{"id":28280,"date":"2014-02-28T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=28280"},"modified":"2014-02-26T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:29:59","slug":"midwest-coast-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2014\/02\/28\/midwest-coast-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Visual Feasts For Dancing Beasts<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Animated LPs and Flatstock 43<\/p>\n<p>One day, your child will ask you why everyone in his family has their own turntable.\u00a0 A twinkling in your eye, you&#8217;ll pat him on the head and say, &#8220;Well kiddo, because audiovisual frontiersman like Structure went and changed the game! Additionally,&#8221; you&#8217;ll say, &#8220;a revival in traditional music production paired with a growing appreciation for the lifespan and tangibility of vinyl records created a marketplace conducive to the experimental interweaving of sonic and visual art!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking, of course, about the fact that we live in a world where 33 rpm pieces of microgroove magic can now be pressed with vibrant images that morph and ungulate to the beat of the song.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re like me, this is big news, but zoetropic animation is by no means a new invention.\u00a0 Ancient forms of this rotation imagery can have viewers equally as dazzled as I know you will be once you see Structure&#8217;s latest sold-out picture disc spinning beneath the needle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/85107599?title=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;\">Plastic Infinite from Sculpture\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Are your ears smoking yet?\u00a0 Can you feel it in your face?<\/p>\n<p>People are doing amazing things with regular ol&#8217; posters too.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re planning a trip to SXSW this year, do yourself a favor and spend time between performances at the trade shows happening down there, most importantly, Flatstock 43.\u00a0 (Even if you can&#8217;t make it to Austin, pretty much every music festival has something like this.)<\/p>\n<p>Flatstock, if you want to know, was the 2002 brainchild of artists, fans and members of the relatively new American Poster Institute, a non-profit organization created to teach the world about poster design and printing as a legitimate, ever-evolving art form.\u00a0 Now having facilitated over forty exhibitions all over the world, Flatstock is a collective fist of fury thrust into the galaxy above hoards of art kids and independent musicians working to teach the rest of you the truth: The Power Is In Our Hands!<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Jerod Barker. Tune into the Midwest Coast every Friday from 8-10pm. Only on 90.7fm KJHK.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Feasts For Dancing Beasts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"featured_media":28281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Midwest-Coast.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}