A new Pogo video was one of 25 (out of 25K) selected for the Guggenheim/YouTube Play, A Biennial of Creative Video.
Sez Pogo: “Comprising my mother’s voice and the sounds of her garden, this video is my first mix of the real world. I hope I’ve done my mother justice in capturing her passion:”
Dwonload the “Gardyn” mp3, wav or video at: PogoMix.net.
Want an interview w/ Jay Thunderbolt, At-Home Strip Club Manager? Well, bring money. If you can’t, bring booze. But not beer: Jay drinks Tequila. And he’ll drink the whole bottle with you in a couple hours, while unleashing The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt.
His face looks like that b/c he was shot in the head and left for dead — at 11yo. How much is a dance? “$10 with the g-string on; $20 with it off. No licking, sticking, biting or slapping.”
The piece is a Love + Radio podcast (28min) with some wonderful moments. Jay’s “Things I do know…” is pure poetry, as is the original music score by Brendan Baker — love that “Doberman” mix near the top.
HV is Obsessed with WordPress. Are you? Then schedule regular visits to WP’s “Planets”*: More…
Great artistry is grand larceny. So here’s your manual for “How To Steal Like An Artist:”
Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?”
The honest artist answers, “I steal them.”
Nothing is Original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes: “That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.”
1 + 1 = 3.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas…
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
The Artist is a Collector… More…
From Photoshop to grid to WordPress to code and back again, a 3-minute sped-up up series of screenshots encapsulating The making of an Obox Theme
“The Making of an Obox Theme” by Josh Hemsley for WPCandy. Obox makes Themes for WordPress, Tumbler and Posterous.
Iggy Pop music interpreted by HOUSE production and casting:
A stylized take on the casting process created with diegetic sound, shot at House Production & Casting and Milk Studios.
Public radio’s annual April 1 attempts at humor are often as funny as a Farm Report. But there were a couple exceptions in this year’s crop.
Here & Now nailed me, and their host, in “Social Media Experiment: Twitter Takes Over Radio Airwaves” (5:24 mp3):
“Most of the midday NPR programming is geared towards people in their sixties and seventies,” said Smith. “We want to expand our audience to a younger demographic.”
And NPR Morning Edition was quick and clever with “Advances In 3-D May Mean No Ridiculous Glasses” (1:42 mp3):
Mr. ANDERSON SMITH (YHR Analysts): Well, I think it’s pretty well established that 3D is the future.
SANDS-WINDSOR: That’s Anderson Smith, entertainment expert with YHR Analysts.
Mr. SMITH: There are going to be 3D televisions, 3D billboards, 3D computers. The only thing standing in the way now is those ridiculous glasses.
SANDS-WINDSOR: San Diego ophthalmologist Dr. Sebastian Marsh says he has a solution.
Dr. SEBASTIAN MARSH (Ophthalmologist): We’ve developed the first surgical procedure that lets people’s eyes act like 3D glasses.
SANDS-WINDSOR: The operation is still considered experimental. One of the first patients, Rebecca Stern, says she’s happy with the results so far.
Ms. REBECCA STERN: Seeing “Gnomeo & Juliet” without those horrible glasses was life changing. There are no words to describe it.
SANDS-WINDSOR: There are still some kinks to work out.
Dr. MARSH: Some patients have complained of blurred vision when they are not looking at 3D screens. So we’re actually working now on some special corrective lenses that will allow our patients to see real life normally.
น้องเบลล์ นันทิตา – Thailand’s Got Talent:
Stick w/ it till 1:30. More…
Hearing Voices from NPR®
113 Hippies: Flying our Freak Flag
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-03-30
“Hippies” (52:00 mp3):
Tuning in and turning onto alt.Hippie.history:
A couple choice fearsome, loathsome filmclips, with J. Depp conjuring Dr Hunter S Thompson on the subject of Hippie history, from A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.
From the VPOTUSA’s Greastest Hits, Spiro T. Agnew Speaks Out.
With the blessings of the Hendrix family and the record company, the band remixed Jimi’s “If Six was 9,” and other songs, into the album If 60’s Were 90’s.
Interviews with Merry Pranksters Mountain Girl (Carolyn Garcia) and Hardly Visible (George Walker); mixed with audio from the Prankster archives and other 60s esoterica. Produced for PRI Weekend America. (Above photo: courtesy of Zane Kesey.)
Assignment Afghanistan: Writer/photographer Elliott Woods gathered some devastating sounds & stories during his 2010 embed with Lima Company, US Marines. HV collaborators, Jesse Dukes with Shea Shackelford, produced the slideshow series for the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Here’s “Our Deepest Sympathies:”
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HV officially in Road to Final 4 mode. So radio/net/etc. talk slow till Madness subsides.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
112 Native America: Our Nation’s First Nations
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-03-16
“Native America” (52:00 mp3):
Canoes, horses, poems, and songs in the heart of Native America:
From the soundtrack, The United States Of Poetry
USOP project. Music by Tomandandy.
A National Geographic / NPR Radio Expeditions: Nez Perce tribal members and Forest Service workers travel the Nez Perce Trail on horseback, looking for lost histories and common ground. Featues Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell. Producer: Carolyn Jensen Chadwick, editor: Christopher Joyce; engineer: Suraya Mohamed.
From the CD Traveling Circus
From the album, Bone Days, 
Oakbog, Adam Rosen’s Mac Support Service, has published a list of their Mac ‘puter Newsletter Tips. I’ve been using hell outta Double-Click Columns to Resize in Finder: in Column view, 2-click the scrollbar bottom (the “II”) to resize window to fit the longest filename.
And this one might save lives: Ejecting a CD or DVD from a non-booting (or cantankerous) Mac.
While there, do check Adam’s audio collage: “Lion Sleeps Tonight – an Afro-American Odyssey.”
Pi may be an irrational, transcendental, decimally never ending nor repeating constant. But it does play well with others, at least on the musical scale. Musician Michael Blake of Quebec Antique performs some Pi slices — out to 31 places:
The Library of Congress exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color displayed some of the only color photos of Great Depression rural and small towns in America. Photographers in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information shot these images between 1939 and 1943, during Kodachrome’s dawn. The Denver Post selected a few dozen for their blog-post “Captured: Great Depression Photos: America in Color 1939-1943.” Here’s just a few:
Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941 More…
Video for Sarah’s new book, Unfamiliar Fishes (amazon):
Quoting Penguin publisher PR:
Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.
Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d’état of the missionaries’ sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode “Aloha ‘Oe” serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.
MAYA Design audio-visually asks What is Information Architecture? by breaking down the query into “What is Information”…
…and “What is Architecture?:”
When we say Information Architecture (IA) we are really talking about everything you can define about a solution without specifying the underlying system (the raw plumbing) or specifying the particular user interface that will be employed to deliver and manipulate the information. By thinking about the architecture of how information is used, how it flows, and how it fits within the user’s world (its context), you can capture the essence of how to build a system that is not only intuitive but futureproof.
—MAYA Design: What is Information Architecture?
A video of a poem by Taylor Mali (who’s been on HV several times), “What Teachers Make :”
via Ben- Comma Q.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
111 Guitar Heroes: Pickers, Pluckers, Players
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-02-23
“Guitar Heroes” (52:00 mp3):
From the original big bad bluesman to a Master Class with classical guitarist Christopher Parkening:
The legend is of a shadowy soul traveling the countryside as singer, preacher, outlaw, teacher, of a hard boozin’, brawlin’, womanizin’ Blues Man. Well, that man had a name: Charley Patton, born around 1890 in the heart of the delta.
We hear interviews with people who played with Patton, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, and archival tape from Booker Miller (interviewed By Gayle Dean Wardlow), Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, and Howlin’ Wolf. And we talk to musician Corey Harris and authors Jim O’Neal (Living Blues Magazine) and Francis Davis (History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People: From Charley Patton to Robert Cray
BBC asks GHP to mash/mess/mix their theme: “Music sampling and remixing in the bedroom.”
Mark Vidler = Go Home Productions
More info, and audio of the GPH-remixed BBC News theme: “BBC News – New utility that breaks music down into its components.”
