Bike EXIF
Bike Exif is a blog featuring a daily dose of the coolest motorcycles. The site is run by Chris Hunter who is passionate about design, photography, and classic motorcycles.
I could look at these photos for days.
November 30, 2009
Riley Harmon
Riley Harmon and I went through the foundation art classes at the University of Oklahoma. He is someone who I am excited to see where his creative works take him. I will one day be able to tell my kids I knew Riley Harmon.
Where are you from?
The threshold of city and country in Shawnee, Oklahoma, transmitted to
Pittsburgh, PA
What do you do?
I make and break things. Sometimes I mash potatoes and jello 2gether.
Who or what do you use for inspiration?
Dreams, Theories, Books, Music, Movies, People I meet, and the stories
they tell me. Personal experiences to be shared for others to consume.
What artists do you respect right now?
Cory Archangel
Levi van Veluw
Olafur Eliasson
What are you sick of?
Lag
What music are you listening to recently?
Sasha – Invol2ver
Prefuse 73
NIN – Ghosts I – IV
Telefon Tel Aviv
What is your first creative memory?
Contraptions of paper towel rolls and duct tape.
What is your favorite food/drank spot in Norman/Pittsburgh?
Norman: The Library, The Earth, Tom’s Kitchen
Pittsburgh: Greek Gourmet, Brillobox, New Amsterdam, Kazansky’s
Anything else?
If / Else
November 29, 2009
November 27, 2009
November 26, 2009
November 25, 2009
Stuff We Think Is Cool
We are starting a new blog category called Stuff We Think Is Cool. Granted, everything we post about we probably already think is cool, but this will just give us a catch-all category for stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere. Some of it will be local, some of it won’t be. Hope you like it.
To start off with, here’s some cool designer-y stuff that a new friend at the Gray Owl tipped me off to. Check it out here and here.
November 24, 2009
Depth & Current
Nice People released a new single for Depth & Current today on their podcast, which also features songs from Feel Spectres and Gentle Ghost. So many links in that sentence.
November 23, 2009
Thomas Shahan
Thomas Shahan has recently become somewhat of a local celebrity around Norman. He was featured in the October issue of Popular Photography Magazine and interviewed on the Today Show a few weeks back for his macro bug photography. Not only is he a great photographer, but he is a spectacular printmaker and all around artist. Check out his vintage guitar website here, and his Youtube page here.
Where are you from?
Tulsa, more or less.
What do you do?
Macrophotography, Astrophotography, draw/paint, buy/sell/collect vintage electric guitars, make music… I have no job.
Who or what do you use for inspiration?
I’m not sure if I can answer this one – everything is worthwhile and equally inspiring.
What artists do you respect right now?
Most people I respect are not artists. Wayne Maddison, a Zoologist who specializes in salticids, has done some amazing work with documenting and studying the jumping spiders of the world.
What are you sick of?
Many more things than I will tell anyone – there’s no benefit to complaining.
What music are you listening to recently?
Exuma, The Shangri-Las, The Band, Del Shannon, The Chocolate Watchband, Bee Gees, The Ronettes, The Kinks, Bo Diddley, The Carpenters, The Seeds, The Small Faces, The Zombies, Wilbert Harrison, The Move, T-Rex, Procol Harum, Gary Glitter, Cat Stevens, The Sonics, The Gants, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Music Machine, Fairport Convention, Love, Family, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Los Saicos, Hank Williams, Cliff Carlisle, Son House, Charley Patton, Johnny Horton, Tammy Wynette, Canned Heat, Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Little Richard, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Slim Whitman, The Troggs, Shirley Collins, Beach Boys, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Stooges.
What is your first creative memory?
Maybe not a “creative memory”, but my earliest memories are some dreams I had about the animals in my backyard when I was about 4 or so. I wasn’t afraid of them – I just felt they were more intelligent than me.
What is your favorite food/drank spot in Norman?
I don’t really go out at all – so I can honestly say I don’t have an answer to this one.
Anything else?
Forget The Beatles – The Kinks were the greatest group of the 60’s (next to the Beach Boys of course)
