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Struggling elephant artists

^{Foto courtesy of AFP}

Everyone’s a freakin artist these days. You can check out the hijacked image here.

Posted on Tuesday, 22 Feb 2005
Tags: animal, art

Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

^{Art: Brian Morris}

I once went to Amsterdam for a two week vacation and ended up staying for three months. One of those days, I bought a copy of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and devoured it (along with my fair share of beer). I couldn’t tell you a damn thing I remember from that book, aside from the fact that I adored it.

David Carr, of the NY Times, writes a nice article on Thompson.

Posted on Tuesday, 22 Feb 2005
Tags: birth and death, famous people, literature

Valentine's Day

^{Art: Brian Morris}

Hello, my name is Brain and my teacher like me cause I can spel. I wood like to wish e’rebody a verry hAppy Valentine Day today (especally all the lonely people in New York City). If there are a nice and fine girl who is not smarter than me, I wood lik to invite you to spend a few moment wit me on the swings next to the cafiteria becuze I no how to treat a lady and I got so much luv 2 give.

Posted on Monday, 14 Feb 2005
Tags: illustration

Nº 27

Jonathan Harris of Number 27 is quite the Renaissance Man of this boring new century. From colorful sketchbook scans to oils to dynamic data-driven interactive projects to politically charged infographics, there’s a boatload of things to look at as well as things to click like crazy on.

10×10â„¢ presents a snapshot of global news by searching, then displaying the latest 100 pictures and words in the same grid.

Understanding VORN searches 1000s of weblogs for the most recent posted pictures beginning with the letters V, O, R, and N, then refreshes every 5 minutes.

Word Countâ„¢ interactively displays 86,800 of the most frequently used words in English, displaying the type size relative to it’s frequency of use in the English language.

Query Count displays search queries in a similar manner as Word Count. Apparently, this page is frequented by sailors with a burning desire for colorful explicatives.

Posted on Monday, 14 Feb 2005
Tags: numbers, visualization

Jazz Organist Jimmy Smith passes away at 79

Jimmy Smith was one of my favorite jazz musicians ever. He elevated the Hammond B, but more importantly, he did it with crazy style. You can Google him for all sorts of impressive details on his career. However, listen to me when I tell you he was just a cool cat. – The Incredible Jimmy Smith, The Cat, The Fantastic, and the list of his nicknames goes on and on.

I could kick myself in the ass for not checking him out at the Iridium last month. I really regret never seeing Jimmy play live. However, he left behind a massive legacy of recordings, most with Blue Note records, to keep any jazzophile happy for a long time to come.

One of the simple pleasures I had (have) are his album covers. Especially the Blue Note releases from the 1950s, these photos of Jimmy are just spectacular!

I got turned on to The Incredible Jimmy Smith back in college in 1992 through a roomate of mine whom I used to argue with all the time. About the only thing positive I got out of her was her father’s old jazz records, including Home Cookin’.

This inspired my radio show at the college radio station immensely. After this, I began to dig and dig, later discovering Jimmy McGriff, Kenny Burrell, and many more.

His music, his persona is just cool. R.I.P. Jimmy.

Posted on Friday, 11 Feb 2005
Tags: birth and death, famous people, jazz

"World" Music

Reggae in Ethiopia
Ethiopia, the spiritual homeland for Rastarafians all over the world, celebrates the 60^th^ birthday of former Wailer, Bob Marley. Marley’s widow Rita, as well as many of his sons including Melody Maker, Ziggy attend the celebration. More information at the New York Times.

Jazz in India
Despite the fact that their site is total crap, it appears to be an interesting event. India seems like the last place in the world where jazz would be celebrated. However, it’s nice to see barriers broken, stereotypes crushed, and of course jazz music played. Despite the fact that I’m not the “true” jazzophile (though I can hold my own), it seems like this event in Goa has quite a healthy supply of participating artists.

Posted on Monday, 07 Feb 2005
Tags: africa, india, music

Project Blinkenlights

Is your 500-inch plasma monitor not large enough to “fully” experience your video game experience? Apparently, you can use your mobile phone, dialing +33 (1) 4424 7350, to play a game of Tetris, Pong, or PacMan in front of Bibliothèque nationale de France. Wow, that’s neato! Read more here if you please.

Posted on Friday, 04 Feb 2005

Quatrifolio, Marian Bantjes

I just bumped into Marian Bantjes’ Quatrifolio and it rocked my socks off. I immediately recognized her style from Speak Up (another fantastic site). First off, what’s not to love about her work – with elements of classical typography, exaggerated “pixel art,” as well as good old-fashioned pen and paper sketching. Her type (letters, that is) has a life of its own – living, breathing, with a personality to boot. And those patterns are sick! ← that means really good.

She’s a terrific “anti-writer” as well. Many designers, myself included, get a little bogged down explaining your entire life in three extremely clever sentences for the purpose of charming the pants off that potential client we have yet to hear from. She handles it well by (kinda) not playing that game. Anyhow, why don’t you start clicking away and see for yourself while I start planning on how I am gonna run her fanclub!

Posted on Tuesday, 01 Feb 2005
Tags: illustration, typography

2004 New Yorker of the Year: Wynton Marsalis

^{Art: Brian Morris}

The closing of a finished year and arrival of a new one yields plenty of “Best of” lists – from films, music, people, etc. (The most depressing would have to be Time‘s Person of the year). However, I was really happy to hear on NY1 today that Wynton Marsalis has been awarded the New Yorker of the Year for 2004. Wow, that’s hot! I think Mr. Marsalis is well deserving of this honor. As a true Renaissance man, he’s got his hand in every pot in the kitchen and still manages to cook it all up with raw talent and impeccable style.

He’s won eight Grammy awards for his jazz and classical recordings, he was the first jazz artist ever to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music, and countless other awards and honors from all over the world.

As a composer, performer, teacher, and leader, he’s always managed to display his true love of America’s most endearing form of art – jazz music. You can tell he loves his craft, that he honors all the greats of the past as well as helping to pave a path for young, emerging jazz artists. For his talent and commitment, I have to agree that he makes one hell of a New Yorker of the Year!

Posted on Monday, 03 Jan 2005
Tags: famous people, illustration, jazz, new york city

Happy Birthday Mr. Miller

^{Art: Brian Morris}

Today is Henry Miller’s birthday, so I thought I would wish him well with a quick illustration. So, from one Capricorn to the other, here’s to the tropics Mr. Miller.

Posted on Sunday, 26 Dec 2004
Tags: birth and death, famous people, literature

Favicon Success Story

It appears that some people have approved of the beemo favicon. I’m getting a healthy supply of referring links from two different favicon galleries. Always nice to have positive feedback.

Michael Pierce writes:

For being just a single, blue line, I like this one. The blue color ties in very nicely with the strong blue used on the site. If I use my imagination, I can actually make out each letter in “beemo” within the icon shape…I wonder if that’s intentional…

(By the way, yes, indeed that was the intention). Delta Tango Bravo‘s got a favicon gallery too. Nice!

Posted on Sunday, 26 Dec 2004
Tags: icon

Holiday Code

I came across a funny/geeky blurb today from Scott Knaster. I, too, share the if, else, also wishes of assorted holidays and birthdays.

Posted on Sunday, 26 Dec 2004
Tags: numbers

Transmitting live from Uranus?

Are you sick of listening to elevator music while you work? Classical music doesn’t calm you like it used to? You definitely need to check out The Conet Project! This Four (downloadable) CD set showcases tons of strange-sounding espionage escapades. 150 tracks worth of people of various nationalities counting numbers as well as seemingly endless samples of distorted audio similar to the droids from Star Wars. But seriously, this was quite an interesting find. Make sure you download the accompanying PDF explaining the strange phenomena of Number Stations. Here’s a small quote from the site:

For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of Numbers Stations.

By the way, if you’re not too busy after listening to 4 CDs of noise, why not check out the rest of the internet archives’ universal access to human knowledge. (Thanks to Chris “Metal” Murray for the link).

Posted on Tuesday, 30 Nov 2004
Tags: audio, espionage

Young person's sexual song-with-animal-legs'

Oh my God, this shit had me rollin’! Here’s some scans of a 1960s Japanese “How-to” sex manual for teenagers.

Posted on Tuesday, 30 Nov 2004
Tags: japan

The Gates, Central Park

This February, Christo and Jeanne-Claude will change the face of New York City’s Central Park by erecting 7500 16-foot Gates along the walkways in the park.

These artists do not accept sponsorships or donations and will fund this project themselves. Also, they will employ thousands of New York residents in the construction of this huge installation.

Their site is full on interesting information about their work. I will, however, leave you with an interesting quote from an article I read on Yahoo News.

“Freedom is the enemy of possession and possession is equal to permanence. That is why our projects cannot remain and must go away forever. Our projects are ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ and ‘once upon a time.” –Christo and Jeanne-Claude

I can’t wait to see this with my own eyes!

Posted on Saturday, 27 Nov 2004
Tags: art, new york city

State of Affairs

Today I am very sad at the results of the American Presidential election. The majority of my friends and family vehemently detest Mr Bush (as do I). It’s somewhat inexplicable that Americans would welcome him back to office. A good friend of mine from the Netherlands phoned me today and we talked for a long time about this election. We were unable to explain how America could possible vote for such a bad, bad president. As an American citizen who has been living in South America for the last 2 years, I’ve felt the anguish expressed by people outside of America concerning Mr Bush’s policies. In short, he has made it difficult for Americans in America to live as well as Americans traveling or living abroad.

I am also saddened at the brutal murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam by a young Muslim extremist. As my Dutch friend put it, “The murder of a creative person in Holland is a big thing.” In my short time spent in Holland, the most noteworthy discovery I made was the common characteristic of tolerance among Dutch people. It seems that Islamic fundamentalists have been testing this quality among the people of this country. I can’t help but to see the similarities in my own country as well as Holland and other places across the globe.

Overall, I’m quite disenchanted with the state of affairs around the world. I’m wondering if Nostradamus had some sort of prediction about the end of the world in the near future.

Posted on Wednesday, 03 Nov 2004
Tags: politics