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 [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Sim unclear on meaning of ‘retired’
December 27, 2007 – 6:49 pm
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 [...]
“Sustainability”
December 20, 2007 – 2:49 pm
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 [...]
Balinese Gamelan
December 17, 2007 – 12:41 am
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 [...]
GB’s war on cutlery
December 12, 2007 – 6:25 pm
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 [...]
Finally something I’m qualified for
December 11, 2007 – 6:43 pm
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 [...]
52,000 lessons in composition
December 10, 2007 – 6:57 pm
1000 Frames of Hitchcock: 52 movies storyboarded by screencap. Awesome!
More Frazetta
December 10, 2007 – 3:14 pm
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has some great Frazetta art, here, here and here.
Amazing stuff.
John Carter animation 1936
December 9, 2007 – 11:28 pm
(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.
(via)
Jim! / What is it, Bones? / They’ve stolen Spock’s brain!
December 7, 2007 – 12:06 pm
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!
Your honor, that amphibian was for personal use
December 6, 2007 – 1:31 am
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 [...]
President Bush vindicated
December 4, 2007 – 6:34 pm
Chimps Take On Computerized Brain Test, Beat College Students.