As noted in this great article on the GM Tech Center in the June issue of Metropolis, the Eyes on Design Automotive Design Exhibition takes place June 22 in Warren, Mich. Will include vehicles from the 1938 Buick Y-Job to the 2003 Cadillac Sixteen, plus offer a chance to tour the campus. Tickets are available here. And for a good cause, too.

Curious if any of my esteemed conspiritors have any contacts with Black Book Magazine? If so, please hit me up

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Apologies to the readers for being so quiet the past three weeks while on work hard/play hard assignment in southern California. Currently camped out at the downtown LA Standard, catching up on some e-mail and sorting through all the goodies that need to be posted. To start with, B'lab conspirator Marius Watz has a new beauty application called C Drawer at Processing, run by computational design geniuses Casey Reas and Ben Fry.

Serious work starts next week on design for the long-awaited new Chemlab LP, due out on Invisible later this year. I just found out that Jared and I are getting some typography help from long-time design heroes +ISM.

Look for photos from this past weekend's 24 hour road trip to Vegas and the Movement festival in Detroit over the next few days.

sad to announce that my bid for legitimately representing burnlab at sonar has come up short...press pass denied! i guess i�ll overlook it just this once.....

very, very big recommendation for matthew herbert big band�s goodbye, swingtime. an incredible mix of an appreciation for and knowledge of classic jazz and future electronica. listen once, then reeeeally listen.

I'm going to be writing a rather large piece on indie/dance crossover music for BPM. I'm curious if anyone has suggestions for record stores, venues, labels, etc... that would fit in this category. I wanna get a global feel for this piece, not just my obvious Detroit/Chicago axis. Hit me at joshua_glazer@hotmail.com

And speaking of Axis, I'm amused to announce that I'll be DJing in the Nefarious.net booth at Movement:DEMF. My time slot is 10.30-mid on Monday, which puts me head-to-head with Jeff Mills. Anyone coming out this year should take a break from the 140bpm assault and swing by the riverfront booth.

belio is a collaboratory group of artists, designers, musicians and dj�s based principally in madrid that organize concerts, exhibitions, and are also responsible for belio magazine, covering music, design, and culture, and including outstanding graphic design from collaborators from all over the world...on the webpage check out the gallery section for examples of some of the articles and take some time to check out their links section too. the magazine isn�t yet available, but hopefully with their permission i�ll try to pass along some info/links from the issues. the latest issue focuses on urban art and grafitti and features the project of worldwide domination that is space invaders and the work of french illustrator/grafitti artist miss van.

check out the paintings of former car design colleague and current fashion design collaborator (more details on that as they become available!) markus haub, who uses a technique of painting over photoshop-manipulated images. his work is currently on display in various locations around barcelona.

i guess not too many of you will be able to make it but next thursday i�ll be playing with the new incarnation of my band, misnoma, at city hall club in barcelona. the lineup: male and female vocals, bass, keyboard, and me on beats, loops, and samples using ableton live

Chinese poster art from the 20's and 30's. Stripped down to make way for cultural revolution art

a bit of very cool mouse interface

looking very forward to SONAR. no word on the press pass yet though, mike....for those coming make sure to get tickets for matthew herbert big band on thursday. supposedly press passes aren�t valid (not positive but seems that way). it�s taking place in a theater away from the normal SONAR activities and has pretty limited seating.

I'll be reporting from Terrific Torrance California for the next couple weeks, and then from Detroit during the Movement festival, if all goes as planned. Might be time for a sequel to the Mobile Lab feature, that was cut short in Sept. of 2001, when I was stranded in Singapore for a week. (Still never made it to Hong Kong.) Also look for a SONAR feature from our man in Barcelona, Chris Daniels, who should be wielding a legitimate Burnlab press pass for the occasion.

Simply the coolest little software app. Period.

Recently lifted from NewsToday: Guilty as charged. Rowrr.

This one is for Chad.

6 months after it passed through nyc resfest-digital video festival- is finally coming to barcelona this coming weekend. looking very forward to the chris cunningham retrospective among other things....

The only excuse for not going to see Eva Zeisel at the NYC Historical Society tonight [see Olivia's post yesterday] is going to the SOHO Apple Store to see Richie Hawtin perform as part of the nationwide iPod DJ media extravaganza [see Dave's post from Tuesday.] A gentle reminder that Apple has hooked up with some of our bestest friends and favorite record labels for this 18 city, simultaneous event. Those in Motown should be at Somerset Mall (I refuse to call it "Somerset Collection") in Troy to see Ghostly's Matthew Dear and SV4, a.k.a. Sam Valenti, Master of Chopsticks and Turtlenecks. Other Ghostly artists perform around the country, including Kill Memory Crash in Oak Brook, IL. Schematic Records represent all over Florida, the highlight being Otto Von Schirach at Wellington, outside of Palm Beach, and Kooky Scientist Fred Gianelli will perform in suburban Boston. Techno has taken a long, strange path from abandoned warehouses to shopping malls, hasn't it?

If you miss Rich at the Apple Store, make sure to get over to Filter 14 in Chelsea, where he and Magda will be doing that thing they do with records and laptops which few can match.




What the... ?
Pretty kinky, G.W.
God bless America. [photo courtesy of the Detroit Free Press]

I've been slacking with photos this week - now corrected.
Scroll down for visual support of various articles.

I am proud to report that my first national cover story hit the news stands this week. Feel free to pick up the Urb with se�ors Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins on the front. Or if the news stand is too far, check the website for a special interview with Richie Hawtin talking exclusivly about the Music Institute.


Now if only I could do one of these a month...

For those of you in San Francisco, don't miss out this Friday, May 2nd - it's an all night party with Holland's Disco Militia; Legowelt, Orgue Electronique, Bangkok Impact featuring Kassen and DJ TLR at the Bunker/Créme Tour. More information here and here.

The sound of onehundredthousand sixty story mechanical spiders lumbering over the frozen landscape will descend on Detroit Saturday, May 24th.

Our good friends and conspirators at Blackbx and Paxahau are bringing Jochem Paap, a.k.a. Speedy J to North America for the first time in nearly ten years. He will perform live at St. Andrews Hall, along with Stewart Walker and Psilopolisp, a.k.a. Keith Kemp. Quite possibly the four best young DJs in Detroit, a.k.a.the usual UNTITLED suspects will be performing downstairs at the Shelter. YEL, as the event is called, is certain to be the off-site focal point of what is shaping up to be an outstanding DEMF-Movement weekend. We'll be hyping this one all damn month. (For those not familiar with Speedy J, he sounds like Darth Vader's hand feels on your throat.)

More info at SpeedyJ.com and the all new Paxahau.com.
...and even more info here.