I made a new Myspace profile for Concept Trucking (my 20th including band profiles!!!) involving the cute 3d laptop above ascending infinitely up to laptop heaven :*). The bricks go so fast they make me sick! Please go look at it (original sound effects.) I realized from my recent trip to New York that I don't see bricks in Los Angeles as much as East coasters do, so using all these brick patterns like I often do is sort of, uh, detatched from reality, or something?

I just remembered that I haven't formally mentioned this grusome profile or even this one (...do you remember those Walmart commercials with the whistling 3d smiley face flying around dropping all the prices?)

Finally, Last supper w/ soundtrack has found a better home on YTMND (1.57 out of 5 rating, woot)

Travis Hallenbeck's website, Another Unknown Time, is already my favorite WWW spot, and he's barely even posted much stuff yet!! (Though he fiddles things around on his frontpage from day to day if you keep checking back...) The new .MIDs that he's posted are really really simple & great, go listen... I like Drawbar Organ and classic robocop (.mid version)..make sure to loop them (in a program like quicktime player) for full effect.

Finally made the Icon marathon into a tiny little tiling, looping GIF!
...and another, and another...

Kind of silly but I spent a long time replicating two HTML collages I've made (the Halt, Robot! and one that is coming soon...) by printing out the images, cutting & gluing them to this light blue paper. Reality, y'all. Made using robot stopping Captchas (from Myspace, PayPal, Ticketmaster, & some others) and Thumbnail images I've been collecting (mostly from Google News, some from YouTube.) These hung outside of my lecture last week.

Some new music videos: Kids *updated*, the triangle (jam #1) by Mystical Ointment, office party
View all the music videos on YouTube.

Still making those stretched out music videos, no MTV cuts, just junk together. I'm excited that I finally got a chance to put in some material I've been dying to use, in particular this Iowa middle school dance where the kids are all hopping in unison, and this isolated Triangle graphic from an instructional video that's sort of boringly spooky or something.




Installed these 5 music videos (looping on a TV as part of a class show at school) alongside a new thing I've been fooling around with, these disks cut out of aluminum foil and packed in folded lined paper cases. Props to Marco Melanson, because I pretty much took the idea from him (though only subconsciously at first) -- he made some awesome paper records, and a LEGO player for them. There used to be pictures of the records on his Myspace. A while ago I asked him if I could buy one but they weren't for sale, doh.

BTW, I don't think the videos worked as well in reality as they do on the Internet. Still trying to figure this out.

  

This Wednesday, June 7th, I am surfing the web in public again, and this time I'm getting a little technical... showing my favorite GIFs and MIDIs! Also there will be brief tutorials on how these work. Generally I'll be talking about files as culture, specifically the evolution of music from physical CDs into overly-free and formless MP3s & why that really sucks (iTunes, etc.) I'm hoping the GIFs and MIDIs, especially in the context of Geocities/Myspace pages, will help us think critically about files/MP3s as formats, and how limitations can be really good things! I'll be world premiering some new original GIF & MIDI work, and maybe some other stuff.

ALSO, my roommate Mike is doing an artist's lecture as a vampire, and my friend Daniel will be performing some music. (Both of them will be mind blowing, they're both insanely talented.)

Wednesday, June 7, 5pm - 7pm
Kinross South, room #133 (UCLA Arts building)
11000 Kinross Ave, Los Angeles, CA

(Refreshments, yes)