Paddock
Posted by Justin | Filed under Art, Music, Philosophy, Self Promo
My friend Nathan and I have been collaborating on a new music project for a couple of months now, and finally have a couple of tracks online. I hesitate to call it a “band”, since we have yet to actually play music together in the same room, but that changes tomorrow. For now though it’s just a project.
The name we’re currently using to refer to this pursuit is Paddock, which is meant to conjure a certain pastoral feeling. I like to think of this music as outside music, maybe it lives between dusk and dawn when expansiveness of the sky can be overwhelming and you need to find that safe place in the midst of of all that space. That’s where the name comes in, at least in my mind.
(Maybe I’m over thinking it though.)
We’re working on recording an album that we’re going to put out on the tape label we’re starting, so stay tuned for that. More on tape labels and my thoughts on ambient music later.
Saul Bass on Aesthetics and Beauty
Posted by Justin | Filed under Art, Design, Random Bits
This video brings up an interesting question that designers (and other professionally creative people) deal with every day; when is beauty necessary and when is function enough? I deal with this especially often as a web designer since my day-in-day-out experience is dealing with clients who want their messaging prominent and easily navigated without desire for much else in many cases. Actually, the majority of commercial clients are hesitant to move outside of the “normal” (i.e. standardized) user experience at all due to fear that a user will be intimidated by anything that they haven’t encountered a hundred times. So, this brings up another question: does beauty require innovation? Can true beauty be created with used puzzle pieces, or are we just consistently missing great opportunities? Is function EVER enough?
This year I’m trying to make everything I do beautiful. We’ll see how it goes.
Video via Blankenship.
Vanishing Point
Posted by Justin | Filed under Art, Design, Motion, Music, Random Bits
Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.
