Robert Pullard, the frontman of the 80′s Ohio indie band Guided by Voices has givien away personnal footages to edit the ultimate Guided By Voices DVD, coming out this November. The trailer below is probably the cheapest one of its kind. Lofi as always.
“Goldheart Mountaintop Queen” Directory by Guided By Voices from their lo-fi classic “Bee Thousand”.
Tags: 80's, DVD, guided by voices, indie, Lo-fi, robert pullard
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This could have saved us precious hours of hard labor building the drone.
Massive layoff wave coming up in the typographe branch!
Laika (the name of the first russian space dog) is the bachelor thesis project of the two germans Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz that allows you to make font dynamic. Try it out here. Lire la suite
Tags: germany, innovation, typography
Today people would probably call 911 to report a terrorist threat for this.
In the early 80′s in the UK, while Depche Mode and The Cure marry blackness for better or for worst with “New Wave”, the New York “No Wave” scene seemed to involve a much wilder scale of art types.
Music, painting, cinema, happening: director Angelique Bosio’s documentary “Llik Your Idols: The cinema of Transgression” pays tribute to the pioneers of this Era. Lire la suite
Tags: 80's, documentary, new wave, new york, no wave
Sir Victor Uwaifo was born in Benin City, Nigeria in 1941. At a very young age, this genius guitarist had a strange encounter with a “Mami Wata” (mermaid) who told him: “Guitar Boy! Eeh, if you see Mami Wata, never you run away.”
“Guitar Boy and Mamiwater” became a huge hit in 1966. Then “Joromi” won him the first gold record in Africa. Lire la suite
Tags: 60's, Africa, dance, Guitar, Hi-Life, Legend, Nigeria, oldies, sir victor uwaifo
For those who spent the past few months locked in a cabin without any contact with the outside world, here’s two fresh news: Patrick Swayze is dead and Pavement are reuniting.
Stephen Malkmus and his buddies will launch their reunion tour on March 2010 in Australia, and will be headlining and curating next ATP festival on May. As expected, the tickets are already gone but more surprising is the first line-up: Faust, Quasi, Endless Boogie, Enablers and The Fall. Lire la suite
Tags: ATP Festival, Mark E. Smith, pavement, reunion, the fall, uk
If this track had been released this year in UK, these guys would be the new MGMT.
Great tune by italian brothers La Bionda, in 1980. Lire la suite
Tags: 80's, clubs, dance, disco, electronic, italy, La bionda, oldies, synth
Videogame industry does what it can in those economic times… Mario bros can go home.
Here comes a flip book 2.0 titled “Videogioco” (videogame in Shakespeare’s language) by a pretty talented 35 years old illustrator named Donato Sansone based in Turino. Lire la suite
Tags: 3D, animation, blood, butchery, cartoon, flipbook, italy, torino
This alter-globalization flashmober got the whole crisis figured out.
Sitting, boycotting, black blocking, protesting, self-chaining to a tree: alter-globalization movements have been more than creative when it comes down to resist. Comparing businesses as “donkeys”, Brent Schulkin, a 27-year-old Stanford grad in San Francisco, created a new sort of “mob”, the Carrotmob to make businesses step forward to a more responsible state of mind. The deal is simple: the business makes a commitment, and he gets more consumers. Lire la suite
Tags: Alter-globalization, business, community, consumer, flash mob, network, san francisco
Watch the explosive new documentary on international graffiti.
BOMB IT is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.
Featuring street artists and top graffiti writers from five continents, Bomb It – The Movie updates the story of graffiti with a truly international perspective. Lire la suite
Tags: documentary, graffiti, street art
Here is street art at his best. Blu and David Ellis, joined forces at 2nd annual FAME festival in Italy. Over ten days of shooting and painting to get this gigantic masterpiece. Lire la suite
Tags: animation, blu, combo, gigantic, graffiti, street art, timelapse
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