social-creature

This whole thing Radiohead’s doing, encouraging remixes of its songs is way clever.

Radiohead, iTunes and GarageBand are giving you the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude”.
To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’ from the song are available to purchase from iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can […]

LIB06:
an immobile little flash dookiy embedded in the site:

up close it looked like this:

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 […]

Have you seen these billboards?

They’re all over the place:

Been wondering what the hell that’s all about, maybe?

Well, answer #1 goes like this:
Hope people have been seeing the billboards that I have put up around town. I think its important everyone knows how much Sarah Marshall SUCKS! How she does look fat in those jeans! […]

In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese […]

when katie k brought me in to stage manage her fashion show at lucent l’amour 2005 is how this all began. i say the do lab treats experience itself as an artform. 3 years later, it will be a pleasure to experience tomorrow night’s masterpiece.
2005:

2006:

(c) hero & arin ingraham
2008….

after mentioning him in the previous post, i ended up going on what can only be described as an eddie izzard bender.
a self-identified “male lesbian,” and “action transvestite” (you know… “running, jumping, climbing trees… putting on makeup while you’re up there”: action transvestite), izzard is also fluent enough in english and french to do […]

If you ain’t never been to the ghetto
Don’t ever come to the ghetto
‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto
~ Naughty By Nature, “Ghetto Bastard”

used to be that if you were a musician the only way you could get ANY kind of significant distribution for your music was through a record label. cassettes and cds made […]

“the biggest problem americans have is what cereal to buy in the cereal aisle.”
-my dad (who spent the first 56 years of his life in the USSR)

i’ve been watching my friend sarah write about her adventures in crazyblinddate land, and it’s gotten me thinking.
sarah explains:
CrazyBlindDate.com was started by the folks who brought us OkCupid — […]

cut it out, internet.
everyday there’s some kind of new technology hoopla vying for my attention with the sordid insidiousness of a tabloid magazine at the checkout counter. and i don’t even buy that shit, but for some reason i can never resist trying to get the latest download on what’s going on in brad and […]

worst case scenario, who would lose out if the music industry disappeared?
the fans and musicians would still be able to connect now that they have the internet to act as matchmaker. in fact, even huge acts such as Radiohead and NIN are starting to ditch their labels , cutting out the despotic middleman to regain […]