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Crowd funding is a lot like crowd surfing

jeffburdges — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:32:47 -0800

"And I fell into those thousands of connections that I'd made. And I asked the crowd to catch me." "When you connect with them people want to help you" - The art of asking by Amanda Palmer "I painted myself white one day, stood on a box, put a hat or can at my feet, and when someone came by and dropped in money, I handed them a flower and some intense eye contact." Bonus : Neil Gaiman talks about The Bed Song

Beers, hugs, and high-fives

monospace — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:56:14 -0800

Rock diva and Kickstarter heroine Amanda Palmer asks local musicians/fans to come on stage to perform a few songs with her. But professional musicians are outraged at this blatant act of exploitation. Amanda Palmer on the Blue, previously.

Spirit of Love

puny human — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:27:13 -0800

Let's dust off our turntable, and the hash pipe and break out the C.O.B., which is Clive's Own Band, Clive being Clive Palmer, one of the founders of The Incredible String Band, who left after the success of their first album, took his money, and left England to live in alone in India. Later, in the early seventies, living off porridge and crackers in a caravan with Mick Bennett and John Bidwell, he released two 'progressive folk' albums, Spirit of Love and Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart, which some have called the best folk albums to have ever come out of Britain. Produced with Ralph McTell.

Yes, it's what it sounds like.

boo_radley — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:37:12 -0800

Amanda Palmer releases ~~Ukelelehead~~ Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele. There will be a live webcast at Party On The Internet on July 20th, 6PM Eastern Time. Read about the background of the album here.

Sayre's law, Amazon edition

Abiezer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:05:14 -0800

The professor, his wife, and the secret, savage book reviews on Amazon 'An extraordinary literary "whodunnit" over the identity of a mystery reviewer who savaged works by some of Britain's leading academics on the Amazon website has culminated in a top historian admitting that the culprit was, in fact, his wife.'

Cursive handwriting is just waiting for its steampunk-like renaissance.

rmd1023 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:05:17 -0800

The death of cursive script handwriting continues to be predicted. Back in 2006, 85% of the kids wrote in block letters on the written portion of their SAT tests. (previously) Some schools have been seeing students eschewing cursive for a while. some argue in favor of learning cursive first and block printing later. the bbc weighs in (pdf transcript) And now, another book bemoaning the loss of cursive script

Earl Palmer, thanks for the rhythm.

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:42:50 -0800

A musician passed away just the other day. In all likelihood you never knew his name. But you've probably heard him, no exaggeration, on thousands of occasions. He was drummer Earl Palmer, and some of the thousands of songs he propelled with his versatile grooves and masterful sense of time include Tutti Frutti and Lucille, La Bamba, Let's Go Get Stoned, I Don't Need No Doctor, Unchained Melody, You've Lost That Loving Feeling... the list goes on and on. Oh, and there's the TV themes he drummed on, like say, Mission Impossible. And here you can see New Orleans native Earl demonstrating how he put the beat under Professor Longhair's classic Tipitina and on Fats Domino's I'm Walkin'. He was one superb rhythmist. Au revoir, Earl Palmer. And before all y'all start chiming in with the inevitable "what, no _______?" comments, keep in mind that I've limited myself to the original versions of all song recordings. That is, the versions that Earl Palmer himself can be heard drumming on. Even when the video images were sometimes stupid, this is about the audio, about hearing Earl Palmer. There are no doubt more clips and audio files out there featuring Earl's drumming, and hopefully there'll be some links here in the comments to more tunes that feature his solid stick work. Coincidentally, Palmer is also credited with session work for the film soundtrack to Hud, which, of course, starred another great artist who also just passed away, at the same age of 83, Paul Newman.

80's singer Robert Palmer has passed away

nyukid — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:38:39 -0800

80's singer Robert Palmer has passed away. CNN reports that the British rocker who is famous for his 80's hit "Addicted to Love" died of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 54.