damn. monday again, dear weekend: where the heck did you go?
at least it is supposed to keep warming up today, and maybe we’ll get some rain.
dear janfeb why are so you goddamn crazy?

in the spirit of a spring like day i’ve got a dj mix by a berliner named shir kahn (no not
THAT shir kahn…) entitled smells like basement; totally worth checking out. its hot blog-house, bmore, club music; aka dance party.
here is the affiliation run down for mr. kahn:

• exploited records. repping berlin and beyond this label hosts some of the hottest talent on the brave new frontier of dance music: ADAM SKY, MARK STEWART, SIRIUSMO, SURKIN, SHIR KHAN, VJ ULTRAMOODEM
• berlin battery for all the hot blog action from shir kahn as well as jack tennis and dj supermarkt.
• and of course the compulsory myspace page.

WRD.
otherwise, stay tuned. i’ve been super busy trying to get a project out the door but i’ve got some fun, rad, interesting things to bring to ’show and tell’ later.

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michel gondry is at it again, this time enlisting the aid of jack black and mos def. ponder that for a moment, yeah, let it sink in.
be kind rewind is the new directorial effort from this beyond acclaimed director. it just stretched its legs at sundance and is catching major buzz. i’m totally excited about this movie and think it will kick a little ass FOR SURE.

and if that wasn’t enough here is the full trailer for the movie itself….CONTEXT.

awesome.

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/nate

Black Santa was in the house for this blessed event. Except, I was posted up next to the bar with the usual cohorts.

i have really taken a shine to the photographer david burdeny. go to his site, it is AMAZING.

through long exposures and shooting in odd light (early and/or late in the day) he creates just striking images. that, coupled with my own personal fascination with the sea — or more appropriately the shore — these images are spot on in my book. the images seem too perfect (theoretically speaking) to be real; some manner of fabrication HAS to be present (its not). do these ‘landscapes’, inhabited by such a bizarre and curious collection of objects really exist? yes, and i love them.here is mr. burdenys artist statement.

Made along the shorelines of Japan, Northern France, and the Pacific Northwest this recent body of work thematically continues my interest in the thresholds that divide and connect the sea to land. Through these journeys I attempt to communicate a universality or homogeneity in these disparate locations.

Embedded between the natural and domestic, these landscapes are often found at the periphery of parking lots, highways, urban parks, and public beaches. Each day these spaces are made and unmade and I am drawn to them for the weightlessness that lingers after activity ceases.

I’m fascinated with the quality of light and the spatial immensity the ocean possesses. I have an enormous reverence for feeling so small in the presence of something so vast, where perspective, scale, time and distance momentarily become intangible. My photographs contemplate that condition, and through their reductiveness, suggest a formalized landscape we rarely see. The glory lies not in the act of this removal or reduction, but in the experience of what is left - sublime experience located in ordinary space: a slowly moving sky, the sun moving across a boulders surface or seafoam swirling around a pylon.

Exposed onto large format black and white film under the soft light of dusk and dawn, the shutter is held open for several minutes at a time, recording the ocean and sky as it continuously repositions itself on the negative, a process both dependent and vulnerable to chance. The resultant image is an accretion of past and present. Each moment is layered over the moment immediately preceding it – a single image that embodies the weight of cumulative time and unending metamorphosis.

David Burdeny, Vancouver, 2005

here are some more images. go to his site for more. and do yourself a favor, check out his color work too. it is totally different yet equally mind blowing. if you want to get me present: step 1 buy a print 2. send it to me. EZ.

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