putting the j in jjosh

I read this guy’s comics, and they’re nutso

mad skillz…via kottke, the master

An electronic postcard of sorts from Mike Skinner of The Streets…pretty cool, right down to the look of the type and the idea of the heating tubes in the studio…for a while The Streets were the sh*t, right? But then it seemed like he started believing his own hype…maybe he’s back…I like this…
is a lot…

here’s a blast from the past when he was great…

I mean, Flying Lotus! When I started out as an assistant editor, I spent about 6 weeks working with an editor who was making a 1-hour show. My job was basically to hand her the tapes she might need. Other than that I was free to watch and try and figure out how she was doing what she was doing. It was great.

I would like to do the same thing watching Flying Lotus to see how he makes these tracks. How do you make computers sound like they’re a little off-kilter, in that electronic but almost organically wrong way. I want to know!

The video is great. Weird weird weird, but fits the music kind of perfectly. Also, you can download the 3-d models and use them to make your own video, if you know how to do that kind of thing…which I don’t…

JH sent me this DC gogo track that was so good, and he called it out as head-nodding, which made me think of that Busta Rhymes track, so I did a quick mashup, added a deep beat (from that L-E-N Mixtape) and then spent 2 evenings making a video for it…

I think it feels good, nice for a Friday…

Here is a Justin Bieber song slowed down by 800% and with lots of reverb added…it sounds like an ambient classic…

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

I made this youtube vid of myself messing around with a pulse generator that I got at a yard sale for $5…might be my best yard sale purchase ever…

the sounds are so electronic-y, so analog…good stuff…

I'm doing this gig for a month in midtown, and I have to take a subway tunnel on 14th st to get to the 1, and as well as a "New York Times published poet" there's always someone playing music in there…this morning there was a guy doing an amazing version of Knockin on Heaven's Door…it sounded perfect, underground, mournful, acoustic, the sadness mirroring the people on their way to somewhere, in between places…

it made me think of watching Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" which is a fitfully amazing film, and for which Dylan wrote the song…I remember watching it with Brooks M when we were in HIgh School and he was crazy…he was telling me how if you really want to make a film you should pick your favorite film and just watch it over and over, learning what shot cuts to what, and trying to figure out how it was made…this sounded horrible to me…I did not have any kind of discipline back then, and the idea of analyzing a movie shot by shot seemed awful…Brooks told me he had done it to PG & Billy the Kid…then we watched it…

parts of it were crazy boring, parts of it were amazing…the part where Knockin on Heaven's Door shows up is amazing…

unfortunately I can only find it in Spanish, but maybe you can still get the impact of it…even today when I heard it, I thought immediately of Brooks and how I've been meaning to break down a favorite film of mine for ages and have never sat down and done it…gotta do that some day…

then I could go to this animation festival, which looks amazing.

DMTV trailer – Floating World Animation Fest, Holocene, Oct. 13th 2010 from Floating World Comics on Vimeo.