Wolfie (half of his last show, I didn’t know he was doing it until he told me, while he was on the air)

Maury (a short 1.5 hour show)

Have at it

http://www.myspace.com/kahoots / http://www.myspace.com/ninaviolet

Come to the show on saturday, and follow @cheslounge on twitter for up to the minute updates!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

So this is what I created, from that idea:

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And the back would be like this:

and here’s the mockup of the shirt:

The logo could also very well be used, I suppose, in the context of any low power radio promo, but it was designed specifically to fit the theme of WVVY

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If you like, you can also download the PDF in 300 dpi at 8.5 x 11 for printing.

I’m going to see how it looks on paper tomorrow, I hope it looks okay at 8.5 x 11, otherwise I might scale it to 11 x 17 (fortunately since it’s all font work, it’s easily scalable).

The design was inspired by a combination of elements. First: Chris, another DJ, has a flier for his show with a huge list of bands he plays on it, and I had always seen it and thought “I should display that kind of information somehow!” Second: there was a recent collection of grammy awards artwork that created portraits of band members with the song titles of some of the music that influenced them. It was neat, but the colors were fruity and it used a bunch of ugly fonts that just didn’t do it for me. I took the concept and did a “portrait” of my existing logo made entirely of band names. When all was said and done, it lacked a tiny bit of cohesion without the original tracing image behind it, so i lowered the opacity way down, blurred it out a bit, and left it in the background, for the trace of the original logo, to keep it more easily recognizable.

The general rule was that my favorite bands got larger billing, but in the end that occasionally went out the window, as I found myself remembering certain bands way after the fact and putting them in as an afterthought, not really wanting to rearrange the entire composition to fit them in. Still, most of the bands I like are here, although I overlooked a massive portion of my collection. Oh yeah, and I don’t think I repeated any names, I challenge you to find any (or a typo: hint – “zeigeist” is not a typo).

One more fun fact: there are 240 artists in the image. Those were hand selected (and hand typed, phew) from over 1300 or so artists in my collection.

I’ll probably find out tomorrow that there’s some kind of program that could’ve automated this process for me. Anyway… yay for wanking off on a sunday!

So be sure to listen to the stream over on wvvy.org or tune in 93.7 if you’re local.

Monkey on the Lam(b) Featuring Nate Dawg June 25th 2009

2 hour show filling in for chris last week
1 hour MOTL (I’m not putting this one up for public consumption – but it’s available by request)
and 20 minutes or so of wolfie’s show from last week. Sorry wolfie, my computer failed in it’s task of recording you. It’s a jerk and I’m punishing it.

Hopefully the recording will go smoothly for Wolfie’s show today (assuming it’s happening, we haven’t talked about it) and I will be able to put it up tonight or tomorrow.

By the way, if you’re on the vineyard and you can make it to the tisbury street on fair July 8th, we’ll have stickers of the splattery vineyard logo, and magnets of the new logo, so hit it up.

The MVTimes posted the footage on their website today.

Edit: Added Youtube version:

Edit: Update from Nelson Sigelman, author of the article:

The Edgartown Dairy Queen break-in is solved. Zachary L. Gould, 25, a seasonal Oak Bluffs resident, went to the Edgartown Police station Thursday morning accompanied by attorney Charles Morano and his father. He admitted he is the man a surveillance camera captured breaking into the popular ice cream shop early Saturday morning, officer Chris Dolby told The Times late Thursday afternoon.
The video was posted on The Times website and photos were published in the print edition. Mr. Gould went to the Oak Bluffs Library Thursday morning and read the newspaper online.
“He called this morning after seeing your website,” said officer Dolby. “He said he was so intoxicated at the time that he didn’t recall really even doing it, but once he saw the website this morning, he had fast recollection. He called an attorney, and turned himself in today at the station.”
Police plan to seek a complaint of breaking and entering, and malicious destruction of property. A court date is yet to be determined. He will be arraigned sometime next week, said police.
Mr. Gould received his undergraduate degree in public policy and law from Trinity College. He is currently enrolled in law school. He is a former intern to Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.
Police thanked The Times for publishing the photos and video. “It’s good when it works out like this,” officer Dolby said. “There’s no mystery, and it’s all wrapped up. More people need to put video surveillance in their stores, as far as I’m concerned.”
He said the police had received many telephone calls from people who thought they recognized the man in the video. “We thank you for your help,” said Mr. Dolby. “If The Times would put a little brief up, it will eliminate the calls that are coming in from tipsters.”

Soap & Skin
The Vandelles
Wilco
Tortoise
Manic Street Preachers
Riceboy Sleeps (guy from Sigur Ros side project)

and more!

Listen up tonight at 8 PM

AND show up at Che’s Lounge tomorrow night for Sofi’s CD release party where I will be pumping out the beats on my laptop, DJing

Expect changes and updates, of course, but there are no more empty “coming soon” sections.

And please, by all means: comment or send a message with any suggestions you may have for features. I have plenty of ideas of my own, such as adding an “about” section, spreading some more red coloring throughout the rest of the site, and eventually having some sort of shopping cart for art sales, but for now: please enjoy what’s here: and please, by all means, spread the word.

I finally got around to editing and uploading the two shows from last week. My computer was wigging on me at the beginning of the process for both recordings so the two recordings start a little late (and i forgot to edit the bit of democracy now out of the end of Wolfie’s show) but they are mostly intact. You know, for all you completists out there.

Wolfie – Strange Ways in 4D 05-06-09
Maury – MOTL 05-07-09

Or just do it right here, right now.

Hooray progress!

(feature suggestions are welcome – I can add a CAPTCHA and allow uploading of files… for example … form options? Checkboxes? Etc?)

In the midst of all this, after purchasing a bottle of water from a starbucks on the road, I decided to spend a portion of the ride taking “experimental” photographs of objects on the side of the road, and of myself. It’s only an iPhone camera, but it beats my last digital camera and has tons of storage space, so I am taking advantage of it. Anyway, one example of such a photograph appears here: a self portrait, taken through the bottle of water I bought. I found myself enjoying the various stretched effects that the bottle had on the camera, and the look of the water as it appeared to rise above the edges of the road. I took several photos that may end up in a gallery here soon. I know my updates have been sparse and far between lately, I plan to try to get back on task and post more often. I guess taking a vacation can sort of pull you away from the all important things, like updating your website, huh?

I hope the next iphone update actually has video, as is rumored, and that I can use it with my current phone, because I would really enjoy that.

I had to take the night off from my radio show this week, but I plan to return in full force next week.