English sound artist / composer Janek Schaefer offers downloadable MP3s of two of his performances for sale: the recent The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound and the slightly older Recital in the old library. I’m not much for writing music reviews, but this guy got to attend the performance of TSGTTSOS and had [...]
Glamourpuss. What’s it all about? Dunno, but it’s
The Haute Couture Magazine parody that’s so six months ago.
and it’s
An homage to the classic photorealism black and white “beyond noir” strips of the 1940s and 50s (Alex Raymond, Stan Drake, John Prentice, Al Williamson)
and it’s
The strangest superheroine comic of all time (“Do I have an origin? Certainly [...]
Brian notes that Bruce Gagnon (a political organizer from Maine who lists “shoveling snow” among his interests and who thinks “growth is killing our very finite planet”) is foolish to urge us to “Shop local, eat local, and walk local” while asking for home-baked banana bread for Christmas.
In the spirit of Brian’s critique, I offer [...]
Cool:
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set [...]
Samurai swords to be banned:
The sale of imitation samurai swords could be banned by the end of the year, the Home Office announced today.
Importing or hiring the weapons could also be made illegal following a string of samurai sword attacks in recent years.
Breaching the ban, which is targeted at cheap imitation samurai swords rather than [...]
Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing’ At UN Conference:
BALI, Indonesia – An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to “have the courage to do nothing” in response to [...]
1000 Frames of Hitchcock: 52 movies storyboarded by screencap. Awesome!
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has some great Frazetta art, here, here and here.
Amazing stuff.
(original here)
In Frazetta – Painting with Fire, it is pointed out that Frank Frazetta really transformed the way we imagine heroic fantasy, which had previously been dressed in classical Roman garb. Interesting to see some suggestion of that here.
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A great song by I, Ludicrous – check it out.
(only been listened to 140 times!)
UPDATE: noticed and fixed the typo in the headline… D’Oh!
More on the proverbial street and its uses for things:
Law enforcement authorities have discovered that people are willing to go to great lengths to get high
And they discovered this when? Recently, or decades ago, a few minutes after deciding to police what people put in their bodies?
including a troubling new method that features a frightened [...]
Chimps Take On Computerized Brain Test, Beat College Students.