I just bought a book with some Jim Henson drawings and I’m remember how amazing he is. My favorite movie has always been The Labirynth so I decided to see how else the Henson company has been collaborating with musicians and this is what I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNgbdTF2Gg8
I wonder if they did this one as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNLAG6bKno
CARE PACKAGE - you could send things by post or you could get things delivered this way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXpCfogDpeQ
hey everyone just wanted to throw down my exciting new business endeavor…
i’ve started a small boutique effects company named smallsound/bigsound.
the whole band has been using my effects for a while now and i really enjoy the building/design process that is involved, as well as the pure joy in another avenue of sound creation. my website should be up within the next few weeks, but for now if anyone’s interested, they can just send a message through here.
i’m selling at main drag music in williamsburg if you want to try one out in person!
here’s their blog post:
http://maindragmadness. wordpress. com/2008/09/26/small-soundbig-sound-new-fuzz-pedals/#mo
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i should have some sound samples up soon…
ok thanks for reading!
brian
teletextile
Eve Ensler so eloquently explains why I feel so nauseated about the Republican Party nominating Palin as a ploy to grab the women’s vote from the democratic party. Her words move me to action in regard to the coming election. I have to make sure I’m registered to vote. I hope you will do the same.
Playwright Eve Ensler writes:
September 9, 2008
The Huffington Post
Eve Ensler
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it’s their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don’t like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life
trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to
Feminism which for me is part of one story — connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous
choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God’s plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin’s view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, “It was a task from God.”
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist’s baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I
imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right.
But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God’s name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election
in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don’t move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, “Drill, Drill, Drill.” I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor
of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and
peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Ok it’s our last kick in the B-town for the summer. So come out because you don’t want to miss it. Plus I’ll just tell you straight out…other than playing with Sybris, Susu and Unwed Sailor, June sucked. So this is my last chance to redeem the whole month, and if there is one thing I’m good at is turning things upside down, backwards, and sideways. I will be hanging out all night ready to entertain and be entertained by the lovely bostonian culture.
We are playing at least one new song tonight called “Hero”, which brought Angela form Sybris to tears last week. So bring your hanky. I’m not sure whether the Safer Video is going to happen tonight 
, but don’t forget the SUPER LIGHTSHOW EXPERIMENT. Good luck Daniel Taub, it’s all in your hands.
So come hang, drink, stay out all night, and hear Teletextile, Bridget and the Squares, Mr. Sister, and Forsythe or you could wait till August like a bump on a log.
p.s. we were the boston phoenix’s mp3 of the week - Hooray for us - go download Safer 2 if you don’t already have it.
love (that’s right love) - pamela martinez
I love quotes here is one that was passed on to me by my friend Heidi from Seattle. I have no idea who marjane satrapi is. I guess I better look her up. If you know about her send me an email at info@teletextile.com
“The use of the humor is something that was very amazing to me. Because to me, humor is the height of understanding. Anywhere in the world we cry for the same reason. We cry because our father is dead, or our mother is sick. We don’t laugh for the same reason. If we laugh together, it’s as if we’ve touched each other’s spirit.”
–marjane satrapi
I’m very excited about a gig we are playing at Monkey Town on May 1st in Brooklyn, NY. This is a very unique space. The musicians perform in the center as the audience surrounds them on all 4 walls of this square room. Also each of the four walls has a projected video on it. This is a great place to really listen and experience music. (See pic links below.) For this gig we are going to be playing a slightly different mood to our same songs, using more of our acoustic instruments like harp, violin, and acoustic guitar.
I will be creating a video collage from my own video, found video, and possibly your submitted work. I have some ideas already, but I’m putting the call out to any artist who maybe inspired to submit work as part of the whole. (Our set will be 40 min long, and each of our songs is typically 5-6 min long.)
Inspirations:
Ideally I’d like for the images to be ambient, beautiful, engaging, but not distracting. I really like the idea of blurry images or simply changing the color of the room. Take a look at our CD art images, website, our music videos for inspiration. Simplicity is the way to go in general. Feel free to email any questions.
Details:
This is something I am doing for fun and to meet future Teletextile collaborators. We are not going to sell your video or make any money off of it (without your permission), but i will ask you to be in agreement that we can use your video as a backdrop for performance. I will display a thank you note at the end of our music set (as well as our blog) that will include your name, but as the video is collaged I don’t want any websites / branding up on screen.
Submission:
Please submit work between 1min and 1 hour long (consideration for still images as well) by sending a link of a specific work to info@teletextile.com by April 5th (the sooner the better). Please don’t send a whole portfolio just something you think will fit Teletextile. (If you have a very long piece of work, it may end up being the whole show or another show.) Work to be displayed will be chosen based on whether it fits the mood of our music, and whether it fits well into the collage as a whole - by myself and the other members of teletextile.
Feel free to forward this on - Thank you, pamela
Monkey Town Website: http://www.monkeytownhq.com
Good Pic of Monkey Town Performance Space: http://www.equilibriarte.org/upload/places/586-1190327368.jpg
Web: www.teletextile.com
Mysp: www.myspace.com/teletextile
Our new team of fashion designers are Stella Cheung, Rebecca Lesesne, and Yeonhee. They are inspired by the idea of creating organic, earth conscious clothing that you can wear even if you don’t have dreadlocks or wear hemp sandals. When we met with them last week the guys were instructed to each brought his favorite shirt, so they could make a pattern from it. We got together at a resturant in Union Square (nyc) to brainstorm the textile side of teletextile. We tried to think up how to translate teletextile’s sound into actual items of clothing.
Here are a list of ideas we threw around:
hand stitched details, lyrics on the clothing, bright colors, making layers (mimmicing the teletextile sound), collared shirts for the guys, a dress for the pamela, translucent fabrics (also representing the layers of teletextile’s sound), detail, detail, detail (a direct teletextile obsession).
Here are some sketches of the ideas you can see the final peices at a fashion/music show held sometime in April or May. Details TBA.
People are talking about a new remix Dj Die Young did of the song Heartquake off of our album Care Package. The track is not completely done yet, but that hasn’t stopped it from floating around. Check it out for yourself. Click on the Pic above.
This is one of mine and brian’s favorite websites in the world. It was definitely an inspiration for our own. It’s is constantly changing.
www.kingcapitolpunishment.com
Also today I am thinking of Sandra Cisneros and of San Antonio and of all those things that means to me.
-pamela
