“Sébastien Tellier is an exceptional, highly personal & intimate artist echoing such other one-offs as Robert Wyatt, Syd Barrett or Serge Gainsbourg.
His first LP, L’incroyable vérité (The Incredible Truth) (2001), was a fantastical pop album, which careered from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in some playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners to only listen to the album by candle light and won a tight band of adherents, who fell for his lush, humorous compositions.”
“The music video below is pure viral marketing, but we’ll bite ’cause it’s got a catchy tune. ”Entrepreneur State of Mind” is a remake of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind”, but with references to Facebook, YouTube, and (ahem) TechCrunch. Instead of singing “Now, you’re in New York,” the chorus goes “Now you’re the New Dork.” But they mean that in a good way.
Tech startups really need their own anthem. Until then, we’ve got remakes and parodies.
The video was made by Pantless Knights, the same people behind the Apple Fanboy rap. It was sponsored by Grasshopper, a virtual phone startup in Needham, Massachusetts. The company got their link, though. The bait worked.”
I haven’t posted in some time now. I have been hibernating for quite some time, but with the nice weather coming a long this week. My mind a little less cluttered, and things are starting to make a lot of sense. As time passes, I will be sure to post more and more beautiful things. A long with personal thoughts, art, writings, and photographs, because this is a very personal blog of what needs to be documented.
“Michael Surtees put together an interesting Interview with Inaki Escudero who he rightfully describes as a ‘creative’s creative in that he’s extremely genuine, curious and open to new ideas. While a lot of people are living in an outdated model to pursue ideas, Inaki is embracing everything and anything which I highly respect.’
Inaki read one book a week for an entire year. Yes, that’s 52 books! Inspired to perhaps try such a thing himself, Michael had to find out more about how Inaki accomplished the readings and why. Click on the link below for their email conversation.
