New MONO album promises tortured neo-classical music
MONO – the stylized instrumental rock / shoegaze band from Japan – have unveiled a trailer for their sixth studio album, which is set for release this Fall via Temporary Residence Ltd. Self-Titled has posted a teaser video of studio footage of the Japanese quartet crafting, what sounds like, their most beautiful album yet and another step towards the Japanese band becoming a tortured form of neo-classical music.
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Catalpa Festival NYC Announces 2012 Lineup Featuring The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg
This summer promises an avalanche of free music events and heavy billed festivals.
Popping the top – The inaugural Catalpa Festival – set to take place July 28-29 on Randall’s Island. Striving to be a pioneering NYC festival comparable to California’s Coachella and Chicago’s Lollapalooza, unique in its programming, atmosphere and aesthetic – Catalpa has secured an eclectic lineup of over 40 indie and bands and hip-hop artists that include The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg (playing Doggy Style), TV on the Radio and Girl Talk. The bands will play from 1-11pm over two days, along with art installations, structures and unique elements including the Arcadia Spectacular, Frisky’s Church of Sham Marriages, a Silent Disco Tent, bumper cars, and plenty of NYC eats.
Check out the complete list and more details on the festival after the jump.
What Else Can you Expect:
Arcadia Spectacular
Arcadia is a sculpture-based organization that takes military scrap and turns it on its head to create positive environments for the purpose of celebrating life. Their structure known as ‘The Afterburner’ will be making it’s debut North American appearance at Catalpa Festival. This is a mind-blowing spire that shoots giant 30ft flame balls from its peak and contains DJs playing from within. Surrounded by a high-powered sound system and an incredible lighting system, New York City will have never seen anything like this!
Frisky’s Church of Sham Marriages
The 60ft inflatable Church of Sham marriages is to ensure that any sudden urges for marriage proposals (sham or legitimate) during Catalpa can be dealt with on the spot! We will have our full time pimp pastor on hand at all times throughout the weekend to conduct ceremonies and he will provide wedding veils, candy wedding rings and ‘just married’ sashes for all the happy couples.
We want people to get creative here. Straight, gay, three-way or even group marriages are all accepted. Heck, you can even marry yourself if you feel like it!
Silent Disco Tent
The Silent Disco tent at Catalpa Festival is an experience that you don’t want to miss out on. Listen to DJs playing in the tent through wireless headphones while you dance and sing along at the top of your voice. Don’t worry, nobody else in the tent can hear you, they will all be doing the same thing!!!
High Times Reggae Stage
Our friends at High Times Magazine are helping us to curate what will no doubt be a great fun reggae stage at Catalpa Festival. Throughout the weekend The High Times Cannabis Cup Band will be joined on this stage by guest artists, DJs, Bob Marley Tributes and Nyabinghi drumming sessions. Prominent guest speakers from High Times Magazine will also be present ensuring a very chilled environment is created within the festival site.
Art Installations
Catalpa Festival is entirely based on the notion of taking people out of their ordinary environment and into an atmosphere more fantastic. We believe that this needs to come across aesthetically in every facet of the weekend so we have invested a lot of time and effort to source the most visually stunning, interactive and thought provoking art installations to achieve this goal. Artists from New York, European festivals, Burning Man and even Yoko Ono are contributing to what we can assure you will be a visual overload!
A Taste of New York
This area of Catalpa Festival will serve as a homage to all things gastronomic in New York. We are carefully selecting the most unique and top quality eateries to participate at Catalpa. From the farmers market to stone-fire pizzas, we aim to offer a culinary profile far beyond your expectations. More info coming soon…
Tickets are on-sale now starting at $99 for a weekend pass.
MP3 – David Byrne & St. Vincent : Love The Giant
David Byrne & St. Vincent team up on the new jazzy collaborative album Love This Giant. Grab it below:
MP3 – Moons : Waves at Night
Check out this sprawling b-side – “Waves at Night” from Atlanta’s Moons – one of the more promising acts to surface this year.
10 Amazing Collage Artists
1. Mowgli Omari – At only 20 years old, this Art University student in South East London, has already showcased his complex works at an international solo show in Zurich. His works combine simple geometric shapes with retro images to create very complex, futuristic looking optical illusions.
2. Matt Wisniewski – A web developer and collage artist based in Brooklyn, NY, Matt creates digital art collages that incorporate both the beauty of the human form and the beauty of nature.
3. Benjamin Evans – A photographer based in Brisbane, Australia who creates collages…sometimes, for his girlfriend.
4. Julien Pacaud -A french illustrator, currently living in Le Mans, France, who before becoming an illustrator, studied film-making, was an astrophysician, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an esperanto teacher. He creates surreal sci-fi collages with a narrative atmosphere that are truly unique.
5. Ben Giles – Another young artist from the UK, at just 19, Ben has worked with various styles.
6. Laura Redburn – A 25-year-old collage (and mixed media) artist currently living in Cardiff, Wales. Color, animals, nature, old films, science fiction, dreams and vivid imagination inspire her. She likes to create snapshots from dreams and other worlds in her work, leaving the viewer to reflect upon their own dreams, imagination and experiences to gather their own meaning from the illustrations.
7. Marco Migani– Known as Inserirefloppino, Italian visual artist Marco Migani was born in Rimini, in 1983. He is also a musician who plays in 3 different bands, besides running an independent record label together with his friends.
8.Jeffrey Meyer – Born in Indiana, currently in the Pacific Northwest, Jeff has created a huge body of work who marries actual illustration and collage.
9.Esh Šehanović – Esh creates mash-up’s of f things found in his environment- virtual or real.
10. Erika Lawlor Schmidt – Born in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1956, Erika Lawlor Schmidt has forged a career as a visual and performing artist whose work is deeply shaped by investigations into Eastern philosophy and Indian mysticism. Her prints and collages draw on a range of influences but still recall one of the founding principles of Surrealism.
Rooftop Films Presents Kid-Thing
Kid-Thing follows Annie, an angst-riddled prepubescent wasting her days away in a drab landscape on the outskirts of Austin, who stumbles upon an elderly woman trapped in a dep hole in the ground and must decide what–if anything–she is going to do to help.
Venue:
Automotive High School
50 Bedford Avenuw
WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn
L to Bedford Ave. or G to Nassau Ave.
Kid-Thing
June 14th
8:00PM Doors Open
8:30PM Live Music
9:00PM Film Begins
Oslo – Official Trailer
City Silhouettes – The Photography of Jasper James
“City Silhouettes”, photos by Jasper James. Over the past decade Jasper has lived and worked in New York, London and Beijing, covering assignments around the globe for some of the worlds leading magazines, design and advertising clients.
Photos by Melissa Mercier
Photos by Melissa Mercier.
Nebraska, The Good Life : Photo Essay by John Sypal
“Nebraska, the Good Life”, photos by John Sypal -the blogger behind Tokyo Camera Style.
Live – Radiohead @ Blossom Music Center 6/6
Radiohead Live June 6, 2012 @ Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
My brains have been scrambled. Radiohead probed my mind… and I liked it.
Radiohead may actually be dark scientists, merely posing as musicians who are highly adept at their craft. Operating at forbidden frequencies, and unlocking aural sequences the equivalent of cosmic code breaking, it seems plausible that this band could cause a cataclysmic celestial event. An event, where formulas and proofs replace measures and movements and theorems and algorithms, substitute tempos and time signatures.
(photography by Radiohead was the band that sold us jazz by convincing us it’s rock. But, after witnessing their experimental mastery onstage, a more fitting decree is – Radiohead is purging our arcane notions of dance music and reprogramming it into something unearthly, maybe even a little unnerving ( like a college student’s introduction to David Lynch). The truth is, Radiohead is alien. The band speaks an entirely different language than most of us, and live, summon an other worldy sound -both unnerving and beautiful. I heard the death rattle of a thousand dying star systems. Felt the rumblings of an astral anomaly and ancient planets violently rotating. I heard all earthly matter beautifully swirling towards a wormhole, being replaced by antimatter as it enveloped all it touched. I heard the sound of the apocalypse, and Radiohead were the end of music on earth. The effects this sonic experiment, caused audience consciousness to disintegrate. From the front row to the lawn, everyone seized and convulsed in unison, as if losing control over their bodies and minds.
-Casey Bowers
360 – Official Trailer
The slightly ambiguous thriller links several characters around the world, examining their sexual relationships and how they transgress society. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz
Ruby Sparks – Official Trailer
Paul Dano stars as a neurotic novelist crippled by that dreaded writer’s block. When he finally receives a burst of inspiration by crafting a story about a wonderful dream girl named Ruby, he’s astonished to discover that his story willed her into existence.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild – Official Trailer
The pint-sized Wallis carries the film on her back as Hushpuppy, a young girl living with her father in an impoverished Delta community. When her father’s health begins to fail, Hushpuppy’s world goes out of whack. Great floods and the appearance of mythical beasts known as aurochs take over her community, as she must learn how to survive without her father.
To Rome With Love – Official Trailer
Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz and Roberto Benigni…
But if you need more – Allen’s European roadtrip hits Italy, with an ensemble cast caught in a variety of Woody’s trademark romantic and social misadventures.
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding – Official Trailer
An uptight NYC lawyer gets dumped by her husband and decides to take her two kids upstate for a summer vacation; their destination is grandma’s house, and grandma just happens to be a pot-smoking, chicken-raising hippie. Directed by Bruce Beresford (“Driving Miss Daisy”)and starring Elizabeth Olsen, Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener.
Safety Not Guaranteed – Official Trailer
Safety Not Guaranteed stars Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Rec) as a magazine intern working on the story of a small-town wacko, who put out an ad seeking a partner to help travel back in time. As she gets closer to the man behind the ad, she begins to realize that the mysterious circumstances surrounding him aren’t as crazy as they first seemed.
God Bless America – Official Trailer
Dark comedy director Bobcat Goldthwait’s new film God Bless America starts Bill Murray’s younger brother, Joel as Frank, a terminally ill man who takes his nothing-to-lose scenario and decides to clean up society. Aided by the crazy 16-year-old Roxy, he goes “Taxi Driver” on annoying reality TV debutantes, media loudmouths and people who text in the theater.
Slitscanner Giant Time-Lapse Drawing
9’07 minute time-lapse process recording of a pencil on paper drawing that measures 3,55 x 7,5 meters. The drawing “Slitscanner” was exhibited in 2011 at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum during the exhibition “Snapshots from Slumberland”. The drawing was later acquired by ARoS for their private collection.
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