slow talkers



man, i love it when covers are amazing. it's such a tricky thing to try to cover an original song & yet there are actually quite a few good ones. jeff buckley has such a rad way of putting emotion into his music - it's really hard for me to imagine him doing a cover that didn't sound pretty perfect.

The Air Between Us




Paradise from Nathan Steinbauer on Vimeo.

I guess the OG version of the story of Atlas was that he held the celestial spheres but at some point it got adapted into Altas holding the globe. Maybe that was done to demonstrate more of the weight of the world. i think about that image from time to time. Sometimes work can be so heavy. It really does feel like we work for the weekend. thank God for hammocks...seriously one of man's greatest inventions.

i was thinking

everything around us moves so quickly. i love that there is so much information around us. it's so exciting to constantly be learning something new. There are times though, that the speed of things can become overwhelming. And i think this makes it difficult to truly see things because there is so much going on around us. I've been trying to find out where i fit in these days. And lately, i've seen things similar to the way one watches a playground merry-go-round, waiting to jump on. since it's already moving, you have to waiting for your time to jump...if you get your timing off, you can end up eating dirt. so before you do find your place, your adrenaline can be sky-high at the risk of not getting things quite right. I guess i don't really worry about the future, but i analyze the process of things too much.

so i guess, as important as keeping up w/ the speed of life is...i'm finding out now how important it is to slow down & just enjoy what's going on in the present. the world will always be moving forward, and we'll catch up at some point. no worries on how long it takes cause we'll get to where we need to be just fine, i promise.



GAUNTLET HAIR - I WAS THINKING from ( . )( . ) on Vimeo.

kicking off the weekend with a fresh summer jam. yes, this video is craze

Young Hearts Spark Fire



I tagged along w/ my parents when they went dancing this weekend. Seeing them dancing & smiling was hands-down the cutest thing i've ever seen. It's strange going home as an adult & feeling the nostalgia of being in the house you grew up in. Everything is so familiar but since time has passed, the familiarity seems slightly lessened.

When I was at this country bar watching people dance i remembered a similar moment as a kid watching all the adults drinking beer & laughing at the bowling alley. bowling night brought a bunch of my family's friends out to the seedy part of town for a healthy dose of 2nd-hand smoke & raper-looking dudes. Most of the kids (myself included) would spend most of our time getting into some sort of trouble. Hide & Seek between lanes & the bar...or rolling bowling balls down the carpet area where people walked. This was all fun until we were greeted by the firm hand of the law - which looked a lot like the scariest grandma we had ever seen & so feared for our lives. the rest of the time i spent in the arcade playing pinball & Mortal Kombat - which i tooootally ruled at. Those nights at the bowling alley i remember watching our parents act like we did. It really hit me then that our parents were just grown up kids. I think now it feels so weird thinking about how we carry our youth with us as we get older. It's not like those experiences go away. They're with us forever. So how can we not act like kids when we're adults? It's a lot better than worrying about dying, right? yea, i thought so too



feeling lucky i guess



it's crazy to me that music can carry so much weight. I think it has to do with a songwriter putting a part of their heart/soul into their songs. elliott smith songs continue to impress me. pretty much every one he's written has impacted me in some way. I like knowing that even though great musicians & artists have come & gone...we can still enjoy the things they have believed in. I'm feeling really lucky these days to be surrounded by so many awesome things & people. It makes me wonder how much life has in store and i'm looking forward to whatever comes next.


Jet Plane

I have always loved museums. A few years ago, I saw an exhibit in British Columbia focusing on Ancient Egypt & remember being blown away. The whole idea of people building pyramids is so far beyond my understanding.

For me, designing is all about mathematics & visual balance of objects in space....so the whole exhibit i was nerding out on how much of everything created was mathematically based. Oh, I also had a dream once I flew over the pyramids w/o a plane. That may or may not be the same dream i flew over the school playground and flipped off some teacher that hated kids. that was such a great dream moment. Anyways, pyramids & jet planes were inspiration for the design i just did for our next show flier:


Egypt & Jordan from Marco on Vimeo.


I also ran across this video today which I think was pretty rad

Making Time

Jack White make guitar from GorWo4ek on Vimeo.


Jack White is the man.

My dad is pretty much the greatest creative genius i know. I remember dad pulling the truck over by the side of the road various times to pick up something that had potential to be something great. I was always really excited to see what he would put together. Often when he was building something I would pretend I could do the same. One summer he built a patio cover. My job was pretty much clean up crew - picking up scraps of wood that weren't needed.

At some point, I had collected a huge stack of wood pieces and decided it was time to make something of my own. I spent quite a while that afternoon nailing it together & making sure everything fit together perfectly. I don't think anyone realized the irony of creating a heavy wood race car w/ triangular wheels that couldn't move. But the idea of it kinda kills me now. Especially since it ended up looking a lot like the car from Back to the Future.

you have my attention

The Naked And Famous - Young Blood from The Naked And Famous on Vimeo.


Owl City from Endeavor Media Group on Vimeo.


I started noticing lately if I zone out when thinking about things, i start imagining the world moving in slow motion...then i imagine dinosaurs walking into the scene in front of me. Today it happened at a stop light downtown when I waited for the light to change. i laughed thinking about how funny it would be to see them walking in a line around the city in between the tall buildings. Some guy working in a cubicle on the 23rd floor looks out his window and sees a dinosaur walk by...sounds hilarious. I'm not sure why that's been happening so much these days. I remember watching Jurassic Park for the first time and being blown away.

There's something so interesting about the things that catch our attention as kids & stay with us into adulthood. The fact that something affected us so deeply that no matter where we end up and how much we experience in life...those things that caught our attention are still with us somehow. :)

you are the ocean

One of the best memories about my grandma was when I saw her as she brushed her teeth. In passing I caught her removing her partial teeth & put them by the sink. I continued on my way, but for some reason needed to know what her smile looked incomplete. It made me soooo happy to see her semi-toothless grin that i yelled "Grandmaaaaa, you look so awesome! just like a pirate!" i was so young that i was proud of my new discovery about her. i was sure she appreciated my comment at the time. i mean, who doesn't want to look like a pirate, right? well, maybe she didn't. anyways, we laughed together for a while. though i'm not sure she was laughing for the same reason i was...it was still amaaaazing. oh my poor grandma, may she rest in peace. i can only imagine the weird things i said to her as a kid. grandma p was a saint :)


Washed Out - "You and I" from Jacob Corbin on Vimeo.



There's nothing really like floating in a pool in the summertime. It almost feels like nothing else in the world exists when you're underwater. I think if I could float on a raft w/ my friends for the rest of my life I'd be so happy.

begin at the beginning

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Aquarium | Jamie Long | Unofficial Fan Video from Sentimental on Vimeo.


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“...love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage...Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it–the total passion for the total height–you’re incapable of anything less.”

sleep-walking & sleep-talking

I used to talk a lot in my sleep when I was a kid. It actually started with yelling. My parents figured it was due to a combination of my imagination & tv. At some point I did stop screaming, but i think it's just because i grew out of it.

My grandma came to visit at Christmas time when I was small. She slept in my room in between something like 500 stuffed bears. She told me once one night she woke up & noticed I was talking in my sleep about so-and-so, chillin, looking out the window like it was normal. Anyways, from that point on, i was convinced I could have legitimate conversations in my sleep. I even tried to get my friends to ask me questions about life mysteries - just in case my subconscious could answer them better. This theory was never proven.

#1



#2

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"

#3

fear & lasers

the whole concept of forgiveness is such a huge idea to process. It can be easy to exchange words to make a situation ok. and though i'm a huge advocate for resolution & peace between friends - i don't think i even know what true forgiveness is. i've been thinking if it best to forgive someone even when they aren't sorry. I would never want to be the one standing in the way of progress. I hope that i can encourage the good in people. Learning to forgive can be ridiculously challenging. But i'm realizing the only real thing that prevents us from being able to forgive is fear. I like the idea of letting fear go & moving forward. Life is too short to not be enjoying it :)

JULIAN CASABLANCAS - 11TH DIMENSION MUSIC VIDEO from Warren Fu on Vimeo.


(posted this video mostly because of the lasers - which are awesome)

skills & uncharted waters

Foreign Born "Early Warnings" from Monte Lomax on Vimeo.


I remember the build up on the way to family events as a kid. Car rides down winding country roads led us through valleys & foothills. I spent a lot of time looking out the window - the sunlight hitting my face when it found it's way through the trees. The party we were attending one afternoon met at a park/campground. Though the campground part was full of weeds & dirt, the perimeter was lined with shade from trees with creeks & ponds. On the road my brother & I were reminded about how we should behave. Instead of listening, I was watching the trees - planning my attack on the park. We found most of the kids at the playground, fighting over swings. Fighting was of no interest to the two of us. I took my cue w/ a nod from Aaron, and we were off to the creek to explore. Rocks covered with algae & tall weeds at the edge of the creek were no match for our adventuring skills. We were on a quest in the uncharted waters of the pond - for tadpoles. Hours would go by & we'd fill styrofoam cups with the best potential frogs we could find. We returned home the tadpoles were relocated to jars in their new home we called our backyard. It never really occurred to me they might not like it at our home as much as we did, but it was still one of the best things to feel like we rescued them somehow.