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st. etienne x air france | “spring”

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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Sweden’s Air France created and shared their own dreamy remix of St. Etienne‘s “Spring”.  Please take a listen to the track below and watch the video in high-res over at  Sincerely Yours.

[MP3] St. Etienne :: Spring [Air France Remix]

[Photo Credit :: AnnaDriel]

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guest feature :: microfilm

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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Blips Don’t Lie
Music & Words by Microfilm

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Water Drops On Burning Rocks (Nine Devices Remix)

Teenage Symphonies (Olivia Hussey’s Reprise)

Matt Mercer: Working on this EP took a bit longer than past endeavours. We aimed for something brighter, more pop, without compromising the things that get us excited.  I try to avoid repeating myself too much, although there are nuances and details and samples and sounds that are probably common in some of our other output. We definitely steered clear of the gravity of our last full-length and also the vague chip-tune flavor of the last EP.

Our initial starting point was acid house as a touchstone, but as with most influences the finished product obviously veers far off that course.  “His N Hers Hibernation” is straight up freestyle with some added quirk. We liked the idea of making 3 fairly pop tracks and then remixing them with people we know and respect.  Kid Whatever (one half of Peroxide Mocha, who we also recently remixed) turned out this full-on italo-disco-meets-Hi-NRG slammer that puts a smile on my face every time, and The Astrolabe from Chicago did a really great job of taking our slower original and punching it up a few notches, adding some great 90s throwback touches with some piano riffs and flourishes.  Nine Devices is sort of the odd man out with his more sparse treatment of “Water Drops on Burning Rocks,” all but discarding our original audio tracks but being quite clever with his use of Sarah Nixey’s vocal backwards… to be honest, I have no idea what he sampled from her, but backwards it says “So hold me now” which is sort of haunting.

Matt Keppel: From a thematic/concept standpoint, I originally thought of this EP as a homage to house music in it’s various forms.  I think my original working title was even ‘The House Sound of Microfilm’, like one of those old late ‘80s house compilations! Just the idea of making a fluid, dancefloor EP whereas our last one was much more electro, kind of brittle, and chunky, if that makes sense.  I also had the idea of framing the EP like David Bowie’s ‘Station to Station’ or Pet Shop Boys ‘Introspective’ (both 6 track EPs), but where we wrote every one of the original tracks as a potential single.

Current Obsessions of Matt Keppel

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Music of Billy MacKenzie

The lyrical ideas about the songs for this EP revolved around characters in relationship turmoil, except the first track ‘I’ll Sing Like Billy MacKenzie in Heaven’.  That was a homage to the great but neglected (by many) talents of Billy MacKenzie, the late singer from the ‘80s UK band The Associates. He had a few hits in the early ‘80s in England but now is a bit of a cult star here in the US.

I’m intrigued by artists like MacKenzie that come from nowhere, become really big for a short moment, and then disappear into obscurity, but not for lack of talent.  He had a beautiful, operatic voice and an insane lyrical mind. Like Morrissey, but weirder.  I love completely off the wall, smart and original lyricists and he was one of them.  I’m glad his music has been reissued/re-evaluated recently but he still seems to be one of those acquired tastes that will never become really huge and that’s kind of magical in itself.

Music of Wild Beasts

I just stumbled upon these guys this summer; don’t remember how exactly and now I listen to some of their new album ‘Two Dancers’ almost everyday.  I find their whole aura fantastic. Music journalists like to describe how bands create their own world within their music (and I never believe it because they’re usually wrong about the band they’re describing) but Wild Beasts really do that.  They remind me of early records by The Smiths or Suede, where it’s kind of loose, hazy, weirdly sexual and strange.  It sounds really epic but not in a plodding, like Coldplay-way, but in a crazy, theatrical ‘The Queen is Dead’ way.

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Blogs of Cracker Finishing School
& The Sound and the Furry

These sites are run by the same guy.  Don’t know anything about him other than he has good taste!  ‘Cracker…’ is more of an art blog, a Tumblr page with a lot of really great images, either funny or sexy.  ‘…Furry’ is a blog of random cute, handsome bearded and/or hairy guys who are in indie rock bands.  They are labeled as “fake boyfriends” and I think everyone can agree that it’s fun to have fake boyfriends who are bearded and cute.  Well, some of us can.

Current Obsessions of Matthew Mercer

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Music of The Caretaker

I once saw Jim Kirby perform in Cleveland as V/VM and it was one of the weirdest and loudest things I’ve ever seen. It’s a bit of a blur, but key takeaways were a man in a pig suit illuminated only by his laptop screen and a sort of chugging, rhythmic pitch-bending mangle of Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best.”  The Caretaker is sort of the ethereal ghost of that weirdness.  It’s The Shining after Jack Nicholson and co. have left the building — the aftermath of a party in the past.  There’s dust in the air and this is the sound of how light strikes it.  It’s haunting, but there’s something warm and inviting in balance; you don’t want it to go, you want it to stay….

Music of DJ Sprinkles

Terre Thaemlitz’s new album as DJ Sprinkles is a great deep house album, reductive but lush.  It’s a statement on how house music doesn’t really help us escape, but brings us closer to our pain as a shared emotional and perhaps subversive experience — in addition to his more typical politics about gender and sexuality, how it relates to this music historically.  (His monologue about a “Madonna-free zone” is effectively wry.)

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Music of Warp20 Box Set

The new Warp20 box set is a marvel of packaging. While its contents musically are, for me, a little hit or miss, it’s so well-assembled, a triumph of surface. Uncoated, blind-embossed 10″ vinyl sleeves (5 plates), high-gloss hardcover 10″ CD book packaging, a dense book of all Warp artwork since its inception — it’s impressive and justifies its price. There’s a mixed bag of cover versions on one of the 2xCD sets inside, but it’s practically worth it for Tim Exile’s cover of Jamie Lidell’s “A Little Bit More.” (Tim Exile is one to watch, too — his last album Listening Tree was very exciting to my ears)

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Genre of Dubstep

I think some of the stranger hybrid dubstep stuff out there like Brackles, Apple Pips, Rustie is all worth a gander. The straight-ahead wowowowowow-snarrrrrl dubstep stuff wears on me, but the more spry, lively, jerky stuff I’ve been hearing more recently has me paying attention.

A few sites to check out ::

Apple Pips Recordings | Brackles |Zomby Productions

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Application of DopplerPad

I’ve spent the better part of the year collaborating on the creation of DopplerPad which is an iPhone-based touch instrument. It’s been inspiring to be part of something using new technology and marrying that with music in a cool and interesting way.

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Books of Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
& Over & Over

2 books recently that I found inspiring: Over & Over and Hand Job, both by Princeton Architectural Press. Over & Over is a nice collection of hand-drawn patterns, appealing to the minimalist in me but with a less mechanical, more human touch. Hand Job is the typographic equivalent, focusing exclusively on hand-drawn typography. It runs the gamut from tacky or ironic to beautiful, ornate and sincere. Maybe it’s because I spend so much time in front of a computer that I have an affinity to hand-drawn things recently.

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guest feature :: lindsay luv

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

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(Toronto Film Festival 2009 Photographed by Ademar Dias for Lifeline Photography)

The Experience of Being a DJ
Written by Lindsay Luv

My background was originally in the music industry having worked in business development at the Orchard and as an agent with top artists like The Raveonettes, as a DJ booker with notable DJs like Eddie Baez, and then in brand event marketing with emerging DJs and artists including Justice, Chromeo, Ladytron, Crystal Castles, Dangerous Muse, Busy P, The Presets and so many others. For five years I worked the business side of the sphere yet my jobs always relied on my ability to seek out new artists and emerging talent. This was definitely an inevitable setup for me to one day pursue DJing although I never even thought it a possibility until my friend, Adam Goldstein aka the late DJ AM, pointed out I should give it a whirl.

I was sitting with him in his room at the Bryant Park Hotel catching up before his set at Deko Lounge in Jersey and shouting some of the latest tunes I had discovered from relatively unknown artists at the time, Canada’s Thurderheist and Dragonette, as well as LA’s own Shiny Toy Guns, as he downloaded them in a fury. Adam loved the tracks and gave me a sideways smile and asked me if I have ever considered DJing…. No, I hadn’t.

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(Photo Credit : Coachella 2009- Palm Springs | Photographed by: Denise Mijares |
MakeUp & Hair: Courtney Wolfe | Styled by: Dalit Gwenna |
Shirt by Wildfox Couture)

When the recession hit and music marketing started to hit a standstill, I remember sitting on my couch bored and restless thinking what the HELL am I going to do with my life! I remembered Adam’s words and I just picked up and jetted over to Guitar Center and bought everything I would need to teach myself to DJ (with some help from my DJ friends). Without a trust fund or a sugar daddy (ha!) the basic facts were I needed to make money to survive here and fast by switching my focus in the music industry. However instead of taking the easy way out-Ipod DJing etc-I wanted to learn from the ground-up no matter how challenging it seemed and eventually be respected for my craft. With my friends the Boyd brothers opening up their clubs to me, and DJ friends like Cindy Kim, I studied, practiced and learned what I needed to start spinning. I practiced at friends’ studio spaces and these venues during the day for hours –pretending the place was packed.

Landing great gigs was made possible by my industry contacts from my past work and thousands of followers on Myspace, Facebook, and Joonbug. Today, after a year of full-time DJing (and always practicing every day) I still feel like I have so much more to learn. To be a ‘DJ’ these days is a loose word, but to be a true ‘DJ’ is a whole different ballgame, and one that I continue to self teach myself every day and improve upon. My business motto is to start in the mail-room if you want to be a CEO, and I apply that to my own skill set and career. I know who I am and where I started and where I am going. I think if you want to be successful at any activity you need to put in the time but stay confident in your progress and be real.

What AM saw in me was my ability to discover new music and emerging artists–I think that is what makes me special in my craft– the same way mash-ups are what made him extra special in his.  I was so excited to one day maybe have an opportunity to DJ with him and am so incredibly sad he is gone.  He is and will forever remain a huge inspiration in my career.

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(Photo Credit : Coachella 2009- Palm Springs | Photographed by: Denise Mijares |
MakeUp & Hair: Courtney Wolfe | Styled by: Dalit Gwenna)

Things that I’m Currently Obsessed With::

ART of Sebastian Picker

I dated his nephew, singer-songwriter Pablo, for a number of years in college and fell in love with his artwork. Pablo had a few of his paintings and when I left Boston to pursue a career in NYC he gave me an original piece from his early days to christen my new apartment. The canvas hangs above my bed and his use of a monochromatic color scheme is calming and stunning and sends a message of struggle, hope, peace and love. His work is highly regarded in the art world and I hope to buy more pieces in the near future.

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MUSIC of The Raveonettes

I essentially never stop talking about my favorite band, The Raveonettes! I have grown up with this band throughout my NYC years. They were in many ways my first big ‘break” in working in the music industry. I came here by myself after college from Boston- not knowing anyone and knowing I had to “make it” here to survive.

I began working with the management team for this new band right when they were releasing their very first EP “Whip It On”, and have continued to support and work with them in varying capacities even today. The Raveonettes have released multiple full length albums and have toured with the likes of Depeche Mode and the Strokes, playing hundreds of sold out shows in the US and abroad.

The band is truly original and their sound is unlike any other artist I have heard today. I have seen them perform in major cities– Chicago, Austin, LA, NYC– and my parents will see them this week in Boston. They are both friends and an inspiration and continue to surprise and delight me with each CD released.

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MOVIES of The 80s

I am pretty much obsessed with everything 80’s and am known to watch Pretty In Pink on rainy days. I have loved re-discovering my 80’s movie favorites and can’t get over how kooky and borderline creepy Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth” is! I love, love, love David Bowie and think this movie and the music and imagery is simply genius! Some other favorites include Weird Science, Lost Boys, Big, Say Anything, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Can’t Buy Me Love. The 80’s rock!

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Lindsay Luv MixTape
(For Streaming Purposes Only)

I love electro house and the 80’s, so here are some of my favorite tracks of today and yesterday, all with an electric edge! Rawk!

Heavy Cross- The Gossip (Fred Falke Remix)

Night By Night- Chromeo

Do Ya Think I’m Sexy- Rod Stewart (Discotech Remix)

Little Booty Girl- Thunderheist

Paris Is Burning- Ladyhawke (Cut Copy Remix)

I Remember- Deadmau5 (Caspa Remix)

What Is Love- Haddaway (Refreshmento Remix)

One Day- The Juan Maclean (Surkin Remix)

Fever- Madonna & EnVogue (Dance Floor Mix)

PLUS FREE DOWNLOAD

Remixed by Lindsay Luv, D-Major and Bobby Blaze

Fake Gold- Tigercity (Major BlazInLuv Remix)

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you are so bootiful!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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I M A G Etannerc

L I S T E NThe Red Bow by THAT GHOST
[Get It And Get Out, 2009]

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guest feature :: beat radio

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

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BEAT RADIO by Brian Sendrowitz

Thanks for giving me this space to share my experience. It’s a dangerous proposition–I’ve got so much to say.  I’m like a roman candle.  This digital age is where I belong. I’m really excited to have the chance to share this new record with people.  It wasn’t an easy one for me to make. Some people approach music in a casual way. I enjoy records that don’t take themselves too seriously, but for me it’s not that way. I always feel like I’m fighting for my life.

Beat Radio has always been an evolving thing, with band members coming and going as our lives and music changed.  About a year ago the band sort of imploded and I found myself making music alone for the first time in a while.  My wife Liz and I were also going through lots of changes; finding ourselves with a young growing family and dreams we still needed to pursue.  Some of these songs are sort of like love letters to her. We’ve always supported each other in our creative endeavors, but in the last year we’ve learned how to do it a bit more completely– more fiercely and courageously.  Her favorite song on the record is “Follow You Around”.  It’s about getting lost and finding your way back home.

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I hope you enjoy the album.  It was my first time recording and producing on my own.  I kind of learned as I went along.  I’d come down to the basement each night after Liz and our boys went to sleep and do weird tape experiments or download samples of strange old synthesizers and field recordings.  I brought some friends in to help out after i’d gotten the basic tracks together, which helped alot. More than anything, it’s an album about how music can be a form of escape, transcendence, and joy.  It’s about getting lost in the sound.

Safe Inside The Sound is available as a free digital download and limited edition cd at beatradio.org. It’s also available to stream/download at bandcamp.

I love how this website connects different art forms and embodies a unique vision and experience.  Here are some things I’m currently enamored with:

Robert Frank’s Photography

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I’ve been interested in Robert Frank‘s work for a while now–particularly from the mid 50′s although he did some amazing stuff later on, including the album cover of my favorite Rolling Stones record.  I first discovered him because Jack Kerouac wrote the intro to his most famous collection The Americans. Kerouac’s my favorite writer.  I’m fascinated by the whole time period really, and Frank captured it in such a beautiful and powerful way.  There’s an exhibit on his work going on now at the Met.  I’m hoping i can go check it out soon. You can view more of his pictures here.

Mad Men

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Me and Liz, that’s our thing-stay in on Sunday nights, drink some wine and watch Mad Men. I probably would have finished the Beat Radio album sooner but we started getting caught up on season 1 and 2 last spring watching it on demand.  In some ways we relate to Don and Betty I think.  We live out in the suburbs. I take the train to the city every day while she’s home with the kids. I know everyone is already talking about this show, but I’ve never been so into a television show in my life. I talk about it with my friends the way I’d talk about great fiction. It’s brilliant.

Where the Wild Things Are

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Another pop culture thing everyone is talking about, but we’ve got a really deep connection it.  My boys have always been really big Maurice Sendak fans.  We also really love “In the Night Kitchen” and “Brundibar.”  They’re strange books, but I’ve sort of got strange kids.  I always found the language in them really striking–it’s dreamy and emotional and also really musical and playful in a quirky sort of way.  It makes me feel like a kid.  My 4 year old son Elijah and I are particularly excited about the movie.  We’ve got this routine where we read the book before bedtime and then we watch the movie trailer on my blackberry.  He knows every word to that Arcade Fire song.  You should hear him sing it, it’s beautiful.

The Diggs

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I’ll leave out talking about music this time around because I feel like all I ever do is ramble on and on about music.  I will mention my friends The Diggs though, because they’re probably my favorite band.

Here’s an amazing song from their first record:

The Diggs – Faith in Strangers (mp3)

Also, I have a blog and twitter account where I talk about music alot.  I did a blog post last spring on my top ten favorite records of all time here, if you’d like to subject yourself to a whole lot more of my rambling.

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overthinking, overanalyzing

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

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It’s painful the amount of psychoanalyzing it takes to have an ideal of perfection for everything wished to be created.  Sometimes being told that nothing was meant to ever be perfect, and reassured that trying the best you can, really is all that is necessary to know.

I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to
step aside
and weep like a widow
to feel inspired to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity
and still be a human.

Listen :: Tool – Lateralus
[Lateralus, 2001]

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so many songs remind me of so many people

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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“the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”
- david russell -

listen you’ve got the love (the xx remix)
by florence and the machine

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artist feature :: arabella proffer

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

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Arabella Proffer-Vendetta is a painter, designer, and co-founder of the indie label Elephant Stone Records. Her loose narrative themes revolve around a fascination with punk rock, aristocrats, Renaissance fashions, aging socialites, pre-code cinema, gothic divas and rock ‘n’ roll groupies. She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she has taken up residence in many cities including Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, and Boston. She currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and an evil white cat named Milkshake.”

Please share your earliest memory involving or creating art.

Arabella Proffer: My parents had a pretty extensive Russian art collection — some really weird and tripped out stuff – so I always marveled at those, but supposedly I was two years old when I made a drawing of an eye with a landscape in the iris. I don’t remember that, but I was always drawing while watching cartoons while in pre-school.

May you share about your academic background concerning art? Did you study art formally? What were your art studies like in general– any influential instructors?

Arabella Proffer: I went to Art Center College of Design for 4 seconds, but got a better scholarship at California Institute of the Arts, so I went there to get my BFA. The clothing optional pool in the dorms sold me. I was in the art department, but I was mostly studying film and traditional animation. I didn’t start using oil paint until the last 3 weeks of school, so that part I would say is more self-taught. CalArts was more about theory than practice; at the time painting was “dead” and it was all about video and installation art. Luckily we had people like Jim Shaw, John Mandel, and Derek Boshier who still taught traditional art. In general I think I went too young, and my style was very out of place for what was being done at the time. I don’t think too hard about concept or meaning and that drove all my instructors crazy.

If you had to explain your work to a stranger, how would you do so?

Arabella Proffer: Depends on how what kind of blank look people give me. In general I say I’m a Mannerist; if that doesn’t get a reaction then I say Neo-Realist; if that doesn’t work, I say Pop Surrealist. At times I will also say I do portraits of make believe goth & punk Elizabethan nobility with short biographies – although that isn’t all I do, it is a large chunk of it.

What are your favorite colors to work with and what aspects do you like most about using those shades?

Arabella Proffer: I go through phases; I went through a pink phase, and a red one, now I’m staying with blues and purples. They say blue sells more paintings but I’m finding it doesn’t really seem to matter. I don’t really think about why I like something, it has to do more if it looks “right” or not, and I have odd ways of judging that. The only thing I hate working with is any obnoxious yellow color; reminds me of Hummers or those awful yellow Mustangs I see around today.

What are your inspirations?

Arabella Proffer: Elizabethan and punk fashion, old Hollywood and over-the-top home décor, biographies of people in fashion, society, or film. Old Masters always do it for me, and so does Art Deco, and the old Russian architecture I used to crane my neck looking at in my travels there — cupolas area awesome.

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When you’re working are you fully involved in what you’re doing or is your mind already planning ahead?

Arabella Proffer: I plan ahead a lot just because I get bored easily. I’m shocked I finish anything at all, but maybe this is why I work so fast, I’m already excited about the next new thing. Some people get freaked out when they have a blank canvas or panel staring at them, and I’m just the opposite, I can’t wait to attack those bad boys!

On average, how long does it take you to finish one of your pieces?

Arabella Proffer: For the small 5×7” ones about 12 hours or more; the larger works I’m not sure as I haven’t been clocking it, but they need time to dry between layers, so I’d say 2 to 3 weeks. Lately I’ve been working larger, and that is taking some patience – I’m not a patient person by any means.

On the website Music Is Art, our mission is to show how music and art are simply connected. Which albums do you credit as having the biggest influences as far as your art and life are concerned?

Arabella Proffer: “Priest = Aura” by The Church has been on heavy rotation since I was about 14 years old whenever I work. I finally got to see them live recently and they played nothing from that album, so I was sad about that. I used to do mixed tapes of everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Subhumans, but the past few years it has been any album by Loop, Billy Nicholls “Would You Believe”, and a glam rock compilation called “Velvet Tin Mine” which is good for when you need to stay awake.

Do you prefer long periods of time alone, or are you energized by interaction?

Arabella Proffer: My best friend is my studio-mate, so we gab a lot, but yes sometimes if I’m concentrating on a particular spot in a painting I can’t even have music on. I am not a hermit by any means; I like to go out with my friends and do things other than being chained to a piece I’m working on. I get bored when I’m by myself too long. I’ve learned you can be social and be disciplined.

If you could have a drink with one visual artist, living or dead, who would it be and what would you like to ask them?

Arabella Proffer: John Currin, so I could have him show me how the HELL he does it. Albrecht Durer would be awesome too, I don’t know what I’d ask him but I’m sure we’d figure something out.

What do you hope people take from seeing your art?

Arabella Proffer: I’ve actually never really been sure. Each piece is such a strong personality that I admire people who collect them and hang them in their home, because it isn’t anything close to wallpaper or something bland to match a couch. I guess all I can say is that I always have loved portraiture — and never been quite sure why; just that it is what I like the most for some reason and have always been drawn to it. When I was young, I always marveled at the old homes and museums that had portraits of family ancestors and such, I thought it was the proper thing to do, and so much more interesting than a photo album. I started my series I think in part because I wanted my own little gallery of ancestors as part of my home décor ever since I was a child. So I guess in a way, I hope people to think of them as their own little family members.

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What has been your favorite experience thus far in your career?

Arabella Proffer: Meeting people who collect my work at the receptions in general, and one collector who made up their own biography to one of my

pieces; when people can make up their own stories in the same style as I do for most of my portraits — that is pretty fun. The commissions that fall into place have also been great. I’m always so nervous because they are real people, but when they let me do my thing and are happy with the results, that has been the best.

What part of your process is the most challenging and do you dislike the most?

The skin, oh the skin! I hate it so much. And every time I go to fix something I make it worse. Obviously it turns out somehow in the end, but it is so rare I get it right on the first try. I’m also terrible at hands, if I do them right, it must be a damn miracle.

Do you have a favorite way to relax when back home?

Arabella Proffer: Wine and Netflix! Books are good too; anything about idiot socialites, crazy actresses or businesswomen who were utter maniacs.

What turns you on?

Arabella Proffer: Bacon, good beer, fancy stationary, 600 thread-count sheets, guns, elaborate chandeliers, muscle cars, novocaine shots, when guys beat the hell out of each other on UFC, my husband buck nekked.

What turns you off?

Arabella Proffer: Football, men in shorts – or golf shirts for that matter, Miller Lite, Snuggies, restaurants with “flair”, people with no backbone, and people who don’t know anything about history or are oblivious to the world around them in general.

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What would your number one suggestion be for someone who wants to do what you do?

Arabella Proffer: If you want something done right, do it yourself.

What exciting projects do you have coming up?

Arabella Proffer: I’m currently up at Art Whino Gallery w/ Brandi Read for the month in the DC area. I just got back from the reception and the show looks kick-ass. I have a solo show at Box Heart Gallery in Pittsburgh called “Splendor & Safety Pins” on Sept. 19th. I’ll be part of a the “Quarter Grand” show at T&P Fine Art in Philly in November, and then I’m part of a 4 city tour with Thievery Corporation and Art Whino Gallery which will be making a stop at Art Basel Miami and I’m hoping I can attend that.

May you have a particular inspired quote, statement or favorite words to live by?

Arabella Proffer: “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it” by Ellen Goodman.  I like this quote because it reminds me constantly what I never want to become!

Please share a mix tape within a theme of your choice.

Arabella Proffer: Stuff You’re Likely To Hear In My Studio…

ARABELLA PROFFER MIXTAPE

Loop – Got To Get It Over

Tears Run Rings – Run Run Run

Smashing Orange – My Deranged Heart

Ultra Vivid Scene – How Did It Feel

Seven Percent Solution – Built On Sand

Iron Virgin – Rebels Rule

Teenage Filmstars – Loving

The Church – Ripple

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chromeo :: night by night

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

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image :: split roads

“She say’s I’m not romantic. I say she’s too dramatic. I tell her while we’re at it, we could work it night by night.”

Chromeo has a new single called “Night by Night” now out on Mountain Dew’s label, Green Label Sound.  With an album in the works, it’s the electro-funk duo’s first single since 2007.  Chromeo a.k.a. P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) have been keeping busy by creating remixes for the likes of Feist, Vampire Weekend and the classic Hall and Oates jam ”I Can’t Tell You Why”.  In October, Chromeo will have a few select upcoming live dates.

LISTEN

Chromeo – Night by Night

Feist – Sealion (Chromeo Remix)

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The Death of Bunny Munro

Monday, September 21st, 2009

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A reaction after reading Nick Cave’s new book The Death of Bunny Munro is when three vulgar chapters in, it’s become so disturbing, that it makes you want to read the whole thing.  Maybe it’s his dark world charm, his gothic, blood-dripping poetry or the fact that what makes Nick Cave so interesting is, the unknown.  As he writes, it’s easy to imagine him becoming the actual characters in his own very writings.  The Death of Bunny Munro is his second book in twenty years and follows a line of past albums and side projects that have decorated his history over the past decades.

Listen Nick Cave – Jesus of the Moon

(Dig Lazarus Dig!! 2008)

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the mia lounge volume ii

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

imaginecouple

kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.

~e.e. cummings

Videotape (Mojib Remix) by Radiohead

Happy People (Chill Mix) by Static Revenger

Planet Of Breaks (Jazzanova Mix) by Visit Venus

Just Breathe (SirAric Gravity Remix) by Telepopmusik

The Gravy Train (NOW Remix) by Ian Brown

Minutes (Original Mix) by Habersham

Utopia (New Ears Mix) by Goldfrapp

sunrise

images redco & you’re beautiful

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thank god for kittens.

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

dailykitten
toocute
deviant

listen billie “wildcat” jean (michael jackson vs ratatat)
by the hood internet

images daily kitten, lalalaurie & eddie shuhel

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