Girls Together Outragously
03.31.08 | No Comments

My stepdad just gave me this cd randomly. I guess because he knows I like strange obscure music by women. The GTO’s are an all girl groupies group produced by Frank Zappa in the late 1960s. One of the group’s members Pamela Des Barres, wrote the memoir I’m with the Band. Their cd Permanent Damage is a weird mixture of strange theatrical songs and random interviews. It is very rough music but it does precede some later girl bands like Liliput, The Raincoats, Rasputina, CocoRosie, and they even remind me of my friend Dame Darcy’s music.

It is as if you gave the mischievous turn of the century girls from Picnic at Hanging Rock a recording studio in 1968.

One of my favorite films ever:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Directed by Peter Weir


Picnic at Hanging Rock

A NYTIMES article on Pamela Des Barres

The_GTOs on Wikipedia

Holgar Lippmann
03.26.08 | No Comments

I absolutely love these digital paintings.

See also: www.lumicon.de
holgerlippmann.blogspot.com

Eye Candy
03.26.08 | No Comments

Mousey_Spiral

Visual Inspiration Explosion!
03.26.08 | No Comments

www.spacecollective.org/gallery

mouse painting
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www.jacksonpollock.org
Olivia Judson’s article on mutations in nature
03.26.08 | No Comments

The crab spider Thomisus onustus. Some individuals are a most unspiderly color: they are hot pink. This allows them to hide in hot pink flowers — and ambush unwary bees. Other individuals are yellow, and hide in yellow flowers. Even more surprising, their colors are not fixed: move a pink spider to a yellow flower, and she can change her color to match.

- Olivia Judson
March 25, 2008
Evolving the Wow! Factor
NY TIMES
This article and her blog are really interesting and well worth reading.

The Vegetable Orchestra
03.25.08 | No Comments
Category: music

This is one of the most creative things I have ever heard and the music is pretty good. The remix album is coming out soon and I am super excited to hear it.
The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.
Watch their process in an amazing video, here

Official site: www.gemueseorchester.org

Serena Cole
03.25.08 | No Comments

Oh I love these pretty portraits! More images here.

Playlist from my December 6, 2007 Ladies of Electronica Show
03.25.08 | No Comments
Category: music |playlists

RobotRadio guest hosted by Seze

Danielle Dax – E.V.I.L. T. Timber Tongue EP (1995)
Danielle Dax – Timber Tongue Timber Tongue EP (1995)
Danielle Dax Cutting the Last Sheaf Pop Eyes (1983)
Colleen – What is Componium? Colleen Et Les Boties A Musique (2006)
Cibelle – Dans Le Lapin Green Grass EP (2007)
Chloe – Around the Clock The Waiting Room (2007)
Stereolab – [untitled] Root (1999)
Sir Alice – La Maitresse No 2
Miskate – And or Shuffle Indian Shuffle EP (2006)
Cocorosie – Rainbowarriors
Miss Kittin – Professional Distortion I Com
Magda – 48 hour Crack in Your Bass Stop Ep (2005)
Bloody Mary – Daily Crisis
Camea – Voiding the Fill Voiding the Fill (2007) Clink
Inhale – Stefny
Kate Simko – Osci3
Dinky – Acid in My Fridge (2004)
Mia – Dark Deeds
Sebo K & Anja Schneider Rancho Relaxo – Jennifer Cardini & Shonky Remix (2006)
Akiko Kiyma – Juniper (2007)

Hilarious Japanese Workout/English Lesson
03.25.08 | No Comments
Category: funny |pop culture

This is so wrong…

Video 1

Video 2

Thanks so Tara and Jim for this one.

See also www.engrish.com