Social-Creature

Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]

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Super late to my own party on this, but here it is: Last summer, I came up with an idea for The Glitch Mob to do a Tron: Legacy remix video scored to music from their 2010 album, Drink the Sea, and edited by Khameleon808. We released the video in November 2010 and after that [...]

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Been quiet on SocialCreature the past month as I’ve been head-deep down the MirrorLAnd rabbit-hole. Surfacing for a quick nod to the remix contest that just launched with the release of Chapter 2. If you or someone you know are a knob-fiddler type person, and you’d be interested in having your music become the soundtrack [...]

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Back in the spring, when I was writing a post about Why Iron Man is The First 21st Century Superhero, I came across this awesome Iron Man trailer remix created by Mike Relm. The remix was so rad, in fact, that when Jon Favreau, the director of Iron Man, brought it to the attention of [...]

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A little (fashionably) late to the party on this one, but  just had to mention this really hauntingly beautiful video for the new Eskmo (a.k.a Brendan Angelides) track, Cloudlight (single is out Sept. 6 on Ninja Tune). I’ve known Brendan, and Dugan O’Neal, who directed the video, from my days producing music festivals. Plus, you might recognize [...]

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Longtime homies and clients, The Glitch Mob, have a ton of new hotness all over the place. Gobble it up! . New Video: “Beyond Monday” (epic!!!) . . An experimental installation of art and sound by director Brandon Hirzel (aka “Bemo”). Filmed in the depths of Los Angeles’ industrial district, the video fuses together our [...]

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Aerial shot of the Coachella Arts & Music Festival (photo: Jazmin Million) . “God is alone — but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.” – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 Standing on the field at Coachella 2008, the endless noise and heat [...]

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(photo: Mick O ) . “They say the music business is in trouble. No! The business of selling CDs is in trouble; this is a religion.” – Michael Rapino, CEO, Live Nation I was in the weekly Southern California marketing meeting at House of Blues the morning it was announced that Tower Records was going [...]

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To the extent that any advertising works, the model in place at websites like Hulu and Fancast, that offer commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies, is pretty damn effective. Unlike the 3-minute average TV commercial break, which most people Tivo past or click away for or simply go to the bathroom during, the [...]

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In April 2007, Italian Vogue featured an editorial spread by photographer Steven Meisel, entitled “The Greatest Show On Earth,” which featured members of L.A. circus troupe, Lucent Dossier: The current, September 2009,  issue of Italian Vogue features an editorial spread by Steven Meisel entitled “Performance,” and involving a gaggle of cross-dressed models done up in [...]

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