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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 [...]
November 23, 2011 by mg33 I seriously can’t get enough of Active Child. In anticipation of seeing them open for M83, I gave the album a listen on iTunes a few weeks ago, and it didn’t do much for me. Maybe it was the mood I was in, who knows… but after seeing them live I was completely won over. [...]
It was only a few days ago that I posted the trailer for Xavier De Le Rue’s upcoming movie This Is My Winter, and now I’m even more excited to see the trailer for the followup to Deeper, aptly titled Further. in the upcoming film, Jeremy Jones and a variety of other snowboarders take the [...]
I just saw this video via Snowboarder Magazine - more goodness to help get excited about the upcoming winter. So much creativity in this and more backflips than some full videos!
One of my favorite things about some of the past year’s worth of snowboarding films is that they’re not just showing snowboarders, they’re showing adventurers. Snowboarding, by default, is an adventure no matter where you are, and when you don’t have jaw-dropping terrain at your doorstep, the adventure aspect is often a fantasy in your [...]
One of my favorite songs on the new Apparat album The Devil’s Walk is the second track, Song of Los. The video is something I could watch over and over as the emotion of the song is fit into a video showing a woman controlling and interacting with a robot she built. I’ll need to [...]
The long awaited new album Dive was released by Tycho today and it’s a thrill to hear the songs he’s spent the better part of the past year or more working on. Tycho is actually touring with a band these days and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they come to Chicago. For those unfamiliar [...]
