inspiration(music+photo): NIN Ghosts I-IV
Nine Inch Nails is one of my favorite bands, so I was elated to find out that Trent (ok, so it’s technically only one person) randomly put out a new album of instrumentals. The album in itself is great, but the icing on the cake is the fact that the downloadable version of the album comes with photos for each track. It is so fascinating to have the image change on the ipod with each new song.
Some incarnations of the album apparently come with a 40 page pdf booklet of the images. I like being able to see the full images, but then the photos aren’t as closely entwined with the music, imho.
I have always been intrigued by the combination of music and visuals. The right combo can truly be powerful. I’ve experimented with blending photography and music over the years, and still search for ways to seamlessly mesh them together. One of my future goals is to do a large art piece that integrates music within my work. Teaming up with the right musician to create track by track images for his/her album would be a great start (hint, hint 
). Part of the reason why I got into web design/interactive art was because of the endless ways you could weave art forms together. I love that people are constantly pushing the boundaries. I just found out that the new Autechre album does the same thing, so I may have to get it just to see how they execute it.
In this month’s Vanity Fair, there is a really cool spread about female comedians shot by Annie Leibowitz. She’s always awesome, but I love these photos because I’m obsessed with what I call the faux candid: shots that look like you caught someone in the moment, but really didn’t.
I’m not quite sure why I’m always drawn to that type of image, but it is definitely something that I’ve been wanting to play around with for a while.
One of my goals for the year is to hear more of the musicians I love live. So on Tuesday, I went to go hear Hanne Hukkelberg @ Union Hall. The whole set was amazing, but the song that really hit me was her cover of the Kinks, “All day and All of the Night”. She rocked it a lil harder live, but you can still get the gist of how she really made the song her own.
Well, the name gives you the main reason , but aside from that, I’m using this blog as my personal sketchbook of sorts. I hope to use this blog as a place to post anything that inspires or intrigues me, as well as new work and ideas (which may or may not be a direct result of the things that inspire and intrigue me). The inspiration can come in the form of music or most anything visual. I’m not quite sure why I’m putting this out into cyberspace, when I could easily keep this to myself. I guess I figure that if I put it out for the world to see (which will probly still only be me lol), I’ll actually stick with it and update it! And if something I like inspires someone else, then all the better.
*For those who don’t know, the title of this blog comes from my fav South Park quote when Cartman appears on Maury as a wayward teenage girl. “Whateva! Whateva! I’ll do what I want!” Find it on youtube. Seriously.
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