There has always been something about the tone of Vice Magazine that rubs me the wrong way. Some sort of cutesy-hipster-NYC-coke-party vibe that didn’t sit well with my fine Midwestern sensibilities (Chicago is a pretty big city, but it’s still the Midwest).
So it surprised me somewhat to finally realize that the Vibe Broadcasting System (VBS.TV) is fantastic: I spent a long time this evening watching long-form interviews with Will Oldham, H. Rollins, Chan Marshall, et al. (on the program Soft Focus).
Now all they need is an old-fashioned variety show… Then I will dig a hole and bury my TV (with rabbit ears: no cable) in the back yard.
For those of you following along:
After discovering an old cassette deck I had in storage was still operational, I proclaimed that I would revive the mix tape — revive it as an object d’art and as a functional object with which to create music mixes and share those mixes with others.
You know, like how we used to do (I’m speaking to the Old People now — those of us born before, let’s say, 1980).
Well, it turns out that the RECORD FUNCTION of that tape deck does not work… So I’ve been searching for a workable alternative. As yet, I have not found one. But there is hope.
Here is a Seeqpod playlist I created. More research to follow. If you know of another interesting solution to this non-problem, please contact me. Thanks!
ENJOY!
EDIT: It appears this is not the solution (we knew it wasn’t). Already (I just built this play list a few hours ago), 2 of the 5 tracks no longer load. To make it work the way I envision it, you would have to upload MP3s of the songs you wanted to include on your own server space, then create a Seeqpod playlist from them.
Someone will figure this out, sooner or later.
Or, perhaps, nobody cares.
And: the only music I actually purchase anymore is pressed onto vinyl records. The best record labels (Touch & Go, for example) include coupons for free MP3 downloads of whatever real record you happen to buy.
[Pythagoras] may be described, briefly, as a combination of Einstein and Mrs. Eddy. He founded a religion, of which the main tenets were the transmigration of souls and the sinfulness of eating beans. His religion was embodied in a religious order, which, here and there, acquired control of the State and established a rule of the saints.
But the unregenerate hankered after beans, and sooner or later rebelled.
— Betrand Russel,
The History of Western Philosophy
Happy New Year, everybody!
As I get a portfolio book ready to get printed (the one I’ve been sort-of working on for about a year), it strikes me that the ol’ home page could use some tidying up, if not an entire re-design. The current version was designed by me, but it might be time to bite the bullet and hire someone else to do it.
Speaking of design, it would sure be swell if I could get this TUMBLR experiment to be a little less minimal and Helvetica-like. I am thinking of something like Justin O.’s. Should be easy, right?
And yet… I fear that I will damage the CSS, and become confused, and not find my way home to a clear and simple design.
It is Chicago, and it is very, very cold tonight.
Shot during a recent portrait session. Natural light through glass doors (overcast & snowing, mid-afternoon, suburbs of Chicago).
Will it work? This is only a test. Which I suppose means I’ll have to eventually come back here and erase this post. Which I probably won’t ever get around to.
OK.
