Archive for 'art' Category
You’ve Been Infected – A Halloween Zombie Meme
Sorry to tell you in this manner, but you’ve been infected and now you’re a zombie. You only have your friends to blame. For the rest of the day all of your status updates and tweets must include the phrase “BRAINSSS!!!”. You can infect other people by tagging them in a note […]
Nerdfighter Collective’s Performance Art
There is the premise that if you have to explain a performance art piece it loses its value. However, much like an old movie with a clever twist, if you haven’t seen it by now you can’t blame someone else for telling you that Bruce Willis’s character is a ghost — enough time has […]
Social Life, With Friends (kinetic typography)
Poem – Kenneth Koch
Recording – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Kinetic Typography – Alan Lastufka
I’m not sure if Koch is right, but it makes me think. Like the things that Levitz or Gladwell talk about, it seems to make sense at a 30,000 foot view (or what I call “an economics level”), but there are probably […]
New “9″ Clip
9, the feature film (based on the short film “9”,) has a new clip out. This is a movie that has me rocking in anticipation like a 10 year old after a Super Big Gulp Slushee.
var s1 = new SWFObject(’/backporchbeer/simpleviewer/player.swf’,‘mpl’,‘320’,‘268’,‘9’);
s1.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,‘true’);
s1.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,‘always’);
s1.addParam(‘wmode’,‘opaque’);
s1.addParam(‘flashvars’,’&duration=126&image=http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nineclip200904.jpg&controlbar=over&file=http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nineclip200904l.flv&plugins=hd-1&hd.file=http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nineclip200904s.flv&stretching=fill’);
s1.write(‘preview’);
Backporch Beer » Playing with Processing
I’m messing around with this visual conceptualization tool, called Processing, to see if I should take it up seriously with fervor for my OBT. I’ve built a page on this site (over there in the left sidebar, near the top) with my “work”. I will add new posts if I do anything phenomenally […]
Guggenheim: Cai Guo-Qiang
The Guggenheim is currently exhibiting a collection showing the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese contemporary artist. It was a stunning exhibit and in the center of the museum was a new piece about the prevalence of car bombs in our society and as a reaction to 9/11. Breaking the first rule of […]
Homestar Runner Calls For Calm During Photiades Household Crisis
SBCG4AP is rumored to be headed for a small home in Portland, Maine. The owner of the home, Kevin Photiades (52), had this to say “No, TVs and Wiis have no place in my home.” Despite the utter super badness of Strongbad in his own video game Photiades denies any desire to purchase […]
Gettysburg Sellout
With the ongoing saga of the Jena 6 which has been uncovering even more backwardass mess in the South, it is nice to see that a t-shirt like this one sells-out by 4am.
SXSW and Friends
Yeah, I’m one of those Austinites who came here ¡ all the way back in 1992 ¡ and I was sick of “SouthBy” before it even started last week. You wouldn’t believe how many skinny boys in pencil jeans with 80’s hairdos were wandering around downtown yesterday evening looking so much cooler than me. […]
Garfield Minus Garfield
Speaking of more ironic/funny/hipster websites that are making the rounds, I couldn’t pass up posting the most recent strip from Garfield Minus Garfield:
due to Jon’s fourth-wall glance. That is some really eerie kismet joke-inside-a-joke shiznit going on there.
Move to the Music of Our Latest 48 Hour Film…
Yes, another freaking 48 Hour Film competition. This time it’s the annual BPM, wherein teams attempt to make a music video in 48 hours. Please, sign up at the Filmmaking Frenzy site and rate the videos. If you happen to really like the “Move to the Music” video from Rollerfeet.com…well then I […]
Goliath
Growing up in B/CS, TX my family would often hang out with a few other families whose parents all taught at the local university. I haven’t really kept in touch with anyone, but have vaguely kept an eye on the set of brothers who happen to make films here in Austin. Their new movie, Goliath, is […]
TMCM for Cat People
All you dog-centric people can turn away.
This holds particular hilarity for me and mine, because both Cassie (our white cat) and Miss Hannigan (our white dog) like to try sitting on the pillow that Becky uses to cover her head when she’s sleeping.
Roast Beef Featured on NPR.com
It’s becoming less and less of an inside joke since Achewood made Time’s Best Graphic Novel of 2007 but here at the Backporch there are at least a couple regulars who will enjoy reading through the comments on this “In Character” blog about Achewood’s beloved Roast Beef.