Listening To: Motorama, Ducktails & Boat Club

The warm weather is here and I’ve been jamming to these bands for a couple months now. Enjoy!

If Joy Division didn’t exsist, neither would Motorama but that’s a great thing as far as I’m concerned!

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Motorama - “Pine”

Ducktails is lofi-psychedelic-tropical-pop and excellent at their craft. Highly recommended if you’re into something surfer-y.

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Ducktails = “LandRunner”

Sweden’s Boat Club is the soundtrack to the perfect sunny-fun-fest.

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Boat Club - “Nowhere”

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Boat Club - “Warmer Climes”

Inspired by Sébastien Schuller

Agnes Montgomery is responsible for the incredible artwork and Sébastien Schuller the music — beautifully mixed together. For fans of Sigur Ros, folk and/or electronic-classical. Pure greatness.

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Sébastien Schuller - “Open Organ”

Browser?

All of my web designer/developer friends have their work cut out for them. It’s 2009 people!

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Shell Chairs — Something of How They Get The Way They Are

Liz just scored a killer set of vintage Eames designed 4 (orange) + 2 (yellow) Herman Miller Fiberglass Shell Chairs at an estate sale this weekend! This is the find of the year us!

Here’s neat little video of how they’re made …

We Have Band & Face-paint & Lots of Time

One of my favorite bands We Have Band’s first/new video for “You Came Out” dropped a couple days ago. 4000+ images!

Check out the “Making Of” video below …

Early Summer Musical Inspiration!

Maccabees — “No Kind Words”

Carousel

Carosel is a short film created for the new Philips Cinema TV* (21:9 ratio).

This is how they did it. Brilliant.

*I don’t see people actually trading in their 16:9’s for one of these, but it’s a cool idea regardless.

Guest Blogging @ So Much Pile Up!

Mike Davis of So Much Pile Up asked if I would offer up any of my design inspiration/gems — certainly! Throughout the year I’ll be dropping little nuggets of inspiration from things designed many years before I was born.

Check this month’s installment! (lots more photos/details.)

The multitalented Mike Davis has been running So Much Pile Up since August 2008 and he’s curating quite a collection of visual delicacies! Yum!

Moustache May Alternates!

Week 1 of Moustache May is pretty much over and it’s been a blast so far! Here’s a handful of honorable mentions from this past week. Enjoy!

The rest of this month is going to be great!

Moustache May 2009

Moustache May 2009 + YASLYstache = The Most Fun Month Ever!