Let's Get Famous.

The New Best!

2010-03-10T03:37:00.000-08:00

Artist Jan Vormann has been helping out around the city, by fixing some buildings' holes with Legos. Could someone call an ambulance. The 12 year-old me just exploded out of my ribcage and is doing fake karate moves around the living room.

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Announcement: Handmade Music Night (Performance)

2010-03-07T16:39:00.000-08:00

Attention, please. Handmade Music Night has moved to its new space at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo. Tomorrow night, March 8th, there will be show-and-tell, musical sewing machines, electronic honky-tonk, drinks, performances, hands on demos, and more. For free.

Here's the info:

Science fair, party, variety show - Handmade Music celebrates unusual DIY creations in music, with people who make their own tools to make their own music.

This month, Galapagos Art Space means a stage, a bar, and a huge lineup of FREE music:
* ELECTRO-COUNTRY + unusual instruments with the Owen Lake band, covering honky-tonk country classics on synths and electronics and showing off Jeff Snyder's original Manta touch instrument

* AUGMENTED SEWING MACHINE + ENSEMBLE with monome and other creations, featuring Lara Grant (sewing machine) + Matt Ganucheau + Peter Kirn

* HANDMADE GESTURE CONTROLLER by Mouse & the Billionaire

* AUDIOVISUAL HYPER-TRUMPET the TOOB, an expressive digital instrument

...plus surprises, hands-on with lots of inventions, plenty of makers and technologists to meet and buy beers in exchange for tips, crafters, inventors, and more.

Hosted by createdigitalmusic.com, the craft marketplace and community Etsy, the DIY bible Make Magazine, and the trend-setters of XLR8R Magazine

Did you notice us up there? Yeah. We'll be there. Performing. With visuals provided by the one and only AOF. It's going to be awesome, and you should probably be there.

Beertown, USA

2010-02-26T05:40:00.001-08:00

It is snowy out there today. Really snowy. This winter has just been one long snow-covered excuse to stay inside and brew some beer. And brew we have. It has been fun to experiment with some interesting ingredients, meanwhile devouring book after book on beer-making, and hopefully by the first leaf of spring we'll have some delicious samples to start passing around.

Until then, please visit the newly launched craftbeer.com, where you can read up on all the exciting things going on in the world of craft beer. Cheers!

Happy Groundhog's Day, Dancing Machines!

2010-02-02T12:10:00.000-08:00

Reporting 101

2010-01-28T13:22:00.001-08:00

Love it. (via boingboing)

Yeeeesssssss!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-26T16:11:00.001-08:00

The Quilted Quicker Pick-Me-Upper

2010-01-26T06:39:00.000-08:00

I have spent the last few days tying up loose ends, cleaning house as it were. And as it were in this house, that means mixtapes.

Those of you in the know might already be aware that our external hard drive failed not long ago, taking all of our music and photos with it. Not fun. But after hours and hours of scraping the bottom of the barrel-laden internet I have managed to recreate each and every Mouse & the Mixtape (that is, at least until 2005). Le sigh.

So, in an all-out OCD tailspin (This Lady knows what I'm talking about), I set to revamping the mixtape section of the site; filling in tracks or artwork where it was missing, and generally just archiving a bit better.

Which brings me to this. Check out the new Mouse & the Mixtape Interactive Cover Quilt, a new and fun way to browse your favourite odd eclectic collections of songs. Brought to you by the good people at Coffee.

Bye for now.

Nic Cage as Everyone

2010-01-07T14:52:00.000-08:00

Yay! Hours of fun.

niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com

Christmas Pudding, Dancing Machines!

2009-12-25T20:06:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas, Dancing Machines!

2009-12-25T09:33:00.000-08:00

Hi

2009-12-23T10:59:00.000-08:00

Hi there.

I was just doing some re-reading of old posts. Man, we used to actually write posts. We would inform. Tell stories. Try to be witty. Or funny. Or interesting. Somewhere along the way we got derailed. I blame grad school. Grad School overwhelmed me with a general malaise regarding technology. Or twitter. Is that too cliche? Everyone is blaming twitter nowadays.

Well, I don't really have anything interesting to talk about. I merely wanted to stop for a second and say, "hi." Thanks for stopping by. Thanks for your years of reading. Thanks for sticking with us.

Here's a song we recorded the other day, it's a work in progress, but, then again, so is most everything, right? Hope you like it, and we promise to write more in the future.

Today - Mouse & the Billionaire

PS There's a new mixtape up. It aint half bad.

Brrrrr City

2009-12-21T07:23:00.000-08:00

Rio Bravo & the Billionaire

2009-12-07T09:36:00.000-08:00

A traveler walks along a barren road. Barren, he thinks, that's a little dramatic. It's more flat than barren. There's plenty of bushes. This road is nice. Looks to be newly paved. Why are people always so dramatic when it comes to the American highway system? He is studying the changing colours in the sky when, in the distance, he notices a car coming toward him. As it approaches it appears to slow down, as if to get a better look at the lone pedestrian. The traveler peers in to the driver's side door as the car slowly passes. The driver stares back at him, its golden robot metal gleaming in the sun. The two travelers look at each other, neither making a move to speak. The car accelerates away and the man is left standing on the side of the road, his hat in his hands, wiping the sweat from his eyes with his dusty shirt. Well, he says to the coming dusk, I always knew he'd come back.

Quite the Number - Rio Bravo (Mouse & the Billionaire Remix)

Pet Peeves

2009-12-06T16:09:00.000-08:00

Calling any food sinful
Referring to people who like a particular item as a {blank}-aholic.
Web coding forums

Now you know.

600th Post!

2009-11-23T06:20:00.001-08:00

Friends celebrate together

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2009-11-09T05:02:00.000-08:00

Faces of Death is available for watch-it-now on Netflix! That is insane. The 13 year-old me only heard rumors of it's existence. My 13 year-old neighbor can now watch it in his bedroom with a click of a button while his parents are at work.

Question: Does my 13 year-old neighbor even want to watch Faces of Death? Has he seen crazier things on you-tube (or the news) already?

Brilliant Pizza Box Redesign

2009-10-22T04:24:00.000-07:00

Let's talk about things that work the way they're supposed to. Believe it or not, some things even improve over time. Like this awesome redesign of the classic takeout pizza box.

Now that's using the ol' noggin.

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I Don't Want to Talk About It

2009-10-21T21:30:00.000-07:00

Bums

Nonsensical Infographics

2009-10-20T14:35:00.000-07:00

Love it!.

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Lady Gaga, Illuminati Puppet

2009-10-16T11:16:00.001-07:00

Just thought you should know.

Have Yourself a Zimmermanny Christmas

2009-10-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

I know it's early, but you must prepare for the holidays and buy Bob Dylan's new Christmas album.

That is all.

Performance Tonight

2009-10-03T06:36:00.000-07:00

Tonight @ Dutch Kills Gallery come see some GestureControllers in action. Performance with the always wonderful AOF running visuals.

More info: Alia Ormut-Fleishman and Mouse and the Billionaire will be performing a live experimental audio/visual set aesthetically influenced by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and including generative 3D forms, live visuals and experimental audio using a custom MIDI controller and generative software.

Also visit: dutchkillsgallery.com

Making Beer, Changing Lives

2009-09-20T19:32:00.000-07:00

Fare Thee Well

2009-09-09T20:30:00.000-07:00

I just put this guy on a plane. He is, as we speak, on his way to conquer the world, via Scotland.

He will return to NY in one year, bekilted and with his brain filled with knowledge.

We'll miss you, Mr. Dumas. Knock 'em dead.

Sycz Celebration!

2009-08-24T06:26:00.000-07:00

Mike and Kelly get married. We celebrate.