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"Letters and letters and letters." (Sep 07 2008 09:51 GMT)
I love you because you play awesome songs on the jukebox. Who are you? Come here, we can talk. That's Number 165 from 300 Love Letters (but there are really 400 and here's why, and here's an explanation of the project itself). Asia Wong's other projects.
Tibetan modern artists (Sep 07 2008 08:20 GMT)
Contemporary Tibetan artists incorporating traditional themes: Gonkar Gyatso l l Karma Phuntsok l Yungchen Lhamo [scroll down for video] l P. N. Dhumkhang l Losang Gyatso l Angsang Contemporary Art in Lhasa, Tibet The Sweet Tea House - Contemporary Tibetan Art Gallery, founded by Gonkar Gyatso A Tibetan modern artist, renegade of the 1940's and 50's, Gendun Choepel, "The Angry Monk"
"I am the angel of death for her" (Sep 07 2008 07:28 GMT)
The Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez On January 14th, 1996, A 21-year old Floridian man named Ricardo Lopez began a video diary to record his own growing obsession with Bjork. Over the following nine months, Lopez amassed 18 hours of footage, documenting his own descent into madness, his decision to kill the singer, all amid the design, construction, and mailing of a sulfuric acid bomb. The diary ends as he rants, shaves his head, covers himself with paint, puts on a favourite Bjork song and commits suicide on camera. The footage allowed local police to alert Scotland Yard, and on September 17th, 1996 the gift-wrapped bomb was intercepted before it could be delivered.
The new Nazi army: How the U.S. military is allowing the far-right to join its ranks. (Sep 07 2008 07:11 GMT)
Nazis in the military is dedicated to the investigative project undertaken by journalist Matthew Kennard while studying for a MS in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. It was completed over six months and explores the increasingly liberal attitude of the U.S. military to neo-Nazis and white supremacists serving in the armed forces. via He also wrote about GOP teens at the convention, Chomsky approves.
they're back - for real this time (Sep 07 2008 06:03 GMT)
The day that never comes. (slyt)
Braunstein, the world's first role-playing game (Sep 07 2008 04:50 GMT)
Most gamers have never heard of Braunstein. Sad but true. In the hierarchy of self-awareness you?ll find the circle of gamers who know what D&D is (a very, very large circle), then inside of that is the circle of gamers who know what Greyhawk is (large but smaller), and inside that the circle who knows what Blackmoor is (smaller still). And then in the very center, vanishingly small, are the people who?
Painting 10,000 words, surely (Sep 07 2008 03:26 GMT)
Area 56: Peeing robots, rockin' office workers, engaging panoramas, and even a few sexy girls.
drew. (Sep 07 2008 02:54 GMT)
Movie poster artist draws a line. Drew Struzan is retiring. Responsible for some of the most iconic movie posters from the last thirty years, some of his non-poster work can be seen at his official site. Many of the original images are for sale, starting at $30,000. Some of his paintings and drawings might be considered NSFW.
Fear and loathing in Kanesatake (Sep 07 2008 01:54 GMT)
Policing issues are complicated in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, near Montréal, Québec - a firebombing last Sunday underscores tensions that have existed between the Mohawks and the Sûreté du Qué
You Get To Join The Clown Club (Sep 07 2008 00:54 GMT)
The Wait is over. Microsoft brings Seinfeld and Gates together. The verdict?. Meh. (Previously).
That's Dum (Sep 07 2008 00:04 GMT)
Ed Rondthaler on english pronounciation. (Quicktime Video)
Why? (Sep 06 2008 22:51 GMT)
'There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed' David Simon on The Escalating Breakdown Of Urban Society Across The US
Like, OMIGOD! (Sep 06 2008 21:34 GMT)
80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice. Bonus, dude! Retro video games like flashacized.
Ghostschool (Sep 06 2008 19:55 GMT)
Ghostschool is a collection of photographs taken of the sketchbook/scrapbook of designer Wil Freeborn (and a few other tumbled bits and pieces).
Two Americas Separated by a Common Capital City (Sep 06 2008 19:49 GMT)
Two Washingtons: Washington, DC is defined by its income inequality. In the US capital, the top fifth are 27.1 times as wealthy as the bottom fifth. In Dupont Circle, expect to pay $1.
Imperium Kontratakuje (Sep 06 2008 18:11 GMT)
Apparently whenever US movies were released in Soviet-era Poland, the posters were discarded and replaced by new versions by Polish artists. Alternately disturbing and frickin' awesome, and often containing political comments of varying subtlety. Previously.
pretty pickings (Sep 06 2008 17:42 GMT)
20 pretty painted guitars. (via Nag on the Lake) More painted guitars: Music Saves Lives - Gibson Guitar Project GZ Guitars Luna's Henna Guitars Prior thread on 50 painted Dean Guitars, a tribute to Dimebag Darrell
The 20th Anniversary of Suffer (Sep 06 2008 16:09 GMT)
The Cornell Evolution Project, which polls prominent evolutionary scientists about their religious beliefs, is part of a PhD thesis by evolutionary paleontologist and UCLA lecturer Greg Graffin. Mr. Graffin is also the lead singer of a band named Bad Religion, whose influential album Suffer turns 20 years old this week. Though Suffer never charted, it became wildly popular in Southern California and helped to define the late 80's/ early 90's west coast sound -- a sound which pervades the rock and/or roll scene even today. Via YouTube, here are some live performances from 1988 - 1991:
Exercise and the Placebo Effect (Aug 25 2008 17:48 GMT)
Cleaning hotel rooms is a strenuous business. However, when Alia Crum and Ellen Langer talked to 84 maids, most were under the impression that they did not get enough exercise. Furthermore, when they were measured for tests such as BMI and blood pressure, their results were typical of couch potatoes. The researchers let half the group in on the knowledge that they were getting more than enough of a daily workout and kept the rest in the dark. After a month results showed the former group were healthier on every single one of the objective health measurements tested - despite claiming to have been doing no more exercise or to have changed their diet.
Women and children, depending on credit rating (Aug 25 2008 17:29 GMT)
"Women and children, first," is a familiar cultural refrain, with its popular roots in the gallant sacrifice made by the male contingent aboard the doomed Titanic. Their sacrifice has inspired poetry, sculpture, male social clubs, and, of course, cinema. Yet, this sacrifice of near-mythic scale was in some respects a myth, with survival statistics skewing well in favor of men of higher social and economic class than children (and, to a lesser extent, women) of lower status.
Moving maps of American elections (Aug 25 2008 14:04 GMT)
'Cinematic maps' of American elections a project from the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond Video overview and short article from the Chronicle of Higher Education ('Cinematic' apparently means squished into little Flash videos. Some of the maps don't really benefit from animation (and I can't get the Interactive Map to load), but the analysis section provides some good commentary and by golly there's a bunch of maps to look at. Too bad they don't yet have the maps for this year's election. Warning: video)
"You meet a better class of people in pubs" (Aug 25 2008 13:10 GMT)
Oliver Reed. Movie star or hellraiser? Actor or alcoholic? But it was probably not as simple as that... The Real Oliver Reed (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (Poss.
Robot Guitar Technicians 2008 A.D. (Aug 25 2008 06:17 GMT)
Having always found the process of setting up a guitar slightly intimidating, I am so glad that there's now a robot that can do it for me. Plek is a German-designed system for mechanically adjusting the setup of your guitar. Short video here. I wonder what happens when the robot guitar tech meets the robot guitar?
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. (Aug 25 2008 06:04 GMT)
Amazing Olympics recap photos [slightly NSFW, due to an accidental bare ass or exposed boob] Also: quite a lot of opportunistic ass and crotch shots. Via John Kennedy at Global Voices Online.
Teaching philosophy to high school students (Aug 25 2008 01:29 GMT)
A Sydney Morning Herald article about the teaching of philosophy in Australian high schools. Today, this article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. Finally I might be able to get a job with my philosophy major! Not surprisingly the Australian Philosophy Teachers Network website is down, most probably due to the media attention. Hopefully it will be back up soon.
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