Light painter Gjon Mili is one of the pioneers in the use of stoboscopic instruments in order to create outstanding images. He and his unique photoflash techniques are very well known and still very much used in today´s light painting photography.

By his way of experimenting with small lights, for instance, attached to the boots of ice skaters he created what would be an inspiration for many of the most famous light painting images ever taken. In 1949, Mili sent some examples of his work to Pablo Picasso, who felt immediately inspired and that’s actually how this series Light Drawings was born: Picasso painting with a penlight captured by Mili.

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YACHT founding members Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans live in Portland, Oregon and Marfa, Texas, and consider themselves ‘generalists’ in the fields of music, art, writing, and everything in between. Their new album, See Mystery Lights, has just been released, along with companion materials ranging from book and mixtapes to a limited-edition playable copper record of mantras. We checked in with Jona to get his thoughts on the music that inspired their own album and he started with the Radha Krishna Temple song, Hare Krishna Mantra: ‘A not-so-secret-thing about YACHT is that when we see Hare Krishna monks dancing down the street in their orange robes and shaved heads, it takes a great deal of self-control for us not to run after them. This is not to say that we want to stop them or join them. We just want to see what happens at the end of the chase’. Read the rest of Yacht’s Secret Playlist.
[audio:http://m.esotericteaching.org/CD_06-5__Hare_Krsna_Maha_Mantra.mp3]

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Yacht will be celebrating the release of their album See Mystery Lights with a Manhattan record release show at Santos Party House on July 28, featuring special guest, the DFA DJs. Check out the video to their new single, Summer Song, above.

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Damn this song is catchy! Yacht is the cunning alter-ego for duo Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans — an accomplished science writer, artist, and veteran of the LA noise scene. After they recorded a tongue-in-cheek love letter to LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in the form of their track, Summer Song, Murphy signed them to DFA Records. All of which brings us to their new album, See Mystery Lights, and this track off it: the bouncy, raga tinged Pyschic City. We have it available for free download via the Music Download section of Lost At E Minor, along with new tracks by La Snacks, Magic Wands, Polly Scattergood, and Reed KD.
[audio:http://girlieaction.com/yacht/sounds/PsychicCity.mp3]

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