rad!

by jenks

the evolution of the LIB music player

LIB06:

an immobile little flash dookiy embedded in the site:

http://social-creature.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/lib06.jpg

up close it looked like this:

http://social-creature.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/lib061.jpg

at the time we thought it was quite the snazz.

LIB07:

we figured this kind of media thingie shouldn’t be trapped on our site, so we created a “portable” popup player that you could launch on our site, and then take along with you on your web travels:

http://social-creature.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/lib071.jpg

the other cool thing about this portable online player is that it linked back to the LIB site, allowing peolpe to return with one click at any time.

and that was fine and dandy until…

LIB08:

we made the music player embeddable! now not only does it move (it still comes in popup form, that you can grab on the site), but it also rolls over, fetches, and sits wherever you tell it to:

Buy Tickets Line Up Workshops Art Forum

oh yeah, and it also let’s people passs it on too :). (tho if you happen to be seeing this in a feedreader, you prolly won’t see it. to see–or rather, hear what i’m talking about click HERE.)

(thanks to brian shaw and y2 for making this fancy thing happen! our widget don’t mess!)

    



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by jenks

yet more from the New Yorker!

“THIS TRACK JUST MADE ME PREGNANT” – Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at the New Yorker, waxes poetic about the Glitch “Lazer-Bass” Scene. Read more…

    



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by jenks

“this above all else…

…to thine own self be true.”
– William Shakespeare as Polonius

YOU MUST READ THIS STORY FROM THE NEW YORKER:

Something in me had snapped, was broken beyond repair. My taste had been central to my identity. I’d cultivated it, kept it fed and watered like an exotic flowering plant. Now I realized that what I thought had been an expression of my innermost humanity was nothing but a cloud of life-style signals, available to anyone at the click of a mouse. How had this happened?

I couldn’t understand. There had to be something else. What was a personality if it wasn’t a drop-down menu, a collection of likes and dislikes? Who was I without my private pressings, my limited editions, my vintage one-offs? How could I signal to potential allies across the vast black reaches of interpersonal space?

…READ THE WHOLE STORY!

 

    



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by jenks

adore adore

heard a track on indie 103.1 a couple of weeks ago by a dude named yoav and really dug the sound, then i checked out the lyrics last night, and was completely sold. with songs about the nightlife underbelly (“club thing“) and celebrity culture (“adore adore“) it’s like social psychology insights on a guitar–with a beat that, ironically, you’ve got to dance to.

    



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by jenks

four days of boom wow.

sometime after midnight in the do lab office, on the eve of the launch of the new Lightning in a Bottle 2008 website, i used the phrase “boom wow,” and after an hour of everyone working on the site making fun of me for saying some ridiculous made up words, the phrase ended up in the front page graphic on the site.

so in case you are wondering what’s gonna go down at LIB, its…..

see you in the forest….

    



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