October 20, 2013
For fans of: pixels, archaeologists, fatalism
CRYPT WORLDS: Your Darkest Desires, Come True!
A game for PC, Mac, and Linux. By Elizabeth Deadman.
Audio by Liz Ryerson, who made Problem Attic.
The trailer will persuade you to consume it.
The guide will tell you how to walk and urinate.
It is pretty cool.
A game for PC, Mac, and Linux. By Elizabeth Deadman.
Audio by Liz Ryerson, who made Problem Attic.
The trailer will persuade you to consume it.
The guide will tell you how to walk and urinate.
It is pretty cool.
Basement Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest: dance music gone orchestral and jazzy
If you enjoy huge orchestral stage productions of housey dance music, you might enjoy this: the electronic dance duo, Basement Jaxx, teamed up with the world's largest professional pop and jazz orchestra, the Metropole Orkest, a couple years back to create a huge stage production that had a handful of performances, consisting of re-scored Jaxx tracks and a few new productions by Felix Buxton of Basement Jaxx. There are some clips and full songs from the shows online, including pro-shot and edited clips from the Barbican in London and and from the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips (Frits Philips Music Center) in Eindhoven, collected in this YouTube playlist, opening with a behind-the-scenes clip, then getting into the proper music. There's also a compilation album (Grooveshark stream), put together from live recordings from the Eindhoven show and studio recordings.
BART strike continues
BART workers are continuing their strike into Monday, with no quick end to the strike in sight. [more inside]
Steve Buscemi
"so many working-class people across the country vote against their own interests. It all comes down to culture wars: the right has always been able to use abortion and gay marriage, and in the past women's rights, but all those things are starting to erode. There really isn't much they can throw up as a smokescreen any more."
" interviews, he says in his quick, metallic, slightly strangulated way, "aren't my favourite thing to do".
But, he does a pretty good job with this one...
Making vegetables the rock stars
"The semantic mission for me is to have “vegetarian” become an adjective that describes food rather than a noun labeling a person." An interview with Mollie Katzen, author of the iconic Moosewood Cookbook. (Includes a recipe for Vegetarian Tan-Tan Noodles from her newest cookbook, The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation.)
12 Years a Slave
"I'm here because my family went through slavery" - Steve McQueen on 12 Years A Slave, the story of Solomon Northup. ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘Mother of George,’ and the aesthetic politics of filming black skin. Before Solomon Northup: Fighting Slave Catchers in New York. The final fate of Solpmon Northup remains unknown. (Previously)
Gay Talese and Katie Roiphe go to the Opera.
The young Talese wanted to be American, not Italian, so he resented the Verdi and Puccini, this soundtrack to the boyhood he didn’t want to have. [more inside]
Say, Mr. Producer. I'm talking to you, sir.
Flying Square of Cardboard.
1 2 Lose U
“Stylistically, I never had a plan – at the time, I was listening to a lot of intelligent drum ’n’ bass, but when I heard Squarepusher I was like, I can’t listen to normal jungle any more." Vapor City is the 9th album from North Carolina born, New York & Berlin based 'future jungle' producer Machinedrum. Illustrated by the grey-and-black industrial sprawl on the cover, (it) is about an imaginary metropolis; each of its ten tracks is devoted to one of its districts. [more inside]
"People who tell you you’re awesome are useless. No, dangerous."
Don't be Sad; Two out of Three Ain't Bad
Why do we feel happy when we listen to sad music? A study from the Tokyo University of the Arts and RIKEN says that while we expect sad feelings to result from sad music, often the emotions are more neutral or even positive. [more inside]
Devoted to classic UK and Italian lightweights
Classic Lightweights UK
"Through our site Patricia and I would like to share our enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, classic lightweight cycles, particularly those built in Britain and Italy.Classic Components [more inside]
Condoleezza Rice still controversial, but for different reason now
The new College Football Playoff's selection committee has been officially unveiled, and it includes revered coaches, revered players (and fathers of revered players), a three-star general and even a college professor you may have heard of. [more inside]
Burlesque Dancer Twerks To Beethoven, Which Is As Amazing As It Sounds
Michelle L'amour performs "BUTTHOVEN'S 5TH SYMPHONY" [NSFW: WIGGLING B'THONGED BUTTS - LOL] [more inside]
Raspberries and Nuclear Warheads
Pre suffragettes the founding mothers
Meet the Victorian women who fought back. Once, Queen Victoria was the only woman in the realm with no legal impediment because of her sex. She reigned over a society that was full of intelligent women going mad with frustration - and then they began to do something about it.
Oh SNAPULARITY, Slavoj!
Not too into the Singularity? Here's a Powerpoint-style presentation featuring several Alternatives to the Singularity, such as The Discombobularity and the dreaded Zizekularity!
"There's only one saving grace to this book: it might be right."
Has David Birnbaum solved the mystery of existence?
David Birnbaum made his fortune selling jewellery to movie stars. Now he has published a 'remarkable and profound' investigation into the origins of the universe. Is there any reason to take it seriously?
David Birnbaum made his fortune selling jewellery to movie stars. Now he has published a 'remarkable and profound' investigation into the origins of the universe. Is there any reason to take it seriously?
No sex please, we're Japanese
Young people in Japan are increasingly abstaining from romantic relationships and sex. The media refers to this phenomenon as sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome". [more inside]
Swan Hill, by Laura Michet
Your brother sighs and takes his pipe out of his jacket. "It's good to be home," he says, and fills the bowl. "A light?" You[more inside]put your hand out.snap your fingers. There's thesharp stabfamiliar pricklecomfortable ache in your wrist, among the bones. A flame leaps from your fingertips.
Eva Wiseman's love story.
Humans of Los Santos
A Relationship in Five Minutes
It was probably the cap on the toothpaste that did it. Matthew Flynn and Autumn Stein improvise a video that distils an entire relationship into 5 minutes.
It Is Suggested That Fans Clip The Series For Future Reference
No Spandex
Erik Gunden, voice of Bat-Mite, has left the building
R.I.P. Lou Scheimer - Mr Filmation - an Emmy and Grammy Award–winning American producer of cartoon and live TV - has died.
He was a co-founder of Filmation, a company known mostly for minimally-animated but US produced cartoons (often with reused backgrounds) and a small cast of stock voice actors (including himself) that dominated the airwaves for decades . [more inside]
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