http://drawger.com/matchofolder/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:22:06 EST FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://drawger.com/_images/drawger_leo_logo.gif http://drawger.com/ http://drawger.com/matchofolder/index.php?section=articles&article_id=3565 A little thing I put together in Flash, from a bunch of stills I screengrabbed using Google Maps' Street View feature. Orwellian Invasion of Privacy charges aside, I find the technology fascinating, and spent some time this weekend virtually revisiting some my old NYC haunts, in addition to checking out some spots I never managed to make it to, in the fourteen years I lived there. I shoulda/coulda made some use of of the zoom/pan controls on offer to add some variety, but I'll save that stuff, along with some hilarious outtakes, deleted scenes and bloopers, for the sequel- Google Maps Street View II: Goin' All The Way!

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:53:59 EST http://drawger.com/matchofolder/index.php?section=articles&article_id=2546 I haven't seen anyone post anything on The Ramones lately, so I figgered I'd haul this antiquity outta the basement of my harddrive.Poster I did about 12 years ago for my ol buddy Zombie's band, when they took the legendary Ramones out on tour with em as their opening act. Curiouser and curiouser...Anyway, a fondest gabba gabba hey, to you and yours.

]]> Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:11:31 EST http://drawger.com/matchofolder/index.php?section=articles&article_id=2528 Here's a little Flash sumpin I've been fiddling around with, off and on, the last month or so.Inspired in part by a coupla Busby Berkeley movies I got into during some downtime after Xmas, and some addled, late-night notions I'd been having about minimalism and symmetry.The title is after Erik Satie's 3 Gymnopedies, which I originally wanted to use as the soundtrack. I abandoned that idea after realizing I didn't have a hope in hell of figgering out how to sync the animation to it, and I ended up doing my own music bed in GarageBand, at a reliable and trustworthy 120 bpm.Anyway, nice to see you all again-

]]> Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:53:26 EST http://drawger.com/matchofolder/index.php?section=articles&article_id=740 I had a brutal week- everything that could have gone badly, did- personally, professionally, and any other way you'd care to view it. Every idea got rejected, every final came back for revisions, my girl walked out, and it just seemed that I'd become some bizarre magnet for black-cloud activity.  I got some Chinese food Wednesday night and sat in the window of the restaurant, and reflected on the week. The waiter brought over the bill, along with a fortune cookie. When I cracked it open, the strip of paper inside read, YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS AND LOVE, and I thought, yeah, right, and came home and started thinking about fortunes of a bleaker nature.

I should have probably left some cookie crumbs in these pictures, but it was about 125 degrees in my little studio, and the cookie wouldn't really crumble- it just got kind of mushy. So there you have it.





A couple more, in the Gallery

]]> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:59:20 EST http://drawger.com/matchofolder/index.php?section=articles&article_id=717 Not much to say about this record, except that it was   a.) a groundbreaking collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno, and   b.) WAY ahead of it's time, and as far as electronic music goes, it pretty much influenced everything that followed it, either directly or indirectly.  Recorded without samplers, using found vocals from a variety of sources, it was released to little acclaim a year after Talking Heads' Fear of Music, and a year before Remain In Light, another watershed Byrne/Eno collaboration. Sometimes I forget just how goddam good Byrne's stuff was, before he lost me a few years later with his less-compelling forays into Brazilian and world music.  Here's the video for Mea Culpa, my favorite cut on the album. When you think about the big hits of 1981- REO Speedwagon's Keep On Loving You, Lionel Ritchie's Endless Love, Kenny Rogers' Lady, Journey's Don't Stop Believin'-  it doesn't look or sound like it was produced on the same planet, much less the same year.The Bush Of Ghosts site, where a feller can listen to, and remix some of the songs on this legendary album.

]]> Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:48:47 EST http://drawger.com/matchofolder/index.php?section=articles&article_id=710 The last coupla months, when I pass a blank wall or a billboard, I've started to to wonder what I would do, if somebody gave me that space to use. I started carrying a camera around in my backpack, and every so often I'll pull over and take a couple of shots if I'm out running errands, or whatever. Eventually I started adding my stuff over the pictures in Photoshop, just for the hell of it, and as an exercise in the general Photoshop cloning/omitting/layering departments I'd like to get better in.

I rode past this place for years and years, and I'd always think, yeah, i gotta take a picture of that. By the time I actually got around to it, somebody had bought it, and put up a chain link fence around it. Just goes to show ya.

I don't know what this place used to be, but that's a pretty fine-lookin crown somebody picked out for it. I was taking some pictures here, and two guys in security outfits walked up and said HEY! WHAT ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES OF, and I said, uh, just this building, and they said, WHY? and I said, well, just for myself, and they both kind of looked at me for awhile and then one guy said, ...WELL... OK, and they turned around and walked away.

I did this one a few years back, but I'm reappropriating it for the purposes of this article.There are bigger versions of these, and a couple more, in the Gallery.

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