Time Lapse of the fires near LA.

You could see these huge plumes rising from Echo park... quite true to LA's post-apocalyptic nature, it was quite dramatic. I had a thought to film these slow-moving formations and speeding up the footage. Someone else thought of it and actually did it. I don't know what the Grizzly Bear song is about (though I love that song), but the video is amazing...

Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

80,000 year old bling...

Turns out North-Africans of eons ago were adorning themselves with shells - 80,000 years ago. That is so amazingly old, I just had to post...




http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090827101204.htm

PS - I love this science blog...

Los Angeles National Forest on Fire - Smoke hangs in the LA air.

I woke up to the distinct smell of smoke. The whole city is siting around the campfire, and the campfire is the mountains. Its hanging in the air, visible to the naked eye.

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Crews are continuing today to battle a 600-acre wildfire in the Angeles National Forest that is being fanned by bone-dry conditions and high temperatures and filling the skies above the L.A. Basin with thick, gray smoke.

LA is so post-apoco...

New Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom

82%

Its a welcome return for a renovated Massive Attack...

A spooky graveyard song, whispery narration...haunted synths.........spooky clap.........smooth hook...............rabble of ghostly boys....

Play it here

Great puppet video - Dan Deacon: Paddling Ghost.

This makes me want to make puppet videos.

Video Premiere: Dan Deacon: "Paddling Ghost"

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Atlas Sound + Panda Bear - Walkabout

87%

I know this song has been floating about for a while this summer. Walkabout, from Atlas Sound's upcoming album Logo, is totally my August Jam. Its got that perfect combination of nostalgic beach boy with robot from outer space to make a perfect summer song. Dreamy and warm but distant and vast. "To go ahead and change your life, without regard for what is said" is a lovely summer sentiment, waiting for the next stages in life and fantasizing about an optimistic sojourn to something different - something mysterious. Adventure awaits, in your mind, while you wait for the 2nd great depression to end...

Check out the Deer Hunter/Atlas Sound Blog... Its got tons of free music and interesting mixes!

Addeboy vs. Cliff - Beep My Beep

A pretty great song, with a pretty great style that reminds me of music videos from the 80s and 90s, but super slick HD. And who doesn't want their Beep Beeped? This song has one of those dance beats that sounds a little too much to believe, but is undeniably butt-shaking. It has a mentality true to its video's characters, a redbull-raver horny teenager. Ahh, too bad I was playing D&D instead of making out in a bathroom with a strobe light. I give this song 77%. Pretty bump'n.

Addeboy vs Cliff - Beep My Beep from Hannes Lindgren on Vimeo.