Ada Lovelace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, is considered to be the first computer programmer. Women in science and math, hooray!

http://findingada.com

Coachella, Friday April 16th

In anticipation of coachella I'd like to share some videos by bands who will be performing Friday, April 16th.

Girls -





The XX





Vampire Weekend





Fever Ray





LCD Soundsystem


- David

Nostalgic for BMSR

With Coachella slowly coming upon us, I can't help but get put in the spirit of all things psychedelic, youthful, and mischievous. With bands like MGMT making the kaleidoscopic culture quite the trend, sometimes I get a bit discouraged with the extent we interpret psychedelic music, or art, or just the idea in general.

Cut to: Black Moth Super Rainbow

This group has been one of my favorites for a long time now. To put it simply, they are fresh. Their latest album Eating Us is a masterwork in post-rock/electronic music. For some reason they always seem to go under the radar. Maybe that's a good thing... BMSR stays legit album after album.

Eating Us is a 30 mph car ride down a street by the beach with your hand out the window; it is a dark cool night in your best friends' room with smoke in your eyes. It is the epitome of summertime. BMSR is the type of music you just put on and let play, let your mind wander and get really inspired - just what psychedelic music should be.

Under the influence or not, BMSR is a must listen. If you don't own their music just yet, get on this right away. Would be a refreshing addition to those Coachella playlists and mix-tapes we're all working on right now.

Here's a more recent track from Eating Us that has a pretty awesome music video.

-Andi

St. Vincent

This is the video for St. Vincent's "Laughing with a Mouth of Blood."

I discovered this solo female singer watching the Austin City Limits' coverage on PBS (if I wasn't a nerd before that sentence, I am now). She dropped out of Berklee School of Music in her third year to hitch up with Polyphonic Spree. This album "Actor" is so hipster you should really be listening to this on vinyl (psshhh), but the video is fairly strange and (I think) hilariously self-mocking. In fact, Fred Armisen has labeled himself somewhat of an indie-music comic, and often makes cameos in these artsy-fartsy vide0s.

Bringing New Understanding to the Director’s Cut

The eventual pattern of film editing will approach 1/f, a ratio thought to be related to attention and other mental processes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02angi.html

Spike Jonze collaborates with Absolut Vodka

This month saw the premiere of "I'm Here," a short film written and directed by Spike Jonze for Absolut vodka. Although it was made for Absolut, there are no shots of the product in the film, which I really appreciated. I loved it, but considering I'm part of the company's target audience, this shouldn't come as a surprise. Robots, indie music, British accents, young love, L.A., AND Spike Jonze? Looks like someone did their research. You can watch the entire thing here: http://www.imheremovie.com/.

I'm here is a 30-minute love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A. The film is written and directed by Spike Jonze. Andrew Garfield and Siena Guillory are in the lead roles, and the soundtrack includes original music by Sam Spiegel and original songs by L.A. based art musician Aska Matsumiya and other emerging musicians.

Here's the trailer:

La Blogotheque

here are some of the greatest blogotheque videos (in my opinion) ever. all directed by vince moon:

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck - "Heaven Can Wait"

Directed by Keith Schofield

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait from Charlotte Gainsbourg on Vimeo.

ramona falls - i say fever

Brent Knopf, former keyboardist/guitarist of Menomena, started a solo career under the name Ramona Falls. Pretty sick song, but the best part about it is the animation.

Stefan Nadelman directed the video and, oh by the way, his film Terminal Falls premiered at sundance in 2009.

Check out the trailer here.

Tarantino actually reached out to Gaga, explaining the cameo of the Pussy Wagon.

Very much a throwback to Russ Meyer and the extraordinary Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Walt Peregoy

Walt Peregoy was a background painter and color stylist at Walt Disney Productions in the 1950's and 60's. He worked as lead background painter on Sleeping Beauty (1959) and was the color stylist for One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).

Peregoy's innovative use of color and strong designs are still amazingly fresh, even fifty years later.

http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2007/04/21/101-dalmatians-color-keys-by-walt-peregoy/

michael alan: draw-a-thon

Michael Alan, Brooklyn based artist, started doing these insane participatory art exhibits around New York. Draw-a-thon's consist of finding a space, inviting tons of people to said space, creating living sculptures amongst everyone and then drawing,

drawing,

and drawing more.

BRING DRAW-A-THONS TO LA!



DRAW-A-THON: featured in NY Times from Michael Alan on Vimeo.
get some more visual masturbation by checking out more cool things by Michael Alan.

Panic Attack!

Amazing short film that went viral in December. The director has since been signed on to a 30 million dollar feature.
Figures.
http:///watch?v=r8F9Qvror6g www.youtube.com

Kid Cudi

Wait, did everyone know that there are two separate music videos for "Pursuit of Happiness?"

I've seen the one with all the champagne, fly fellas, and ladies, but I had not seen the one made by the production company, Megaforce, and in all honesty the latter is the better, or at least appeals to my sensibilities more.

Check it out.


The official one that was made after:

Crayons in Fine Art

I don't remember how I first came upon this artist's work, but it's simply amazing. Christian Faur makes images using crayons. Wait, let me rephrase that, Christian Faur makes gorgeous images by placing crayons next to each other. His use of color is brilliant. You can check his stuff out on his website here.



Another artist that has incorporated crayons into his work is Cy Twombly. He mostly produced these paintings during the late 1960s and apart from crayons used pencils and household paint to draw/paint on large tan canvases.

Brakhage and South Park

Turns out Parker/Stone were students of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. He even has a part in a production they made while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Cannibal! The Musical. Above is a still from Brakhage's Night Music, although perhaps his most famous short film is Mothlight.

Oh HAI

First post on blog. A lot of work needs to be done.