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VBS
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...
TOWARDS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION: THE 'MIX TAPE' IN...
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,...
A fine song by my old friend Dan, who records...
“[Pythagoras] may be described, briefly, as a combination of Einstein and Mrs....”
– Betrand Russel, The History of Western Philosophy
NEW YEAR / NEW DESIGN / NEW NEW
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...
December 2007
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WORKSONGS →
I hadn’t visited Andrew Emond’s excellent photo-blog in some time. Today I returned and am happy to report that it is still there and better than ever. Mr. Edmond’s work concerns (for the most part) the exploration of urban decay and abandoned spaces. His work is sad and beautiful (I was going to say “haunting”, but I don’t say that kind of thing) and...
TESTING
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.