PROTOS
We’re incredibly honored (and nervous) to be included in the upcoming PROTOS Digital Art & Prototyping Festival, presented by AMODA (Austin Museum of Digital Art). It’s their first full-fledged festival, happening from May 23rd through the 26th, at the Long Center Rollins Theatre. It’s four days packed to the brim with presenters and performers, covering everything from gaming development to visual design to video projections and live dance. And, best of all, the day presentations are all free! You can come see me (Laurel) shake from nerves and sputter... Read The Rest →
Happy Twin Peaks Day!
“Like every town you’ve ever seen. And no place you’ve ever known.” 23 years ago today the first episode of Twin Peaks aired on ABC. We love these original TV Guide advertisements for the show, they are so perfectly Lynch and its always so interesting to see how something as esoteric and bizarre as Twin Peaks is “promoted” or “marketed”. More below. Best line? “P.S. – She’s still dead.” More from our Twin Peaks obsessed selves: A Very Twin Peaks Christmas Black Lodge 2600 Fire Walk With Me Event /... Read The Rest →
Fly Lo, We Love You
It’s always so rad when two awesome things come together, like Flying Lotus and Adventure Time (it took us so long to find out about Adventure Time, thankfully our friend Belen gifted us the first DVD and we’ve been in love ever since). Flying Lotus made a song for the latest episode of the show, and its bubbly, glitchy, Fly Lo fun. We also thought we’d take this opportunity to say how much we absolutely loved his latest album, Until The Quiet Comes, it felt like a bit of a return to... Read The Rest →
Stones Throw Slays ‘Em
We love Stones Throw’s response to the Cease and Desist from Marlboro for the first Jon Wayne cassette they put out. Apparently Marlboro owns the trademark for the “pyramid shape” seen on their packs, as evidenced below: Go figure. Anyways, here’s Mr. Wayne’s new release. This will surly cease the copyright complaints: Brilliant. All images from Stones Throw. Get the cassettes here.
Recspec x SXSW
Well, after 5 years of living and working in Austin, this is the first year that we’ve actually got badges and will be attending SXSW! We’ll be jaunting all over town during the Interactive and Film portion of the festival, and then we’ll be working non-stop in our food trailer, Johnnye’s, for the week of Music. Its going to be a busy one! Tomorrow night (Saturday, March 9th) we’ll be working our special kind of projection magic for the fine folks at SXSW Eco & Geostellar for their launch party... Read The Rest →
Endangered Love Suite
Men are climbing to the moon but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart Two video posts in a row! Our music video for Reaganometry‘s amazing 8-minute Endangered Love Suite is now finished. When Butch Webster of Insect Records approached us about creating this video, the only cues he gave were the colors red and blue, water, and a woman’s face. Listening to the song over and over and thinking about endangered love, we kept thinking of beautiful Marilyn, so gorgeous, so misunderstood, so smart, and wrapped up in all kinds of endangered love,... Read The Rest →
The Helpful Internets: Wordmark.it, PlaceIt, Feedly
Oh internet. So full of time wasting distractions, overwhelming social media obligations, and pictures of really really cute cats (we’re obsessed with Snoopy Babe at the moment). But the internet can also be so helpful at times – with some sites we come across truly being mind-blowing in their usefulness and simplicity, making us think: “thank goodness that someone took the time and care to make such a wonderful and useful tool that I get to use for free.” Here are some helpful internets that we’ve been using... Read The Rest →
Red Ox Rises
We had the pleasure of being at and filming the first song of the first ever Red Ox show, which is our favorite new local band and made up of four of the most talented musicians in Austin: Jacob Green, Justin Sweatt (aka Xander Harris), Lee Dockery, and Michael Cockrell (aka Jezzebeam). Of course, that was in December, and its now February, but we took our time because we wanted to add some texture and visual interest to the video since we shot it on the fly on our phone... Read The Rest →
Matmos Calling
There are few things more pleasing in my line of work than getting to create designs for some of my favorite musicians (see: Fennesz), so when I was approached by Henna of Church of The Friendly Ghost (who I have worked with many times in the past, most specifically for NMASS), about creating a poster for the upcoming Matmos show at The North Door, I could barely contain my glee. A band like Matmos is a particularly intimidating beast to design for — so I just went for full-on crazy glitchy... Read The Rest →
He Came From Outer Space
Happy Birthday, Klaus. If only, if only, you could have saved the human race. (For anyone who hasn’t seen The Nomi Song, its one of Recspec’s most loved documentaries. Be sure to check it out.)
