WATCH THE STARS
October 16th, 2008
We got into L.A yesterday for part two of our recording with Thom. We’re here until Halloween, but are leaving for five days right in the middle of recording to play shows in Tokyo and Hong Kong for the french designer, Agnes B. I’ve been alternating between feelings of giddy elation about going back to Japan (one of my favorite places) and excitement about visiting China, and fear about how I’m going to physically be able to perform live under the influence of massive jet lag, then return to LA for another few days of recording. Hopefully I’ll just be able to coast on adrenalin. Once I return to NYC, I’ve got about two weeks to recover before we start mixing and mastering the record.
I’m hardly complaining though, I’m in Thom’s studio right now, drinking coffee and he’s spinning OMD records for us. It’s a typically perfect L.A day and I have two and a half weeks of doing exactly what I love before me. I have little to complain about…life is good.
The world however, seems to be going to hell in a handbasket.
Watched the debates last night, and found these two gems…thought I would share:
eerily too close for comfort:
eerily close, comforting:
I found this photo here: www.dvorak.org
with the following text:
It looks like a lunar landscape but this remarkable photograph actually shows our Milky Way and the planet Jupiter in all their glory - viewed from a cave in America’s Utah desert.
The spiral galaxy, which cannot be seen with the naked eye, was captured by photographer Wally Pacholka using a 35mm camera and 50mm lens on a tripod with a 30-second exposure - long enough to collect the light but not to see the stars moving. He said: ‘I had to drive 800 miles each way five times to get the shot right. And I had to hike two miles to the cave and back again at night, getting lost each time I came out.’ His photo shows the Milky Way - estimated to be 100,000 light years in diameter and 1,000 light years deep - and Jupiter (to the top left), the biggest planet in the solar system with a diameter 11 times that of Earth’s.
Something about that photo makes me feel as though its all going to be ok. Am I crazy?
xH
grant said,
October 16, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
No, emphatically not.
Reece said,
October 16, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
Not crazy. We’re tiny. It will be ok.
Paul said,
October 20, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
OMD will make everything OK. Just listen to “Sealand” off of Architecture and Morality and life comes back into focus regardless of what happens in the political universe. If Obama loses - I will retreat to listening to Architecture and Morality, Organisation and Dazzle Ships for the better part of November… then I may emerge from my cave very much like the one pictured above… hopefully better… hopefully.
I am very excited about your tertiary effort you are giving glimpses of on this blog…
Gordon Hulley said,
November 28, 2008 @ 7:24 am
Amazing photograph! I was staying just outside York, England the other week and I was videoing the full moon through a telephoto. What I loved was that, in the space of five minutes, the moon tracked an arc from centre-frame to off-the-top-right… something very time/space/scale about it.
... said,
May 30, 2009 @ 6:24 pm
My guess is … not crazy …
The numbers all check out; its all a mess of order; the rocks and the sky share so many similarities; mathematically, they’re mostly the same.
But don’t take my word for it ! :
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Ratio-Worlds-Astonishing-Number/dp/0767908163
Macker said,
June 1, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Amazing shot. Things will be OK and they will also not be OK.
Tanglewood said,
August 4, 2009 @ 8:28 am
Isn’t the OMD song ‘the new stone age’ brilliant? It’s about the end of the world, hehe. Whatever, light workers FTW!