Design Family Reunion
The Design Family Reunion is a new venture in the world of design conferences. The brainchild of Terry Marks and Matthew Porter, co-authors of the book Good Design, Deconstructing Form and Function, it brings people together that have met here and there and elsewhere and whose paths don’t seem cross often enough. It sounds like […]
Captain Lou Albano We Salute You
By Mark Kaufman Louis Vincent Albano better known as Captain Lou Albano has gone off to the squared circle in the sky. This video has it all; Captain Lou, NRBQ and the great Uncle Floyd, it is pandemonium, psychedelic pandemonium, as the good Captain would say in his ratatatat, freeform style, it is THE BEST […]
Slow Day Video Party ///// Alvin Stardust
By Mark Kaufman Alvin Stardust blew my 13 year old mind in 1974. Here’s a video that inspired me to be what I am today. A creepy lounge lizard that scares German children.
Move Over Michael. Oscar Mayer is Dead.
By Mark Kaufman I am looking forward to wall to wall coverage by all news outlets on the passing of Oscar G. Mayer, the 3rd Oscar Mayer and former chairman of The Oscar Mayer Company. I have checked the schedule at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI, but they haven’t listed a memorial service […]
Morbid Major Magazine Song
Here’s a video namechecking magazines that have stopped publishing in Gilbert & Sullivan stylee. I am having trouble getting paid from one such magazine on the brink of death. I fear this will be a growing problem in 2009. Where’s my bailout?
Slow Day Video Party: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich // Touch Me, Beat Club, 1967