I love this song by Leaf Bird. I went to high school with Tyler and Lola at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. It’s easy to spend more than a few hours looping their MySpace playlist.
They’ve got a record coming out soon. You can keep your eye out for shows and the record release by visiting their MySpace or Facebook page.
Really beautiful work!
First, this song has a wonderfully nostalgic quality that reminds me of the 1990’s. I had a hell of a lot of fun in the 90’s, I remember it well, and really a lot of good stuff came out of the 90’s. I’m happy to notice more and more 90’s influence creeping its way into contemporary work of all sorts. I am glad that the 80’s influence is beginning to wane—it was becoming irritable.
So the past continues to influence the present, tell me something I don’t know Mr. Kingsley!
Anyway, the beginning of this video cracks me up. The girl reminds me of my little sister or something. It would be enjoyable to hang around these three for an afternoon.
The Watch Listen Tell video series is produced by Dave Tree. I heard of it over at It’s Nice That (where i hear of so many wonderful things every day).
Enjoy!
These kids’ smiles are contagious!
So here’s how it works…
A while back, a fella named Al Gore invents something called “Internet”. Then, a website going by the name of “Youtube” makes everyone including your mom go bananas for reality TV and this “aesthetic” subsequently creeps its way into every facet of film/video media.
A young man in Paris, France named Vincent Moon, recognizing the honest authenticity of this new “reality” trend, begins to follow his friends around as they play music while walking through the streets of Paris. Vincent Moon does such a damn-good job that he eventually follows around all the greatest bands in the world—much to the glee of hipsters across the globe. This success inadvertently invites imitation, because imitation is the highest form of flattery and who doesn’t want to flatter Mr. Moon.
Then a global recession hits! Pro-level microphones and HD video camera prices drop to the realm of obtain-ability (relative to college graduates with wealthy parents). New internet-stars form out of The Cloud, and so here we are, enjoying the very very wonderful work of Mr. David Tree, a guy with an ear and an eye.
Don’t you just love the way the world turns!?
We have a Silver Jews Poster that we keep on a shelf in our kitchen. I love the poster. There are several books stacked on one another and a man-building walking around, standing in the light of a low sun. This poster makes every aspect of our life better. Cooking is that much more enjoyable when I look up and admire the poster. Getting out of bed in the morning, we can look through a few doorways and see the poster off in the distance. Art is wonderful in this way—an ever present resource of happiness.
Sonnenzimmer is the Chicago-based screen print studio of Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher. They design and print all of their own wonderful work in-house. They will have a table setup at the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago this weekend (9/12). I’m eager to have a look at their new work.
A real guitar hero, Mr. Tom Owens of Chicago, Illinois.
Plenty of projects to listen to…
+ Tom Owens via MySpace
+ Distractions via MySpace
+ Ganges via MySpace
+ Pet Lions via MySpace
Cass McCombs was the first guy I shot with the Leica for a prominent publication. It is very comfortable to shoot with the Leica, both for me and the subject. Shooting with the Leica, the whole situation becomes nonchalant without the quality suffering. Something about the unobtrusive size of the camera and its legendary ability to be discreet. I think the subject appreciates seeing more of my face as I look at them, rather than me hiding behind the Hasselblad or a large DSLR body.
All of these attributes of the Leica have been discussed at length for many years. No news to Leica owners. I was a bit shocked to realize how true the Leica legends in fact were/are. This is one of the photos of Cass McCombs that didn’t get picked up by SPEX magazine.
The pet lion guys enjoying a cup of coffee and some conversation. It’s by accident that the two women in the photo are both giving the boys the “eye”.
Pet Lions… giving women chills one day at a time.
You’ll note the man off in the distance to the right, no doubt reading about the recession. Those were hard times.