“Tom Sawyer got it right. Why paint a fence when you can get your friends to do it for you for free? He would have been the perfect new-media mogul. Spending time and money creating content on the Internet is so hopelessly dated, so dotcom, so very, very 1.0. The secret of today’s successful Web 2.0 companies: build a place that attracts people by encouraging them to create the content — thereby drawing even more people in to create even more stuff…” – Time, May 8th 2006
Hmmm…case in point: …

The Revelation Records logo by…well, a few different people actually. Jordan Cooper explains:
We used stars on the first few releases as a background which was Ray‘s idea. He liked how Dangerhouse had black and yellow bars as their background on the labels so he wanted us to have something to identify Rev with like that. We got a Letraset sheet of stars and used it on the first three records we put out. The fourth record was going to be the Gorilla Biscuits 7″ and their friend (who would later …

Young, local artist Erin McSavaney‘s collection of gritty, urban canvasses opens at the Atelier Gallery this coming Saturday and runs through to May 12. Looking forward to it.

A pair of articles by Derek Richardson of SFGate that inspired a lengthy and most rewarding music search: the first on current fave San Fran band Vetiver that provides a rather comprehensive who’s who of their surrounding scene in the process; and the second on Freak Folk in general, which succeeds in filling in the rest.

Those of you who visit this site on a semi-regular basis will be aware of a series that I have been posting to since this past November titled Great Counterculture Logos (the irony of this moniker has never been lost on me btw) and, more recently, of the email that I received from artist/designer Paul Pascarella in which he descibes a little of the process that went into the creation of the Gonzo Dagger (Part 5 in said series). There was also mention in that correspondence of a portrait that …