artificialsoundandlight
2008
December
November
October
23
September
25
August
57
July
83
June
112
May
64
April
47
March
19
February
January
Saddest Song Ever (amazing)
The Zombies - Way I Feel Inside (From The Life Aquatic) Should I try to hide The way I feel...
May 28th
Good things come to those whom good things come to.
— Vahid Yamartino
May 27th
If you’ve ever had to examine your creative freedoms, you...
— Vahid Yamartino
May 27th
You're My Boy Raffy
May 27th
Syria
May 26th
Botswana
May 26th
Israel
May 26th
Yemen
May 26th
Ethiopia
May 26th
Libya
May 26th
Morocco
May 26th
Namibia
May 26th
Malawi
May 26th
Mozambique
May 26th
View Of The Bay
Ships lie spewing laughing-black From soot-stained towers talking back
May 26th
Sugar Ray
If you’re anything like me, and you probably are, you wonder from time to time about the...
May 26th
One man’s trash is another man’s garbage.
— Vahid Yamartino
May 26th
Yeah!
Awesome, thoughtful, and unexpected gifts are awesome, thoughtful and quite frankly, unexpected....
May 26th
Back when I did HDRs…
May 25th
Hallelujah
May 25th
One of those, right place, right time, right orange wall,...
May 25th
Not fair how easy this stuff is…
May 25th
ITC4D18:00
Sorry for the short notice, but if this means anything to you, come on down tomorrow and bring your...
May 25th
Posterity
Someone said I should write this down, but I won’t forget that I probably sent out his last...
May 25th
TWO CHINAS!?
I just found this out. When you hear the word China, what do you think? Okay, what if you heard...
May 25th
Sincerest Form
Shakespeare didn’t write a single original play. Arguably his best known play, Hamlet,...
May 25th
Abi The Dream Maker
May 24th
Spankin'
New theme. New super-fast, ultra-awesome search, and, drumroll please…comments. Sholeh will be...
May 24th
I'm Sick Of Your Futurists
My favorite quote from the Guardian. Penned in 1936. As in over 70 years ago: “A mechanism...
May 24th
Thankyou.
Thanks to my readers for the feedback. Very encouraging.
May 24th
You can’t legislate for the square pegs in the round...
— Vahid Yamartino
May 23rd
Watch
My cover of Idioteque by Radiohead. YouTube, in all its wisdom, decided to cut out a whole minute of...
May 23rd
I Like Said and Heard
my old man, you would do well to, in a bad way, go for it, the boy, stoic, sultry, sure, jonesing...
May 23rd
Watch
I need to listen to more U.N.K.L.E. Excellent song and video.
May 23rd
Ouch
I think this would be a funny exchange… Jeff: “Know how Sally and I fell in...
May 22nd
Kismet(rics)
Do you ever wonder, for every talent and ability that you have, what it came at the cost of?...
May 22nd
Coolest Aunt and Uncle
May 22nd
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
May 21st
To the young mind, years are in days.
— Vahid Yamartino
May 20th
Watch
I’ve decided to post short and easy songs, even if they aren’t very good (since I posted...
May 19th
Name Game
Don’t know if I ever posted this but… Yamartino = I Am Not Ray
May 19th
Neil Gaiman Knows Me
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens...
May 18th
Quicker Observation
I don’t know if I believe in ‘-roid rage’. I mean come on. Lets say I have a wimpy...
May 18th
George Orwell's 12 Writing Tips
1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it...
May 16th
The King Crop
Corn is in almost every non-vegetable food item you eat. And it may already be powering your car....
May 16th
Watch
For some reason I’m really fascinated by ‘pop-and-lock’ dancing, but have only...
May 15th
May 14th
Vafattack
My friend Vafa on the set of LAX. (via borntobedown)
May 14th
Salt of the Land
1. Radiohead (above music) 2. Weezer* 3. System of a Down 4. “…And You Will Know Us By the Trail...
May 14th
The Fire of Ordeal
This is my personal interpretation of: “I would again direct your attention to those ominous...
May 14th
My roommate is really into palm reading (I’m a sucker for such things as well) and recently...
May 14th
You need a firm hand to draw the line to sever the limb to save the mind (after writing this,...
May 12th
Qwerty
The ‘qwerty’ layout of the keys on your keyboard is meant to slow down your typing....
May 12th
My favorite picture of my parents.
May 12th
Vantage Point
My dad missed the bus on medical field trip day, and he says it is probably why he never became a...
May 10th
Yesterday was a great photo day. (via borntobedown)
May 10th
It Takes Two
Jobs and Woz, Gates and Allen, Page and Brin, Hurley and Chen, Bell and Watson, Wright and Wright....
May 9th
Town's Back That Way
I never used to understand the phrase “Have your cake and eat it too.” I understood how...
May 8th
Recurring Dreams
I have several recurring dreams. They’re supposed to be how you deal with stress. One is...
May 7th
“I rejoice to hear that thou takest pains with thine art, for in this wonderful new age, art is...
May 7th
Land Of The Rising Sun
When I was in the fifth grade I won an art contest and was able to go to Japan for five glorious...
May 6th
A word on the connection between the spiritual and the physical in a coming post. Until then, you...
May 3rd
Listen
My first electronic song, entitled ‘Locked In (You’re Hideous)’. Made by hand in...
May 3rd
When the fire of love is ablaze, it burneth to ashes the...
— The Seven Valleys
May 3rd