Here you are.
- Pumpkins and Superpumpkins
This video features one of my favorite songs by Victoria, B.C.’s “Beasts and Superbeasts:”
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- “Blog as Metaphor for Film” as Film Review
Someday, when I’ve reached the limits of traditional blogging, I will compose a post riddled with, if not entirely composed of, links. It will inspire dread.
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I will call it “Logic of Hyperlinks,” from a Slate article on David Lynch’s 2006 movie, Inland Empire
And not only does Inland Empire often look like it belongs on the Internet, it also progresses with the darting, associative logic of hyperlinks… a labyrinth of wormholes and worlds within worlds.
Like Inland Empire, “Logic of Hyperlinks” will make only disjointed sense, and it will be a masterpiece. Some visitors to carrotrope.com will stop reading after the first two paragraphs.
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Links:
- Ovations
We are lucky, happy Seattlites. On her 6-stop tour, Joanna Newsom graced Seattle’s Benaroya Hall last night with the Ys-street band and the Northwest Symphonia.
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Photo from joshc.
- Last Minute
Computer Love presents a t-shirt design contest, submissions due November 4th!
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Band names as art? The newest Magnetic Poetry set? “Exploration of the visual identity of language vs. the conceptual nature of language”? Or, possibly, something even better than all that… Whether he means to or not, Jay Jurisich is making something I like.
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Jurisich asks,
Can words and phrases issue spontaneously in a manner analogous to the Abstract Expressionist “action painting”? Can language be “used” in a way that is not primarily communication, poetry, or logical, yet inhabit a physical existence apart from a conceptual one?
The answer is something like the New York School + the Painted Word. But really, I just get a genuine, stylistic kick out of it. I wanna put it on a screen-printed hoody, album cover, or write it on a bathroom wall.
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You can even search his works for specific words. I searched for “Beast” and came up with this:
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Links:
• Blog post title taken from L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
- Jim Woodring, of course
Sadly, we missed him at Cafe Racer last night.
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• His Blog
- More Gas Works
Jessica Palmer at Bioephemera captures more of what I love about Gas Works Park.
• More such photos…
• Previously on this blogAnd for some music to go with your steampunk (or at least steamfolk): “Down under the manhattan bridge overpass” by Brooklyn-based Mountains:
“Mountains is the newest project from Koen Holtkamp and Brendon Anderegg, a duo that makes up half of the Brooklyn-based Apestaartje collective, a label dedicated to ‘gradual music and active listening.’”::link
- The Ship of Noise has Sailed
A post in honor of the noisy bar I live above, and new wordpress plugins (PodPress and Slimbox). Sonically, today is like this:
Edmund Dulac’s (1882-1953) illustrated The Tempest, Sinbad the Sailor, and the Little Mermaid are textured like his contemporaries Klimt or Mucha, fantastic like Miyazaki.
To accompany, Burning Star Core’s “I Wanna Make a Supersonic Woman of You” from Amelia. Download the whole album here.
- Today is Copper, Steam, and Rust
Richard Haag’s Gasworks Park
1985’s The Return to Oz
- Implements and Patterns
Ffffound found me this lovely Low poster:
by Jason Munn of The Small Stakes. Lots of great posters on the site.
