fantastical supernatural one gallon axe + beauty

15May08

wow. joe posted this on alison’s page. its a milk ad. holy shit. are those girls twins? is that really milk? is prince jealous? so many questions. its teethtastical.

this is one of the most beautiful images i’ve ever seen.

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bookmarking / venturo prefab retro

14May08

these are the top 10 sites i visit most often these days:

google.com / the greatest search engine in the multiverses
yahoo.com / homepage – mail – news
politico.com / because i’m that kind of animal
wikipedia.org / amazing info resource
ffffound.com / image bookmarking – fantastic concept
nin.com / trent has released 2 albums since january. 46 songs.
iso50.com / tycho aka scott hansen’s design blog. beauty.
vimeo.com / its like flickr for video, very classy and useful
flickr.com / the last word i suppose.
myspace.com / i currently help run 5 myspace pages. gosh.

…and this page is incredible.

in the same style… here’s some great retro prefab photos from flickr from (by finnish designer matti suuronen 1971)…

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we’ve had some great and not so great weather lately. mostly great.

13May08

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binge parade tracks / southern music industry

12May08

on cinco de mayo, i spent an evening at dreamcatchers studio in homewood helping my friends aaron and alan record an ep for their project, ‘binge parade.’

i recorded bass for two songs, ‘warm’s too far away‘ and ‘with love mr. suicide.’ i love those titles. alan is the new drummer for wiseblood v1, and aaron was in a band in bham for a few years named cordova.

listen to the songs here:

myspace.com/bingeparade

also… my friend john seay has written a fantastic article about the birmingham and national music industry evolution, specifically, giving it all away. the article is here, via flagpole in athens, ga.

…and speaking of athens, venice is sinking, an athens band that i really like, is doing an extended residency in place of touring. excellent. ever since our residency at speakeasy w/ the spots last year, i’ve been a fan of the idea.

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remastering the girls+cars ep?

07May08

there’s more than one reason to do it. this is an example of a well written and performed ep that was poorly engineered. well… its not 2002 anymore. i have options. 5 years ago i remixed ‘black girl’ well enough to get it some airplay. i’m really curious about how i would / could remix-remaster or redit the ep in a way that would make it presentable for weownthesky.

black girl
downtown ‘81
st. anne of the sunset
dancin’
farrah…
fastlane

as a track listing, there are only 6 songs. but in reality, the ep has a long hidden section at the end of ‘fastlane’ that includes ambient/background noise recorded at the late, great hippodrum in birmingham, as well as a solo acoustic performance of ’sophia’, which actually ended up being the most satisfying musical moment on the ep. i’ll ponder… is this revisionism?

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i dig this poster… and i’m flattered + tychobama + 13ghosts in pitchfork

05May08

gosh. looks like a great cause… and i dig the wood grain approach in the poster design, but i can’t help but to think that i’ve seen something before??

i want my eab! (2008)

i want my nye! (dec 2006)

tycho has been commissioned to do the next obama iconic art poster thingy.

and finally: the reviews are in. 13ghosts get a 7.6 in pitchfork.

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we live in a media-state

01May08

Race in the Race for the Presidency: How Media Pundits Gloss Over Race and Feed Racism
Posted: 02:13 PM ET

Tim Wise
Friend of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Author of ‘White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son’
www.timwise.org

Much has been said about the role that racism may play in the outcome of the 2008 Presidential election.

But what has been largely ignored is the way that media pundits, by virtue of the language they use, the questions they ask, and the way they frame issues, often reinforce racial division, and make it harder for us to examine race issues honestly.

So consider the way the media has been pushing the question, “Can Obama win working class voters?” Or, “Why is Obama having trouble connecting with working class voters?” Both questions ignore that Obama doesn’t have a working class problem—large percentages of the black folks who are turning out to support him at rates of 90% are indeed working class—but rather, a white working class problem.

By implicitly equating “working class” with white, the media reinforces the notion of “hard-working,” average (i.e. normal) folks as white. This then leaves blacks to be viewed either as the decidedly non-working and dreaded “underclass,” or the elitist types that Hillary Clinton wants people to envision when they think of Senator Obama. Either of these images can reinforce racism, either by stoking white fear of the former or resentment toward the latter.

Or consider the way the media has responded to the Jeremiah Wright controversy. Although much attention has been paid to black anger in the wake of Rev. Wright’s largely-taken-out-of-context comments, and although some have tried to explain the place of such righteous indignation within the black church and community, the framing of the issue has reinforced the white perspective as normal, and thus, valid. So we are asked to wonder, “Why are some black people so angry?” rather than, “Why are some white people so complacent?” about racial injustice.

White complacency is seen as normal, while black anger is taken as the pathology to be understood, ultimately making them the problem. Their perspectives are the ones that are strange and in need of explanation, but ours (if we’re white) are perfectly fine and need not be explained or defended to anyone. Such a normalizing of the white perspective only makes it more likely that whites will be hostile to those who think and view the world differently.

Of course, it’s not only this election where the media has normalized whiteness, or made it altogether invisible, so that its consequences can’t even be seen, let alone understood.

Consider the 2004 Presidential race, after which most every talking head noted that President Bush had won the “evangelical vote,” and claimed that the nation was divided between “blue states” and “red states.”

In the first instance, commentators failed to notice that the President most certainly did not win the black evangelical vote, but only the white evangelical vote. Black evangelicals voted against him by at least four to one. Saying that “evangelicals” supported the President, as the media did, marginalized Christians of color, whose sense of religious duty compelled them to vote differently from their white brothers and sisters. Why? Who knows? No one thought to ask.

As for blue states and red states, the notion of a geographic divide in this country is largely mythical. Most whites in the blue states—including New York, California, Illinois, Michigan and Maryland—either voted for Bush, or split 50-50 between Bush and Kerry. Meanwhile, in the red states, people of color voted overwhelmingly against the President. In other words, the real divide was racial, not regional.

By ignoring this truth, the media ducked the hard questions about why whites and folks of color often view our country so differently, and come to such different conclusions about what would be best for the nation politically.

But it is this kind of question we need to confront in order to have a truly productive conversation about race in America. That our respective racial identities often shape the way we view our national past, present and desired future—and therefore, often cause tension because we can’t fathom where “the other guy” is coming from—is the truth that won’t go away.

Only if media helps to uncover that reality, and encourage a real discussion about what it means, for all of us, will we likely make progress on the road to racial equity.

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ten29 dj set // 05.09.08

29Apr08

3 robots throw a house party in brooklyn. its friday, 1982. …and yes, this poster is a nod to scott/iso50.

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weownthesky promo for raindrop festival 2008

25Apr08

this motion graphic was inspired by the various promotional flyers and posters created by jason hamric.

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AN ARGUMENT FOR PUBLICLY FUNDED EUTHANASIA

23Apr08

AN ARGUMENT FOR PUBLICLY FUNDED EUTHANASIA

An open letter to Birmingham City Mayor Larry Langford

Mayor langford needs to be put down, like a terminally sick animal, it is that simple. A man who recently owed $70,000 in clothing bills… and wears $10,000 watches… is asking the city to “humble” itself… and to petition the lord with prayer. .. asking people to walk around with their heads bowed wearing sacks and covered in ashes. This is insanity, and most likely, illegal.

How much money was spent from my sewage fees for this? Our Mayor needs to be put to sleep.

This guy could be indicted on multiple counts on any given day, and this is his grand idea? THIS is supposed to be the answer to our crime problem. He’s got mental issues. He is trying to compare himself to a bliblical king, with this proclamation.

I don’t petition the lord with prayer when my car insurance goes up. I don’t petition the lord with prayer when my sewage backs up, and i don’t petition the lord with prayer to cut my city crime statistics. Anyone who does, deserves to be disappointed when nothing happens.

God didn’t bother to intervene during the european holocaust, hence i doubt he’s going to intervene in a southern mid-sized city, who’s only catalyst for reducing crime is the never ending promise of urban revitalization via our bloated, over priced, under-planned wanna-be metro-sexual loft district, which currently contains several meth addicts, numerous prostitutes and ZERO grocery stores.

Awesome.

I still want to know whatever happened to the ‘computers fo’ the childrenz.’

Here’s some bham humility for you Mr. Psycho Mayor:

I’LL PAY YOU $5 DOLLARS A DAY TO WASH MY HANDS after i use the restroom. It’ll be the only honest work you’ve done in decades. And PLEASE, Mr. Langford, increase your smoking habit from two packs a day to four. It is the only real hope this city has for progress. This behavior goes well beyond “southern eccentricity.” This guy is a nut job. It is no wonder the rest of the country laughs out loud when they think about the deep south.

www. bhamweekly. com

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