Cold feet, stuff to do.

• An abandoned Japanese island. Amazing. But why didn't Vice send a better photographer?
  
  
• There's just something about this awkward table/light/chair/thing that I like. I'm not sure what it is, really. Read about it here.
  
  
• I love the subtle concept of this wall clock. Brilliant.
  
  
• I was reflecting the other day that Red House Painters' "Songs for a Blue Guitar" may be the only album I have consistently listened to for close to 9 years. Upon this reflection, I decided to Google the album and discovered this snippet from the Rolling Stone review: "Aptly, Wallace Stevens best evokes the impact of these songs in his 1937 poem "The Man With the Blue Guitar": 'The blue guitar/After long strumming on certain nights/Gives the touch of the senses, not of the hand/But the very senses as they touch/The wind-gloss.' Exactly."
  
  
• This 16-step online sequencer is basically a mini-Tenori-On (or mini-Monome, if you will)-- it makes sequencing visually and physically understandable. As an aside, here's Fourtet using one for the first time, which he must have fully integrated into his live show, since he used at his Chicago set last week. It's so dead simple-- it really, really makes me want one.
  
  
• Matt & Kim - Lessons Learned. I'm obsessed with this video. Is the song insanely catchy or insanely stupid? Is the video sublime genius or sublime stupidity? Did they really get naked in Times Square? did the cops really just let them go? And how about that ending? Either way, there must be something to it all, because I've watched it a dozen times.
  
  

  5/02/2009