Merry Christmas

As many of you know I'm somewhat a sucker for the 90's. Now that it is almost 2011 it is time to reminisce, so decided to collect images and songs on a new Tumblr blog I started, THE LAST GREAT DECADE. This is your Christmas present, enjoy!

Return of the Lincoln: A Net Neutrality Parable

This is a PSA promoting net neutrality for the Writer's Guild. My job was to move the action figures ever so slightly while my buddy, Axel, would snap a pictures to later pull together creating "animation." Novel! I think it turned out pretty damn well. To see more of Axel's production work check out www.ag-bk.com.

Thank You Milton

A couple of months ago, I was talking with a colleague and friend of mine about the complexities of combining work and play; takin' your job home, bringin' your passions to work, etc. We began to talk about the Etsy Blog and she was telling me about a series called Saved from the Fire. She was personally unsure about what she would keep and we began to talk inversely about getting rid of things.

I've collected and gotten rid of many things since graduating high school. The majority of them have been clothes, media and various family heirlooms. She led on that she was thinking of starting her own series called Into the Great Beyond and asked if I'd like to participate.

After some thinking, I came to this.

Rich People Still Got It!

No Smoking

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I tweeted and now my Tumbie huwts

READ ME

If you hadn't noticed, Tumblr has had some site outages. So I couldn't look at a blog for a day or two. I was pretty devastated. No nudie pics. No ironic messages. No waxing anything.

This is just why I posted the Chuck Klosterman article. I think there's something to be said for the type of expectations present in Ehrenberg's argument. Ok, so I understand that he's a VC that taps the blogging world as his podium. Good for him. However, this logic of "public" humiliation seems trivial, no? I'm referring to:

"I tell my Twitter followers and Facebook friends about the new post, and watch (and participate) in the conversation over the ensuing hours. Unfortunately, when people can’t read the post, it is hard to have a timely conversation about the post."

I think truly this type of situation exploits our perception of time & the expectations we're building regarding our individual voice. The immediacy of conversation and subsequent desire to garner a reaction is a very interesting possibility in today's world (with the technology we all have available to us). To me though, these types of posts are one in the same with any other posts, albethem(?) disguised as thoughtful perception pieces as opposed to bits of whining. There's a hidden devaluation in general. It's not really about an individual post, but rather an individual blog, wall, page, etc and it's ability to maintain a popular conversation. The frustration to remain timely on a micro level is a symptom of the macro environment of blogging.

"the President of the Company, in my Twitter stream, informed me that my musings about switching platforms in the wake of the outage was “reactionary.” Reactionary? Really? Is it reactionary if you are in an information vacuum for an entire day? Is it reactionary if your social contract is broken? I don’t think so."

It's interesting that Ehrenberg goes against the very nature of the thing that so inspires him to conceptualize text.

"I appreciated that my friend @bijan informed me that he, as a Board member, was involved and engaged in, problem resolution."

And here we truly see the separation between "church" and "state."

I Wanna Be Your Dog

I Wanna Be Your Dog from LEGS MEDIA on Vimeo.

Blogspective: Chuck On the Snowballing Weight of Technology

Great article from Chuck Klosterman in the NYT. Though I've never felt like I see eye to eye with Chuck (he's a bit older), I do deeply appreciate this perspective and metaphor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/arts/television/05zombies.html

I was really intrigued by this phrase:

“It’s hard not to think ‘death drive’ every time I go on the Internet. Opening Safari is an actively destructive decision. I am asking that consciousness be taken away from me.” - Alice Gregory

It also kind of puts this soundtrack in my head:

Lucas and The Lovelys

Blogousand: Podium

Thousand times we've dragged ourselves to this here ... podium. This is a reject design from a project I was working on recently... The images are tile flooring taken at various NYC location via my cell phone camera. The podium is a sketch.

Sucking in the Seventies

Radio Man

This is a short film directed by my friend Tim who was a finalist in Frederick, Maryland's 2010 72 Film Fest. It won awards for best audience response, best costume, and best music. He included music from our upcoming Lucas & the Lovelys album.

Just Add Balls

A new photo blog by Amanda McCall.

The REAL Teen Wolf

Chuck Berry is incredible. The more I think about his role and impact in the American musical landscape... well, the more I wanna be him. The guy wrote songs for a few years, vastly influential songs, took them to the road and continues to reap the benefit of their legacy even to this day. His limitations and distinction only make me respect him more.

There were of course a few legal issues.

Recently, while searching for some John & Yoko vids of them hosting British TV shows, I found this performance. It's somewhat known that Lennon idolized Berry and considered him supremo RnR. You can see it in Lennon's demeanor during the interview. You can also see how completely ridiculous Yoko is on stage with them. She's always been a performance artist. Watch for the above screen-shotted "reaction" around the 1:15 mark of Chuck hearing Yoko's "performance art" in his song.



Also, the backing band looks like a group of beatnik, hippie muppets.

6-8 Billion Miracles? Plenty.

Curl up with that someone and go there (hide the scissors).

Found Along The Way/Plain Site

Home of the Vain

Stop and Go

yorkville

Never Sleep

He Said, He Said

On a recent morning, the journalist Bill Wyman received a UPS package containing a typed manuscript. On reading it, he saw that it seemed to be the thoughts, at some length, of singer Mick Jagger on the recently published autobiography of his longtime songwriting partner in the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. A handwritten note on an old piece of Munro Sounds stationery read: "Bill: For the vault. M."

Hmmm, given that this is 2010 I'm somewhat skeptical that these are the the actual words and thoughts of Mick's reaction to Keef's new autobiography "Life." Nonetheless I found it an interesting read...

Mick Jagger Responds to Keith Richards About His New Autobiography

...I take the point that professionalism, one's word, rock 'n' roll merriment … these are fungible things in our world. It is a fair charge that I have become less tolerant in these matters over the decades. In our organization, inside this rather unusual floating circus we call home, I am forced into the role of martinet, the one who gets blamed for silly arbitrary rules. (Like, for a show in front of 60,000 people for which we are being paid some $6 or $7 million for a few hours' work, I like to suggest to everyone that we start on time, and that we each have in place a personal plan, in whatever way suits us best, to stay conscious for the duration of the show.)...

Here comes the rain again

It's Only Rock n' Roll, but I Like It

"...rock & roll at its core is merely a bunch of raving shit, its utterly hysterical transience and intrinsic worthlessness the not-quite-paradoxical source of its vitality."

~ Lester Bangs "The British Invasion" from The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll

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