fadedstations.com, originally uploaded by williac.
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Bad Idea, originally uploaded by williac.
I wish I’d had time to slap a “Bad Idea” sticker on this. I may consider voting for Obama, but Clinton really needs to sit this one out. I love the idea of voting for a female president, but Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton is a nasty pattern and we’d have to let Jeb have it after that and then Chelsea and then Jenna and then we’ll just have to admit that we’re done with the whole election thing and that’s a delusion I’m not quite ready to let go of.
Do you remember techno? I remember techno.
A couple friends have recently reminded me that I actually liked techno, before there were too many indecipherable genres to choose from. Back when it was all just “techno”, it was amazing and I’m more than a little nostalgic for the days when the whole rave scene seemed so innocent and people talked like there was a lot more “e” and smart drugs than there ever were. I got sucked in by the remixes. Hey, I was a nerdy highschool kid from the sticks, it’s amazing I heard about anything electronic.
Thanks to the magic of YouTube, I don’t have to dig out my tape player (really, this was pre-CD for me):
Sesame’s Treet:
Speed Racer:
James Brown is Dead:
“This is Sparta” would’ve fit right in, in the early 90s:
Dear The Wombats,
I live in the United States of America and I would like to purchase your album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. I would prefer not to resort to buying a CD and waiting to have it shipped across the Atlantic ocean. I’d like to download it as soon as possible in a reasonable format like MP3 or even in the stupidly proprietary Apple AAC format. Apple’s iTunes store, however, will not allow me to purchase this album, because I don’t have a UK billing address.
I’m open to any suggestions you may have that will result in my money getting to you and your music getting to me.
Thank you for your time.
So, I have this plan for 2008. It’s one of these public-projects-for-myself kind of things. I’ve never used my flickr account as a gallery. It gets a strange assortment of photos and while there’s some stuff on there I’m quite fond of, it’d make a woeful portfolio. My plan involves two competing, but not mutually-exclusive projects. One is to put together a book of photos. It could go a few different directions and I haven’t committed to any one yet (I was originally planning on putting together a Polaroid book in 2007, but my ambivalence about that company got the best of me). The second project, a one photo per day site, will help me narrow that down. For this, I have resurrected fadedstations.com. The message board moved over to cowboymeme.com ages ago, so I don’t think anyone’s going to get confused by the redirect disappearing. It does confuse the last.fm group, but last.fm won’t allow name changes, so we’re stuck at least for now.
Fadedstations.com is going to feature one new and/or unpublished photo I’ve taken each day. I’m using some software to automate the process, so you can count on a new photo at 7AM GMT every single day. Right now, the plan is to focus on 35mm, but I don’t want to promise exclusivity at this point. Also, I’m going to be focusing on recent photos, but I’ll dig through the archives from time to time as I have with the first photo posted.
OK. I’m done now. Good night.
