Yours truly, the author of this text, doesn't know how to start this blog-entry because he's so fucking excited, so let's just keep it simple: Spike Jonze is the creative director of vbstv, an online tv-project by Vice Magazine.
It's got shows on travelling, music, skateboarding, the famed do's and dont's, and, as I just found out, a talkshow called Soft Focus (love it!) hosted by none other than Ian Svenonius of Nation Of Ulysses, Make-Up and Weird War fame.
The first guest he interviews in front of a live audience is Ian Mackaye, and if you didn't understand anything I just said in the previous sentences, you probably wouldn't care to know who he is anyway, so I won't tell you. Those who know will know. In any case, have a looky at this website, it's going to blow the backdoors off 2007.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]