pic of the week — alex brown photography

Above pic via Alex Brown

[MP3]: The Big Sleep  ”Bad Blood”
Sleep Forever, Frenchkiss; 2008

pic of the week — just shoes and rain

[MP3]: The Tallest Man on Earth  ”Walk the Line”

pic of the week — i’m sticking with you

Above pic via

[MP3]: The Velvet Underground  ”I’m Sticking With You”
VU, Polydor; 1985

Sleevefaces

I saw something similar to this using CD artwork to create collages, but not nearly as much fun! The Prince one might be my fav for its ridiculousness, but it’s borderline NSFW. Besides, you can’t go wrong with Tiffany.

Italo Mixtapes | Big Stereo

Big Stereo has a nice weekly mixtape series and the most recent one features an Italo theme. I love the one from Tronik Youth with its 80′s Eurobeats. It will provide the perfect mood for your Holiday travels and prevent you from getting the deer-in-headlights-zombie-mode while on your journey. Be safe out there!

[MP3]: Tronik Youth  ”Winter Lite Mix”

Alex Da Corte | I Attach Myself to You

Take advantage of the shitty weather tonight and head out to Stonefox Artspace in Soho to check out the opening night of Alex Da Corte’s I Attach Myself To You. The exhibit will feature color portrait photographs and related sculptures that explore the nature of intimacy in a digital world where online dating, chat rooms, MySpace.com, blogs, etc. increasingly supplant real human interaction.

The photographs on view document the Philadelphia artist’s ongoing project, ”Activities,” (ie. Activity #9 – stuffing strawberries in your mouth) a series in which Da Corte invites strangers he meets in public parks to perform simple actions utilizing a variety of props in his studio. The props are often childlike in nature and include fake flowers, happy-face balloons, holiday party signs, brightly colored ribbon, costume make-up, glitter, etc. and the “Activities” are equally whimsical as well. The main directive is “to play spontaneously with a chosen object(s), and do something with it you wouldn’t ordinarily do.”

The exhibit opens tonight (December 11th) at 6pm and runs through February 12th. Shots from Flickr can/will be uploaded here. Check it.

pic of the week — bright tomorrow

Above pic via Magda Lates

Yeah, I know. There’s nothing “bright” about this shot. Pairing this picture up with Fuck Buttons “Bright Tomorrow” was erm, inspired (or better yet, blatantly copied) by the video for the track which Pitchfork “exclusively” posted this week. I’ve always loved pictures like this; a moment of life at full speed captured and suspended in time.

The backbone of “Bright Tomorrow” is defined by a trance-y ambient loop a la The Field combined with a chugging, driving beat. To that the Bristol-based duo of Benjamin Power and Andrew Hung add swirling noisy guitars (enter the swirling birds in the video), ethereal melodies, sonic textures, and indecipherable screams. The song manages to be “dark” and “bright” at the same time, with the violent guitars casting a shadowy gloom over the trance beats and blissful organ melodies that reach up toward the sky. Without getting into comparisons (and to use two of this year’s favorites), think No Age meets The Field, or something like that.

Not really sure the picture does the video justice, so be sure to check it out. Fuck Buttons release the full-length Street Horrrsing in February 2008 on ATP Recordings and hopefully tour the U.S. soon after.

[MP3]: Fuck Buttons  ”Bright Tomorrow”
Bright Tomorrow 7″ (picture disc), ATP; 2007