A big thing in Charleston–and to some degree the rest of the state–is shirts and bumper stickers with the state flag’s palmetto tree and crescent moon. It’s a nice symbol to me, growing up here.  A while back I noticed it showed up in a pretty wild place–the local Band of Horses used an abstractly …

Encyclopedia Pictura is hitting all the right notes again and again with its music videos.  They first came to my attention with the excellent Grizzly Bear ‘Knife’ video, and they’ve recently completed a 3-D Bjork video. Most striking to me is the 2007 video for Seventeen Evergreen’s ‘Haven’t Been Yourself‘ which combines viscous ferrofluids, high-resolution …