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Jonathan King Sings

jack_mo — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:32:03 -0800

Jonathan "King of Hits" King is a former pop impresario now best known for his conviction and imprisonment for having sex with teenage boys. He has turned his experiences into a satirical musical, Vile Pervert [NSFW], and released the film for free online. In one number, adopting the persona of Oscar Wilde, King asserts that "there's nothing wrong with buggering boys".

The Sound Of Clothes

jack_mo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:58:05 -0800

The Sound Of Clothes features the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains, recorded in an anechoic chamber. Videos linked from the page might be NSFW.

Possessed, A Short Documentary About Hoarders

jack_mo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:22:22 -0800

POSSESSED is a short documentary film that 'enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions'.

The Unsung Joe: Where bit--part actors go when they die

jack_mo — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:51:03 -0800

The Unsung Joe: Where bit-part actors go when they die. Biographies of the most obscure micro-stars of 1940s and '50s cinema, all remarkably well-researched and richly illustrated.

London Transport Posters

jack_mo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:35:28 -0800

The London Transport Museum's Poster Collection is now online. 5,000 posters and 700 original poster artworks, ranging from No need to ask a p'liceman!, the 1908 poster introducing the new underground map, to a stunning image by Man Ray, via Hans Unger's simple, beautiful Country Churches: How To Get There.

Keeping Up With The Joneses

jack_mo — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:43:42 -0800

Where Are The Joneses? is an interactive sitcom from Steve Coogan's production company. The action centres on Dawn Jones, who, on learning that she is the daughter of a sperm donor, sets out to find her twenty-seven siblings. You can watch episodes on YouTube, follow a Flickr photo-diary, and, inevitably, keep up via Dawn's Twitter account. Don't like the plot, characters or gags? Then rewrite the show on its wiki.

Mountains Made Of News

jack_mo — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:23:33 -0800

The IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change aggregates web content from 150 sources, accessible in the form of semantic maps, on which the topology of the Earth is redrawn as mountains and valleys according to the density of available information, or a three-dimensional 'knowledge planet' viewable in NASA World Wind. [Via Information Aesthetics.]

Planed by Gilbert & George

jack_mo — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:15:20 -0800

Planed - a new work by Gilbert & George, available for download until 11:35pm on the 10th of May.

Inked Pork

jack_mo — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:15:27 -0800

Wim Delvoye makes art out of skin, filming it in extreme close-up, or, at his Art Farm in China, by tattooing pigs which are later stuffed or skinned. More images: 1, 2, 3, 4.

A Timeline Of Timelines

jack_mo — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:13:34 -0800

A Timeline of Timelines