Ten on the Turntable

Yoo Doo Right (3P Mix) - CAN - Sacrilege
Herbaliser MX - East Flatbush Project - Tried by 12 Remixes
Trapazoid MX - East Flatbush Project - Tried by 12 Remixes
The Mad Scientist - The Large Professor
Walking Eagle - Anubian Lights - Dimension Mix
Soul Transportation - DJ Me DJ You - Dimension Mix
Lust in the Movies - The Long Blondes
Drill Sargent - J.Rawls
Deaf Mick's Throwdown - Clockwork Voodoo Freaks
Antonin Artaud - Bauhaus

The 8-Bit Construction Set

The 8-Bit Construction set is a great record that came out a few years ago. It's a collection of vintage Atari and C64 sounds, beats created using those machines, and even software--on vinyl! If you remember playing a software cassette in your tape deck and hearing an ungodly whirring and high pitched whine, yes, this is what they've included. You can actually record this sound and load it into your vintage machine as software! And to make things a bit easier on the ears, the software is only in one channel, with kitschy organ music playing in the other.

Here's a bunch of the Atari samples

8-Bit Construction

Illustration Friday #2: Fresh

My second entry for Illustration Friday. Topic: "Fresh"

Illustration Friday

Library Thang

Above: Webster Free Circulating Library staff, overlooking collection of music and arts, late 19th-early 20th century, from NYPL Digital Gallery

I've been using Library thing recently to catalog my piles of books, as well as cds and dvds. It's got an easy interface to add book info using the Library of Congress or Amazon servers, you can tag your items like flickr or delicious, and you can browse other users' libraries. You can see who else has your books, and which books are the most popular among users. It's great!


Library Thing

My Library

LSD animation

Back in the 50s, the government was testing LSD's effects on people. This animation is made of nine drawings that an artist made while being administered LSD.

More info about LSD drawings

Illustration Friday: Escape

Here's my first Illustration Friday entry, on the topic "Escape".

Join the fun!

Illustration Friday

David Bowie feat. Dana Gillespie "Andy Warhol" mp3 Be a standing cinema

(Dana Gillespie and David Bowie)

Just when I thought I had all the great Ziggy era recordings from David Bowie (and many mediocre ones), along comes this rocking version of "Andy Warhol" from a BBC recording, with British singer Dana Gillespie on vocals. Just great!

Andy Warhol feat. Dana Gillespie
John Peel In Concert Session, BBC Paris Studio (05 June 1971).
This concert by Bowie and friends was aired on 20-06-71.

This comes from a torrent at dime a dozen.org, and you can download it.

The Remains of the Rise of Ziggy Stardust

enjoy!

Rappcats, Pt. 3 - a photoset on Flickr

I collected stills from the Quasimoto video "Rappcats, Pt. 3", which is his great history of hip hop.

Rappcats Pt.3 photo set

S Stands for Slavery on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Boing Boing, my favorite blog, posted about a photo album I put together on Flickr of an abolitionist primer..This is one image for it. I got several thousand hits in the past day..amazing what pulling power those Boingers have!

Slavery Primer Flickr Set

News Nishikie

Interesting gallery of "News Nishikie", 19th century color illustrated newspapers, which have quite a few gory stories in them, like this one:

Osaka Nichinichi Shinbun
Meiji 8-nen [unnumbered]
Sashimi Murder-Suicide

"A husband should not allow his affections to stray to other women. A certain couple in Tatsuno, Banshu (present-day Hyogo prefecture) employed a female servant named Take. The husband fell in love with her and went to sleep with her every night. The wife was moved by deep jealousy and she spent her nights alone in tears. On April 15, while the husband was away, the wife summoned Take and stabbed her to death. She then gouged out the dead woman's genitals, sliced them and placed them on a platter. When the husband returned, she served it to her husband as hors d'ourvres. When he asked where the dish had come from, the wife replied, 'It was a gift from someone.' After he had finished the snack, he looked at his wife and saw her covered with blood and dead. While he had been eating, she had killed herself." (MS)



News Nishikie

All on the outside

This is my second collaborative image for the All on the outside tribe

http://allontheoutside.tribe.net

Canadian True Crime Mags of the 40s and 50s

Great gallery of Canadian pulp covers. Femme fatales galore. This one reminds me of Bjork.


Canadian pulp covers

Viva live music torrents!

orb_cyberworld_frontsm on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sharing the Groove became EZ Torrents, and when EZ was shut down, Dime a dozen sprouted up.
Thousands of amazing live and rare recordings for all genres. Above is a cover I designed for an orb bootleg.

www.dimeadozen.org

Enjoy!

A

Film Stills group on Flickr





Still from "La Voie Lactee (The Milky Way)", Luis Buñuel.

I've started a Film Stills group on Flickr. Some great images posted so far.
Check it out!


Film Stills Flickr Group

Audiosports May 30, Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco

Audiosports is back, baby!
Come see us!

Hello all,

Memorial Day is upon us and LLSD will once again be operating on the Red Devil Lounge stage.

We would love to have you there, Monday May 30th, to enjoy the weeping lows and sweeping highs of LLSD's musical program.

This month LLSD will be joined by Audiosports (Alberto Forero), who plays a steadily progressive mix of downhouse club noodling and indie anthem reworkings, and experimental hip hop.

Tell your friends about your experience with SF's greatest progressive rock band, and one man sound machine, and support SF's non-cover band community!

Doors open at 8.
Audiosports at 9
LLSD at 10

http://www.reddevillounge.com/mainpage.htm

Audiosports mp3s for all:

http://www.albertoforero.com/mr_1.htm

See you there!

Alberto


audiosports_may_30 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dirkon - The Paper Camera [pinhole.cz]

Fantastic write up about the Dirkon camera, a working camera that you can cut out of stiff paper and assemble. It even looks like a classic SLR, much snazzier than your average pinhole camera. The Dirkon will give you gorgeous, strange, distorted shots, like a lomo or Holga-but the Dirkon is free. Download the pdf and get snappin!


Dirkon - The Paper Camera [pinhole.cz]

廃墟デフレスパイラル 〜ぼくたちの秘密の場所〜 Abandoned Japanese Buildings

Nice photos of abandoned buildings, the first ones I've seen from Japan. I had suspected that there would be few in Japan due to the limited amount of land, but apparently decay is busy everywhere. Site in Japanese, but if you click on the third button at the bottom of the page you seem to move forward throught the albums. I wish there was an organization that would hand over such abandoned buildings to music and arts organizations, who would be able to gradually repair them and turn them into galleries, studios or performance venues. Anyone?


廃墟デフレスパイラル　〜ぼくたちの秘密の場所〜

San Francisco is...Type!

Finished my entry for the Aiga's Definition: San Francisco invitational. Composed completely of photos of type I found around San Francisco.


Aiga Definition: SF info

soul sides: ALL ROADS LEAD TO APACHE

Nice write up on the strange 40+ year history of the "Apache" break-from Burt Lancaster to The Incredible Bongo Band, to B-boys, to Nas. If you've never heard the most famous version, by the Incredible Bongo Band, you need to "Jump on it!". The drums are just unbelieveable! Article has links to several mp3 versions of Apache.

soul sides: ALL ROADS LEAD TO APACHE

Crime Maps

(above: the house where John List murdered his mother, three children and his wife and then disappeared.)

I've created a flickr group called crime maps.

I created this group because I have been interested for a long time in the mostly unrecognized violent history of our neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Imagine if you could see a map with icons representing every crime that had been committed in the past century on any given block in New York City. First off, I'm sure such a diagram would be almost unreadable due to all the information.
Real estate agents would be hard pressed to sell that apartment which had been a crime scene. And a person might begin to feel unsafe anywhere with such knowledge of past criminal activities. But what a deeper understanding one would have of the best and worst parts of a place, the tragedies, the broken dreams, the anger and hopelessness. The courage and determination of investigators, or good samaritans. A deeper appreciation of the random odds of being in the wrong place at the worst possible time.

This group will probably not be able to compile such a map, but I hope that by sharing aerial views of various notorious places, we might realize the everyday settings of these acts, their unpredictable appearances, and how life goes on in such places. Our public places are littered with monuments to many forgotten heroes of the past; let us not forget those people who have tragically suffered, or the places we live where they were done wrong.

crime maps