The summer is officially upon us and we need more music to go with our nostalgic summer memories. So here is Playlist-27 filled with upbeat tracks to store your memories of the summer of 2011. There are some fantastic tracks up in this 15 track playlist. We have some new Death Cab and Coldplay tracks. We have some other great finds like Seapony, Hey Champ, Kleerup and more. So have a listen and enjoy.

If you want to check out any of the other Playlist then click on Archived Playlist in this post or on the right hand side of this blog or in the menu.



Cover Art by Damion S.

In anticipation of the second album by Memory Tapes, the music blog The Quietus has made the new album Player Piano available for your streaming pleasure. It even provides Dayve Hawk's own track-by-track guide to the record, in which he reveals the influences, and meanings behind his thought process.

It was quiet an interesting read to gauge his thoughts about his new album and the questions of why he thought that way. I like what he said about his one track "Humming", he said:

" I think I'm always trying to make my music sound to lesser and greater degrees like field recordings. I don't want to make a song that sounds like that song you heard on the radio; I want to make a song that sounds like that moment you heard the song on the radio."

I couldn't agree more on this thought. What I like about this new album is that each song has a certain feel to it. It's like each track has a life and a thought to each arrangement of sound. Each song has its own playful and twisted turns, wrong-headed arrangements and some unusual instrumentation. Memory Tapes is also one who doesn't use any sequencing software and each instrument was played by him in his home studio for this album.

Hawk's will also be debuting the new album live this summer with a full band and the Player Piano album will be released on July 5th on Something in Construction Records. Click here to listen to the whole album or check out three songs below from the new album.

Yes I Know by Memory Tapes
Wait In The Dark by Memory Tapes
Today Is Our Life by Memory Tapes

This particular house located in Whistler, Canada is called the Compass Pointe House and was designed by Sean Anderson while the interior & exterior finishing touches were done by Kelly Deck.

The home with its beautiful wood floors and heated tiles and two story vaulted ceilings, how can you go wrong with that? The main areas of the home that catch my attention is the kitchen and the office room, plus the view outside is breathtaking and peaceful. This contemporary home will run you some serious cash though, about $6,490,000 to be exact.






Source: The Contemporist / Photos Kristen McGaughey

Nick Bertke, better known on the web and music scene as Pogo has caught my attention this morning with his video called "Bloom'. It's a patchwork of vocals and musical chords from various Disney films remixed into harmony. After watching this video I started to sift through his Youtube channel and I have added the ones that I thought were cool. So happy Monday!

If you want to check out more of his work then check his Youtube channel or his site Pogo.

The vinyl collection in your home keeps growing but your old turntable just took a crap on you. So your looking to get a new turntable to jam out to your indie styled collection. How about checking out the Pro-Ject RPM 1.3 Genie Turntable ($500) to replace your broken one. It features a very stripped down design, the Genie will turn heads with its minimal design, while it quietly runs it's synchronous motor, two-step pulley, resonance optimized platter, aluminum tonearm and external power supply combined to provide some ear dropping sounds.

Check out some of there other uniquely designed turntables.

Since I'm a computer geek I can find humor and amazement at the new use a floppy disk can have. Nick Gentry a London based artist uses old school floppy disks to create floppy portraits and art from the obsolete technologies of societies past. The paintings are made from all recycled media so instead of buying new disk he uses what others can provide to him. He asks that if you have any old floppy disks feel free to send them to him. Better to go to art then to end up in a landfill and just be a technology lost and forgotten.

Today seemed like a Green kind of day. So with that being said, let me introduce the beautiful repurposed bottle terrariums. The artist behind these is Jose Agatep who gathers glass containers of various shapes and transforms them into beautiful terrariums that are filled with locally grown plants, wild mosses, and small stones, soil, and wood chips found in nearby forests and train tracks.

According to Agatep, the tiny self-contained ecosystems offer “a journey to ancient connections that once existed between humans and plants”. There terrarium are perfect for a small house or office desk. They are very low maintenance and only need water once in a blue moon. Condensation gets trapped on the lid and walls, so the natural water cycle occurs that brings precipitation back to the soil.

His Philadelphia-based shop The Slug and the Squirrel currently can only do pick-ups or local delivery on all sales. They are currently looking to find a delivery services that can accommodate the needs of the shop to guarantee safe delivery. This doesn't mean though that there aren't exceptions to every rule. So if you're interested in these it wouldn't hurt to ask or you could just pick one up the next time you're in Philadelphia.



Source: Inhabitat

Shyscapes is a beautiful and surreal short art movie that was created for Misha Shyukin graduation project. It's a stunningly dark, mysterious but mesmerizing and entrancing video. Misha recommends you don’t view it in full screen and asks you to please watch it with your eyes half closed. Either way you watch you may come to the same conclusion that it's a beautiful short video.

Check out more of Misha Shyukins video's on Vimeo

Transient is the word that comes to mind when I think of the works of Jim Denevan. They are short-lived as he uses the world as his landscape and use sand, ice and earth to create his geometrical sculptures. The brushes of choice can be anything from a piece of driftwood to a rake or even a bicycle. The result of using the landscape are stunning but without the remarkable location photography they would simple be a waste of time. Something that was once transient is now forever captured and that my friend is not a waste of time.

Here is another tidbit about Jim Denevan he is man behind the the traveling outdoor dining experience Outstanding in the Field. It's sort of traveling dinner event that sets up shop in farms, gardens, and other interesting dinning location across the U.S. They currently are doing a New tour for 2011 so maybe you can check it out this year.





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