NOT BLOOD PAINT: Archive

The History of Orgone and Implications for the...

Hello everyone! In preparation for our experiment tomorrow, we’ve been learning as much as we can about the technology to be employed. Our boss over at La Normalidad Research and Development, Dr. Michael Monsanta, has been kind enough to give us a window into the last few years of his research and how he came to develop the orgone accumulator and feedback environment. We don’t fully grasp all of...

Feb 24th

An Open Letter to the Fans and Friends of Not...

Hola! My name is Poncio Vicario. And, you, the famous “Bloody Painters,” correct? I am pleased to meet you and I hope to soon be your friend. But you say, probably, Poncio! Who cares about a billionaire? Why do I want to be friends with you? I like the musics of Not Blood Paint. Well, I tell you why. For the past 5 years, I have been searching the globe for solutions to the most pressing...

Feb 23rd

Friday Endorsements 2.17.12

We’ve got big news! Last week, we couldn’t resist the urge to drop some hints regarding some big changes that are coming up for Not Blood Paint. Well, the contracts are signed and we can say: it’s official! Not Blood Paint has just accepted the generous graces of one Master Poncio Vicario. Oh, you may’ve heard of him. He’s only one of the world’s top 20...

Feb 17th

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Anonymous asked: any plans for sxsw 2012?

Feb 16th

Friday Endorsements 2.10.12

This has been quite the week so far! On Wednesday, we got to meet one of our music heros, Kevin Barnes from Of Montreal. He talked about music not always needing to express happiness - that pop music can explore terror or boredom if it’s telling the truth. He said that sometimes the art that encapsulates a moment or movement most completely is often a pariah in its own time. We told him we...

Feb 10th

Friday Endorsements 2.3.12

Hello friends. February is awesome! We’ve had spring weather, we’ve been meeting with important people for important projects, we get to play a show in connection to Of Montreal, and our record release is inching ever closer. What else is good? Well, that’s what endorsements are for! Read on, read on… Bill Cunningham New York (a flim by Richard Press) On a tip from a...

Feb 3rd

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Friday Endorsements 1.27.12

Billions in bonuses, ba-ba-billions in bonuses. That’s what we were going to offer instead of our usual friday endorsement, but when we put all of our little fistfuls of wrinkled up cash and change onto the kitchen counter we discovered that we only have the means to gift you with a gumball and endorse a little on ya. To redeem your gumball, simply keep bringing it up that we owe you one...

Jan 27th

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Jan 25th

Friday Endorsements 1.20.12

Hello hello hello! Are you our neighbor? We thought so. No need for an intro, then, eh? Let’s dive in like old friends and endorse this bizness… . . Paul Levy’s book ‘Wetico: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known To Humanity’ I’ve been really getting into the writing of Paul Levy lately. He has a lot of material over on his blog, Awaken in the Dream that is...

Jan 20th

Jan 17th

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Friday Endorsements 1.13.12

Hello friends! Did you know that the fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia? According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina there are 17 to 21 million people in the United States who are affected by this phobia - most to the extent that they change their daily activities. Supposedly, this superstition came about no earlier than the...

Jan 13th

Jan 10th

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Friday Endorsements 1.6.12: The Music of 2011...

Seth Says: As I experienced it, the popular music of 2011 organized itself in two camps: there were the musicians who were actively engaging with the social archetype of the moment, namely ‘Apocalypse,’ and those musicians who were working in isolation from that experience. To be clear, very few of the musicians who actually used the “end of the world” as a dramatic frame for their music in...

Jan 6th

Friday Endorsements 1.6.12: The Music of 2011...

The Great George Silvercrow Frye presents: I’d like to start with the beginning. I have had the privilege of seeing music at webster hall a few times this year. If there is one place that really knows how to make live bands sound absolutely incredible, it’s that place. An initial highlight was seeing Ava Luna there. First off, it’s wonderful to see a band go from playing in...

Jan 6th

Friday Endorsements 1.6.12: The Music of 2011...

From Our Good Friend Joe: IMHO 200011 was a weak year for records. Indie rock seems to have collapsed on itself in a wash of falsetto and half-hearted electronics. Where’s the fruit of the late aughts? Squandered? On hold? Misplaced? And where’s the Rock? There’s still a Rock shortage. Nothing’s happening right. Our social unrest should be making itself heard in...

Jan 6th

Friday Endorsements 1.6.12: The Music of 2011...

Hello 2012! How’s it hanging? We thought we’d kick off the year with a 4 part mega endorsement detailing our favorite musical moments and experiences of 2011. We hope you’ll browse through these lists and ruminations and take the opportunity to disagree, scoff, provide your alternate ideas - essentially, we’d love it if 2012 kicked off with a big recapitulation (Castaneda...

Jan 6th

Friday Endorsements 12.30.11

All right, everyone. Thanks. Thanks for 2011. All the ups and downs we shared together, they mean a lot to us. We don’t even want to go in to what 2012 is going to be like. Because nobody knows! I mean, many somebody knows. Or knew. And we have some big ideas, of course, of how it’s going to go. But we have to take each day as it comes. And each Friday that comes brings with it an...

Dec 30th

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Dec 19th

Friday Endorsements 12.9.11

Bloody Painters The World Over: The end of 2011 is drawing ever near. Ever near! We hope everyone is enjoying their respective freakish weather, as NYC flirts with spring, Scotland rides out 165 mph winds, and Colombia continues to flood. Our best calibrated predictions for January include ice plains across Africa and marshmallow drop downpours in Norway leading to uncontrolled obesity. But, as...

Dec 9th

Friday Endorsements 12.2.2011

We’re in the final stretch of Friday Endorsements for 2011. What a lot of things we’ve endorsed! As the world continues its spiraling out of control, we’re shocked to think that there are so many things that could bring us joy. Let’s keep it up! Fat Cat Hola, Endorsorinos. Like Ping Pong? Table Tennis? Billiards? Pool? Do you like Chess or Scrabble? Checkers or...

Dec 2nd

Friday Endorsements 11.18.11

Yever heard of endorsing, son? Seesn what you do is find 4 expert marksmen and line em up in front of all the competing brands of sodapop. Then you use yer ballot box for-n the people to vote for their favorite brand, and the marksmen, see, they “endorse” the soda for ya. It’s been the tried and true way to open a can of soda since our great great grandpappy invented canned soda....

Nov 18th

OWS Day of Action: An Open Letter to Chase...

Hello Chase Community Giving! Even though you’ve been around for 3 years now, I finally got the chance to learn a bit more about what you’ve been doing since 2009. You’re very sneaky! I must admit, before learning about Chase Community Giving I had identified the name JP Morgan and Chase with, well frankly, with lies. Lies of all sorts, really. Lies about the role of huge banks in our economy,...

Nov 17th

Nov 14th

Friday Endorsements 11.11.11

Uh, it’s 11.11.11 yous guys. That means the harmonic convergence has anchored a new frequency on the planet and also it means that the universe is giving us secret messages about the symbolism in numbers. I also heard that Hugo and Kim got PINNED! Like, they really did it! He was nervous, but she said yes and now they’re going steady for good. This is like the best Friday yet!...

Nov 11th

Nov 8th

Friday Endorsements 11.04.11

Hello everyone! Good to see you, how’ve you been? We’ve lost our calculator and we have some math questions for you. You’re good at math, right? Alright, first of all. How many angels can you fit on the head of a needle? How many humans can you fit on the head of an angel? And lastly: how many camels are small enough to fit through the eye of a needle? We’re looking to make...

Nov 4th

Friday Endorsements 10.28.11

Well, well, friends. What an October we’ve had. Thanks to everyone who came out last night, and thanks especially to Che Guevara for mobilizing the people for justice. We ALMOST got to play our whole set. Not Blood Paint Solidarity is something beautiful to behold! We are so grateful to you all for teaching us a lesson… Let’s endorse! How about we begin with a brotherly...

Oct 28th

Friday Endorsements 10.21.11

The following is a text fragment found at 5,895m near the peak of Kibo on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Although much of the text is incomprehensible or missing, we think we may have discovered the world’s first ‘Friday Endorsement.’ The question remains as to whether it was originally a Neanderthal endorsement or a Cro-magnon one (transported). Further study may reveal more information: ...

Oct 21st

Friday Endorsements 10.14.11

We’re late! We’re in a hurry! Gotta get ready for our meeting, and we certainly could never show up looking like this! But, wait. Stop. Take a breath. Button the top button. And endorse… Wugazi: 13 Chambers I don’t know why I didn’t endorse this months ago. Maybe Nick Link beat me to it. Well I’m re-endorsing 13 Chambers as potentially the greatest...

Oct 14th

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Friday Endorsements 10.07.11

Today is Friday, everyone, and we have the world at our fingertips. It’s called The Internet, a remarkable discovery! Maybe now that The Internet is here, we can learn to communicate with each other better? We heard that The Internet is the wave of the future, and waves have always been one of our favorite functions. So, what’s not to ride? Let’s share with one another!...

Oct 7th

Friday Endorsements 9.30.2011 (Last Week Edition)

Yeow! It’s Friday again. They DO seem to just keep coming, right? We don’t want to draw any conclusions just yet, but it seems that at this rate we could be endorsing for all eternity. And we thought this was a part time gig. Good thing there’s lots to highlight! Let us bow our heads and begin. Oh, wait, you can’t read when you bow your head. Let us simply begin… ...

Sep 30th

The Goldsmith Cometh!

Bloody Painters: The Goldsmith is approaching. I feel the presence more every day. And yet, I feel that we must be clear about a few things… Such as: What is The Goldsmith, really? Well, I’m glad I made you ask! The Goldsmith is the great reorganizer of time. Not an entity, and certainly not possessing of gender, The Goldsmith is not to be worshipped or given offerings; in fact, The...

Sep 30th

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Sep 23rd

Friday Endorsements 9.16.11

Hello friends. We’ve got some very serious news to tell you. The following items, whether we like it or not, are just too bright to not talk about. Talking gets things done, right? It matters what is said, right? We’re just trying to justify our college degrees for wordsmithery. When we chose the major, there were PLENTY of opportunities! Oh well, here we go, freelance talking...

Sep 16th

Friday Endorsements 9.9.11

What’s that, kid? Ahh, get lostr’ somethin. Nothin’ to see here, mate… Eh? Oh, yer here for the Fridays Endorsementses and whatnot? Why didn’t yez say so in the first place?? Follow me, they’re just around the corner, here. Yer gonna love this, kid, I guarantees it. Alright, that’ll be 5 cents. Lemme just raise this red velvet curtain, and… ...

Sep 9th

An Open Letter to Con Edison CEO Kevin Burke

Hey Kevin! Apologies if my tone seems too familiar right out the gate, it’s just that I feel like I know you. You know? I mean, we’ve been in a relationship for about 4 years now - you send me letters monthly, you light my life up, and you make things so much more easy and efficient for me and my friends. I know that taking care of your customer’s “energy needs”...

Sep 4th

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Friday Endorsements 9.2.11

There you are. How’s your summer wrapping up? Did you get married, too? We did, that’s why we’ve been away a bit. BUT we’re back and with a fresh set of endorsements to kick off September. Let’s jump right in! Project Kleinrock http://wiki.omegasdg.com/index.php?title=Project_Kleinrock Well, just incase a revolt or uprising were to take place in the US, the ...

Sep 2nd

Friday Endorsements 8.19.11

What a week! As some of you know, we were treated to floods this week. Many more in the city got the same special gift: rat swimming pools. Rats need exercise, too, of course. It would just be preferable it weren’t in the same space we record/sleep in. Just a thought, NYC. But, onwards and upwards. Let us dry endorse… Flood Insurance http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/ If...

Aug 19th

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Aug 18th

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Friday Endorsements 8.12.11

Hello again. And welcome! Be our guest. Take off your shoes. No, take them OFF. That’s better. Now: let us gift you with the belly of a suckling pig, the finest frankincense, and four barrel-aged “Friday endorsements.” They were given to us by our great great great great uncle Boris, from Romania, all those Fridays ago. Enjoy them. They are now yours… Dylan Ratigan ...

Aug 12th

Friday Endorsements 8.05.11

We’re back! Joe took 12 cans of spray paint to Europe and tagged NBP on EVERYTHING, Mark went to Louisiana and later met Dr. Frankenstein who is working on a new GMO human baby/tuna fish hybrid (AMAZING filleted and cooked black and blue), George put on boxing gloves and went to fight for some sanity down at the Bushwick Community Hospital (now featuring “new” and...

Aug 5th

Aug 4th

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Wow. Some very moving words from John Maus about the role of music in a society of control. Mr. Maus has been performing for some years now, but this little video just put him on my MUST SEE list. Caught me off guard coming from Pitchfork, I must say. “What I’m trying to do is appear as something else than The World as it stands, because I believe that is what we all really want: to...

Jul 21st

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Jul 20th

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Jul 19th

Friday Endorsements 7.15.11

Bloody Painters One and All: Welcome to Friday. We made it! It has been quite a hectic week around here. Through some strange circumstances, we finally filled the position we’ve been Praying to Goldsmith about: Bloody Documentarian! He applied for the job, right on time, and now True and Accurate Record can be made of all experiments. Do you document your experiments? If you don’t yet,...

Jul 15th

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Ever get the creeping feeling that your government is using the internet to enslave you? Rebecca Mackinnon gives you proof in 15 minutes. Help Not Blood Paint write the New Goldsmith’s InterNets Magna Carta! Washington will be rendered helpless! After all: Free Internet (and government) should be set up to serves the people and not serves the money-machine, doncha know?

Jul 14th

Jul 12th

Friday Endorsements 7.8.11

Hello there. Hi! And how do you do? What’s poppin’? Try this! Hold your left palm in the air: is it shaky or smooth? Smell your armpits: summer breeze or natural musk? Does anything itch? Now test your voice: what is the highest note you can hit? How fast can you fire off your consonants? Ok, it seems like we’re ready. Let’s endorse… U Say USA: June 19th,...

Jul 8th

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