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The State Of Music: Part 47: Hawaii — Welwing (Choose My Music)
Hawaii was always going to be a tricky state to cover, detached from the mainland by some 2000 miles its music scene is naturally very insular. Of course I found the usual Ukulele music, but in my eyes no one plays the Uke as wonderfully as Elsa Rae. I also found a lot of hip hop, reggae, a little bit of indie and of course my Hawaii representative Welwing. The first and only instrumental entry into the State Of Music project, Welwing is a one man show headed by Matthew McVickar, a mainland exile doing his thing in the Pacific Ocean.
music  self  welwing  hawaii  internet 
5 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Lightsleepers: Beatroot Grand Championships 2012 Producer Profiles
self  music  hawaii  hiphop 
5 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Swim Hawaii
My swimming lessons.
swimming  lessons  learning  self  hawaii 
february 2012 by matthewmcvickar
Lightsleepers: Beatroot | Welwing | Qualified
‘Beatroot 5 of 6 quali went in and was hype! It was the first time we had a Sudden Death Tie. Every battle was super close and it could of gone either way. When all the digital dust settled, WELWING emerged as the winner. KOWAI KOWAI, took the battle to a tie breaker and came in a really close 2nd.’
self  music 
january 2012 by matthewmcvickar
Nonstop Honolulu: Party pics: Baths
self  photos  hawaii  music  livemusic 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Facebook: Hallowbaloo 2011 Music Arts Festival (David Randall Photography)
Great photos from Hallowbaloo this year, including the Baths show that I opened!
self  photos  hawaii  music  livemusic 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Pulse: Scene+Heard: The power of Kickstarter
Sabrina asked local bands about their experience with Kickstarter, including me for the ‘Gate’ EP project funded on the site.
self  cotq  kickstarter  hawaii  honolulu  music  internet 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Kodak: A Thousand Words — Guest Blog Post: Camera Mail
I wrote this guest post for the Kodak blog. I think they are sending me free Kodak single-use cameras in exchange.
self  cameramail  blog  writing 
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Weekly: Computer Love
Christa Wittmier reviewing my first Lapwing show at Kaleidoscope back in 2009.
lapwing  self  music  honolulu  hawaii  friends 
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Weekly: Sample This
David Goldberg reviews ‘Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling’ by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola for the Honolulu Weekly, using pieces of interviews with local musicians — noise artist and netlabel head Dominic Amorin (Uvovu), hip-hop producer TKO, and myself (as Lapwing) — as a lens into the book.
friends  self  sampling  music  copyright 
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Kokua for Japan 5K Run: Results: Overall Finish List
I ran a 5K yesterday after not running in several years and somehow finished 43rd with a pace of 7:59. I am in pain right now, but I feel like running again.
running  exercise  race  self  hawaii 
august 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Hipsters Eating Pineapples: At Sea Returns to Port
Two Portlanders who blog about their experience in Honolulu covered our Clones of the Queen/At Sea show. Very nice!
self  music  hawaii  honolulu  cotq  atsea  writing  portland 
august 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Weekly: Lapwing Takes Flight
My friend Niko Rivas interviewed me and wrote up this great column on my Lapwing EP.
lapwing  self  honolulu  hawaii  news  interview  music  writing  friends 
august 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Boston Phoenix: 50 Bands/50 States 2011: Hawaii: Clones of the Queen
“The tracks on Clones’ Gate EP are composed of dark, spacious, myriad textures, but if songs were colors, they would be lavender instead of black.”
hawaii  self  cotq  music 
july 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Boing Boing: Cameramail: sending disposable cams through the post with a note asking posties to take pix
“Matthew McVickar designs these Cameramail packages with disposable film-cameras taped to their front and a note exhorting posties to take pictures of themselves and environs as the package passes through their custody.”
cameramail  mail  photography  self 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Neatorama: Behind the Scenes of the USPS
“I love the idea of this project by web designer Matthew McVickar. He sent this camera in the mail with a message asking the postal workers to take pictures on the camera’s trip to its destination. The result is fun and educational, and it would be a great school project for any teachers out there.”
cameramail  self  camera  photography 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
thestar.com: Smile, you’re on camera mail! A camera’s journey across America
I was interviewed by Debra Black at the Toronto Star this morning.

“For Matthew McVickar the idea of sending a disposable camera attached to a piece of cardboard was intriguing. What kind of pictures would one get, he wondered? Would the camera make it to its destination?”
newspaper  canada  self  cameramail  photography  mail 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
I Am Bored: Traveling Camera Mail
“no nasty pics, im surprised”
cameramail  photography  self  mail 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
9GAG: Camera Mail
“that's a great idea but the pictures aren't as fun as one would've imagined”
self  cameramail  mail  photography 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
New School of Photography: it's in the mail...
“Matthew McVickar decided to send a camera through the mail, these are the images it captured.”
cameramail  self  blog 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Save Snail Mail: Camera mail
Another link.
self  mail  cameramail  blog 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Laughing Squid: Photos Shot by Camera That Was Mailed Through Postal System
Another one.
self  cameramail  mail 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Reddit: pics: Disposable Camera Captures Its Own Trip Across the United States
My first time on reddit, again about the cameramail.
cameramail  mail  internet  self 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Petapixel: Disposable Camera Captures Its Own Trip Across the United States
“Five years ago, web designer Matthew McVickar decided to give one lucky disposable camera a free vacation, sending it through the mail from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Honolulu, Hawaii with the instructions ‘Take a photo before you pass it on!’. When he got the camera back, there were seven photographs taken by various workers in the United States Postal Service that show the cameras journey (and the inner workings of the USPS!).”
self  cameramail  camera  mail 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Lomography: Cameramail in Tipster in Magazine
My cameramail project was featured again, this time on Lomography.
camera  photography  flickr  self 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Weekly: Social Lite: Red Rockets in Flight
Christa covers last week's COTQ/Red Rockets improv music/performance art collab at thirtyninehotel.

“Five or six people were crowded around a man sitting with a television over his head, suspended from the ceiling. Just his face was showing, so they were taking that opportunity to cover his face with glow-in-the-dark paint.”
music  cotq  hawaii  self  theater 
may 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Weekly: Social Lite: Hello, Los Angeles
A picture of Chaz with two fans and a brief mention of the show. “As I’m packing a bag for Los Angeles this week I’m laughing to myself because I already know the dialogues I’m going to have with everyone there. It’s going to be about here. How we got to see Toro Y Moi and how the weather is getting hot for spring.”
honolulu  hawaii  losangeles  toroymoi  self 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Aloha from Toro Y Moi
A video by Jordan Blackmon, bassist for Toro Y Moi.
toroymoi  video  honolulu  hawaii  self  music 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Nonstop Honolulu: Party pics: Toro Y Moi
Photos by Tracy Chan.

“The South Carolina-based ‘chillwave’ musician and his band brought their signature brand of funky, groovy, electronic shoegaze jams to a sold-out show at NextDoor Saturday night. Opening were local acts Clones of the Queen and Painted Highways. Although the club was packed and sweaty, people really got into the music, some dancing and some just swaying with eyes closed.”
self  hawaii  honolulu  toroymoi  music  livemusic 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Pulse: Pics: Toro y Moi at NextDoor
Photos by Brian Tseng.
self  honolulu  hawaii  toroymoi  music  livemusic 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Pulse: Review: Toro y Moi at NextDoor
Gary Chun again!

“Chaz Bundick and his crew manned their spaceship last night at Nextdoor, and took the good ship Toro y Moi and an audience of eager passengers to a nearby galaxy of sound and rhythm, forward thrusters go.”
self  toroymoi  honolulu  hawaii  music  livemusic 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Pulse: Toro Y Moi warms up “chillwave” music and brings it to Hawaii
Profile/promotional piece from Gary Chun.
self  toroymoi  music  honolulu  livemusic 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Contrast Magazine: Toro Y Mix
Contrast put up the mixtape of MP3s I put together at Ara's request, and I think it helped a lot, because there were 122 downloads (!) of the .zip file. (I mistakenly hosted the ToroMix I made on Ge.tt, who, after that many downloads, removed the file, so the link doesn't work anymore. I was excited about Ge.tt because it's clean and allowed for hot-linking to files without interstitial 'Download This!' pages, but I should have known better to trust a baby webapp with vital data.)
toroymoi  honolulu  livemusic  self 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
The Ancient Kingdom of Dalriada
Where my ancestor is thought to have come from.

“There are two Dalriadas: that of northwest Ireland, and that of western Scotland.”
history  ancestry  family  self 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Photojojo: Top 20 Ultimate Ways to Use a Disposable Camera
They featured my cameramail thing from, like, five years ago!
self  photography  mail 
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Pulse: Scene+Heard: Getting to know Matt McVickar
My new friend-through-friends and fellow musician Sabrina interviewed me for her blog on Honolulu Pulse, the Star Advertiser's online nightlife section.
self  music  honolulu  newspaper  interview  cotq 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Bytemarks Cafe: Episode 130: HTML5 (Feb. 9, 2011)
“Co-hosts Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa take a look at the latest tech news and happenings. Then they talk about HTML 5 with Dan Leuck and Matt McVickar.”

I was on Ryan and Burt's weekly show for my involvement with Ocupop's redesign of the HTML5 logo. It was my first time on live radio. Fun!
self  radio  html5  hawaii  technology  npr 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Ryan Ozawa: Putting a Face on HTML5
“…here’s a Q&A with Matthew, who was kind enough to agree to an e-mail interview the day after the HTML5 logo was unveiled. He was quick to point out that it was a team effort, and that Ocupop Creative Director Michael Nieling headed the project and designed the logo itself.”
self  html5  ocupop  interview  hawaii 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
TwitVid: Lapwing..... by Paul Bajcar
Me fucking around on Paul's guitar during a lull at practice.
self  guitar  cotq  friends 
march 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Honolulu Star Bulletin: In the Mix (July 10, 2009)
A mention of Clones of the Queen, the band I'm in.
cotq  friends  self  band  music  honolulu  newspaper 
july 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Bluestockings: And He's Single Ladies…
That's what I'm all about.
self  philosophy  joke  humor  sex 
march 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Robert O. Preusser: Drifting Embers
A painting from 1968. I have no idea. (My personal homepage used to be driftingembers.com, a domain name I found incredibly rad in high school.)
driftingembers  self  art  painting 
january 2009 by matthewmcvickar
The Atlantic: The Existential Clown
Jim Carrey as a genius, the "representative jester of our time." "Carrey’s dream sequence of movies is a prophecy, a warning that this clanking ego-apparatus in which each of us walks around, this fissured, monumental self, half Job and half Bertie Wooster, cannot be sustained. Out of his own seemingly bottomless disquiet, Carrey writhes and reaches into the bottomless disquiet of his audience."
jimcarrey  existentialism  human  comedy  humor  writing  film  culture  movies  philosophy  self  criticism  celebrity  identity  life  acting  actors 
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
The Media Research Bureau: The Name and Family of McVicker or McVickar
"The McVickars and McVickers in America have been shown themselves to be, on the whole, a highly religious race, intellectually able, resourceful, and possessed of the strength of their convictions."
name  genealogy  self 
november 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Harmony Central Musician Community Forums: Starting Somewhere
Advice on samplers, audio interfaces, drum machines, etc.
audio  music  self  forum 
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Matt Webb: Light Cone
"HR753 is 23.5 light years away and only 5 months from the outer surface of your light cone — your ever-growing sphere of potential causality — which began its expansion from Earth on April 14 1985."
space  science  self  rss  physics  fun 
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Ka Lamakua: The Stairwell Readings
An interesting poetry event to which I went and at which I read and took a few photos.
hawaii  self  photography  poetry 
april 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Google Maps: Places I've Lived
The homes, dorms, host families, and apartments I've called home over the last 22 years, or, In Which I Voluntarily Surrender More Information to GoogleBot.
self  world  society  googlemaps 
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Sector Nine Skateboards: Roundhouse
This is my longboard, recently acquired and from which I've twice fallen.
self  shopping  product  skateboard 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Wikipedia: Bunnygrunt
"Bunnygrunt are an American indie pop band from St. Louis, Missouri." From the depths of sophomore year's word-association compendium comes this band.
music  humor  self 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Totally unauthorized
FSJ posts on the photo my friend Dean took of the UMass antipiracy campaign poster.
apple  piracy  design  blog  self 
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Sakuzaku: Thoughts on Clay Shirky’s “Arrogance and Humility”
My thoughts on Clay Shirky's "Arrogance and Humility." Kottke's ping struck up a shared link storm today, two weeks later.
design  philosophy  society  self 
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
New English Review - Do the Impossible: Know Thyself
Can we ever truly know ourselves? No, and it would be awful if we did. "I think that life will continue to bewilder us for as long as we are self-conscious, thinking, feeling beings. "
philosophy  neuroscience  psychology  mind  science  self 
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
The Mirror Project: "Dad's Truck Bumper"
A bit of my history on the internet. 2003!
self  photography  mirror 
may 2007 by matthewmcvickar
ROBOTS DREAMS: They are hidden among us...
A weblog about robots uses one of my photos of a sign in Osaka. Cool!
flickr  photography  self 
march 2006 by matthewmcvickar

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