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- Creative Comments music contest
- Guys: American Apparel t-shirt perfect for Casual Friday
- Louis Vuitton bugged by locust sculptures in Japan
- Nina Paley and EFF: Sita Sings the Blues benefit in San Francisco, July 20
- Futures for SF writers that aren't the Singularity
- My Houdini Chickens
- How I save $67.50 a month by making my own yogurt
- Machine teaches men what it feels like to menstruate
- Do not mess with a baby deer
- An Intimate Moment on the Beach
- Man Smacks: Cinematic study on Totally Hetero And Absolutely Not Gay Dude-Huggage
- 30th Anniversary of Airplane!
- To do in SF: Mission muralist Victor Reyes' art opening at E6 Gallery
- Unattended Bag Scareorrism poster - Fixed!
- 22 movie making techniques that always work...
- Awesome Twilight homage YouTube game shut down over copyright infringement claim (UPDATED)
- Laurie Anderson's new album, Homeland
- Asian man rocks out on Creative Labs keyboard
- Who was the Pied Piper?
- Napoleon's hair sells at auction for $13K
- David Fincher's "Girl With Dragon Tattoo" remake starring... Die Antwoord's Yo-Landi?
- Marc Ruxin on the death of brick-and-mortar media stores, and serendipty
- Two-headed albino snake in Venice freak show
- Terror-veillance posters at LA airport use CNN's "iReport" neologism
- Carlos Ramos paintings inspired by Kubrick films
- Video about the White House bee hive
- Steampunk monkey coloring book
- Vote to repeal Britain's Digital Economy Act!
- Jobriath on Pyramid Power
| Creative Comments music contest Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:22 AM PDT  Christian sez, "To promote Creative Commons licensed music and the musicians behind it, Musikpiraten e.V. launches this year once again the Free! Music! Contest. Last year we had about 60 submissions, this year our goal is 150! Until the end of July, musicians and bands who are releasing their music under a Creative Commons license, can register for the contest. Until August 22th there will be an additional remix-phase: the participating artists are invited to submit single stems or acapellas in addition to the individual songs. By submitting individual tracks or the submission of music videos, the chance to be added onto the sampler that will be a result of the contest, will be increased - if only just a little bit." Free! Music! Contest 2010 (Thanks, Christian!) |
| Guys: American Apparel t-shirt perfect for Casual Friday Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:06 PM PDT  Gentlemen, may I suggest that you wear this American Apparel t-shirt on busy urban streets, paired with a nice, snug speedo? Also, it is available in only one color: see-thru "poopies" brown. Please discuss. (via Steven Leckart) |
| Louis Vuitton bugged by locust sculptures in Japan Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:02 PM PDT  Nine locust sculptures crafted by artist Mitsuhiro Okamoto from knockoff designer bags were removed from the Kobe Fashion Museum after luxury fashion maker Louis Vuitton complained the art violated its trademark:
The exhibit opened on April 15, and included a number of iconic brand logos, not just LVMH. The locusts were yanked within the first 30 days. More on Pink Tentacle, and the earlier report in Japanese at Asahi. The artist's website has a section about the Batta Mon sculptures here. (thanks, Antinous!). |
| Nina Paley and EFF: Sita Sings the Blues benefit in San Francisco, July 20 Posted: 01 Jul 2010 09:57 PM PDT  "Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cartoon Art Museum for a special evening with Nina Paley as we screen her award-winning animated feature film "Sita Sings the Blues," described by the creator as "the greatest breakup story ever told." Paley animated and produced the film single-handedly over the course of five years on a home computer, and will be on hand to take filmgoers behind the scenes. "The benefit screening will take place at the Delancey Street Foundation Screening Room at 600 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94107 on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Film begins at 7 PM. Advance tickets may be purchased online for $25 at http://action.eff.org/ninapaley, or for $30 at the door the night of the screening." Sita Sings The Blues: A Benefit Screening Hosted by Nina Paley on July 20, 2010 (Thanks, Hugh!) |
| Futures for SF writers that aren't the Singularity Posted: 01 Jul 2010 09:54 PM PDT Rudy Rucker's tired of the Singularity (Vernor Vinge's conceit of a future in which people cease to have recognizably human motivations after they marry their minds with ever-accelerating computers). So he's come up with some other veins for SF writers to mine. Here's a couple (click through for the whole lot): Fresh SF Futures (via Futurismic) (Image: Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from markhillary's photostream) |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2010 03:46 PM PDT Houdini Chickens from Alan Graham on Vimeo. Chicken Run is just a movie...or is it?This is a surveillance video I made to try and figure out how our chickens kept getting out of their coop during the night. I also discovered why the cat had been so manic every morning...they had been eating his food while he slept. Turns out they learned that the chicken wire on the side of the coop bends one way (for exiting) and bends another way on top of the coop (for entering). Song: Carnage By: The White Buffalo (Available on iTunes, Thanks for the use of the song!) |
| How I save $67.50 a month by making my own yogurt Posted: 01 Jul 2010 02:50 PM PDT Over at credit.com, I wrote about how I save almost $70 a month making my own yogurt with the Waring Pro YM350 yogurt maker (if you have an oven with a pilot light, you don't need the maker).
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| Machine teaches men what it feels like to menstruate Posted: 01 Jul 2010 02:44 PM PDT  And here you thought men would never know what it would feel like to get their periods. A new gadget featured at the Royal College of Art's summer grad show called the menstruation machine attaches at the hip and slowly drips blood from a reservoir. Coming soon: a gadget that will show men how to give birth to babies. |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2010 01:56 PM PDT In this video we see a protective mother deer beat up a dog and scare the hell out of a relentlessly curious and foolhardy cat. It's pretty disturbing, but I am glad I watched it. Deer often come into our back yard, and if my kids saw a fawn, they'd probably run over and try to cuddle with it. I think I'll show them this video to let them see what could happen. (The dog is reported to be OK.) |
| An Intimate Moment on the Beach Posted: 01 Jul 2010 01:27 PM PDT  There is homosexuality in Pakistan, like there is in Iran and the rest of the world. It's just this moment isn't one of them. And though these two men are holding each other in a way that made me raise an eyebrow, they probably didn't think twice when posing. But what do you all think? Is it possible that two heterosexual men in the States could hold each other like this and no one would question their sexual orientation? Is there even a social threshold for "acceptable" hetero same-sex intimacy? This photo was given to me by one of the subjects of our documentary. He wanted me to scan some photos he took while he was at the beach with his friends. He didn't think much into this photo, which makes me wonder, why does my mind go there and his doesn't? |
| Man Smacks: Cinematic study on Totally Hetero And Absolutely Not Gay Dude-Huggage Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:51 PM PDT |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:24 PM PDT Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of one of my favorite movies of all time, Airplane! To celebrate, watch the classic clip above. When we were kids, my brother and I memorized the dialogue in this scene (every scene, actually) and would occasionally perform it. For our parents. Below is a delightful video featuring the film's creators and the two actors reminiscing about the jive talk bit. For more, please see "Oh Stewardess, I speak jive!" |
| To do in SF: Mission muralist Victor Reyes' art opening at E6 Gallery Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:09 PM PDT   Street Artist and SF Mission District resident Victor Reyes, whose work incorporates a passion for typography that font-o-philes will love, has a show opening at with Robert Berman/E6 Gallery in San Francisco. Reyes is 31 years old, and has managed to paint all 26 letters of the alphabet around the Mission in "a personal excercise in aerosol typography," according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle front-page feature on Reyes. "MISPELLED, An Alphabet by Victor Reyes" runs July 7 - August 14, 2010. Opening Reception: July 7, 6-9pm at E6 Gallery, San Francisco. |
| Unattended Bag Scareorrism poster - Fixed! Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:46 AM PDT  Random Tangent "fixed" that poster I blogged about having spotted at the Los Angeles International Airport.
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| 22 movie making techniques that always work... Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:40 AM PDT ... at least if you're shooting noir! Anne Lukeman's "22 frames that always work" transmutes the Wally Wood comic classic, 22 panels that always work," into a film-making equivalent. [via Gizmodo] |
| Awesome Twilight homage YouTube game shut down over copyright infringement claim (UPDATED) Posted: 01 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT 
Update, 10pm PT, July 1: It's back! The YouTube game's creators tell us: "Maker Studios got in touch with the digital department at Summit, got everything cleared up, and the game is back in action. Thanks for your support and help with this. Good that this situation went well- and good to see a digital department at a traditional company being helpful."
Ben & Raf, the "Fine Brother" guys who created the wonderful "Twighlight" homage interactive game on YouTube I blogged less than 24 hours ago, write:
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| Laurie Anderson's new album, Homeland Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:22 PM PDT  Pioneering multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson has just released Homeland, her first studio album in a decade. She also played a concert specifically for dogs at the Sydney Opera house. Anderson was a guest on NPR's Weekend Edition and you can also listen to the entire album on their site. From NPR: "['Homeland' is] not a word that Americans use," Anderson says. "No one would say 'my homeland' — it's just so sentimental. This record was started in the Bush era and went over the cusp into Obama, and I appreciated how story-savvy the Bush administration was to put a sentimental, gooey, homey word like 'homeland' next to 'bureau' and 'security.' "Laurie Anderson Returns With Atmospheric 'Homeland' (Thanks, Greg Benjamin!) |
| Asian man rocks out on Creative Labs keyboard Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:25 AM PDT In what appears to be an infomercial, an Asian man demonstrates how to play the drums on a Creative Labs keyboard. "This is rock and roll!" He gets super into it from about 1:17 on. [via Weird Asia News] |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:18 AM PDT  On June 26, 1284, more than 100 children in the German town of Hamelin were adbucted by a strange man playing the flute. The man, and the children, vanished, never to be seen again. To this day, dancing and music it outlawed on Bungelosenstrasse, the Hamelin street where the children were last seen. Is the story true? And if so, who the hell was this Piped Piper? Fortean Times dives into this lasting mediæval, macabre, and mysterious tale: ...Folklore has assimilated the figure of the Pied Piper with that of a rat-catcher. The first surviving reference to rodents appears in the 16th-century Zimmern Chronicle (c.1559–65), followed by Weyer's aforementioned Delusions of the Devil, both written almost three centuries after the tragedy."The Lost Children of Hamelin" |
| Napoleon's hair sells at auction for $13K Posted: 01 Jul 2010 10:56 AM PDT |
| David Fincher's "Girl With Dragon Tattoo" remake starring... Die Antwoord's Yo-Landi? Posted: 01 Jul 2010 10:31 AM PDT  Reports are circulating that director David Fincher imagines Die Antwoord's Yo-Landi Vi$$er in the role of fem-hacker/ass-buster/avenging angel Lisbeth Salander for his upcoming remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (book / film). New York Magazine, Slashfilm, and Twitchfilm have items explaining why she'd be dynamite in this role, given the character's description in the original book. I reached out to Yo-Landi to set the record straight, and alas (or not), it is not to be. Ms. Vi$$er declined the role. She *will* be busting ass and avenging injustice, but in her existing role as frontwoman for the South African rap-rave act, which will be touring, recording, and promoting like hell around the globe for the foreseeable future. (thanks for the tip, Richard LaRue / photographer unknown, ganked from Yo-Landi's Facebook profile)
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| Marc Ruxin on the death of brick-and-mortar media stores, and serendipty Posted: 01 Jul 2010 10:40 AM PDT Flipping through the crates in old record stores. Browsing a tiny (or huge) local bookstore. Chatting up film geeks behind the counter at the video rental shop. These are a few of my favorite things. Are these experiences relegated to the cultural dustbin of history? Over at Huffington Post, Marc Ruxin has some thoughts on "The Death of Touch and the Lost Joy of the Unexpected" (image from wrestlingentropy's Flickr stream): "The Death of Touch and the Lost Joy of the Unexpected" |
| Two-headed albino snake in Venice freak show Posted: 01 Jul 2010 10:19 AM PDT  This is Lenny and Squiggy, a two-headed albino hognose snake. Lenny and Squiggy now live at the Venice Beach Freakshow. Proprietor Todd Ray paid $20,000 for the animal(s). From AOL News: When he initially contacted the Virginia-based owner, who breeds snakes as a hobbyist, the two-headed baby had yet to eat. Fortunately, Ray has experience feeding and caring for two-headed creatures, so he offered some pointers on serving pinky mice to the newborn.Video after the jump!
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| Terror-veillance posters at LA airport use CNN's "iReport" neologism Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:52 AM PDT  (Update: Fixed it for ya!) I noticed these new iWatchLA LAPD posters around the parking garage at Los Angeles International Airport this week. I thought it was funny that they're using the neologism "iReport," which has become CNN's trademark catchword for viewer-submitted amateur video. I'm not suggesting CNN is in cahoots with the LAPD (or Apple) over the use of "i" before other words, just getting a chuckle out of this otherwise creepy poster. I think the only thing really suspicious in that poster inset at left is that the designer chose a stock photo of a guy standing next to a subway train. As if we had decent public transport in Los Angeles! Flickr photoset link. |
| Carlos Ramos paintings inspired by Kubrick films Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:24 AM PDT  Animator and fine artist Carlos Ramos has created a magnificent series of paintings inspired by the films of Stanley Kubrick. The show, titled "Kubrick," opens July 10 at CoproGallery in Santa Monica, California, and runs until August 3. Above, "The Death of Frank Poole, from 2001: A Space Odyssey" (cel vinyl on wood, 18" x 24"). More images after the jump.
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| Video about the White House bee hive Posted: 01 Jul 2010 09:20 AM PDT The White House has a very nice beehive. But I think the President should invite my daughters over to teach his daughters how to process the honey themselves! This beehive on the South Lawn is a first for the White House. The busy bees pollinate the kitchen garden, flora all over Washington and provide honey for the White House kitchen. Take a look at this year's colony, estimated at about 70,000 bees, and listen to how the idea for a beehive on the South Lawn came about.Inside the White House -- Bees! |
| Steampunk monkey coloring book Posted: 01 Jul 2010 07:22 AM PDT  Chet sez, "This coloring book of steampunk and evil Victorian simians by Chet Phillips awaits your artistic endeavors. Enjoy hours of creative activity before the inevitable domination of technologically advanced apes and monkeys procure our world." Steampunk, monkeys, and coloring?! Just add milk and cookies and a big rug to lie on your tummy while you work and that's a party! |
| Vote to repeal Britain's Digital Economy Act! Posted: 01 Jul 2010 07:18 AM PDT  Jonathan sez, "The UK government has set up a website asking for suggestions to include in their upcoming Great Repeal Bill, the intention of which is to reverse the damage the previous government has done to civil liberties in the country. Obviously, one of the items is the Digital Economy Act." The site's groaning under heavy load (and, bizarrely, throwing up old Amiga error codes!), but I'm going to keep on trying to sign up for it if it takes all day. For the short-attentions-spanned: The Digital Economy Act is punishing copyright legislation rammed through without any real Parliamentary debate; it includes disconnection of whole families from the Internet on the unproven accusation of copyright infringement as well as a de facto prohibition on open wireless networks (lest you use them to anonymously infringe upon copyright). Repeal the Digital Economy Bill (Thanks, Jonathan!) |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2010 06:44 AM PDT I'd read that glam rocker/lounge singer Jobriath lived in a pyramid, but I'd always imagined something spacious and opulent, maybe even glass. Would never have guessed it was a cosy victorian brick-n-slate cottage designed by Mumm-Ra. |
The Afterworld
I've been making my own yogurt for the past couple of years, and not only is it much tastier than store bought yogurt, it's also much cheaper. At my local supermarket, an 8-ounce cup of yogurt costs $1. That adds up to $16 for a gallon of yogurt. At the same supermarket, one gallon of low fat organic milk costs $4.
Filmmaker Joe Sabia has produced 
We have a follow up to this, as less than an hour ago, Twilight shut down our game claiming copyright infringement. This is very disappointing, as this truly is a fair use and parody case, and shows how content creators have no power online, and how they don't see or understand the value this type of content has for their brand. It's a very disappointing day for online media. 
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