Postcards from Lisbon

Gabby Gaustad / Lisbon 2009 / Photo by Jeff Povelaites Lisbon is one of those cities I’d like to move to for 3 months just to look cool and have my friends back home say, “Yeah, I think he’s in Lisbon at the moment,” whenever people ask about me. If people ask about me. My [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-29
Bidding a fond farewell to Kodachrome. A film that defined the way we'd remember the past. http://www.sparrowhall.com/blog/ # Somebody line up the zebras. I'm grabbing the keys to the Ark. http://www.sparrowhall.com/blog/ # Timorous Beasties wallpaper. Glasgow UK. Patterns are bizarre and bold and feature things like people getting mugged. http://bit.ly/18ZkZa # Listening to Carter Burwell's [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-23
Bidding a fond farewell to Kodachrome. A film that defined the way we'd remember the past. http://www.sparrowhall.com/blog/ #
Saying Farewell to the Colors of Our Past

Today, Kodak announced that they will be discontinuing Kodachrome, one of the company’s longest standing film products. If you ever flipped through an old National Geographic, and wondered how they got the colors of the photos to look like that, Kodachrome is your answer. As a boy from Rochester, home to Kodak and the Kodachrome [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19
Listening to "Rope" by ArpLine. Again. See them Sat night at Mercury Lounge w/ Crocodiles. http://www.myspace.com/arpline #
Making Art with My Dad

“We Saw,” Antoni Ooto & Sparrow Hall. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. Photo by Sparrow Hall. “We Saw” is a piece my father and I created while I was in Rochester this weekend. It’s comprised of found wood debris and a Stanley hand saw. The photo was taken in my father’s studio. My father recently [...]
A Future Where Analog Seems Quaint
Think of how annoying it is when your DVD skips. Now imagine that happening to your wallet.
Moving Through the Looking Glass
A friend took me to the New York City Ballet for the first time this weekend. It was incredible. Especially the Philip Glass pieces, which were all about color and space and synchronicity. I felt like I was watching an 80s music video. If you’ve never been to the New York City Ballet (NYCB), I [...]
My Heroes: Herb & Dorothy Vogel
HERB & DOROTHY Trailer from Herb and Dorothy on Vimeo. I started collecting art back in college… when it was called stealing. I still do. Collect, that is. But these two have taken it to an entirely different level. If you have a favorite artist who worked sometime during the 20th Century, it’s likely that [...]
The Woman in the Machine said “You’re Not Going To Live.”
Frederick Seidel. Photo from the New York Times Magazine. I was digging through a pile of old New York Times Magazines and came across this incredible article by Wyatt Mason about the American poet, Frederick Seidel. This guy is like the Kanye West of poetry (at the ripe old age of 73). Equally revered and [...]
Heavy Rotation – June
Industry, Stranger to Stranger, 1984. I still rock this look. Well, maybe not the wrist warmers. Love Comes Close / Cold Cave State of the Nation / Industry The Turnpike Down / The Lemonheads Broke / Modest Mouse Every Little Things She Does is Magic / The Police Knives Out / Radiohead She’s a Rainbow [...]
A Crowd Electric DJ Set / Underbelly / London
David and I produced a DJ mix for the EQ event at Underbelly in London. If you ever wondered what Britney Spears would sound like singing over Nine Inch Nails, then you’re in for a treat. Download the set for free at http://www.acrowdelectric.com/. Read the write up at EQ. The May 31 post.


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