Beach House is a Baltimore duo that makes beautiful, dreamy indie pop. That descriptor “dreamy indie pop” usually conjures Nineties groups like My Bloody Valentine and Ride, but unlike the wall-of-guitars approach favored by those bands, Beach House does it with spare, deliberate arrangements – usually no more than guitar, keyboard, voice, and gently-pulsing electronic […]
read moreGarfield Minus Garfield is a concept comic by Dan Walsh in which Garfield (the character) is removed from the strip, revealing Jon Arbuckle’s troubled inner life – his paranoia, loneliness and existential angst. The comics are alternately bizarre, hilarious and thought-provoking. The sampling provided here doesn’t really do it justice; click on the strips for […]
read moreJosh Nimoy is an artist, designer, technologist and digital thing-maker that creates innovative aesthetic tools with custom software. He develops the code for use in his own commissions (music videos, ads, installations, performances) and makes some of them freely available for use and modification online. His CV is encyclopedic and includes things like writing custom […]
read moreI don’t usually write like this, but I felt like to putting this up because it invites interpretation and discussion. “Movie making is a trick. Songwriting is a trick. If a song is done really well, the trick works. If not, people can see through it right away.” – David Byrne Sometimes I feel like […]
read moreFever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson. She is also one-half of Swedish electronic group The Knife, a group that captured my attention (and affection) after releasing their song “Heartbeats” in 2003 . The fascinating thing about Fever Ray is her ability to make such evocative music from such a limited palette. On their own, the […]
read moreChris Clark records for Warp Records, the paragon of modern IDM and glitch music. I’ve been following him since 2003, when he released “Empty the Bones of You,” and since then his style has gotten progressively idiosyncratic, to the point where his signature sound can’t be mistaken for anyone else. It’s so ingrained, in fact, […]
read moreThe Perry Bible Fellowship is an Eisner-winning comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch.
read moreThe perpetuation of “shreds” videos is one of my favorite ongoing Internet memes. The basic idea goes like this : take a music video by a well-known band and overdub it with something hilariously awful (typically accounting for lip sync, but not necessarily). As far as I know, the phenomenon started with a handful of […]
read moreHe’s that famous. It’s pretty raw to arrest a dude when he arrives for his opening. Ugh. I saw the above print in the flesh at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF, in addition to the iconic HOPE poster used throughout Obama’s campaign. Being in the physical presence of Shep’s work changed […]
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