City on a Table
There’s a wealth of PD scifi video from the 1950’s and 60’s. It’s entertainingly bad, but often so bad it’s cain't-take-it-no-mo' bad, which begs the question: who actually paid to watch this stuff in the first place? Or was that what drive-in's were all about? Here’s a better-than-average clip from the 60’s title “Battle in Outer Space.” You may see a couple of seconds from it in the Roger RayGun video, because it’s filled with process shots of a space cadet pointing his ray
What’re You Wearing?
Are we better at predicting what we’ll be wearing 300 years from now than we would’ve been 300 years AGO? Let’s see: In the early 1700’s it was waistcoats, frilly shirts, breeches and black buckle shoes for the men. And enormous hoop dresses, bustles, cinched waists and ribbons for the women. Where’s the common denominator between then and now? Sexy. What attracts is what’s sexy back. Although, getting past ten pounds of basket weave and petticoats must’ve been something of a
Time vs Choices
I keep a twitter journal of daily efforts chronicling the minutia overwhelm in electronic creation. For some artists, it’s an easy thing to lay down a quick sequenced beat, then add a bass and rhythm line that quickly materializes into a recorded final. For me, mmm... not so much. Take that bass line, f’rinstance. It’s bass choice #20-something, because I keep trying to filter a sound that’s both fat and futuristic. One that cuts through without overwhelming the EQ spectrum,
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