Muse - Monday, November 10th

TODAY IS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10th 2008.
WELCOME TO thINK!



PHOTO OF THE WEEK IS COLLEEN VENABLE'S Connect-the-dots Tattoo.
Can you guess what? See if your answer is correct here.




A City Renewal Project from Dan Bergeron on Vimeo.

In "A Night at The Roxbury" [God shed a tear for a classic] Steve and Doug Butabi reveal their plans for the world's first outdoors-indoors nightclub.
Exactly ten years later, a brilliant thing has happened in Toronto.

Mr. Loogie - the entrance to an outdoor street indoors - depicts Toronto's lost shopfronts in gallery form. Located at 39 Lisgar Street, according to the Press Release from A City Renewal Project, "The project focuses on the state of decay within the city, renewing these dilapidated buildings as artistic monuments and documenting their history amidst the gentrified frenzy of urban change."

The Butabi's would be very proud. Emilio!

For the complete write up on Mr. Loogie, click here.
Open until November 23rd.


Yo weekend, you so fine!
What went down in industry town:

AGO HAS ADVANCED SNEAK PEAK FOR MEMBERS ONLY - Check back on Friday's Showcase to see Frank Gehry's transformation of a national classic
HOW A BLOG COULD SAVE YOUR CAREER






And your inkSPIRATION. To submit photos, videos or just cool stuff, please contact us at heather@ta2music.com with "thINK!" in the subjectline.

HAPPY MONDAYS TO YOU WITH LOVE FROM TATTOO!

It's HERE!

Party People!
The moment you've all been waiting for - DAVID ANGELO is on ADBEATS!!
Tell your speakers! Tell your neighbours! Tell your Mom!

**NOTE: This mix is guaranteed to make you fall in the pool. Please use proper flotation devices when listening to this mix**

To listen, click here.

Track listing:
1 Jazzanova | Rendez vous | Instrumental
2 Bagpack Selects | Bushwick Summer
3 Jazz Juice | Batidas Succulentas
4 Jazzanova | This is the Place | Instrumental
5 Secret Love | Combiner
6 Beatspoke | Dig Deeper | Dave de Gato Mix
7 Dubnosis | Bashmental | Sumsuch Math Mix
8 The Jazzual Suspects | This Beat
9 Brawcast | Calm Down
10 Gagle | Scene
11 Thievery Corporation | Sound the Alarm
12 Tek 9 | Is it On | Nightmares on Wax Mix
13 Phuture motion | Balero
14 Michna | Believe in It
15 Mark Farina | Life
16 The Jazzual Suspects | Ba Dada
17 Karma | Beach Towel | icube Cosmic Marathon Remix
18 Ben Mono | Jesus was a B Boy | TJ Kong + Dos Santos Remix
19 Wojtek Urbanski | Violet Violin
20 Dusty | Loco Para la Pista
21 Sharon Jones + the Dap Kings | Keep on Looking | Kenny Dope Remix

Muse - Friday, November 7th

TODAY IS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th 2008.
WELCOME TO SHOWCASE!











Ladies, calm yourselves.

This is the Remington Hunk, brainchild of Albion London's Liz Moss and Aimee Lewis. He can be your new desktop boyfriend with two clicks of a mouse!
Why go out this evening when Remington Hunk is there for you at home?
He bakes, works out, and -
Quick, break up with your boyfriend! He even breakdances!




Download the Remington Hunk here.
For more on Albion London, click here.






If you're out and about in MANCHESTER this Saturday [November 8th], be sure to check out The Third Manchester Artists’ Book Fair at the Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University. Doors open at 11 AM.

ESPECIALLY check out the collaborative work from Francis Van Maele [Redfoxpress, Ireland] and Kim Hye-Mee [Anticham, Seoul].







View their blog & work here.



HAPPY FRIDAYS TO YOU WITH LOVE FROM TATTOO

Muse - Wednesday, November 5th

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5th 2008.
WELCOME TO THE NEEDLE!



For more on Glass Candy, click here
For directions to Styrofoam One, click here



We have a lot of things to thank Montreal for.
The most recent is techno funk duo extraordinaire, Bikini. Going out tonight? Check out "Oh Girl Get On The Floor".
Staying in? Throw on their cover of Feist's hit "1234" while you're cooking your pasta.

To listen to both tracks, click here.

HAPPY WEDNESDAYS TO YOU WITH LOVE FROM TATTOO

Muse - Monday, November 3rd

TODAY IS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd 2008.
WELCOME TO thINK!




PHOTO OF THE WEEK: PIEKE BERGMAN
To view Pieke's garden of light bulbs, click here.


THIS WEEK'S inkSPIRATION comes from CHARLIE KRATZER, who decorated his entire basement with $10 worth of Sharpies.
For the full story and 360° camera tour, click here.


Yo weekend, you so fine!
What went down in industry town:

D&AD AWARDS 2008 NORTH AMERICAN SCREENINGS CONTINUE - NEXT STOP: MIAMI
GWYNETH PALTROW LAUNCHES GOOP - YOUR WEEKLY TICKET TO GOOD HEALTH
ONE MORE DAY TIL THE AMERICAN ELECTION - CATCH UP WITH OBAMA & MCCAIN IN THEIR FINAL CAMPAIGN HOURS HERE





And your inkSPIRATION. To submit photos, videos or just cool stuff, please contact us at heather@ta2music.com with "thINK!" in the subjectline.

HAPPY MONDAYS TO YOU WITH LOVE FROM TATTOO

TILAPIA!

Doing your sound design at Tattoo is like changing your main dish from chicken to Tilapia.

Say what?!

Tattoo and Tattoo's own Steve Gadsden produced this brand new spot for OLG: Proline.

Trust us, Tilapia's good.

Watch it here.
Read about it in Marketing Magazine here.

Writer: Michael Takasaki
Art Director: Glen D'Souza
Agency: Bensimon Byrne

How much of a Hiptard are you?

In response to our popular write up on the Stuff White People Like blog [read me], here at Tattoo we've devised a quiz to determine the Hiptard status of all of our loyal readers. And from Leslieville to the 'Burbs, we decipher which area of Toronto you'd end up in based on your Hiptard Status.

But which is worse? Being a Hiptard, or making a quiz about being a Hiptard? You decide! Take me now:

HOW MUCH OF A HIPTARD ARE YOU? » Create A Quiz

Happy Wednesdays

If Tuesday is meant to be the most productive day of the week, Wednesday should be the day that provides you with enough inspiration to get you through until Friday...

Ladies! :



But in all seriousness, for this particular Wednesday I'm going to pass you on to the following concert. In April 2008 Halifax's Buck 65 [hip hop poet extraordinaire, pictured above] teamed up with Symphony Nova Scotia to produce an incredible concert set at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Conducted by Dinuk Wijeratne, the concert features Buck 65's vocal and turntable expertise mixed in with Norman Adams' solo cello, Terry O'Mahoney's solo percussion and Symphony Nova Scotia's orchestral talent.
Flagged as one of the most innovative musical collaborations this year, stream it anytime by clicking here.

This broadcast is rated E for easy-listening.

Photo courtesy of cbc.ca

The Radio Guru has arrived

Tattoo welcomes our newest Producer/Director & Radio Guru, Jason Deline. For the past ten years, Jason has been writing, producing and voicing radio commercials. A veteran of radio, Jason has worked as an on-air announcer, producer at KISS 92 and creative director at EZ Rock. For two years he was a member of the comedy troupe Radio Vault, performing in both the Toronto and Chicago Sketch Comedy Festivals. Jason has been the voice of a number of high-profile campaigns including Mitsubishi, Rona, Coca Cola Zero, OLG, Party Poker and Rogers. Jason brings to Tattoo a passion for great work, a love for cream-filled donuts, and an appreciation for good cigars. And lucky for us, he likes to share!

Many welcomes, Oh Guru of Sound.

Your new favourite band

Random Task Force - Toronto's answer to Flight of the Conchords - has released their first video, shown here on The Motion Show.
Directed by Nik Sexton, "Fingers" showcases the quadruple threat that is Dave Fletcher, Rob Sills, Kevin Flaherty and Stu.
[He doesn't believe in last names]

Tattoo has been backing RTF since the beginning. Below is a snap of some good old synthesizer action in the studio. You can tell we've been rooting since day one - the studio walls were still green!



For more on Random Task Force, visit their website here

Recommended Read

What originally began as an IM conversation between two friends taking friendly stabs about the stereotypical likes of white people has now been published in a 2008 paperback release from Random House.

Christian Lander, the brains behind stuffwhitepeoplelike.com [the blog that sprouted the book] has answered all questions about the blog and book here, namely to point out that the site isn't meant to be racist, but "a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like." Says the About section of the website - "They are pretty predictable."

The blog covers all sorts of hilariously cynical stereotypes.
My faves:
#105 Unpaid Internships
#103 Sweaters
#88 Having Gay Friends
#83 Bad Memories of High School,
and the one that brings me the most joy:

#9 Making you feel bad about not going outside.

Something tells me that Hating the New Facebook Layout will be making the top of the list any day now.

To read the Full List of Stuff White People Like, click here

Image courtesy of stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

If you like looking at other people's cool homes,

Click here



Photo courtesy of theselby.com

This blog makes our blog jealous

So much so that we're not going to even try to find a funky black and white half-in-focus, half-out-of-focus, "we're too cool 'cuz we're with the cool kids" photograph to compete with, mkay?
Instead you're getting a color snap shot of a Bill Cosby-esque graffiti character taken down a back alley on a disposable camera from Wal-Mart.

Yeah that's right, a disposable camera from Wal-Mart!



Damn you, Mikes.

To visit DesignPorn, click here

It's beginning to look a lot like dark-ness...

Shopper's Log, 2 nights ago, Queen Street West, Toronto.
After frolicking in and out of two stores in an after work shopping session, my dear friend and I realized that although our watches said 7 p.m., a darkness so black had crept upon the city that we suddenly feared for our once-sunny summer evenings and came to the conclusion of only one thing:

The winter hibernation is here.

But before you head off to Chapters to get your intellectual provisions of books and dvds, check out this article by Richard Wilson for the Times on 10 books NOT to read before you die.

Tattoo Sound + Music, giving you back your evenings and weekends.

To read what not to read, click here

Great Scott

Many welcomes to our new Music Supervisor, Scott McCreight.

Scott makes his way from independent label Last Gang Records where he was formerly the Head of Soundtracks/Film/TV Music. Scott was brought on board at Last Gang Records to create the licensing department at the label, which represented artists such as MSTRKRFT, Metric, Death From Above 1979, Boys Noize, Crystal Castles, Tiga, The New Pornographers and Chromeo. During his time at Last Gang he licensed music worldwide to many high profile television shows (Gossip Girl, CSI, Men In Trees); advertising campaigns (Motorola, MTV, So You Think You Can Dance Canada?); and video games (Grand Theft Auto 4, Need For Speed, Facebreaker).

Scott's genius Ear, his P Ditty-like Rolodex and his Donald Trump deal closing skills will make you wonder why you would deal with anyone else.

I saw the sign

As if our saving the earth with One Bottles wasn't enough, try not to be blinded by our new sign!


We like to call it "Reception bling"

Saving the world, One Bottle at a time

Long time, no blog.

Here at Tattoo we've been busy saving the world, One Bottle at a time.
Toronto alone has an annual consumption of 65 million individual plastic water bottles every year, a number that contributes to the 7% annual increase the world experiences. 6 out of 10 plastic bottles aren't even recycled in Ontario, and studies show that plastic bottles are linked to certain health risks.

So in our efforts to move away from plastic bottle usage, we've purchased reusable stainless steel eco-friendly bottles for your use and pleasure.

Come here for a session? Help save the world!



For more information on Onebottle click here

Adbeats has a Facebook!

All your dreams are coming true! Adbeats now has its own official FACEBOOK GROUP. Look for us under: "ADBEATS: Where Advertising and Music Make Out"
Because at Tattoo, you know they do. Ooo Matron!

Worldwide Short Film Festival

To help spread the word about The Worldwide Short Film Festival - we helped Doug Agency call the local press, festival supporters and random people from the phone book with a telemarketing survey pushing the idea that shorter is better.

Here are some of the calls.

Help Hunger Disappear

June 5th was National Hunger Awareness Day.

The superstar creative team of Steve Persico/Anthony Chelvanathan thought of a clever way to raise awareness and get people involved in helping hunger disappear.

They videotaped the entire thing and asked us to help with the score.