On Saturday April 17th, we projected two video loops during ‘Sweatstock’; a free, all-day, all-ages block party in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood celebrating Sweat Records 5-year anniversary.  For No Age (Sub Pop), Sweatstock’s headliner, we projected the neon green mouth of a Fungia sp. coral that actively ‘smiled’ over the energetic performance and enthusiastic audience, as seen in the video above.

Prior to No Age, we displayed an undulating, double-mouthed Ricordea florida polyp for Otto von Schirach‘s swamp-freak take on Miami Bass electronica (below).

We are proud to have helped contribute to what we consider was the best music festival Miami has seen in recent memory. Congrats and thanks to Lolo and Sweat Records for an awesome 5 years of organizing and promoting our Miami music scene; the Magic City would be a lot less magical without your hard work and drive.

Our good friends at Sweat Records will be celebrating their 5th birthday Saturday, April 17th with a free, all-ages block party (little festival) with LA’s No Age headlining a full day of awesome South Floridian music. The 17th also happens to be Record Store Day; limited-edition vinyl will be supplied in-doors. Along with the bands, DJ’s, comics, and a Pure Imagination reading, we will be projecting ‘living posters’ during live Otto Von Schirach and No Age sets. See you there…

Above is a teaser we created for the ‘Discipline EP’, the new release from Miami electronic musician Panic Bomber. The ‘Discipline EP’ arrives March 16, 2010 via Toronto’s YYZ Records and this video will be available for your downloading pleasure on Vimeo until Sunday, March 7. Catch Panic Bomber live in Toronto this coming weekend and at the Ultra Music Festival Saturday, March 27.

4 color fluorescent ink silk screened 18′ X 23′  poster by Iron Forge Press, incorporating our ‘Crab Fashion‘ image. Photo shot in darkness with ultraviolet lighting.

West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood will play The Vagabond in downtown Miami the night of Friday, December 18th with fellow Floridians Holiday Shores. This show falls in the wake of Surfer Blood’s massive national tour and precedes their highly anticipated debut album, Astro Coast, out via Brooklyn’s Kanine Records January 19, 2010.

‘Neighbour Riffs’
Music by Surfer Blood
Pachyclavularia violacea VS. Briareum sp.
Video and Aquarium
2009 Morphologic Studios

Surfer Blood is an up and coming South Floridian band. This video is for the instrumental track ‘Neighbour Riffs’, off their forthcoming debut LP, Astro Coast, out in January via Brooklyn’s Kanine Records.

The aquarium set used has been a two-year experiment involving two species of ‘star polyp’ encrusting soft coral. The dominant species is an ultra fluorescent green form of Briareum sp. originally from the Indo-Pacific. However, this particular morph has been in continuous aquaculture here in Miami for at least the past decade due to its desirable color and long flowing tentacles. Clones of these green star polyps can likely be found in scores of aquariums across Florida (and likely far beyond). The other species is Pachyclavularia violacea (brown star polyps), identifiable by the large white ‘star-like’ centers.  This morph has also been aquacultured here in Florida for nearly a decade as well. During the first year of this aquarium’s existence, Pachyclavularia was the dominant species, overgrowing the Briareum and quickly colonizing the aquarium glass.  However, in the past year the green Briareum has gained the upper hand and now comprises 3/4 of the colonized territory.  It demonstrates how competition for real estate on the coral reef is a dynamic process where an advantage over a neighbor can be fleeting.

Awesome New Republic’s single ‘Alleycat’ now has a music video which incorporates two of our recent jellyfish projections. ‘Alleycat’ appears on their sophomore LP, Hearts, out October 27, 2009.

Pop’s likeness, as depicted by Miami artist Claudio Picasso.

On Saturday, August 22 Sweat Records will be throwing a party for the release of a series of limited edition t-shirts featuring the image of Iggy Pop from Sweat’s now-iconic “Wall of Idolatry” mural.  The show will be held at the Awarehouse space in Wynwood and will feature live performances by Awesome New Republic and The Jacuzzi Boys, DJs, live painting by Francesco LoCastro and one of our aquarium projections.

Iggy will be the guest of honor at this event; if you live in S. Florida, stopping by is highly recommended. $10 admission/ open bar. 8 PM @ 550 N.W. 29 St. Miami, FL 33127