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‘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

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Video for The LK’s Stop Being Perfect.

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‘play loud’

Unflinching, beyond disturbing. The work of Douglas Burgdorff.

Audio interview here. More videos here.

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‘My graduation film at La Cambre, Bruxelles 2011.’

Julien Regnard’s JUMP.

Found via Zach Moreno

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The mixed media work of Danny O’Connor, a.k.a. DOC.

Found via Doug Home

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘There is a harmony, a symbiosis, between my work as a composer and designer and my need to share these talents with others. I believe that a productive society depends on the cultivation of the arts.’

Benjamin Dauer’s Protagonist EP.

Free download (and more remixes) here.

Found via typegirl

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As more of the world finds itself occupied, additional visuals are showing up on the interwebs.

Above, OCCUPY U poster created by an anonymous designer friend, whose name is left off for fear of losing another job (click to download printable PDF).

Below, statistical poster from new website Occupy Design. And at bottom, Shepard Fairey does his thang.

Click on images to download and/or jump to respective websites.

Occupy Design found via GOOD

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‘It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good.’

Posters from the Good 50×70 Competition.

Found via Robert L. Peters

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