LOOK AT THE DOG!

People tend to think that creative work is an expression of a preexisting desire or passion, a feeling made manifest, and in a way it is. As if an overwhelming anger, love, pain, or longing fills the artist or composer, as it might with any of us—the difference being that the creative artist then has no choice but to express those feelings through his or her given creative medium. I proposed that more often the work is a kind of tool that discovers and brings to light that emotional muck. Singers (and possibly listeners of music too) when they write or perform a song don’t so much bring to the work already formed emotions, ideas, and feelings as much as they use the act of singing as a device that reproduces and dredges them up. The song remakes the emotion—the emotion doesn’t produce the song. Well, the emotion has to have been there at some time in one’s life for there to be something from which to draw. But it seems to me that a creative device—if a work can be considered a device—evokes that passion, melancholy, loneliness, or euphoria but is not itself an expression, an example, a fruit of that passion. Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself—clay to be available for future use.

David Byrne ‘Bicycle diaries’

Música! Muy peculiar...

La perfecta belleza de un mundo no tan perfecto

»eunoia« by christian bök (+)

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the word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in english that contains all five vowels. directly inspired by the oulipo (l’ouvroir de littérature potentielle), a french writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has a as its only vowel, the second chapter e, etc. each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the i is egotistical and romantic, the o jocular and obscene, the e elegiac and epic.

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El sonido de la libertad, el sonido de la bicicleta

This is amazing: Composer Johnnyrandom creates an entire track solely out of sounds made by a bicycle. Also available as an inverted MtB remix.

Complement with other experimental music sampling from unusual objects.

(via The Dish)

Un muestrario, pequeñito, pero ¡ahí está!

Lego-mundo

The United Nations Headquarters is now a LEGO set, part of the LEGO Architecture series that also includes the White House, the Empire State Building, and Seattle’s Space Needle. 

Pair with The Cult of LEGO. 

(↬ FastCompany)

(vía https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5pUtRcNX4)

Banksy Fans Interact with His Clever NYC Street Art alice, mymodernmet.com

While the ever-elusive street artist Banksy con­tin­ues to put up his clever works all over New York, his fans have been flock­ing to them, snap­ping pic­tures of the price­less pieces before they're gone (or defaced). Some have even put their own…

Banksy/NY

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is to me, more interesting, than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human. It touches the bad and the dirty side of people.

Miuccia Prada, T Magazine “Culture” 2013 (via dinnerwithannawintour)