A new Boy In Static music video. It was shot by Lew Baldwin (houseofyes.tv) in three different cities. My shoot in New York involved standing motionless like a statue while holding a heavy Les Paul. Also face paint. It was shot with a combination of an old 16mm camera and a digital Canon 5D. Semi stop-motion style. The song is track 1 off Violet.
Boy In Static - First Love from Boy in Static on Vimeo.
Last show of the awesome Freezepop & Boy In Static tour. North Star Bar, Philly. Performing a new song called “Tijuana.” Kenji got a fancy new drum unit for this tour. It lights up.
Went out into the New England blizzard with a laptop and mic in a duffel bag. Anita tracking some guest vocals for a new Boy In Static song “Starlet,” about New Jersey cul-de-sac’s and the ice age. Equipped with slight Australian accent and snowball mic.
Finished this new illustration. Just delivered, for a book that will be published sometime next year. View original size for details.
Picture found on Flickr. During the “slow song” in the Freezepop set at the PAX festival (I played stand-in keyboard/vocoder), everyone held up their handheld console. I spotted a laptop too. Slow motion and surreal. The new millenium lighter.
This weekend, I went to Seattle where I played stand-in keyboard and vocoder for my good friends Freezepop. We played for 2500 people at the PAX festival. Random fan clip of the introduction off youtube. I’m on the right.
Live video clip of “December” in Kyoto, Japan. This venue Metro was connected to a subway station.
Boy in Static bassist Mike pieced together a nice video montage of moments from our recent Japan tour. Footage of Boy in Static, Lymbyc Systym, and 4 Bonjour’s Parties.
It’s the 3rd day of our tour of Japan. We started with our first show in Tokyo on Tuesday. We played last night in Nagoya. We are touring with two Mush and & Records labelmates: Lymbyc Systym, a duo from Phoenix (who are absolutely stunning live) and 4 Bonjour’s Parties, a delightful 7-piece band from Japan who put on a very charming show full of brass, vibraphone, and more. 4 Bonjour’s has been traveling on their own, while the Boy in Static 3-piece (me, Mike, Kenji) have been hanging out with Mike and Jared from Lymbyc Systym. The hotel televisions in Tokyo had us all up with fascinating commercials.
Kenji and Mike have been much more efficient with the cameras, so I’ve posted some pictures from their Flickr’s above. Mike’s also got a very thorough blog, which I’ll be hijacking here.
It’s my first time in Japan, and it’s been full-on sensory overload. We saw fish at 7am in Tsukiji, followed by cell phones from the future in Aikihabara. From Mike:
My favorite part [of Akihabara] was probably the huge rows of toy-filled vending machines, kind of like the sort you’d see outside of K-Mart, with the little acorn-shaped containers inside … The subways, by the way, are not only impeccably clean, but they’re almost silent. The people who aren’t sleeping (of which there are many) just keep to themselves or speak at sheepish volumes
Packing up now to go to Kyoto. More to come. But for now, Mike’s got a good summary of our trip so far:
Everything that Youtube tells you about Japanese television is true.
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