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02.8.12

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Of all the metaphysical backdrops to our day to day lives, music may well be the most ego-centric. With a persistent, unruly tendency toward reemergence, it is ever undulating between

background and foreground, shifting from where we would like it to exist where it just does exist. Music has no “place”; its place is everywhere. …
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February Son

02.16.11

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Electronic musician Son Lux is up to some good things. For the month of February he is recording an album, at the behest of NPR, and, to keep things extra interesting, he is keeping a log

of his progress—including audio and video clips—on his blog.
- :: Photo by Brendan Beecy.
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Out Getting Ribs

02.4.11

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A simple, awkwardly captivating video for Zoo Kid, directed by Pegs. Not many to be had, his songs are hazy and cool, each drifting, tripping and raw—capturing the salt of a

California breeze, and the melancholic mist of his native United Kingdom. It’s the new folk of a flat, youthful world, perfectly undefinable and borderless.
- :: Darkwave Dub Psychobilly Rock & Roll via The Fox Is Black
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The Boombox

01.26.11

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The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a book by Photographer Lyle Owerko. In the book, released in December 2010,

photos collide with the stories of Hip-Hop legends, telling a tale of popular musical culture, by way of this iconic fixture and the artistic figures that catalyzed it.
- :: Image source: Lyle Owerko.
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Hard to Read

12.21.10

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I have a sense of humor, I swear. But when it comes to the things I love the most, I’ve always had a tendency to take them way too seriously. Take girlfriends, for example. And design,

of course. • When a particular design finds inroads beyond my guarded walls, to the place where I get a chuckle from it, yet still admire its execution, I have to give it props.

A recent find by the Seattle design firm Invisible Creature, a T-shirt titled “Hard to Read,” is one such specimen. Riffing on a fairly dark and niche form of lettering—the predominantly …
- :: Detail from Invisible Creature's T-shirt, aptly named Hard to Read.
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“Remember, taste is a gift.”

11.12.10

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“Within all objects there lies an inherent beauty. As time passes, this singular quality becomes an expression of the simplicity of form, function and placement… a sensitivity

or much to the blog in the second column, either. Hope that’s not too disappointing.
- :: Please don't rush to get there.
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