Posted August 18th, 2009, in: Art Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| Projects| Visual Art
Juicy Butt Sweats
A few years ago I noticed this new paradigm in logo placement on clothing. I think it was the Company Juicy Couture that first put their logo right on the ass of the customer. I’m not sure if they were indeed the first, but the word “Juicy” is the first word I remember actually reading from the seat of the pants of a young lady walking in front of me on the street.
I don’t need to explain why the the word “juicy” is so provocative when placed prominently on a woman’s rear end, and perhaps this is why I remember it as the beginning of this era, whether or not the credit (or blame) is really owed to the JC clothing line for making this a trend.
Fast forward a few years and many colleges and indeed even my twelve-year-old niece’s junior high school’s athletic clothing line has the institution’s name featured in this manner.
But not on the men’s/boy’s shorts and sweats. Only on the women’s/girl’s.
Hairy Butt Jeans
I have therefore decided to examine the cultural subtext of this phenomenon further by adding a twist to it, which I shall be wearing around town in search of truth.
Behold, the unveiling of the Hairy Butt Jean by Andrew A. Peterson.
Sorry for the camera-phone pic. I’ll have better photos as soon as I’m ready to do a proper shoot for this amazing new addition to my artistic legacy.
Also, I know I’m not the best butt-model but I work with what I have.
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Posted June 22nd, 2009, in: Art Etc| Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc
On par with Radiohead and Bjork, Xiu Xiu is an amazing project.
I had a hard time with it at first. Remember when you were a kid and didn’t like onions? or coffee? Xiu Xiu is a savory experience.
I borrowed all of Xiu Xiu’s albums from friends. It’s definitely going to inform my own art.
Production-wise, Xiu Xiu is some of the most interesting stuff I’ve heard that isn’t clearly “avant garde.”
Just google it. Great music vids on YOuTube too.
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Posted April 3rd, 2009, in: Art Etc| Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc
The music most people seem to accept as “Post-Rock” is instrumental music with long songs featuring rock-ish musicians grooving on a few chords and/or a motif, with a lot of dynamic variation and intensity for as long as an hour at a time.
For most people, the term “Post-Rock” has become synonymous with a certain aesthetic, long, slow-moving guitar-centric (largely diatonic) songs that swell and die out with musical sensibilities largely created in the seventies and eighties.
I want to extend the meaning of Post-Rock.
I think that Post-Rock might include (just a few ideas):
- Music that sometimes incorporates rock sensibilities, but is not made with the goal of being rock.
- A temporary early 21st century terminology for “classical” music which uses rock-n-roll instruments.
- Impressionism in music in the 21st century
- 21st Century music that is agnostic to typical marketing-driven categories such as hip hop, rock, folk, metal, Etc.
- Rock music with a structure informed by electronica.
- Any rock-based music that stands outside of its own genre.
On the other hand, when a friend mentions “post-rock,” I usually assume what they mean is ‘long-boring-electric-guitar-music.’
If Post-Rock is a useful genre, I think we should include bands like The Fiery Furnaces. Otherwise we should just call it “Bedtime Music…”
I think Bjork is post-rock.
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Posted February 10th, 2009, in: Art Etc| Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Videos
If you make Art, you should watch this. If you don’t make Art, you should still watch it.
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Posted September 30th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Intellectual Property| Marketing/Advertising In The Cloud| Music Industry| New Media| Technology| Web 2.0
(just an idea I had in the middle of the night… maybe it’s a good one?)
It just occurred to me that what artists like me, who are non-label, totally independent, need is a tracker/directory site for us to upload out torrents to. A tracker that’s 100% legal music.
I’m thinking since when you launch a .torrent file, depending on the client, you can select what files you want to download, artists can include in one torrent, a few different versions of their releases. For instance, I could include a flac version, and two different mp3 bitrates, all album artwork bundled with each compression scheme separately, and each version in it’s own folder.
The user selects the one torrent, launches it, selects the folder for the version they want, and they get what they want.
*Artist is distributing without needing a central server…
*Fans of indie/niche music are getting what they want the way they want it. And there’s a central place for hard-to-find and/or totally legally-distributed-via-P2P music.
There may also be advantages to creating a recommendation engine that excludes major-label music: Maybe major label music obscures the analysis of music taste in some cases? Just a thought.
I wrote a letter to the peeps at The Pirate Bay. Maybe they’ll read it and write me back.
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Posted August 10th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Videos
2 Videos from Jack Conte’s YouTube Channel
This is an interesting video. Reminds a little of the film, “The Science of Sleep.”
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And this one is cool because it shows the recording process of the song.
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So who is Jack Conte? I have no idea. He’s awesome though.
Here’s his MySpace, his Last.FM Page, and where you can buy his EP “Nightmares and Daydreams” on CDBaby, and the same record via the iTunes Store.
I can’t afford to buy music, so maybe Jack will feel my pain and hook me up. Jack? Haha.
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Posted July 13th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Videos
Listen to that name… “Gorgoroth” …It’s so… Viking. So Dongeons and Dragons. The following are links to a 5-part documentary about the band, and all the controversy surrounding them, particularly their singer called “Gaahl.” You gotta love that name too. I guess he tortures people and drinks their blood and stuff like that.
The name “Gorgoroth” is derived from Tolken’s Lord of the Rings books.
At their shows they have been known to feature goat heads on sticks and other charming bits of satanic stage decor. This is a fun documentary to watch. It also gives some interesting background on the whole Satanic Rock genre, particualy the “Norwegian Black Metal Scene.” Hmmm. Fun stuff. I’d love to go to one of their shows.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4U33U_UyzQ]
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Posted June 11th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc
For years, my good friend Chris Phillips has dazzled me with his countless stories about his adventures. He is Bipolar and/or Schizoaffective since his first psychotic break in his early twenties or so. Because of this, his stories are nicely sprinkled with demons and divinity, loonie-bins, jails, vagrancy, magic, intuition and desperation, but through his pleasant approach to looking at his life, and the down-to-earth, articulate and even comical approach to his story-telling, there is always a sense of hope or connection in his stories, sometimes directly, and sometimes through his observations about people and the forgiveness he has had to maintain (for himself as well as the world around him), I suspect in order to survive.
I’m bringing this up because he called me the other night and told me that he has begun to write his own life story. He’s blogging about the events of his life over at ChrisThomasPhillips.WordPress.com.
This stuff is so fun to read! One of the first ones he posted is about trying to have sex with his mother’s house plants. Really. It’s interesting stuff–strange, but also very funny and very relatable. You should go check it out.
I met Chris ten or more years ago at the beginning of one of his most recent manic episodes. He wasn’t fun to be around because he would never shut up about the shamanism he was pursuing and a bunch of other really annoying and over-done, overzealous baloney. I didn’t know at the time that I was seeing him in a manic state. I thought he was just an extremely high-energy person. He disappeared from our house for a while during during the peak of his mania and soon after, I observed the severe depression he went through on the other side of his cycle. He was sleeping on a couch in our garage, barely getting up to eat or shit, and having no desire to even talk to anyone for I guess, what must have been about a month.
Over time, I got to know him in his “normal” stage, in between the depression and mania he had been going through in 1-year cycles.
A year or two later, I reconnected with him at a “bad time,” and suffered through his unwanted presence in my life as his illness was beginning to take him over the edge. Truthfully, at the time, I was glad to see him go once his mania finally carried him off on some random adventure, leading ultimately to a mental hospital (rinse, repeat).
But a few years later, after he finally got put on an effective combination of prescriptions, I built a great friendship with him. I’ve learned a lot about him and his Illness and enjoyed his company and his beautiful songs and especially his stories. He has become one of my dearest friends and I wouldn’t trade him for anything. I regret that there was ever a time when I wanted him to disappear. If only I had known then what I know now, maybe I could have helped him. But at least we got more amazing stories out of him going nuts back then.
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Posted May 6th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| My Music (music made by Andrew A. Peterson)| Projects
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