Light paintings.

Photography, more so than any other medium, always surprises me with its incredibly dynamic nature. I don't consider any art form truer than another, but I'm most often amazed at what people can do with cameras. The above photos were taken by Janne Parviainen, a photography from Finland who came up with the idea of tracing every surface in his compositions with a single LED light. (!!!). Captured with exposures of up to half an hour long, this tedious experiment resulted in a gorgeous series of light paintings. Check out the rest of his photos here.

Thom Yorkie

Thom Yorkie

Something silly to get your Monday going. Courtesy of the lovely people at Buzzfeed. No surprise(s), he makes a beautiful animal.

Make Rock Street Festival!

If you're in San Francisco today, come out to the Mission for the 2012 Make Rock Street Festival! Organized by The Bay Bridged, a leading source for independent Bay Area music, San Francisco-based power pop duo Tartufi and The Bold Italic, the golden standard for all things local, Make Rock brings together dozens of local vendors and bands for an intimate gathering of independent artists and the people who support them. Lo-fi noise pop outfit Kids on a Crime Spree will be there and its shoegazed, reverbed tunes will serve as the ideal soundtrack for today--Its 71 and sunny, so come meet up in the beer garden!

The Bots.

Considering the heap of mass-produced pop stars at the forefront of mainstream music, it's nice to see a pair of young kids creating their own brand of music. The Bots is garage punk rock band made up of brothers Anaiah and Mikaiah Lei, who were respectively 9 and 12 when they started writing music together. With Mikaiah, now 19 years old, on guitar and lead vocals and 15 year old Anaiah on drums and backup vocals, the duo creates some snappy, blues-inspired music--good old-fashioned rock that reminds me of another sibling duo called The White Stripes. These Southern California dudes are spending the better half of 2012 touring the world, and they managed to do so without the "Disney" label slapped across their foreheads. Bravo! Check out their 2011 tune "Northern Lights," above!

Thom Yorke and I are back in action.

After a month in blogosphere purgatory with the many unused, forgotten blogs on the internet, Rock Salt is back in action! A simple conversation with a friend re-inspired me to keep this baby going. So to all 5 of my readers: check in every now and then to see what I've been up to / listening to / thinking about / eating / creating etc. etc. [Preview-- I've been on a serious Vaccines kick, which is great considering the English band has a new album coming out next month, and I'm quickly developing a fascination with home made tattoos...]

Coincidentally, Thom Yorke's solo project / super-group Atoms For Peace is also back in action. Days after dropping their band's new single "Default," Thom and guitarist/keyboardist Nigel Godrich, also a longtime producer for Radiohead, surprised fans at their "DJ set" in New York City last Saturday with a string of new songs by Atoms For Peace. Check out the opening song from their set. Thom's funky dance moves get me every time.