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Grassroots Films of Brooklyn, NY presents THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

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 men discover changes them forever. Through one on one interviews and real life encounters, the brothers are awakened to the beauty of the human person and the resilience of the human spirit.

See the trailer on the Official Grassroots Films Site


SOURCE: GrassrootsFilms

Black Noise = Sonic Heaven

…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 under the Pantha Du Prince moniker.

SOURCE: xlr8r

Doug Rhodehamel's Spore Project Internationale

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 awareness, specifically to let people know the importance of art.

SOURCE: dougrhodehamel.com

What would Henry Rollins do?

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.
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SOURCE: blurt-online.com

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

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.
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SOURCE: NYT, Published: February 12, 2010

Lost!

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…

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 the font-in-progress now, will be available for download and purchase soon, soon, soon.

SOURCE: Chank Blog

Rowland S. Howard, 1959-2009

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”?

What exactly is a ‘blip’?
A blip is a combination of 2 things:
1) a song
2) 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 “he blipped my favorite track” it means “he submitted a blip that had my favorite song attached.”

— Blip.fm