wednesday afternoon musicart jam

first off, SCANDINAVIA RULES!!!

look at this really beautiful and fun stop-action drawing animation from Swedish duo Minilogue:



the artwork is done by a swedish illustrator named Kristofer Ström.

he also has a lovely website that details his (really rad and diverse!) work and interviews in many style/art/life magazines and blogs.

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and...Did I just have an AUDIO ORGASM!?!?

It's Erlend Oye-fronted awesomeness band The Whitest Boy Alive covering Robin S.'s "show me love"...



From the same concert, at Iceland's Airwaves Festival, they also cover "I like to Move it", "I've got the power" and "Music Sounds Better With You"...which, now that we are on the topic, is totally one of my top 10 disco house party anthems of all time...

GENIUS MUCH?!?!

Of course now I have to go home and scan a picture of the lady raving from like '99...Yes. I am going to do it, so don't try and stop me.

More from the Whitest Boy Alive..."golden cage" is my current song obsession, which incidentally has a really really cool video.



Optical illusion instructions

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norwegian bands together

= bliss.

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what else...oh, !!! isn't from Scandinavia, but they have a new album, and a beautiful new website!


cats and wolves!!! playing music!!! aaaaaa!



check it out here!

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basically, europe rules.

QUOOB.TV

this is a great Italian music/film/art site with new uploads and a great user interface. Basically YouTube for Europeans, but with way better organization and way less videos of skateboarding dogs. What, you don't understand Italian? Neither do I, but I can figure out most of this site due to my knowledge of Spanish and French...heh.

i dare you to not spend way too much time on this site. I DARE YOU!

love and bubbles

ladymika.

hope chest/tuesday afternoon design jam!

So for all of you wondering, "what will I get Mika for her wedding present?" here is a current shortlist of, well, decorations and toys.

(Don't worry, y'all have a few years left. I'm just saying...)

First off, I think that I had 3/7ths of an orgasm looking at this staircase:


Or, I sneezed three times in rapid sucession. Which is what, a partial multiple?

And in this nifty loft with this amazing DNA staircase, I will also have (please) the following plates:


Time to get creative at dinner

Mood lighting...


one side of the bulb is real and the other decorative. either way, a bright idea

From the folks at 100per...

A place to sit...


James Design UK

Somewhere to put my shoes...


I'd need, like, maybe three or four of these.

and, some portable green space...


Created by students at Dalhousie University's School of Architecture


If you want to turn a public concrete space into a park, the folks at Rebar in San Francisco have a nifty little instruction article here.

which, incidentally, comes from the "great minds think alike file" as this project bears some resemblance to my friend Clinton's art:


"Dammit, there's never any room to park my bike by the football stadium!"


anyway, like i said, it's a hope chest.

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hey kids, i added new art websites to my list (at left)...check 'em out yo.