MELISSALAND

….more info here!

Nyle “Let The Beat Build” from Nyle on Vimeo.

Pretty damn hot.

I’m so addicted to stuff like this. A euphony of words, beats, violins, cellos, drums, banjo, guitar, horns, piano - so much goodness + creativity.

Would love to see him play here in Hudson…..hmmmm……

(learn more about Nyle here: www.nyleraps.com)

Everything should be this bright. Its energy should be injected into our drinking water.

Tomorrow, conquer the world.

(video: www.myspace.com/damntheband)

Lykke Li - Little Bit

I just spent the last 12 hours staring at a computer screen laying out the 65 page book for our next exhibit (actually, I’ve been laying it out since Friday, but today was nothing but the book)

(click here to see the full layout)

So basically, I am exhausted, fried and hungry. I even missed my own birthday dinner at my mother’s house tonight because I had to cancel in order to get this book finished in time. There is a wonderful cake sitting up in Albany waiting for me to eat it. (and I miss my sister!)

But, it got better, because I came home at 10:00, went to lay down on the bed and was greeted by the largest hunk of cat shit I have ever seen smack down in the middle of my comforter.

Sigh. I’m going to go to bed now (in a clean bed)….and will wish for a more pleasant tomorrow.

Nice ad Intel!

Read more about Intel’s new campaign here

Tomas Truax - The Butterfly and the Entomologist mp3

Out on the road I met a butterfly
She had a fantastic wingspan, almost two feet wide
She’d recently been injured and she could not fly
So she asked me if she could bum a ride
In the old shell of her chrysalis she carried her things
She tossed it in the back and stretched her beautiful wings
She sat there next to me with her front legs on the dashboard
Those wings folded behind her and her little head cocked forward
She told me her story, a price was on her head
This bastard entomologist pursued her live or dead
He’d vowed to hunt her down as there was a large reward
He’d captured her and drugged her and nailed her to a board
Her escape was narrow, she’d torn through her own wing
She saw my look of horror and she started to sing
“I’m going to a no man’s land Because men and violence are intertwined”
Well, I see, I said.
But not all men are violent
I’m not a violent man myself
She laughed and said try not to get too attached to me
‘Cause soon I will be well and I will fly away from thee
One night when we had stopped into a diner for a meal
She laughed and laughed about the plastic flowers on the tables
I started seeing through her eyes the passing desert scenery
She watched the birds and tumbleweeds
With fondness and with envy
We came across some sad road kill, a beautiful coyote
She sighed her butterfly sigh and once again sang softly:
“I’m going to a no man’s land Because men and violence are intertwined”
Next morning as I came out of a Texaco station,
I saw she wasn’t at the car, and I figured she had run
Then I heard her high squeal and I heard his low laughter
“You’ll never out run me” he said, “you are the girl I’m after.”
I chased down the sound to the side of the station,
She was cornered between the wall and a soda machine
I moved as if by instinct, I did it without thought
I clipped him and I kicked him
And I grabbed him ’round the throat
I pinned him to the wall and his eyes were bulging wide
I said if there’s a next time I will see YOU crucified
With this I released him and he crumpled to the ground
The butterfly was gone again when I turned around
But then her little song drew our attention to the sky
Though with a certain lack of grace she had begun to fly
That was the last I saw of her, she never said goodbye
She just flapped off and disappeared
While singing with a sigh
“I’m going to a no man’s land Because men and violence are intertwined”

- Lyrics by Thomas Truax

This song is incredible. I want to buy every single one of his albums. (This track is off of Audio Addiction, which I can’t seem to find for sale any longer).

Truax has a brand new album based on songs from David Lynch films….I am ordering it this week.

More info: http://www.thomastruax.com/

(photo by: Ellen Rogers)

Just finished this full page ad for Mercantile magazine:

Our next two shows in June - Group show at the painting gallery (I used one of Bill Sullivan’s paintings from his Hudson Tattoo series for the ad) and the big David Halliday exhibit at the Photo gallery.

Now to finish some others……

I just finished the design for an advertisment for the 13 galleries on Warren Street in Hudson. I will probably use this as the template for the new rack card design as well…..I think I like the way it came out.

Still have to do the design for a full page ad for our gallery and need to finish the project for the Hudson Supermarket. They are in the process of completing their fabulous new look, complete with new cafe and everything. Very exciting (And finally new choices for lunch in town. Yay!)

anyway, more soon……

I’ve just signed the gallery up to host RIP: A Remix Manifesto. It is an open-source documentary about copyright and remix culture and looks like a great film.

The gallery will be hosting this film on Friday, June 12 @ 7PM. I’ll probably be working on adding other related content/speakers/music to the event throughout the next few weeks. If you’ve got any suggestions or ideas please let me know!

From the RIP website:

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.

A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

Which side of the ideas war are you on?

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More info about the screening on June 12th here:

http://www.ripremix.com/2009/05/05/carrie-haddad-photographs/