03 November 2010
if puppies could vote :: jimmy fallon
last week jimmy brought out these puppies to vote in the nevada election, turns out they were right! have we met the new soccerpus? thank you very much late night puppies :)
tim burton's superman costume
in general i would characterize myself as a great fan of tim burton's work. his dark, creepy, gothic touch made for an awesome couple of batmans, some awesome johnny depp movies, and a really cool pee wee joint. that being said, there have also been some lapses in judgement, and these pics from his ill fated superman project in the 90s definitely belong in the latter group. follow the link above and listen to the kevin smith youtube. makes for an interesting backstage hollywood story.
some interesting new leonardo movies
1) the great gatsbyleo is in talks to take on the titular role in the movie currently being planned by baz luhrmann. there have been a lot of casting rumors floating around, and not even any certainty that baz is actually going to move this one forward, but most of the gossip is about who is going to play daisy. makes me want to go to the library and reread. i love everything baz does.
2) the devil in the white city
there are two books that every architecture nerd i know has ready: loving frank, and devil in the white city. leonardo is in talks to play the leading role of the murderer who took advantage of the chicago worlds fair of 1800 to kill a bunch of ladies. this is another one that i can imagine on the big screen dazzling audiences.
nelly furtado :: night is young
whats this? a new track by nelly furtado. she looks really pretty, and the song is fun too. via. she has a greatest hits album coming out, and it includes three new songs. woot.
02 November 2010
this is sort of like a debut performance too
here is a new amy winehouse track from a quincy jones tribute album. produced by mark ronson, natch
daily willow smith
on ellen. pays tribute to rihanna before launching into her first televised live performance of whip my hair. werk it out.
i got a little embearassed this morning...
In culture, the Hipster Primitive moment recovered the sound and symbols of pastoral innocence with an irony so fused into the artworks it was no longer visible. Music led the artistry of this phase, and the period’s flagship publication, the record-review website and tastemaker Pitchfork, picked up as Vice declined. Here are the names of some significant bands, post-2004: Grizzly Bear, Neon Indian, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Department of Eagles, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, and, most centrally, Animal Collective. (On the electronic-primitive side, LCD Soundsystem.) Listeners heard animal sounds and lovely Beach Boys–style harmonies; lyrics and videos pointed to rural redoubts, on wild beaches and in forests; life transpired in some more loving, spacious, and manageable future, possibly of a Day-Glo or hallucinatory brightness. It was not unheard of to find band members wearing masks or plush animal suits....of this article, while listening to this:
hooray for earth - rolling/nectarine
beach boy harmonies: check. animal sounds: check.
also, i really liked this part:
Of course, there are artists of hipster-related sensibility who remain artists. In the neighborhoods, though, there was a feeling throughout the last decade that the traditional arts were of little interest to hipsters because their consumer culture substituted a range of narcissistic handicrafts similar enough to sterilize the originals. One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.
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