February 2012 archives
February 29, 2012 by mg33 Wookmark.com is a relatively new image bookmarking site that I was slow to use at first, but have lately found to be invaluable as a way to quickly and easily bookmark photography and design imagery. With an easy to use browser widget, it takes just a few seconds to bookmark an image, add it to [...]
February 28, 2012 by mg33 One of my few New Year’s resolutions for 2012 was to start spending more time on artwork in Photoshop, and get back to some of the collage styled imagery I used to really enjoy making years ago. These days Photoshop gets relegated mostly to photo editing and website design for a few projects, and [...]
February 28, 2012 by mg33 I’ve really been enjoying the newest album Empros by Chicago band Russian Circles, released October 25, 2011. Their fourth album, it follows Geneva, Station, and Enter, the latter of which was released in 2006. If bombastic post-metal instrumental rock is your thing, anything in their discography is definitely worth checking out, but I particularly like Empros [...]
February 17, 2012 by mg33 I just found this over at QBN and could watch hours of this. Such incredible footage combined with a perfect background of minimal piano and the crackling, echoing audio of what sounds like communications between planes and an air traffic control tower. This is really something that could have been taken in a completely different [...]
February 16, 2012 by mg33 In a quick scan of Pitchfork’s latest reviews, I came across the album Tragedy & Geometry by Emeralds member Steve Hauschildt. I like Emeralds quite a bit because it’s a contrast from the usual electronic I like in that the rhythm comes more from the percussive waves of synth drones and pulses than it does [...]
February 14, 2012 by mg33 I’ve not been as completely addicted to a new album in a long time as I am Polica’s Give You The Ghost. It’s a credit to the band’s influences and creativity that I was dumbfound to find out they’re from Minneapolis, and not a far more chilled-out and exotic location like Spain or Brazil. I [...]
February 10, 2012 by mg33 It’s fitting that my first post of 2012 is about snowboarding, because this time of year it’s pretty much the main thing I think about. Landlocked here in the Midwest, the big mountains are a bit out of reach without a decent amount of travel. So, people like me turn to videos and all kinds [...]
