Freaking finally! I have been searching for an original copy of Pacer for the greater part of my teenage and adult years. Plain Recordings recently announced that they will be reissuing The Amps' only record from 1995 on 180 gram vinyl. The release date is May 11th.
From 4AD:
"During a hiatus between Breeders records, Kim Deal formed The Amps. Pacer was recorded quickly and is raw, punky and spontaneous - it's full-on garage rock, with Deal's most immediate and bracing songs since Pod. see also : The Breeders / Pixies"
CNN introduced the concept of "Hologramming" during the 2008 elections. For now I am just dropping these videos, but I want to return to them to discuss why this concept of hologramming is so interesting and hilarious.
Will.I.Am: unfortunately, I couldn't embed the better version. (Thanks, alot "ARTLOVERRR," you terd.)
A fashion crowd applauding at a holographic Kate Moss:
One thing that I love about Fractals, besides how serious their makers take them, is the music. It never ceases to amaze me how RETARDED it is! Check out this clip posted by "Fractal God" entitled CHAOS. The music is so incredibly nerdy. It's like mixing all genres of awful/awesome. At one point it sounds like "One-Winged Dove" but then segways into a wood-nymph journey of discovery.
Fractal videos seem to be split between trance music and classical music. I suppose this is the creator's attempt to situate their work within an elevated classical canon, and to emphasize the tie between math/science and high art. [Here, I was going to post a video called, "Odyssey" demonstrating this point, but it seems that the user disabled the embedding function, which further proves my point of how serious some of these people are about fractals.]
Arthur Clark on Fractals: This is amazing. A veritable who's who in Math.
I want to remind everyone that fractals basically have no use in terms of applicability; they can be used to described geometric shapes and icons with infinite precision, but have little if any correlation to reality. They are empty icons that have been appropriated as a visual language that somehow signify universal truths about how the world works, because they involve the Mandlebrot set, an infinitely quantifiable mathematic equation that can be visualized and infinitely expanded, while maintaining a similar pattern. In the documentary, they go so far as to claim that the Mandlebrot set is the "thumb-print of god."
Here are some spoils from my internet adventures. (Also known as videos that I have found while procrastinating at work, or with my thesis writing). I am learning a lot about early computer art at the moment, so hopefully a more comprehensive post on the topic is forthcoming. For now, here are some nuggets:
Normally, I don't care for cover bands. But something about this approach has won me over. It seems like the band is only a fragment of a larger project. Lindsey Buckingham is more than a pop-star, it's a concept, a philosophy, an aesthetic, and a style. And if not, it should be. Or maybe this is just another cheese-dick coverband, and I am projecting my own view of what it "should" be on to it.. see for yourself:
Columbus, Ohio's Sword Heaven played their last show on Sunday March 27th at Death by Audio in Brooklyn. Drummer Aaron Hibbs is moving to New Dehli, India for the near future. There will definitely be more Sword Heaven shows, but knowing Hibbs, there is no telling where his future--or travel escapades-- will lead him. The band never disappoints, each show they play embodies a certain progression, peak and denoument; appropriately sanctioning itself as a succinct and contained experience in time. In my mind, none of their shows run together, they each constitute their own entity, which is part of the genius of the experience. Eventhough there is no substitute for seeing Sword Heaven live, I attempted to capture some of the essence on video at the Brooklyn show.
