Inspiration! Lighting Up the Forest with Purity Ring
Purity Ring is a synthesized twosome out of Canada making lush, slightly bizarre music that makes you want to throw a dance party in the woods.
Inspiration! The Harp is the New Axe – Active Child Live on KEXP
Recording artist Active Child brings his own brand of sexiness to an instrument synonymous with Celtic music and hipster chicks in floor-length skirts.
Will Digital Revolution Be Remembered as Artistic Renaissance or Cultural Death Knell?
As an artist working in the digital age, you’re supposed to be super psyched that everything has gone do-it-yourself. But how do we really feel about the Digital Revolution that’s currently underway?
Inspiration! M83 Perform Balls-Out Version of “Midnight City” on Carson Daly
M83 bring the lights and magic with a transcendent performance on the Carson Daly show.
What Movies Can Teach Us About Creating a Better Book – Sparrow Hall Keynote Address (Pt. 2)
How a film about heroin addiction, and a sweat-soaked night of dancing, inspired a book that takes literature in a whole new direction. This is Part 2 of Sparrow Hall’s keynote address for the 2011 New York State Art Teachers Association annual conference.
Iranian Indie Rock Artist Reflects a Different Side of The Middle East
Iranian singer-songwriter Alaa Wardi epitomizes the entrepreneurial spirit when it comes to art-making in politically adverse conditions. There’s something punk rock about the beauty of his songs.
Collaboration Without the Peyote – Music Legends and Whippersnappers Collide
High five to Hyundai and whoever convinced them to put this together. The project is called RE:GENERATION and it has a handful of today’s electronic music pioneers collaborating with an unlikely assortment of living legends.
LED ZEPPELIN Premium Vintage Concert Tee
It’s rare that you have a shirt on. Call it your inner Robert Plant. Call it a disregard for social norms. Call it your sexy bod. But when you do have a shirt on, it’s most definitely your vintage Led Zeppelin tee.
What Pearl Jam Can Teach Us About Following Our Instincts
Pearl Jam Twenty isn’t really about Pearl Jam. Or even a band for that matter. It’s about communicating with yourself and trusting your gut; about looking and listening and being sensitive to what’s actually going on around you.
MICHAEL JACKSON “THRILLER” Premium Vintage Concert Tee
You know that happiness can’t be found in a white suit… in a zipper jacket… in a pair of leather pants. Happiness is about the comfy stuff. Like your vintage baseball tee. The one you wear when you’re trying out new dance moves in the kitchen. Or writing love letters at the table. This is the side they never knew. But they’re about to.
MEN AT WORK (BUSINESS AS USUAL) Premium Vintage Rock Tee
This is the kind of life you lead. One long, bizarre, multi-national adventure. And that means dressing for comfort. 24/7. That’s why you love your Men At Work vintage tee.
VAN HALEN (1984) Premium 80s Vintage Rock Tee
You bring the party in a way that no one else can. In a magical way. Like Merlin. There it is, crackling around you like invisible lightning. You may not be doing high kicks on the dance floor, but that’s inside you. You know it and we know it. That is why you’re always invited – and you always will be.
SCORPIONS Premium 80s Vintage Tee (Never Worn)
This shirt is dangerous. Something happens to you when you wear it. It makes you want to strut around a 7-11 parking lot with your shoes off. And start fights. And then get back in your Trans-Am and drive really, really fast. To nowhere.
Holiday Shopping with Sparrow Hall: Let’s Get This Party Started
Sparrow Hall will sell a collection of never-before-worn vintage concert tees for the 2011 Holiday Season – starting Thanksgiving Week. These are the authentic t-shirts that everyone’s older brothers and sisters had, but never reached the rest of us. Until now.
The Internet Beauty That Brushed Past the Music Industry: Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey on “Later… with Jools Holland” – Where other indie artists might have overplayed their performance, taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Lana is more elusive than ever – a white ghost in a little white dress.
Burning Bright Under a Black Light: “The Breakfast Club” Goes Goth for Hilarious and Strangely Poignant Trip Back to the 90s
David Crabb’s one-man show “Bad Kid” takes everything you loved about an 80s teen drama, dresses it up in fishnet gloves, and whisks it off to the darker parts of town.
Transmedia: Introducing a Future Where We Will Live the Story (Part 3 of 3)
The universe of a story can’t be contained by a single medium – a book, a film, a video game. It lives on another plain, sprawling in every direction. The future of storytelling will be about finding more ways to step within.
Transmedia: Introducing a Future Where We Will Live the Story (Part 2 of 3)
What is the true value of a book? The printed story, or the world it allows us to enter? Could a dead and buried publishing industry be reborn through transmedia experiences?
Transmedia: Introducing a Future Where We Will Live the Story (Part 1 of 3)
Part One of Sparrow Hall’s article for Pomp & Circumstance Magazine – As revenue grows more elusive in the entertainment business, industry leaders are recognizing the power of transmedia (cross-platform) storytelling to captivate audiences and open new paths to sustainability.
Sparrow Hall interview for SPARKSHEET: “Creating Experiences Around a Story”
Sparrow Hall interviewed for media & marketing magazine SPARKSHEET. Talking about transmedia storytelling and how it’s shaping the artist and corporate brands of tomorrow.
Building Begins With Demolition, Love and Otherwise
The last couple weeks have been a strange interconnection of places and events… Cities of ghosts and bright new futures… Remembering that building something great requires clearing out the rubble.
DRIVE: The “Quiet” Action Film Quentin Tarantino Would Have Never Made
“Drive” has the intensity of a freight train and the subtlety of a haiku. In a Fast & Furious world, Nicolas Winding Refn has taken a step back and rediscovered the underlying poetry of the heist.
Iceland’s Comeback Starts with Its “Underwear”
Sure, Iceland had to declare bankruptcy because their banks started acting like douche bags, but they’re still some of the coolest people on earth. FM Belfast is part of the new breed of bands coming out of the geothermal treasure trove, and their song “Underwear” has been on repeat on my iPod all week.
Dying Publishing Industry Gets Schooled by Grassroots Hip Hop
Urban music is notorious for being innovative and doing whatever it takes to stay ahead of the game. Given that, today’s publishing industry could learn a lot from a 23-year-old rap artist with a mic and a laptop in his bedroom.
February 22, 2012: An Artist in the Boardroom: Where Storytelling and Brand Building Go Hand in Hand
February 21, 2012: MORE TO THE STORY with Sparrow Hall – Why Transmedia?
February 19, 2012: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19
