I'd like to thank you, one and all for your support. Some projects I am working on have not left me the time to continue publishing yourdrum in a timely manner. I don't want to do a post every couple of days or so. I enjoyed it when I could post at least two or three times a day. I am leaving yourdrum up in the blogosphere, as I think there are many posts people could reference in health, green, music, art, design, etc.
Peace, Lloyd
Ray Lamontagne sings with a melancholy tinge in his voice but that's what heartbreak sounds like. His last album is getting great reviews. It's hard not to like Ray. He seems so sincere in misery and sometimes, just bursts right out of it.
"How do you follow a debut record that achieved out-of-the-blue grandeur on its way to selling a quarter of a million copies? For Maine’s Ray LaMontagne, it’s all about shaking up the formula, evading repetition and delivering the unexpected. Till the Sun Turns Black finds the introspective singer/songwriter complementing his folk-country ways with traces of strings and horns and spooky soulful background voices." Amazon
"Trouble" From Ray Lamontagnes's first album
"Punk house" a book of photographs of varied living environments by Abby Banks is Outsider Art, inside. The book documents the way some have chosen to live, to play music, pursue their art, philosophy and perhaps, to avoid the commercialism of America and the brain drain of strip malls, Walmarts, and the hundred and one homogenized sights along any route USA all to a punk music soundtrack.
"The “punk house” may come in any number of forms. The most common type is often where a large group of like-minded punks cram into a house usually intended to accommodate two or three people, resulting in low rent and, thus, extended hours of leisure for the residents to pursue their true interests."
"Punk House features anarchist warehouses, feminist collectives, tree houses, workshops, artists’ studios, self-sufficient farms, hobo squats, community centers, basement bike shops, speakeasies, and all varieties of communal living spaces. In over 300 images of fifty houses in twenty-five cities in the US, photographer Abby Banks finds the already weathered face of a seventeen-year-old runaway; the soft hands of a vinyl junkie (record collector); the mohawked show-goer; the dirty dishes in the sink; silk screened posters on the wall; and many other revealing glimpses of these anarchist interiors." Link
NY Times Review: Link
Via Cool Hunting: Link
You may remember Tarzan's tree house where Jane and Boy lived. It was a great swing to get up through the trees to the balcony of the tree house but well worth the effort. The tree house was so cool.
Here are 8 innovative tree house designs. It's never to late to live up on a tree. Link
This is the first Blogging Boomer Carnival for 2008. Visit our Blogging Boomer host for all the latest Boomer news - Like how to look and feel ten years younger and, oh, yeah, lose ten ponds. Link
The video below is an incredible view of traffic in India. It is unbelievable that there wasn't one accident.
Via Boing Boing
Sneakers have become a design art form. They are the visual identity of todays youth. You may be judged by what you wear on your feet. Here are examples of the many styles which have put the sneaker market into the creative flow. Best sneakers of 2007. Link
These three paintings appear on a wonderful new art blog - Right Some Good, published by Kirsten Anderson editor of Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art and owner of Roq La Rue gallery in Seattle.
You will find interesting tidbits about the artists and an intro to some new and old paintings that are amazing.
What I really like about Right Some Good is Kirsten's enthusiasm and love of art. She's not pretentious and doesn't talk in that sickening, superior academic art in the clouds style. She's very down to earth. Link
Via Boing Boing
Saatchi online is a very cool art site where artist post their work. You can browse, buy and chat with artists. Link
There is also currently an art show "AND WHO ARE YOU? WORK FROM SAATCHI ONLINE" at the
SARA TECCHIA ROMA NEW YORK located at 529 West 20th Street, between Tenth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue. The gallery is on the second floor. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm. Link
Here are the top green stories of 2007 with photos. We know about Global Warming and our environmental problems. Here are the best articles depicting these situations and our attempts to deal with them.
Okay, our consciousness is raised.
I am hoping 2008 will bring the programs we need to counteract the effects of global warming.
I don't want to hear it's enevitable. Let's do something. Vote, Write your congressman and senators. Donate where appropiate. From Greenland to Gore. Link
