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There’s something about capturing a moment in time that is so powerful. The details, lighting and subject matter are what makes a still photo into a work of art. I can’t really touch on what it is about Alessandro Zuek Simonetti’s photos, but consistently captures an aesthetic that I find so beautiful. If I had to pick a favorite contemporary photographer Alessandro would be at the top. Simply amazing photography.
View his spectacular work here
Update! Alessandro was kind enough to let me know he has a show currently running in NYC at the leica gallery. Check out the info here. I can’t wait to check this out this weekend!
Filed under: music
Beach House, Dubstep Allstars: Vol. 07 and Weed Diamond, all over the place as usual.
Beach House – Teen Dream
Beach House’s new album Teen Dream has been one of my most anticipated for a while and it just sprung up on me out of nowhere. I’ve never met a Beach House album that I didn’t like actually. Their first ST album was my favorite, with Apple Orchard becoming my favorite Beach House song of all. If you already love Beach House you should enjoy this album just the same, they continue their dreamy delirious sound and add some new flavors into the mix. I’m sure this one will be blogged about ad nauseum.
Dubstep Allstars: Vol. 07
I always look forward to the Dubstep Allstars mixes. The most recent, mixed by Chef & Ramadanman, is super solid. It’s got a ton of new and old mixed in, with a great arch in the mix taking us through the more melodic stuff into some earth rattling bass wars. Highly recommended for dubstep fiends, but then you’ve probably downloaded this already.
Weed Diamond – Demo
A band that surprised me this week was Denver, Colorado’s Weed Diamond. I was ready to disregard this demo as just another ubertrendster lo-fi EP. It turned out to be pretty solid with a good sound. Warning though, if you don’t like the lo-fi indie pop sound you will not like this. But for fans of the genre this is another good band to add to the playlist and keep an eye on in the future.
Filed under: fashion
Check out the DQM Winter 09 Lookbook online now
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Yann Faucher Photography
Filed under: politics
Check out this article at Huffington Post on the 2009 Corruption Perception Index with some images of the guilty countries themselves. What would you expect the U.S.’s rating to be? Follow the link below to find out.
Filed under: music
Really really good new mixtape by Pill from ATL. Download this thing ASAP
Download: Pill – 4075: The Refill
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Iggor Cavalera (former drummer for Sepultura) and his wife, Laima Leyton, are Mixhell. If you’re not familiar with Mixhell they are notorious for their Brazilian-inspired, hard electro. Mixhell have put together this 20 min mix entitled BLACK METAL SOUNDSYSTEM.
Download: Mixhell – BLACK METAL SOUNDSYSTEM
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Loving this photo set by 14 Bike Co
Filed under: art
Amazing pointillism style paintings by James Chronister. I love the muted monochrome palette and the density of the forest scenes.
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Overmars – Born Again
For this week’s music roundup I’m only posting one track. But it’s 40 minutes long so that should make up for it… While browsing Invisible Oranges, reading about some great Doom and Black Metal albums I came upon this Doom/Sludge gem. The write up over there summed it up way better than I could so I’m just going to “quote” them. This will not be for everyone. That was proven when I was listening to it on my speakers at work and my screen was filled with complaints, people were literally disgusted. It’s shrieking, at times off-beat and incredibly evil. But for me that’s a recipe for a perfect album.
Born Again, a single track, originally came out on in 2007 on Appease Me, the label of Vindsval of Blut aus Nord. Crucial Blast recently reissued it in a digipak with different artwork. It tightens its screw for 39 and a half minutes, pulsing through shades and tonnages of black. Male and female vocals bark and moan with increasing agitation. At first, the landscape seems impossibly bleak: “I’m close to dying a thousand times / But this time I allowed myself to cry.” However, as the track grinds on, it achieves a violent catharsis, wringing both performer and listener dry. Finally, it howls its rebirth: “Listen to the screams coming out of the hole, holding the sound of joy and pleasure / Listen to my screams announcing the birth of a new man.” This record is the sound of sloughing off clichés: four-bar cycles, verse-chorus structures, notions of genre and scene. Eventually, it skins itself down to one bloody chord and the truth.
- Cosmo Lee
