My good friend, Logan Hill is one of those guys you just know is going to do well as an artist. I’ve always enjoyed his work, especially over the last few years, but this video nears the top of my list of favorite work to date. Keep tabs on him.
From the video’s description:
This video is part of Logan Hill’s MFA thesis exhibition. The show was called Identity Crisis.
The video takes the form of an infomercial to express the absurdity of identity theft and the products used to protect it. All of the products in the video are artworks that were made during Logan’s MFA.
I got to see this video along with all the other work in his thesis exhibition a few months back. The whole thing was fantastic.
This is too cool. I’d never really considered that emulators can only go so far in re-creating our experience of playing video games in the (in my case) early 80s on big tube CRT televisions.
I wasn’t actually much of an Atari kid. We got Intellivision instead, which was supposed to be “intelligent television”, whatever that means. My favorite games were Burger Time and Snafu. There were also a handful in our collection that I never figured out, including Blackjack, if my memory serves me correctly.
I’ve often wondered where that old Intellivision ended up. I wanna’ say I got my hands on one YEARS ago (probably 10-15), and it was kind of surreal. But as far as I know, it’s long gone. What a great surprise it would be to find it in my mom’s attic when they move in a few months.
Catch it while it’s hot… (because I just KNOW youtube will remove my video once it’s evil music scanbots realize that I didn’t record myself playing the harmonica for the music on this video):
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I’ve really enjoyed this short movement from a piece by Darius Milhaud: Musette (3rd movement) from Divertissement en Trois Parties
Hit full screen, throw on some headphones, and watch this thing from beginning to end. Unbelievable driving. And unless I’m mistaken, red light means stop, right? Via Horses Think:
[This] film [was] made by Claude Lelouch in 1976 and filmed in a single 9 minute take. “Paris At Dawn On Crack”
From Chicagoist, I was just informed that this city we call home is the worst. Well, 3rd worst. And I can personally attest to 3 of the points they make. It’s a nice place to visit, but…
I always have to credit Logan for introducing me to this a few years ago. Be prepared to have this stuck in your head for awhile. Thanks, Logan. Thogan.
Adobe UI Gripes attacks Adobe for terrible user interface design problems in its software, using terrible language the whole way (so, NSFW? I don’t work in an office, so I really don’t know what constitutes that designation except for the obvious). If you use Photoshop or any Adobe app, you’ll probably enjoy it.
Just read about the interesting outcome in a recent lawsuit against photographer Benjamin Ham who shot on private property, and the foundation that sued him. Worth a read if you’re a photographer. It won’t be interesting if you’re not.
I should be recommending the whole album—it’s good and all—but I find myself listening to this ONE track over and over and over again. I tend to do that with certain Ben Folds songs. (NSFW, I guess, btw).
I really wish there was a better (audio quality) recording on YouTube. Unfortunately, they’re all live performances recorded on people’s crappy cameras and camera phones. Boo.
My friend Laurie, from high school, recently asked me through facebook for a recording of our wind ensemble from 1999. Being the ultimate band nerd, I had the recording. It was just a matter of finding it. Anyway, considering there’s no one out there to sue me for posting it, I thought I’d make it publicly available. The problem is, it’s not like these are amazing performances of these pieces. But if you’re into it, feel free to download the zip file.
Street with a View is a collaboration between the folks at Google (Maps) Street View.
On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…
Originally my friend Jay sent me one of the scenes directly in GoogleMaps, only to realize that it was staged later. It’s a great project, even if it did kinda’ ruin the hilarity of the scene.
My buddy Kyle Petersen, from grad school, started a blog called Liquid Light awhile back. I only recently found it. It’s always good to see your friends/colleagues doing well, and it’s clear that Kyle is making the most of his teaching opportunities out in Utah.
