Black Sheep Mag "Zzzz" Review

This review was just incredible for me to read over. Its really amazing when people dig your music even more than you could have ever expected them to... (Especially when its a critic!?)

Its a pretty in depth review and well worth your time to check out if you find a second:
http://www.blacksheepmag.com/reviews/album-reviews/item/1716-zzzz



special thanks to Daniella Robbins and the rest of Black Sheep Magazine

cooolest thing everrr lollll

No seriously. This was an amazing find, awesome for some creative procrastination, terrible for my paper due Friday. (it might take a long time to load but its well worth the wait!!) http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top




Thanks to Chairman Rau for the initial tip!

This is also pretty sweet:

"Body Paint" Installation at "Clicks or Mortar", March 2009 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

NBN Interview/Article

The Northwestern University Publication North by Northwestern did an interview/article on "Zzzz" that is a pretty good read for info on... me. I guess.

Special thanks to Lorraine Lee and the rest of the NBN staff!!!

PEEPs.

After all that mixing of "Zzzz" my ears needed a break, so I opened up my eyes...




So usually I use a "PEEPs" post as a way to try and highlight a specific musical artist that I dig, but this time I wanted to try and show off some of the visual art that I've been checking out lately.

for one, this design blog "the Roxor" is incredible. As I am a nerd for graphic-design and logo work this find was messy as I sent hours checking it out. (Yeah I've done a little bit of my own graphic designing... you know this music shit aint making me enough money.)

Through the Roxor I came across this artist Erika Simmons. Right away I was blown away with her cassette tape work. check it:






When I was doing research for my album artwork I came across a lot of great Vector artists because I thought that it would be a style that I wanted to roll in. Eventually with the help of a Nor'easter I opted for photography, but I still dig and follow a lot of these websites/artists:

Blood Sweat Vector
Through Blood Sweat Vector I came across these great not-necessarily-vector artists:
Retro, Hip and Soulful: Sean Qualls
Eric Carl on N.W. Native American Hood Crack: Jonny Wan
Good spot to keep up to date with urban art: the Little Chimp Society