Early Spring Music: The Radio Dept.

Sweden’s The Radio Dept. is a dream-pop journey of musical delight. Highly recommended. Their new album Clinging To A Scheme (very repeatable!) is dropping soon.

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The Radio Dept – “David”

Harmony

Harmony is a procedural drawing web app that utilizes JavaScript and WebKit. It’s really fun to experiment with, see above, “Hello”. I’d love to see this as an actual application.

Watch it in action here.

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Early Spring Music: Parenthetical Girls

Winter is (slowly) melting away and I’m excited about the prospects of spring, warm weather, shorts and sunny adventures. I recently discovered this …

“Evelyn McHale” by Parenthetical Girls

The band has a new EP out and a behind the scenes video (below) of singer, Zac Pennington, hand numbering each LP with his own blood — creepy.

Sai Chia Yu

Taiwan’s Mr. Sai Chia Yu creates a candid blend of summery, old world, asian and fashion savviness that’s the prefect way to start this week. I need that teapot.

Rendez-vous

“Rendez-vous” by Günther Gheeraert (Director + Motion Designer) is simple, beautiful and semi-magical.

Yosigo

Spain’s (specifically Hondarribia) Yosigo has a firm grasp on capturing the beauty behind abandoned spaces. His compositions are almost mathematical and quite complimentary to his wonderfully decrepit subjects.

Also, worth checking out: Bardenas and Prater photo sets, his blog and his 35mm diary.

Shaz Madani

London’s Shaz Madani has carefully crafted a beautiful body of works. I am respectfully in awe!

Get Well Soon

I recently discovered Vexations by Get Well Soon — the solo project of classically trained singer/songwriter Konstantin Gropper based out of Berlin. Vexations is a concept album “about the feeling of calmness, after managing vexations, the album isn’t about vexation itself, it’s about dealing with that vexation”. The music is haunting, moody, fair amounts catchy, incredibly cinematic and the song writing is intimate without being overly self indulgent.

The cover artwork by Adrian Ghenie entitled “Pie Fight Study 2″ is a perfect fit.

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Get Well Soon – Seneca’s Silence

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Get Well Soon – We Are Free

Here are a couple videos worth checking out …

“Listen! Those Lost At Sea Sing A Song On Christmas Day” by Get Well Soon

“Angry Young Man” by Get Well Soon

Boys & Bikes

Here’s a couple of inspirational/fun bike videos. Note to self: Go outside and do something already.

“Filming Myself in the Snow” by Steve Schinnerer

“Anthony & Taylor” by Steve Tenuto

Alethea Everard

I’m pretty sure I have a thing for “foggy photos” and landscapes. Alethea Everard seems to push all the right buttons for me — I’d love to visit all of these magically moody destinations.