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 August 23rd, 2008, in: As The Dust Settles| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| Projects
In the morning I’m leaving to go to Burning Man, but this time I wont be merely attending. Some friends of mine have brought me onboard to direct one of two second-units for a documentary film called, at least tentatively, “As The Dust Settles.”
I’m totally thrilled to be working on another film project with Susan Buice, Arin Crumley and Joe Griffin, who I worked with on Four Eyed Monsters, as well as the producer, Mike Hedge who is a super amazing guy on many levels and is doing an awesome job putting together everything and organizing it all. And I’m also super excited to meet and work with all the other really talented people who have been selected as the core crew for this project. It looks like a really amazing team has been out together.
I know it’s going to be a bit challenging to work out there in that environment for a number of reasons, but if anyone can do it, we can! Hellz Yeah!
Official site is asthedustsettles.com
I’ll check back in as soon as I can.
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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
DOWNLOAD DIRECTLY HERE (.zip file)
OR
TORRENT IS HERE Please seed as long as you can. No need to worry about the RIAA because this is totally legal.
If you want more information and future releases from The Golden Pastime send an email to
golden pastime at g mail dot com
and put “TGP MUSIC” in the subject.
Lots more music is on the way!
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Posted April 26th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Drawings| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| Paintings| Projects| Visual Art
This is a photo I took as a resource material. I was really more focused on aged plastic lawn chairs, with their patina of plastic degradation mixed with dust, dirt, mold etc… The aging of these things adds a layer of human-skin-like-ness… Real people have blemishes and unevenness in their skin. These plastic Lawn Chairs have all the qualities of manufactured ideals of organic beauty, and all the symptoms of how manufacturing makes something less organic. They have plucked eyebrows. They have face-lifts. And they are sexy but slightly repulsive and all too familiar.
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Posted April 26th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Drawings| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| Paintings| Projects| Visual Art
Another of the many Lawnchair Paintings I did over the course of a couple years. This one was destroyed in the fire, and I was glad to see it go in a way at the time. At a distance, now I see that there are some cool things about it. Oh well. It’s gone. Such is life.
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Posted April 25th, 2008, in: Four Eyed Monsters| New Media| Projects| Technology| Web 2.0
UPDATE, 2008-04-24: The times it aired were, according to my email transcripts with friends and family Etc:
- 2008-04-25 @ 6:00 pm PST
- 2008-04-26 @ 1:30 am PST
- 2008-05-10 @ 11:00 am PST
Four Eyed Monsters, the feature film, will have its national cable TV debut tonight at 9pm Eastern time on IFC. The film has received tons of awards and critical acclaim since it first hit the film festival circuit. It was even nominated for two Independent Spirit awards, Best Cinematography and Best Feature made for under a half million dollars (or something like that).
The film has made a big splash in the realms of Social Media Marketing and Digital Distribution. So this is news on a few different levels. It was the first feature film to screen in Second Life; the first full-length film shown on YouTube; probably the first MiniDV film to get a “best cinematography” nomination from a major film award organization (pretty sure about that one); one of the first films to be advertised via additional content via podcasting (probably the first film to video podcast at all); and all this from a film initially thought to be un-marketable by Hollywood distributors. This film has clawed it’s way up the back of our mainstream culture using totally innovative methods and now, after proving itself online, having been watched around a million times on YouTube, Four Eyed Monsters has been acquired by IFC. Smart pick, IFC!
Tune in! (isn’t that what they used to say back in the TV days?)
For the sake of being fair, full disclosure and all that, I worked on the film and composed the score. It’s still good though, I promise.
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Posted February 28th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Drawings| Paintings| Projects| Visual Art
This is one of the last oil paintings I did… This picture was taken a little bit before I decided it was done, and the others in the series burnt up in a fire. Also, the more recent pictures had of it burnt up in my last hard drive crash. The ‘finished’ painting, I gave to some friends of mine and they actually have it hanging up in their home. I love that. I will try to remember to take an updated picture of it next time I’m at their house in the daytime. Anyways, I like the basic idea of it so I thought I’d post it here.
I think it’s about 30 inches wide.
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Posted February 28th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| My Music (music made by Andrew A. Peterson)| Projects
“In The Beginning”
MP3 LINK HERE [blip.tv ?posts_id=710308&dest=-1]
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
This is a piece of music I made for the first episode of the Four Eyed Monsters Video Podcast. Arin sent me a loop of him playing his nylon string guitar and said “See if you can do anything with this…” or something like that. So this is what I did with it and they liked what it added to the episode, so after a few revisions (there’s always revisions), this became the score for that episode.
Because I never intended for it to be listened to on its own, I can’t help but not really consider it a song. Musically, it’s sort of a one-trick-pony, doing the same couple of phrases over and over, but I get so many requests for it and so many people put it on their MySpace Profiles when it was up on myspace, that I decided to make it available to anyone that wants it. I guess people like it. 
I should mention that Episode 6 has a piece of music I made to compliment this one. It’s based on a Minor-ized version of the same theme so I’m posting that here too.
“Begging”
(As heard in Episode 6 of the Four Eyed Monsters Podcast)
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Posted January 29th, 2008, in: FOAFr| Semantic Web
Last night you said you wanted to discuss our differences on the matter of whether or not it would be a good idea to have an App that organizes and allows users to mine Social Graph Data from across different services and transcodes and hosts the data as FOAF and other semantic social data formats, injecting social graph data into the Semantic Web (and/or services unknown to us today). …Or something like that.
So here, in public, let’s discuss the why’s and why-not’s of this idea.
This is a public conversation and anyone is welcome to jump in.
-Andrew
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Posted December 10th, 2007, in: FOAFr| Semantic Web| Technology| Web 2.0
Thought I’d do a little post about the project I’ve been trying to make grow for a while.
The Problem:
- Mainstream-quality web services/applications that leverage the “Semantic Web” will not begin to be built en masse, until there is a large enough Semantic Web (containing enough useful Data) to make it clear to enterprise that there is value in innovating such services/applications. In other words, to the developers of Right Now, there is not sufficient value in the Semantic Web to make it adoptable. It just isn’t widespread enough.
- From the perspective of the average participant of the Web, there is no incentive to publish data in the Standard formats that make a Web Of Data possible (and in turn the Next Gen Apps we’ll see when there is a Web Of Data sufficient to fuel that innovation). In other words, to the citizens of the Web Right Now, there is not sufficient value in the Semantic Web to make it worth contributing to.
Some Bullet Points
- Social Data is very valuable to ordinary people (see ‘web 2.0′ and just about everything cool on the Web right now)
- Social Data is very valuable to many kinds of businesses (see every registration form you’ve ever filled out and of course advertising and marketing)
- Regular Web Users are willing to publish their Social information to the Web, if it provides value for them to do so.
My idea:
More Bullets
- Create value for normal Web Users in publishing their social data to the Semantic Web.
- Inject Social Data into the Semantic Web.
Idea Summary
- Allow mixing of Social Data from numerous platforms like Semantic Web Standards, common Excel & CSV formats, Microformats Embedded in HTML pages or via file upload (XFN, vCard, hCard), Mail Software formats, Data Scraped from HTML pages of popular closed Social Networking services, and whatever Social Data formats the cat drags in, via Open-Source, community-driven plugin infrastructure.
- Allow publishing of Social Data to numerous platforms like Semantic Web Standards, common Excel & CSV formats, Microformats, HTML, Mail Software formats,
- Enable cross-referencing of redundancies like checking email addresses against social networking services.
- Search, Filter, Tag
- In other words, really awesome multi-platform address book application/Identity manager.
- WordPress-like infrastructure and development community.
- Provide free, hosted version and downloadable, installable version, like WordPress.
- Preserve Privacy, Enhance Publicity.
Where we’re at with this.
- The beginning of a UI for the Address Book side
- Gmail and MySpace integration basically completed
- Matt is a full-time student and I am not a programmer. We need help!
If you are interested in helping us with this, comment here or email me at andrew a peterson at gmail
Also, we have a phpbb forum installed over there if you’d like to see some of our discussion. Feel free to register and jump right in with any ideas, questions, comments etc.
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