Left Coast East Coast

Lovely lovely stuff… restored 78s from the early half of the 20th century. The soundtrack to a movie you’ve never seen.

some machine does that for you….

in the year…

“Peel away shame and misery like dole office paint”

Holbrook check out the modern tonal madness going on in this… more to follow from a different angle. The album is deadly. Mr. Dennehy teaches at Trinity

Dennehy’s music could be classified as post-minimalist and features energetic rhythms, hard-edged sounds (both acoustic and electronic) and an infectious sense of melody.

An excerpt from the performance of Grá agus Bás at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Performed by Crash Ensemble and Afro Celt Soundsystem’s Iarla Ó Lionáird. Composed by Donnacha Dennehy.

This is absolutely lovely.

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.

Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.

Music by the wonderfull Cinematic Orchestra (cinematicorchestra.com) and the track is Arrival of the Birds – please buy the fantastic album: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-crimson-wing-mystery-flamingos/id297787201

All screen imagery was animated – there are no screen replacements.

Produced, animated, filmed, lit, edited & graded by Tom Jenkins (theoryfilms.co.uk / facebook.com/theoryfilms – !NEW MAKING OF PICS ON FB PAGE! / @thetheoryUK / twitter.com/#!/thetheoryUK).

Shot using Canon 5d MkII, Dragonframe Stop Motion software and customised slider.

I really want to juxtapose these two videos because I really do feel that Bowie was such a taken-for-granted “genius” for me growing up. Then I reflect upon listening to my siblings play his shit over and over and over and I think that I’m probably one of the few lucky bastards who knows every word of every song!

How and ever; listening to all those tunes again as an adult things change…. but I do love the fact that Bowie did too!

Another jolly tune from Bibio on Warp records, a tad reminiscent of Warp favorites Global Goon

Pretty awesome photo of San Francisco “in ruins” taken from an airship in 1906 post earthquake and fire.

I love the photo for the fact that there are no bridges and what’s up with that other Steam-Punk-esque airship with the solar panel like sails?

“No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread”

Click to see the full size image in all it’s sepia-toned glory…

Amor fati is a Latin phrase loosely translating to “love of fate” or “love of one’s fate”. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including suffering and loss, as good.

Holbrook, if you haven’t already check this documentary out. It’s a fascinating look at Harry Nilsson and his extraordinary life. His friendship with John Lennon & Ringo Star. His work on gun control after Lennon’s death. His Irish wife Una O’Keefe (who I suspect was on a J-1 when he met her). Plenty of interviews and comments from the likes of Robin Williams, Yoko Ono, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, and Micky Dolenz.

Even the story of the writing of “One (is the loneliest number)” is as fascinating as the man himself.