Archive for January, 2006

Joan and Jane and Joan

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Derek sends me these links, thus demonstrating that there is some kind of creepy resonance thing happening with sisters named Joan and Jane – of course you remember Thing a Week 8. Gotta love Google (unless you are Chinese).
Starting with the obvious
http://www.joanandjane.com/
which included the appropriate button
http://www.joanandjane.com/images/banner_nav/button_meetJJ-on.gif
Then there was the painterly representation
http://www.spanierman.com/wilde/wilde030092c_2f_m.htm
The Story of Jane and [...]

Thing a Week 18 – Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance

Friday, January 27th, 2006

It was time for this song to get the full treatment and rise up from its obscure position on the Songs page. For those of you who don’t know, Soterios Johnson is the morning anchor on the NPR station here in New York, WNYC. He may or may not have a secret life of dance, [...]

More Fun with Flickr

Friday, January 27th, 2006

From Waxy, here’s this strangely addictive game of “guess the keyword” called Fastr. I can’t stop playing.
This week’s thing coming soon…

Don’t Do It!

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Artist Tom Judd has just started a project called Once a Week (via BoingBoing). Kind of interesting: he’s going to produce a page of art once a week for a year, and he’ll auction each one off on ebay. In addition, he’s selling 3cm spaces for £50 to advertisers – he will actually put your [...]

Thing a Week 17 – I Will

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Easing back in with a Beatles cover this week. This song has been floating around in my head for quite a while, who knows why – maybe I’m in love. I think this may be the sweetest love song ever written, so I’ve recorded it without any winking or irony or irreverence. Just straight ahead [...]