high school truths.

my high school was ghetto, yet preppy.
fuck yes public school.

school supplies.

it's august, which means next month is september. I love september, hot days and cool nights. fall fashion starting, digging out my favorite flannels and wools. this may be premature but this isn't a post about fall, do not fret. it got me thinking about another thing I look forward to that I can't do this year...
buy school supplies! for the first year since grade school I can't pace the aisles of office depot and pick out highlighters and pens and post its. can't write the date for the first time in fresh notebooks. such a feeling of fresh it created- a new school year. I wonder what this september will bring?

retro sound.

While all kinds of new technology is bombarding us day in and day out - it is nice to know the comforts of the originals are still in demand. Nostalgia in sound equipment is more common than one would think. Many old technologies are being re-released with updates more suited to our technological advancements, but still with the feel good old style of the past. AIAIAI and Kilo have done just this is the headphone department. “Audio fashion wear” as they call it. They display the retro funky style of the classic headphones, minus the profuse sweat from the mounds of foam padding. WeSC is another brilliant company, launching updated versions of the classic headphone.
Remember Boom Boxes? Well thanks to Nokia, you can plug your iPod in to this marvelous technology and bring your boom blaster with you anywhere.
Even further back, the record player! Brionvega has released a super technology that resembles a futuristic record player. Its do-all capabilities include everything from playing 45s to DVDs.
The nostalgia of simply sitting in your family kitchen with the phone cradled between your neck and your ear, weaving the long spiraled cord between your fingers is in demand. YOUBZ has created that exact phone only with a USB attachment to plug into your wireless device. I love re inventing the old and making it applicable to today. I truly believe the saying “If it isn’t broken don’t fix it” does not apply here. Sound technology will keep moving forward, so can its original pieces.
Image Source: http://www.yubz.com/

I got love for you if you were born in the 80s

This video is an amazing combination of pixel animation and creative 80's kids’ fantasy world. I can't even imagine how many dreams I had that combined my real life and video game challenges. A recent tweet I read mentioned ‘swerving around a banana peel on the highway', I found it hilarious and kind of scary to think about how much video games of our generation like Mario bros. and Frogger affect us today. I remember not being allowed to have duck hunter for our Nintendo. Poor parents today- video games like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty... are violent and breed crime. Especially not to mention Japan's 'Rape Lay' - click the link for details- you can guess what the goal of that game is.
PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

name that tune.

TV theme songs are impossible to ignore when discussing television programming. Some theme songs are even more identifiable than the cast or plot of a show. A good theme song does not promise a shows success, however it can definitely help it. Good theme songs create awareness of a TV show and draw viewers to a show, especially when channel surfing. TV show theme songs have played an important part of blending programs into culture. Real World Producer, Jonathan Murray explains our love of TV theme songs, “A lot of generation Xers grew up knowing words to songs better than words to a poem in school. We’re trying to speak to them in their language, which is often music”. A great resource of old TV themes you can’t put your finger on, might be found at this site: http://www.televisiontunes.com/index.php. Some of my favourite TV theme songs include: Weeds, Big Love (old and new), True Blood, The Sopranos. Enjoy this lovely video of 22 different TV themes in seven minutes; it’s really well done and a pleasure to listen to if you are a TV sitcom fan.
Image Source: flickr- sugaroni