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white sabbath technique experiment

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This is something we’re calling the White-Sabbath Technique experiment. The what and why we’ll get to in a second. How the idea was inspired was by 2 old metal bands, Black Sabbath and White Zombie. What is interesting about these 2 bands other then both of them being named after old horror flix is that their music conveys the same feeling as the movies they are named after. This got us thinking about how music and film have a undeniable sexual tension for each other. They’re just better together, movies are better with music and MTV wouldn’t be polluting the world with reality shows if it wasn’t for the music video. The basic goal of any art piece should be to get the observer to feel something. Both music and film have a great ability to convey feeling and emotion. In the greatest songs you are always given a mood, whether it’s angry, happy, scared, excited, etc. An artist can communicate these emotions for the observer to feel as well. And when you watch a movie your emotions start moving with the story as well. Whether it’s hating the antagonist or scared for the protagonist you are taken on an emotional ride.

Now what is the experiment? Well it’s simple exercise in writing music to an emotion. Read more »

Projection art of Rashad Alakbarov

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Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan is doing some crazy things with light. Using transparent and solid objects he’s able to create stunning shadow scenes. In the main scene above he bends the light with transparent paper airplanes to form the picture. He takes the scene with the mans face made from old dirty water bottles to the next level by the character of the room it’s projected in. Read more »

middle finger to SOPA and PIPA

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This station is now operational

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If February 3, 1959 was the day music died, then January 9 2011 was the day music turned into a zombie and came back for brains. At The Drive-In put a cryptic message on their twitter that said Read more »

theJams list 19

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This first song is from an all around awesome band Maps & Atlases. They have been around since 2004 and they seem to keep getting better. This song, Living Decorations, is off their 2010 release Read more »

from space

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So in some of recent posts you can tell we dig anything that has to do with space. The element of the unknown is such a daunting and interesting concept to capture. No one does it better then Vincent Fournier, a french Read more »

wu-tang vs errbody

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If you don’t like Wu-Tang then your probably a prick. For those of you that aren’t stupid pricks there is a bunch of jams you have to get into. First off is WUGAZI, a mashup project between Fugazi and Wu-Tang facilitated by Cecil Otter (Doomtree, Rebel Yellow) Read more »