Artist Spotlight: The Milk Carton Kids

If you've paid attention to any of the previous Artist Spotlight posts, you've probably noticed that I like chill, folky music. Well, today we have a legitimate folk band.

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The Milk Carton Kids is a fairly new duo band. Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan joined their musical skills in early 2011 in California to release two albums - Retrospect and Prologue. Their voices are similar to The Avett Bros., but their music is folk/acoustic.

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Both of their albums are available to download for free! from their website. Check them out here.

Check out their website, Myspace, Facebook, and Bandcamp.

Love,
Scout

Vinyl Wishlist

One of my goals this summer is to go to every yard sale I can in hopes of finding records (or, if you've ever seen That Thing You Do, a "record record record"). These are the artists I'm really hoping to find. Of course, if I found it for a good price, I'd take any album of theirs.

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I also wouldn't mind owning Queen, Tom Petty, Ray LaMontagne, The Civil Wars, and more Beatles, Nat King Cole, and Elvis.

What about you? Are you vinyl people? What's your favorite album to listen to on vinyl?

Love,
Scout

Snap-nots

I didn't take too many pictures this week. The ones I took I either already posted or were pictures I took when playing around with my camera to understand it better. So instead of a snapshots post, I'm going to share random photos that I forgot to add to previous snapshots posts. 

Reading a book on propaganda.

My favorite food. Isn't this picture *sooo* appetizing? ;)

Nut pulp hummus. So delicious!

Homemade eggroll things.

Wow...there's a lot of food in there...hm.

Love,

Scout

In West Philadelphia, Born and Raised!

This pretty much made my entire week. I cannot get over how awesome it is.



Seriously! Everyone is singing it!

Love,
Scout

Battle of the Bands - Such Great Heights

I'm sure most of you have heard this song. Which version is your favorite? I like the bottom two best. 

Love,
Scout

Peacocks

Our neighbors have peacocks. They like to preen in front of our sliding glass doors.

Love,
Scout

Manual Setting - Black and White

I have a confession: I don't really like black and white photography. I mean, sometimes it's okay - especially when the contrast is really striking. Most of the time, though, I just think black and white photos are bland.

That being said, when I was going through my camera to see different things I could do, I stumbled upon the black and white option. Honestly, I was a little surprised to find that my camera had that option, but that was mostly because it never occurred to me to take black and white photos, so I never bothered looking for it. Anyway, I decided to mess around with it some, even though black and white photos aren't my favorite. Here's what I came up with.

I've decided that I kind of like taking black and white photographs, because I can play around with the exposure to make the photos look how I want, but...I still prefer color.

What's the best black and white photograph you've ever taken or seen? This is one of my absolute favorites, found on this website.

Love,
Scout