Peter Gabriel on the one thing you should never, ever say to an artist
“The worst thing you can say to a creative person, I think, is ‘You can do anything.’ That is the kiss of death. You should say to them, ‘You can’t do this. You definitely can’t do that. And under no circumstances can you do that.’ Then they’ll start thinking in a different, more creative way.” – Peter Gabriel in Uncut Magazine
This store sells custom vinyl records of white noise
The White Noise Boutique, a small pop-up shop that opened in Brighton, England in September, is offering custom vinyl LPs consisting entirely of white noise. Think of it as a purer form of the Ghost in the Mp3.
The shop was created by artist Jeff Thompson — who previously made “Computers on Law & Order”. Visitors to the shop can select a seed (dice, yarrow sticks) and a generator (such as hard drive entropy, algorithms, Type 1390-B vacuum tubes) to create a unique recording of white noise (for more info on the process, see the boutique’s site). They can then print a 7″ record of their creation, and/or get a digital file of it for £4 and £1, respectively.
Although it’s a conceptual art piece that mocks expensive specialty boutiques, it still actually functions as a store. “I really like the idea of a store that sells something seemingly so useless that has an incredible amount of detail,” Thompson said. “The records are priced to be cheap enough that anyone can afford them, despite it being a boutique. I want to embrace the high-end and custom-made aspects of boutiques while upending the capitalist and elitist drive behind them.”
How to make a Christmas bow tie on a Coca-Cola bottle
I had no idea you could do this! Very, very cool.
Wife Tells Hearing-Impaired Husband She’s Pregnant In The Best Way Possible
In one of the greatest “Honey, I’m pregnant” videos, YouTube user and wife Brittany LeBlanc Welch presents her husband David, who is hearing impaired, with a gift on October 15 this year. Inside the gift bag, there’s a Dad’s Root Beer, a Baby Ruth candy bar, and one last item. Congrats, you two!
https://youtu.be/lMqjpnre0U8
This Was The Best Photobomb Of 2015, And It Involves Sam Smith
Grammy-award winning singer Sam Smith checked out Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheater just hours before his sold-out performance at the venue and ends up photobombing 7NEWS’ interview about him. 7NEWS Reporter Kyle Horan was at Red Rocks because the amphitheater had just been declared a National Monument, and was interviewing two women who were talking about other activities you could do at Red Rocks, such as Yoga on the Rocks, when Sam Smith walks into the shot and starts flashing peace signs and making bunny ears. The funny part? Their reporter and the women didn’t recognize him. Hear what one of the women had to say to the chart-topping singer when she saw him trying to crash the interview.
The Story Of WHER, America’s First All-Women Radio Station In 1955
When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start an all girl radio station in Memphis, TN. Set in a pink, plush studio in the nations’ third Holiday Inn, it was a novelty — but not for long. He hired models, beauty queens, actresses, telephone operators. Some were young mothers who just needed a job. WHER was the first radio station to feature women as more than novelties and sidekicks. The WHER girls were broadcasting pioneers. From 1955 into the mid-1970s they ruled the airwaves with style, wit and imagination. “WHER was the embryo of the egg,” said Sam Phillips. “We broke a barrier. There was nothing like it in the world.”
Part 2 is set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, Vietnam, and the death of Martin Luther King — the story of WHER continues following the women who pioneered in broadcasting as they head into one of the most dramatic and volatile times in the nation’s history.
Brian Eno on music, art, and creativity
Steven Johnson sits down for a chat with Brian Eno about his theories of music, art, and creativity. “We’re going to be in a world of ultrafast change,” Eno said. “It’s really accelerating at the moment and will continue to. And we’re going to have to somehow stay coherent. What are we going to be doing? I think we’re going to be even more full-time artists than we are now.”
“When you look at a painting, you don’t just see that painting, you see every painting you’ve ever seen.”
“A painting doesn’t exist for any other reason other than to be a painting.”
Lemmy from Motorhead On Racism
“I am not, nor have I ever been, a racist. Nor should you be. How can you hate a race? Can you not, with your brain (which seems to be inter-racially supplied) distinguish between people who are okay and people who are assholes? Politicians foster racism—it keeps us fighting each other, and that keeps us from throwing them out of office. Vietnam–there’s a thing—blacks and whites, and Japanese and Vietnamese, and Irish and Indians—fighting together. For the wrong cause, though no less bravely. Do you think we could give bravery a fucking rest? Except in the case of a fire, or a woman and child trapped in Oklahoma City? Being scared of people makes you kill them. We got probes in space that go to the stars, and we might go soon, ourselves. What are we going to take with us? Hate? WORK AGAINST IT. Hasta la vista, motherfuckers.”
— from Lemmy’s September 1995 magazine column in RIP.
Via Counterpunch
