thinglets: One Man, Two Generations of Electronic Music

Klaus Schulze, who WAY BACK was with Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, has been a solo performer for decades. The following two clips show you what kind of differences and similarities over 30 years of evolution makes. You'll probably find the clips similar on a surface listen, but listen to tonal quality and the style of layering employed.

I would expect you to listen to 30 minutes' worth of the two clips, but by jumping around you should be able to see and hear some real differences in technology and real similarities in style even with the new tools.

thinglets: Why Today's Print Advertising is Dead To Me In Ten Pics Or Less... Okay Ten!

The answer is simple. Print ads used to be weird while trying to normal; this made them surreal and, by default, intriguing. Often not for their content, but instead through sheer disbelief.

Now print ads are trying to be weird... and that's just real. You can't beat disturbing obliviousness... of course, you can just disbelieve all of this and think of this as a fucked up old ads post.

And I couldn't skip this one. Surreal for content alone.

thinglets: a short film about work that made me smile

I know that most people go to YouTube in order to find the populist clips of films, music, and television shows, but between the nfb.ca site and Vimeo, I'm going to YouTube less and less.

Give yourself four minutes to enjoy this third year film project from a Calarts student. I think anyone who's worked in an office can relate. There is just the right balance of pathos before the pay off that I couldn't help but smile. Please check out some great short films at Vimeo some day while you're at work instead of timesucking your breaks on YouTube.

lovehate funkcast number one for a #musicmonday

You can't fake the funk. You can't beat the beat. You can't grift the groove. Gotta move your feet!

While almost everything else on lovehatethings is Creative Commons, this is not, and if the RIAA or any of the artists order me to take this down, I'll gladly comply. But until then, if you dig it, maybe you'll go and buy it, which will make everyone happy in the end.

thinglets: atomicRAGE

A little mashup I made from the Creative Commons copyright-free Prelinger Archive at archive.org and some Rage Against the Machine. There's something to be said about a good juxtaposition: kickass music and mass destruction.

EDIT: Thanks to YouTube's copyright snitch algorithms, this video is not viewable in Germany. May I suggest my German friends watch this instead.