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]
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
Daniel Asia writes an inflammatory screed taking on the prolific composer Elliott Carter
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.
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]
Don't worry, replicas can't feel any emotions. Except for pain—and love.
More Than One Best Friend
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]
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)
Disney Rejection Letter, 1938
Still far from that digital democracy any utopian could hope for.
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]
Ages 3 and Up
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.
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.
20 Original Hits by 20 Unoriginal Artists
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.
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.
Just dumb ninja fun
Ninja Slash (fun flash Friday). Move left/right/up/down to kill zombies faster and faster.
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]
All That is Carnal
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]
Like a movie set! The alien space station maze...!
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
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
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Steadicam Inventor Honored
American cinematographer Garrett Brown to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the invention of the Steadicam (previously).
"What is an innovation worth?"
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]
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]
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.
“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]
Ceremonious Trespassing
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.
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]
Speculative Lexography
POWER VOCAB TWEET. Boost your vocabulary with these fiercely plausible words and definitions. About. [via mefi projects] [more inside]
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