sure why not

another video

the great sand heron

two videos sent to me recently

amazing lightbox/sand art/performance are/etc

A Hole in the Place of Heart from DavidMyriam on Vimeo.

my favourite bird

The Great Blue Heron of Stanley Park from Mike McKinlay on Vimeo.

towns i passed through on the way to the coast

Superfriend Dave Pwned'house asked me to make a mix of my favourite kurt vile stuff. I am much obliged....












In no particular order:

1. Kurt Vile - Hunchback
2. Kurt Vile - Overnight Religion
   
3. Kurt Vile - Blackberry Song
   
4. Kurt Vile - Unknown
5. Kurt Vile - Freeway
   
6. Kurt Vile - Slow Talker
7. Kurt Vile - Don't Get Cute
   
8. Kurt Vile - Beach On The Moon (Recycled Lyrics)
9. Kurt Vile - My Best Friends (Don't Even Pass This)
10. Kurt Vile - Song For John D
11. Kurt Vile - The Hunchback
    
12. Kurt Vile - Losing It
13. War On Drugs - Taking The Farm
    
14. War On Drugs - Buenos Aires Beach
    

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Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It developed after the discovery of diamonds in the area in 1908, to provide shelter for workers from the harsh environment of the Namib Desert. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners the village was built like a German town, with facilities like a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theater and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station^[3] in the southern hemisphere as well as the first tram in Africa. It had a railway link to Lüderitz. The town declined after World War I as diamond prices crashed, and operations moved to Oranjemund. It was abandoned in 1956.

more stop motion

love it...

potholes of sound and random strings i've found

a random grab bag of songs that are new or new to me, a fair bit of canadian stuff, for you listening pleasure














Jason Molina and Will Johnson have collaborated and have an album coming out. Judging by the track below its going to be on constant rotation for me. Spiral Stairs makes me want to go see the Pavement reunion and remember a great show they did with BSS at sled island. Forest City Lovers have a new 7' and continue to refine their sound. Mountain Man reminds me Alela Diane, not as haunting, but a similar style to her first amazing album The Pirates Gospel. Woods played three new tracks on Daytrotter, these are my two favs, been loving these guys for years. Golden Isles are a Canadian band that is new to me, at first they reminded me of tons of the NME style British crap but on further listens I think they come at their music without the aspirations of a magazine cover. Videotape, often compared to Women which i find a stretch, are also new to me but judging by the tracks I found they are keepers. I generally hate 'remixes', they are music for people who go to clubs to try and get their photos taken by scene photographers for facebook glory. I fucking love the Soft Pact (formerly the Muslims) and I like how much they have changed the song in their remix. Finally, I had heard a little buzz about Valleys before Pop Montreal who's show I unfortunately didnt make it too, but I really with I could have. They remind me of Citizens Here and Abroad but, from the sounds of it, less hit and miss. Ok thats my review? Synopsis?

1. Molina & Johnson - Twenty Cycles To The Ground*
2. Spiral Stairs - A Mighty Mighty Fall
3. Forest City Lovers - Phodilus and Tyto
   
4. Forest City Lovers - If I Were A Tree
   
5. Mountain Man - Sewee Sewee
6. Woods - Death Rattle*
7. Woods - Suffering Season
8. Golden Isles - Going Out Tonight
9. Videotape - Nightlights*
   
10. Videotape - He The Moon
11. Phoenix - Fences (Soft Pact Remix)
12. Valleys - Killer Legs*
13. Valleys - Silent Woods
    

*Asterisk donates my picks













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images: random

on the threshold between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions...

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

An experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques. I think it pairs well with the background music. Now turn off your lights and watch it in the dark over and over again....

Beneath, Ink and Resin works (sculptures? paintings? installations?) that make me question what dimension to 'view' these works from. Wikipedia tells me Dustin Yellin's (http://www.dustinyellin.com/) artworks are based on a unique process of painting 3d forms in resin. Common subjects in his artworks are biological imagery. While historic artists like Leopold Blaschka and Ernst Haeckel have used their techniques to represent real biological forms, Dustin Yellin's artworks exist as permutations of natural life and form. His paintings use a method to represent 3d forms that is reminiscent of both lenticular images and rapid prototyping. The technique approximates a static volumetric display and is autostereoscopic as his artworks appear three dimensional without the use of special glasses or viewing equipment.


































how tenuous our perception has become...

avian evil eye

Boredom has got the best of me (there is only so much online scrabble you can play, books you can read, guitar you can play, and lloyd roberston on ctv new net you can take in one afternoon)... I figured I would make a post with some lesser known Canadian stuff that I've been listening to... Well, I guess Land of Talk is sort of well know but i doubt many people have heard their new EP so i'll post that for the time being along with some tracks by Zeroes (which included member[s] of land of talk if i remember correctly) and Pick A Piper (which includes a guy from Caribou)... Land of Talk seems to bringing some of their 'edge' back on the ep 'fun and laugther', which i hope leads to a return of the energy that applause cheer boo hiss had. Zeroes kind of does the synth-rock thing but adds a angular element that is at times spastic but in no means overdone; i also hear their live shows are great and recommend people going to see them if they want to get their dance on. Pick A Piper reminds me of a more percussion based Caribou, the tracks are hit and miss for me but overall enjoyable.

1. Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterisk
   
2. Land of Talk - May You Never*
   
3. Land of Talk - As Me
4. Land of Talk - A Series of Small Flames
   
5. Zeroes - The Disappearance of The Skyscraper*
   
6. Zeroes - Arena
   
7. Zeroes - PVC
   
8. Zeroes - Mudslinger
   
9. Pick A Piper - Yellowknife*
   
10. Pick A Piper - Rooms
    
11. Pick A Piper - Bechtel Park

asterisk denotes the best track off each ep imo
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all images from: http://www.frankgonzales.net/PAINTINGS.html