putting the j in jjosh

This is awesome and gorgeous and psychedelic and retro and modern at the same time. I vote yes.

I can’t get this image out of my head. Maybe you won’t be able to either. I feel sorry for us both, but it’s good to have company here.

Actually, let’s not.

Photo is Philippe Ramette ‘Balcon II’ Hong Kong 2001.

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Spectacular. I love that on CC’s blog where I picked this up, he’s says "This is the best thing you’ll see all day." How do they make this stuff?

because I love to share the naked people, and this is breathtaking…

[via CC, who’s got a great blog you really should check out)

here is something to tickle the eye…

Now this is more like it. It’s been a while since I felt like I hit a vein of gold on the ole internet, but this is jaw-dropping solid. Using clips found deep deep in the belly of youtube, this artiste has sampled, cut, sliced and diced them to create some phat trax. Sure, it’s the same thing folks have been doing with James Brown and P-Funk samples for years, but there’s something fantastic about harnessing the collective talent of the crowd and resampling that.

The site has an album’s worth of tracks, and there’s no easy embedding, so go check it out over lunch or whatever…I’ve recorded the first track as a sample so you can see what I’m talking about, but the other tracks as just as good and some moments are better…this one is nice ‘cuz it starts slow so you can see what he’s doing, and then it kicks off into the stratosphere…

enjoy…

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major hat tip to waxy…nice one…

gorgeous + dedication + time =

At some point I got tired of trying to defend comics and prove to everyone that they are as acceptable a form of storytelling as film or literature. People’s eyes tend to glaze over and then you show them something amazing but they’re not really open to it so they don’t get it and it’s a big waste of time. Scott McCloud on the other hand never seems to get tired of it. He has a great talk on TED where he brings up how comics are going to adapt to the internet and he refs a great strip you should definitely check out:

Pup Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe

also McCloud’s talk is great, thought-provoking and exceedingly well done. If you have any interest in art, how we perceive images, or the human condition, you’ll probably find something to dig in there. It’s 17 minutes, so save it until you’ve got the time…

here are the things I’ve been watching on youtube:

"viral" bike guitar hero thing – cool but lame, real but marketing

John Lee Hooker rocks the blues – subtitles?!

girls flip out over American Idol – amazing and horrifying at the same time

Miss Bunny – seriously, I don’t remember watching this one

BBC doc David Lynch made about surrealism – JackW, are you listening?!

BBC doc about Superman

1983 interview with Bono & lead singer of Simple Minds – hair

this banner is from an event we went to last Saturday called "Underground" at the Eyebeam gallery…Eyebeam is always pretty amazing and this event had some great stuff (Boozbot again!), and some weak stuff, and one mindblowing moment…the best exhibit was called "6 Walls" and was 6 people dressed up as walls (hard to explain) who would move around, sometimes acting as a hall, letting people in, sometimes closing themselves off to be an enclosed room…

at one point one of the singers from the band playing (Judi Chicago, pretty darn great) was inside the walled off room with people dancing around and glitter being thrown in the air and and and — that was a pretty wild part of it…

the banner is me looking closely at one of the video artworks…the pix below are from Maxine’s amazing new camera of the 6 walls installation…look closely & you can see the people’s faces painted to match the wallpaper in the middle of the walls…

people milling around in the walls…

the guy in the green cape (natch!) is one of the singers/instrumentalists for Judi Chicago…so funny that there’s a couple checking out cell phone pix while the walls move around and this singer yells and howls right next to them…

chaos…dig the guy in the back on the right in the orange motorbike helmet…M & I were wearing our camping headlights turned onto the red setting…

sweet close-up…

here, get a 16 second taste of what it was like in the walls from someone’s yt cam record:

this made me smile out loud…

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er, lenses. Tilt-shift time-lapse amazing…

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I can’t remember where I came across the link for riotclitshave, but I am so glad I have it in my feed-reader…it’s worth checking out daily as the pictures that show up there range from the whimsical to the epic…many times I have smiled, many times my jaw has dropped…here’s a sampling to whet your appetite — keep in mind, these are just from today, from ONE DAY…add the link to your bookmarks list now…

JG & JW are gonna take a massive cross-country trip for their honeymoon, crossing the US of A to check out parks, monuments, and weird stuff. When JG asked if I had any suggestions for them as they traveled, there was one that popped immediately into my mind: Bishop’s Castle.

In the summer of 2002, I was working at TLC and had been there long enough to have a sense of how to game the system a little. I had a shoot that I needed to do in LA that would happen right after the summer solstice in June, and for some reason I wanted to try and find some kind of event to attend for the solstice. From trawling the net I came across something called Psychic Chakra that was taking place south of Denver on the solstice. I got a ticket for the event, arranged my trip to LA so it had a 3 day layover in Denver and off I went.

The event was 4 hours south of Denver, near Colorado Springs, and held at a UFO Watchtower, which I liked a lot. It was a good time — the first time I heard psychedelic trance, the first time I saw fire spinners, people in costumes, VJ’s, the giant Viper lazers…I made friends with the kids camping next to me, and though I also had some weird me-alone-against-the-world stuff, it was pretty fantastic. (two months later I would go to Burning Man for the first time and discover that that culture had a city and life all its own)

After it was over I had a day to kill before my flight the next day. I wanted to check out Colorado Springs, being so close, so I went and bought entry to a hot spring where I relaxed for a while. It felt pretty good and cleansing after the party. While there, I ran into a few people who had obviously been at the Psychic Chakra  party. I told them I had a day to kill and asked them what they recommended. They thought for a while and then one said "We should send him to Bishop’s Castle!" They all agreed.

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