How Vinyl records are made… and How Vinyl records are NOT made…
Ever wanted to see how vinyl records are created? well, i will give you a couple of choices here. both processes are incredibly similar but the first one is more painstaking.
Option 1:
Wanna see Duke Ellington and his Orchestra slap together a recording straight to vinyl? Well, watch this film from 1937 and make sure to smile. Most of the work is done using hand presses and tools, and requires a significant amount of repetition. this film worries significantly less on perfection as opposed to process, and you are able to see people smiling and showing off their work. it is a nice little time capsule piece to watch.
Option 2:
From the Discovery Channel’s “How is it made” TV show, this short goes through the modern processes and gives step by step information about how companies go from sound waves to pressed vinyl. This one is sorely lacking when it comes to Duke Ellington, but there is one bonus: The version here is the UK edition of the show, with a pleasant male voice. The US version has a terrible female voice that sounded incredibly bad. there is far less repetition in this modern process. unlike the Duke film above, this one is very sterile. no one looks at the camera and it is cool to watch, but doesnt feel as lively as the other. sterile, that really is a great description for it.
Option 3:
It appears that the folks over at REWSIC.com have created the following film showing a Japanese master in training. Horioka is an artisan who is learning the skill of Onkoku vinyl record engraving by hand. This is the “documentary” which shows his high skill and style of work. This is definitely NOT how records are made but cracked me up and needed to be included.
The video is labeled on their site with the term NINGEN which translates pretty close to Earthling or Human
Onkoku seems to have some relevance to the term “domestic” and in reference to the video would only redundantly point out that he is working by hand as opposed to being in a factory.
so what does it all mean anyways
you try so hard to keep people in your life that help give it meaning. the ones that are supposed to be your strongest allies spend a few months in turmoil completely hating you and asking you to “understand”. so you try and try and try. it is harder than anything you have ever done.. what happens when you reach the point where you are no longer able to understand?
i have recently been going through this. i want my friend back. i want to know that we are going to be okay. i want her to stop hating me. like a cruel dog owner and a yappy puppy, i am tired of being beaten and then petted and cooed. i may have to cut ties and run soon. bite the master and leave before the backlash. time to make the beta male go to sleep and let loose an alpha that i an never prove is inside.
this shit sucks.
Not kick ass..., douche baggery | Comments (4)an edit, an update, and new information
previously, a post was made regarding a person using the moniker Peterpunk
a couple photos were attached to the post. i was utterly taken back by one of them in particular. Peterpunk advised that though the photo was found on his site, he did not take the photo. nearly two months have gone by since then and i randomly came across the actual photographer, Marco Guerra. the image was part of a series taken for the World Gold Council.
Marco Guerra:
Marco Guerra is a New York based fashion photographer, originally from Chile. His work has been published in Conde Nast Traveller, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Black Book, the New Yorker Magazine, and other Publications.
Check his site for other work.. i am really partial to his work for Conde Nast Traveler as well, it is gorgeous . see below for a couple examples:
more work also in a recent collaboration:
http://yasminaalaoui.com/
photos are done by Guerra and ink work is done by Yasmina Alaoui
Yasmina Alaoui is of French and Moroccan descent. She has studied Fine Arts at the Louvre in Paris, and earned a BA in
Sculpture from William and Mary.
Art, kick ass stuff, photography | Comments (5)“Artist Yasmina Alaoui and photographer Marco Guerra love to tantalize their audience. In their life-sized
photographic series “one thousand and one dreams”, statuesque bodies apear frozen in time, covered from head to toe in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic Henna patters. Captivated by the realism and sculptural quality of each human form, the viewer becomes lost in an illusion. Each artwork begins with a black and white nude photograph by Guerra. Layers of Alaoui’s complex ink drawings are then fused with the portrait, with breathtaking results. Originally from Chile and Morocco respectively, the couple were inspired by the Thousand and ONe Nights - a legendary collection of tales from the Middle east - and the magic surrealism of South American literature. “
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This is a pretty killer short video.
i have embedded the above from google video, but there is a link to the website itself.
Red 243
Green 197
Blue 208
the RGB color hue for the pink they chose..
Video: “Pink” by Charlie White
Music: “Made” by Greg Weeks
Apparently, Adidas has a new promo going full swing called “AdiColor”. They have let different artists throw together short films that focus on a specific color as a theme. notice all the other colors on the left hand side of the website. each it located at a similarly named domain, referencing their RGB value.
i really enjoyed the red, pink , green, and especially black. pink was the favorite though.
The video for Yellow is pretty sweet too, i had seen it before but didnt realise how it was related to the rest of these.
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