Activitystory: » running http://activitystory.com/blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:21:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 P’s Favorite Albums of 2011 http://activitystory.com/blog/2011/12/19/ps-favorite-albums-of-2011/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2011/12/19/ps-favorite-albums-of-2011/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:47:24 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=756 My top 15 records of the year, in an undisclosed order, each with representative video:

Les Blanks – In Country

Baxter Dury – Happy Soup

Panda Bear – Tomboy

tUnEyArDs – whokill

Yuck – Yuck

Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania

Wye Oak – Civilian

Moon Duo – Mazes

The Men – Leave Home

Hella – Tripper

Computer Magic – Electric Fences EP

Belong – Common Era

Black Angels – Phosgene Nightmare EP

Forma – S/T

Wild Flag – Wild Flag

Honorable Mention:
Sons & Daughters – Mirror Mirror
The Ettes – Wicked Will
Widowspeak – S/T
Pure X – Pleasure
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Com Truise – Galactic Melt
Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure
Ladytron – Gravity the Seducer
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pines
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Ducktails – Arcade Dynamics
Raveonettes – Evil Seeds
Blackout Beach – Fuck Death

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Lutetia — and Saturn!! – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society. More here.

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Ian’s Shoelace Site – Slipping Shoelace Knots, Crooked Bows.

It’s going to take me a while to process this, but I think it may help me finally tie my shoes properly.

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P Tron’s Mix for The Human Boy Max

I assumed a new identity for this mix: P Tron, a robot from space. That was probably the best part.

I’m told that the party consisted of listening to these jams and disassembling machinery including a broken DVD player and an old busted credit card machine from my mom’s library. And games and robot costumes. Sounds like a good time was had by all… wish I could have joined them.

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]]> http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/09/23/this-is-satisfying-to-watch/feed/ 0 Organic Form & kind of http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/04/12/organic-form-kind-of/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/04/12/organic-form-kind-of/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:07:36 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=501 Organic form

The wonderful bookish blog A Journey Round My Skull has a post this week highlighting the fact that Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism is available (at least partially) on Google Books.

I was shocked to see Seliger’s 1944 work Organic Form in my RSS reader, as it’s a piece I’m well familiar with– it was the basis for my kind of project from 2004.

I need a big long project like this one again– I’m already getting excited about the possibilities for all the new basement space we’ll get in our new house (coming Saturday!).

Anyway, in honor of being reminded of this guy, here’s the final phase of my project, a short video, uploaded to youtube and magnificently degraded. Better versions here.

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