You're looking at Uptown Manhattan from 7 World Trade Center.
I took this with my iPhone 4 as a panorama which you can see in all it's glory via the link below.
Heard “My Girls” on WFUV the other day.
Got me going back through their other stuff.
“Lion In A Coma” is currently what I’m jamming too.
This video for it was put together by artist Ori Toor and you should watch it…NOW!
A final project made by Ori Toor at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design – Illustration department.
A stream of consciousness animation for the song “Lion in a Coma” by Animal collective (taken from the awesome “Merriweather Post Pavilion” album released by domino records).
Frame by frame animation in flash. No script, no planning ahead.
Today In the next couple of days I should be getting the new computer I asked for at work. There’s really nothing WRONG with the current one per se…ok yes there is…it’s an old Pentium 4 with minimal memory. Initially I requested it so I could run my favorite linux distro, Ubuntu
I would like to take a moment to wish Ubuntu a healthy future. It was fun while it lasted, what 3 years or so. Alas, me being a web developer and your lack of compatibility with Photoshop just don’t mix and I’m moving on to greener Mac Mini pastures.
So now I’m in the process of backing up all the files from this box so I don’t lose anything important. This means there will be a lot of posting on here in the coming days as I come across long forgotten funny pictures or videos.
You’ve been warned!
Anyways…I’ll treat this post like any other. Today I’m addicted to the song “Cousin Corona” by Yuck. You should be too:
It’s taken me a while to get back into the swing of things here! (With a domain like ‘worldISending’ you’d think 2012 would be an important one. #mayans #rapture)
Anyway I’m back and off to an amazing start. Good friends, good times aplenty already and I met/shook hands with Phish bassist Mike Gordon last Friday. Gordo and a few other musicians did a live re-imagining of, “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks” which is a tribute Brian Eno did about the NASA moon landings. They played the original movie on a screen in the background and they all just jammed some slow spacey/drone sounds. Not what you would expect at all and that’s what he said when Jen and I spoke to him. “Well that was different huh?” then went on to say that him and Fishman used to listen to the original soundtrack a lot back in the day and stuff.
“Don’t give up fighting, ’til nothing else stands in your way. Don’t give up talking, until there’s nothing left to say. But no matter what you do, don’t ever compromise what you believe.”
…go ahead say what you will. I don’t care….na na na na.
The Ataris – Losing Streak
I guess these guys are still around…good for them.
Today is October 31, 2011 and that means…Halloween!!!
To celebrate the spookiest of holidays, the always wacky Flaming Lips and frontman Wayne Coyne have created a 24 hour track which they are streaming right now over here: http://flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com/
I know I’m a little late. The stream started at 12:00am on the dot and plans to run it’s full 24 hours for the remainder of the day. Oh, and if you can’t catch the stream, you can purchase the 24 hour track for a measly $5000. You read correctly, thats $5,000.00. For that price you get the track as a usb device embedded inside an actual human skull. I wish I was joking but I’m not. There are 13 of them for sale, so if that’s your thing, get after it while you can!
The website says that there can be only 999 concurrent users listening to the stream, so get over ASAP.
I’m listening now and it’s, well…spooky as you’d expect.
If you have trouble with the stream, try refreshing and pressing play…it took me about 6 times to get in and get listening!
He is releasing these tracks, both new and oldies from the 80′s, via the rising SoundCloud music hosting service and alerting everyone via tweets as he does it.
Each song has a personal description that Tom attaches explaining the setting or concept behind the track. For example here’s the original “Backwards Down the Number Line” from the most recent album Joy
“This one was the one that reunited Trey and me again after a long silence in September 2007.Trey was in Saratoga Springs, NY, working very hard in his Drug Court program — helping himself, helping others…but not communicating with anyone…on purpose.His dad was key to breaking the silence and said I could email Trey a Happy Birthday and he “might answer”.At first I thought he was joking, because until that moment, Trey NEVER used email!So I sent off a birthday poem…these lyrics.2 hours later I received an “Oh My God, Tom” email.Then soon after, a phone call where he played me this song.Our writing conquered the chasm…the rift.The thing we did best and did forever, songwriting, reignited our friendship.”
So far he has posted 11 tracks and has talked to Trey who is equally excited about releasing more via the same method…so be sure to bookmark the soundcloud link below!
I check the great nyctaper blog daily. Their recordings are great and they cover artists of every genre.
Today I was happy to find they posted a recording of Vetiver who co-headlined the Bowery Ballroom with the Fruit Bats on Sept. 13, 2011.
Don’t know much about the Fruit Bat’s (…guess I’ll change that now) but I do enjoy Vetiver. They’ve got a jingly jangly 60′s sound that I’ve been in love with for a few years now. I too have seen them twice…including a very memorable trip with my friend Miles Ross at Brooklyns “Bell House”.
Anyways, if you’re looking for something to listen to on this crisp Autumn-ish wednesday…you’re there, man.
Though the forest of ‘new music’ has been becoming sparse lately, overpopulated by run of the mill pine trees, I’ve been finding a lot of post-rock and lo-fi psych music that is tingling my ear buds lately. Coincidentally, none of it comes out of Brooklyn, NY…perhaps the indie scene is losing it’s edge after the “chillwave” phenomenon?
Anyways, these two bands have particularly struck a chord with me and I can’t stop listening:
Listen to Bosco’s new album, “Eveybody Wah” as he takes a seemingly endless amount of sounds, adds a little drum machine here, synthi-ness there, and crafts quality sounds that can’t be defined by genre. One minute youre getting
You can listen to the new Bosco Delrey album streaming here while it lasts! (http://bit.ly/li8Ti2)
Donovan, Jeff Beck & Ron Wood – “Barabajagal (Love is Hot)”
(Great link with Donovan interview about the song here too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oROZjMuFu4)
Will it leave my head today? Questionable?.
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I am the founder of Brined Records, a record label for up and coming artists with zero direction and only a tad bit more talent.
I eat with quite an eclectic lunch crew each day in the office. I use the Lunch Brahs blog to document them. Our conversations can range from science fiction, to relationships, to cheese.
I enjoy lifecasting and can often be found streaming live right here on the site.
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