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Category Archives: Art

Phones for Fearless: Phase II

December 30, 2008 – 10:03 am

Read all about it: Phones for Fearless is far from finished! With all the great gifts people got over the holidays, we know there will be some used phones, cameras, and other mobile devices kicking around looking for new homes, and we stand ready to provide them!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Canada, Christmas, Culture, Digg, Downtown Eastside, Public Service Announcement, Vancouver, charity, computers, geek, media, mobile, news, reddit, social media, technology | Comments (10)

Snow in Seattle: Pic O’ The Day!

December 22, 2008 – 9:10 am

I really can’t say why (especially after this many festive Martinis) but this picture resonates with me and reminds me of Cartier Bresson’s Decisive Moment, although there is nothing decisive about this whatsoever, which is in and of itself in fact and in actuality very, very West Coast indeed.

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, U.S., photography | Comments (11)

Octopus Studios in the hood

October 29, 2008 – 8:03 am

Octopus Studios: I’m not exactly sure who they are. I’m not exactly sure what they do. I am, however, 100% certain that they have the coolest logo on the Downtown EastSide, and thoughtful of them it was to put it only a couple of blocks from my house. They must know I’ve been busy lately.

Whoa! [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Cthulhu, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Squid, Street Art, Vancouver, Weird, geek, meme, octopus, robots | Comments (6)

Souls Mobile - Live | Fearless City

October 26, 2008 – 8:42 am

Here is the live streaming video from Mobile Souls at the Parade of Lost Souls. No idea if this UStream video will work, but what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

more about “Souls Mobile - Live | Fearless City“, posted with vodpod
UPDATE: okay, screw that. Go here on Fearless for the actual streaming [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Canada, Culture, Digital Shrine, Downtown Eastside, Entertainment, Fearless City, Gonzo, Holiday, Open Source, Parade of Lost Souls, Psychedelic, Shrine08, Street Art, Vancouver, Videos, anarchy, beauty, dance, death, mashups, media, photography, social media | Comments (3)

Downtown Eastside Artist Opportunity

October 19, 2008 – 8:19 am

**please post and forward
Fearless City Mobile Call for Participants
Short-term contracts for Downtown Eastside Residents,
We are fast approaching Fearless City Mobile’s exciting upcoming project-
Parade of Lost Souls, on Saturday October 25th, and are looking for 10 people to bring the Mobile Souls and Digital Shrine to life.
The Parade of the Lost Souls is a Grandview-Woodland’s [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Entertainment, Fearless City, Halloween, Holiday, Street Art, Vancouver, death, news, raincoaster | Comments (3)

dances with fish

October 16, 2008 – 9:14 am

Eat your heart out, Kevin Costner! Stolen from Defamer, here are two dancing with fish videos, American style. I believe you’ve all seen it done English style, yes? There is also (in escalating order of insanity) the Filipino fish dance, the Nigerian fish dance, Greek fish dance, Brazilian fish dance, the Nine Inch Nails Nation [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in 60's, Allegory, Cthulhu, Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Nine Inch Nails, Squid, Weird, YouTube, dance, fetish, fish, goth, horror, humor, meme, tasteless | Comments (10)

Operation Global Media Domination: the Banksy Situation

September 27, 2008 – 10:13 pm

For as long as I can remember (which, at my age, admittedly isn’t very long, perhaps twenty minutes at a time and then I need to take my rememberer out and let it cool down for awhile) on this blog the #1 post in terms of hits, year after year, has been Britney Spears Sex [...]

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Comme J’ai Mal by Mylene Farmer

September 16, 2008 – 10:54 am

Given the transition of Faceless Day into a new face for raincoaster, this seems like a good time to introduce this video by Franco-Canuck Mylene Farmer. It’s the first song that made me aware of her, and it only did that because of the awesome power of this particular video, which just happens to be [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Family, Lush Life, Science Fiction, Weird, YouTube, beauty, children, horror, kids, music | Comments (4)

Faceless!

September 15, 2008 – 7:53 am

Faceless on Facebook, faceless on Twitter, faceless on WordPress, on Gravatar, on OpenID (which, it must be said, I’ve never gotten to work anyway) in fact, faceless anywhere is a powerful statement, especially in an increasingly-overpopulated world where everyone wears their MySpace pruneface at all times, lest they be caught on CCTV looking humdrum.
Just ask [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Blogging, Canada, Censorship, Culture, Facebook, Politics, Twitter, government, meme, news, social media | Comments (5)

Self-Hatred FTW!

September 15, 2008 – 3:15 am

Fran Lebowitz is right: the products of repression and self-hatred are artistically superior to the products of freedom and self-actualization. I mean: Vincent Van Gogh vs LeRoy Neiman. Case closed.
So this is what architects do in their spare time, when they’re not being paid to create soul-killing, fast-buck developments of appalling vulgarity that stain the [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Humour, Photoshop, Work, architecture, beauty, capitalism, environment, humor, mashups, sad | Comments (0)