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May 29, 2007
LEAK: Matt McCormick, "Blue Remains Grey,"
Matt McCormick has proven over and over again just how impressive he is as a film landscaper, revealing an urban and industrial visual poetry few have bothered to define. Quick initial listens of his debut audio only release show he's got a way with soundscapes as well.
Read more and listen to the track at LocalCut.
Posted by kmikeym at 5:24 PM
Mike's Creep Stache In The Willamette Week
My creepy stache makes it into an article about the Katamari shirts:
Full article w/o my picture at WWeek.com.
Posted by kmikeym at 5:03 PM | Comments (3)
May 14, 2007
See A Penny Video Updates!
Shots Ring Out says, "Feeling lost and the greater sense of feeling found are two of the many opposite forces in life we must deal with as humans."
While Stereogum says, "McCormick delivers this touching tale of touring copper, as YACHT the penny braves the rough streets of Portland with nary a pocket to call home. Until the cute girl 'picks him up,' a happy ending for our one-cent hero."
Posted by kmikeym at 3:10 PM
May 8, 2007
YACHT on Yacht
by Nilina Mason-Campbell for Pitchfork and more extensively on her own blog.
Also...
by Claire Evans for Fader.
by Jaclyn Campanaro for Local Cut.
by Ezra Caraeff for Portland Mercury.
Posted by kmikeym at 1:46 PM
May 2, 2007
An Interview with Daniel Peterson
An Interview with Daniel Peterson
by John Motley
The role of album art is a challenging one: to capture, in graphic terms, the essence of the music the record contains. Not only does compelling artwork sell albums, but also the very best adds depth to a record. The latter is an aspiration of local artist Daniel Peterson. Although his photography is exhibited by Elizabeth Leach Gallery, he has also collaborated on album art for The Planet The, the Blow, Plants, and 31Knots. Most recently, he shot covers for Panther's debut Secret Lawns (Fryk Beat) and YACHT's I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real (Marriage Records). While the YACHT cover features a relatively straightforward shot of a white-gloved Jona Bechtolt wielding a wand as smoke rises, it is a metaphor for all the studio wizardry in Bechtolt's schizoid production. The Secret Lawns cover is even better. Peterson layered ghostly images of Charlie Salas-Humara (AKA Panther) striking angular poses as pieces of hay descend around him. With the new YACHT album due out next Tuesday, I talked to Peterson by email about these recent shoots...
Read the actual interview at the Portland Mercury.
Posted by kmikeym at 6:04 PM
Dealership gets a kick out of Shins
Dealership gets a kick out of Shins
by Matt Wastradowski
But the Vancouver lot wasn't director Matt McCormick's first choice for the ""Australia" video - or even his second.
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"As a director, I'm always looking for stuff that makes good visual images and metaphors," McCormick said.
He liked the idea of balloons being tied down, released and floating away. "That can be interpreted a lot of ways."
McCormick originally pitched the same video concept for the album's first single, "Phantom Limb," but he said the band felt the video's lighthearted treatment didn't fit the down-tempo song.
McCormick said he agreed that the band members were right.
"It wasn't really right for the song, but I was so excited for the idea that I gave it to them, anyway."
Read the whole article at The Columbian.
Posted by kmikeym at 5:59 PM