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NYK podcast No. 2

We did another podcast. Here it is:

NYK Experiment Episode 2 - The Hour by Nyk_Experiment on Mixcloud

International Anthem from Entschwindet und Vergeht

Dougie has outdone himself again..
http://youyouidiot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-international-anthem.html

NYK podcasts now streamed directly into your 4G ears

Last night we recorded the first NYK Experiment in, well, a long time. check it oot below - contains some strong language and sounds of eating.

NYK Experiment Episode 1 by Nyk_Experiment on Mixcloud

Save Otago Lane Tuesday 10.30am, George Square

Like tea? Like music shops? Like book shops? Like clocks that work? Support the Save Otago Lane campaign by coming to this protest on Tuesday. If not singular, unique, vital instances of all the above may be lost!

Skateistan

Keith's Dad's Ghost Offers Some Help With The Gardening

   Keith was about to mow his mum's lawn when his dad appeared. This was peculiar because Keith's dad had been dead for twelve months now.
   "Savour every moment," said Keith's dad. Keith looked at him, stunned.
   "What?"
   "Savour every moment,"
   "Right... How are..."
   "And don't mow in that pattern," Keith's dad continued obliviously, "it looks better long ways."
   Keith maneuvered the mower around by ninety degrees and started mowing. He kept the apparition in his peripheral view.
   Some minutes passed.
   "Always follow your dreams!" shouted Keith's dad over the drone of the mower. Keith looked at him.
   "Reach for the stars and follow your dreams!" shouted Keith's dad, "and make sure you use the RCD on that mower cause you know what you did to Uncle Archie's hedge trimmers!"
   "Why are you here?!" shouted Keith. Keith's dad did not answer. Keith continued to mow, up and down.
   "Never deny love!" shouted Keith's dad." You never know when it's coming and it's always worth it!"
   Keith nodded.
   "And make sure you weed before you cut the grass, and pull them out by the roots, else they'll only come back!"
   Keith stopped mowing and started weeding. The weeds were fragile and many, and the roots tenacious in the hard ground.
   "Always stand by your beliefs," said Keith's dad. "If you stand for nothing you'll fall for anything." The sun was setting. "And you really should mow the front too before it gets too dark."
   Keith got up and started the mower again.
   "Always tend to others first! And keep the garden tidy!" Keith was on the last length of the lawn. "A well tended garden will tend to you in your salad years!"
   Keith let the mower die down, looked up and opened his mouth to speak. At which point Keith's dad's ghost promptly vanished.

GI at the Southside Studios

COME TO THESE:

1. AS PART OF THE SUPPORTED PROGRAMME:

Familiar (Parts One & Two)

Commissioned by Southside Studios, in association with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts 2012

Familiar 

 

Part One   

Preview: Saturday the 21st  April 7pm – 9pm  

Exhibition Open: 20th  April – 7th  May 11am – 6pm  

Southside Studios, 17 Westmoreland Street, G42 8LL  

   

Artists Eric Eyres , Michelle Hannah, Rose Ruane and Anna Tanner have been selected to mount the inaugural exhibition  ‘Familiar’, in a new and bespoke pentagonal gallery at Southside Studios.  

   

An interdisciplinary show taking in video, photography, drawing, painting,  and performance, it will attempt to examine the role of shared memory and collective consciousness in defining the unstable relationship between the magical and the mortal. 

    

Concerned with the yearning of the human spirit to search for experiences beyond the mundane, this exhibition endeavours to tease out the relationship between the esoteric and everyday.   

 

Familiar 

 

Part Two   

Performances: Friday the 27th  April 7pm – 12am  

McNeill’s Bar Function Room, 106 Torrisdale  Street, G42 8PH  

   

    

This night of offsite performance and video will expand on the themes of the exhibition, with screenings of new work by Erica  Eyres and performances by Michelle Hannah, Rose Ruane and Anna Tanner.  

   

Weaving together glossy fragments of half remembered TV variety spectaculars, educational video and sparkling disco stars the artists will produce an evening of music, film and spoken word.  

   

   

   

 

About the organisation: 

   

Southside Studios new gallery space imaginatively repurposes Ganghut’s  sculptural pavilion, which had remained onsite since their 2010 Glasgow International project. Conceived by Jenny Baynes , funded by Glasgow International and  realised  by owner Ben Walker in collaboration with several designer/maker tenants of the studio, this innovative architectural project creates fresh opportunities for exhibitions and performances. First opened in December 2005, Southside Studios are an artist-run studio space providing exhibition and workspace to 28 artists and designers.  

2. AS PART OF THE INCLUDED PROGRAMME:

REAL TIME GLIMPSES AHEAD

At a closing event towards the end of the festival, the gallery will be ceremoniously named. The studio artists/designers are involved in deciding on a name for the gallery, as well as the structure under which it will operate. The outline of a yearlong programme of shows, events, plays and parties will be presented.

Real Time Glimpses Ahead will attempt to give a flavour of future shows planned in the new gallery. Studio artists/designers display glimpses of things to come in and around the studio complex. The exhibition is understood as a work in progress, still evolving and changing during the festival period.
A central point will provide information about the 6 yearlong history of Southside Studios, as well as other local events, groups and venues.
First opened in December 2005, Southside Studios are an artist-run studio space providing exhibition and work space to 28 artists and designers.
Real Time Glimpses Ahead is presented as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012.
Opening Details:
Preview night:                      Saturday 21st April 2012, 7-9pm, free
Opening days:                      every day from 20 April – 7 May 2012, free
Opening hours:                    11am - 6pm
Closing Party:                       ‘The Wake’ on Saturday 5 May 2012, 8-12pm, free

Southside Studios, 17 Westmoreland Street, Govanhill, Glasgow, G42 8LL
www.southsidestudios.org

Screamin Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You

from roy

Welcome to the future!

Thanks to Murphy for reminding me of this xkcd.com gem:
Roy

This Is Why I'll Never Be An Adult

This gem comes courtesy of Erika. Thanks Erika! (Therika)

Roy

Hair Of The Dog

I've been helping Jonnie with his installation coming up this weekend, involving 8 Niftymitters.. Do come along, it is going to have to be good.



A full length album of material from Jonnie Common’s debut 'Master Of None' remixed by a talented bunch of his personal favourites. Available as a limited screen print with download. Featuring:

GEESE : DEMS : FOUND : BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD : ONTHEFLY : RIVER OF SLIME : GRNR : A LA FU : MIAOUX MIAOUX : THE JAPANESE WAR EFFORT : CAUGHT IN THE WAKE FOREVER


Nov 25 - 27 : Jonnie Common Sound Installation

Jonnie Common has worked with Zero Waste Design to produce an interactive sound installation at MONO that lets users mix the elements of his debut album with the added potential for lo-fi surround sound to be achieved.

If that’s not all, an exhibition by illustrator David Galletly will also be shown over the weekend featuring drawings and murals related to ‘Master Of None’.


Nov 27 : Exhibition Closing Party

live sets from: BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD + DEMS + GRNR
special guest DJ sets from: FOUND + THE JAPANESE WAR EFFORT

7.30pm : £4 : MONO : 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, G1 5RB


INFO + TICKETS: WWW.JONNIECOMMON.COM

Flux Pinning in Jazz

This video is great for two reasons:

1. It demonstrates the faintly unbelievable
2. The soundtrack

Thanks to Carlo!
Roy

A Song of One Hundred Years, Adam Beattie

A Song of One Hundred Years by adambeattie

I played as a consultant of Adam Beattie regularly for a couple of years after graduating, and have very fond memories of the experience. Indeed without Adam there would be no three headed Inspector Tapehead, seeing as Chris too was a consultant at that time, and Jonnie was unashamedly in thrall to Adam's croonings. It is fairly damning for us then that since he parted our close proximity, Adam has continued to improve without pause, revelling amongst a host of excellent London consultants. Of course we still meet occasionally and the meetings are all the more delightful for their scarcity. In a good way.

My favourite of his songs that we played together was Man Running, a track realised in boldly different colours on his second album We'll Wave From the Shore. When we played Man Running it was something of a heartfelt, rich, tearjerker, almost rubbery in its rubato (as was oft the way in that lineup, much to Adam's delight). It got me in the same way that pretty much any brass band playing Nimrod or Danny Boy does - when we played it at the Abu Bozy album launch in the Tron, I got pretty carried away with the old deep-sighing of the harmonium!

Anyway the point of this essay is that a couple of years ago Adam nonchalantly whipped out a song that has come to replace Man Running in my top spot of Beattie tunes, in the form of A Song of One Hundred Years. An astonishing bit of song writing, he has now put it into zeroes and ones and uploaded it to Soundcloud as a preview of his third album. In Adam's words, it is "A song I wrote for my grandfather George Craigie, who died last April 2010, at the age of one hundred years old." Listen to it above, and enjoy.

PS. As you can see, the effect of any dose of Beattie is acute sentimentality such as this!

Roy

The Cinematic Orchestra - 'Entr'acte'

Kate Hartman on TED

This excellent Ted talk by Kate Hartman, has almost all the things theSlog is interested in: design, glaciers, funnies..

JWC at the DBL

One of two videos from a recent outing with Jonnie Common to the Diving Bell Lounge:

L@tDBL - Jonnie Common - Shogun from Precious Productions on Vimeo.


Jonnie's excellent recent album is listenable and buyable here.
I cemented a rock solid professional reputation by fucking up two takes royally before getting this, still ropey performance, improved endlessly by some delightful cinematography by Extreme Man, Richard. Eg. here is Richard filming himself kitesurfing.

Enjoy, Roy

PS.

I've just read the caption for this video on vimeo, presumably written by Richard or Jolene, with much amusement! If it is Richard, we are clearly regarding each other with similar suspicion, me of him being some kind of superman, and he of me being a potential architect and assassin. One of those accusations is true, and the other is sort of true, see if you can work out which.