category: music
Remembering Hüsker Dü
March 6, 2012 peter bell
Remarkable music scenes don’t happen every day, and they don’t pop out of the void spontaneously. It takes the hard work of dedicated individuals to produce the type of culture that fosters great music. Behind every individual that reaps the financial rewards of a successfully commoditized music scene, there is a network of unsung heroes […]
locations from a selection of spike jonze music videos : part 2 (1995–1996)
February 28, 2012 matt
Spike Jonze had everyone’s attention after his music video for “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys (see part 1). He had directed Weezer’s first video for their song “Undone – The Sweater Song” in 1994, but it was his follow-up Weezer video for the song “Buddy Holly” that would become his next big hit in 1995.
locations from a selection of spike jonze music videos : part 1 (1992–1994)
February 21, 2012 matt
Here’s some useless trivia about locations in the music videos of Spike Jonze. If you are a pop culture junkie or you need to settle a bar bet, then you’ve come to the right place. I want to admit up front that I’m not a big fan of Spike Jonze’s movies. There’s a post-modernism or […]
Kurt Cobain in Aberdeen, WA locations
January 18, 2012 peter bell
The first time I heard Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was on MTV. My mother had gotten cable to watch The Gulf War (thanks, CNN!) and MTV was part of the package. For any younger readers, MTV used to show music videos almost exclusively back then, before the The Real World proved wildly successful in […]
Steve Jobs Locations: Part 2: Starting a Global Corporation 101
January 6, 2012 peter bell
After returning from India, Steve Jobs settled into the culture of computing in a burgeoning Silicon Valley. Steve Wozniak had taken a job at Hewlett-Packard (HP), while simultaneously working on his design for a new computer that would become the Apple I. Both Jobs and Woz were attending meetings at the Homebrew Computer Club at […]