Ornaments & Sounds

My latest recreation comes from the digital gallery at the New York Public library. I could kill whole days browsing through these amazing images and illustrations. So much inspiration. The craftsmanship is impeccable. Here’s just a sampling of some of the keywords and collections I have been browsing: Design, Studies in Design, Prisims, Original Designs, Vignettes Décoratives, Textiles, Relais 1930, Alphabets, and Papillons.

Also, in preparation for the Slint shows in Chicago coming up this month, I’ve been tracking down live audio from other shows captured during this reunion tour. Slint on MySpace offers up all the tracks from the first show in Louisville. there is also a radio blog of the concert from France. An amazing lossless torrent of the show can be obtained over at easytree.org.

And, a very well executed mash up of the Beastie Boys and the Beatles (The Beastles). Get ’em before ‘The Man’ shuts this down.

And, the ever triumphant Ted Leo’s cover of American Idol Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Since U Been Gone‘