2008

May

“Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live...”
— Norman Mailer

Hey DJ via Thomas Hawk

Still Orson Welles… The Lost Films of Orson Welles, also known as Orson Welles: The One-Man...

Vinyl - Records and covers by artists

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)

Extensive interview with Orson Welles in Las Vegas 1982 with Leslie Megahey. Features contributions...

Is 2:42 the Perfect Song Length?

Veados Com Fome - Eléctrica Cadente (Dead Combo cover)

Olinda: radio shows what your friends...

This prototype digital radio, called “Olinda” uses modular hardware that is...

“The leading music blogs will become what used to be called...”
— Gerd Leonhard

Banksy - The Cans Festival. - a set on...

Was Kids the film of the 90s?

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4)

via bauldoff: An excellent Flickr set of 1950s–1970s...

Keeping its attention on the author’s creativity and...

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good...”
— Ansel Adams

Blindness to open Cannes 2008

Blindess, a new thriller by brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, is to open the Cannes Film...

If anyone asks you why you spend so much time blogging or doing fun stuff on the web, tell them to...

Apr

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27)

“America is the only nation that could have birthed...”
— Laura Barton

CSS recording 2º album @ Trama Studios

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20)

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
— Igor Stravinsky

Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?Anwar: I can only afford one.

Beautifully simple covers for Dante’s Divine Comedy, by...

we heart tumbleblog

craig: iQuit from /lulz/n/shit/n/wtf

10 best hitmen: why the screen loves a deadly...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13)

A Skin, A Night

It's official. Street art is now mainstream.

image credits: onpaperwings

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-6)

The Vicious Five

“Wired.com got a sneak peek at the Pitchfork.tv site. We...”
— Eliot Van Buskirk - Wired.com

vasta: New Flickr group: iPhone disk usage. What’s yours?

Muxtape Recommendations

Mar

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30)

Cover Version: a Muxtape

image credits: Paul Armstrong

“I don’t think Christ is very happy with us”
— Black Kids frontman Reggie...

Confessions of an MP3 blogger

Light Leaks Magazine

jstn: I’m proud to introduce Muxtape, a new way to share,...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23)

image credits: Mike Rohde

Is it possible for a photograph to change the...

Musicians who changed the world

Anthony Mingella (1954-2008)

image credits: Ashwini Bhatia “Tibetan monks in...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-16)

Record Store Day

Llewelyn Moss: If I don’t come back, tell mother I love her.Carla Jean Moss: Your...

Your last.fm memory game

Songerize is the "I'm Feeling Lucky" of...

Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen (via Brooklyn Vegan)

Print is dead. Long live print.

Sigur Rós Day On YouTube

The band will take over all twelve slots on the sites home page and the centrepiece of this will be...

A 10-minute amazing video tribute to Terrence Malick, the philosopher of American cinema.

The Thin Red Line

Private Witt: Do you ever feel lonely?
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Only around people.

Gregory Crewdson

The death of the album?

I'd like a ffffound.com invite...

100 Photographs that Changed the World

Feb

Great timewasters #1

Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience “A gallery of apps and services that take slices...

Who are the Coen Brothers?

The Vietnam Syndrome

The Wonderful Video Contest

“When you’re talking about rock’n’roll,...”
— Nick Cave

Inside The Smiths

“Inside The Smiths” tells the history of the band, and describes what it was like...

What Does The Last.fm Friends Network Look...

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
— Oscar Wilde

The 50 Greatest UK Indie Records of All...

Mojo, March 2008 50) Huggy Bear - Herjazz49) The Delgados - The Great Eastern48) James - Village...

Officially Cool: Vanity Fair Re-Creates...

Offbeat - Directed by George Manatos makemovies.tumblr.com

Show Us Your Holga

What happened to the Nirvana Nevermind cover...

Polaroid snaps out of making film

bside.com: Before the Music Dies

image credits: Magnus Skoglöf

“I used to think that compromise in life, as in art, was...”
— Ingmar Bergman

Report: iPods Don’t Cause Heart Attacks

Romance & Cigarettes

I was Morrissey's roadie

“We hated Bauhaus”
— Oscar Niemeyer

Jan

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Photos Found on the Street

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the...”
— Aldous Huxley

http://www.originalmusicshirt.com/

The 10 most beautiful bookshops in the world

Best frontwoman ever

The Go! Team @ Casa da Música

“Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle &...

“Legendary designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides behind him — spends 18...

Lobster: Sexually Transmitted Electricity

“4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is a stunning and demanding...”
— James Cristopher

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten Filmmaker Julien Temple’s celebration of the life and...

“Sean Penn’s bad-boy past and political earnestness...”
— Guardian Unlimited

Tinariwen Legendary poet guitarists and soul rebels from the southern Sahara desert, this...

Mark Malkoff Lives In IKEA

“The life of the arts far from being an interruption, a...”
— John F. Kennedy

Designers Are Human, Too Part 2 — mocoloco.com

100 things we didn't know last year

The Lomo Camera: Shoot from the Hip

2007

Dec

2007 In Review: Best Films

In no particular order. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)Les...

2007 In Review: Best Music Video

Battles - Atlas

2007 In Review: Best Live Show

Sonic Youth @ Paredes de Coura (via ups2006)

2007 In Review: Albums

In no particular order. Portuguese Albums:Norberto Lobo - Mudar de Bina JP Simões - 1970 Old...

72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life

via Moleskine Project

There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece

Live at Other Music: No Age (Episode #2) A truly insane performance. Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat...

15 Worst Christmas Songs Ever Created

The bands of 2008

Blindness

Directed by Fernando Meirelles and based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago (Portugal),...

“We went to Israel to play some shows, but we figured...”
— Black Lips

Life Through A Plastic Lens

“Through immaculate use of picture, sound and time, the...”
— Todd MacCarthy about Van...

pict.fm - free avatar service

Sight & Sound Films Of 2007

Reuters Year In Review 2007

The Take Away Shows

Top 10 Magazine Covers

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and...”
— Samuel Butler

Voice of the Seven Woods

“Voice of the Seven Woods achieves a waking dream-state, and it’s illuminated by the purest...

“While an acoustic jam in a year of overproduced nonsense was...”
— about “Delilah” by...

The Year in Photos - via Pitchfork

Pat Graham's new Silent Pictures book

Banksy returns to Bethlehem

Banksy has painted new murals on the West Bank barrier which runs beside Bethlehem. ...

Is War Photography Art?