The new FSK longplay album has long arrived. You can order the vinyl edition here or have a listen here.

F.S.K.

Nude Descending a Staircase

Costume design Betty Flintstone
from the Flintstones

FSK’s secret sauce

The Munich band had mastered niche marketing two decades prior to its discovery by marketing. The band had their high brow allies write their chronicle for them, thereby continuously creating new meaning for their band brand. The feuilleton got what only they can be spin doctors at, twisted associations and overly complicated stuff. Media for educated people to bang their heads at, providing delusions of higher education. Learned and accustomed to trajectories also had a place in their media mix such as by addressing the resemblance of Michaela’s voice to Niko’a from Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground.

I like it set in stone as does Fred Flintstone

Same as with the Beatles, it’s the friendship captioned in band photos, the exceptional coming together of individuals blessed with self understanding.

A must for everyone, with a desire to explore what makes the German Design Nation tick.

A video by Juno Meinecke and Jonas Spriestersbach.

Where does Marcel Duchamp come in?

Two life-time friends I hold dear, associated their work with Marcel Duchamp. Bob Crozier’s start up is named Ready Made or Ready Mades, a term coined by Marcel Duchamp, and Thomas Meinecke with F.S.K. have a reference to Duchamp’s best known cubist painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” built into the title of album No. 14. Coincidence? I think not.

Insanely great if we can get Van Dyke Parks interested in producing FSK’s next album, fly them all to New York to help with the launch party for the start up. Insanely great when Rachel Sterne Haot shows up.

The veteran songwriter and arranger on the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Paolo Conte, Rufus Wainwright, and more.

Ryan Dombal recently spoke with generation-spanning songwriter, arranger, and producer Van Dyke Parks, 68. In addition to his solo material, Parks has worked with a staggering list of collaborators: Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Joanna Newsom to name a few. Read the full article here.

Für die volk im Frankfurt, es war nicht nur amgemeßen, aber fantastiche danke sehr.Till next year, große liebe, von Van Dyke in Pasadena

— Van Dyke Parks (@Van_Dyke__Parks) November 19, 2009

Empathy for monitoring cameras

Editorial Design in HTML5.0:

Pitchfork with another amazingly well told cover story about The Savages after the debut for Bat for Lashes

 

Another one page wonder

“I wrote about the emerging phenomenon of deeply immersive, highly designed digital features such as Pitchfork’s beautiful cover story on Bat For Lashes. And then I saw that Pitchfork had excelled themselves once again with a visually stunning and evocative cover story on The Savages which is quite wonderful.”

 

 

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A mysterious surprise invitation arrived while I was busy with a report on Susan Kare icons

Any pixelated representation now reminds me of James Bridle’s efforts to help define a new aesthetic. Until we reach an agreement on what defines the NA, we have plenty of time for a pint or two and a good time at the local bar:

2012

 

 

2013

 

Funded! David Dondero’s 2 Albums: A retrospective double folk vinyl record called “Golden Hits Volume 1″ and a new original vinyl album entitled “This Guitar” has exceeded its pledged goal of raising $12,000 on Kickstarter by 876 dollars

Come November 2013, Dondero is releasing 500 copies of his new album Album in 180 gram vinyl. The manufacturing will be done through Pirates Press in San Francisco.

Half awake in a fake empire

“Fake Empire” was shot entirely with regular cameras (Canon 5D, Nikon D3, etc.), batch-edited in Photoshop and produced in Final Cut Pro. The music was produced primarily in Pro-Tools/Reason. It samples The National (Brooklyn, NY) – Fake Empire off their album Boxer. Check back as it will probably be remixed both musically and visually for the “VS.” (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) EP with vocals by Macklemore.

The entry aims to mobilize search engines, to acquire the needed page views for the day.

Electic vehicles will replace gasolin cars on our streets and bird songs will make city life more cheerful

Not in Germany though with it’s famous Autobahn and over regulation. As unbelievable as it may seem to even a child, German administrators have determined soundless electric vehicles to be dangerous and European regulators have introduced a law to usher noise reduced transportation a verdict. Prized competitions were quickly held for the best sounding artificial motor noise.

In China people blow their horns.

On the street, I can take care of myself and pay attention, to defend myself against officials, their regulations and administrators in Brussels, I don’t need hand guns, I need an army of drones.

Chester Handhupe 3 chörig

Grey’s Anatomy

Walking Dead

Desperate Housewives