Psychadelic Panda
I like many, like panda bears, they’re pretty cute, even for big potentially vicious, slow and lazy animals. This piece is playing off the work I did last year with my psychedelic “Tiger Eye” design, I love using loads of brash wash colours in my work even if it doesn’t really suit my classic style.
Queens of the Stone Age - Spiders and Vinegaroons
In 2011, Queens of the Stone Age reissued their debut album (which had been out of print) with added tracks.
Rather than just include its three bonus tracks as random add-ons, this remastered reissue integrates them into the existing sequence, in a manner that actually enhances the front-to-back listening experience: “The Bronze”— featuring a pair of amazing snakecharmer solos from Homme— deftly mediates between the album’s more streamlined front end and its more whimsical back half, while the DJ Shadow-esque drum-break freak-out “Spiders and Vinegaroons” (salvaged from [a] 1996 split EP [with Kyuss]) provides a more logical set-up for the album’s bizarro-world piano-bar closer, “I Was a Teenage Hand Model”. It’s not often that padding out an already hefty album actually improves it, but in the Queens’ case, the revised tracklist provides a more accurate portrait of how the band molded its mercurial Desert Sessions experiments into chiseled hard-rock monoliths. At the same time, the expanded edition makes the Queens’ debut feel a little less like a time capsule, and closer in spirit to the playful sprawl of their subsequent best-sellers.
13 Watch the video for Björk’s new single “Crystalline” directed by Michel Gondry.
After a traumatic childhood Abdul Malik Al Nasir seemed to be heading for jail or an early death. Then, at the age of 18, he met the famous poet and musician – with remarkable consequences
(Source: pitchfork)
This is genius. I’m sure the whole of the Letterman’s audience were pretty confused though.
The Guardian’s project on photojournalist’s in the danger zone made me think about my own experiences when out reporting. The only time I’ve ever felt in danger was during the March 26 protests in London against the government cuts. I was never truly in danger, and it was nothing like the experiences of warzone photographers; but I still felt scared, especially when people started throwing glass and petrol bombs, and when the police began charging. But when adrenalin took over, and my shots came out as well as they did, it gave me some comprehension as to why those photographers put themselves in those situations.
Leisure Seizure has been on repeat in my house ever since it was released. 6 years was worth the wait.
