Arts & culture editor @crosscut. Music maker @argumentband. Writer and cat scratcher at large.
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Need an election escape? Gaze upon riverfront activity in Bordeaux, high-rise window washers in Seoul or the sunset over Moscow. Anywhere but here! bit.ly/3k1q373
We had big storyboard dreams for this episode, including a complicated street scene, but in the end @danielspils and I never left the bathroom. This is covid culture.
EP 9 of our COVID Covers: “Steppin’ Out” by @joejacksonmusic. Thrilling to decode these iconic piano chords. I used live drums, but in '82 Joe used a Korg KR-55 + live snare (he played all instruments). For our recently departed cat, Pete: “into the night, into the light.”
I realllly miss going to the movies — even the annoying parts. Luckily there's terrific cinematic sustenance online this wknd, including the Seattle Black Film Festival @BlkFilmSeattle and the Seattle Deaf Film Festival @nwfilmforum. BYO 'corn. crosscut.com/2020/07/editors…
Re the everlasting cool of Chrissie Hynde and shuttlecocks
EP 8 of our COVID Covers: “Message Of Love” by The Pretenders. Headed into “COVID 2: The Remaskening,” so we went with this crazy cool beat and a shuttlecock. Note @danielspils 's joyously flailing limbs (this drum part is a blast to play). Vox @brangien. Song @ThePretendersHQ.
The latest in our COVID cover series... sending out an SOS and bringing out the kaftan.
Ep7 of our COVID Covers: “Message In A Bottle” by The Police. Simplified the drums b/c couldn’t get @copelandmusic to play for us (pandemic and all). Transcribed @asummersmusic killer guitar part to my trusty piano and away we went! @brangien sings in kaftan; @danielspils mimes.
Missing this gentle giant of Seattle filmmaking. So lucky I got to bask in her light even a little. crosscut.com/2020/05/remembe…
What do we lose when we lose our public fishing piers? A beautifully told story of a community at risk of losing much more than fish, by @mariaidolan on @Crosscut. crosscut.com/2020/05/seattle…
Remember the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? I revisit it, amid other perspective-shifts, in my latest arts and culture newsletter for @Crosscut.
There's something to be learned from the secret geometry of orcas during a pandemic, @brangien writes. Art can shift our thinking, even when making it isn't our forte. bit.ly/3dsnnMU
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Ohhhhhh yay! So nice to hear @brangien's thoughts on art right now - she touches on a lot of things I've been thinking about and articulates some other things I haven't been able to put my finger on.
🎧 When Washington state prohibited gatherings, it closed the curtain on traditional arts events. But many artists have found a way to go on. Arts editor @brangien talks art amid the outbreak on this week's episode of This Changes Everything. bit.ly/3fp4nAA
For this installment, @danielspils and I did a cover of a cover (and added a cat).
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Crosscut arts and culture editor @brangien has had spring rites and rituals on her mind this week. We're likely to forget some new ones the pandemic has made necessary, but that's why we should all be keeping coronavirus journals. bit.ly/3bUZux1
Yes this drives me nuts too. Art is not about "taking a break" from the real world. It's about making the human connections that are so crucial to keeping us going.
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Pandemic comics — my latest for @Crosscut profiles Seattle illustrator Julia Wald, who interviews people about how COVID has affected their work, then translates their stories into bold black and white. crosscut.com/2020/04/seattle…
Our latest episode is all rock and crackers
Episode 5 of our COVID Covers: “Man in the Box” by Alice In Chains.
This week, the box is coming from inside the house. We’re cooped up, souped-up, and ready for ‘90s rock! @danielspils made a guitar “talk box” from headphones and tape and discovered how to fast zoom. @brangien
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This isolation
consumes me, as I consume
boxes of Triscuits
In celebration of International Haiku Poetry Day, we want to see your pandemic haiku. That's 3 lines, in syllables of 5-7-5.
Leave yours in the replies below and we may feature it a story👇
My latest cover with @danielspils — proving Missing Persons was way ahead of their time!
Ep 4 of our COVID Covers: “Destination Unknown” by Missing Persons.
An ‘80s tune that seems made for the present. Behind The Music™: I bought the analog synthesizer I used in this video at Down Home Guitar in Anchorage in the early ‘80s. I never upgraded. @danielspils @brangien
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Episode 3 of our COVID Covers: PJ Harvey’s “Down By The River.”
This week @brangien & @danielspils find ourselves going mildly stir crazy and proving (re: video editing software) that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. We promise to chill out if we make it to ep 4.
