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I enjoyed watching this 5-part interview. It’s 3 years old now, but Tom Wolfe is one of my literary idols.
Tom Wolfe and America? He loves the place, a position that puts him at odds with much of the charming aristocracy. He’s also an optimist about America — and American greatness. “The biggest problem,” says Wolfe, “is all the people who see a problem.”
Liked this interview with American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides.
“Asterisks frequently appear in most of his works, as both his signature and logo. Symbolizing that which is “special”, and emphasizing the sentimental quality of “apathetic personal interpretation” in modern society; the notion of grey, as in the absence of black and white, the dissolution of morality and liking or disliking something for no particular reason. As an asterisk is used to signify something of importance in a text, Casper Kang’s asterisk paintings, when hung in a certain space, announce that that particular space is “special”. Casper Kang currently resides and works in Seoul.”
(via Juxtapoz Magazine - Casper Kang’s Wilderness | Illustration)
I could do with this door stop right now, to keep the heat in. Cool shop. (via The Transformative Properties of Kolor Remodelista)
Caveman: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert; particularly like ‘Easy Water’, from 2:50 mark. Dreamy, delicate and subdued…
Definitely the highlight at Wellington’s City Gallery currently:
World Premier of International Venice Architecture Biennale artist Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Series: Vesica to open at City Gallery Wellington
Canadian based interdisciplinary artist Philip Beesley will premier his new work Vesica in the Hirschfeld Gallery from April 19- June 10 2012.
Vesica forms the newest exploration of Beesley’s Hylozoic Series which is concerned with experimental architecture exploring qualities of contemporary wilderness.
“Entering one of Philip Beesley’s installations is like walking into an artificial forest or passing through some kind of living, breathing creature” says Lily Hacking, Hirschfeld Gallery curator.
Constructed from an intricate web of transparent acrylic links and thousands of digitally fabricated interactive components fitted with sensors and microprocessors, the environment responds to human presence, retracting and contracting in an ongoing series of reactions and counter-reactions.
Great interview with Kimbra, 22-year old kiwi music sensation:
Initially, she wondered if the intensity of her career might lead her to neglect her spiritual life, but has found the opposite to be true. “There’s a vulnerability in music [baring one’s soul] but you’ve also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about,” she says. “So that’s a thing I just try to balance.”
(Source: stuff.co.nz)
You do a lot of harmonic mixing, too, following one key from one track to the next.
That’s important to me. It’s because of my ear: I come from a musician’s perspective. I was a producer first, and I always wrote music first, so I guess that’s kind of reflected in my DJing. I did spend a lot of time planning and preparing for a mix like the DJ-KiCKS. Each transition, and fitting the right tracks together, is really important. It’s a DJ mix, and it’s got to flow. To a lot of people’s ears, the mix itself might be going through too much different stuff, with too much going on. But as a producer, I like to experiment with a lot of different sounds, and I want that to be reflected in what I play. I get really bored just sticking to one thing and being safe.
Maya Jane Coles DJ-Kicks Feature (!K7) (by K7rec)
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Taken with Instagram at Venice Beach
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