For the Love of Music

If you google "mother of punk," there will be ten results on the first page.

One refers to Patti Smith, rock goddess.
One refers to Vivienne Westwood, unquestionably the mother of punk fashion.

The other eight results refer to Nina Hagen, and if you don't know who she is (or would like to see a giant painting of her that I made out of oil pastels, acrylic, inks, spackle, sand, spray paint, glitter, magazine clippings, embossing powder, and plastic toy solders), come to the Middle East tonight.

There will be twenty artists (many bigger names than I) exhibiting in three venues (the Corner, Upstairs, and Zuzu).

Also 5 bands, 4 DJs, and 3 acoustic performers. Tonight, 7pm-2am.



MUSICIANS
Middle East Upstairs ($10 cover for this room)
-The Dig
-DGP
-Superpower
-Jacobi Wichita
-Action Verbs

ZuZu (Free Admission)
-Knowledge
-DJ Manny & Jason Bosserman
-Chris Paul

Middle East Corner (Free Admission)
-Riki Rocksteady
-The Grass Gypsys
-Dougie Smuckers


ARTISTS
Devon Govoni, Dave Tree, Adam O’Day, Christopher James Oppold, Marshall, Jen DeFlorio, David Stickney, Dan MacInnis, Pat Daly, Chris Carnes, Bobby Swainston, KaitlinJay, LeeAnn Love, Greg Brigham, Ralph Springer, Chris Paul, Andres Giraldo, Christine Bower, Caitlin Malone

misguided pretension

So, I guess the general rule on dating sites is towards the highbrow so you look deep, but this guy just looks like a moron. Taken from a banner ad on mental floss.





He seems to have been reaching for Émile Zola.

Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?

My boyfriend and I were waiting for a green line train this weekend, and noted this juxtaposition of a pair of spectacularly ill-conceived advertisements; each seemed determined to turn off its audience from their products/services in a singularly aggressive way.



First, let's look at AirTran. They've had some seriously bad press recently in regards to service and safety; do they really want to make the claim that their flights are as breathtakingly terrifying as a (seatbeltless) roller-coaster ride? For me, this ad evokes one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone, and that's probably not what they were going for.

I couldn't tell, even by walking up close to the very edge of the platform, what seafood restaurant had paid for the seriously unappetizing ad on the left. That's probably for the best, because the tagline "98% of what's caught, we wouldn't be caught dead with"—combined with the murky bodily-fluid-brown color scheme and postapocalyptic imagery—really, really does not make me crave fresh fish.

she truly was the greatest....

Cyd Charisse, 1922(?)-2008.

Is this a MA-v-NY thing?

I didn't start drinking coffee regularly until I was 17 or 18, but carding teens for caffeine is a bit absurd.

This is hilarious to me, because when I got my Free Iced Coffee, I was in line behind two unaccompanied young boys, about 6 and 9, who both got their Free Iced Coffees and the counterfolk didn't blink an eye.

These kids walked into Dunkin Donuts alone, with no adult in sight. They asked me if today was the Free Iced Coffee, and I told them it was. The younger boy wasn't able to read the Red Sox posters hanging in the shop, and the older kid struggled to sound out the words. After they got their Free Iced Coffees and left, I was actually a bit dumbfounded. My first instinct was to pity their adults, because the boys would be a handful that evening (this was about 6 pm); my second instinct was that if you allow children that you are responsible for to wander around a major city with no adult supervision, you deserve hyperactive, caffeinated brats.

animation

The final project from my Digital Multimedia Art class is about to cause a YouTube sensation. It's fun, it's mean, stay tuned for more....

Also, eleven days till California. And my sister Stephanie got engaged yesterday—the lucky guy is Mark. Look how cute they go together:

Boston represent!

I'm digging the typographic city neighborhood posters by Ork Posters!.


Now if only they printed t-shirts...

Via lifeclever.