K. PIKs

del.icio.us and digg and stumbleupon and facebook's share option make such a trend out of projecting your taste. Artists and scientists love networking up and sharing awesome internet readymades or studies or whatever. It's fun! I've been in the del.icio.us game for a long time, I sort of hate digg and don't have time for the rest, so I put this K. PIKs feed over there because some of these things I find on the internet are too great to ignore. Quick rundown of my K. PIKs:

TEARS FOR THE FUTURE
Just saw this on VVORK. Whoa! Part of my awe is due to the scary beauty of this thing and part is trying to figure out how they achieved this breathtaking feat.

http://www.ktok.com/main.html
I can't believe I never typed ktok into my address bar. This is what comes up; it's a conservative talk radio station, former home to Kevin James, that guy who messed up on Hardball. If I knew this existed I would've named K. TOK just KIPTOK.

Head Spins | Pitchfork.tv
Endlessly rewatchable High Places set on the pretty cool pitchfork.tv. They make at least a discernible step towards bridging the gap between science and art, a huge preoccupation of mine. Both areas are enervated if left apart; I don't get why people act as if they should occupy separate planes. Science and art share the exact same sense of curiosity and experimentation. Seed magazine has a December 2007 article about this. High Places understands too; all of their lyrics are about falling in love over shared interests in science and struggling to suppress feelings of insignificance in the scope of the universe.

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Another amazing piece of art, part of a huger thing called Lover's Leap on Hayley Silverman's website. Saw this on VVORK too. I don't know much about it except whoa beautiful!

3-Year-Old Has Never Fallen Asleep
My favorite thing that humans do. This is a cool story.

Dave Liebman Private Tapes
Secret recordings!!! By Dave Liebman, my local jazz hero.

That's the last time I'm doing that! Enjoy K. PIKs!

Pitchfork copied my thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pitchfork review of Quiet Village - Silent Movie

...though I can't imagine that the people left disillusioned by the revelation that Daft Punk didn't write the riff to "Digital Love" will be all that thrilled.

Damn you, multiples!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and "Too High to Move" is Captain and Tenille? I need to listen to more music.

Suggestion

I remember reading that blog post about how every awesome Daft Punk melody is actually a song by someone I've never heard of and listening to the evidence and being so crestfallen that "Crescendolls" wasn't invented by those two robots. Even though I've now realized that what they've done is still pretty amazing, not too much worse than Paul Simon on Graceland, Daft Punk hasn't been the same to me since.

And here I was a few weeks ago, listening to "Too High to Move" for the first time by Quiet Village, thinking "these guys (and girl) aren't too bad!". And "Utopia" is absolutely beautiful! Oh, wait, that one is Andreas Vollenweider, I read on ILM, pretty much exactly. And these guys are Radio Slave and another dude. I still think the album is a lot of fun to listen to, but I don't know, why didn't they clue us in on that? I guess what I'm suggesting is warn us or something? Never mind, I guess I should've known all along.

In conclusion: I'm stupid, it isn't your fault Quiet Village.