Equinox: New World Language on Saturday

Stop by the new Cult Status Gallery this Saturday | 8pm – Midnight Art groups, (or individual artists),1 giant room. Complete a 1,500 sq ft. installation. Alluding to the rhythms of MC Escher’s tessellations, the modern street-art themed mix-up, and, yes, probably vampires; using the burgeoning art scene in Minneapolis as a platform for a

it’s easy to help haiti

On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake struck Haiti, reducing much of its capital to rubble. It was the worst earthquake in the region in more than 200 years, with as many as 50,000 feared dead. The devastation has created serious obstacles to those attempting to deliver promised foreign aid.. Thousands of bodies fill the

10 Years of Isolation

This man endured 10 years of solitary confinement – I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around that experience. “From May 1980 to May 1990, nuclear scientist Hussain Al-Shahristani — Iraq’s current oil minister — was thrown in solitary confinement and subjected to torture. Last month, in a revelational and deeply personal interview, Al-Shahristani spoke

gods & monsters on saturday

Heading over to the 33 gallery this Saturday to check out another MPLS Deth Crew event.. there’s a theme to this one – favorite horror films (monsters) and some of the genre’s greats, including Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and Alfred Hitchcock (gods).. Where: 33 Design Gallery When : Saturday 12/12 @ 7:00pm Plus: To Kill a Petty

We are all connected

I’m such a huge dork. i can’t even express how much I love these science + music video mashups featuring Carl Sagan :P If you dig this one, def check out the Sagan + Hawking Mashup (still my fav) Download the Audio files (flac + MP3) here Thx @ Laughing Squid for this one :)

xo Nov 20.09

audio a look at the sad but true Music Industry FAILs – 4 Musical Mistakes Of The Decade .. good article on Transformative v Incremental Change – a look at why big music just doesn’t get the internet revolution.. the story behind the UK ‘draconian pro-copyright plans’ of the leaked Digital Economy Bill (similar to

Apple (Finally) Approves First DJ App

It’s been a long uphill battle for music app developers, with Apple leaving music apps in approval purgatory for loooong periods of time (with no official explanation) – a situation which sparked many music / tech blog posts and eventually led to a dj app petition. Well.. who knows what finally prompted Apple to give

Creative Control. November 27th.

Creative Control. November 27th.

Last Call @ The Uptown Bar

The Uptown Bar was demolished today. I started sneaking into the Uptown when I was 15 to see the bands i loved play insane sets so close their sweat was dropping on you… it was the first (and last) bar i ever got carried out of, the first (and last) place I started a fist fight,

GiveMN.org makes being good easy

As I get older and feel a little bit more like a “grown up” each year, I’ve started to get this nagging feeling that I should be donating to .. something. Volunteering sounds cool but probably isn’t going to happen anytime soon, since I’m busy as hell. Instead I’m gonna skip a few lattes this