artificialsoundandlight

2008

December
November
October 23
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
Warch 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
Warch 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
Warch 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
Warch 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 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