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Next-Door Neighbor, from
SMITH Magazine, takes a bunch of renowned artists and writers from the world of Indie Comics and asks them to tell stories about, well, memorable Next-Door Neighbor experiences. "
The Next-Door Neighbor I Don't Know," by
Harvey Pekar and
Rick Veitch is worth a look, of course, but personal favorites for me include "
Halloweens Ago," and "
Hank & Barbara." And after reading, "
Dream Train," be sure to check out the
video link of the subject playing an old cowboy song.
posted to MetaFilter by Navelgazer
at 5:40 PM on July 16, 2008
(5 comments)
Rémi Gaillard
leaves a trail of befuddled witnesses and victims in his wake.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 9:52 AM on June 24, 2008
(43 comments)
Philip Pullman interviewed about the ideas behind "His Dark Materials" [YT,1 hour, South Bank Show,parts
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7]. Inside, and hidden from those who don't want spoilers, are links relating to the ideas raised and about the books generally.
posted to MetaFilter by rongorongo
at 4:40 PM on June 23, 2008
(85 comments)
Does anyone know what kind of gear did guitarist Sonny Sharrock used?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MrMisterio
at 10:07 AM on June 18, 2008
(5 comments)
bomomo
is a fun little drawing tool that creates some pretty interesting brush patterns using a variety of physics and mouse behavior. You can even save your finest works (Firefox and Safari only though)
[via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie
at 1:34 PM on June 4, 2008
(38 comments)
The opening shots of 1920s New York City are wonderful, then you get a zany high-speed Harold Lloyd blazing down the avenues, and that's fun to watch, but the real killer is the horse-drawn trolley absolutely
tearing-ass through lower Manhattan, full gallop. Ends badly. Then it's over to San Francisco for one last bit of homicidal vehicular activity with a bus. Well, they sure don't drive
like they used to!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:53 PM on May 25, 2008
(37 comments)
The other day I happened to come upon a music video that is just so grooving, so human and so
real, that, well, it
moved me, darling.
Just check it out. After watching the clip, I learned that these guys are mostly disabled by polio (that's why several of them are in those rather unusual wheelchairs) and that they were living on the grounds of the Kinshasa zoo, which is where the clip was filmed. Then I learned that last year they were seeking to bring
a lawsuit against the UN. Then I found
some other clips. And now I am a
major fan of
Staff Benda Bilili.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 3:30 AM on April 26, 2008
(47 comments)
Duke University has three image collections of old U.S. and Canadian advertisements.
Ad*Access a database of over 7000 print ads from 1911 to 1956.
Emergence of Advertising in America has 9000 images of ads from 1850-1920.
Medicine and Madison Avenue has 600 medical ads and documents from 1911 to 1958. You can browse the collections by product, company, subject, year and categories or you can use the search function. Here are some of my favorites:
Miss Clairol,
They're Both in the Swim Today,
Fancy Goods and Toy Bazaar,
Sky Blue Pink,
SAS Makes Airline History,
A Montgomery Ward Hat that Becomes Nearly Every Woman,
Radiant Peony and
Hitler's Death Warrant.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:57 PM on April 14, 2008
(11 comments)
An analysis of
376 recorded performances of Beethoven's
Eroica (Symphony #3), broken down by such variables as the age of the conductor, length of the recording, and tempo variations.
posted to MetaFilter by pjern
at 11:00 PM on March 14, 2008
(25 comments)
Garfield minus Garfield: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?"
posted to MetaFilter by SpacemanStix
at 1:36 PM on February 26, 2008
(127 comments)
The
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section was comprised of four session musicians operating out of the tiny northern Alabama town of town
Muscle Shoals.
Just four unassuming crackers who happened to have provided the funky underpinning for a
huge number of hit songs by, among others,
Aretha Franklin,
Wilson Pickett,
Paul Simon,
Joe Cocker,
The Staple Singers ,
Jimmy Cliff and
many, many others. Hey, they were the
house band to the greats. Big respect to the men from
3614 Jackson Highway!
[note: see hoverovers for link descriptions]
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:18 AM on February 24, 2008
(27 comments)
Normally I don't say anything, but... the
discussion about fat folks forced to fly on SouthWest and whether we need to buy another ticket on ask strikes me as fat bashing, which is not really what the poster asked for.
posted to MetaTalk by kalessin
at 12:41 PM on February 13, 2008
(246 comments)
So,
good day, and welcome to the
Bob and
Doug McKenzie FPP.
How's it goin' eh? Like, I've got some
back bacon fryin' up on the Coleman, a dozen
donuts, a
two-four, and our topic today is stuff on the internet relating to
these two Canadian hoseheads. So, like, sit back, put a
toque on,
grab a beer, and enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display
at 10:17 AM on February 8, 2008
(67 comments)
oscillating fan man wears a badge of hope. he keeps you cool.
posted to MeFi Music by kimyo
at 2:32 AM on February 4, 2008
(9 comments)
Wonderland is a series by Yeon Doo Jung which takes drawings done by children, and re-photographs them in the real world. The results of this interpretation are, um, hilarious.
Use the green arrows for navigating from photo to photo.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 8:20 PM on January 29, 2008
(27 comments)
The Case for the First Folio
For centuries, editors of Shakespeare's plays have conflated different published editions (
quartos and folios) in an attempt to create one true text as the writer intended. In this essay (.pdf file) Jonathan Bate, one of the editors of
The RSC Shakespeare makes the case that in fact what they're doing is editing together different drafts of the play originated by the bard at different times in his life attempting to make better dramatic sense. Essentially that none of the texts you studied at school are what Shakespeare intended to be performed at all.
posted to MetaFilter by feelinglistless
at 4:42 PM on January 25, 2008
(29 comments)
In my quest to fulfill a jones for antiquity, I came across some
Roman Numismatics. There are many
great photos of Roman artifacts to be found here.
Monetary,
military, scroll down, click and scroll some more. It's
almost as if ancient Rome has come back to life.
(Some art is NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by snsranch
at 9:17 PM on January 24, 2008
(2 comments)
Stanislav Szukalski was born in Warta, Poland on December 13, 1893. When he was only six years old, a teacher sent him to the headmaster's office for whittling a pencil. The headmaster examined the pencil more closely and discovered that young Stanislav had carved a tiny, near-perfect figure.
posted to MetaFilter by louche mustachio
at 9:18 PM on January 23, 2008
(8 comments)
Dolphins create rings of air bubbles!
posted to MetaFilter by proj08
at 12:37 PM on January 20, 2008
(47 comments)
"
The Emptied Prairie," a National Geographic article on North Dakota's ghost towns and the decline of the Great Plains. Typically amazing National Geographic photos
here. Reminds me of a
similar series that ran in the New York Times several years ago, which included
this fascinating article by Timothy Egan.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 12:21 PM on January 17, 2008
(42 comments)
Counting in groups of 12 the first performer claps on 1,2,3,5,6,8,10 and 11. The second performer starts by clapping the same pattern but gradually shifts the pattern one step to the right. You are playing
Steve Reich's clapping music. If you are serious you will want to study the
score - and perhaps a
watch a performance). If you are happen to be Evelyn Glennie you can have a go at
both parts at once. - those slightly less more mortal are likely to end up like
this.
posted to MetaFilter by rongorongo
at 10:13 AM on January 14, 2008
(25 comments)
