe they overcompensate in their music for what they lack in their ability to be a "normaly" functioning person. I guess it's pretty selfish, thinking that because you are a gifted artist you can shirk certain responsibilities most people are beholden to, and the fact that you are a "genius" excuses your behavior.
I wonder why the hell people in Newcombe's band didn't just fucking quit immediately. You see him fighting his bandmates in this video, and obviously this is shit they have had to put up with before. How come they keep tolerating Anton's behavior? He makes me angry when I see him because he comes off as being totally selfish. But yet he has something to offer I want to hear, or I want to know about. Something about his character is just as enticing to me as it is repelling. And at the end of the video I kind of feel sorry for him. He's so clueless, he almost shakes any responsibility for creating the melee. It's like the only way he knows how to tell with the messes he causes is by victimizing himself. It must be incredibly confusing and exhausting to see things that way.
The Tom Waits post is awesome. I have to be honest, I can't figure out if it is all one big gag, or sketch, or if it is really a T.V. interview gone wrong. And that's just a testament to how well Waits can really create a persona, and manipulate whatever media/medium he is working in to perpetuate this persona.
Shannon talked about this in an earlier post, but it is a really cool power reversal, or role reversal of the interviewer/interviewee relationship. These dumbasses in the polyester suits are trying so hard to make-fun of or bully Tom Waits, but Tom waits is like consistently three steps ahead of them and totally beats them at their own game.
I think I talked about this a little bit in the earlier Thruston Moore post, but it's obvious Tom Waits feels really comfortable in his role of dismanteling this two hosts (one of whom is Fred Willard, right?). But it's obviously a character Tom Waits is playing, and so for me, the fact that he is putting on a show alleviates the awkwardness or tension, because I'm kind of clued in to what he is doing, and i kind of know it's not real.
I like the idea of being betrayed in a situation like that. I'm really drawn to the emotions that come out of public meltdowns, ones you can't hide over. I really get the sense Tom Waits was in full control of his performance and his environment, and if I were hypothetically in that situation I would love to imagine myself acting like him, and handleing myself like him, but I think the truth of the matter is I would get really frustrated in a situation like that, and i would probably feel betrayed and angered by people cheating and using their "media advantage" to try and make me out to be a certain way that I'm not really like.
Remember when Tom Waits is playing the piano, and really he is just playing this absolutely beautiful song, and the camera keeps cutting back to that d-bag blond host, and he is covering his face like he is mortified for Tom Waits, and absolutely telling the audience how they should feel, and Tom Waits couldn't give a shit because either a.) he isn't even paying attention to the host or b.) is so confident in what he is doing, and so confident in his knowledge that the host is TOTALLY full of shit, it doesn't even phase him.
I feel like, if I were in Tom Waits position everything from thought b.) would be running through my head, but still the dumbass blond host would get the best of me, and it wouldn't be fair because it is totally a misrepresentation of reality, but the dudes in charge of the cameras usually the ones who win. I hope this makes sense.
I remember watching the film and being fascinated by how immature Newcombe is. He's obviously got some brilliance in him, but he acts like a little boy. This is reaching pretty far, but it's almost as if he spent so much time developing his musical abilities, he neglected to develop emotionally. Rocstars often seem imbalanced. Maybe they overcompensate in their music for what they lack in their ability to be a "normaly" functioning person. I guess it's pretty selfish, thinking that because you are a gifted artist you can shirk certain responsibilities most people are beholden to, and the fact that you are a "genius" excuses your behavior.
I wonder why the hell people in Newcombe's band didn't just fucking quit immediately. You see him fighting his bandmates in this video, and obviously this is shit they have had to put up with before. How come they keep tolerating Anton's behavior? He makes me angry when I see him because he comes off as being totally selfish. But yet he has something to offer I want to hear, or I want to know about. Something about his character is just as enticing to me as it is repelling. And at the end of the video I kind of feel sorry for him. He's so clueless, he almost shakes any responsibility for creating the melee. It's like the only way he knows how to tell with the messes he causes is by victimizing himself. It must be incredibly confusing and exhausting to see things that way.
The Tom Waits post is awesome. I have to be honest, I can't figure out if it is all one big gag, or sketch, or if it is really a T.V. interview gone wrong. And that's just a testament to how well Waits can really create a persona, and manipulate whatever media/medium he is working in to perpetuate this persona.
Shannon talked about this in an earlier post, but it is a really cool power reversal, or role reversal of the interviewer/interviewee relationship. These dumbasses in the polyester suits are trying so hard to make-fun of or bully Tom Waits, but Tom waits is like consistently three steps ahead of them and totally beats them at their own game.
I think I talked about this a little bit in the earlier Thruston Moore post, but it's obvious Tom Waits feels really comfortable in his role of dismanteling this two hosts (one of whom is Fred Willard, right?). But it's obviously a character Tom Waits is playing, and so for me, the fact that he is putting on a show alleviates the awkwardness or tension, because I'm kind of clued in to what he is doing, and i kind of know it's not real.
I like the idea of being betrayed in a situation like that. I'm really drawn to the emotions that come out of public meltdowns, ones you can't hide over. I really get the sense Tom Waits was in full control of his performance and his environment, and if I were hypothetically in that situation I would love to imagine myself acting like him, and handleing myself like him, but I think the truth of the matter is I would get really frustrated in a situation like that, and i would probably feel betrayed and angered by people cheating and using their "media advantage" to try and make me out to be a certain way that I'm not really like.
Remember when Tom Waits is playing the piano, and really he is just playing this absolutely beautiful song, and the camera keeps cutting back to that d-bag blond host, and he is covering his face like he is mortified for Tom Waits, and absolutely telling the audience how they should feel, and Tom Waits couldn't give a shit because either a.) he isn't even paying attention to the host or b.) is so confident in what he is doing, and so confident in his knowledge that the host is TOTALLY full of shit, it doesn't even phase him.
I feel like, if I were in Tom Waits position everything from thought b.) would be running through my head, but still the dumbass blond host would get the best of me, and it wouldn't be fair because it is totally a misrepresentation of reality, but the dudes in charge of the cameras usually the ones who win. I hope this makes sense.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
fucker broke my sitar, motherfucker...
look how fragile musicians are! i'm sure most (if not all) of you have seen the documentary "dig" which this clip is from, but if you haven't, this was supposed to be the biggest show of the brian jonestown massacre's career as it was their showcase for a bunch of major labels. i think it just goes to show how scary success can be. translating what's in your head into an actual song/performance is a terribly difficult process and will drive you crazy if you aren't willing to adapt to all the variables that will inevitably present themselves. anton newcombe has such a clear idea of what he expects of his music that he refuses to account for the however many other people in the band that are participating in bringing his songs to life. there are about a billion interviews with him on you tube. good examples of the "rock star losing his mind"
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
schizophrenic stravinksy
Hey Guys:
Still waiting on my neurochem. source to confirm some of the hard science, but I'll post this for now and correct later if needs be.
Schizophrenic Stravinsky
There is a special type of neuron in an area of the human brain called the Auditory Cortex. The neurons in the Auditory Cortex combine to make an information cataloguing system know as a Cortigalfugal Network. Musical notes will pass through the ear as vibrations. The brain will interpret these vibrations and translate them into electrical signals.
The neurons in the Cortigalfugal Network prefer, or are most content, with electrical signals they already recognize; signals that combined to create a particular rhythm familiar to the brain. These signals can be described as consonant.
When the neurons in the Cortigalfugal Network receive an electrical signal with which they are unfamiliar (i.e. an irregular, or dissonant rhythm), they are generally adept at processing and familiarizing themselves with this new information. The neurons will store these new signals in their proverbial “libraries.” The unfamiliar signals are now familiar and catalogued. They have become sounds the human mind can accommodate.
Every once in a while, someone like Igor Stravinsky will create music the human mind simply cannot accommodate.
Stravinsky’s sounds send electrical impulses to the brain the likes of which the neurons in the Cortigalfugal Network cannot comprehend. As a result, the neurons over-excite and in a panic release a flood of dopamine into the brain. Too much dopamine can cause schizophrenia.
When Stravinsky sent The Rite of Spring to the minds of listeners for the first time in 1914 (date check that), the listeners’ brains could not process the sounds, their neurons became panicked and subsequently released such huge amounts of dopamine so as to create in the listener what can be described as state of temporary schizophrenia.
FALSE MEDIA sends electrical impulses to the human mind that are the exact opposite of The Rite of Spring, impulses that are so rhythmic and familiar the human mind (i.e. the viewers) cannot help but be lulled into a state of (mass) hypnosis.
Low basic’s performance at the end of FALSE MEDIA sends such a radically dissonant signal to the heads of the viewers, it explodes their minds from hypnosis and makes them go crazy. Low basic resurrects the minds of the viewers, and when the viewers are awakened, the first thing they hear is Josh and Thomas screaming “Low basic! Low basic! Low basic!” over and over again.
Beat your media.
The posts are slowing a bit, let's try to keep a steady pace. At least one thing every other day from each member.
Still waiting on my neurochem. source to confirm some of the hard science, but I'll post this for now and correct later if needs be.
Schizophrenic Stravinsky
There is a special type of neuron in an area of the human brain called the Auditory Cortex. The neurons in the Auditory Cortex combine to make an information cataloguing system know as a Cortigalfugal Network. Musical notes will pass through the ear as vibrations. The brain will interpret these vibrations and translate them into electrical signals.
The neurons in the Cortigalfugal Network prefer, or are most content, with electrical signals they already recognize; signals that combined to create a particular rhythm familiar to the brain. These signals can be described as consonant.
When the neurons in the Cortigalfugal Network receive an electrical signal with which they are unfamiliar (i.e. an irregular, or dissonant rhythm), they are generally adept at processing and familiarizing themselves with this new information. The neurons will store these new signals in their proverbial “libraries.” The unfamiliar signals are now familiar and catalogued. They have become sounds the human mind can accommodate.
Every once in a while, someone like Igor Stravinsky will create music the human mind simply cannot accommodate.
Stravinsky’s sounds send electrical impulses to the brain the likes of which the neurons in the Cortigalfugal Network cannot comprehend. As a result, the neurons over-excite and in a panic release a flood of dopamine into the brain. Too much dopamine can cause schizophrenia.
When Stravinsky sent The Rite of Spring to the minds of listeners for the first time in 1914 (date check that), the listeners’ brains could not process the sounds, their neurons became panicked and subsequently released such huge amounts of dopamine so as to create in the listener what can be described as state of temporary schizophrenia.
FALSE MEDIA sends electrical impulses to the human mind that are the exact opposite of The Rite of Spring, impulses that are so rhythmic and familiar the human mind (i.e. the viewers) cannot help but be lulled into a state of (mass) hypnosis.
Low basic’s performance at the end of FALSE MEDIA sends such a radically dissonant signal to the heads of the viewers, it explodes their minds from hypnosis and makes them go crazy. Low basic resurrects the minds of the viewers, and when the viewers are awakened, the first thing they hear is Josh and Thomas screaming “Low basic! Low basic! Low basic!” over and over again.
Beat your media.
The posts are slowing a bit, let's try to keep a steady pace. At least one thing every other day from each member.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
kiss, kiss thurston's lips
Another nice post. What immediately grabs me about this interview is how well Thurston keeps his composure as he is unexpectedly accosted by this whack-job of an interviewer, who assaults Thurston with some unfair questions. It's pretty obvious to me that this media-jester's original intentions were to sneak attack Thurston and make him look a fool, but Thurston keeps his cool and totally executes a power reversal, where the media-jester is left looking foolish.
I expect Thurston was able to handle this interview with grace because he has likely had ample experience in similar situations. He must, by this point in his career, be a "media-pro."
Imagine how a dude with zero media or interview experience might navigate this situation. Would certainly be different than Josh's post. I'd probably freak out and throw a punch at the media-jester, or call him really mean names because I felt threatened, ambushed and extremely annoyed. I certainly wouldn't be nearly as polite as was Thurston. (Although, I guess he did try to break the album again).
Which reminds me of the inserts from the media-jester's first encounter with a much younger (and likely more inexperienced) Sonic Youth. Interesting to consider the difference in reactions to this jag-bag.
Spot on about CDs being the 8-track of the yuppie generation.
Keep posting.
I expect Thurston was able to handle this interview with grace because he has likely had ample experience in similar situations. He must, by this point in his career, be a "media-pro."
Imagine how a dude with zero media or interview experience might navigate this situation. Would certainly be different than Josh's post. I'd probably freak out and throw a punch at the media-jester, or call him really mean names because I felt threatened, ambushed and extremely annoyed. I certainly wouldn't be nearly as polite as was Thurston. (Although, I guess he did try to break the album again).
Which reminds me of the inserts from the media-jester's first encounter with a much younger (and likely more inexperienced) Sonic Youth. Interesting to consider the difference in reactions to this jag-bag.
Spot on about CDs being the 8-track of the yuppie generation.
Keep posting.
Friday, July 25, 2008
you mean we've met before?
what a weird interview. thurston really nailed it about cds, huh? 8 track of the yuppie generation for sure.
p.s. hope you guys don't mind the abundance of videos i've been posting lately...can you tell i went back to work?
Response to Monks Post
Yes, this is a great video. I think it is very near in spirit to what Low Basic performs at the end of 'False Media.'
Typically, one considers a television performance to be a big break, that will bring lots of exposure. The wise, collected band will likely put their best foot forward in such a situation and play a safe number (usually a well rehearsed, familiar single). What's cool about this Monks performance is this: what the fuck are they doing? Is that a song? Sort of. It's really just crazy noises and screeches with a beat. Their energy is epileptic and dangerous. And they're on (German?) television in the media modest mid-1960s. Certainly not a performance meant to advance their career or broaden their appeal/fan base. But they really don't give a shit.
And that's what makes a performance such as this one startling and fucking fulfilling. I like the idea of a band who powers through something with the holy spirit spurtin' outta them. Sustaining that fragile, volatile energy appears to be an incredible tight-rope walk. It's dangerous because the performance can spin out into chaos at any moment, but that's what makes the music exciting. Especially when it's on living room safe live-t.v. You can't fake that shit. It's real.
Josh, you make some interesting points about audience participation fueling a band's performance. All good things to consider for Low Basic.
p.s. A public service announcement from the Low basic Ministry of Information. The band name Low Basic shall from now on and henceforth appear written as: Low basic. Thank you.
Typically, one considers a television performance to be a big break, that will bring lots of exposure. The wise, collected band will likely put their best foot forward in such a situation and play a safe number (usually a well rehearsed, familiar single). What's cool about this Monks performance is this: what the fuck are they doing? Is that a song? Sort of. It's really just crazy noises and screeches with a beat. Their energy is epileptic and dangerous. And they're on (German?) television in the media modest mid-1960s. Certainly not a performance meant to advance their career or broaden their appeal/fan base. But they really don't give a shit.
And that's what makes a performance such as this one startling and fucking fulfilling. I like the idea of a band who powers through something with the holy spirit spurtin' outta them. Sustaining that fragile, volatile energy appears to be an incredible tight-rope walk. It's dangerous because the performance can spin out into chaos at any moment, but that's what makes the music exciting. Especially when it's on living room safe live-t.v. You can't fake that shit. It's real.
Josh, you make some interesting points about audience participation fueling a band's performance. All good things to consider for Low Basic.
p.s. A public service announcement from the Low basic Ministry of Information. The band name Low Basic shall from now on and henceforth appear written as: Low basic. Thank you.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
my brother died in vietnam
so here's another spectacular tv performance (of the monks). what interests me about this video is that it's the exact opposite of the refused video. it seems like the only reason any of the kids are dancing is because the producers told them to. yet the monks don't seem to be bothered at all and are still rocking out (in their own, far off planet). they remind me of a pack of wild animals when they all tap at the guitar like that. seriously, the dudes are probably martians. this also made me realize that when at the drive-in played conan, the audience was all sitting down (and probably plugging their ears). it's hard to imagine finding the kind of energy and passion that the monks or at the drive-in do without the kind of response that we see in the refused video.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Response to Femmes, Drive-In, Refused, Replacements
1. Violent Femmes: are interesting because they're so strange, but yet they managed to successfully (albeit briefly) cross-over in to mainstream music in the early 90s, or there-abouts. I remember thinking their stuff was totally different than everything else on the radio or on T.V. I like this post because it references a band who may have encouraged you (the listener) to seek out new musical avenues, and they were able to reach you via "the airwaves" before you reached them. Usually, with this offbeat bands, one really has to be invested and make somewhat of an effort to seek them out, but Femmes came to you, whether you wanted them to or not.
2. @ the Drive-In (on Conan!): First off, sweet that this is a clip from Conan's show. I am fascinated and intrigued by the "locked-down," controled pace and rhythm of Conan's talk show segments and how they counter Drive-In's Loud, Jumpy performance.
Josh, I think this kind of performance is similar to the performance you expect Low Basic to give on Ash's show.
3. Refused: I also like backstage vs. onstage dynamic. Seeing how a band acts, where their heads are at before they go on, then where their heads are at while in...this is very revealing.
What's most interesting to me about this video is the dynamic between Refused and the fans. The two go psycho in complete unison and harmony, becoming a sort of one. I have to believe a band absolutely thrives on audience reaction, reception and input during live sets. I think the fans are a vital part of Low Basic's music. Josh and Thomas pull a lot of energy from their peers and supporters. They feed off this energy.
It's intriguing to think how performing on Ash's show w/out their normal fan base might affect Low Basic's art.
4. Replacements Vid: I love the group dynamics. They really feel like a collective unit, and I like Westerberg's insistence on the collaborative aspects of their music.
2. @ the Drive-In (on Conan!): First off, sweet that this is a clip from Conan's show. I am fascinated and intrigued by the "locked-down," controled pace and rhythm of Conan's talk show segments and how they counter Drive-In's Loud, Jumpy performance.
Josh, I think this kind of performance is similar to the performance you expect Low Basic to give on Ash's show.
3. Refused: I also like backstage vs. onstage dynamic. Seeing how a band acts, where their heads are at before they go on, then where their heads are at while in...this is very revealing.
What's most interesting to me about this video is the dynamic between Refused and the fans. The two go psycho in complete unison and harmony, becoming a sort of one. I have to believe a band absolutely thrives on audience reaction, reception and input during live sets. I think the fans are a vital part of Low Basic's music. Josh and Thomas pull a lot of energy from their peers and supporters. They feed off this energy.
It's intriguing to think how performing on Ash's show w/out their normal fan base might affect Low Basic's art.
4. Replacements Vid: I love the group dynamics. They really feel like a collective unit, and I like Westerberg's insistence on the collaborative aspects of their music.
sounds will behave so strangely
as per shannon's request...the last segment about rites of spring is particularly interesting.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
nothing in particular
so here are a few videos that i've found myself watching recently. i don't really know if they can be applied to low basic but i think they're neat so i'll post em anyway.
sorry, but i couldn't resist the urge to post this. i love how they switch so quickly from being generally relaxed to utterly losing their shit the second they start playing the song. god, i wish i had gotten to see refused...
this is probably my favorite tv performance ever. there's some good chanting stuff around 2:01. it's also pretty funny that cedric and omar run away behind the amps as soon as the songs over. another band i wish i had gotten to see. did i mention that at the drive-in and refused toured together?...
this video gives me the heebie jeebies...big time.
sorry, but i couldn't resist the urge to post this. i love how they switch so quickly from being generally relaxed to utterly losing their shit the second they start playing the song. god, i wish i had gotten to see refused...
this is probably my favorite tv performance ever. there's some good chanting stuff around 2:01. it's also pretty funny that cedric and omar run away behind the amps as soon as the songs over. another band i wish i had gotten to see. did i mention that at the drive-in and refused toured together?...
this video gives me the heebie jeebies...big time.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Perfect Nonsense
This is my favorite moment from No Direction Home, when Dylan is just totally lost in his own world. Something to keep in mind as we think about the interview and meltdown. Here's the transcript of the video:
I’m looking for a place that will collect clip bath and return my dog kn117727 cigarettes and tobacco. Animals and birds bought or sold on commission
I want a dog that’s gonna collect and clean my bath, return my cigarette and give tobacco to my animals and give my bird a commission
I’m looking for somebody to sell my dog, collect my clip, buy my animals, and straighten out my bird.
I’m looking for a place to bathe my bird, buy my dog, collect my clip, sell me cigarettes and commission my bath.
I’m looking or place that’s gonna collect my commission, sell my dog, burn my bird, and sell me to the cigarette.
Gonna bird my bye, collect my will and bathe my commission.
I’m looking for a place that’s gonna animal my soul, knit my return, bathe my foot, and collect my dog.
Commission me to sell my animal to the bird, the foot, and buy my bath, and return me back to the cigarette
The Rock Star/TV Show Host Dynamic
Frank and I discussed how in typical interviews with rock stars, the interviewer is very respectful and/or timid, and the rock star is a pompous asshole. In the script Ash takes on the rock star persona when interviewing Josh, and Josh is very humble and polite. I just think this is an interesting role reversal that could be fun to experiment with. For instance, since Thomas is allegedly the "rock star" of the duo, but is currently out of commission, maybe Ash suddenly feels more comfortable antagonizing Josh. Or maybe he is just fed up from dealing with rock stars for too many years. This first video is an earlier Johnny Rotten appearance in which he is being completely arrogant; some people seem to fall for it, but the one guy (not sure who he is) is not having it.
He is older in the second video, and the rock star persona seems to be out of habit and boredom more than anything else.
Like I said, they are interesting dynamics to play with.
In terms of costumes, it's funny that Johnny Rotten is wearing some sort of bathrobe in the second one. Just an idea, but I think either Ash or Thomas could wear something similar, and possibly whichever of the two does not end up with the bathrobe could don a tux or something similar to Rotten's outfit in the Jukebox Jury video.
One more thought...I also think Thomas should have the fancy eyeliner spider web thing that Siouxsie Sioux occasionally wore around one of his eyes.
He is older in the second video, and the rock star persona seems to be out of habit and boredom more than anything else.
Like I said, they are interesting dynamics to play with.
In terms of costumes, it's funny that Johnny Rotten is wearing some sort of bathrobe in the second one. Just an idea, but I think either Ash or Thomas could wear something similar, and possibly whichever of the two does not end up with the bathrobe could don a tux or something similar to Rotten's outfit in the Jukebox Jury video.
One more thought...I also think Thomas should have the fancy eyeliner spider web thing that Siouxsie Sioux occasionally wore around one of his eyes.
Can we get some estrogen on this blog please?
A story that I think might be fitting for the improvisational song that Low Basic is to play in the film is that of the origins of Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Sex Pistols were headlining the 100 Club Punk Festival in '76, and when one of the bands dropped out Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin (shortly thereafter of Siouxsie and the Banshees) offered to fill the spot. Since they didn't have an actual band at that point, Sid Viscious and Marco Pirroni (of Adam and the Ants), joined them and they borrowed instruments. Basically, they improvised for twenty minutes and Siouxsie sang/screamed the Lord's Prayer, adding some of her own lyrics. I don't think there is any documentation of this event, but if anyone can find some I'm sure it is fucking badass. Otherwise, they recorded a rendition of the song for their second album. If you're interested here is a link to the lyrics.
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/siouxsie_and_the_banshees/the_lords_prayer.html
Also, I'm not positive, but I think this was their first live TV performance. I feel like it also encapsulates a similar idea to the redundant screaming chant that we have talked about for low basic.
And this one I just couldn't resist:
But seriously, it is a good video, and in terms of set design, I like how all of the screens behind the band instruct the viewers to "watch something else."
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/siouxsie_and_the_banshees/the_lords_prayer.html
Also, I'm not positive, but I think this was their first live TV performance. I feel like it also encapsulates a similar idea to the redundant screaming chant that we have talked about for low basic.
And this one I just couldn't resist:
But seriously, it is a good video, and in terms of set design, I like how all of the screens behind the band instruct the viewers to "watch something else."
Transmission
Check this out for it's camera movements, Peter Saville's designs (the JD waves in the bg), and the man reading poetry bookending the performance.
...and
embeded versions of youtube links from Beat Your Media post:
can't embed Iggy's performance, just catch it on YouTube. follow the link.
can't embed Iggy's performance, just catch it on YouTube. follow the link.
Take 5
Dave Brubeck Quartet plays take five, and example of that "5/4" Josh is talking about for all people who don't speak music.
hope i did that right.
hope i did that right.
courtney love is the best fuck in the world.
here's the video i showed you guys in berlin. i figure it'd probably be good to consolidate all the research material in one place. i think one of my favorite things about it is how the credits run over the performance.
also, i started writing some of the music. after thomas gets back i'll make him help me turn into something worth sharing and put it up here. the time signature is 5/4! 5 fucking 4!!!
<3josh
also, i started writing some of the music. after thomas gets back i'll make him help me turn into something worth sharing and put it up here. the time signature is 5/4! 5 fucking 4!!!
<3josh
Beat Your Media
Thomas, thanks a millions for setting this up, I'm super-pumped.
Update: working like a mad-man on the script.
I think the second and third acts are strong.
I'm having some problems with the first act/interview primarily because i don't think it is something that should be written, or as constructed as things need to be in a script, so i've written it as this spine right now, but it's my intention to go in with a vid-cam and basic idea of what we waannA achiieve, and just go to town and sppend an entire day of the shhoot on the interview. It will be fun to get crazy, loose and experiment with a lot of differnt ideas. godb;less video. start coming up with kooky ideas you want to see happen in the interview...which sets up the back stage melt-down/three-stooges routine, and the thrid act performance where you both rise from the ashes like a Pheonix in front of millions.
hey ps a quick thought: as we will be projecting images on the greenscreen during the interview and while you guys play, just start making shit, illustrations, drawings, collages, or whatever that you think would be cool to paste on the screen behind you.
for now, feast on this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7GyUywpkx0Y&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cXLXD5JyAZE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8RNvhKTMc
Good stuff here, Iggy on Dinah Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0EkGiwfS4&NR=1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYAxkEiKAzw&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CmX2Yi3dZ5g
Update: working like a mad-man on the script.
I think the second and third acts are strong.
I'm having some problems with the first act/interview primarily because i don't think it is something that should be written, or as constructed as things need to be in a script, so i've written it as this spine right now, but it's my intention to go in with a vid-cam and basic idea of what we waannA achiieve, and just go to town and sppend an entire day of the shhoot on the interview. It will be fun to get crazy, loose and experiment with a lot of differnt ideas. godb;less video. start coming up with kooky ideas you want to see happen in the interview...which sets up the back stage melt-down/three-stooges routine, and the thrid act performance where you both rise from the ashes like a Pheonix in front of millions.
hey ps a quick thought: as we will be projecting images on the greenscreen during the interview and while you guys play, just start making shit, illustrations, drawings, collages, or whatever that you think would be cool to paste on the screen behind you.
for now, feast on this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7GyUywpkx0Y&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cXLXD5JyAZE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8RNvhKTMc
Good stuff here, Iggy on Dinah Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0EkGiwfS4&NR=1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYAxkEiKAzw&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CmX2Yi3dZ5g
Welcome Glue Boilers
Hello Everyone,
So I set this up for us all to post ideas, pictures, research, videos etc. for the upcoming Low Basic project. However, since we also talked about having a general "research" blog of music and other stuff, we can post all of it here and tag the content accordingly. fun fun fun.
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