Some of Edan’s Influences
Hello there, after a long absence I am back to blogging. The Spam bots should be happy as they will have more posts to participate in and show their appreciation.
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Anyway, let’s talk about music on this comeback post. As a matter of fact let’s talk more about music overall on this blog.
This wednesday I went to the Beans’ new album “End it All” release show, and Edan was opening. Edan’s show reminded me of how great of an artist (DJ, MC and Producer) he is. When I got home I listened over and over to his 2005 album, Beauty and the Beat, which I think is genius – his other albums are great too, but this one’s special. The mix of rock and roll and rap had already been done, but not like this, this is classy. Edan has wit on his rhymes, and great musical influences for his bases.
So here some of my favorite tracks in this album and the tracks that Edan sampled from to make them:
Beauty
Sampled from:
Promised Land
Sampled from:
Making Planets
Sampled from:
and second part in which Mr. Lif MCs (starts at 1:10):
NYT: Drawing from memory
In a helicopter above the city on Friday, Stephen Wiltshire of London looked down at the streets and sprawl of New York. He flew for 20 minutes. Since then, working only from the memory of that sight, he has been sketching and drawing a mighty panorama of the city, rendering the city’s 305 square miles along an arc of paper that is 19 feet long. He is working publicly in a gallery at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
What an amazing story!
Please Enjoy Ji Lee
Tomorrow, the incredibly creative Ji Lee will be the speaker at AIGA’s Small Talk No. 1. I’ve already registered for the event!
“Presently, working as a creative director at Google Creative Lab, Lee’s job is to promote many Google products and Google brand to the world. Lee continues to work as an independent artist, designer, illustrator and teacher. Lee likes to maintain the delicate balance between professional and personal projects, which he believes complement each other.”
I haven’t been to his site in a while, and there are a bunch of great new projects, including this one called “Duchamp Reloaded“:
Making of Typedia Logo
This great post by John Langdon goes through his process of creating a logo for Typedia, a new site by Jason Santa Maria and Khoi Vinh, that aims to be “an always-growing, community-based website for the categorization of typefaces.”
Tortoise on Pitchfork’s “Don’t Look Down”
The idea of Pitchfork’s series is simple: put bands on a NYC rooftop and record them playing four to six songs.
I never get tired of seeing Tortoise playing live. On this video they play Swung from the Gutters from the excellent TNT album. They also recorded a couple of other songs from their latest album Beacons of Ancestorship.
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2016-tortoise/1
NYT: Music Media vs. Sales
This is something everybody already knows, but it’s good to visualize it graphically.
Gotham City
I just uploaded some pictures I took during a very late night stroll around midtown Manhattan with my friend André Uba. He was also armed with his Mamiya, so his pictures should be up at his website soon.
The misty night helped the pictures achieve a sort of Gotham City feel I was looking for.
Thanks to Mila for letting me borrow her equipment! 
Big Man in the River
In 2007 the long-swim record holder took on the entire length of the Amazon river. “Martin Strel, 52, completed the 5,265-km (3,272-mile) marathon in 66 days.”
Now the film “Big River Man” documenting Martin Strel’s historic swim down the Amazon is about to be released.
I’m not going to miss this one.
Paul Smith?
A little improvised tribute to my friend Raul Smith.
Nonverbal Comics
Rafael Sica is a brazilian cartoonist that has been making excellent comic strips that push the boundaries of what is expected of comics, using the universally understood nonverbal language.
