I have been trying to resist posting this because it would almost make this feed seem as if it had a life, but I really can't resist.

my first ever interweb label release is out on floppyswop. I don't know if anyone is reading this blog, but if you are, please go download.

on a only slightly related note, I think that maybe the point of these things are to write as if no one else is reading for the maximum potential energy of the folksonomy/emergent intelligence of the net to form. Or maybe not, but that is a nice thought isn't it?

I am an employee at an art gallery that is on my college campus, and for the most part I enjoy my job quite a bit. The artists that come through here seem to be interesting enough, and the masters students shows are always good (the last one had a psychadelic water bed that I napped on occasionally).

The current show, however, seems to be something different, or at least worth writing a few words about. I am currently sitting on the third floor, in the midst of an exhibit by david robbins. The exhibit is a collection of work related to his "ice cream social" a collection of different pieces including a tv show, some poetry, a movie, some bowls, and other stuff. The book that describes his work explains it by saying that he is exploring the events of one night during which he hung a painting at a baskin robbins. While I like his repetition, I find that with so much work that he has supposedly put into this, the floor could be a bit more than two projections, a few refridgerators and some vinyl lettering (god, someone needs to ban that stuff. at least ban artists from using it.)

I like the mood that is established, but really, it seems like there could be just a bit more here.

hey floks, we all know you sleep. You don't have to show it to us to drive the point home.

I got really angry watching this because it reminded me that almost every product demonstration video that I have seen a design student make includes a section with them sleeping. some times the whole video is about them sleeping. unless the sleeping actually proves something, don't include it. I think that one of my major complaints is the fact that no one ever performs that well directly out of bed.

I wish I had more examples to show, but sadly I have not collected design demonstration videos.

On another note, the wakeup scene was used well in "ghost in the shell" but that was only because you were like, what the hell is a robot doing sleeping?!?!

!(left_img)http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43672/blog_static/music/images/dealercover.jpg(Dealer)! Released on Floppyswop, a netlabel for releases that fit on 1.44 meg floppys. I was getting into acid house at the time, and I think it shows. Also with a nice little pixely cover. "Download zip":http://floppyswop.co.uk/files/songs/JonBro_Dealer-floppyswop--co--uk.zip from "floppyswop":http://floppyswop.co.uk/song.php

I wanted to write something, but I forgot. It was really cool, but then I forgot. I should have visited the website, and I didn't and I know why... because I went to sleep, because I went to sleep, because I went to sleep.

In all likelyhood, it was something about music or technology or writing. If I can remember it, I will come back, I promise.