You can now pay to use this web application to create your own representative company avatar/online personality to talk to folks in Japanese while visiting your website. Bizarro- especially the Actionscript head wobble and weird facial distortion when they talk.

Thanks to Yuki Kameguchi for the tip!

I recently watched this great movie again. And it is a great movie. From the early 80s featuring a young Laura Dern and Diane Lane and various punk rock notables such as Fee Waybill of the Tubes, Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols. Perhaps where the band name “The White Stripes” originates? Just hypothisizing. This is showing on the big screen outdoors tonight, sponsored by our friends at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls…. Check it out.

SW 15th at Yamhill
Starting at dusk

More info:
http://nwfilm.org/screenings/20/203/

BudSock is a nifty new anti-tangle device for mobile devices’ cord systems. I worked with company founder Jeffrey Wescott to develop the product’s identity and packaging, as well as beef up their web presence as of late. It’s a nifty sleeve system backed up by a 110% money-back guarantee.

Tonight is a wonderful night for film, music and food under the stars:

THE SPECULATIVE FRONTIER
Friday, July 31, 2009
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Greymalken Center for Experimental Living, in Portland, Oregon.
229 N Shaver, Portland, OR

Experimental film + video inspired by Stan Brakhage’s film ‘The Stars Are Beautiful’.
Curated by Brel Froebe and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (In Attendance)

with live music by new music project Chariotomic Found Sountain, featuring members of Powernap + Brainstorm.

8ish potluck / bbq
dusk: music
dark: screening

“Inspired by Stan Brakhage’s The Stars Are Beautiful (1974), a sound film that cycles through mythological explanations for the cosmos in dozens of permutations, the curators of tonight’s event devised an exploratory text that drew from science fiction, structural anthropology, and deep-space physics. They then approached artists from a wide range of disciplines to create new work in response to this cue, resulting in a series of projects–performances, music, lectures, films, and videos–that navigate across the Speculative Frontier, the boundary between the known and the unknown. Expect to see and hear: transmissions from Apollo 8, unidentified objects,black metal, alchemy, ghosts, gods, cartoons.”

FILM PROGRAM:

“Ghost Forest” Mark Essen
“Apollo 8 Radio Address” Frank Borman
“Chiller and B-Flat’s” Jesse Malmed
“Aurora Borealis” Bradley Eros
“Circa” Katherine Bauer
“They Knew About Star Wars Mixtape” Chemtrailz
“The Portable Hole” Salter, Snowden, & Post
“Object 2” Andres Laracuente
“Keratin Reserve” Josh Gen Solondz
“Compendium_PP_321” Zak Kitnick
“Scaffolding for a Social Transformation Process” Brel Froebe
“Intimaci” Micaela Durand & Maximiliano Ferro
“I Just Called…” Chris Jolly
“Where Few Men Have Gone Before” Harry Crofton
“(Dis)continuity” Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
“Tranquility New York” Ted King & Jordan Stone
“In Operation” Pete Deevakul

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105921388923&ref=mf

In italics: haiku by interviewer Tiffany Lee Brown
Not in italics: haiku by interviewee Aaron Gregory of GIANT SQUID…

…a fine musical combo, appearing in Portland on August 1 and around the country throughout the summer. Details on touring and new album (source of graphic above, The Ichthylogist re-released): giantsquidlives.com.

TLB:
to start i would ask
what is the meaning of life
in this universe?

AG:
The answer you seek
requires one to sit still
deep at the bottom

TLB:
my bottom is deep
and it is also quite wide
what jeans should i wear?

AG:
Bypass denim jeans
Try a suit of neoprene
Return to the sea

TLB:
The sea found me love
in meritridium fields
twenty minutes long

AG:

(Shit!! I didn’t even see this.)

Old memories grow
in those fields on the bottom
a life time ago

TLB:
Do memories seep
into the stuff of your songs?
haiku interview…

AG:
Absolutely true
Things of the past dominate
Lyrical content