April 26, 2013

Here's to you my little loves, with blessings from above

San Francisco band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club recently released a worthy cover of The Call's Let the Day Begin. [more inside]
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:12 PM PST - 14 comments

Carter is Dead

His deluded music of the eternal present will sadly have little future.

Daniel Asia writes an inflammatory screed taking on the prolific composer Elliott Carter
posted by Bistle at 7:57 PM PST - 35 comments

Tokyo City Symphony

Create your own 3D projection mapping to music on the Tokyo skyline Put together eight seconds which is added to an ever-expanding, infinite overall 'symphony' projected onto one of the largest scale models in Japan.
posted by marvin at 7:50 PM PST - 2 comments

A year of self portraits and other art by Brendon Burton

Brendon Burton is now an 18-year-old photographer, who started taking/making a self portrait (almost) each day last April. In the beginning, they started out as simple photos from a young kid in high school. But as the year progressed, some images came with a soundtrack, others were collaborations. The photos became more staged and more cinematic. The series ended April 11th. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 7:36 PM PST - 12 comments

Don't worry, replicas can't feel any emotions. Except for pain—and love.

Building A Human: An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth).
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 6:55 PM PST - 12 comments

More Than One Best Friend

SLYT: Baboons kidnap and raise feral dogs as pets. Via: BoingBoing
posted by rosswald at 6:17 PM PST - 47 comments

Much Ado About Nuttin'

In 2005, he was considered the finest high school football player in the country. Heavily recruited, the quarterback was sought after by Notre Dame, Alabama, and the school just down the road from home, Arkansas. Many believed that he was a better player than another promising high school quarterback, Tim Tebow. In 2013, Mitch Mustain is the back up quarterback to the San Jose SaberCats, an arena football league team. The documentary,The Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain, seeks to understand what happened.* *Trailer for documentary. [more inside]
posted by Atreides at 2:19 PM PST - 23 comments

That night the hipsters jazz in

A harrowing graphic story that shows that gentrification of ethnic neighbourhoods by young people leading alternative lifestyles was a controversial issue even in 1957. (SLComic)
posted by MartinWisse at 2:12 PM PST - 43 comments

Disney Rejection Letter, 1938

Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is performed entirely by young men. For this reason girls are not considered for the training school.
posted by latkes at 2:02 PM PST - 55 comments

Still far from that digital democracy any utopian could hope for.

7 (well, technically 6) myths of the digital divide.
posted by iamkimiam at 2:01 PM PST - 8 comments

Hello, Lanie the organic gardener

The Atlantic reports on the 2008 removal/"archiving" of the original three American Girl dolls, dolls whose arrival on the market in 1986 represented a "sensibility about teaching girls to understand thorny historical controversies and build political consciousness." [more inside]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 2:00 PM PST - 34 comments

Ages 3 and Up

"Queen Frostine turned into a Bratz doll" - The evolution of sexed-up Candyland.
posted by Artw at 1:44 PM PST - 57 comments

we're not bailing you out again!

Nathan Fielder of Nathan For You (where he helps real businesses by doing things like developing unique froyo flavors and unlikey-to-be-redeemed rebates), has posted the results of two Twitter "experiments": Text your parents "got 2 grams for $40" then right after "Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you" and a second one about dollar store condoms.
posted by blahblahblah at 1:31 PM PST - 56 comments

Love is all you need?

Imagine a world where "gay" was "straight" and "straight" was "gay"... How Would You Live If You Couldn't Love? (19:13)
A beautiful short film centered around themes of childhood bullying, community intolerance, and bigotry from within one's own family that is a lot more affecting than one might expect at first from the deceptively kitchy concept.
posted by Blasdelb at 1:24 PM PST - 18 comments

20 Original Hits by 20 Unoriginal Artists

The Echo Nest examines the problem of music spam.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 1:10 PM PST - 35 comments

Nineteen-ninety-phwoargh

As 'ladette mag' turned celebrity rag More! magazine closes, a former writer reminisces on the 'arrival of the suits'. And another on being a male writer at a teen girl's magazine.
posted by mippy at 1:07 PM PST - 4 comments

International Art English

"The internationalized art world relies on a unique language. Its purest articulation is found in the digital press release. This language has everything to do with English, but it is emphatically not English. It is largely an export of the Anglophone world and can thank the global dominance of English for its current reach. But what really matters for this language—what ultimately makes it a language—is the pointed distance from English that it has always cultivated. " - Triple Canopy magazine on why do artists' statments and press releases sound so utterly odd and confusing.
posted by The Whelk at 12:33 PM PST - 45 comments

Just dumb ninja fun

Ninja Slash (fun flash Friday). Move left/right/up/down to kill zombies faster and faster.
posted by klangklangston at 11:17 AM PST - 8 comments

Biking & The Gender Candy Store

"Gender isn’t a toy store lined with pink and blue aisles. It’s a candy store, a free for all, a sugar-fueled shopping spree. Anything your heart can desire is free for the taking!" A primer on the gender spectrum, a guide to challenging the current culture and a pannier-load of biking references all in one. [more inside]
posted by mikepop at 10:31 AM PST - 52 comments

All That is Carnal

The strange ecstatic journey of a Shaker hymn from rural New York to Soul Train. [more inside]
posted by Polyhymnia at 10:18 AM PST - 18 comments

Sportsfilter!

The first round of the 2013 NFL Draft was held yesterday, leaving two of the most-talked-about players undrafted: QB Geno Smith and Linebacker Manti Te'o. [more inside]
posted by troika at 10:18 AM PST - 56 comments

Like a movie set! The alien space station maze...!

Arnold Schwarzenegger Driving
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 10:06 AM PST - 16 comments

Taibbi held a gun to my head, er, I mean...

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix
posted by infini at 9:17 AM PST - 128 comments

Central Park Five

Remember the Central Park jogger case from 1990? Here's a (lengthy, fascinating) New York Magazine article discussing the case just around the time of the 2002 exoneration of the initial five accused, four of whom had previously confessed to the crime. 24 years after the attack, a group of filmmakers, together with the five wrongly convicted men, have created a documentary telling the tale: The Central Park Five. Criminal reform activists everywhere are hoping the story might change a few minds. Previously
posted by likeatoaster at 8:42 AM PST - 36 comments

He Stopped Loving Her Today

Legendary country singer George "The Possum" Jones died today at the age of 81. [more inside]
posted by entropicamericana at 7:57 AM PST - 120 comments

Steadicam Inventor Honored

American cinematographer Garrett Brown to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the invention of the Steadicam (previously).
posted by switcheroo at 7:28 AM PST - 8 comments

"What is an innovation worth?"

Google was worth 1,838,389 workers in 1998, maybe
posted by the man of twists and turns at 7:16 AM PST - 26 comments

This is basically a love letter from my stomach.

Serious Eats tries all the tacos at La Chaparrita. What is this magical place? Well... [more inside]
posted by phunniemee at 7:03 AM PST - 52 comments

ADULT DESCRIPTION: Tiny Bird, In Constant Motion

As bird activity is ramping up in the northern hemisphere, let's take a moment to consider the tiniest of the perching birds, the Golden Crowned Kinglet. These diminutive dynamos stay constantly active to counteract the physiological challenges that come with being so very small. [more inside]
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:00 AM PST - 10 comments

Triple Gear

Mathematicians Henry Segerman and Saul Schleimer have produced a triple gear, three linked gears in space that can rotate together. A short writeup of the topology and geometry behind the triple gear on the arXiv.
posted by escabeche at 6:00 AM PST - 36 comments

“Music exists in nature to make you smarter."

Bob Brozman, the undisputed master of the National Resonator Guitar, has passed away at age 59. Ethnomusicologist, virtuoso fingerpicker, musical historian, and anarchist philosopher Bob Brozman fell in love with National’s metal body resonator guitars as a teenager and made them his life’s passion. [more inside]
posted by zaelic at 3:47 AM PST - 34 comments

Ceremonious Trespassing

Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 1:43 AM PST - 4 comments

Hope is the thing with feathers

Listening to birdsong is really good for you. But many of us live in urban environments where birdsong is a scarce resource, so you might consider opening up this YouTube audio clip, or this one, or this one, and just let those little birdies serenade you while you work at your computer, or savor your morning coffee, or do your household errands. It's good for the soul.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:06 AM PST - 55 comments

Finnish Fan Foments Flash Friday Fun

Hapuriainen makes dress ups / character creators: Disney Girls dress up; Pokémon Trainer creator; Naruto character creator; W.I.T.C.H. Guardians maker; and 64 others. [more inside]
posted by Monsieur Caution at 12:04 AM PST - 6 comments

Speculative Lexography

POWER VOCAB TWEET. Boost your vocabulary with these fiercely plausible words and definitions. About. [via mefi projects] [more inside]
posted by aniola at 12:01 AM PST - 19 comments

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