THom Yorke TuesdayS

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Thom Yorke Tuesdays in conjunction with Stanley Donwood's art show this Thursday i give you Blue Bird which we shot years ago. Garen and Dr.Bacon teamed up for this beast of an edit and color corrected mindfuck to the track JetStream by Yorke, which is a bside to his solo album The Eraser.

Stanley Donwood Solo art Exhibition in San Francisco

Stanley Donwood is mostly know for his artwork for the band Radiohead ever since there sophomore album the Bends he has been doing they're now iconic album artwork. This Wednesday Donwood will be showcasing a solo exhibit in San Francisco marking his first gallery showing ever in the US. Id encourage anyone who's a fan to come out and support at the event.

Heres the official press release.

FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents “Over Normal”
New Works by Stanley Donwood

Fifty24SF Gallery presents “Over Normal”- a solo exhibition by Stanley Donwood and his first ever showing in the United States.

When thinking of iconic imagery in music from the last 20 years, Stanley Donwood’s work with Radiohead invariably comes to mind – and for good reason. Where Radiohead’s music stretched the auditory horizons and painted musical sceneries of mans place in the modern world, Donwood’s imagery and packaging forced us to face the gravity of the music from the minute the album hit our hands; and by creating cryptic, academic and (at times) dystopian layouts, the albums themselves became as striking and relevant as the music they contained.

Although Stanley Donwood generally avoids the grandeur of media and would prefer to be undersold, to speak only in terms of his work with Radiohead would be a disservice. From his exhibitions of intricate etchings at Lazarides Gallery in London, to the vibrant works that made up his show at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, Donwood’s gallery work has consistently mixed personal and political emotions with modesty and humor.

For “Over Normal”, the catalyst for the large works featured in the show is in Los Angeles, where Stanley began to notice (with equal parts amazement and distress) that the advertisements bombarding him on the multilane highways were made of seven basic colors, immediately grabbing viewers’ attention in a primal way. More recently, Stanley noticed a parallel between the use of those colors and an influx of spam emails that promised everything from more fruitful sex lives, to cheap foreclosed properties at the expense of someone else’s misery. The word’s that were used in the emails were formatted in the same fundamental way as color in the advertisement’s had been used: to grab unconscious attention and tell a story without the viewer knowing it. Marrying the immediate words used in these emails with the attractive and distressing colors of the advertisements, Stanley has produced a line of seven vibrant, original pieces for this exhibition.

Stanley has also produced a 12 page newspaper to accompany the show, this explains how he came about putting together a neuron firing sound installation in an artificial neural network which is also featured in the show and is entitled ‘The Overnormaliser’.

“Over Normal” will run from September 2nd – October 27th with an opening reception occurring on September 2nd from 7:30PM – 10:00PM.

The Venture Bros one of my favorite shows on AdultSwim which mixes old school comics/television/music and pop culture into a big bag of awesomeness is back on with the Second half of the 4th season. The First half got kinda weird but that's alright, just please give us more Brock Fucking Sampson and well be cool!

A little known fact that no one knows aside from my dancers is that i pull movement inspiration all the time from this show. Id encourage dancers to watch this show so you know what im talking about when i say "Dr Morpheous Hands"

Bootleg of the Moment i Said it.

Oddly enough this video of Mia Micheals The Moment i Said it on the SYTYCD tour is one of my favorite dances ever. Mia really created something special with this lil number. Love all of the dancers in this piece especially Danny Tidwell who still to this day one of the best dancers alive.

Hola back. Hola Black!



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Studio G with Bobbi

A few years back i pulled my friend Bobbi Jene Smith from school days into my home studio to work out some phrasing. Here are some pics from our lil time together in Studio G. I still have video of what we worked out which i wanna use one of these days in a larger work but until then its locked up securely in the vaults.



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to do list.

kate moss

Masters that matter. William Forsythe

Enjoy.


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