Mike Mewborne

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:13:19 -0400

Music video by Paul Simon performing You Can Call Me Al. (P) 2011 Paul Simon under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment

strange world

jtotheizzoe: Typography/Topography An Earth-inspired typeface...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:28:03 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Typography/Topography

An Earth-inspired typeface designed by Siyu Cao that creates shapes and letters from classic typographic map features. The two-dimensional forms are great, but the 3-D carvings really drive it to the mountaintop.

I’ve seen a lot of Earth as Art projects, but never a typeface. Excellent work.

Bonus: Check out some of my other favorite science-inspired typography here.

Two things I like.

reallybenwalker: I spent way to much time on this....

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:14:04 -0400

reallybenwalker:

I spent way to much time on this. @rejectioneers

love it

npr: Writer Eric Deggans argues that it’s just as easy to...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:42:41 -0400

npr:

Writer Eric Deggans argues that it’s just as easy to stereotype white, working class people as folks of color. He’s wondering: Why haven’t we seen stronger protests of shows that stereotype whites?

— On ‘Hicksploitation’ And Other White Stereotypes Seen On TV : Code Switch

Photo: A&E

I just read a book where a man was identified correctly as a...

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:13:33 -0400

I just read a book where a man was identified correctly as a lawyer because of his tassels. Then I knew… I wanted tassels.
Also, because that one dude in J Crew was rockin em real hurrrd.

npr: They’re out of the lab now, flying through the air,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:57:12 -0400

npr:

They’re out of the lab now, flying through the air, crawling in the grass, buzzing near you, swimming in the ocean. They’re robots. They’re among us. We don’t notice yet. But we will.

Wildlife That Isn’t Wild And Isn’t Alive : Krulwich Wonders…

Photo: YouTube

that’s terrifying, npr. terrifying.

modrules: tapes!

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:56:01 -0400

modrules:

tapes!

stvincent-et-al: The Strangers ~ St. Vincent live at Great...

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:34:04 -0400

stvincent-et-al:

The Strangers ~ St. Vincent live at Great American Music Hall in 2009

According to Annie Clark’s stage banter, this was her first public performance of The Strangers. She was performing solo, with the accompaniment of her electronic menagerie, as part of the Noise Pop music festival in San Francisco.

Download the MP3

Inspiring. Been loving this song lately.

Facebook Event for Steven Fiore's Youth and Magic Columbia Release Show

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:50:25 -0400

Facebook Event for Steven Fiore's Youth and Magic Columbia Release Show:

I’m playing a couple solo shows with my friend Steven. Columbia on April 30. Greenville on May 1. See you there.

Listen to his new record Youth and Magic.

Photo

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:09:54 -0400

It’s difficult for me to not feel like I have multiple...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:01:00 -0400

It’s difficult for me to not feel like I have multiple personalities. Perhaps people have infinite personalities, but one default. Or perhaps their personalities all get sifted through the same spout or lens, and so it appears to be one though they are many.

I especially notice this tension within my own music. There are times when I want to be a singer songwriter, captivating a room with nothing but my humble words and guitar picking. Other times, I want to stand out, to be more aggressive, to catch people off guard with glitchy beats and strange synth sounds.

While The Lovely Few continue to venture further into outer space, this week I will have a chance to come back down to earth, at least a bit. I’ll be playing two solo performances with my friend Steven Fiore. Steven is releasing a new record and playing a few shows between Charleston, SC, and Nashville, TN. I’ll be opening for him this Tuesday at Red Door in West Columbia, SC, and Wednesday night at Coffee Underground in Greenville, SC.

Please come hang out with us! I’ll be playing guitar with some minimal beats I’ve made using Figure on my phone. I’m excited about doing something new. Steven is always amazing. He really is. If you live in South Carolina and haven’t seen him, you really need to. If you have seen him, you know you need to see him again.

Join us. This Tuesday and Wednesday. Stay tuned to The Lovely Few’s Twitter handle for more, and be sure to check in with Steven on Twitter and Bandcamp (where you can get his music) as well.

Top photo by Alan Davis at the Johnson City, TN, Cracker Barrel.

entrecomics: (Michael Senich)

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:19:03 -0400

entrecomics:

(Michael Senich)

vintagenatgeographic: Native American baby in a cradle board at...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:16:20 -0400

vintagenatgeographic:

Native American baby in a cradle board at the annual powwow in White Swan, Washington

National Geographic | June 1994

my mind just exploded. jtotheizzoe: Mathematical Films of...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:25:12 -0400

my mind just exploded.

jtotheizzoe:

Mathematical Films of Manfred Mohr

Just stumbled across this collection of digital math and geometry films created by pioneering digital artist Manfred Mohr in the early 1970’s. This stuff puts most modern GIF artists to shame, and he made them in Fortran IV on a CDC 6400, which is considerably less powerful than Photoshop. They had to then be captured by a microfilm printer in order to be converted to 16 mm film!

Super cool look back at early digital art, though. Get inspired! Here’s another, “Cube Transformation Study”:

watch that superman dance

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:01:38 -0400

watch that ~~super~~man dance

Photo

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:56:52 -0400

nprmusic: You can sell an old CD to a record store, but what...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:19:11 -0400

nprmusic:

You can sell an old CD to a record store, but what about songs from your iTunes library? Our friends at Planet Money tell story of a company that tried to set up an online marketplace where people can buy and sell old mp3s, and what happened to them.

this is great. record stores, star trek, debating existence…

lots of cool things to think about, as a consumer, an artist, a citizen of the digital world.

ilovecharts: The World As We Know It [Gall–Peters :...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:16:57 -0400

ilovecharts:

The World As We Know It

[Gall–Peters : Winkel : Goode : Mercator]

distortion

nevver: The truth is out there

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:37:14 -0400

nevver:

The truth is out there

Today is my dad’s birthday. He and my mother taught me to...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:37:58 -0400

Today is my dad’s birthday. He and my mother taught me to love music, among many other wonderful things.

This song is about him, and a children’s book, and our fear of becoming the men we are required to be.