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Monday, March 29, 2010

66 Pages of Amazing

A special edition for Purple Fashion Magazine #13

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Aurel Schmidt for Opening Ceremony

Cigarette butts fashioned into an "E"?

I need you so bad.

$60

O P E N I N G C E R E M O N Y

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

I've loved Kembra since the Anti-Naturalists days. I only got to see TVHKB once when I was 17 at the Troubadour and I caught a pair of giant beige panties Kembra threw into the audience during Underwear Drawer. It was the greatest night of my 17 year old life.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Aurel Schmidt

It was around this time last when I saw MANEATER sitting on my friends coffee table.

I didn't know what I was about to see and I certainly wasn't expecting to be blown away, but when I cracked open the book I couldn't believe my eyes. Her work is unreal. Clusters of maggots, cigarette butts, rats, dildos and filth effortlessly combined and elegantly drawn together to form portaits and faces. Her attention to detail is ridiculous.

When I got home later that night I googled the shit out of her and could hardly find anything. A few weeks later I was telling a friend about her and suddenly there was a flood of information online, including this short interview with Vice.

The paranoia, the doom, and "bad thoughts" are all so real and I think her ability to put that out there so openly and with out pretense was great. I really felt that interview and dreamt about her paintings for a few nights after I watched it.

her website

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Tesla Coil

Nikola Tesla is best known for his revolutionary work in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is also one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity. The Tesla Coil is one of his most famous inventions.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and one of his coils, c. 1899

The Tesla Coil is basically a high-frequency air-core transformer. It takes the output from a 120vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver circuit and steps it up to an extremely high voltage. Voltages can get to be well above 1,000,000 volts and emit in the form of electrical arcs. Tesla coils are unique in the fact that they create extremely powerful electrical fields. Large coils have been known to wirelessly light up florescent lights up to 50 feet away, and because of the fact that it is an electric field that goes directly into the light and doesn't use the electrodes, even burned-out florescent lights will glow.

Tesla coils built by Syd Klinge for Coachella 2006

In 2007, Tesla enthusiasts Steve Ward and Jeff Larson constructed two musical Tesla Coils for the "Lightening on the Lawn Teslathon" in Wisonson. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall, are spaced about 18 feet apart and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software.

A longer clip of the concert (just under 10 minutes long) and can be seen here.

www.teslasociety.com

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Who is Sam Brown?

I like Jay Z.

I love Swizz Beatz.

But who is Sam Brown?

Gravediggaz were 16 years too early with their horrorcore and people weren't ready for that shit. I guess I'm drawing a narrow comparison because the video is on the dark side. The difference between the two is huge because the lyrical content in this is safe and the video executed like an Italian Vogue editorial. It's so good.

I hope Rza resurrects his fang grill soon.