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3.25.2008

Three of my favorite places to find a soundtrack for web surfing:

1. Muxtape, an (brand new!) online application that allows you to upload 12-song mixtapes with a refreshingly simple interface and more features on the way
2. RadioLab, a "This-American-Life"-esque public radio program, but this time all the stories are about mind-blowing science!
3. UbuWeb Sound, free rare audio files of experimental sound artists, poetry, and outsider art projects

Hope everyone in New York can make it to the Dark Fair to hang out with Marco and Martine! Scroll down to the next post for all the info.

- karly

Labels: Dark Fair, Karly, Muxtape, RadioLab, Ubu Web Sound

3.23.2008

IF you are in New York this weekend:

Please visit our booth at the DARK FAIR presented by the Milwaukee International art fair!

Featuring artwork by Derek Chan, Paul Cowan, and Maura Thompson!
Plus publications from Pork Salad Press, Ayako Yamasaki, Post Present Medium, Glaciers of Nice, JK Tapes, Arbor, Peres Projects, Material Press, Robin Newman, Nieves, Paperback Magazine, Torpedo, Lal Lal Lal, and more!!!!!

It's going to be so epic.

Don't miss out!

March 28-29
Friday 6pm - 12am
Saturday 12pm - 9pm

Swiss Institute
495 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NY 10012
Tel 212.925.2035

www. swissinstitute. net
www. milwaukeeinternational. tk

IF you are in Chicago this weekend:

Please visit our store! Karly (http://karlywildenhaus. blogspot. com/) and Erin will be there!

Featuring artwork by the same people! Plus way, way more!

Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 12pm-6pm (We're closed this Friday, but not usually)

GOLDEN AGE
1500 W 17th Street, Chicago, 60608
312.850.2338

:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

<3 Martine and Marco

Labels: Arbor, Ayako Yamasaki, Dark Fair, Derek Chan, Glaciers of Nice, JK Tapes, Maura Thompson, Milwaukee International Art Fair, Paul Cowan, Pork Salad Press, Post President Medium

3.17.2008

Chicago Public Library got a new website! It is so awesome. I was complaining about lugging around all my books I need to renew, then I went over to the new site and renewal was but a click away. I was so psyched on CPL that I filled out their online survey. I was a tad over-zealous. I wrote things like "I love the library." and "Long live social programs!" (It's all true though.) I went to the library today. I checked out The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swenson. RULING!

xo martine

Labels: Chicago Public Library, David F. Swenson, Martine, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

3.13.2008

ROUND 3

Here are three things that are making my life awesome right now.

Maura

Labels: Maura, Three things that make life awesome

excerpt from an interview published in Textfield V

Stuart Bailey
...I might argue that an aspect of the modernism your publishing circumscribes is the very lack of any agenda or expectations, only a set of moral working principles, and that it's precisely this lack of presumption that breathes life into the work. Is it important to maintain a sense of unknowing, of making it up as you go along? Have you ever felt your work was becoming too predictable or out of breath?

Robin Kinross
Yes and more often recently. To do fresh work, as we're saying, you need to step back and pause. Then something different can happen. It's perhaps what distinguishes mere journalism or "journeyman work" from more substantial writing or production. As a writer, eventually you reach some point where the words just pour out without difficult, as fast as you can type them. To write for a living, which usually means writing journalism you need to reach this state. But this is dangerous, because of the risk that you start to 'run on empty'-repeat ideas, phrases, formulatons. Or you just become a machine for rehashing given material: putting pieces together out of quotes from people that you phone or meet.

Labels: Robin Kinross, Stuart Bailey, Textfield

3.09.2008

It's Sunday night, daylight savings is going on over here, and I am soaking up the rays. Winter is winding down and life is heating up. I'm ready for some new stuff! And that's wonderful because we definitely have new stuff. Why don't you mosey on over to the WEBSHOP and check it out?! MORE COMING SOON!!!

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#NEW ZINES#
Illnestrations, Mike Taylor $5.50
Architectures, Ari Marcopolous, $8

#FROM ARBOR#
God Willing, Cleansing Hour, Cassette, $10

#FROM WHITE COLUMNS#
Tussle, TsoWC, LP, $10

#NEW STUFF FROM FINNISH LABEL LAL LAL LAL#
(THESE NEW ONES ARE SOME SCORCHERS!)
Fricara Paccu, Midnight Pyre, CD, $15
Howlin' Magic, The Dreaming, CD, $15
Maniac, Turku Hold'em, CD, $15
Semimuumio, Vamos, CD, $15

#JK TAPES HYPER HYPER XCELLENT RELEASES#
Sarah's Charity, Final Ocular Distortion, Cassette $6
John Thill, The Sluts, Cassette, $6
Child Pornography/Silver Daggers, Split, Cassette, $6
Jazzfinger, King Murnam, Cassette, $6
Social Junk, Cassette, $6
Diamond Lemonade, Cassette, $6

#GAYBEAST MUSICS#
Gay Beast, Disrobics, LP, $10
Gay Beast/Twin, Split, 7", $6
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-Marco

Labels: Arbor, Ari Marcopolous, Daylight Savings, Gay Beast, JK Tapes, Lal Lal Lal, Mike Taylor, Tussle, Webshop Updates, White Columns

3.06.2008

Here are two things I have realized recently:

1. I have an almost infinite faith in the collective intelligence of online communities, meaning, I feel like I can find almost any piece of information I need on the WWW if I enter the right Google search terms.

2. I want to own two dogs that are the same breed and are a female and a male. I can't do this now because I have a small apartment and I want to own fairly large dogs. Someday.

Maura

Labels: Dogs, Google, Maura, Online Communities

3.03.2008

I just had some of the Grolsch left over from our screening the other night and I am feeling it.

Today I bought stationary, read about Fischli/Weiss, and watched 'Mixtape' and 'Driftwood' by Nick Relph and Oliver Payne. I also discovered RSS feeds.

I hope everyone is enjoying this little heat wave we're having.

- Martine

Labels: Driftwood, Fischli/Weiss, Grolsch, Martine, Mixtape, Nick Relph, Oliver Payne, Rss Feeds

3.02.2008

We're on the Chicago Wikitravel guide for PILSEN. YEAH!

Marco

Labels: Marco, Pilsen, Wikitravel guide

3.01.2008

Today, Saturday, March 1, 2008, we will not be in the store. We are sorry for the inconvenience and if you missed us and would like to schedule an appointment, please call us, 312.850.2338!

Labels: Out of store