Video for Superbus’ Travel the World.

The original Van Halen broke up when I was a senior in high school. And yes, I am an old fan of David Lee Roth, read about it here.

And the reunion no one thought would happen happened and the album no one thought would happen was released yesterday. 28 year wait. The sound harkens back (harkens is the word) to Van Halen I and II – apparently the tracks are based on notes written back around 1975–77ish.

The sound is old – with parts feeling like an odd 1990s solo album Dave put out. Album cover design by SMOG, art directed by Jeri Heiden.

New track: Tattoo, with Dave explaining it here

You Really Got Me acoustic

‘The ads were inspired by Philippe Petit’s 1974 ‘Man on Wire’ act – an illegal tightrope traverse between the Twin Towers – as well as Charles C. Ebbets’ classic 1932 photograph, ‘Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam.”

Green Day – art directed by Yard and photographed by Danny Clinch for (Howard Stern’s favorite designer) John Varvatos, Spring/Summer 2012.

Found via Fashion Indie

‘Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine’

4-part documentary by NYC-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 is in production, donations accepted here.

Website here, Facebook page here. Remixes (inspired by part 3) here and here.

Found via Creative Bits

The work of Christian Marclay. Monograph here.

Found via This Blog Rules

Found via Heidi Andermack, mashKULTURE

‘Yeah, for the logo the ‘g’ took longer to design than all the other letter forms put together.’ -bb

Former typography student. New band. Custom drawn g.

Brett Berry survived my graphic design courses and recently formed The Tangs with his brother Brandon.

Their debut EP Let It Out can be snagged on iTunes.

Website here, Facebook page here.

The Tangs: Take Me Down

Fan-made video for Metric’s Too Little Too Late.

It’s a new year. Let’s move on.

Grimes is Claire Boucher and her new album drops in the US February 21. Details.

Album design by Jasper Baydala with Boucher’s own illustrations. At bottom, Genesis.

‘the story of the rise and fall of Black Horse Disco, a youth club set up in the centre of a large working-class estate in North London’

Knuckle Sandwich. Cover photographed by Red Saunders, a.k.a MC Redman. Powered by Gill Kayo. Details.

The Clash: What’s My Name

Found via The Pelican Blog

Percy Sledge. Powered by Gill Kayo.

Percy Sledge: Any Day Now

Found via Buro Destruct

These vintage Santas are just a tad older than me.

Them, with their cartoony script lettering, would grace the table every year – with or without the requisite salt, pepper, for which they were created. Made in Japan.

Below, track from the ultimate 1960s Christmas album.

Ray Conniff: Twelve Days of Christmas

Poster recreation by Hesh One.

The Doors: Peacefrog (remix by nathan davis)

‘Ball size may very’

Video for Meiko’s latest, Stuck on You.

Recipe here.

Video for Television Room’s Coffee Houses. Directed by Eoin C. Macken.

Featuring Project Runway 7 model Cerri McQuillan.

‘Trouble trouble trouble’

From South Korea: Girls’Generation performs Hoot and Mr. Taxi.

Found via Booted Up!

‘Looking at themes of magick, ritual, psychedelia and Aleister Crowley. Shot on location at ancient stone landmarks in Lands End, Cornwall.’

The work of Kathryn Ferguson. Music composed by Peter Mackenzie.

NYC, 1966. Photograph by Lee Friedlander.

Voyeur: Absent

Today’s zeitgeist: Jobs, Apple, Occupy. Fan-made video set to Kidneythieves’ new track, Floating Angel.

Found via Kidneythieves

The White Stripes. Kate Moss. Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself. Directed by Sofia Coppola.

This week in the car I’ve been listening to my Garbage b-sides mix.

This includes the incredible Honeybee (2005) – above, interpreted by Jenyne Butterfly.

Garbage is back in the studio working on their fifth studio album – and they recently released a U2 cover, below. Facebook page with updates (and streaming b-sides) here.

Garbage: Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

JET performs Are You Gonna Be My Girl? From 2004.

Video for AM & Shawn Lee’s Dark Into Light. Directed by Christian Borstlap and animated by Paul Postma.

Videos for Justice’s Audio, Video, Disco. and D.A.N.C.E.

Video for Phantogram’s When I’m Small.

‘She’s using a lot of graphic designer tools too’ –Devon

First thing this morning (before I had my coffee), Devon Cloutier cornered me and told me about the former schoolteacher who is the singer for Sleigh Bells – and how cool this band really is. This is their video for Rill Rill.

The song ended up stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Video for Cult’s Go Outside. Directed by Isaiah Seret.

Found via Boing Boing

M-za: That Retro Shine mixtape

Image found via KENMAT

‘The tale of doomed Major Tom plays out in Kolb’s bright and retro animation style, giving a face to the legendary Bowie character and making the conclusion that much sadder’

Illustrated just for fun. The work of Andrew Kolb.

David Bowie: Space Oddity

Found via ComicsAlliance and Badass Digest

‘a one-man band, singing and using a variety of homemade musical instruments’

Video for That 1 Guy’s Buttmachine.

That 1 Guy is playing tonite at Harlow’s in Sacramento – tomorrow San Francisco, then Visalia, Las Vegas and points beyond. Website here, interview here.

Found via Elliot Prestwich

Video for The LK’s Stop Being Perfect.

One of my favorite bands from the 1980s is Yes. And former Yes guitarist/vocalist Trevor Rabin has a solo album about to drop, cover painted by Hannah Hooper.

Hooper is in Grouplove with Trevor’s son Ryan. Below, video for Grouplove’s Colours.

Another Chelsea I know – musician Chelsea Davis – is currently touring with 30 Seconds to Mars, filling in on bass. We’re working on a cool project together, will reveal more in the next month or so.

Above, the 2010 video for 30 Seconds’ A Beautiful Lie.

Follow Chelsea’s own band here.

Every person I encounter named ‘Chelsea’ turns out to be incredibly cool.

Sacramento’s Chelsea Wolfe is now in LA – and here’s the video for Mer, from her new album Ἀποκάλυψις.

Below, photographed by Anna Dobos for Interview magazine.

Interview here, tees here.

‘Karlie Kloss lives up to her reputation as the all-American girl as she dons glitter, sequins and Lurex to revisit New York’s Seventies disco heyday’

Editorial for the November 2011 British Vogue photographed by Terry Richardson.

Donna Summer: Hot Stuff

Found via Fashion Indie

Duck Sauce’s Barbra Streisand, the Official Music Video, above. Other stuff, below.

Duck Sauce: Barbra Streisand (Original Mix)

Taio Cruz Vs. Duck Sauce: Dynamite Vs. Barbra Streisand (DJs From Mars Bootleg Remix)

Duck Sauce: Barbra Streisand (Chipmunk Mix)

Macka: My Revolution

Image found via Michael Bosby

Above, Empire State of Mind, an ode to New York City.

Below, Adrian Kinloch’s photos from the Brooklyn Bridge, October 1, 2011.

More here.

More music from Moda.

PLASTiC PLATES: Moda Mixtape September 2011

Found via Amber Witzke; image via DVDp

Music from Moda.

Tom Staar: MODA Pre-Party Mixtape

Image found via DVDp

Been wickedly busy this week. And I’ve discovered working odd hours and bouts of insomnia become part of the whole experience. Had some cool stuff happen, and some really shitty things happen. I’ve also managed to slip in some great conversations.

Had a 3 a.m. chat with my cousin George. Haven’t talked to him in eons. Tuesday night I finally met the recently-promoted head of the Animation department at school. We talked about how wonderful the feeling is when students blow us away with incredible work. And we decided to join forces in doing something new for students involving typography and motion graphics.

Also had a long, detailed chat with a former student about designers and the fears that slow or stop what it is they’re doing. And how the process is difficult, but incredibly fulfilling when one creates work that they’ve never thought possible. Brilliant minds accomplish surprising things when they get past whatever it may be that gets in the way.

‘Did I do that?’

Yeah. You actually did.

Sleep? Sometimes. The whole 9 to 5 experience: Overrated.

The La’s: I Can’t Sleep

Found via Ronnie Carnwath

New track (below) from Annie Erin Clark (above), performing as St. Vincent. From the album Strange Mercy.

St. Vincent: Cheerleader

Video for The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. From the Elephant album.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals’ cover of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit.

Video for Ladytron’s White Elephant. From the new album, Gravity The Seducer.

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s White Telephone track, below. From her upcoming album, Stage Whisper. Her latest EP, Terrible Angels was released last week. Title track video here.

Charlotte Gainsbourg: White Telephone

Found via Typegirl

‘Newly unsigned, I’ve decided to team up with Pledgemusic to help with some of the costs that go with being on the road’

The always entertaining Meiko is going on tour – and asking for a little help with the cash part (above); and in turn, will be helping the Songs For Kids Foundation. A $10 pledge nets an exclusive EP, signed.

More info (how musicians have to pay their own tour costs), how to donate and a preview of her five song EP are all posted here.

Below, a Meiko blog find from three weeks back: ‘Hot girls in their undies being all sexy while my song plays :) Awesome!!’

‘For a decade, Danny created art for musicians – album covers, event posters, and logos, among others. Now those artists are paying tribute to Danny with a free, downloadable 35-song album titled ‘DJG Was Here.”

Danny J. Gibson’s been a friend for years – and he’s one of the most prolific, experimental artist/designers I know. In a few days Quietly Contributing – Poster Art of DJG Design will open at the 1819 Event Space + Gallery in Kansas City.

More details here. Snag the free album here (please use the tip jar).

Article here. And visit Danny’s site here.

The work of Hannah Höch, Tailor’s Flower, 1920.

Yan Saquet: Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix)

Found via Venetian Red