shift your shape

or is it shape your shift?

either way tune into shapeshifters.net if you want to connect with other creative types around the world and actually get something going.

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Existereo - Bus Driver - Make Some Noise 10-23-06 Hollywood

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gorgeous tiny chicken machine show

i suppose this is a parody of wacky talk shows - or some kind of arch post-modern half-ironic commentary on modern television.

i just like the song and dance numbers :D


Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (Episode 1)

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put a fork in 'em

according to upi.com (by way of digg.com thank you very much) it appears that the winner of the oscar prize for the short film premiered on myspace first.

now i don't know how closely any of y'all are following this but it represents a fairly big deal - after all, if myspace users were citizens in a country they'd be the 11th largest country in the world.

and so it goes, as close as the 'old media' comes to truely understanding what is going on with all this web 2.0/online mmorpg/blogging/socialnetworking stuff - the fact of the matter is that pretty soon - when it comes to delivering stuff to eyeballs (their stock and self preening stock in trade)... well the days of that distribution model are fading fast.

i  have given some thought to the whole deal and agree with the assertation that the blogging/weblogging/vlogging/p2p-ing phenom is actually as important to those of us who are 'wired' (and wireless for those of you 802ing it) as the gutenberg press was to well, gutenberg.

fact of the matter is (for anyone who knows the history of martin luther and a little thing protestants like to call the 'reformation') without the gutenberg press there would have been no Bible in the 'common tongue' and the Holy Mother Church would have still conducted the means and the ends of most theological discourse.

oops i started waxing socio/histo/philosophical on you all but the fact of the matter is that if you are of a certain age - you don't watch television. if  you're in the States you can legally watch your television shows online free of charge with a bare minimum of commercial interruptions.

this means, of course, that the television networks are no longer going to be forced to straddle the line between what their advertisers want to support (leaving them vulnerable to viewer blackmail via boycotting) but can actually be content creators.
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but so many of these 'content creators' aren't really interested in creating content. nope - they're interested in eyeballs and selling advertising. television is the filler between the commericals a teacher of mine once said and it's sadly true.

bands like icp and rappers like lupe fiasco are finding that they can build their fan base through places like mySpace and now - crown jewel so far - they can win. the little bald golden man statuette.

so, go on with your bad self. make something we all want to watch. we're dying of boredom out here as it is.

i mean why else are they trying to sell us new formats for our dvd collections? because their brains are pickled and there are no new ideas flowing out from the hollywood 'south'.

did you know - shift happens

some i did, some stuff i didn't.

check it out. my favourite fact is: if you are one in a million - in china you are one in 1,300

artist of the day

skittlesgenesis has a nice fanart series apparently based on neil gaman's characters from sandman.

requiem

in the days of kings and queens i was a jester

atmosphere's 'trying to find a balance' finds slug pouring out his lyrics in a rage upon those that want to crucify him and/or worship him/mock him or celebrate him.

there are very few sacred cows in the is song - he finds bitter bile for those who live to eat, to drink, to defecate, to procreate and who will leave nothing behind but their credit card bills having added nothing to the world but their own evil intentions.

it is perhaps a condition of being an artist to at times respond at the tipping point when the need to put something back out into the world rather than just let it pass by as if it was nothing but for one's own entertainment.

he has equal scorn for those who would co-opt hip-hop for their own ends and shows his passionate knowledge of the genre when he refers to krs-1's 'my philosophy'.

so this one is dedicated to artist surrounded by fools who will leave the world untouched by their passing except for the crappy things they bought as if the world was nothing but a giant sized wal-mart.

and i will remember your name and face

on the day you are just a fun house guest/and i will remember your fall from grace/when it came from the sky as "none shall pass"


aesop rock back with the full version of his blistering song about the hypocrisy of backstabbers.


so i send this one out to all of us who are surrounded by the double tongues who act as if they are looking to help but really are looking for the soft spot of the back to put their blade in.



none shall pass

def jux compilation page on adult swim (where the 'clean' version of aes rock's song is)

the entire def jux compilation for adult swim by def jux

make your own blank book

there are lots of ways to do this.

my fiancee and i happened to be in an arts store recently and i was killing time looking at the bookbinding books because, well they were there and i have a natural curiosity. plus, i felt like my fiancee would get what she needed done faster if i was just out of the way so i amused myself as i am want to do.

i ended up finding a quick and dirty way to create a pocket notebook by taking a piece of 8.5x11 sheet of paper and folding it a few times twice over and then slicing a bit in the middle and folding it accordian style until you end up with an eight page notepad. after seeing that this rather simply bound instruction book on beginning bookbinding was on the order of $30, i promptly placed it back on the shelf and went to find my amorcita.

later, bored in a situation i should have been paying attention, i managed to work up a mock up simply from memory of the figure.

at home with my next prototype, i grabbed a glossy ad for rogers (local cable conglomerate) and worked up a 22 page version. i was so excited i took a magazine, ripped the front cover off and promptly created a 42 page version.

i leafed through the magazine until i found an add that i liked and promptly made a 78 page version. so now i have three very personal, rough around the edges notepads.

i can't wait until i can get my hands on some paper other than my printer type. perhaps some of that resume paper.

so, in that spirit i present a few posts on book assembly. perhaps you'll get the bug too.

toby craig book assembly photolog
brian sawyer book assembly flickr log