TIL: Butch Walker

Okay okay okay. I know it’s not in my job description to write about music. But I’ve been obsessing a little bit, and I just can’t keep it to myself anymore. I hope all 4 of you that look at this find something valuable.

I’ve been a Butch Walker fan since I stumbled upon and purchased The Rise & Fall of Butch Walker and the Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites at Borders in 2006. Late start to the Butch bandwagon, I know, but nobody’s perfect.

Basically, Walker is a versatility machine. I mean Weight of Her and Mixtape next to Hot Girls in Good Moods and We’re All Going Down? Great.

He produces Avril Lavigne and Pink, then turns around and melts Atlanta with a live, hyper-rocked out Queen Medley.

His latest album, “I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart” (had me at the title), throws string-infused tracks like House of Cards and Pretty Melody alongside edged-out country-esque songs like Days/Months Years. Somehow, it’s totally cohesive.

In your own words, Butch: Damn, damn, damn, I love you.

sidenote: Thanks for playing in LA while I’m in NYC, and NYC while I’m in California. SERIOUSLY?!

TIL: Marc Jacob’s Models by Chadwick Tyler

via The Fashionisto

grasslands

Last night, Amanda Dallas (check out her blog, Paper Dreams in the blogroll) invited me to a concert/magazine launch/who knows what at Grasslands in Brooklyn, about which she is writing a review for the Wild Honey Pie (thewildhoneypie.com).

Here are some haphazard shots from the show (long exposures of live music? i mean, let’s call it art). the first four are of Caveman, the last are of Glass Ghost. Uh, enjoy?

P.S. — clouds on the stage? don’t worry, there was also a giant mounted teddy bear head. and floorboards as decoration.

TIL: Dress the Part with Aldo

blindness

my most recent assignment was Photographs as Evidence, where we had to suggest something with our images.

I chose to try and convey blindness, or rather a romanticized idea of what blindness is. The images are supposed to be chaotic, dark, and confusing.

I shot the project on a Holga (my teacher’s suggestion), but the little plastic camera was frustratingly reliable. There were no light leaks, no screw ups — the negatives looked altogether too normal, except for the multiple exposures the Holga lets you so easily do.

So, I sandpapered the negatives.

Literally, I got a piece of sandpaper and scratched them up.

Then I scanned them, and here they are — no Photoshop, save for levels.

Thanks to Emily Carlson, Stuart Winecoff (check out his photography — the link is in the blogroll) and Amanda Dallas (check out her blog, also linked in the blogroll)

Hope you like!

P.S. — click on the photos to view them larger, so you can see all the scratches better.

TIL: broken bells

James Mercer and Danger Mouse?

Sold. On the whole album.

adventures into tribeca

today, Emily, Stuart and I decided to go for a walk because it was so nice out. we wandered down into tribeca and ended up at some tight building that came out of nowhere with beautiful light. so we did an impromptu photoshoot!

and some random street shots from our wanderings

TIL: LURVE MAGAZINE!

TIL: Sune Cajzowski

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TIL: Sigrid Agren

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