I found this band a few months ago and really love them. They’re are releasing an album feb 9th. Here are a few more tracks from them:

It was cold and a little small but fun was had. Here are a few photos:

Some Guy Named Mikey

Sterling Spencer:

Steve Hirst

Here’s some video of the day shot by Brad Greenwell.

poop sesh from brad greenwell on Vimeo.

1) Modern English - Gathering Dust

2) Killing Joke - The Wait

3) REM - Moral Kiosk

4) Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

5) The Church - Reptile

6) Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt

The Los Dynamite stuff is from 2006, but is still great.

Phantogram:

This is a bit of a design nerd post, but I just realized that the new movie Avatar that was just released uses the font Papyrus for the main title. Now I know that’s not exactly amazing news to the rest of the world, but to designers it is a major embarrassment. I remember seeing this font all over the place before I went to college. I wondered why everyone used it and used it poorly. Well, it is a font that comes standard on most computers purchased today. Anytime someone tries to save a penny designing something on their own they go to this font because it looks different and artsy. But to any trained designer it is a terrible crutch, not original in the least bit. I pride myself on font selec5tion and have over 40,000 of the suckers. They are expensive and similar to a carpenter’s tools. Would you expect a trained carpenter to build your deck with “My First Craftsmen” tool set from Tonka? NO… Guess they spent too much money on effects. Rant over….

Here’s a collection of some music I’ve stumbled across over 2009 that I really enjoy.

1) Washed Out
2) Fever Ray
3) Grizzly Bear
4) Bullion
5) Polvo
6) Tortoise (I stumbled back across this in 2009 so it still counts even though it’s old)

So listen and enjoy:

This should be fun. An old friend, Kaipo is throwing a surf style party with custom designed t-shirts for sale by seven local artists ($5 a piece!!!), free beer, free food, a surf movie will be playing, music and Sean Fell will be doing a surfboard shaping demo. What more could you really ask for? Really?

So, here’s the info:

When: This Friday, Novemeber 6th, 5-7pm / After party will be at The Break on p-beach
Where: Aloha Screen Printing, 2635 Gulf Breeze Pkwy
Ph: 850.934.4716

Each artist (I’m one of them) has designed one shirt. Each shirt will be made right then and there. You’ll get to see the whole process go down.