Nightcap Chronicles

Charlie The Unicorn

leiad — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:01:55 +0000

It was two years ago today I received an email from an old friend entitled: Have you seen these?

In it he wrote, “Holy shit I can’t stop watching these!” and included links to the videos below. If you haven’t seen them yet, I highly recommend a look. If its been a while, I encourage a quick review…
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Enjoy!

World Basketball Festival

leiad — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:08:58 +0000

Giant, illustrated signage for the World Basketball Festival, August 12-15th at Madison Square Garden, NYC.

This summer, NIKE, Inc. and USA Basketball are planning to bring the world’s best basketball teams and top musical performers to New York City for the inaugural World Basketball Festival, a four-day celebration of the performance and culture of the game. Glorious artwork and outstanding typography. Get a closer look at some the illustrations on streetballblog.com.

Nike World Basketball Festival from 6Magazine on Vimeo.

Karma Canon 2002-3

leiad — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:45:45 +0000

Like fine wine aging in barrels hidden away in underground caves out in Napa Valley, California, the archived recordings of Karma Canon exist online, on hard drives and some even on tape. Eight years of improvisational sessions beginning in 2002 have been documented by Jay Caddle among many of his projects. The original unveiling of these Karma Canon sessions can be seen on freakoftheweek.com.

This Karma Canon Collection is my personal selection with 11 of my favorite, stand-out tracks from sessions taking place in 2002 and 2003 when Jay’s studio was located in the Astracade, Philadelphia on Ridge Avenue. More tracks from these sessions can be found at karmacanon.com or nightcapchronicles.com/karmacanon. Excellent background music for plugging in, zoning out and/or working away. Jay Caddle (bass, keys), Adrian Rosario (guitar), Michael Miller (guitar), Peter Schroeck (guitar) and Myself (drums).

Download Album

Tracklist:

A Song from Karma Canon 1

Beginning of Q2 from April Fools’ Gold

Lamb from Karma Canon 3:15

Janitors’ Night Out from Karma Canon 10:29

So Happy Without You from Karma Canon 1

Checkout Girl from Karma Canon 1

Sneaky Smokey

It Seemed Like A Fine Idea At The Time from Karma Canon 3:18

Slay The Demon from Karma Canon 11:19

Death and Taxes

Drowning in a Car on Fire

At about 175 minutes the collection could fit on a few cds.

Download cover and spine artwork.

Signage

leiad — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:42:11 +0000

Restaurant, Fishtown, Philadelphia

TiltShift Generator effect applied twice.

Danzig

leiad — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:52:55 +0000

Danzig at The Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia, June 19th, 2010.

Record Tripping

leiad — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:09:03 +0000

Record Tripping – an amazing game by Bell Brothers. Found in Smashing Magazine’s article – Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style. Glorious combination of design, concept, music, art and functionality. Thanks for the link, Jonny D.

Unrelated, but another link from another source today: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/.

Hipstamatic State Building

leiad — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:05:10 +0000

Photo taken with the Hipstamatic iPhone App.

lens: Lucifer VI | film: Kodot Verichrome | flash: Off

Photo taken with the Hipstamatic iPhone App.

lens: Kaimal Mark II | film: BlacKeys B+W | flash: Off

Live Not On Evil

leiad — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:01:18 +0000

Live Not On Evil at The M Room in Philadelphia, May 14th, 2010

Ol’ Richmond

leiad — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:46:29 +0000

Olde Richmond is a neighborhood within Fishtown, Philadelphia bounded on the East by the Delaware River, on the West by the East side of Trenton Avenue, on the North by the Conrail Railroad lines, and on the South along the River by the I-95 interchange and by the North Side of York Street from Aramingo Avenue westward.

This is a Portrait of Ol’ Richmond himself – founder, curator, overseer and guardian of the land.

Created for Olde Richmond residents.

The Low Anthem – “Charlie Darwin”

leiad — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:02:24 +0000

Sent to me from an old friend – Thank you, Vin.