May 2010

The Archive Project.

May 26, 2010

Today, I finished a project I’ve been putting off for ages — to properly archive The Original Soundtrack. I started this blog in 2003, and over the past seven years, I’ve written nearly a thousand blog posts about electronic music, culture, and cities. Many of these posts are long essays. On the right hand side [...]

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Three quotes.

May 24, 2010

Three quotes I’ve been thinking about this morning. They’re all connected in my head. “James Turrell, the light artist, once told me that after seeing the slides of paintings in the courses he had taken, he was disappointed by the actual paintings. What he had really loved was the light, and in a sense then [...]

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London Olympics, 2012: Wenlock and Mandeville Take Over

May 19, 2010

The mascots for London’s Olympics were unveiled earlier today. I haven’t been able to shake this image out of my head since I saw it this afternoon. It’s an epic nightmare, the sort that makes you break out in a cold sweat. Meet Wenlock and Mandeville. That’s right — Wenlock and Mandeville. Wenlock is named [...]

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May 18, 2010

Continuing on the vintage cameras theme from a few posts ago. Here’s a Polaroid test shot of me, in my apartment last night. Taken by my good friend Matt.

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Travel.

May 17, 2010

I haven’t been at home much these days. I’m not as much of a world traveler as my good friend and housemate Amanda Palmer — she got back from Africa on Friday night and flew out to Vancouver this morning to start the North American leg of her tour — but I’ve been on the [...]

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A Few More Thoughts on Surviving as a Freelancer

May 16, 2010

I’ve been overwhelmed — happily so — by the massive response to the Tips for Freelancers, Artists, and Creative Types post I wrote last week. Thousands of people were reading the post and passing it around. I watched as it got retweeted on Twitter over a hundred times. Then it made the rounds on Tumblr [...]

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Tips for Freelancers, Artists, and Other Creative Types

May 7, 2010

I’ve been thinking about this post for a while. It’s a nuts-and-bolts sort of post, the kind of thing that’s more utilitarian than it is artistic. Every few days, I get an email from someone I don’t know, who found me through my writing. Usually, they say something nice, and then they ask me how [...]

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May 5, 2010

Working on a book puts you in an odd, single-minded headspace. I’m writing a proposal for a second book right now. When I was working on my Eno book, I stopped listening to new records completely for a while. I spent two years listening mostly to silence, and 1970s analog electronic music. (I spent a [...]

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May 5, 2010

I have an old Nikon camera from the 1960s. When I got it, it still had a roll of very old color film loaded in it. There were still a few exposures left on the roll. My friend Matt snapped some photos in my apartment with the camera recently, using that film, and developed the [...]

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