Slinky. Satellite. Beanie. 1950s (via Vintage Ad Browser)

Slinky. Satellite. Beanie.  1950s (via Vintage Ad Browser):

Slinky. Satellite. Beanie.  1950s (via Vintage Ad Browser)

I’m Not A Collector I’m An Accumulator

I’m Not A Collector I’m An Accumulator:

I’ve talked about this before on Flea Market Funk, but when Mr. Pat James Longo talks, you listen. Longo, a major record collector, music historian, musician, DJ, and artist is a walking encyclopedia when it comes to music and vinyl records in general. I look forward to his monthly Primitive Sound System email newsletter which highlights his monthly vinyl scores (complete with catalog numbers) and what he is going to play at the get down monthly at DC’s Tavern in Jersey City, NJ. His collection was featured on Dust & Grooves a few years back, and it grows stronger every week. So when he mentioned the 2000 Alan Zweig film Vinyl, I wondered why I hadn’t come across it. The Toronto based film maker has used the medium of film to explore issues in his own life and the struggle with his record addiction. He’s wrestled with romance, being a curmudgeon, and his obsession with vinyl records.

“My argument in the film is ‘It’s not just the music. I don’t think there is a thing as just music.” -Alan Zweig

Any one of us who collect vinyl records does it for a reason. Some do it because we are passionate. Some do it just to have objects. Some of us are obsessive compulsive. Some do it because of reasons we know not why. This documentary explores them all, but also focuses in on Zweig’s personal reasons for being a collector, why it may have led him down the path he took in life, why he hasn’t settled down, and really touches the core of any vinyl record collector’s motivating force to keep vinyl records. Watch this film, and then ask yourself: why you do it? Get down deep. I think you’ll find some reasons you never thought about. This movie is incredible and depressing at the same time. What’s incredible is listening to all of these people wax poetic about the reasons they love vinyl, why they collect, and their motivation to live the lifestyle. These are the people we encounter every day when we buy records. The depressing part is you may even realize that we all have a little bit of these things that motivate us to collect (however depressing they are) in all of us. Pull up your favorite chair because you’re gonna be here a while. This is a great movie and a great sociological look at the habits and driving forces behind why people collect (or hoard) the black crack. We all know someone like this, but how well do we know ourselves?
Vinyl, A film by Alan Zweig


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"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall..."

"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall...": ““We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?””

- Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard (via okayophelia)

Miguel Cabrera's fantastic plate coverage

Miguel Cabrera's fantastic plate coverage:
Earlier this spring, Drew Sheppard created a layered animated GIF of Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish's pitching delivery. This type of GIF has become something of a meme on baseball sites. The latest to get the layered GIF treatment is Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera hit for the Triple Crown last year (led the league in batting average, RBIs, and home runs) and is trying to do it again this year. Sheppard put together this GIF to show "Cabrera's impressive all fields hitting and ability to cover the full strike zone with power":



As the image plainly shows, Cabrera can launch home runs from anywhere...even a pitch that's almost a foot off the plate. Are they showing is stuff on SportsCenter yet? Can only be a matter of time. (thx, david)

Going... going... gone! Watch Miguel Cabrera's crazy plate coverage as a layered animated GIF
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Stop Motion Wire and Paper Music Video by Patator Prod

Stop Motion Wire and Paper Music Video by Patator Prod:


There are some fantastic sequences in this brief stop motion clip by Victor Haegelin of Patator Prod accompanied by music from Professor Kliq. Haegelin relies entirely on bent wire and paper to create everything you see and it’s amazing how fluid all the individual wire strands become when animated like this, wish it went a bit longer. (via vimeo)

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Fun Site-Specific Wheatpastes on the Streets of France by Lavalet

Fun Site-Specific Wheatpastes on the Streets of France by Lavalet:










I recently stumbled onto the Facebook page of a new wheatpaste artist named Lavalet who has been making some pretty imaginative site-specific pasteups in various locations around France since late last year. Almost all of his pieces interact with their direct surroundings and frequently include props or other three-dimensional objects. You can see more over on his blog, and if you happen to be in the south of France he just opened an exhibition at NUNC ! Grenoble last week.

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Recycled Bike Part Chandeliers Under a Texas Overpass

Recycled Bike Part Chandeliers Under a Texas Overpass:







Ballroom Luminoso is a series of six chandeliers designed by artists Joe O’Connell and Blessing Hancock currently installed in San Antonio, Texas. Made from custom made structural steel, custom LEDs and recycled bicycle parts, the lights project colorful silhouettes of sprockets and other pieces onto the otherwise drab cement underpass. From the artist’s statement about the project:

Ballroom Luminoso references the area’s past, present, and future in the design of its intricately detailed medallions. The images in the medallions draw on the community’s agricultural history, strong Hispanic heritage, and burgeoning environmental movement. The medallions are a play on the iconography of La Loteria, which has become a touchstone of Hispanic culture. Utilizing traditional tropes like La Escalera (the Ladder), La Rosa (the Rose), and La Sandía (the Watermelon), the piece alludes to the neighborhood’s farming roots and horticultural achievements. Each character playfully rides a bike acting as a metaphor for the neighborhood’s environmental progress, its concurrent eco-restoration projects, and its developing cycling culture.

If you liked this project you might also enjoy Carolina Fontoura Alzaga’s bike chain chandeliers. Images above courtesy photographer Fred Gonzales. (via lustik)

New Cloned Video GIFs from Erdal Inci

New Cloned Video GIFs from Erdal Inci:







Last year I featured a number of amazing gifs from Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci (previously) who clones sections of video to create hypnotic animated loops. His work has since popped up all over the web and will soon find its way into a gallery space. Above are some of his latest clips depicting numerous copies of Inci himself parading through the frame like a cloned robot army, though he also flashlights to create even more complex effects. If you happen to be in Italy you can catch his work firsthand at Action Gallery in Milano on May 25 and in Naples on May 30.