June 9, 2016
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Avante Garde Nostalgia
The 1980s in San Francisco was fertile ground for a new type of theater, involving not only performance art but graphics, sculptural artists and musicians. Some astonishing productions were staged every year, each being a collaboration between the various disciplines. After each show had its run it dissolved into memory as only through those specific contributors could the production be realized. This was different than a standard play which existed on paper and could be performed ad infinitum by any number of theater companies. These "multi-media" shows existed only as long as the collaborators worked together. One sensed a specialness to each production, knowing that it would most likely never be staged again. [more inside]
Where’s the original script? Where’s the one we liked?
With everything that kept going wrong, was [directing Super Mario Bros. (the movie)] a tough experience?
Tough? That’s a very mild word. It was a harrowing experience.
Tough? That’s a very mild word. It was a harrowing experience.
Aloha Wanderwell (Baker), with Car and Camera Around the World
In 1922, 16 year old Idris Galcia Hall read an advertisement in the Riviera edition of the Paris Herald caught her eye: “Brains, Beauty & Breeches – World Tour Offer For Lucky Young Woman… Wanted to join an expedition… Asia, Africa…” The pitch came from "Captain" Walter Wanderwell, a Polish national named Valerian Johannes Piecynski who chose a dashing name for an English speaking public. Idris joined him, becoming Aloha Wanderwell, and was soon the "World's Most Widely Traveled Girl," trekked through 43 countries and four continents. She served as a cinematographer, photographer, translator, driver, actress, and seamstress, filmed and wrote detailed descriptions of parts of the world that hadn't been documented yet. Her mode of choice: Model T Ford. [more inside]
Bed & Bees
Sleep with your bees! As detailed in the October 2015 issue of the American Bee Journal, sleeping in a beehive can purportedly have beneficial effects on your mind, body, and planet. Now, Horizontal Hive have published instructions for building your very own horizontal beehive/bed. [more inside]
IMPORTANT: Do not glue the pieces to the cat
It's about baby chickens.
This is the best news for America's animals in decades: In a massive victory for animal rights activists, and for America's chickens, United Egg Producers, a group that represents 95 percent of all eggs produced in the United States, has announced that it will eliminate culling of male chicks at hatcheries where egg-laying hens are born by 2020.
The upstart Humane League has scored another win, due in no small part to its research on the most effective methods of advocacy.
The upstart Humane League has scored another win, due in no small part to its research on the most effective methods of advocacy.
“I come across as very stoic, indifferent, and cold to strangers.”
On the Inside Part I: [Reply All] [Podcast] For years, Paul Modrowski has been writing a blog from inside a maximum security prison. Only thing is, he was arrested when he was 18 and has never seen the internet. Sruthi Pinnamaneni reaches out to him with one small question that alters the course of her next year. [more inside]
'That one actually happened to a friend of mine.'
♫Running errands and stuff♫
A music video for “Sleeping Prophet”, by William Tyler. Directed by Elise Tyler, with Dustin Lane as Director of Photography. [more inside]
A little bit of a boy on the floor
Sunspring is a short film written by Benjamin, a neural network trained on a corpus of film scripts.
(Sunspring previously though the link there has been made private)
The Audition
Why is craft beer so white?
Like many things in North America, beer–and even more so craft beer following in the footsteps of big beer–emerged from a place of privilege, both in the physical, geographical sense and in the symbolic sense: The interesting and locally-made products craft beer fans love are typically borne of beer-makers who still enjoy privileges that are not yet enjoyed by everyone. [more inside]
But does it still cost more?
You're the National Gallery/ You're Garbo's salary /You're cellophane
Happy Birthday Cole Porter! In 1990, Red Hot + Blue, an AIDS benefit album was released featuring covers of Cole Porter's music by an electric array of performers accompanied by a TV special with music videos from the likes of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. Notable tracks include "Miss Otis Regets" by the Pogues and Kristy MacColl (video Neil Jordon) "Don't Fench Me In" by David Byrne "You Do Something To Me" by Sinéad O'Connor (video John Maybury) "Have You Evah" by Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop (video by Alex Cox) "From This Moment On" by Jimmy Somerville (video Steve mcclean) and "Ev'ry We Say Goodbye" by Annie Lennox (video by Ed Lachman)
McDonald's: it's the glue that holds communities together
Nh Mc Ts Og - The New Element Names Are Out!
Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 are one step closer to shedding those boring "Un-un-" placeholder names, as the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has announced the names of nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og), repectively. The names are provisional for the next six months for public review and comment. [more inside]
The sounds of starships
The background engine noises of iconic science fiction spaceships can be remarkably soothing. That is why Spike Snell created 12-hour sound loops of the background hum of the TNG Enterprise (prev.), the old Battlestar Galactica (and the new), a Cylon Basestar, the Discovery from 2001, the Heart of Gold, the Millennium Falcon (made from the sound of a P-51 Mustang), Mass Effect's Normandy, Babylon 5, Serenity, and hundreds more. Strangely, these fake space ship sounds don't sound too different from the actual noise on the ISS or space shuttle Atlantis. And if you don't like any of these, you can always generate your own!
Thinking Machine 6
The crumbling glories of Kolkata, "City of Palaces"
Photographer Ritayan Mukherjee documents Kolkata's deteriorating historical mansions in the neighborhoods of Shovabazar, Bagbazar, and old Chitpur, once home to the Bengali economic and culture elite, and the stage for the city's intellectual renaissance of the 19th and early 20th century.
Clogs, spoons, chairs and all of their digits
The Story of India
The Story of India, written and presented by Michael Wood for the BBC, is a six episode documentary that serves as an entertaining and solid introduction to Indian history. All six episodes are available in full (6 hrs). [more inside]
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