GASKETS

'Ross in the Dark' by Igor

2008-03-03T04:11:26Z

Nate 'Igor' Smith is the Gaskets' manager, and has taken literally hundreds of photos of the band in the past five years. This is one of them. He is more well known, of course, for his popular nightlife photography on display, always, at Drivenbyboredom.com.

'Studio' by Jeff Glendenning

2008-01-23T15:04:05Z

Jeff is both the principal of Studio Glendenning and art director of The New York Times magazines, Play and Key. He also teaches editorial design at the School of Visual Arts. From 2002 to 2007 Jeff worked at The New York Times Magazine. He had designed and art directed numerous covers, special issues, feature articles and style layouts. Jeff's work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club and Young Guns 5, the AIGA, the Society of Publication Designers and Print magazine.

'Trap Me In Doors' Live

2008-01-15T04:56:03Z

Richmond's PBS Station, WCVE, has a TV show called The Music Seen that features live music. They filmed a show of ours at the Canal Club early last year, and it aired last October. I finally received a DVD copy of it a few weeks ago, and picked out what I thought was the best performance of the night to post online. "Trap Me In Doors" is a song about a relationship falling apart. It likens the feeling to being caught under the rubble of an old, leaky building which is quickly crumbling down. Fun stuff! It also features a drums-and-chanting breakdown.

Video after the jump.

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'EGDDAA' by Rumsey Taylor

2008-01-15T04:33:40Z

Rumsey Taylor is a graphic designer and film critic living in Boston, MA. He is the founder and co-editor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

The idea is it's the chord progression from the main riff in AC/DC's "What Do You Do For Money (Honey)", which is one of the best tracks off "Back in Black" -- at least, in my opinion, it's the best riff on an album full of legendary riffs. The chords -- E G D D A A -- are enumerated in capitalized Fette Fraktur.

Ballpoint Pens Video

2008-01-04T01:01:38Z

There is a new video for the Ballpoint Pens song, "Never Let You Go," made by our friend Lana Schwartz, from the album Calcutta.

You can watch it after the jump.

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'Skullpaper' by Noah Scalin

2008-01-04T00:18:04Z

Noah Scalin is the founder of Another Limited Rebellion, a socially conscious graphic design firm in Richmond, Virginia. He is also the profoundly talented designer and illustrator behind the popular web project Skull A Day, where he makes a new image of a skull every day out of a large variety of media.

In The Studio

2007-12-29T16:24:53Z

It's been almost two years since we released Loose Change and, despite the band being scattered across the east coast (New York, Massachusetts, Richmond, DC), we've managed to write some new songs during that time. So this week we got together with engineer Al Weatherhead and producer (and drummer) Miguel Urbiztondo to begin tracking for a new album at Richmond's Sound of Music studios.

More Photos After the Jump.

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Recording studio photos courtesy of Driven by Boredom.

'Welcome To' by Chris Brennan (Submitted by Brian Jones)

2007-12-29T00:37:04Z

Brian Jones is a graphic designer working at VSA Partners in Chicago. Chris Brennan is a friend of his from San Francisco.

If you were going to accompany the photo with some sort of short description like some of the previous posts, just say something along the lines of "This photo was taken by Chris Brennan, and inspires Brian daily. or is being promoted by Brian ..."

Our 'Uncensored Interview'

2007-12-03T19:26:42Z

During our time at CMJ, we sat down with the nice folks over at UncensoredInterview.com for a few hours. They didn't care to ask us about our influences or our songwriting process or any of those other boring 'band interview' questions. Instead, they had us joking around about Doritos commercials, high school, and Rod Stewart. So, if you ever wanted to "hang out" with us, this will give you a pretty good idea of how lame we are, and deter you from that desire. I joke!

Video after the jump.

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See all the videos here.

'Clear Shoe' by Joe Swanberg

2007-12-03T19:00:20Z

That clear shoe is part of Damon Dash's Pro Keds line. My brothers got me a pair for Christmas last year.

From New York Magazine:
By his own admission, Joe Swanberg has achieved as much success as an indie filmmaker could want. Each of the 26-year-old director’s three feature films debuted at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and this summer’s celebration of "mumblecore" indie filmmaking at IFC kicked off with a screening of his latest, Hannah Takes the Stairs. But he figures, all told, less than 100,000 people have seen his festival-circuit films. Compare that to Young American Bodies, the original series he directs for online consumption via Nerve Video. "More people than that had viewed the first episode within a month," he says. "By a lot."

'Untitled (found jpeg)' by Rob Giampietro

2007-11-28T22:17:31Z

Rob Giampietro is a principal at Giampietro+Smith, a design firm based in New York City. Rob is also an adjunct faculty member at Parsons School of Design and RISD, and a contributor to Design Observer and Dot Dot Dot. Rob blogs at Lined & Unlined.

From the MS Encarta entry on the image:
Despite his mother’s beckoning, an infant hesitates to cross the “visual cliff” — an apparently steep drop that is actually covered by transparent glass. Psychologists in the 1960s found that most infants 6 to 14 months of age were reluctant to crawl over the cliff, suggesting they had the ability to perceive depth.

From Rob:
I guess the idea that interests me would be that even babies in the earliest stages of cognition have certain expectations about the physical properties of the world, and violating those expectations leaves them a bit dumbfounded, confused, trying to make sense of why the violation occurred. I also think the description of the experiments themselves, the ball rolling through the wall, the idea of crawling into thin air on the visual cliff - they're really visually evocative.

For more, check out this entry at Lined & Unlined.

'Cartesian Mat' by Joel Holmberg

2007-11-25T01:58:43Z

Teddy : Want to give me a quick bio / explanation of the work ?

Joel : Nah, Just be like “blissed out crotch shot floor mat” courtesy of Joel Holmberg.

'Untitled' by Marian Bantjes

2007-11-17T05:19:22Z

We're very lucky and excited to feature this background image from Marian Bantjes. If you don't know her work, you should.

From a much longer bio on her site:
Now I live on an island near Vancouver, BC. That’s on the west coast of Canada, across from Japan. This coast is rich and lush and green all year ‘round. It seldom snows here. We even have palm-tree-like-things. We have beaches and mountains and giant trees. It’s absolutely incredible and I’m very, very lucky to live here.
I have a very big virtual life. In fact, most of my life these days seems to exist in the ether of the internet. I’m not that happy about this, but … I live on an island on the west coast of Canada, so, uh …

Download Marian Bantjes 14-Second Themesong by Gaskets.

'Cippus (funerary altar) of Cominia Tyche' by Adam Squires

2007-11-14T05:37:41Z

Adam spends most of his day working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he gets to see nice things like this gravestone on his walk to the office. His other time is spent being one half of Shields and Squires, a design and development partnership with his cousin, Dan Shields. He likes chips.

Store Is Up

2007-11-14T05:22:40Z

There are products here for you.

And if you buy something from us, we'll send you one of these stickers, which look a little like psychedelic NYC subway signs, and, in all of their cyan-on-magenta glory, are more than a little hard to look at. Blind 'em.