I’m a bit obsessed with this song. I included the track in my 2008 Leftovers mixtape and have since become even more enamored with it. Whenever I used to listen, way back in high school, I was a typical idiot guitarist only listening for loud distorted guitar, technical prowess on a fretboard, and screaming vocals. This viewpoint severely limited my musical landscape. So, 9 years, a smidgen of humble pie, messing around with actual production of music outside of a guitar, and many many amazing musical influences later: i love this track.
I think of musical taste the same way i think about food. Sometimes things aren’t my favorite thing in the world, but they have their place and can be respected, even treasured. Something that really isn’t my speed today, might be something I’m obsessed with in 2 years. I hated Radiohead in high school, something that now I almost find sacrilegious, a mortal sin. Things always change, and I feel like they tend to change for the better.
I really can’t find much fault with it. That Beep is a single from Architecture in Helsinki’s upcoming album Vision Revision to be released sometime in 2009. The band is an Australian musical collective based in the suburb of Northcote in Melbourne. The group consists of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland [ I stole this sentence from wikipedia, because I'm awesome].
AIH loosely remind me of an Australian version of The New Pornographers, probably because of the musical collective thing. I was excited when I found their video on vimeo so I thought that I would share the love.
We took a trip to NYC last year for my dad’s birthday. I snapped this pic on our way to find the Strawberry Fields sign in Central Park. I was borrowing my fellow Art Director Joshua Pipic’s Sigma 15mm lens ( I need to get myself something similar, it’s a really great lens ). The wide angle took some stunning shots of New York.
My co-worker Omar first made a wallpaper out of this. I walked past his desk and saw my picture as a wallpaper on his macbook pro. I went back to my desk and made the same wallpaper. It’s been one of my default wallpapers (the other always being a picture of my wife since I have a dual monitor setup both at work and at home) ever since.
Our Christmas present to both sets of parents and my grandparents was a blurb book that I put together, highlighting our first year of marriage, a tradition I hope to be able to follow every year.
All of the family really enjoyed the books. I was really surprised by Blurb’s quality. I ordered the books as soft covers with premium paper. They came a few weeks later and once i thumbed through our personal copy, I was dying to show my family (but i was a good, and didn’t blab anything to anyone)
So I thought I’d take some of the same pictures I used to make the books, pick a song and share with all of you.
Year in Review
We are a camera toting crew. Between the homemade ringlight being setup at almost any get together and my incessant need to try to snipe shots of our life, I end end up with quite a catalog of shots to choose from, every one with their own little story.
This last year we played the part of a newlywed couple, truckin’ our way into a new chapter in our life.
We had a couple raucous game nights, LOST premiere and season finale parties, a badass rock star birthday party for Meli, a B&W cocktail party for my birthday, I was promoted to an Art Director, Meli successfully defended her thesis and graduated with her MA, a crazy holiday party, a Caribbean cruise, we bought a second Boston Terrier, Lobster Fest in Key West, and a Disney trip with Meli’s sister.
We’re fun people. You should come hang out with us if you’re in Miami sometime.
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