Cuban Poster Art

this is pretty cool. a site devoted to cuban poster art. some very cool stuff here. it’s sad that today’s poster art is often, well, boring. via everlasting bort.

 

Sing a Song For You

one of my favourite tim buckley songs is sing a song for you, and surprisingly there’s footage of him performing it on youtube:

i was pretty surprised at the number of tim buckley videos on youtube, though some are just things people made which don’t interest me as much.

 

Flickr and Yahoo At It Again…

i’m not sure who is at fault here, yahoo or just flickr, but the adding of videos to the site has ticked a lot of people off, myself included. if i want to see videos there are plenty of sites out there for it. it holds zero interest for me on flickr. i’m finding if i’m looking at someone’s stream and they have video in it i simply close their stream and ignore whatever else they may have in it. there’s already concern that this is going to up the cost of flickr to pay for the stupid videos(and the additional bandwidth). the cynic in me doesn’t really see flickr or yahoo caring about what their users think, but at least some people are voicing their opinions on the matter.

 

the comment blues

i’m having some problems with the comments. until blogger can fix the problem i’m going to be taking a short(hopefully) break from posting.

 

i’m going to be doing some work on the template. s…

i’m going to be doing some work on the template. so if things look a bit off or just plain different you’ll know why.

 

well, looks like yahoo is at it again. this time t…

well, looks like yahoo is at it again. this time they’ve been caught stealing copyrighted images off of flickr. there’s a flickr thread on it here and a very good overview on why people are upset about the yahoo forced id issue and the yahoo stealing of images here.

 

while doing a search on howard devoto(how is it …

while doing a search on howard devoto(how is it i never really listened to magazine back in the 80s?) i came across this old post from momus on yximalloo. a japanese lo-fi artist. part harry partch and part jandek and maybe a little on-u sound thrown in for good measure. his my space site has some songs you can listen to. there’s also a small write up on him here(where i stole the picture above from). i’m definately intriqued.

 

from this flickr thread about a photographer that …

from this flickr thread about a photographer that wasn’t allowed to take a picture of a seattle escalator i found this interesting article on photographers’ rights. i especially found this part interesting:

You can take photos any place that’s open to the public, whether or not it’s private property. A mall, for example, is open to the public. So are most office buildings (at least the lobbies). You don’t need permission; if you have permission to enter, you have permission to shoot.

i’d heard this before, but nice to hear it again. most of the articles i’ve read about this subject tend to talk about the u.s. but i often wonder what the rules are in other countries?

 

awhile back i gave away some inkjet transfer "po…

awhile back i gave away some inkjet transfer “postcards” on flickr to whoever said they wanted on. one of the people i sent a card to asked for my address so he could send something in return. i’d just about forgotten about it when a packaged arrived from him. in the package was a cool polaroid and a dvd!

the dvd is called the run up and profiles different contemporary artists. it’s really cool. most of the artists came up through the graffiti scene. there are definately artists i’d like to learn more about as well as artists i don’t really care much about. but the majority i was pretty impressed with.

some of the vignettes could have easily been expanded into a full length in-depth documentary. one of my art professors at college used to tell us that it was important to be able to talk about your work. some of the artists here were able to really talk about their work, while others weren’t as good at it.

one thing that i would have liked to have seen was more discussion about technique and influence. it’s my usual gripe that without some sort of historical context things that are not really new, may appear so to the ignorant. a lack of history/influence discussion often makes me wonder if the artists are even aware of what went on before or do they truly believe what they are doing is somehow new and original when in fact it may not be?

the other problem was the lack of women artists. the propaganda on the box says featuring 26 of the most eminent artists of today, but only 2 or 3 of the 26 were women. and the women artists were some of my favourite sections. i just wish there were more.

but aside from these problems it’s really worth seeing.

 

this week’s audioscrobbler chart. recently had a…

this week’s audioscrobbler chart. recently had a discussion with a friend about twee and indie-pop and what qualifies as such. so as a result i ended up pulling out some of what i consider indie-pop(along with some other stuff). who do you consider indie-pop or twee?