The Weeknd just came out with their new mixtape called “Thursday”. <—-click to download. In honor of the fact that Thursday has been on repeat since we got it yesterday, we made 2 photos. This is the first one. The second will come tomorrow. Yes we photoshopped a little and yes we are OK with [...]
Wait, that’s not Calgary… Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has odd lyrics. He talks a lot about how they are meant to represent a “place”. There are snatches of coherent phrases, but he really is right about the “place” thing. His almost nonsensical strings of words work to take the listener somewhere, where a very specific [...]
This one is all about a west coast rap group called King Fantastic. Their (rapper Killer Reese and producer Troublemaker) music sounds like an updated version of the synth-ed out gangster music that took over the world in the late 80′s and 90′s. Over stuttering, glitched out hip hop (think if the Glitch Mob grabbed [...]
I’m listening to MF Doom as I type this. The track is called “?” off the amazing Operation: Doomsday re-release. At the end of the track Doom breaks through his villain persona to speak to his dead brother Sub Roc. For me, this verse is the decoder ring for MF Doom’s entire persona. I’ll tell [...]
This week its all about Gayngs and Lykke Li. Gayngs gets a ton of love from both of us (especially that new GAYNGS/Doomtree remix EP that you can download for free right here) and Michelle’s pick was Lykke Li, as her new record Wounded Rhymes has been on repeat for awhile now. First up is [...]
This week’s installment of “The Light Up Playlist” centers around two very different things. First up is The Weeknd (possibly pronounced ‘The Weakened’), an R&B project out of Canada. Well…neither of those things matter as a description. Yes, he is from Toronto and yes, it could be called R&B, but there is something bigger to [...]
This installment of The Light Up Playlist is all about Odd Future. If you haven’t gotten into these dudes yet, familiarize yourself on their site, as everything they’ve ever made is available for free download. I (Ryan) got put onto them a while back by a friend. The first thing I checked out was the [...]
In this new photo series, just for fun, we’re going to look to our iPods for photo inspiration. You know those songs that end up on repeat in your life? The ones that once you are already restarting by the time they are ending? Well, every few weeks, we are going to check our play [...]
Great write up from the great Allan Hoffman!
http://www.mrilightpainting.com/lightbomber/
LightBomber lets you create light paintings with your iPhone camera
I’ve loved creating light paintings with cameras ever since I was a 15-year-old with a Konica T4. My friend Scott and I would light sparklers and leave the shutter open on my Konica to produce these wonderful-looking images. I can still remember the thrill of seeing those photos, with their ethereal light trails, coming back from the photo lab. We’d use flashlights of various types, lamps, fireworks — just about anything to paint with light.
But with the iPhone? It’s not so easy. But now there’s LightBomber, an app that’s devoted to creating light trails and light graffiti. I’m just starting to experiment with it, but it is very, very cool, and I’m looking forward to seeing what iPhoneographers do with it.