January 2010
Happy New Year!
I wish you all a non-disappointing evening.
December 2009
Generation Bubble: Me TV - Let a Thousand... →
lukesimcoe:
I kind of disagree with this. The contemporary mass (news) media is commercial media, and “blogging and so on” does represent a subversive alternative. The mass media is dependent upon the ability to commandeer enough eyeballs to support their existence as a commercial entity. As a result, the fact that “the distinction between amateur and professional in the field of media is...
Generation Bubble: Me TV - Let a Thousand... →
Blogging and so on are forms of immaterial labor that complement the mass media rather than competing or subverting them. More important, the distinction between amateur and professional in the field of media is becoming irrelevant. An amateur production that could disrupt the flow of mass-media spectacles, stand apart from it and call it into question,appear as something different, is no longer...
Mute magazine: Questioning Capitalist Realism - an... →
Q: Another form of activity you propose is in accentuating cultural seriousness. You mention a number of examples, for instance the work of the TV documentary maker Adam Curtis. Curtis however falls into the too easy trap of identifying blogs with interpassivity. Your blog, K-Punk is another place in which you are pushing forward ideas about such seriousness in music and elsewhere. Bold,...
haters and hecklers
agrammar:
Hands down, end of discussion, no contest, the single shittiest phrase of the ’00s—even over “webinar.” “Hater” emerged in the ’90s, but it seeped its way into pop music’s bloodstream during this decade and shows no signs of going away. It’s the ultimate cop-out, equally applicable, and specious, whether you’re a megastar or a wannabe. Don’t want to own up to your own bullshit? Call...
kill.all.yippies.
thepublics:
“But criticism, for the most part, comes from the opposite place that book-enjoying should come from. To enjoy art one needs time, patience, and a generous heart, and criticism is done, by and large, by impatient people who have axes to grind. The worst sort of critics are (analogy coming) butterfly collectors - they chase something, ostensibly out of their search for beauty, then,...
thejogging:
We speak of brush strokes in paintings sensually, though what we are really speaking of is the image of brush strokes. Despite all the talk about warm edges and luscious color, no critic has licked a Jackson Pollock. Our sensual descriptors of art highlight the ability of our minds to imagine interactions that will never be. The figurative use of sensory observations in describing...
“Ghettotech, microhouse, folktronica, New Weird America, schaffel, crunk,...”
– ’00s MICROTREND GRAVEYARD New York Music - The Decade in Music Genre Hype - page 3 (via aaronleaf)
I really enjoyed this article, and Tom Ewing’s appraisal of it. Cam blogged it days ago, but I’ve been off tumblr all week so I’m not about to dig back for the original links.
fallingandlaughing:
“Wild Heart,” Abe Vigoda
It...
I am in Vancouver
It is damp, and too warm. Kinda gross.
Democracy Now in Copenhagen: Interview with... →
We cannot end climate change or fight ecological catastrophe unless we end capitalism.
Link Wray - fire and brimstone
Link Wray - falling rain
Link Wray is mostly...
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks - oh boy (live Girls...
Has dark matter finally been detected? →
Sources say yes.
“Dark matter is likely to be made up of a variety of invisible particles that not only explain the missing mass of the universe, but shed light on some of the most profound mysteries in science.
Some dark matter particles could explain why ordinary matter is not radioactive, while others may help scientists understand why time – so far as we know – always runs...
Interview with Brad Troemel about Jogging →
Jogging is at this blurred boundary between “art and life”, where and how does art and life connect in this project ? We acknowledge art is life and life is art and life is a performance and performance is art so life is art, bla bla. All that- we know, we believe. I don’t doubt someone on the toilet in Idaho right now is just as much Art as me casting Christmas lights in Jell-o, under the...
thejogging:
The Internet has dramatically increased the availability of documentation of art produced around the world. This increase has corresponded with a new reliance on images as a means of consuming information. For many exhibitions, the audience for the installation views outnumbers visitors to the venue itself. I present my art immaterially from a website. This method allows the maximum...
Why You Should Go Back to Grad School →
lukesimcoe:
Vindication!!!
I’m glad I did.
thepublics:
BlakRoc/Mos Def: On the vista
“HST may spell the end for B.C. Premier. Of course, because of a tax. Not for...”
– Morning Brew: Berlusconi’s Broken Nose (via cameronr)
I would be pretty stoked if Campbell took a nice big blow to the face.
Music I liked in 2009
Seeing as it’s unavoidable (or at least I’m not yet ready to give up the tradition), might as well do it up before Pitchfork does, right? Might make some changes later, because there’s still lots of stuff I haven’t heard yet (the new Clipse, for instance, or that Tune-Yards album, The Very Best, the new Flaming Lips, Cuban Linx II, etc). I’m also not putting...
“As a woman artist I feel I must reject the “best of” register. I wish not to...”
– Jutta Koether’s Best-Of List, in Artforum (via leoraevelyn)
Fuck yeah! I feel basically okay about rating music on a fixed scale — under current conditions, at least, albums out come out in the same format (or a limited range of comparable formats) and are consumed in more or less similar...
Some books I would like to own
Pitchfork: The Top 100 Tracks of 2009 →
lukesimcoe:
I don’t normally jump on the P4K list-hating, cuz usually their wisdom tends to show through over time, but this year’s song list is garbage. It reads more like a list of “every song on that Animal Collective record and 89 other tracks that are either totally obscure or giant radio-pop hits.” They’re beginning to sound like a pundit show on Fox that only shows the extreme ends of the...
“True moments of musical brilliance on this one. Classic moments you were there...”
– Pitchfork: Guest Lists: Guest List: Best of 2009
Health finally release something I like. A spot-on appraisal of Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion.
(via badspelling)
Octopus grabs coconut and runs →
(via pterodactyls)
Rouge's Foam: The Premature Burial: Burial the... →
This is more of a paper than an article, so you probably only want to read this if you’re interested in both dubstep and cultural studies, but it’s really well-done. Makes me wish I knew anything at all about music on a technical level, because I can’t tell a key or note to save my life and I have no idea how “filter envelopes” work.
(via standardgrey)
cameronr:
No Gold - Wonderful Christmas Time
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“All the apparently contingent events of history are in reality stages in the...”
– Hegelianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
srsly! quick, look at the wiki before some nerd “fixes” it!
(via circumpolarnavigation)
My friend Bitsy moved to Rotterdam and started...
Let me show it to you.
I AM GOING FOR A WALK, FIND SOME STUFF, THEN BUILD...
Build, Destroy, Build (After Andrew W.K.) Proposed Public Project Involving Walking as Research, and Teamwork, 2009.
(via bitsy knox)
