tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46749631523853304022024-03-19T05:58:01.286-04:00Millennium Blondemike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-62649997631220478602011-07-04T15:02:00.001-04:002011-07-04T15:02:44.797-04:00USA. USA. USA<a href="http://astroclubblonde.bandcamp.com/track/usa-feat-c-hust">USA (feat. C-Hust) by Astro Club Blonde</a>HAPPY FOURTH -- From ACB mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-25450360873015883892011-03-16T12:01:00.004-04:002011-03-16T12:23:59.974-04:00SHOW TONIGHT- BRUAR FALLSASTRO CLUB BLONDETONIGHT @ 10:30 BRUAR FALLS 245 Grand Street Williamsburg, off BEDFORD LFREE T SHIRTSFREE SHOWDRINK----DANCENEW HIT TRACKSmike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-62173060487775331312011-02-15T09:30:00.003-05:002011-02-15T09:47:14.704-05:00DEEP SEA SKIVINGI know Banarama has been covered on this blog already, but this album might be one of my favorites of all time. If you haven't listened to it, I recommend it for this spring season.mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-38241484700411447192011-01-25T11:12:00.003-05:002011-01-25T11:26:09.157-05:00Marco BrambillaI recently saw the teaser video for Kanye's song "POWER", and I was blown away. I looked into the director, Marco Brambilla, and was really inspired by his work. Apparently, he directed Demolition Man, starring Sylvestor Stallone and Wesley Snipes, a personal favorite of mine. But, after Demolition Man, Brambilla turned to more experimental installation pieces. His work is really incredible and mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-90684737259511065342011-01-12T10:48:00.004-05:002011-01-12T11:14:18.451-05:00DATAMOSHING II- NIGHT SHIFTIn my previous post about datamoshing, I mentioned that I was working on datamoshing a music video. The video, posted below, is for Astro Club Blonde's latest single, NIGHT SHIFT. Astro Club Blonde has their next album, BLUSH, on the way and we thought this video would be a fitting time to give everyone a sample. Make sure to check back for leaked tracks from the album in the next few weeks.NIGHTmike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-1595744572797697962010-11-09T11:50:00.004-05:002010-11-09T12:44:03.099-05:00DATAMOSHINGRecently I have been working on a music video that is incorporating a glitching technique called DATAMOSHING. Datamoshing is kinda 2009, but whatever, Wikipedia has this to say about datamoshing...."Datamoshing occurs when the I-frames or key-frames of a temporally compressed video are removed, causing frames from different video sequences to bleed together."Basically datamoshing takes advantage mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-21444099604650494642010-10-25T09:29:00.012-04:002010-10-27T11:53:50.053-04:00KOBROWSKIMillennium Blonde recently completed shooting its short film "KOBROWSKI". The film is co-directed by Michael Borowiec and Nathan Rogers-Hancock. KOBROWSKI has been in the works for some time and after six days of shooting in Schenectady and Valatie, NY the film moves into the editing room. We threw out script after script until we landed upon KOBROWSKI, which is co-written by Nathan mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-84165062800360473222010-08-02T13:34:00.008-04:002010-08-02T19:01:44.079-04:00Updates and Downloads- New As TomorrowIn January Astro Club Blonde released our first EP, New As Tomorrow. We gave a limited amount cd's away at some of our shows, but never made the EP available for download online- until now. Below you can download New As Tomorrow. The album has tracks like the motorcycle pop-rock song "My Girl", an electronic-dance cover of Rod Stewart's "Young Turks", the Chinese-American love song POWER_LOVE, mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-1154540295864293632010-07-28T13:23:00.005-04:002010-07-28T13:52:28.447-04:00Updates and DownloadsIt's been a while since we've updated everyone on Astro Club Blonde's activities- and there is a lot to update on. The band is currently recording their first full length album- DEBUTANTES. The album is currently scheduled to be released October 1st and will be a big step forward for the band. If you have followed the band over the internet you most likely know Astro Club Blonde's first EP "NEW mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-45127557060580991452010-06-20T23:15:00.004-04:002010-06-20T23:39:10.431-04:00Genuine Caveman Disco SoundThe title of the post is taken from Comeme Label head Matias Aguayo's description of the Xalapa, Mexico based Rebolledo. Aguayo is a fascinating figure himself; after being part of Closer Musik, one of the founding minimal techno bands to be featured on the Kompakt label, Aguayo retreated from Cologne and headed back to Chile, where he started a solo career based on strange, divisive dance NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-52709212590053246332010-06-14T20:14:00.002-04:002010-06-14T20:26:40.506-04:004 Lonely Messages From the Future of PopFor extra credit just play them all at once. I had planned to draw some conclusions for you all, but I have a feeling we'll have to wait twenty-five years or so to really know.NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-82839560052605650632010-06-13T22:30:00.005-04:002010-06-13T23:14:55.097-04:00Bunny and the Bull - A Short Kind of ReviewDon't know when or if this 2009 comedy by Paul King is going to be released in the US, but it's worth discussing for a few reasons. King is the director in charge of a good 20 episodes of the Mighty Boosh TV series, and will probably handle the feature film version of that enterprise, so it's reassuring that this, his first feature, works as well as it does. The Boosh tv show is sort of an odd NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-24229068857168568342010-06-12T12:51:00.004-04:002010-06-12T13:11:42.523-04:00DJ Power and AssociatesGet it HereFriend of the company Alan Lapointe has been working at his hip hop project for awhile now, but it sounds to me like he's really hit his stride on this one, and not just because he starts it off with an iLove beat. This one is really strong, a sure fire way to start the Summer right.NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-15225745637730441922010-06-06T12:57:00.002-04:002010-06-06T12:58:53.824-04:00The iLove 2Here is a new song "iGot" off the upcoming iLove album. The album will be released September 6th (Labor Day) So, we've got a bit of a wait, but not to worry the new Astro Club Blonde album will be here soon. Very exciting! iGotCharlie Phillips is featured on the track with a rippin' guitar solo. I'm also putting up the exclusive ghost story b side "iGhost" for a limited time download. "iGhost"iLove™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14925468243302116419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-42169082857133123302010-06-05T17:50:00.003-04:002010-06-05T19:22:16.318-04:00Notebook Post - Hell with This Video, and Thoughts on WhyM.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.Eighteenth-century satire became nineteenth century observation. In the twentieth century observation became surreal. It became an ironic sensuality, and the basis for satire, which was once moral, became irony. As if by attraction, or even kinship, observation, along with its concerns for sentiment and social justice, followed satire to sit on its newNRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-48033102539870643582010-06-02T20:37:00.003-04:002010-06-02T20:48:47.897-04:00Thinking About BananaramaWhy? Because it's a Wednesday night. So...is "Robert De Niro is Waiting" about rape? Yes. And "Hot Line to Heaven" is about heroin abuse. Of course. Most people only know the band through the pop hits they had through the production of Stock Aiken and Waterman, but their career, like many British bands with roots in new wave, is stranger and more interesting than their big hit . Their amazing NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-92095925072703159202010-06-01T12:00:00.004-04:002010-06-01T12:14:11.443-04:00"L'Ortolan" - Lilli C a r r éL'Ortolan from Lilli Carré on Vimeo.So, Lilli Carre, the young cartoonist whose book The Lagoon is one of the more interesting books I've read in t he last few years, has been making these strange little short films and uploading them on her Vimeo page (all in addition to the great drawings and animated .gifs she has on her blog. She has about five shorts uploaded, and each one is well worth theNRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-1115060341938062842010-05-31T00:06:00.002-04:002010-05-31T00:16:24.928-04:00FormalismMicro Loup from Richard McGuire on Vimeo.Richard McGuire's "Micro Loup" is one of those brilliant little shorts that seems to come out of nowhere. Unless, of course, you're familiar with his long, strange career. The cartoonist behind the incredible six page comic Here, which is one of the most inventive bits of concentrated narrative I can think of. Playing bass in Liquid Liquidtoo, and then NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-64878408075434191502010-05-29T12:21:00.002-04:002010-05-29T12:42:48.573-04:00Stingray Sam Cory McAbee is an interesting figure, to be sure. The main talent behind the 1990s Alt-Rock cult band (cult band or never made its, tough call, this one) The Billy Nayer Show, he also directed one of the more overlooked American films of the last decade or two. The American Astronaut", released in 2001, is kinda like an American Guy Maddin film, trading the latter's NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-11840795842021793332010-05-27T10:14:00.004-04:002010-05-27T10:26:23.110-04:00A Short Film For ThursdayI've been thinking about short films a lot, recently; they really are a kind of red-headed step child of film, aren't they? Mostly because there's so little way to make money off of them , they are usually made early in a director's career, and then abandoned for success or failure. There are a few exceptions, of course - Raoul Ruiz springs to mind, and his incredible "The Film to Come" is NRHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910931019929962004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-11708054462785196132010-05-17T16:21:00.004-04:002010-05-20T13:06:00.892-04:00NYC Video ArtEvery now and then I post some of Peter Shapiro's work on this blog. Peter is a NYC based video artist who I met working a corporate job. I always enjoy talking to Peter about new digital technologies which he is very knowledgeable about. He is always looking for something smaller and cheaper, without sacrificing video quality, for his run and gun tactics. I remember when we were watching a mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-78051205541553276142010-05-14T12:31:00.006-04:002010-05-19T13:52:56.309-04:00Astro CLUB BLONDEAstro Club Blonde is playing at 9 pm the UC Lounge in the Lower East Side. There will be 2 for 1 drink specials until 10 pm. So, I would recommend being ready to double fist a few. And as always you can listen to their stuff HERE and see some videos HERE and HERE. The band is also currently working on their next music video, so that is something to look forward to I suppose. The info is below...mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-53980283786841596992010-05-12T11:59:00.002-04:002010-05-12T12:17:31.932-04:00LSD No-NoHere is a little short, excuse me, an award winning short from a Parkslope/Gowanus illustrator, James Blagden. The film is called Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No. The film uses audio from an interview with Dock Ellis, a pitcher who claims to have pitched a no hitter in the 70's while under the influence of LSD and bennies. James Blagden's illustrations in the film are pretty amazing, but you should mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-9398842998443922172010-05-09T11:06:00.009-04:002010-05-10T21:27:30.141-04:00Downsizing A good friend of mine, Rob Nevulis, recently released his first solo album, DOWNSIZING. I remember seeing him in his basement with all his recording equipment set up and thinking, "What is this kid up to?" He has been working hard at this album for a while and it's all paying off. I have to say I am impressed with his pop sensibilities and think he has found the sound he was mike 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05814882297044192995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674963152385330402.post-41801336001287235572010-05-04T20:06:00.007-04:002010-05-05T02:36:46.903-04:00Behind The Scenes of Night ShiftHere is a behind the scenes peak at ASTRO CLUB BLONDE's new music video NIGHT SHIFT.AWV5JXQNQQKUiLove™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14925468243302116419noreply@blogger.com1