Review: Moogfest 2006 Live

Review: Moogfest 2006 Live
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Moogfest 2006 Live MVD Visual Street: 07.17 Moogfest 2006 Live serves as a sequel of sorts to the 2004 feature, Moog, sort of a now-watch-these-instruments-in-action presentation. However, whereas the former release focuses on artists who have or currently use various Moog synthesizers to push music forward (Meat Beat Manifesto, Charlie Clouser, Luke Vibert), this feature stars

Review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

Review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
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A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Basil Gelpke, Ray Mccormack Docurama Street: 05.24.06 “Oil is the devil’s excrement,” is the rather off-the-cuff remark kicking off this documentary about the world’s oil crisis, a phenomenon which the film says will reduce modern civilization to a nearly stone-age level in the next few decades. Mostly made up

Review: Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones

Review: Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones
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Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones Sandra Q. Firmin and Julie Joyce, Editors MIT Press Street: 04.01 Mudman is the typical excursion into art history. Frimin and Joyce collect four essays that try to penetrate and understand the varied and vast artwork of Kim Jones. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of the dually

Summer of Death: Part Deux

Summer of Death: Part Deux
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Summers in Utah are hot, and personally, I don’t like them very much. Finding the motivation to skate when it’s over 100 degrees outside is nearly impossible. You either have to wake up early, or sacrifice an evening of drinking in order to get some time on the old wood plank. Saturday, August 11th was

Skate Product Reviews – September 2007

Skate Product Reviews – September 2007
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Reviews for ES Footwear, Toy Machine and Bones Wheels … read more

Random News From the Skate World – August 2007

Random News From the Skate World – August 2007
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Thank God the sun is letting off a little less heat these days. Salt Lake was starting to seem more like Phoenix for a while there. That would be okay if we had as many empty and full swimming pools as they do. In unfortunate news, Adam Dyet will no longer be calling Utah home.

Never Souled Out: the Troy Johnson Interview

Never Souled Out: the Troy Johnson Interview
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Skateboarding is the true fountain of youth, and anyone who has had the courage to ride one for the past 15-plus years is a hero. Skaters always talk about paying their dues, but to live through every era of modern skating has been a blast with no regrets except for the fact that you could

Mike Brown: Pirates

Mike Brown: Pirates
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Alright, so it’s been a while since I wrote a SLUG article that I didn’t put in a fair amount of effort into. The last time I did that was when I wrote that story about turtles and how cool I think they are. And most people seemed to actually like that article anyway. But

Inversion Trawler: Leona Meets Her Spirit Guide

Inversion Trawler: Leona Meets Her Spirit Guide
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What follows is a transcribed portion of a telephone conversation between aunt Leona and a friend of hers. With our dictaphone we were able to record only Leona’s end of the conversation: … So, I joined the group a little bit later than everybody else. The first assignment had been for each person to meditate