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I stumbled across a Moulinex remix of Come On by Pineapples (thx Markus) this afternoon, and but a few clicks later discovered some Spanish dudes called Buffetlibre DJs released an online* remix compilation called Rewind. It’s all 80s remixes by current electro and indie outfits. You can check out all the tracks individually on the site, cop the mixtape, or download the ~450mb .zip. All for free! Streaming mp3s and a video after the jump

That rave goblin’s got some moves!

The leader of an artists’ cooperative has been sentenced to probation for setting up a secret apartment inside a shopping mall’s parking garage as part of a project on mall life.

Michael Townsend, 36, said he and seven other artists built the 750-square-foot apartment beginning in 2003 and lived there for up to three weeks at a time.

The artists built a cinderblock wall and nondescript utility door to keep the loft hidden from the outside world.

Video and article over at CNN’s website..

When I was about to post that last Bloomingfoods entry, I noticed the rainy day video I’d posted previously looked a little different. Subsequently I decided to check out Vimeo and see if there were any other new design elements going on, and it looks like they’ve done a huge overhaul! Vimeo already had one of the more pleasant web 2.0 designs going, and this new one seems leaps and bounds beyond where they were at before. They’ve taken the rounded corner interface popularized by companies like Apple, and made it personal and homey. Much more attractive than other Youtube alternatives like Veoh or Stage6.

Aside from the design being kind of beautiful, it’s a pretty well-designed service. And really the only video site I know of that only allows user-created content, which creates a really great video library of content which for the most part can’t be found anywhere else. Take a look!

D-Star Fashion Show Minimix
(Only like 12:00 long because it was just one designer’s show)

1) Utah Saints - Something Good
2) The Gossp - Standing in the Way of Control (Tronik Youth remix)
3) Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Fedde le Grand remix)
4) Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends (Scottie B remix)
5) Miami Horror - Don’t Be On With Her
6) Sneaky Sound System - UFO (Van She Tech remix)
7) Live Element - Something About You
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks (Diplo remix)

As for a recap, I don’t think I could really explain it that well. People were all crazy go nuts. Video coming soon though, soon as I can get a copy..

Unedited, slight portions of 4am embarrassment ahead:

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I’ve meant to do this much sooner, but of course with things having been so busy, it’s been tough to find a moment to write. I’m sitting in the back of our van, careening down I-94, returning from Minneapolis, our furthest point West on tour.

I played at a thirty lane bowling alley last night, which was pretty fun. The middle four lanes were closed downm and had a stage in the middle of them. This allowed for both satisfying my constant desire to walk onto bowling lanes, and for a really bizarre and unusual show setup. I mean, it was me playing music in the middle of a bowling alley with bowling flanking me on both sides! Crazy.

Milwaukee was really fun; it’s been the only show so far with only dancy bands. Opening the evening, Daniel slinked up to the stage underneath both his cape and the entire audience in two lines, with their hands held up across from each other. Allison and Lindsey of Dites Donc did a sweet sweet set involving 1983 prom dresses, and Show Me the Pink played I think my favorite set from the five shows we played together.

There was definitely a little start of tour hump we just got over recently. A lot of the shows so far haven’t really had a ton of people at them, or have had many slightly interested people (like at Slutfest and at Memory Lanes, the bowling alley). But I’m thinking that’s all right, because some of my favorite places to play are coming up and Daniel and I are totally ready for them.

I’m pretty bummed that we’ve split ways with Show Me the Pink. Their performances are always so much fun and inspired and the little hanging out we got to do was always totally rad.

And the best story from tour so far, I totally wasn’t there for: while I, Daniel, Nickey, and Jess were driving to Minneapolis, Show Me the Pink were headed there as well in their van and had to stop for a tire change. Some guy had a tire shop in his backyard SMTP randomly came across, and were waiting for him to show up forever, and during that time Emmy wandered off and found some horses in a fenced in area on dude’s land. She tried to get a horse to come over for some petting, and after a little while one finally did. Emmy pet that horse, and it was liking it, and felt like she and the horse were having some sort of interspecies transcendental experience. Upon leaving to find somewhere to wash the horse dirt off her hands, she noticed the horse, which she’d assumed was a lady horse, had a total horse boner!

Daniel and I have been getting along really well, and since it’s just the two of us on tour, we’ve been able to bring a bunch of people to and fro and it’s been really great to have new people riding with us every once in awhile. From this point, we’re headed East for the next little bit, until we get to Providence and start headed South and then back again. I’m a little nervous about finances, but still considerably hella psyched about tour.

Oh oh, and here’s a sweet video of Daniel shooting a boba ball into Jes’s mouth:

Shot at the pet store at the Bloomington mall the other day. It’s cute, watch it!

PS: The Bell Orchestre’s album “Recording a Tape the Colour of Light” exceeds my medium to high expectations. Those Montréal kids are talented.

I’d have to say this is one of the most enthralling pieces of science fiction I’ve seen in a very, very long time. I wish this was a feature film. It’s a short piece by Canadian 3D artist Neill Blomkamp, about aliens who seem to have crash landed in South Africa, their derelict spacecrafts still dangling in the sky. Forced into a poverty making even the resident underclasses seem privileged, they take to open rebellion against Aparthied in weird mech-like suits.

All the animation was rendered in fairly high quality, and degraded down to low-budget style VHS, and mixed with interviews and news archive footage, to frame things as a documentary. I’d love to see this at a higher resolution, it’s extremely well-done and well worth the six minutes it takes to watch. Link via del.icio.us video feed

EDIT: The same people made this movie, about robots being developed and deployed as police in South Africa. This is really… wow. This is what science fiction is for, making fucking terrifying visions of what’s probably going to be reality in generations to come if we don’t shape up.