Lady Gaga - Telephone (illustrated remix)

Brilliant illustration set by Andrew Kolb.



So moved, I was, by this tale of pestering that I only saw it fit to create a 50's style children's book in honour of it.

Lady Gaga - Telephone - a set on Flickr

TuneIn Radio.

When I was in high school and college, I had a short/medium wave radio that completely enthralled me. Being able to listen to music and news from all over the world (depending on the weather) was absolutely mindblowing to me. The TuneIn Radio app ($1.99) gives me that exact same feeling. It's AMAZING. Want to listen to pop from Antarctica? Go for it. Almost every BBC local and national station? It's there. Want to record a show to listen to later? Just hit the Record button. I can't tell you how much I love this app.

If you love radio, check it out. It even works in thunderstorms. :)



TuneIn Radio

Help Olga make an album.

She's adorable and talented. (I couldn't resist after watching the video.)



About this project

LAMP is a full-length album by Olga Nunes-- and it's also a story built around the music, told through letters, art installations, and short films. In Chapter One of LAMP, you are introduced to Lamp and Lux, two people who haven't spoken to each other in a very long time. One day Lux receives a package that she thinks can only have come from him. So, she decides to write him a letter. The only problem is, she doesn't know how or where to find him-- so she puts a message in a bottle, ties it to a balloon, and releases it into the sky.

What happens next? I want you to be part of the story.

Every person who donates to the LAMP Kickstarter (to help turn the album and story into reality!) will be invited to submit their old love letters, and help create the backstory of Lamp and Lux. Additionally, I'm holding a balloon release event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, where people (and maybe you!) will release one hundred of Lux's letters into the sky. Not in SF? No problem. I'll be documenting all the letters in the story and filming the event, so you can follow it through YouTube and through the website.

My minimum target goal to raise through Kickstarter is $3000-- which covers the bare minimum needed for mastering, album production, and part of the costs to create and film Chapter One. The more you donate and the more backers I have, the more you ensure there will be a Chapter Two and Chapter Three, and you get to see how this all ends. There are lots of rewards to choose from if you decide to support LAMP, and if I exceed my minimum goal, I'll begin introducing super special secret unlocked rewards.

You can listen to more of my music here: http://olganunes.bandcamp.com
And you can see a special trailer for Chapter One of LAMP, including part of the first single, in the video above.


LAMP by Olga Nunes — Kickstarter

Clock made from a recycled Sanyo turntable.

This is pretty sweet.


Clock made from a recycled Sanyo turntable by pixelthis on Etsy

Music Philosophy.

music philosophy

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Sony Rolly the Dancing MP3 Player.

I kinda want one.



Some other fun and less spendy players here:
Strange and Unusual MP3 Players | Retrevo

Wish You Were Here print.

Aww. Pink Floyd in cute, arty poster form.


This beautiful print measures 12.5" x 19" and is printed with archival inks on 100lb recycled, speckletone paper so it lasts forever! Each print is made to order, signed and stamped on the back with the date that it was made.

Little Paper Planes :: Wish You Were Here Print by Ashkahn

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass.

If you don't love OK Go, you should. I'm just saying.



Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off of the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The "machine" was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.

p.s. Kudos to State Farm: A good neighbor helps OK Go go viral again.

Knitting Factory print.

Fantastic. And available in large format.



ISO50 Shop - powered by Merchline

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Oversize jazz prints.

Some really nice stuff over at Art.com.










Music, Wall Murals Posters and Prints at Art.com

Maya Angelou.

Okay. This took me by surprise.



Right, the first thing that hits your lips when you think of Maya Angelou is that she’s “Miss Calypso.” In her early days, the prophet poetess was an oiled-up chanteuse in a slinky red dress back-bending under the limbo bar. This Liberty LP was recorded at The Keyboard club in Hollywood in 1956.

Angelou’s Afro-Cuban-Blues-Jazz songs included “Scandal In the Family”, “Mambo In Africa”, “Donkey City” and “Stone Cold Dead In The Market”, the first two of which she wrote herself, and which undoubtedly tweaked her mind to be able to turn out the voluminous amount of socially-significant material that later tweaked so much of American and world culture.

The Worst Celebrity Product Licenses of All Time, Part 2 | Monkey Goggles

Indie Rock Coloring Book.

This made me laugh. An awesome stocking stuffer for the music nerd on your list.




Yellow Bird Project : Indie Rock Coloring Book

Monsters of Folk concert poster.

Poster Cabaret is fast becoming one of my favorite online print galleries/shops. This new print by The Small Stakes is absolutely stunning.


Poster Cabaret :: Monsters of Folk concert poster by The Small Stakes

(Thank you for the awesomeness, grain edit.)

Music by birds.

Yes, I'm late to the game on this one. But, in case anyone else is, too, I'm posting it.

Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.

Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

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Hey Jude flowchart.

love all this | Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles...

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It's a "So What" kinda day.

Miles and Trane make rainy days better.



"So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis and John Coltrane album Kind of Blue and is often credited as one of his best works.

It is one of the most well-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D minor7, followed by eight bars of Eb minor7 and another eight of D minor7. This AABA structure puts it in the format of popular song structure.

The piano and bass introduction for the piece was written by Gil Evans for Bill Evans and Paul Chambers on Kind of Blue. An orchestrated version by Gil Evans of this introduction is later to be found on a television broadcast given by Miles' Quintet (minus Cannonball Adderley who was ill that day) and the Gil Evans Orchestra; the orchestra gave the introduction after which the quintet produced a rendition of the rest of "So What".

The distinctive voicing employed by Bill Evans for the chords that interject the head, from the bottom up three perfect fourths followed by a major third, has been given the name "So What chord" by such theorists as Mark Levine.

While the track is taken at a very moderate tempo on Kind Of Blue, it is played at an extremely fast tempo on later live recordings by the Quintet, such as Four and More.

The same chord structure was later used by John Coltrane for his standard "Impressions".

YouTube - So What - John Coltrane and Miles Davis

(Thanks to PK for the reminder.)

Elekit Tube Amp.

I'm no audiophile, but I would buy this in a heartbeat. It's practically art. Hopefully they'll develop it for sale.




Design of a new generation vacuum tube amplifier for EK Japan Co.,Ltd.(Fukuoka, Japan) who develops numerous electronic kits(gadgets targeted at both children and adults).
The sale is undecided.

CASE-REAL | Works | EK AMP

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Girl in Field print by she hit pause.

It's sad that most people will never know the joy of a record player.


she hit pause studios : girls & dreams

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2009 Chicago Jazz Festival poster.

I kinda like this year's poster.


This original poster celebrating the 31st Annual Chicago Jazz Festival is from a limited edition of 120 and is signed & numbered by the artist, John Solimine.

Poster Plus - Solimine, Chicago Jazz Fest, 2009

Mixtape love.

Was there ever a truer, purer token of love than a mixtape? I think not. This is a sweet homage in embroidery.



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