The Line King

Finally got hold of "the Line King" a few weeks ago, been waiting to watch this documentary for some time now.
The Line King is the a documentary about Al Hirschfeld, one of my favorite illustrators of all time, he truly was "the line king" :)
if you're not familiar with his work you should check it out.
And if you get a chance do watch the documentary I found it extremely inspiring.

Here is a clip from the documentary, where Al tries it the new technology; computers and a wacom tablet :)

Björk

Just bought Björk's new Voltaic cd/dvd box set (2 cds and 2 dvds) really nice.
I would so like to see her preform live but this will have to do for now.

Oh by the way if you are a firefox user, you should get the new version 3.5
since it has better color profile support then older versions.

Bansky at Bristol Museum

Banksy just opened his summer show at Bristol museum today.

Looks massive, if you happen to be in Bristol by any chance do check it out.

Milk toof

Hahaha love this blog check it out: My Milk Toof

Books

It's been awhile, I've been working on a lot of new stuff, and will start sharing some recent work soon. Until then I thought I would give some reading tips on a few books I've recently read.

The third policeman by Flann O'Brien

- Probably the strangest book I've ever read but I loved it. Don't really know how to explain this or give a proper summary of it with out going on telling you the whole story but it involves rooms where time does not exist, people turning into bicycles, a postman who is 71% bicycle, building boxes within boxes, mystery and hidden roads. 

Man in the dark by Paul Auster

- I've heard a lot of good things about the writings of Paul Auster so I had to check it out, this is one of his more recent books. I really enjoyed the first part of this mystery story involving parallel universes and dreamlike scenarios, but felt a bit disappointed of the second part but I will definitely have to check out more of his books, the new york trilogy is suppose to be really good.

The secret life of Houdini by William Kalush and Larry Sloman

- This is a biography of the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. If you liked movies such as the prestige and the illusionist or are just a fan of illusions you should definitely read this book. Found it very interesting and hope it will be turned into a good movie some day soon :)

Brrrap!! Brrrap!!

Next week it's time for dance floor madness again see you there, brrrap brrrap

STAY

This movie by Marc Forster called Stay is really amazing I just re-watched it again and I just love it. I really like mystery movies and this is a great mystery story. Apart from that the music is wonderful so is the acting. And the fluidness of the editing is just amazing like the transition between shots is probably the best I've ever seen. If you like mystery stories you should definitely pick this up. 

Intuos 4 is finally here!!

Wacom intuos 4 is finally here seems like I've been waiting for ages. It so time to update my intuos 2 cause it pretty close to giving up any minute nowe.
More info here

Guess who's back!

Behind the Mic from anticon. on Vimeo.

THEMSELVES are back! And with 2 new release 1 mixtape and one full length album still to be released over at anticon. 

So for now go get the FREEhoudini mixtape for free over at anticon

And check out this really cool practice video above of doseone learning the lines of one of the new songs.

Berlin birthday party

I'm going to the Pictoplasma conference in Berlin next week, if anyone else is going let me know and I might see you there. It's going to be great fun. I went there for the 2nd conference a few years back and it was a blast and a great inspiration boost. 

Pictoplasma

Pretty Good. Prettaaaaay, Prettaaaaay, Pretty Good

All 4 cast members of Seinfeld are reuniting for multiple episodes of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. This is so cool, can't wait for the new season. If you don't know Curb your enthusiasm it's a show written and staring Larry David the co-creator of Seinfeld. It's probably the best comedy show of the last 10 years.

More about the new season over at /film

P.S. By the way the image above is old and the start date is not for the new season, hope it will start airing soon :)

Banjo or freakout

Banjo or freakout

One of the best music finds I've made this year. Really nice lofi music reminds me a lot of stuff that's been coming out of anticon over the years. He released a cover cd that feature covers on artist such as Burial, Radiohead, Sonic youth and a bunch more, I think it's like 11 tracks. It's sold out now but you can find some songs on the internet if you search a bit.

 

Anyway check out his music great stuff.

Here's a link to Banjo or freakouts blog where you can find a lot of exclusive tracks and other nice stuff. And here is his myspace page.

Next life - the Lost Age

Next Life - the Lost Age

They have outdone themselves again. Next Life from Norway, is just amazing!! Can't get much better than this. Brutality and 80s videogame melodies combined into one BIG BANG!

Check them out on myspace and buy the album.

(also available on itunes store).

myspace

Electric dungeon

a year in soundwaves

Ok!
2009 is getting closer and closer, so I though I'd make a list of a few of my favorite albums from 2008, Ok I realize some of these are actually from 2007 but they deserve a spot here anyway :)
Ok here goes in no particular order:

GIRL TALK - Feed the animals
I saw Girl talk preform at this years Roskilde festival, and it was so good, feel in love with his mash ups immediately. Mixing everything from popular music from the last 30 years or so. Check out his liveset if you get a chance.


THE FOUNTAIN - Soundtrack
Loved the movie "the fountain" by Darren Aronofsky, and the music by Clint Mansell is equally as good.

BRICK - Soundtrack
Another of my favorite movies "Brick". And the soundtrack here also helps a lot. I love how lo fi it is, some parts made with stick hitting metal pipes and pots and stuff like that. Also check out the behind the scene feature about the soundtrack on the dvd, very inspiring.

COCOROSIE - The adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn
Cocorosie's latest album is easily my favorite. And I love the fact that they have moved more and more towards a lofi hip hop sound on some tracks, ditching the normal singing for rap. I hope this evolution will continue.

DAFT PUNK - ALIVE 2007
Daft punk has always been great and here is a collection of all their best stuff but live. I hope I will get to see them live in a near future, seems to be such an amazing liveact.


WHY? - Alopecia
Been a huge fan of Why? for a long time, but felt kind of disappointed on his last few record they've been good but I loved the old more rough sound he used to have, now it more pop than the old lofi rap. But this record is really great everything is so good, and as always the lyrics! gotta love those lyrics!


WHY? - Alopecia demo
Wow this is probably even better than the album it self :) All tracks from the album but in demo versions. Very rough unpolished versions of the songs. Some are just why? singing into his Dictaphone.

DOSEONE - Skeleton Repellent
Doseone has to be one of the most productive musicians alive. And this is his latest solo album which follows in the footsteps of HA, but gets even better here.


HARAM - Drescher
The first Haram album is one of my favourite albums of all time. I haven't found this follow up to be equally as great but it does come close. Never the less a great band.

THE DARK KNIGHT - Soundtrack
Great teatrical and epic soundtrack, love the opening track. This might even get an oscar we will see.

CAGE - Hell's winter
Probably my most listen to album of this year. Great hiphop produced by El-p. Waiting for a follow up to be released early next year.

UNITED NATIONS - s/t
Power violence revivalist united nations with members from Converge and Thursday.

CULT OF LUNA - Eternal kingdom
Easily Cult of luna's best album to date. Darker and more epic than before, can't get much better than this.

SNÖRAS - Plague waters
Norway is on a roll. Enegetic and powerfull, a great follow up to their debut record.

MUSCLES - Guns babes lemonade
"Ice cream is gonna save the day!"

THE HOOD INTERNET - Mixtape vol. 2
Mash up kings!
RADIOHEAD - In Rainbows
Best Radiohead album since Kid A.

DOSEONE - Soft skull
A very limited release by Doseone consisting only of poems read by Doseone. Gotta love those poems.

SUBTLE - Yell and ice
A EP from Subtle featuring guest appearances by cLOUDDEAD, TV on the radio


BLOC PARTY - Intimacy
The latest Bloc party record, actually I've just recently started listening to bloc party, love the band and haven't had time to listen to the new record that much yet but what I've heard is great.

DJ MAYONNAISE - STILL ALIVE
Great lofi electronic record released by Anticon.

LUKE STAR - Lake toba
Great band from norway sounds sometime pretty close to Mew from Denmark.

AMPERE - the first five years
Great collection of Ampere's work over the last five years, they have always done really great records, and this is a good place to start if you've never heard them.

"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time"

Let the right one in (låt den rätte komma in). This is a new Swedish vampire movie of all the strangest things. But surprisingly this is a really good Swedish movie, I usually can't stand swedish movie except some 90s tv comedy and the masterpieces of Roy Andersson. But I really likes this one. it's based on a best selller and as usuall I guess the book is even better or so I've been told, so I guess I should go read the book now. Go see it if it hits a theater near you. A english speaking remake is allready in the works but I have a hard time beliving that will even come close to this movie.

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. This is a story of how Billy Pilgram got unstuck in time. I really like this book, cause I like sciense fiction themed book especially when they consists of timetravel. If you are a fan of the show lost (spoiler alert) this is remakably simular to what happens to desmond in that show in the later parts of season 4. I guess the writters have read the book :) But basicly it's a story about Billy pilgram who is a worldwar veteran, who keeps jumping around in time mentaly one instanse he is in present time the next his back in the war then onto his childhood and so on. Pick it up if you like sci-fi and timetravel stories.

why so serious?

Tomorrow the dark knight will hit theaters in sweden, finally :)
Been waiting like crazy for this movie.
I'm reading up on batman backstories before the opening tomorrow here are some great volumes you should check out if you're into Batman.


Arkham Asylum. One of the best illustrated comic books ever, I'm mean Dave McKean and Batman can it get much better :)


The Long Halloween. Great album, with the origin of harvey dent, also features the joker amongst other villains.


The Killing Joke. Deep dive into the joker mythology.

knight to C3

A illustration I made earlier this year for "Bio Marx" a small cinema ring in Umeå. Love the insanly happy popcorn :) hahaha


Chess is the next big thing for sure :) Or I guess it's always been I'm just a bit slow a realizing. Great fun anyway. up for a game?

the truth about truth serum?

I just finished listening to the audio book version of "lunar park" the latest novel of writer Bret Easton Ellis. I really enjoyed the book even thou it left me rather confused on what did actually happen and what was fiction? as this is set up as a biographical book with Ellis himself as the main character, transforming into a Stephen King like horror story with a haunting house scary toys and fictional characters brought to life. I don't think I've seen a novel like this before where you in the end have no idea if anything you just read is true or not. you should read it and decide for yourself. :)