reVerb Rundown: A Short Music Documentary

A Generation Gap: Music Purchasing to Music Downloading

My 11th grade Modern US History class assigned us the most unrestrained project I've ever received. I imagine they intended to see what we could do without their smothering guidance, and so the project was broad, vague, and tempting to a student like myself who is not always so keen on limiting instruction. The assignment was to make a 4-6 minute documentary on a topic that has evolved or developed over the coarse of modern US history. Without reservation I jumped to the verdict that I'd make a piece focusing on the way the music industry and music consumer has developed with and because of the digital transformation (or revolution, human apocalypse, whatever you may deem it to be). The brief documentary discusses the monetary development/downfall of the music industry, the music consumer of today and tomorrow, discovering music in this technological climate, the place vinyl has in society, the roles of record labels… the monotonous listing continues. For the piece I interviewed:

Justin Gage (Founder of Aquarium Drunkard)

Scott Cohen (Co-Founder of The Orchard)

Jenny Eliscu (Writer for Rolling Stone)

Neil Schield (Owner of Origami Vinyl)

Zach Shields (Dead Mans Bones)

Dana Meyerson (Biz 3 Publicity)

-via verb/re/verb

verbreverb - 10.23.2011 File under - Technology

Input : Output 'The Analog Workshop' Opening Party Pics

Thank you to everyone who came out for the Input : Output opening party!  Big thanks to David Holmes, Eddie Ruscha, Eug, and Nitedog for the tunes throughout the evening.  The shop will be open through June 24th.  Please email us at info@space15twenty.com for more info.

See more photos here.

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Photos by Ramon Felix

T - 05.23.2011 File under - Events, Furniture, Music, Parties, People, Photo, Screenings, Technology, Tenants

What's New: UO Rec Room at Space 15 Twenty

Come hang and check out the newly stocked UO Rec Room at Space 15 Twenty to up your recreational and gadget collection including Lomography cameras and accessories, turntables, board games, books, records, etc...



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Speaking of records, we are having the Second Space 15 Twenty Record Fair this Sunday, January 30th from 10am-2pm along with the Weekly Flea Market.  Come shop for handpicked vinyl, cassettes and t-shirts from Amoeba Music, B-Music/Finders Keepers Records, Dublab, Origami Vinyl and more.

In the Courtyard of Space 15 Twenty
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles 90028

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T - 01.28.2011 File under - Books, Technology

What We Want Now: Tape Express

The Ion Tape Express allows you to convert your audio tapes into digital files (MP3) on your computer which can then be stored, transferred on to your iPod or burned to CD.

Nightwood - 12.15.2010 File under - Etc, Technology

What We Want Now: Rainbow In My Room

Double rainbow, oh my .... Wait! It looks like a single rainbow! Available at Urban Outfitters, the Rainbow light projector sits on just about any flat surface and projects a rainbow effect across your room! Get two and you might experience something similar to this guy -

Nightwood - 12.08.2010 File under - Etc, Technology

The Art of...Peter Greenaway

British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has created a handful of odd and remarkable films since 1980's The Falls.  A three-hour collection of 92 flight-related shorts, the film was his first feature-length production and highly suggestive of the brilliant, provocative work he would go on to make.

In more recent years, Greenaway has taken a performative turn, in gigs as a VJ as well as video installation artist, that often incorporate projectors, lasers, and more.  Taking an interest in classical and Renaissance painting, he began featuring seminal works in immersive installations for his series Ten Classic Paintings Revisited.  Kitsch and yet critically acclaimed, the series has created a splashy dialogue about the seemingly dated medium and its relation to modern technology.

The first of these digital projects to show stateside, Leonardo's Last Supper:  A Vision of Peter Greenaway, has come to NYC's Park Avenue Armory.  Superimposing digital projections and the music of Marco Robino on a recreation of the painting, the 45-minute "remix" of daVinci's masterwork is open now until January 6.  Check out the preview below and purchase tickets here.

doily - 12.07.2010 File under - Art, East Coast Correspondent, Technology

doily's internet pickins: twice as nice

REED + RADER



Making work in a league of its own, New York-based duo Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader produce fashion editorials in the form of animated GIFs.  Going by the moniker Reed + Rader, the two have garnered attention with their fusion of fashion and technology through work for clients such as V, Pop, and recently, a davidelfin photoshoot for Dazed Digital.  Check out the twins pictured and the rest of their portfolio in action -- the jpeg above does it no justice!


BRUSSELSSPROUT NO. 2



Brusselssprout is an online quarterly magazine featuring thoughts on emerging art.  Its recently released second issue presents modern counterparts to two seminal commentaries on New York City's unique urbanism, Andy Warhol’s Empire (1964) and Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York (1978).  The respective sequels -- film Empire II and book Delirious Backwards -- will be available for purchase starting in January.  Learn more about the projects at the site and download the issue here.


LYKKE LI - GET SOME



Following up to her 2008 debut Youth Novels, pop darling Lykke Li recently announced her sophomore effort, Wounded Rhymes, will be released in the US on March 1.  The album is being produced by fellow Swede Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn & John, and judging by its first single "Get Some," its bound to be even catchier than the last.  Download the single for free at her website.

doily - 11.19.2010 File under - Art, Books, Clothes, East Coast Correspondent, Magazines, Music, Technology

Polychord App

Shoulda Woulda Coulda, the music app-making company from Los Angeles, are about to release Polychord app for the iPad -- for musical geniuses and talentless masses alike. Set to be released by Thanksgiving, use it when you're done craving the turkey.

Nightwood - 11.12.2010 File under - Technology