Entries from June 2008

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

today’s awesome ad award goes to

(wish there was an extended version).
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Friday, June 27th, 2008

unobscured

Just came across a great article in Fast Company about Obscura last night. Many of the Do LaB’s collaborators and friends from the El Circo collective work with this San Francisco multimedia design lab that Fast Company likens to “an alternate universe dreamed up by someone who’s been mainlining Pixy Stix.”
[Obscura] create[s] visual spaces and [...]

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

the empire’s new clothes

Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
- Andy Warhol

It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue [...]

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

today’s awesome ad award goes to

(thanks Paul)
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

it’s my birthday!

but you get the present.

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

taste the difference

…And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
- The Flobots: “Handlebars”

I’ve been trying to get through Matt Mason’s The Pirate’s Dilemma for a while. It’s an easy read, but between digging up mind-blowing historical discoveries from the cultural strata–Did you know that a nun [...]

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Sagrada ~ june 12th (SF)

The Do LaB’s longtime friends and collaborators Shrine and TukTuk (who built the wonderful trash teahouse at LIB this year) are the masterminds behind Basura Sagrada, the team building the 2008 Temple at Burning Man, and the name for the temple itself.
This Thursday at DNA Lounge in San Frnacisco they will be hosting a fundraiser [...]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

the glitch mob at lightning in a bottle 2008

in real life, this was one of the most unbelievable views i’d ever seen.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

growing up and the city

“I am real!” said Alice, and began to cry.
- Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

I always find it fascinating when movies do things that executives didn’t expect. Entertainment, particularly the kind with narratives and characters, is like a Rorschach test where what we have to say about the inkblot and what the inkblot [...]

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

rara avis - new site!

rara avis’s new site, which i helped direct, is up! the old site was waaay overdue for an overhaul. so excited to see this new version. congrats, rara!
www.raraavismusic.com

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