South Carolina State Flag via Band of Horses via Calvin Harris
July 1, 2008 | Filed in: Carolina Scenes, Stuff I Did

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 hidden version on the cover of “Cease to Begin”–

I don’t really care for the typical blue & white/Clemson orange/USC burgundy versions available,  so I made my own, inspired by the fantastic pattern from this photograph of Calvin Harris:

And thus arose my design, starring on a brown shirt near me soon:

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Good Music Videos are Still Being Made
June 15, 2008 | Filed in: Things Thats are Rad

Still from Seventeen Evergreen video by Encyclopedia Pictura

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 nature photography, and faux-naked revelers in a pit of mud the color of chocolate Silly Putty.  Also check out the Charles and Ray Eames ‘Power of Ten’-reminiscent video of fruits as atoms, strings, molecules, etc called Micro/Macro.

Micro/Macro by Encyclopedia Pictura

 

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