May 5, 2016
Extorting inmates' families is big business
Notes from a burning room
KC Green, the artist behind the "this is fine" meme, talks about its origin and meaning.
The Art of Spitting Tacks
"My training involves tongue techniques that were taught to me by older masters." Master Upholsterer Kevin Kennedy demonstrates the dangerous art of spitting tacks. [more inside]
The Summer of '66
Batman, remakes, TV spin-offs, comic adaptations — not much has changed in half a century. Here's what the summer movie schedule looked like in 1966. [more inside]
I am told that people kill albinos and chop their body parts.
In / Visibility - "They have not been registered at birth.
Similarly, they do not die, rather, they 'vanish.' There are no graves of albinos in cemeteries — people would come and steal the bones.".
In neighbouring Malawi, the UN warns Witchcraft Superstitions could lead to 'Total Extinction' for Albinos.
Last Year Tanzanian albino children mutilated for use in witchcraft received treatment in the US. Progress is slow combatting violence and discrimination.
(Previously 1; 2. and the quote - dated 1950)
Similarly, they do not die, rather, they 'vanish.' There are no graves of albinos in cemeteries — people would come and steal the bones.".
In neighbouring Malawi, the UN warns Witchcraft Superstitions could lead to 'Total Extinction' for Albinos.
Last Year Tanzanian albino children mutilated for use in witchcraft received treatment in the US. Progress is slow combatting violence and discrimination.
(Previously 1; 2. and the quote - dated 1950)
#LovePulses
Did you know that 2016 is the International Year of Pulses? Better not miss all the fun! [more inside]
Weeeeeee!
Aunt Mary's graduation class. She was kept home for fear of the typhoid.
"The Pot And How To Use It": Roger Ebert's long, slightly crazed love-letter to the humble rice cooker.
Anger and fear go together like rama-lama-lama ka-ding-a-da-ding-da-dong
Short Attention Span Theatre: Cooking Edition
Tastemade, the food and travel video network, (previously) has an extensive collection of short (15-60 second) food and cooking videos (and photos) from around the world. Incredibly, many recipes are self-explanatory on their own, but most have the full recipe in the comments: Japan; Brasil; Español; Indonesia; Chile; UAE. The main Tastemade Instagram account includes English versions of at least some of the other videos. [Jaunty auto-playing music alert.]
all kinds of water in voxels
Water in voxels: a pleasant little collection of watery scenes hand-drawn in chunky 3D. (Voxels are the 3d equivalent of pixels, like the blocks that make up a minecraft world.) [more inside]
"We understand what they're feeling"
Alberta's Syrian refugees jump at the chance to help Fort McMurray evacuees. Despite barely having a foothold in their new country, Syrian refugees in Calgary are contributing what little they have after seeing footage of the terrifying wildfire in Northern Alberta. Somebody tell Trump.
“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
"What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted."
Friday Flash Fiction: Plot Elements used in Plot.
“A BED IS NO LONGER FURNITURE—IT’S A CONTENT PLATFORM”
Sleep is more than the sum of its socio-economic consequences. A new generation is planting sleep in a broader spectrum of consciousness. The poles aren’t asleep and awake–they’re omniscient and dead.😉K-HOLE, the "internet trend forcasting group", has followed up its 2015 report on Chaos Magic with what appears to be a legit report on how Sillicon Valley is monitizing sleep. (if the actual article is too sleep inducing, Ars has a write up)
When my anger is expressed through dance
Polyrhythmics - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
TZECHAR
Beyoncé - 1+1 (I Don't Give A Damn Remix)
Taeyang - You're My (Poom Poom Remix)
2pm - l'll Be Back 아윌비백 (Video Remix)
AA / GD&TOP / TZECHAR - I'm So Crazy High, Take Me Away
p.s.
LOL THX BILLy
ars ex machina
I have been to the future and have brought back art.
"ReTech was born of a desire to translate discarded tech into artistic pieces."
The FAQ explains it better than I can.
"ReTech was born of a desire to translate discarded tech into artistic pieces."
The FAQ explains it better than I can.
'Seeing' around corners: DARPA research into holographic imaging
Announcing the Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields (REVEAL) project. Researchers from SMU's Lyle School of Engineering will lead a multi-university team funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build a theoretical framework for creating a computer-generated image of an object hidden from sight around a corner or behind a wall. [more inside]
Choose the ooze!
Weirdo Detroit art-punk troupe Child Bite team up with King Buzzo to infect local kids with Ancestral Ooze.
Link contains Raiders of the Lost Ark/Dead Alive-style splatter gore [more inside]
Link contains Raiders of the Lost Ark/Dead Alive-style splatter gore [more inside]
Think Retro: writings on vintage Macs
For the last year or so, Christopher Phin's Macworld column Think Retro has been a wonderful showcase of classic Apple hardware and software. While this column has come to a close after 73 installments, the archives are worthwhile reading for Mac enthusiasts. Some highlights: [more inside]
May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
Time to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America! You can start here, a joint venture by several agencies, and continue below the fold. [more inside]
it has to be seen at least once.
Roots of Goa (Trance): a sound that was both accessible and otherworldly
... at the same time that Chicago was creating House and Detroit was forging ahead with what would become Techno, the roots of Trance were being sawn on the beaches of Anjuna and Vagator. And just as Chicago had Ron Hardy and Detroit had The Electrifying Mojo, Goa had a DJ called Laurent. If it wasn’t for him, it’s quite possible that the music played at parties in Goa would have been little more than a carbon copy of what was going on back in Europe and America. Unveiling The Secret: The Roots of Trance - before Goa was Goa, it was "new electronic music coming out of Europe and America," sliced and edited by Laurent to make one long, constantly morphing psychedelic groove. [more inside]
IF I DIE I DIE
But I have two favorites. These two men are as different as a pair of massive weightlifters can be. Their contradictions as men, as avatars of their nations, and as exemplars of their sports run deep. They are polar opposite social-media physical specimens, but compliment each other perfectly, as most opposites do.Youtube Bodybuilders Rich Piana And Dmitry Klokov Can Teach You How To Live
"It's not really scary," Brad says. "None of this is scary."
"Safety Rope," an achingly beautiful essay by Garrard Conley: "No touching unless he touches you. No touching where people can see. No touching unless dared to touch. Brad makes the rules, but never says them aloud.
One, two, three. Brad and I don't leave our hands down there for more than a few seconds. When I say my prayers at night, I pretend to be penitent, but I'm secretly happy for the betrayal." [more inside]
Graph Nerds, Meet Music Nerds
Polygraph presents a visualization of all the Billboard Top 5 songs as they rise and fall, with the songs playing as they reach #1.
Even Beyonder Than That
HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast host Chris Lackey (previously 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) is celebrating his birthday today by releasing, along with co-creator Greig Johnson (previously), a new Lovecraftian comedy short: From Beyond the Beyond.
Cool Story, Bro
The NYTimes Style Section has identified a new trend: Men reading books! In clubs! Which obviously need ultra-manly names. Never fear, Twitter to the rescue with #ManlyBookClubNames. Whether you read with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Patriarchy or The Great Fratsby, Goodreads has some suggestions for your new ultra-manly reading life.
The XenoFeminist Manifesto
Laboriacuboniks is a feminist collective. Their XenoFeminist Manifesto was released in June 2015. [more inside]
In the Year Two Thouuuusaaaaaaaannnnnd
In 1939, some American fashion designers got together and designed the clothes (1 minute, 14 seconds) they thought the well-dressed woman (and one man) would be wearing in 2000.
Gold for people who already have enough gold
look at me
'You better bless my realness'
Video for Run The Jewels' “Love Again” featuring Gangsta Boo on Vimeo and YouTube. (NSFW: super-explicit lyrics but SFW visuals unless "....You Work With Entomologists.")
The Perfect Recipe for Addiction
The drugmaker Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin two decades ago with a bold marketing claim: One dose relieves pain for 12 hours, more than twice as long as generic medications. OxyContin’s stunning success masked a fundamental problem: The drug wears off hours early in many people, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. OxyContin is a chemical cousin of heroin, and when it doesn’t last, patients can experience excruciating symptoms of withdrawal, including an intense craving for the drug. The problem offers new insight into why so many people have become addicted to OxyContin, one of the most abused pharmaceuticals in U.S. history.
The Peculiar Case of the Buried Nazi Gold Train
Ever since the end of World War II, there have been rumors in Poland that the Nazis hid a substantial part of the loot from their European conquests in hidden tunnels underneath the Owl Mountains near Książ Castle. A number of independent researchers have worked to discover the location of these tunnels, but in the end, they found nothing.
...or did they?
Roadliners
Roadliners. A short documentary about a Glaswegian freehand painter of text and signs on roads.
You should be consuming one gram of protein per line of code written
What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?
(WARNING: Contains strong language) In this Guardian video, Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani expose the problems in the Conservative plan for a UK bill of rights. This satirical take inspired by the classic Monty Python sketch asks ‘what has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?’ Apart from the right to a fair trial, freedom from slavery, freedom from torture ... [more inside]
I made my entrance in the Entry Ball
The Miley Cyrus Entrance. The Phil Collins entrance. The Venga Boys entrance. The Pokemon Entrance. The Foo Fighters entrance. The Queen Entrance. The Limp Bizkit entrance.
Featuring The Local Hero, Joe Hendry.
(All links YouTube, which has tons more.)
With Paul Lynde as Admiral Motti
The DJ eclipsed by his own Shadow
DJ Shadow will release his first album in five years, "The Mountain Will Fall", on June 24. A month ago, he shared the title track on Soundcloud; it was not met with the warmest of welcomes at FACT. In an interview with Pitchfork, Shadow, however, stated that "Sometimes records are a struggle. This record I knew exactly what I wanted to get across." Now we have the opportunity to watch the fresh official video for "The Mountain Will Fall", directed by Territory Studios' Marti Romances. (via; DJ Shadow previously)
« Previous day | Next day »