Archive for music

Dead Wood, Auto-tune & Seasonal Binges

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , , on December 24, 2011 by ssstephg

three elves Christmas 2011
Oh you know… “the holidays” are happening and all that so it’s time for wailing traditional songs about out of wedlock conception and excessive consumption. Time to kill trees and dress them up like two dollar hookers. Time to over-indulge in foods we pride ourselves on avoiding during the rest of the year and then resolve to quit them again once the calendar resets. GOD I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS!!! No I don’t. Well, sort of. I like the tree genocide part a bunch anyway. OK, not the genocide part, but the two dollar hooker bit. I like that part alot. I also like yowling off key with my more talented friends beside me to help make my voice sound passable because you know, auto-tune only does so much.

And so that’s what I did. I gussied up some dead wood and my friends allowed me once again to be dead wood on our yearly Christmas album. To be fair, making the album WAS my idea in the first place. Oh, and I design the album cover ever, too. It’s just that I am musically retarded, can play no instruments, and when singing require special attention in order to sound close enough to on key. Although one year I played the tambourine and that was OK. This is our sixth year making an album of four songs which we send out to torture a long list of friends and family. Would you like to hear it? It’s actually quite good despite me! Go ahead, give a listen! My pal Bodart does an amazing job recording, mixing, and making everything sound great.

Confession: I actually do like eating like a little piggie, too. So in fact, I suppose i do sort of love the holidays. Hope your days are happy regardless of what you believe and how you celebrate or don’t.
-Steph

holidays with the Bodalimatos clan

Improvisation, Art, Life, Freedom

Posted in Art with tags , , , on November 10, 2011 by jdhastings

This is a profound lecture by George Lewis. To explain who Lewis is would be complicated. He began as a jazz trombone player, but has become as much a theorist in philosophy, art and technology. This lecture covers the idea of improvisation, but contextualizes it in such a way that breaks down easy comprehension of the concept. He covers how computers can both improvise and be considered free actors while doing so, the concept of freedom itself in terms of improvisation and the relationship between the immediate act of improvisation and the full breadth of history. It’s an incredible talk that will probably require multiple views for me to really grasp.

-JD

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Larkin Grimm

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , on August 6, 2011 by ssstephg

I love Larkin Grimm and this video makes me giggle. Have a happy vagalicious Saturday!
-Steph

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Bzzz, The Sound Of Pi

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , , on March 12, 2011 by ssstephg

Well, the numbers are kind of animated. Enjoy!

and yet another non-cartoon with a fun musical theme.

-StephG

In the Pines

Posted in Art, art on paper, contingent art, figurative, monotype, narrative art, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2011 by Tom Bennett

I was listening the other night to the classic old folk song “In the Pines”, or “Black Girl” sung by the blues great Lead Belly. Here are 3 monotypes that were influenced by it.
Listen to the audio I posted at the bottom, its beautiful.

Black Girl

9″ x 12″

In the Pines

12″ x 9″

In the Pines 2

12″ x 9″

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Sol by OOIOO

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on February 5, 2011 by ssstephg

More OOIOO love! This one this time because the girl with the rope is a metaphor for my existence.

O&ILoveU2,
-Steph

Friday Night Music Video: OOIOO

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , on February 4, 2011 by ssstephg

Sometimes music videos make me cringe and I have to turn them off before I end up with a very bad association that makes me hesitate to listen to the song anymore. Sometimes a music video makes me love a song even more. This one makes me do the loving thing. It makes me sooo happy! I especially love the little yowling masked figure in it!

Sincere Yowls,
-StephG

Friday Night Music Video/Saturday Morning Cartoons: Woodcat

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , on January 7, 2011 by ssstephg

by Tunng cuz GOD I LOVE TUNNG!!! and this is super cute!

“and we all had a lovely time”
-Steph

Friday Night Music Video: Yo Digo Baila

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , on December 31, 2010 by ssstephg


Thanks, Caro, for introducing me to these guys!

Friday Night Music Video: Tool’s Lateralus by 8pc Koto Ensemble

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , on April 16, 2010 by ssstephg

So Bodart says to me the other day, “Did you see the link Serrible posted to a version of Lateralus on Japanese koto?” Well, I hadn’t and I couldn’t find her link so I googled and found it on Radialaxis’ youtube channel and here it is and it’s pretty freaking awesome. Give a listen.

In case you’re not familiar with the original song or if you’re just in the mood to hear it I’ll post it after the jump. Read more »

The Explicit Costs of Postmodernity

Posted in Art with tags , , , , on April 5, 2010 by jdhastings

That’s a really weak pun on any story about “The Hidden Cost of…”

The Atlantic has a cool story today by the makers “Copyright Criminals,” a documentary about the history of hip hop, sampling, etc.

The author discusses the state of Copyright law on the issue and the problems that arise from it. Personally, I’d love to hear more dense, complicated sound collages than we typically get now but unless the laws are changed it’s unlikely to happen.

Anyways, read the article.

-jd

Friday Night Music Clip

Posted in Art with tags , , , , , on December 4, 2009 by jdhastings

Slide into your weekend cool like, yo.

-JD

Aha hahaha!

Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos, video with tags , , , , on November 20, 2009 by ssstephg

Take On Me on ukulele. Oddly enough, Youtube is brimming with ukulele versions of this song. Here’s a selection (of 13!) for your amusement.

MONDO points for the melodica! a version with Dramamine would be even better.

12 more after the jump!

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Lunar H2O & Superstitions: Friday Night Music Vid

Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos, video with tags , , , , , , on November 13, 2009 by ssstephg

Cool Space News

“I thought this was a blog about art?”

Shut up.  Nobody likes a know-it-all.  But here’s something we can all agree on:  Stevie Wonder + Sesame Street = More cool than you can shake a stick at!  I may have posted this vid here before. If so, oh well. It’s good enough to warrant a rerun.

Happy Friday the 13th!

-Steph

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Never Enough Tunng!

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos, video with tags , , , , , , on September 26, 2009 by ssstephg

This cartoon animated video is super cute and who can say no to a little Tunng?

from Youtube:

Directed, animated and produced by James Bates
http://www.jamesbates.com
http://www.atomweb.net
http://www.tunng.co.uk
Made with love, magic and woodland secrets
www.myspace.com/thisistunng
www.fulltimehobby.co.uk

Friday Night Music Video: Drew Toothpaste

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos, video with tags , , , , , , on September 25, 2009 by ssstephg

New vid by Drew Toothpaste–Yay!!!

And an old favorite of mine featuring Charles the pugdog and his phenomenal tongue! It’s like one of those paper party horns that honks and unfurls when you blow it, minus the honking.

See Drew’s Youtube channel for more hits such as Comb Your Beard (At Night) and other fun stuffs.  And if you don’t know of Drew Toothpaste and his webcomic Toothpaste For Dinner, his and his wife Natalie Dee’s webcomic Married To The Sea and Natalie’s webcomic Natalie Dee, then go acquaint yourself immediately!

Friday Night Music Video

Posted in Toni Tiller, video with tags , , , on August 14, 2009 by Toni Tiller

This is music only in the most limited sense, but it is also horrifying/entertaining so as far as I’m concerned it makes the cut.

But Is It Art? Friday Night Celebrity Musicfest

Posted in Art with tags , , on July 31, 2009 by jdhastings

Sometimes when you become big and famous, opportunity knocks a little too frequently.  Let us celebrate the shame of others with 200 times our net worth.

Steven Seagal, Kobe Bryant and Jamie Fox, after the jump.  You’ve been warned.

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Pre Friday Night Dance Post

Posted in Art with tags , , , , on June 26, 2009 by jdhastings

I have had a video ready to post here since Tuesday or Wednesday and damnit I’m going to post that sucker, but it feels like I am somehow obligated to post a Michael Jackson video just because. Even though I covered this weeks ago.

Anyways, this is to the freaks camping out holding vigils and such:

I’m sorry, I am a huge fan of the man’s music, and have plenty of evidence to attest to that, but these people wailing today, and the shocked weepy news reports are kind of absurd. I’m with Jason in wishing that he’d return to form, but if you’ve followed him at all the last decade you knew this wasn’t going to end well. Frankly, this was better than I thought. The man was surgery addicted and emotionally stunted, without even going into the whole sleeping with children thing (taking that as you will either in the sense he admitted to or in the sense he was accused of it). The guy was the perfect storm amalgam of your typical insane child star and the Howard Hughes model of eccentric billionaire.

And frankly, there is no surprise in that. I’m linking to a Jackson 5 song here because that’s really the key to understanding him. From the age of 5 he was a superstar, singing songs about adult love while constantly on the road touring and sharing rooms with his brothers as they slept with groupies- all while under the strict influence of his devout Jehovah’s Witness mother and an abusive father. Those who consider Off the Wall his first real album have to understand he made like 10 before that with the J5 and Jacksons. The man literally had no childhood.

By the time he went off on his own to become a billionaire in the 80s his psyche was already in ruins. He just finally had the freedom and cash to express that ruptured psyche. By the time he’d treated his nose like a sheet of sketch paper you’ve erased through one too many times, that was just the visual manifestation. I knew it was over the first time I saw the infamous Martin Bashir interview.

So while I understand that this is a convenient point to express that people liked him, the non-stop coverage, the bumping of Iran and Healthcare reform out of the news and the general loudness of the response is more than a little excessive. Like people are turning him into an absurd symbol of something I can’t begin to comprehend. Maybe if this happened in his prime I’d understand it- so much lost! so many songs left unwritten- but this is just the inevitable close of a tale of fate.

The man did good work.  Let’s celebrate that without going overboard.  This is a pebble in the ocean of universal entropy.  

-JD

Friday Night Music Video

Posted in Toni Tiller, video with tags , , , on June 12, 2009 by Toni Tiller
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