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Grassroots Films of Brooklyn, NY presents THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

2010-02-25T12:13:00.003-05:00

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE is the story of a band of brothers who travel the world in search of the answers to the burning questions: Who am I? Who is Man? Why do we search for meaning? Their journey brings them into the middle of the lives of the homeless on the streets of New York City, the orphans and disabled children of Peru, and the abandoned lepers in the forests of Ghana, Africa. What the young

Black Noise = Sonic Heaven

2010-02-20T14:19:00.005-05:00

…And in a nod to classical minimalists like Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the prepared bells and other organic percussive elements heard on the album repeat in hypnotic swirls, yet change slightly every so often. With the glassy, Superpitcher-like phrases of "Satellite Sniper" and the ambient warmth that rides over the kicks on "Welt Am Draht," Black Noise just might be the height of Weber's work

Doug Rhodehamel's Spore Project Internationale

2010-02-20T12:56:00.005-05:00

The SPORE Project is a worldwide effort developed by Doug Rhodehamel to promote awareness for the support for art education and creativity in day-to-day life. the project illustrates the importance of self expression, resourcefulness and creativity — specifically, how to look at one thing (a simple paper bag) and see what it can be instead of merely what it is. the project was created to build

What would Henry Rollins do?

2010-02-19T12:45:00.004-05:00

Still the physical performer he always was, Rollins keeps his audience at ease by keeping his feet on the stage at all times. "I've learned my knees don't have the same get-up-and-go," he says as he considers his fiftieth birthday, less than a year away.[READ MORE]SOURCE: blurt-online.com

NYT — Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity

2010-02-19T12:31:00.008-05:00

When Sam Shepard directed the original 1985 Off Broadway production of his play “A Lie of the Mind,” about emotionally scarred young men and the damaged women in their lives, the production ran six hours at first. His latest play, “Ages of the Moon,” about two emotionally scarred men in their 60s (the damaged women remain offstage) lasts about 80 minutes.[READ MORE] SOURCE: NYT, Published:

Lost!

2010-02-16T13:36:00.003-05:00

Here's a "What-if? opening from an alternate history where Lost was created and aired in 1967 as a campy sci-fi action series."SOURCE: boingboing

This just in from Chank Blog…

2010-02-16T13:30:00.003-05:00

FONTAID4 is a collaborative font project to help raise money for earthquake relief in Haiti. Over 300 designers from 30 countries have contributed each an ampersand (&) in the theme of “COMING TOGETHER”. I’m compiling all those hundreds of glyphs into one simple fundraiser font. Money from the sale of the font goes to DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS who are in Haiti helping people right now.You can see

Rowland S. Howard, 1959-2009

2009-12-30T23:08:00.003-05:00

Musician Rowland S. Howard — the guitarist in Nick Cave's cult punk-era bands The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party - died yesterday at the Austin Hospital from liver cancer. He was 50.SOURCE: The Age

What are “Props”?

2009-08-07T21:36:00.005-04:00

What exactly is a ‘blip’?A blip is a combination of 2 things:1) a song2) a short message that accompanies it.The way you create a blip is to first search for a song that you want to hear (or a song that you want your listeners to hear), then add a short message (under 150 characters), finally you submit it. Submitting a blip is also referred to as “blipping”, so from here on out, when you read “

Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Anderssen

2009-07-02T22:27:00.006-04:00

Ahead of her performance as Fever Ray at the Loop festival in a few weeks time, Drowned In Sound's Alexander Tudor got on the phone with Karin Dreijer Anderssen about various things including the commercialization of music, identity and an upcoming Opera about Darwin?![READ MORE] Triangle Walks from Fever Ray on Vimeo.SOURCE: DrownedInSound.com

Introducing: The Florida Noise Report

2009-07-02T11:20:00.006-04:00

"I remember playing with the band Numb Right Thumb in the 90's, and the early part of this century. I think of the band as dipping into space rock, fake jazz, soundtracky sort of music, but we also were called noise by many amateur musicologists (most of my friends) , and some music critics.""I read something about the artist Robert Rauschenberg. A critic said something about him not being a real

"The finest soundtrack for slam dancing"

2009-06-28T21:34:00.004-04:00

Future of the Left Travels With Myself and Another[4AD; 2009] Travels With Myself and Another might be the finest soundtrack for slam dancing, fast driving, heavy drinking, or whatever poor decision you make this year. But in addition finding new ways to snarl in their music, the lyrics go beyond mere cleverness into sharp, thoughtful introspection, making Travels a document of a creatively

Burning pianos. Lightbulbs. Sand.

2009-06-28T11:58:00.002-04:00

Diego Stocco - The Burning Piano from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.We’re a visually driven culture, relying heavily on what we see to understand the world. Maybe what we should be doing instead is listening. And I don't mean hearing. I hear just fine, but I'm not listening. Maybe I’m overstimulated and easily distracted—or maybe I never learned how to listen in kindergarten.SOURCE: SoulPancake

“Sensory rejuvenation chamber.”

2009-06-28T11:42:00.005-04:00

The Collateral Damage of Old School Advertising“Sensory rejuvenation chamber?” What kind of bullshit is that? What copywriting genius came up with that gem? Which agency suit presented it, and which style-less, Bananarama-loving client approved it? Has this been a car for old farts all along? I feel used. And not in a good way.[READ MORE]SOURCE: ScalableIntimacy.com (via @miketrap)

Let's pretend to do it in the road

2009-06-10T15:52:00.003-04:00

"There’s something to be said for keeping it spontaneous" — Chris Trew, performer It began, as so many perverted things do, with the Japanese. Alamo Drafthouse owner Tim League came across a viral video from the game show Japanorama of some men making sweet love to invisible partners. Inspiration took hold, and shortly thereafter Air Sex—Air Guitar’s dirty, smutty cousin—was born.[READ MORE]

Damn the Rubber Bandit man!

2009-06-10T14:58:00.004-04:00

"The Rubber Bandit: the rubber band gun for the lady or gentleman that knows better than to grow up. Handcrafted out of curly maple and bloodwood, The Rubber Bandit comes complete with interchangeable barrels, allowing the bearer to fine tune the amount of damage he or she inflicts."SOURCE: AndyMangold.com (via @mattmansfield)

OMG! It's @ohmgee

2009-06-08T13:02:00.001-04:00

SOURCE: @ohmgee

Serendipity, indeed

2009-06-01T12:45:00.004-04:00

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble’s sturdy family business.

If yr in town and around

2009-06-01T12:28:00.004-04:00

SOURCE: B&C LLC

2009-06-01T11:59:00.001-04:00

Jay Bennett, Ex-Member of Wilco,Dies at 45writePost() By BEN SISARIO Jay Bennett, a singer and songwriter who was a former member of the rock band Wilco, died on Sunday in Urbana, Ill. He was 45 and lived in Urbana.[READ MORE]SOURCE: NYT.com

Mountains' blissful shoegaze drone

2009-03-02T13:34:00.004-05:00

"…Choral sometimes feels staid and a little postcard-y: a pretty gesture that fails to eclipse the experience of actually going somewhere. That's OK: The best parts of Choral — the title track, "Melodica", most of "Add Infinity"— suggest that the band's moniker refers less to the vistas their music may or may not evoke and instead to the shifting strata of sound they create. On Choral, Mountains

Spontaneous show at an IKEA

2009-02-19T13:09:00.002-05:00

On February 15th Orange County rocker Will Crum and his band were able to sneak their music equipment (amps, drums, etc.) into a IKEA and performed a 3 song set in one of the kitchen sets before being shut down.SOURCE: LaughingSquid

Did you feel that?

2009-02-16T17:56:00.001-05:00

"We are not here to save the world, we are here to serve an emerging paradigm... [Places and spaces of possibility], they are kind of like midwives, places that are holding the template of what's trying to emerge,... so there can be a birth of the next stage of human evolution."— Rev. Michael Beckwith, "Serving the Emerging Paradigm" (video)SOURCE: Crossroad Dispatches

Langerado Festival Cancelled

2009-02-04T12:53:00.001-05:00

Looks like the recession just took its first major music festival victim. The 2009 Langerado Music Festival, which was to take place March 6-8 at Miami, Florida's Bicentennial Park, has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. SOURCE: Pitchfork

This band will melt yr brain

2009-02-02T16:07:00.005-05:00

Franchise is a 5-piece rock band that has just released their finest record! The band (which includes Dan: Vocals, "Gitfiddling pedal operator"; Matt: Guitars and pedals; Keri: Bass and pedals; Waylon: Drums) is described in their own words:Influences: Anyone who worships the sun, or any other noise source.Sounds like: Progressive cultural train wreck.Record label: No Money Music REVIEW:This

Introducing…

2009-01-31T15:43:00.003-05:00

From Mejo: Digi Graf with a wii remote

2009-01-30T11:19:00.002-05:00

SOURCE: Mejo

Documentally: What's The Future Of Social Media?

2009-01-29T23:33:00.002-05:00

SOURCE: Documentally

Free! Legal! Download every Beatles song

2009-01-05T11:00:00.003-05:00

Oyvind sez, "Some weeks ago, NRK — Norwegian Broadcasting — signed a deal with music rights holder organisation TONO in Norway. The new deal gives NRK right to publish podcasts of all previously broadcasted radio- and tv-programs that contains less then 70% music. Podcast containing music may be up for four weeks, while our podcast without music stay up on our server forever. One result of this

"The craziest science fiction movie ever made."

2008-12-12T14:26:00.006-05:00

Liquid Sky (1982)Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This

Thank you, Brooklyn Vegan

2008-12-12T12:22:00.005-05:00

In the spirit of keeping it cheery"BrooklynVegan is a NYC-centric mostly-music blog that focuses on reporting international music news, live show reviews, pictures, tour dates, gossip, tips, MP3's, videos, and just about anything else a music fan could want. Non-music news finds it's way on to our pages as well, and every post comes with an open exchange of ideas via the public commenting system.

New Year's Eve!

2008-12-12T12:11:00.003-05:00

Blonde RedheadIslands / Elvis Perkinsat Terminal 5[More Info]

Pelican — Lost in the Headlights

2008-11-17T14:48:00.001-05:00

SOURCE: HydraHead

It's AntiPop time again!

2008-11-12T22:17:00.005-05:00

November 13-16, 2008Foundation Presents and Fighting of Orlando, Florida has put together a nice little line-up for Antipop. The most notable acts to me include Conor Oberst, Summerbirds In The Cellar, Black Lips, Pelican, Phosphorescent, The Aquabats, Mike Doughty, plus much more. This is one of those fests that takes place across different venues all in the downtown Orlando area, and you can

Little Joy and a whole lotta love…

2008-11-12T12:43:00.002-05:00

SOURCE: PitchforkTV

President Barack Obama

2008-11-04T23:36:00.011-05:00

SOURCE: CNN

Political Intolerance and Lemonade

2008-11-03T11:12:00.003-05:00

Producer Katie Ball visits a child's lemonade stand in her Orlando neighborhood. After a cool drink and good-hearted conversation with the family, Ball notices that they had deliberately removed and/or covered their McCain campaign signs so as not to risk offending any would-be customers.SOURCE: Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org)

SURROUNDED by Bold Hype

2008-10-30T15:55:00.011-04:00

Friday November 14th is theopening forthe next show atBold Hype, entitled"SURROUNDED"and will featurean all-local line-up ofthe following artists:Cake DollaPatrick FaticaDennis HansburyDavid HoskinsCharles MarklinPhil NotoJohannah O'DonnellDustin OrlandoScott Scheidly Andrew SpearPam TreadwellFriday, November 14, 2008 6:00pm - 11:00pmBold Hype1844 East Winter Park Rd.Orlando, FL407.629.2965info@

You mean that Andrew Spear?

2008-10-28T12:30:00.004-04:00

SOURCE: DewUnderground/FuelTV

Catching up with Adam Maeroff…

2008-10-23T20:44:00.014-04:00

A Stranger in PennsylvaniaAdam Maeroff was born in America.He had what you'd call a fairly roughchildhood and adolescence duringwhich time he became interested in Graffiti,spent a short time in the Marines anddecided to move to Israel.Once there, he became a citizen,worked at various jobs, served inthe military and most importantly, he painted.Now back in America, with an Indian-Israeli wife,

El Guincho released in the U.S.…

2008-10-21T22:38:00.011-04:00

I mean, really… Notice of this release was back inFebruary, and we had it here back in April…What gives? The question will beif all the hype was justified…Count me in for "maybe" and grab theAbsinthe!SOURCE: YoungTurks

Film as revolution

2008-10-15T12:26:00.002-04:00

The Woodstock Film Festival awards ceremony reflects a heightened political sensitivity The Festival terms itself "fiercely independent," one of its most popular awards is the Maverick, and the times being what they are, the tenor of the awards ceremony Saturday, October 4, was fiercely political with references to a variety of mavericks, honorary, honorable and...well, we know about that

TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe covers Neil Young

2008-10-15T10:40:00.006-04:00

"…and here's TV On The Radio's singer Tunde Adebimpe covering Neil Young's "Unknown Legend." Tunde's cover comes from Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, which stars a smiling Adebimpe. The spare, lonesome take on the Harvest Moon song's less cheerful, running in sharp contrast to the more mile-a-minute energy of TV On The Radio's current Dear Science focus "Dancing Choose." Pretty stuff."

In Praise of the Hype Machine

2008-10-15T09:57:00.004-04:00

Thrills and irritation about NYC’s music scene"Most bands—even those with actual records and fans and local radio play and whatnot—seem resigned to (or find far more preferable) mere local fame, with no big tours, no Internet-ether buzz, no Making It Big. Which is, of course, in some ways, preferable to the insanity, the vapidity, the fickle schizophrenia of the hype machine, a deranged monolith

"Soaked in the sponge of hip-hop visual culture"

2008-10-10T18:43:00.006-04:00

Brent Rollins is a one-man design explosion. He’s also a core member of the Ego Trip collective who have been responsible for publishing Ego Trip magazine, The Book of Rap Lists and The Big Book of Racism. He designed the logo for the movie Boyz In the Hood, and album covers for Black Star and Spank Rock just to name a few. You name it, he’s done it, and with such deft and style that his

The return of Muxtape

2008-10-01T22:42:00.003-04:00

On September 25, Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette announced that he'll be relaunching the streaming playlist site as a alternative to MySpace Music, using the simple flash player he created for Muxtape 1.0. But we now know Muxtape will never go back to giving people a dead-simple way to create playlists online and share them with friends, a bummer for a surprising number of people.SOURCE: Sound

Kurt Cobain's ashes 'to be smoked in spliff'

2008-10-01T22:04:00.003-04:00

Australian artist Natascha Stellmach is claiming that she will smoke the ashes of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a spliff as part of an art exhibition.SOURCE: NME

David Foster Wallace dead at 46

2008-09-13T22:49:00.005-04:00

David Foster Wallace, the author of "Infinite Jest," was found dead in hishome in Claremont, Ca. on Friday night. The 46-year-old author apparently committed suicide.SOURCE: LATimes

Crystal Antlers are high above NYC

2008-09-11T14:45:00.003-04:00

Crystal Antlers perform high above mid-town Manhattan. Frontman Jonny Bell summons the chimney sweep inside, and scales the ledge during the first song, with a 25-story drop below.SOURCE: Don't Look Down series

Henry Rollins to play Guthrie/Steinbeck Tribute

2008-09-11T14:01:00.004-04:00

Just on the surface, Woody Guthrie andJohn Steinbeck have plenty in common. Guthrie was an Okie; Steinbeck wrote about them. Both filled their work with rural people and descriptions of the natural world, and in the process, both became spokesmen of sorts for the disenchanted.SOURCES: Pitchfork, LiveNation

Tricky, Tricky, Tricky!

2008-09-09T12:32:00.002-04:00

Knowle West Boy is the album that sums up everything that Tricky has accomplished since his 1995 Maxinquaye debut. From the sardonic bar-room blues of Puppy Toy to the haunting quasi-classicism of Joseph; from the twisted Specials-worshipping punk of Council Estate to the bereft torchery of Past Mistake; from the Roxy Music’s The Bogus Man-at-the-dancehall art-stomp of Bacative to the poignant

Thomas Wynn & The Believers

2008-09-03T14:40:00.006-04:00

One of the joys ofliving and playing music in and around Orlando is the local talent. It might seem like I'm playing favorites and…you'd be right! After the goldrush of the 90s and the 7M3 craze, not to mention the dreaded (and thankfully dead) boy-band era, comes a band that brings the rock and the roll. I'm talking about Thomas Wynn and the Believers, brothers and sisters. If you've seen them

Your brain needs a Dad

2008-09-02T13:02:00.004-04:00

Right now: What are you doing?"I’ve started to become a lot pickier about where my attention goes as I observe what it means to my work when it drifts. But, I still have a long way to go. Long way."— MerlinMan

E.L.L.A

2008-08-27T14:13:00.005-04:00

A Musical Celebration of the Florida Female Artist“E.L.L.A, A Musical Celebration of the Florida Female Artist,” is here to showcase to the people of Orlando the wonderful and extremely talented women that grace our fine city and state. We believe that Florida has some of the strongest and most talented women in the world, and they deserve to be heard, viewed, and celebrated. By creating this

Blog Action Day 2008 is October 15

2008-08-19T13:55:00.004-04:00

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty fromBlog Action Day on Vimeo.Poverty is affecting society, the enormous hole left by possibilities that go unrealized becomes even greater with our discomfort in acknowledging the gap. The rapid aging of the population in the Western hemisphere and the failing of public systems contribute to increasing demands on individuals. Many of us are called upon to assist

Kayo Dot streams new music

2008-08-16T13:33:00.002-04:00

SOURCE: Kayo Dot

Que hora es?

2008-08-15T14:26:00.005-04:00

The Second Annual Orlando Hispanic Film Festival (OHFF) comes to the heart of Orlando, Florida, during Hispanic Heritage MonthOct. 10th — Oct. 12th, 2008.It is a competitive independent film festival and a platform that recognizes independent filmmakers from around the world who integrate the Hispanic culture in their work and exposes the talent of Hispanic actors, directors, producers,

George Carlin just knew…

2008-08-14T15:20:00.002-04:00

SOURCE: GoGreenTube

Introducing Seun Kuti & Egypt 80…

2008-08-14T13:24:00.006-04:00

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80West AfricaNigeriaSeun Kuti is Fela Anikulapo Kuti 's last son. Seun's father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was Nigeria's most beloved popular musician and most acerbic social critic until his death in 1997.[READ MORE]From a recent interview:Is the Nigerian government still trying to suppress Afrobeat music?Yeah, because you can’t support something that is against you. They know what

Introducing Rachel Goodrich…

2008-07-31T12:46:00.004-04:00

"hello. i'm rachel goodrich. i am a songwriter. i write songs. i sing..... and play guitar and other instruments ........like....... keys, uke,kazoo,harm oni ca,ja wharp,recorder,xyl ophone, ban jo,man dolin,spoons, pots,pans .........and with that......... i make music."Rachel is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, performer from Miami Beach. Her music is a wonderful mix of folk, Django

Byrne/Eno collaboration, record

2008-07-30T14:54:00.003-04:00

"Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited. In August the music will be available via this Web site, free for streaming and available for purchase in a variety of options that allow you to download immediately and receive

The future sound of London

2008-07-30T13:07:00.003-04:00

In Gibson's Neuromancer, when Case & Molly meet the two surviving founders of Zion, there is talk of hearing a "mighty dub" in the Babel of tongues signaling the "final days". If indeed we're living in these 'end times', as many predict, then there can be no more of an appropriate soundtrack for the coming apocalypse than The Bug's "London Zoo".SOURCE: NinjaTune

Grizzly Bear on Letterman

2008-07-30T12:49:00.002-04:00

Grizzly Bear performed the new cut "Two Weeks" on Letterman this past Wednesday. Signature harmonies? Check. So much sunshine? Check. Another silly good look at what's shaping up to be the Grizzly pop album everybody's hoping for? Check, please.SOURCE: Stereogum

Documentally speaking…

2008-07-29T14:22:00.002-04:00

Sweat hard. on 12seconds.tvSOURCE: Documentally

Helvetica the movie

2008-07-24T20:41:00.005-04:00

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned

2008-07-18T14:57:00.000-04:00

10TELL THE TRUTH.The rabbit joke is relevant because it occurred to me that looking for a cabbage in a butcher’s shop might be like looking for ethics in the design field. It may not be the most obvious place to find either. It’s interesting to observe that in the new AIGA’s code of ethics there is a significant amount of useful information about appropriate behaviour towards clients and other

Who's watching the watchers?

2008-07-18T13:04:00.005-04:00

SOURCE: Paramount Pictures

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-17T21:43:00.000-04:00

9ON AGING.Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called ‘Ageing Gracefully’ I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that ‘it doesn’t matter.’ ‘It doesn’t matter that what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does

Flatstock 17 Poster Convention

2008-07-17T21:21:00.004-04:00

Flatstock 17, presented by Pitchfork Music Festival and The American Poster Institute, will be held for two days, July 19th and 20th, 2008 at Union Park on the grounds of the Picthfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL. This event will take place RAIN OR SHINE and takes place OUTDOORS. You must have a Pitchfork Music Fest Pass to get access to the Flatstock show. Pitchfork has sold out every year so

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-16T13:22:00.002-04:00

8DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.Everyone always talks about confidence in believing what you do. I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-15T13:54:00.001-04:00

7HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and he says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is

Old news is good news

2008-07-14T14:02:00.003-04:00

Blender Magazine Welcomes New Senior EditorBlender magazine has hired well-known Radar magazine senior editor, Tyler Gray. Gray is also an upcoming author of the highly anticipated Harper Collins book The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History. The book hits shelves on November 11, 2008. SOURCE: JJ's Dirt

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-14T13:27:00.001-04:00

6STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvellous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-13T16:16:00.001-04:00

5LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the

What do you like in your serial drama?

2008-07-13T16:06:00.003-04:00

Nea Polis 003: The Darkness — Episode 13A serial drama by Vittorio AdinolfiFind more videos like this on Sabet TVSOURCE: Sabet.tv

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-12T13:48:00.001-04:00

4PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.Early in my career I wanted to be professional, that was my complete aspiration in my early life because professionals seemed to know everything - not to mention they got paid for it. Later I discovered after working for a while that professionalism itself was a limitation. After all, what professionalism means in most cases is

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-10T16:16:00.001-04:00

3SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on. Perls proposed that in all

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-09T13:55:00.001-04:00

2IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.One night I was sitting in my car outside Columbia University where my wife Shirley was studying Anthropology. While I was waiting I was listening to the radio and heard an interviewer ask ‘Now that you have reached 75 have you any advice for our audience about how to prepare for your old age?’ An irritated voice said ‘Why is everyone asking me about old age

"BoonEx is not a company. BoonEx is a community."

2008-07-09T13:42:00.002-04:00

SOURCE: Boonex via SpringNet

Milton Glaser's 10 things…

2008-07-08T17:14:00.003-04:00

1YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then

"Buying handmade helps us reconnect"

2008-07-05T13:53:00.003-04:00

The ascendancy of chain store culture and global manufacturing has left us dressing, furnishing, and decorating alike. We are encouraged to be consumers, not producers, of our own culture. Our ties to the local and human sources of our goods have been lost. Buying handmade helps us reconnect.SOURCE: BuyHandmade

Documentally speaking…

2008-07-05T13:39:00.003-04:00

SOURCE: Documentally

Future Buzz needs a makeover…

2008-07-02T14:35:00.006-04:00

…but has some interesting content:Lists: Are scan-ableProvide easy to read and consume contentHave the novelty factorAre many times “must-share” contentEngage peopleAre at times humorous, entertaining or incredibleAre a strong social web memeGet strong traffic There are 58+ pages of top 10 lists that have made page one of Digg. And that’s just for “top 10”

Buy a t-shirt, save the world

2008-07-02T13:48:00.002-04:00

Africa Aid provides the foundation for innovative partnerships and intimate community-based relationships between developing African communities and their more established American counterparts. To create a sustainable and mutually beneficial community partnership, Africa Aid characterizes the problems of an African community and then integrates foreign aid projects into American university

You remind me of something…

2008-07-02T13:26:00.005-04:00

In times of need, brothers and sisters, it becomes the right time to sit down and ponder the true meaning of it all. Navigating a nadir, there's nothing that stirs the soul more than a good dose of the brother Bonnie "Prince" Billy. His latest release, 'Lie Down In The Light' (Drag City/2008) is the quintessential elixir that brightens the blessed day. Give a listen.SOURCES: Drag City, Daytrotter

Playing the Building

2008-07-02T13:19:00.002-04:00

Creative Time presents Playing the building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration,

Twyla Tharp and creativity

2008-07-02T13:02:00.004-04:00

“…it doesn’t necessarily fit neatly into the “self-help” box, which is already overstuffed with cookie-cutter books on making yourself a happy, healthy, sexually-satisfied, skilled overachiever. Tharp speaks to her reader in a language that any person, whether they are already creative or only desire to be, can understand and use for their own lives.”SOURCE: Bookslut

A Brief History of JKrishnamurti

2008-06-28T14:12:00.004-04:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti lived from 1895 to 1986, and is regarded as one of the greatest philosophical and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. Krishnamurti claimed no allegiance to any caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. His purpose was to set humankind unconditionally free from the destructive limitations of conditioned mind. For nearly sixty years he traveled the

Ghost Rock

2008-06-27T15:43:00.003-04:00

Ghost Rock is the new album from the Michigan-based collective NOMO. The album, produced by Warn Defever, sheds light on the way forward for a band that has been forging its own vital sound. This is not the Afrobeat of Fela, nor the revivalist funk of a forgotten decade. This record owes as much to Can, Eno, and MIA as it does Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. On Ghost Rock, NOMO arrives in a

Ice Cream Spiritual, indeed

2008-06-27T14:58:00.003-04:00

Listening to Ponytail's second effort, Ice Cream Spiritual (We*Are*Free; 2008), John Cage's quote about poetry taken to its logical extreme comes to mind. Molly Siegel, Ken Seeno, Dustin Wong and Jeremy Hyman have nothing to say and they're saying it, loudly and with a sense of joy that's nothing short of infectious. SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia

My Bloody Valentine: Live in London

2008-06-26T17:59:00.002-04:00

My Bloody Valentine's show finale, at The Roundhouse in London on June 20, the white noise coda to "You Made Me Realise", has become as central to their legend as the bankrupt record label and the endlessly scrapped new material. Everyone in the Roundhouse was waiting for it, many had probably wondered how they might react, how extreme things could possibly get. Photo of Kevin Shields by Shannon

Etsy Watch

2008-06-26T16:57:00.004-04:00

Three words: Eco Dog ToyThis dog toy will be hours of fun for your pet. It is made of upcycled items. The fabric was disgarded upholstery samples that were going to be thrown away. Inside is a plastic water bottle that makes a crunchy sound. There is a little poli-fil used for stuffing. It is machine sewn for extra durability.SOURCE: LumpyStrawberry

David Lewis is Bang & Olufsen

2008-06-26T16:35:00.002-04:00

The 69-year-old Mr. Lewis, a U.K. native, graduated from London's Central School of Art and Design in 1960. He had aspired to be a furniture designer, but when the class was full he turned to industrial design instead. Three of his B&O creations are part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection in New York.SOURCE: WallStreetJournal, Beoworld.org

Introducing: Monotonix

2008-06-21T00:08:00.003-04:00

Monotonix are a punk trio from Tel Aviv, featuring guitar (Yonatan), drums (Ran) and vocals (Ami). They formed in November 2005, set up on the floor of the club with the audience, and the party began. But the party usually got too wild, the power got cut, the cops were called and Monotonix were banned from playing again almost everywhere. Before long, they were looking for good places to play

Damon Albarn's Monkey Opera premieres in London

2008-06-20T23:44:00.002-04:00

Damon Albarn's operatic adaptation of Journey To The West, which had its premier at the Manchester International Festival last summer, will make its London debut at the Royal Opera House. Monkey: Journey to the West will open in Covent Garden in July as part of a celebration of the Beijing Olympics. Chen Shi-Zheng directed and adapted...... [READ MORE]SOURCE: Londonist

Composites

2008-06-20T23:35:00.002-04:00

Patrick Winfield shoots with many different cameras, but likes his Polaroid best. “It’s that creaminess,” he says, “that seductive, almost nostalgic look that you get from it.” He also enjoys the instant gratification of the film, being able to hold it in his hand and work with it as soon as it’s shot. “It’s more like drawing in a sense. You can see the line or the finished piece instantly, it’s

What is crowdsourcing?

2008-06-20T23:27:00.003-04:00

Crowdsourcing is when people gather via the Internet to create something and share in the profit — often without ever meeting each other in person. The products of these collaborations are referred to as crowdsourced. [READ MORE]SOURCE: CambrianHouse

Twitter: A community in 140 characters

2008-06-05T18:06:00.004-04:00

This morning Jeff Pulver woke up with the melody of “Happiness Is... from “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” in his head. So he decided to ask his friends on Twitter to finish the sentence that started with “Happiness Is...”Enjoy!SOURCE: Twitter

"The Originator" dies of heart failure

2008-06-02T14:00:00.007-04:00

Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), born Ellas Otha Bates[1], aka "The Originator", was an influential American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Often cited as a key figure in the transition from blues to rock and roll, he introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound. He was also known for his characteristic rectangular guitar.SOURCE: CNN,