Like every good red blooded hipster/musician/artist I love browsing through thrift stores. As often as I can I hit up the local goodwills, salvation armies, and local thrift shops in search of a great jacket, boots, shirts, ties, records, books, etc… It’s a thrill to capture that once in a lifetime thrift store [...]
Writing Archive
Beware of working alone
So many of my friends are working by themselves and at home nowadays. You can create music, graphic art, videos, etc… all from home and never share the same air space with a client or people you may be working with. Community in our lives is consisting more and more in the digital [...]
The Work of the People
We have been recording a worship album for our church over the past couple of weeks and throughout the sessions we have had 39 musicians and vocalists come through the studio to be a part of the record. It would have been simple to have studio musicians come in and play on the album [...]
where words don’t work
The older I get the more I realize that words don’t work sometimes. There are some moments in my life that I’m feeling something that literally words cannot describe. All across the emotional spectrum of our lives there are experiences, seasons, situations that we can’t express our feelings in regard. Feelings from [...]
Apps I like 2
Part of living vintage for me is keeping things organized and simple. So every time I start using a new app I ask myself is this going to make life easier or is this just one more thing for me to update/manage. I try things for a while and then make a decision [...]
We are the image makers
Scratching the Surface from [weAREtheIMAGEmakers] on Vimeo.
Trying to create genuine community is a struggle nowadays. We as a people, world-wide, are very non-committal. We have so little margin in our lives, schedules, and budgets that when something comes along that attempts to unify people (which takes a commitment of time) it’s a struggle. [...]
Rhythm is going to get you…
Miami Sound Machine was right about at least one thing… The Rhythm is going to get you. Everything is all creation is running on a rhythm. The seasons, the clock, the moon, the tides, the calendar, the sunshine, etc… You could probably think of a million more things in our ecology that [...]
Encourage Invention 10
Well, I haven’t done this since I started vintagethought.cc, but I used to do this all the time on the previous blog I authored. Every once and a while I’ll take a collection of songs that have been inspiring me while I work and post them here. This is the 10th installment of [...]
Destroyer Video
Every once and awhile in this era of music television with no music on it. It’s nice to see a music video that actually captivates me. It’s rare to see a video that’s not filled with the usual girlies and such no matter the genre. So when I saw this video from [...]
The Walmartization of America…
I don’t watch a lot of movies, but I watch loads of concert DVDs. I have them stacked up like firewood next to my television and am actually quite behind. I’ve seen some great ones this year and my favorites are the ones that have a theme or a story behind the experience [...]