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Roq la Rue in Seattle is hosting a show with new work from Audrey Kawasaki. You can see the super-secret preview of her work here. (How is her stuff so pretty? How?)
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A photographer friend just bought some wallpaper from Germany for his new apartment, from a site called Wallpaper From The 70s. This may conjure up certain images for you. These images would be wrong. (Well, mostly.) The wallpaper on this site is really pretty, and I want to load up a truck with it-- for art projects, photography backgrounds, whatever. I love the patterns.
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Alright, listen up you guys. Thanks to Matt from the wonderful Skatterbrain, I have someone to share with you. They're called Antarctica Takes It! and they are poppy, adorable, and very talented. For fans of Tullycraft, Arcitecture In Helsinki, and anything good and happy. I haven't been this excited about a new band in awhile. So, get on it, these guys are going to get big. They're selling cds for only $6 (that's less than a dollar a song, take that, iTunes!) through their myspace, so go be their friend. Here are a few of my favorite tracks. Enjoy, and have an excellent weekend.
I'm No Lover
Antarctica
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So I went to The Smell last night. It was unusually packed and about a bazillion degrees inside, but it was nice to go after being away for awhile. I went to see the adorable and talented Mr. Bobby Birdman (whose music you can grab from a previous post of mine right here). He was great, despite only playing a very short 4 song set. Before him was a pretty decent yet fairly boring ambient band that I don't know the name of. Before THEM was a fellow by the name of Jacob Smigel, whose mannerisms and pre-song rants reminded me almost exactly of John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats. He played a two songs, including one which got a couple of cute, sweaty hipsters slow dancing like it was a vintage fashion, stringy haired, middle school winter ball. He was also selling a cd full of found music that he had complied from hunting for cassettes at flea markets, thrift stores, garage sales, and the like. It's really fantastic and beautiful. There are tons of different kinds of clips: surreal, sexual, confessional, musical, hilarious, and they all offer a quick, exciting peak into the lives of some very strange people (or,truthfully,people just like you and me). Here are some of my favorites; it was hard to pick. You can buy things on his site. "Eavesdrop: A Wealth Of Found Sound" came with a really interesting, well written booklet explaining the project as a whole and the individual sound clips, as well as a random Polaroid that I forgot to scan for this post because I'm dumb sometimes.
Trailer Couple (An old man learns to use a tape recorder. Dialogue weaves in and out of snippets of music. This might be my favorite clip on the CD.)
Glory AND Honor (Gospel choir practice with a "tough as nails" conductor.)
Nasty Nancy (Teenage girls in the '80s rocking some Biz Markie)
Say Your Prayers!!! (A slightly creepy clip of a mother teaching her very young daughter to say her prayers.)
Reno Mother (This one was really touching; it's kind of an audio diary of an old woman who has no one to talk to, so she talks to her recorder.)
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RCA just released Ray LaMontagne's new single "Can I Stay" for download, off the new album Till The Sun Turns Black. A bonus, today sees the presale for the second half of his North American tour, info available here.
This song is achingly, achingly beautiful. I haven't heard the rest of the album and I already want to marry it.
Ray LaMontagne - Can I Stay
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Sage Vaughn has a show running at Corey Helford Gallery through August 5th. He paints, among other things, birds indigenous to Los Angeles against a backdrop of razorwire and abandoned buildings. One of my favorites is a spray of violently colored butterflies backed by faded brick buildings, entitled Gang Warfare. You can see his current paintings up at the gallery's site. (Click on exhibitions, then Sage Vaughn.)
Update: Photos of the opening, with more detailed pics of paintings, over at Juxtapoz.
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Nina Simone is 9 kinds of badass. I discovered her music when I was teensy, having decided at the age of eleven I really needed an education in jazz music. I went to the library and brought home as many jazz anthology cassettes as my little arms could carry, and this is when I found my favorite song: Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone. Originally, oddly, by Johnny Mathis-- she's got an impressive array of covers under her belt.
If you don't know, you better ask somebody.
Nina Simone - Nobody
Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone - Lilac Wine
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn
Nina Simone - Don't Take All Night
Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy
Nina Simone - I Am Blessed
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Juxtapoz has some coverage of the Tour Des Artistes all-day live mural painting. When I heard about the mural, I assumed each artist would get his own little section of wall, not that they would be painting on top of one another! It's collab-y goodness. Blaine Fontana has a picture of the finished mural over at his site.
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Jeremiah Ketner puts sugar in his paint. I know because I ate one of his paintings, and it tasted like cake. - Lisa Quatman
This man has the monopoly on cuteness this Wednesday morning. I want to cover my walls in pink raindrops and swirly cloud people, because how could unhappiness live in your soul if all this cuteness was plastered to your wall? It can't, that's how.
Super cheap prints available from Thumbtack Press, and a very precious shirt can be found at Secret Handshake Designs. Woot.
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NoTxt is a magazine with, well, no text. Issue #1 is out with a bunch of eye candy and purty pictures, and even better, they're looking for submissions:
We accept photography, art, illustration, graffiti, stencil work, cel phone pix, etc. Anything visual. You can submit as many pieces as you like, single or multiple images. We will pick the best work each month to appear in NoTxt.
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I love letters, and paper, and stationary-- and these notecards by Paper Monkey Press are plum adorable. How happy would you be to see one of these kissing the inside of your mailbox, waiting to say hello just to you? They come in packs of 5 for $10.
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