September 2010
23 posts
New Website →
After trying out Cargo Collective for a little while, I’ve gone full steam ahead and built a new website for myself with them. As it stands it represents a years worth of work. I will be updating it frequently with new work, such as my remix for the Jarrod Hayne Experiment, which I am quite proud of.
This blog is now www.primarystructures.com.au as opposed to log.adrianclement.com, and...
2010 Red Dot Awards for Product Design →
Worth checking out, for sure, even though some choices are perhaps a bit dubious. (Via Jorge San Luis.)
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Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess →
“I think there’s nothing more minimal than impermanent, temporal work that...”
– This is perhaps the reason James and I are venturing more and more into performance art.
(Via Minimalissimo.)
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Veganism is Minimalist →
Leo Babauta:
In this post I’ll tell you (briefly) why I chose veganism and how it is the diet I believe is most in line with minimalism.
I agree.
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Alex Wisser →
Some terrific work on this site, this one being my favorite.
“The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it...”
– John Pawson, “Minimum” (via mnmal). This is very close to my definition of minimalism, and why I very much identify with the term “reductive art”.
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“I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience
that reaches the...”
– Stanley Kubrick, in regards to 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is my mantra for making art, essentially.
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Ping
I just deleted my Last.fm account, so the closest thing I’ve got to that now is my Ping profile.
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'Letting Go of Fake Needs' →
Great read. (Via Mnmal.)
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FaceBlock →
Safari extension for blocking Facebook ads. Works great.
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Champion Sound →
The first collaboration between J Dilla and Madlib. How could you possibly go wrong? Simply put this is required listening. Here’s some proof.
Quietube →
I’ve been using Quietube a lot lately, and it is great. It strips all the noise from the YouTube video wesbite, including comments and whatnot, until you’re left with just the video itself.
Steve Spacek 'Dollar (Let the Dollar Circulate)' →
Jakub Alexander:
If you don’t want a song stuck in your head than don’t check out this song that J. Dilla produced for Steve Spacek, i’ve been humming it since the middle of last week everywhere I go, in alleys and by the river or in my bedroom, “let the dollar circulateeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
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A Day in the life of Barack Obama →
Jason Kottke:
Vanity Fair has a really interesting but depressing look at how The President of the United States spends a typical day navigating the upfuckedness of national American politics and its capital, Washington DC — which Rahm Emanuel calls Fucknutsville.
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Richard Pryor on the N-Word →
Richard Pryor:
I was sitting in the hotel and a voice said to me, “Look around, what do you see?” And I said, “I see all colours of people doing everything, you know.” And the voice said, “Do you see any niggers?” And I said “No.” And he said, “You know why? Because there aren’t any.”
So true, but tell that to the Wu Tang Clan.
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Quiet American →
Field recordings from Vietnam.
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'FUSE' by Hudson Mohawke →
Much to the dismay of everyone in my house, I found my copy of Hudson Mohawke’s Butter the other day. This is my favourite track from the record.
August 2010
60 posts
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New Yorker Cartoons Captioned with Kanye West... →
(Via Daring Fireball.)
“Man old people shouldn’t be able to drive man. This old man cut me off and shit...”
– 50 Cent (via Twitter)
angelbreaksbad:
Haha, there’s nothing but gold on his Twitter account. Especially his background pic and the tweet that accompanies it. Best!
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'Sunburst' by Rustie →
Warp:
As Rustie’s most expansive piece of work to date, Sunburst EP is pretty self-explanatory, a bright and brilliant sensory shock. Taking the rarely-linked sonics of hyper-digital video game music and bombastic, audacious prog-rock Rustie folds them into his melted plastic confection of crunk, classic electro and techno. A brilliant debut for Warp and a taste of great things to come…
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Bob Cobbing →
Bob Cobbing, who has died aged 82, was the major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry in Britain. Long after its international heyday in the 1960s, he continued to produce visual texts that were also scores for performance, many of them published as booklets by his Writers’ Forum press, and launched at its associated workshop, which has been meeting in private houses and rooms above...
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Regrets and Dying →
zenhabits:
Very instructive — good to read now, before it’s too late!
(Via Mnmal.)
The Secret Sounds of Stonehenge →
Trevor Cox:
Just after sunrise on a misty spring morning last year, my fellow acoustician at the University of Salford, Bruno Fazenda, and Rupert Till of the University of Huddersfield, UK, could be found wandering around Stonehenge popping balloons. This was not some bizarre pagan ritual. It was a serious attempt to capture the “impulse response” of the ancient southern English...
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Tate Interview with Martin Creed →
Martin Creed:
I think of the experience of art as a live experience. A painting might be a fixed, static object, but the experience of looking at it is always a live one.
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Joseph Schulz's Sign Out →
Will Hudson:
Predominantly architectural and landscape photography the Polish photographer is now based in Düsseldorf and his Sign Out series (pictured) from last year is a particular favourite.
The Sign Out series is terrific.
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Hi-Res Promotional Photos for 2001: A Space... →
Terrific.
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Onochord →
Yoko Ono:
And pretty soon this means, “I love you”, “love is forever”, “you are beautiful”.
God I love this woman.
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Porsche Museum →
Whoa.
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Samiyam →
Playing September 16 in Sydney. Can’t wait.
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“Rewind” by Scar. I have no idea who...
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Karen Schifano's Tape Installation →
I’ve linked to Karen Schifano before, but here’s a more substantial post I’ve just written for Minimalissimo. I stand by what I’ve written at the end of that post very much:
There is something so refreshing and minimal about using something so mundane and inexpensive like tape in such an effective way.
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'Bleep Investigates Juke House' →
From the musically fertile area of Chicago’s Southside, the sound of Juke was born. Evolving from the earlier, raw sounds of Chicago house music, many have considered Cajmere’s classic ‘Perculator’ to be it’s ‘year zero’. This highly energetic strain centres itself around frenetic, syncopated drum patterns, using the rousing elements of both hip-hop and...
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Flying Lotus' 'Pattern Grid World' →
Fly Lo’s new EP comes out next month. Can’t wait.
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Angry Paul Rand →
So good. This is my favourite.
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Believer Magazine's 2010 Music Issue →
First issue I’ve picked up since my subscription ran out a good year or two back, and it’s every bit as good as I remembered.
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Seekae →
These guys have been on my radar for a fair while and I finally got a chance to check them out last opening for (the brilliant) PVT. They did a great job, but PVT were magical.
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'Natural Selection' →
Only John Gruber’s brave enough to link to a story about a Malibu plastic surgeon driving off a cliff whilst tweeting, and call it ‘natural selection’.
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A Smartphone Retrospective →
Apple, the lone minimalists in the technology spectrum.
Madlib Producing Kanye West? →
Jeff Weiss:
There’s no such thing as a casual Madlib fan, with a rabid cult consuming anything he releases. It’s not all great, but it’s always interesting. And while he may not have as many fans as Kanye West, he has Kanye West for a fan, with the Chicago rapper/producer putting five Madlib beats on hold for his new album. Of course, he won’t reveal this unless you...
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The Unseen →
Quasimoto’s The Unseen, another Ottis Jackson record I’ve never had a chance to check out. Sounds terrific.
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'The Harvest' →
If you’re only going to read one story by Amy Hempel, make sure you read this one. A piece of genius.