I’m just going to chime in here and say that I finally found one of the songs I have long been searching for: Stockholm. Its by the New Fast Automatic Daffodils, but I didn’t know that so it took me a while to track it down. Also found No New Tale To Tell by Love and Rockets – which has an almost identical guitar riff to some song by Renegade Soundwave. Speaking of Renegade Soundwave – they provide most of the backing music (via liberal sampling) to the first two Pop Will Eat Itself albums. So if you like PWEI, chances are you might like the instrumental dub-house-tendencies of RS.
Tim, I will post you a copy, cuz I think its right up your “music from around high school time” alley. Hell, I will just send all three of them.
I used to go collect rocks at the beach at night, without a light, when your vision is low and you can only see in black and white. I would pick a rock, and wrap it up in a cloth, a bandana most likely. Then I would never look at it in the light. If I had to peek at it, I would only do it at night with the lights off. That way, I had a rock but I didn’t know what color it was. For some reason that made me happy.
It’s like the cats being grey. “La nuit tous les chats sont gris (at night all the cats are grey, expression meaning that sometimes, nobody can make a difference…)”
And I don’t understand why you can spell Grey with an E or A. Gray. That is just pure laziness.
I just posted photos from out camping trip to Anza Borrego last weekend, which was sublime. Go and check them out – click on the Flickr link in the navigation bar.
FIXED, an independent film directed by Neil Matsumoto and produced by
our friend Lewis Haidt, is finally coming to the big screen this week.
Michele and I created artworks for some of the characters in the film,
and so Rise Industries will be making its big screen debut! Try and
check this one out if you can – it’s a great film and a huge deal for us
over here at Rise.
Hope to see you there! We will be attending the screening on Friday.
There is another on Tuesday, both at the Arclight Theater. See below for
more info – and the article here in the LA Times
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The premiere of FIXED, produced by Lewis Haidt, this
Friday March 24th 5:30 p.m. THERE IS ALSO A SECOND SCREENING TUESDAY,
the 28th, @ 10:00 p.m. All at Arclight in Hollywood.
FIXED tells the story of a Los Angeles painter, struggling to get
control over his life and stars Jason Van Over as Matthew and Tina
Holmes (SIX FEET UNDER) as Deanna. To purchase tickets, go to
Silver Lake Film Festival.
This film will make you think about love and
intimacy in a new way.
Hope to see you on Friday or Tuesday.
Sorry – had a little Blog meltdown there for a while. All seems to be back to normal, except now all the text is written in pink, then swtiches to black just before it hits your eyes.
And don’t give me any of that 22/7 crap either.
Happy Pi Day!!
March 14 = 3.14
“Pi Day is celebrated in a variety of ways. Parties or other observances may be held by mathematics departments in educational institutions. Math or science clubs might gather to consider the role that the number ? has played in their lives and to imagine the world without ?. During such an event, pi celebrants may devise alternative values for ?, eat pie, play piñata, drink Piña Colada, eat pineapple, listen to the song “Pi” by Kate Bush, or watch Pi. The shape of the pie is sometimes square, due to the pronunciation of the equation for the surface area bounded by a circle = ?r2, i.e. “pie are squared.”
The “ultimate” pi moment[1] occurred on March 14, 1592, at 6:53 AM and 58 seconds. When written in American-style date format, this is 3/14/1592 6:53.58, which corresponds to the value of pi to twelve digits: 3.14159265358. However, considering this was well before any kind of standardized world time had been established, and the general public had no concept of ?, the occurrence likely went unnoticed[2].”
3.14159265358
Also note the Albert Einstein was smart enough to be born on Pi day.
My dad was also smart enought to be born today! Nice work Dad, and happy birthday!
Hmm. A little embarassing that I have not posted anything in a week while Tim here is on a roll with his Musical Tuesdays.. but so many things are going on.. and I have not had time to find the juicy news you all require..
Maybe I need to introduce some kind of architectural Wednesdays.. or Thursdays for that matter.
One thing I can say is that Mika Soma – a fine arts student over at Otis College of Art and Design, has joined me this semester as the official Rise Industries Intern. She has been helping out with wrapping up a big digital mural project I am working on (more later…) and we are currently putting together a magazine/art book that we hope to put out in several weeks. Its tentatively called Not Bad, and will deal with art/writing/photos/rememberances of Where We are From.. and Where We are. Places or environments lived in so to speak. Thats a loose idea though..
So – consider this a call for submissions.. if you have ideas for anything that can be printed (its going to be either color or black and white folded 11×17 format I think) and deals with your past or your current environment… drop me an email with an idea and we can talk.
Send to jquinn at rise-ind.com
Hey man, I have hockey players in the family too – crazy.
Check out Manon Rheaume – some sort of cousin/relation on my Mom’s side of the family (from back in Canada).
Congrats to Ethan, er, State Shirt! He won the Songfight match for Bitter Orange (see post below). So, now if you have not heard it yet, go to Songfight and check it out – its good stuff.
ps. Ethan, we should do one soon… either that or I will just have to enter into competition with you (and lose).
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