Quickie = Moby, Apparat, Neasden Control Centre

Hayward Gallery Installation (part) by Neasden Control Centre


TV On The Radio -music video by Neasden Control Centre

mp3: MOBY - Pale Horses (Apparat remix)
Blog credit: Datasapiens

A. Andrew Gonzalez

This morning (noon) i woke up in the bathtub after walking home drunk post-DJ-debut. I had been dancing pretty hard all night on what turned out to be the last day of a heat wave. I think i exercised for a good solid 4.5 hours all told, including 1 hour directly up a mountain... i'm not even kidding, there were like 1000 "stairs" straight up. Anyhoo, the point of my story is that when i woke up in the tub, which was filled with blankets not water, i smelled like a hippy. Now, i got no problem with peace and love, but B.O. leaves something to be desired.

I did wash the grime off pretty much immediately, but the feeling of hippyness remains. I love you Dawn & Nik. Love you mom. Love you Rache and Antonia. Love you Matty. Love you everybody! I loOove you, world. Love your hippy ass, A. Andrew Gonzalez.


Naga by A. Andrew Gonzalez


Unio Mystica

mp3: LEE HARVEY OSMOND - Love of One
Blog credit: Hero Hill

Inka Essenhigh

I am refreshed, despite this massive sun burn on my back (uh oh no ozone!), by the uniquely fluid delivery on these paintings.


The Snow At Night by Inka Essenhigh

Now i know Inka Essenhigh is not the newest kid on the block, but she was a forger, and for that she holds a special place in my blog. In the late 90's she inspired several artists in New York (most noteworthy: Cecily Brown, Will Cotton) to follow her "Pop Surrealist" style.

Pop Surrealists, great term, great art. Can it be applied it to music, too?

mp3: HOT CHIP - Take It In
Blog credit: Mr. Meuble

Moments

I went to the ION Magazine party last Saturday. It took place in an old abandoned bank on Main & 2nd Avenue in Vancouver. It was very raw and original and there was free chocolate and gum everywhere. Needless to say, i scooped as many chocolate bars as i could fit in my purse; i'm just that kind of girl. They are called Cadbury Moments - 8 individually wrapped pieces of solid chocolate with soft gooey chocolate in the middle (per bar).

Having a plethora of free, soft chocolate is an absolute hazard for me. I have been eating ludicrous amounts of the stuff. Yesterday it felt like my blood was vibrating. It wasn't until this very moment that i realized it may have been from consuming detrimental quantities of chocolate goo. My veins got snakey and i felt nauseous. To illustrate to you how i felt, i have found these paintings by Jack Morefield:


Red by Jack Morefield


Tara by Jack Morefield

Do you feel it? No? Grab yourself about 75 Moments, eat them in 3 days, and you will. Guar-an-teed.

mp3: JON HOPKINS - Light Through The Veins
Blog credit: Pampelmoose

Gayness

Today's topic of conversation is gayness. The happy, fruity kind. Imagine a world where black, white and the infinite gamut of grays in between didn't exist - where your standard choices were lime green and hot pink, and instead of shadows there was a flurry of rainbow noise. In that world, the boogieman would look a little something like this:


by Nagi Noda

Did you even realize that a flurry of rainbow noise could be so scary? Well that's what i'm here for. To edjamicate you. The spunky Japanese born NYC artist/director, Nagi Noda, has directed music videos for The Scissor Sisters and TIGA, a series of fashion installations and a bizarre series of Animal Hair Hats:



I don't know about you, but if i had a bizarre Animal Hair Hat to wear out tonight, i'd be pretty gay.

mp3: PATRICK WOLF - The Vulture
Blog credit: Obscene Mannequin

Polterguys

Maybe i'm a creep. I'm always assuming there are poltergeist (polterguys?) in my apartment, making the printer go off in the middle of the night, or the coffee maker spray black goo all over the kitchen, or condiments whip out of the fridge, across the room and directly into my eye. But maybe the polterguys are actually in my brain!

All that might explain why i want creepy art like Matt Duffin's on every wall of my apartment. Even his medium sounds creepy... encaustic wax. Buh Buh BUHHHH...


In The Hole by Matt Duffin


Greener Grass by Matt Duffin


In sticking with the theme here, Murder by Death has a creepy name, taken from the 1976 Robert Moore film by the same name. And Adam Turla's vocals are pretty effin creepy, too. This entry is like one gigantic party for creeps... and polterguys.

mp3: MURDER BY DEATH - I'm Comin Home
Blog credti: Anyone's Guess

Ric Stultz

Hey it's a long weekend!! What does that mean to someone who doesn't have consistent work (like myself)? That there's no need to feel guilty for a lack of productivity!! AND... it's time to get reckless in the streets!! POW! ...and possibly nude at some point.

But while you're deciding if you want to take your clothes off or not, check out Ric Stultz. He tends to illustrate popular cliche's in a consistent color palette and simplified, blocky, cartoon style. His medium is gauche and gesso on paper, and he currently has three series on the go:

1) Things

There Goes The Neighborhood

2) People

Making Ammends

3) Sci-Fi

Bird On A Wire

Believe it or not, you can get a piece commissioned by Ric for under $300 (or at least that was the price when i inquired several months ago). He is also a Gelaskins artist - Gelaskins make a variety of illustrated covers for laptops and iPods.

Here's a dance party song for your dance party Friday night... booty shakin strippin tunes. Now GO - get reckless!

mp3: DON DIABLO & EXAMPLE - Hooligans (Extended Mix)
Blog credit: We Like It Indie

Jeremy Shaw

As an esteemed visual and installation artist and musician, Jeremy Shaw understands aesthetic and intrigue more than most people. Add that to the worldliness acquired by traveling the globe on tour with his band Circlesquare and showing exhibitions of his installation art, and you've got a recipe for unimaginable kicks.



The most noteworthy of Jeremy's installations is probably DMT (2004) an 8-channel video installation featuring video cameras focused on 8 different subjects (including himself) who have taken Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a potent psychedelic drug that is found naturally in many plants and even in the human body. Though the drug's purpose in the human body is not entirely clear, it's release has been noted during birth, death, and dreaming. The 8 subjects were then filmed with the music of their choice in the background and their eyes and heads rolling. In the editing room the subjects' post-trip description of their experiences were added as subtitles - curious, disjointed recountings that might make even the squarest of squares want to go circle. The exhibition has shown in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles and London.

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The album "Songs About Dancing and Drugs" (2009) leaked in Vancouver several months ago because Jeremy has so many friends here, but whatevs, sharezies today are still Circlesquare's "Hey You Guys." I was browsing through all the remixes of Circlesquare that are out there as freebies right now (by artists like The Juan MacLean and Russ Chimes/Annorak), thinking maybe i'd turn up something a little fresher, but while the remixes seem to be getting significantly more attention from fans and critics, i staunchly swear by Jeremy's OG (Original Genius).

mp3: CIRCLESQUARE - Hey You Guys
Blog credit: Certain Songs

Mark Jenkins

Back to more relaxing things, like stumbling randomly around the Internet. I just found this sick installation artist named Mark Jenkins who has a tendency toward creating "natural" things like plants and animals out of unnatural materials like packing tape and placing them in interesting settings, sometimes natural and other times urban.



He also has a series like the below, where he uses stuffed clothes that end up looking like parts of people, and placing them around the city generating reactions from passers by. Defs check out his web site if you have the time.