BRSKY is the Life Hacking.
After critically evaluating a few hundred albums in one year (for our best albums of 2011 selections), I found myself developing surprisingly precise, abstract ideas about how everything fit together and what that “means” about the state of all creative music. It was a long year but I finished the whole thing (with a little help from my Brasky frands).
Here is an accurate summary of what’s going on:
Right-brained thinkers should feel satisfied and can stop reading.
For the restless and curious, here are a few more thoughts on the past year in music.
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Here are some recent album covers–notice anything unusual?
Unless you have that rare recognition disorder that plagued Dudley from The Royal Tenenbaums, you have probably noticed a lot of similarity here. 45 degree angles, convergence to a vanishing point, natural horizons, collaging, natural images used as fills between lines, some color coincidence… Pick any two and you can find a remarkable amount of similarities (even the first and last – mostly dissimilar, but nearly identical dusk backgrounds).
Update – Carlos (aka Navigateur) found another one (my alarm is almost real at this point):
Double Rainbow?
Being the average American idiot, I assumed it all had to mean something. So I decided to investigate patterns between the album titles, putting on my best Da Vinci Code paranoia complex:
- Painted Palms – Canopy EP (2011)
- Tame Impala – Innerspeaker (2010)
- Ladytron – White Elephant (2011)
- Goose – Synrise (2011)
- Hushpuppies – The Bipolar Drift (2011)
- Datahowler – Live (DJ set) (2011) – reader submitted, 9-22
“Painted Palms” contains all the letters in “Tame Impala”. Also….
Also….
Shit.
I’m at a dead end. But like any unfounded belief, if we combine efforts and keep looking, we’ll find evidence of what we assumed to be true. So, help! I’d be interested to see if anyone can find more album artwork that seems to fit into this phenomenon.
Regardless of the absence of any substantial coincidences, there’s a VERY good chance that my observations correlate with the imminent enslavement or extermination of mankind.
You heard it here first.
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Portlander and legacy Brasky, Paul Ogden, donates his face to help save Japan from nuclear meltdown.
A few months ago, a friend posted an animated image on Derek’s Facebook of a man with different facial hair for everyday of the week. I decided that I wanted to emulate that.
Day 1
Monday was the ‘short boxed beard’ which was not out of the norm, and I didn’t have to do anything for because it is my regular facial hair style.
Day 2
Tuesday was the ‘friendly mutton chops.’ Only a few people noticed on this day that anything was different.
Day 3
Wednesday was ‘The Winnfield.’ This certainly caught everyone’s attention at work. I had multiple people over the course of the day see me and immediately start laughing. This was also the hardest to shave for the entire week. I only had access to full sized hair clippers and a Mach 3, and creating a separation between the Fu Manchu and the mutton chops proved difficult for a man who very rarely shaves at all.
Day 4
Thursday was the classic ‘Fu Manchu,’ also known as the handlebar mustache. It was a great debate as to which I was sporting. After a series of intense internet research we determined that they were both indeed correct. Thursday night was St. Patty’s day and also, coincidentally enough, my 10,000th day alive. I spent it bouldering at the gym and then at a place in Portland, OR called Migration Brewery. After many beers, I went home and shaved and took a picture for the upcoming day.
Day 5
Friday was the ‘Copstache Standard.’ It is hard to tell if this mustache made me look like a cop, or like a pedophile. I tried to wear the aviators as much as possible throughout the day to keep myself from looking closer to law enforcement and further away from a pederast.
It felt good to be able to bring smiles and laughter to my coworkers who are otherwise just looking for the end of the day on Friday.
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It’s exhausting to blog as well as we do here at Brasky, but you, too, can impress anonymous readers and old high school friends. No degree in (Live)Journalism? It’s OK. Sit back and let Emanuel school you on how to keep your blog game proper in 2011.
Everyone cares what you think. Write things out on your computer. People will care. People will understand. People will link each other to what you typed. It’s infectious, like your genius. Only you have thought these things. Don’t hesitate. Just do. Do it.
Write an article for a blog whose logo type is in Helvetica. Make blatant observations about your life that others can relate with on a level where they feel like they’re writing it. Keep each sentence short and simple – big words will only serve to get in the way of your poignancy. Sort of feel flustered as you realize half way through writing it that you’re not as intelligent as you thought you were. This is okay, thesaurus.com has your back.
When you’re bored of giving basic instructions to your word processor, keep going. It will only get more difficult, but this is the test of the unrecognized and tumultuous artist. People will think you’re significant after this, and that’s great. Done yet? Nope. Keep going.
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Following last year’s major acquisition, Microsoft recently announced that Yahoo Search will now be driven by Bing’s search decision algorithms.
What this Means
Now when you go searching on Yahoo, you will still not be served Google results.
(Yahoo users, your emails might be on new internets!)
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The compostable bags will be coming off the shelf because of too many complaints. Sorry, Earth.
In case you haven’t heard, the compostable Sunchips® bags, launched a few months ago, are made from an unusual kind of material that makes air-ripping crinkle sounds when handled. Impossibly loud, really. While this may seem like an incredibly petty objection to a relative breakthrough in green industrialism, all I can recall any of us talking about is how goddam loud they were. It was a novelty, really, and I’m sure my cat was not the only one subjected to unplanned confrontations with the bag (with no shortage of calamity).
Love it or hate it, word is coming in from Frito-Lay that production of compostable bags is being greatly reduced in the months ahead, acknowledging that the complaints about the banshee-crinkle influenced poor sales.
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In November, YouTube announced that they would soon start allowing their users to serve up videos in the goddy splendor of 1080p (psst: that’s Blu-Ray’s resolution, “Full HD”). While this isn’t the first appearance of streaming 1080p video online, YouTube’s network is best known for its sheer breadth and volume – not video fidelity.
Months crawled by without any YouTube encounters of 1080p (personally), but yesterday = eureka.
At 1920×1080 pixels, my laptop was simply not Brasky enough for the challenge of properly measuring the quality. So I wired it up to a 23″ 1080p-capable monitor via HDMI and had a look…
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Recently a lot of press has been given to the fact that more people preferred to be an online fan of an inanimate pickle than of the modern rock band Nickelback. This has made newspaper second-pages across the country and even solicited ire from the band themselves. But what did this exercise really prove? Was Nickelback’s reputation sullied at all? If anything, people that had never heard of Nickelback before this instance may actually become fans of the band. All that was proven was this:
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DISCLAIMER: Brasky does not recommend this album in the sense that it is good. We recommend it in the sense that it is free. |
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We here at Brasky would like to send a shoutout to our irl friends over at MUSiC SNiTCH, another Florida-based blog that reports on emerging music. Recently they got their hands on some copies of the new Midlake album, The Courage of Others.
To snag a free copy, just join the SNiTCH Twitter or fan page on Facebook and you’ll be entered. No gator motorcycles are being given away.
For more details, hop over to MUSiC SNiTCH and learn how to win*
* seriously, no alligator bikes
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I have viewed all the tits there are to view on StumbleUpon.
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