I don't know why I thought that going to Montreal for the MUTEK Festival would be a good idea. I don't care. It was worth the trip. Mutek - Montreal 2013 from Stuart Brannan on Vimeo. Technically its the International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music. Actually its a lot of fun. Warning: you [...]
Tag: Travel
If you ever get the chance
Go see Nils Frahm. Last night's show at the Monument National in Montreal was absolutely beautiful, uplifting, intimate, shimmering, and just plain cool. Later in the evening I went to see Andy Stott and a guy called Deadbeat twisting knobs on a table that, if you were so inclined, you could kinda sorta dance to. [...]
Temporary and Permanent Residents of New Amsterdam
Wandering the Metropolitan Museum on Sunday and thinking about how the pieces in the collection got there. It occurred to me that the statues and paintings could well be some of New York's least willing immigrants. In the clip on the right, I added one transient. See if you can spot the outlier. Other weekend [...]
NYC
Had dinner at Sparks steakhouse, which is notorious for being the place where John Gotti took control of the Gambino mob, by having Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti gunned down in 1985. They also serve the most ridiculously massive steaks I've ever seen. I sat next to Bob Gardner, of New World Technology Partners, who [...]
Last blast of winter
After Victoria, we went to Whistler, where I bagged 3 days of spring skiing. I don't have a single photo to show for it; decided to experiment with Andrew's Go Pro camera and it didn't work out so well. Here's the only video that is worth a look (don't worry, its not even 30 seconds [...]
