Quick!

Quick... have a look! at the Quick, a project that I posted a while back when we did a demo/one story version. Now Jason (along with some talented help from andy + sean + colin and the hunt&gather crew) has released issue 1! Included is an interview with one of my new favorite bands, Asobi Seksu, as well as many other items for good reading.



Here is a little bit about the Quick:

"The Quick is an online bi-monthly that focuses on music as the source and/or result of epiphany, transcendence, revelation, etc. of a spiritual or even more general variety. In other words, it’s for folks who find the world to be a wonderful and (perhaps divinely) mysterious place and find music to be a great reflection of that, or folks who find music to be the one thing tripping up their otherwise firm grip on their assumptions about the world around them. The Quick, as opposed to the dead, the life in something, the blood flow…

Like I said, a work in progress, but I think you get the idea. Pursuers of faith, music, art in general… all are on a path of discovery, and the Quick is the celebration of those moments of discovery."

Ni Hao.

I hope this works- blogger is all in Chinese for me....
Anyway, this is a wild amazing place. I am having a fantastic time- please check out my daily photo uploads at flicker

Xiexie,
Beth

grindhouse

although I hid under my jacket for the first half of the first movie, I have to say IT WAS GREAT! A good gory genre zombie movie, and then a great car chase (despite common criticism, I think I preferred the second — good surprises, well balanced machismo - particularly for tarantino). Nice scratchy effects on the site, too...



And, it introduced me to a new queen bee: Zoe Bell. Although I want to do adventurous things and ice climb and jump off of little hills of snow, I don't think I will ever be brave (ahem, rash?) enough to have my next career as a stunt woman.

the Gonz!

Mister Mark Gonzales, the greatest skateboarder ever, ever, doing a performance piece at Staditches Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany in 1998 or so. Featured in a video for the new Jason Shwartzman (yes, the actor) song, which is actually a pretty good song too!

multimedia menagerie

who has heard of ubu?

why haven't I? until this month's dwell, that is. so far I have found:

1. british knickers pattern from ossie clark (thanks to a full archive of ASPEN magazine, the magazine in the box, with numbered objects making up each issue; hence, entirely inspiring for the magazine that I would like to create)



2. audio clip of marcel duchamp "The Creative Act"



3. banksy's paris hilton stunt



amazing!

last minute submission...

there is a new, last minute submission for the rosso bianco movie contest... someone forgot about the deadline, so plans for post-production, and asking treehorn to compose a soundtrack... those will just have to wait for the sequel.

but, it needs some votes!
http://www.rossobianco.com/movie/61

frazier & wing

my friend adriane lee bird (best name in the business) showed me her friend's new work... and since we all are in need of a beautiful mobile...



or a lovely pillow...



visit the site : frazier & wing

boomshine

although mitch and steven might tease me about my immature game affections, I found this game highly addictive (and satisfyingly patient)... how it works: click on one of the dots (you only get one click per screen, and there is no time limit), it will expand, and then capture and expand any dots that wander into its circumference. pretty, polkadots, venn diagrams — I love it!

boomshine

Independent Art + Design

I came across the greatest site for you all to check out. ELSEWARES. I think the idea is really, really great. I was actually thinking of putting together a site with all of my friends amazing products. Think about it, we have Ann's ... everything, Steven's art, Beth's collars + baby hats, I have several friends who make great jewelry, I have some odds and ends, and John's t-shirts. WaLa! That right there would be one kick ass online store.


Anyways...take a look at the site. They have some great stuff!

Apple TV Commercial

The other day I saw Apple's new spot for Apple TV and I was really impressed by it and at first I didn't really know why. It just felt right, everything was very comfortable and fluid.



I had to go online and check it out again. After playing it back in slow motion it started to be come clear. Apple had cast me in the spot and shot it in my house. Or at least the house I'd love to have. The bookshelves are overstuffed with books, yet everything is very orderly. All my designer furniture is there along with the cute molded plywood scooter for my son on the white shag rug that I've been meaning to buy. There's a beautiful yard outside with wonderful greens and a thoughtful wood bench and so on.

It's all perfect. But it goes beyond just the contents of the scene. The way it's shot is very smooth. The lighting, the choreography, transitions all of it.

I'm a big Apple fan, but I'm by no means one to blindly praise them. I think what impressed me most about this spot was how deceivingly simple it is.

Check it out.

ONE!

it is official! the 47th precinct is one year old!



in celebration, I would like to mention ten points from a great little book I just finished. The book is "The Laws of Simplicity" by John Maeda, an easy little read of 100 pages, but happily thought provoking and stimulating towards (simply stated) SIMPLICITY!

REDUCE the simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
ORGANIZE organization makes a system of many appear fewer
TIME savings in time feel like simplicity
LEARN knowledge makes everything simpler
DIFFERENCES simplicity and complexity need each other
CONTEXT what lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
EMOTION more emotions are better than less
TRUST in simplicity we trust
THE ONE simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful

Most poignantly for me: Technology and Life only become complex if you let it be so.

{UPDATE: I decided to nix the borrowed sidebar images and to type these out... easier to read and easier to share! learn more about each chapter by reading more at the site itself or buying the book or borrowing mine!}

no one belongs here

miranda july, how I love everything you do...

a book in two covers: you can coordinate your outfit to your cover color of choice.

Ann Day!

Happy Birthday, my darling!

unfortunately... it seems that the art.com magic drawing program isn't quite working right anymore, so the movie of the drawing is broken...

This drawing was of course inspired by this amazing movie.

we feel fine

WEFEELFINE.ORG

unbelievable.
The data is generated from peoples blog entries (trolled by search engine) that have the word "feel" in in them.

Kodak Assvertising

We've posted other kinds of creative advertisement placements but I think this is the one I'd like to see more of.



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Kodak assvertising during a photo convention in Kiev, Ukraine.

(found on I believe in adv)

HMX Stuff!

Guitar Hero 2 360 Ad

New ad for GH2 360, which comes out soon! The animation is really awesome.

Also, we announced our new game today ROCK BAND! It's going to be huge!