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Nov 21

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH FROM DEVO

Posted at 2:28 am | 11 comments

I had the great pleasure of meeting Mark Mothersbaugh the day before his gallery opening in LA last week. His art and music has been very inspirational in the past few decades.

If you’d like to check out the gallery and happen to be in the LA area:

Scion Installation L. A.
3521 Helms Avenue (at National)
Culver City, CA. 90232
310.815.8840

Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm or by appointment

For those of you who may not be familiar with his work, he’s most recognized for his band Devo with the popular song ‘Whip It’ — You may or may not have heard it once or twice? I’m going to bet you have!

He’s also scored several Wes Anderson films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou!

..and my most favorite — he did the Rugrats theme and the ‘Get a Mac’ commercial song!! There’s so many more shows and games that I wasn’t aware of that he worked on. Can you say Even Stevens Movie? Sims 2 and Crash Bandicoot?

Tagged: bottle rocket, commercial song, crash bandicoot, culver city ca, devo, helms, ijustine, life aquatic with steve zissou, mark mothersbaugh, royal tenenbaums, rugrats theme, rushmore, scion, wes anderson

11 Replies to "MARK MOTHERSBAUGH FROM DEVO"

When a problem comes along.
You must whip it.
Before the cream sits out too long.
You must whip it.
When something’s going wrong.
You must whip it.

smojo on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

Whip it good.

I know I sure will.

riscphree on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

Mark Mothersbaugh is awesome, that’s uber sweet that you got to meet and chat with him!

Tony Chung on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

A hearty shout out to all the Spuds at Mutato Muzika and their creative king the original M&M. Your awesome works continue to transcend all generations.
Beautiful cutting-edge artwork. Justine is on pace to becoming one of the world’s ‘New Traditionalists’. Fantasmic blog!

Cpmixer on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

IM A MONGALOID…

EDDIE DONALDSON on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

i’m a huge fan of “ping island” off the life aquatic soundtrack. thanks for the post, i’m definitely going to try to check out the gallery.

floria on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

That commercial is one that I don’t leave the room on, I like the smoothness of it.
Today I made APPLE pies. LOL
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

G

Grayce on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

That is one successful man. Very creative and artistic. From being in bands, composing music, to making beautiful rugs, thats quite the field there. Looks like some cool stuff, I’ll have to check it out!

Kris Hetzel on Nov 21st 2007 at 2:28 am

Justine, you are sooo lucky! Mark Mothersbaugh and the rest of DEVO are all geniuses. Mark, Bob1, Bob2, and Gerald shaped the world of new wave music in the late 70s, early 80s and influenced so many bands like Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo, etc. Do you have any more footage you can post?

Booji Boy!

Dennis

Dennis on Nov 22nd 2007 at 2:28 am

I agree Dennis! Boggles the mind that 4 public relations majors from Ohio move on to change the coarse of music at that time. It was awesome growing up while it was happening - I can still remember “rollerdiscoing” to
Girl U Want, Freedom of Choice and many, many others lol. Genius indeed.

Have a Tryptophantastic Day everyone!

Cpmixer on Nov 22nd 2007 at 2:28 am