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Making beats on the iPad with WerkBench – “WerkBench is now available for the iPad in the app store”

Thievery Corporation – The Numbers Game – R.I.P. Chuck Brown

TAPE RIOT – ASPHALT PILOTEN (BRUSSELS) – German Artist Performance in Brussels, Dancers, Duct Tape Street Art

Beastie Boys – Sabotage / MCA tribute – Worked on this with the wife, kids and our nephew over the past week to pay tribute to Adam “MCA” Yauch.

How to wake up a kid – ( Breed- Nirvana ) – “How to wake up a sleeping kid. Only 3 years old!”

The Making of the Leica M9-P »Edition Hermès« – sexy craft work for a perverted and decadent camera

GMO Film Project Sizzler – “Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified food, GMO’s, that have never been fully tested and aren’t labeled. This small handful of corporations are tightening their grip on the world’s food supply—buying, modifying, and patenting seeds to ensure total control over everything we eat.”

Vinyl Throw: MusicBunk – “Vinyl record trick shots.”

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers – EULAs for your after life, please select a plan

How to Sweep. By Tom Sachs – “Watch the other two movies from the “Energies and Skills” trilogy: Love Letter to Plywood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZU1B8kb8EQ Space Camp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-jSSTGqU5c”

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Ufabulum — track by track written by Squarepusher – “exclusive writing from Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher, bringing you one step closer to the thought processes behind the new album Ufabulum.”

Scott Scheidly’s “Portraits” – “From Hitler’s pink armband to Chairman Mao’s heart shaped glasses, Scheidly’s work casts some of history’s most notorious characters in a new light rife with suggestion and commentary on masculinity, power, and satire.”

Pepe Deluxé sample stalactites, pneumatics and Tesla coils on latest album – “The way we work on albums is quite a unique combination of art and science,” said Spectrum. “When doing music we mix early hip-hop sampling and collage approach with our version of 50s and 60s studio techniques.” Geeky stuff

Mobile Evolution – “Miniaturisation in the style of a Russian Doll” Exiting, fantastic, funny

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet – “What happened to Flickr? The same thing that happened to so many other nimble, innovative startups who sold out for dollars and bandwidth: Yahoo.”

The Story of Send – ‘Take a journey through Google’s data centers by following an email along its path.’

Will Work for Fun – “When you’re out of money to give a company, you can always give them your time. The company will always find a way to reconvert the gift of your time into profit, though you probably won’t care when transfixed by the glittering explosions of fun lighting up the screen like framed miracles.”

Why Disco Happened – “The simple answer is a combination of beat, tempo, instrumentation, and song length. The disco beat has four beats per measure, with equal emphasis on every beat: BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP.” i quite enjoyed reading this, but have read better accounts on the history of disco.

Italian anarchists kneecap nuclear executive and threaten more shootings – “We are wild lovers of freedom, and will never renounce the revolution or the complete destruction of the state and its violence.”

Cards Against Humanity – “Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people.”

New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon Emissions – “Cement production alone emits 5 to 6 percent of total man-made greenhouse gases, and most of that comes from producing lime. Some of the greenhouse-gas emissions from conventional cement production come from using fossil fuels to heat up limestone to high temperatures—about 1,500 ⁰C.”

Super weeds no easy fix for US agriculture-experts – “Many of the worst weeds, some of which grow more than six feet and can sharply reduce crop yields, have become resistant to the popular glyphosate-based weed-killer Roundup, as well as other common herbicides.” Gee thanx, Monsanto

Aerial tilt-shift photography – “Right, here we go with small selection of tilt-shift pictures taken from the plane around the Manchester and Bolton area, hope you enjoy.”

Russell Brand says drug addiction should be treated as a health matter – “Actor tells MPs committee on drugs that an abstinence-based recovery approach would better benefit addicts”

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Studio Bühler: “Selbstmordquartett” – “Das Selbstmordquartett besteht aus 32 Spielkarten die in 8 übergeordneten Kategorien unterteilt sind: Selbstmord durch Vergiftung, Selbstmord durch Elektrizität, Selbstmord durch Verkehr, Selbstmord durch Erstickung, Selbstmord durch Waffen, Selbstmord durch großen Blutverlust, Selbstmord durch Springen und Selbstmord durch Idealismus.”

Street Party Bern 11.05.2012 – Lerch sei dank

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Noah Cover of Sexy and I know it – you sooo know it

The Hipster Hunt – “This video attempts to de-code the hipster for the clueless foreigner, like Lorena. In this piece, she invites viewers along for the journey as she hunts for the meaning of the term “hipster.” This quirky piece takes viewers around the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn”

R.I.P. Adam Yauch: Some Beastie Boys Cuts You May Have Missed – “With that, I’d like to give a huge R.I.P. to Yauch, and in honor of the Boys, I present some cuts you may have missed:” some real gems in this list.

ProxTube Unblocks US-Only YouTube Videos for International Users – “Chrome/Firefox: Non-US users know the pain of having services blocked from them pretty well, and YouTube is no exception. If you’re tired of stumbling on videos you can’t watch, ProxTube will fix the problem by unblocking all US-only videos for anyone to see.”

Because – Cyriak – “So I found a stupid photo of my face and decided to make a video out of it. Why? Just because.”

Gabriel Royal – On Again Off Again – “at the Metropolitan Ave. G station in Brooklyn, NY on April 25th, 2012.”

Man Fights Goose, With Lightsaber – “just added some effects to make it a little more interesting.”

The Forger: Master of the funky found-footage video beat-mix – “Nearly a year ago, someone called The Forger—who we’re thinking is a composite character of videographer Ben Stokes and rhythm master Jack Dangers, both of Meat Beat Manifesto—started releasing beat videos that looped, sampled, layered and scratched up found footage of subjects both unknown and iconic.”

How To Avoid Facial Recognition – or ‘YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PAAARTY (anonymously!!) fffff.at/how-to-avoid-facial-recognition by Kyle McDonald & Aram Bartholl Berlin 2012

Allo Allo {Deux Américains à Paris} – “Robert Kolodny and Bennett Elliott, took the train to Paris for a week of couchsurfing and wonder. Accompanied by their filmmaker friends from Mexico Rodrigo Quintero and Marissa Bolaños they explore all of the idiosyncratic magic of Paris”

Tribute to Adam Yauch: MCA’s opening lines from every Beastie Boys song – MCA Supercut

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I am Steve Albini, ask me anything : IAmA – “I have been in bands since 1979 and making records since 1981. I own the recording studio Electrical Audio. I also play poker and write an occasional cooking blog. I’ll be answering questions from about 3pm – 6pm EDT.”

Buying DVDs just got worse thanks to obnoxious new anti-piracy warnings (pirating movies remains unchanged) – “Now when you buy a DVD, you’ll get twice as many unskippable anti-piracy warnings, including one with a Homeland Security Investigations “special agent” badge next to the FBI badge, as well as a screen telling you that “digital theft harms the economy” and inviting you to visit a taxpayer-funded website that parrots a bunch of unsubstantiated lobbynomics numbers that the MPAA pulled out of its ass.”

Hotel installs bicycle-powered television – “Guests in the “Standing Hat” room at Cottage Lodge in the village of Brockenhurst, can now keep fit, watch their favourite programmes, and do their bit for the environment using the novel device. The room also features low-energy lighting, solar panels and a wood-burning stove to produce hot water, and a low-flow toilet and shower to reduce water use.”

Franziska Nyffeler 09-05-2012 – “emmental meets NYC”

Sorrel recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – “Easy, delicious and verstatile – there’s a reason sorrel is a true spring great”

Wordless Web – a bookmarklet to make all the words dissappear from a website

RIP Maurice Sendak – “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

Panic, panic, panic: the Ninja Tune story – “So we thought: we’ll go back to what we know we can do, which is to make odd music [laughs]. And started Ninja” interview with Jon More and Peter Quicke

The honeybees are still dying – “In many cases, bee mortality appears to be the product of many interacting factors, but there is a growing consensus that the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor plays the role of the major predisposing liability. We argue that the fight against this mite should be a priority for future honeybee health research.”

Marina Abramovic’s Performance Art Center Will Feature Sleep Chairs On Wheels – … “will feature auditoriums for long-duration performances, and specially-designed reclining massage chairs to fall asleep in. The chairs will be on wheels, and, as Abramovic envisions it, each audience member will have their own personal attendant who will roll any sleepers out of the room into a special nap area. “When you arrive,” Abramovic tells the Times, “you have to sign a contract that you will stay a minimum of six hours.””

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IN BED WITH INVADER – “Shot in winter 2011, this movie invite you to spend one night in Paris with the street artist Invader.”

Spike Lee / The Dolly Shot – “A montage of unique dolly shots from the films of Spike Lee. Music: “Bra” by Cymande”

#learn

Let’s Ride the Magic General Strike Bus – well, it certainly won’t be the posters fault if May Day fails. some fantastic pieces.

Update: Filthy Luker – gotta love these scary AND cute sculptures

Klouchebag – Klout parody determines your level of douchbagery on twitter

The Pirate DVD King of Long Island, “Big Hy” Strachman, Keeps Soldiers in Free DVDs – “‘Big Hy’ — his handle among many loyal customers — would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife.” arrest that, hollywood

Laurie Penny: A papier-mâché puppet and a badly tuned guitar… how to go on strike when you haven’t got a job – “Whatever future these young people collectively create – and sooner or later, they’ll have to come up with one – the meaning of direct action, the meaning of work, and the meaning of success and failure itself will be redefined. That’s not something to dismiss in haste.” does the left really only set themselves up for failure? hmm

May Day General Strike posters – !!!

Bruno Neri, the footballer who stood up to fascism – “The players are lined up in the centre of the pitch, standing in front of the still unfinished stands and all are giving the fascist salute. Except for one: Bruno Neri.”

YouAreMinecraft Live Map – asks people to upload minecraft avatars

Joebot: Memes @ Gallery 1988 – “Straight from the World Wide Web and into your hearts comes the new hit album “Haters Gonna Hate” from The Internets! Now you can sing along with hit songs such as “Friday”, “Trololo”, and “Bed Intruder Song”.”

Sex toys found on Swiss trains for sale – “A vast array of weird and wonderful items from the Swiss rail network’s lost-and-found department is now on sale, including butt plugs, dildos and worn underwear.”

Descriptive Camera – “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.”

Mr Oizo 3000 – Mr. Oizo New EP Stade 3, free to download

The hidden side of your soul: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot – “The FBI had set up its fake CP site for precisely this situation. When investigators had a lead on someone specific, they e-mailed the person with a custom password and the site URL.”

The True Size of Africa – Can you fit the USA, China and India inside African Continent? Yes. And Much more…

Holy cow … – “how google drive terms compare to dropbox and Microsoft. ..wow.” whatever happened to Don’t be Evil?

Tour for GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS, a Lo-fi Sci-fi Feature by Jim Munroe – “By 2040, the economy has flipped and North Americans are a cheap labour pool for wealthy Asian markets. A Chinese documentary show focuses on the “ghosts” (Cantonese slang for white people) unlucky enough to have been born into the slums of Toronto in a special report that translates as “Ghosts With Shit Jobs.”"

Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next? | Slavoj Žižek – “How a protest movement without a programme can confront a capitalist system that defies reform”

How Can I Recharge My Depleted Motivation? – “Regaining your motivation involves a combination of combatting the sources of its depletion and tricking yourself into taking the first step.”

Various & Gould: “Zu Gast Arbeit” – strong work by german street artist duo various & gould for instanbul group show OUTSIDE-in, the swept a street in the city with a mix of sand and blue pigment addressing the issue of migrant workers in the cities

Some Objections To Occupy May 1st – “As the call has spread around and become something inseparable from Occupy as a movement, there have been a number of objections or concerns about a May 1st general strike.” reading through some of the comments makes me lose all hope…

Chains of oppression: Katie Roiphe, Lena Dunham and the sexual counter-revolution. – “Female sexual autonomy itself is what’s really unorthodox today. Agency and self-determination, the right to own our own desire – those are the kind of forbidden fantasies women across the world still pant over in private, unable to pronounce for fear of being slut-shamed.”

The History of File-Sharing – “Last century filesharing was a fringe hobby, only for geeks who were lucky enough to own a computer that could dial into the World Wide Web. How different is that today, where filesharing has become daily routine for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In just a few years swapping files has become mainstream. Time to take a step back and see how it all came about.”

More OWS Arrests, Staggering Police Presence At Federal Hall – “the first eight arrests, which occurred across the street from Federal Hall, and wrote that they were prompted by the protesters’ desire “to draw attention to statements made by police commanders over the last few days that protesters were not allowed to lie on the sidewalks.” This interpretation of the law, despite a court ruling from 2000, has forced protesters off the sidewalk on Broad Street and onto the stairs of Federal Hall.”

Dani Alves: ‘At Barcelona we are taking football back to its origins’ – “Barcelona’s buccaneering right-back explains that staying true to attacking principle is secret of Catalan club’s ongoing success”

IHTFP Hack Gallery: Tetris on the Green Building – “MIT hackers have long considered “Tetris on the Green Building” to be the Holy Grail of hacks, as the side of the building is a wonderful grid for the game.”

Why And How To Strike On May Day – “We are striking to halt the flow of capital, reclaim a tool of resistance, and unify movements against exploitation, repression, and corruption.”

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apokalypse now (and then) – “In den aktuellen Katastrophen und weltpolitischen Ereignissen spitzen sich die tiefgreifenden globalen Umwälzungen der vergangenen 25 Jahre dramatisch zu. Je nach Perspektive werden sie von den Menschen als Krise oder als Chance auf einen Neuanfang interpretiert. Auf nahezu allen Ebenen politischer, philosophischer und künstlerischer Diskurse erleben wir eine Konjunktur apokalyptischer Rede.”

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I thought it would be fun to share some thoughts and observations I made in regards to the recent Kraftwerk Retrospective at the MoMA.

When I first read about these planned shows I got quite exited, I really wanted to attend at least a few of the concerts. They happened to be scheduled right around my 50th birthday, in the city where I was born in, but never lived for long. I always loved New York City, no other motivation was needed to book a trip there. But since I have been a Kraftwerk fan for years, these concerts sounded too good to be true, like a perfect bonus for a trip to the great city.

My wife and I talked it through and decided to book the trip at any rate, we would have a great vacation there, regardless if we were able to score tickets or not. New York City is such a fantastic place to visit, we saw plenty of things to do besides the Kraftwerk shows – art, occupy wall street, foodie adventures. And at this point we were still positive, that we could score at least two tickets…

The day came when the tickets went online, and as feared it turned out to be the debacle, that i described elsewhere. But even though we didn’t get any tickets, we still planned to check out the scene and visit the exhibitions at the MoMA and the PS1.

On our second night in NYC, which also happened to be the first of the eight Kraftwerk concerts – they performed Autobahn – we went to Brooklyn to an event called Krautwerk, where New York bands and musicians played their favorite Kraftwerk songs. It turned out to be a fantastic night, that motivated me to say this on twitter:

the #krautwerk gig last night in and of itself justified our trip to #NYC (sans MOMA tix). everything else from here on out is just bonus.

The MC made a few very good points, when he introduced the night. The band playing the MoMA, he said, wasn’t even really Kraftwerk, just a fourth of the original band. Just, you know, Ralf! The disdain with which he said “Ralf!” was funny, but also quite prophetic. I later came to a similar conclusion.

But at this point I still hoped to score tickets for at least one of the nights, why not for Man Machine, the one concert we got out of the queue for during the online sale, but then the website decided to not accept our credit card… We also started each day by listening to the Kraftwerk record that would be performed on the night. And I purchased 0462/2000 of the catalogue MoMA release, 04 62, get it? Yes, my birth month and year… But hey.

Kraftwerk Special Edition Box … Birthday present… Thx thx. pic.twitter.com/VH01kMos

I still was a little obsessed to get tickets, on twitter I wrote the following and was only half joking:

with #kraftwerk playing man machine at the MOMA tonite things are getting desperate. we’ll be offering sexual favors for tickets, and such.

On friday the 13. we visited MoMA during the day time. Yes, there were a few traces of Kraftwerk to be found, the robot installation (see video bellow), projections of some logos (see photos above), and a huge long banner above the stairways. We also saw the stage where the shows were being held during the night, which struck me as a very odd place for a concert. This “room” had no ceiling and the walls were painted all white, which for acoustics and for projections is a nightmare, ask any technician. The space was also really small, which explained why only 450 people could attend. And so I asked some attendant why the gigs where being held right there. He said, there were bigger auditoriums available, better suited even… but the band had insisted on this spot, right smack in the middle of the museum. Ralf! apparently went for the show effect…

Later that day we went to the PS1, where a Kraftwerk installation was being shown. This turned out to be one of the saddest multimedia installations I have ever seen. A white dome tent with some pathetic red cushions in the middle, cheap visuals projected onto the eight side walls, and a music piece for each of the eight albums, interspersed with a long robot voice countdown. After three songs we had enough. They played the newer versions of the songs, the remixed, cleaner stuff that they introduced since “The Mix”, not the old gritty Kraftwerk music, that we love. And the graphics were really sad and clumsy stuff. This all smelled of Ralf! so much that I wrote on twitter:

I am cured of my #kraftwerk obsession! how come? long story, short version: ralf! I think I actually hate the guy.

We still decided to try and score tickets that night, no such luck, but the scene in front of the MoMA was so hostile, that we did not regret one bit. The videos of the concerts, that we watched on youtube confirmed the same impression, it was all much too polished and sterile… They performed the polished remixed versions of the songs, and those cheesy 3D visuals…

So here is what I think. If you call something a retrospective, it could have been a fantastic opportunity to show some of the great history of this great and influential band – to show versions of the old art work, to demonstrate the samplers, sequencers and computers that Kraftwerk had to build to create their music, to display images of their studio space, photos of the former members, the history. Also some critical voices on the breakups and dramas surrounding the band. Instead they opted to show only the new Kraftwerk, the polished version Ralf! wants everyone to see, with their clean and pretty boring versions of music and graphics.

So I for one am no longer a Kraftwerk fan, at least not of the current incarnation. I still love and respect their older work, but Ralf! really has managed to take all the life out of it for now.

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Squarepusher – ‘Dark Steering’ taken from forthcoming album ‘Ufabulum’ out 14th/15th May – teaser video for the new squarepusher album. seems to combine the more melodic newer sound with earlier manic beats assault.

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What Will a Billion Dollars Buy Facebook? – “It is, of course, important to be vigilant when deals of such magnitude take place between giants of the Internet, but users sometimes tend to descend into paranoia when Facebook is involved. For a clearer view on things, here are eight aspects of the likely legal implications of the purchase of Instagram by Facebook.”

Instagram’s Buyout: How Does It Measure Up? – “I crunched the numbers, pulling together data from a selection of 30 notable internet acquisitions over the last ten years, from Broadcast.com to OMGPop, to see if the Facebook/Instagram acquisition was as crazy as everyone thinks.”

How to get more likes on Facebook – desperate times call for desperate measures

INCREDIBOX – beat box game

InstaBackup: Backup all your Instagram Pictures – “I’m still not sure if I’ll keep my account with Instagram, that will depend on how the transition in ownership is handled. Either way, I want to get my images out of Instagram’s servers and safely onto my own hard-drive.”

TaxCut Money Collage – “As a professional artist, I deduct my material expenditures as a write off. If I slice up a hundred dollars to make an image, or a thousand, or just five, I am taking it out of the IRS coffers.”

The Spotify Play Button – “Simply add the Spotify Play Button to your blog, website or social page and light it up with music. You can feature any song, album or playlist.”

DJ Shadow Archival Project: MPC Era ’92-’96 – “A major new archival release exposing Shadow’s early production on the Akai MPC. Containing entirely unreleased material spanning from 1992 to 1996, the project is entitled, “Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era, 1992-1996″”

Is Nello the Worst Restaurant In Manhattan? – the place NOT to eat at, Nello

Five Ways To Get Your Instagrams Before Facebook Eats Them – “you just heard that Zuckerburg bought your beloved Instagram for a billion dollars, presumably so that the FBI, DEA and ICE can inspect your Amoro filtered pictures of “cocaine” “clouds” or whatever. You’re thinking of jumping ship, but you want to download your photos first.”

Kraftwerk to release limited edition box set – “To commemorate the run, the band are releasing a limited edition version of their 2009 box set The Catalogue. On its original release, the set contained remastered editions of all of the band’s seminal albums, augmented by fancy supplementary booklets.”

elitismleadstotyranny – “THIS IS A PROTEST, AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, A METHODOLOGY OF REFUSING AND RESISTANCE. THIS ACT HAS EMPLOYED GUERRILLA TACTICS. I AM SWIMMING INTO THE BOATS IN THE HOPE I CAN STOP THEM FROM COMPLETING THE RACE AND PROPOSING THE RETURN OF SURPRISE TACTICS. THIS IS ‘PEACEFUL’ … I HAVE NO WEAPONS (DON’T SHOOT!) MY ONLY FEAR, IS NOT SWIMMING FAST ENOUGH TO GET IN THE RIGHT POSITION TO PREVENT THE BOATS.”

Meanwhile, At The Smithfield Horse Fair – This Horse must be a NWA fan, fuck the police, not sure if NSFW?

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Cycle trailer – Cycle the Movie [via @djfood]

Dubstep Bunny Beagle – great editing job

Festival Baixo Centro – “Baseado no projeto alemão Painting reality, Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin, 2010″ Comparing this to the Berlin Action…

MaRKR Buro Destruct creates the Edding Font – “The project: The development of a typeface from a pen. Namely the most distinctive permanent marker by pen manufacturer edding, which therefore can now write on computers, too.”

BENDING SOUNDS – NYC SUBWAY – “Shot within a couple hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon, “Bending Sounds” is a test/experiment to capture the inspirational sounds and visuals of the NYC subway.”

Clark – Black Stone (from ‘Iradelphic’, out now) – Impressive Short Movie promoting the new Clark album on Warp Records

David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time – “The self-directed video for “Crazy Clown Time,” the new single from the multi-talented director and songwriter David Lynch.” the voice doesn’t improve much, but …

Eat It Don’t Tweet It by American Hipster + Key of Awesome – “You are pathetic, we’re not photogenic Hurry it up we’re getting cold, Come down here and taste us, don’t humiliate us, No one gives a damn bout what you post” no really, eat it don’t tweet it!

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Muji BGM by Tag Savage on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free – Muji Store Background Music

Franziska Nyffeler 06-04-2012 – Amazing New Work by my most loved artist <3

Orbital Talks Vintage Synths, Throwing Up and New Album, Wonky – “You find yourself in the position of remixing Madonna!” said Phil Hartnoll. “Remixing Kraftwerk! I was like, hello!”"I nearly threw up then as well!” exclaimed Paul Hartnoll.”

For Passover fun in Israel, a safari of animals crafted from Coca-Cola trash – “The Coca-Cola Recycled Safari featuring animals made of recycled Coca Cola packages will be open to the public during the Passover holiday.” In Tel Aviv.

soundsuit sculptures by nick cave – “images of american performance artist and fabric sculptor nick cave’s most recent ‘soundsuit’ pieces. … each piece is formed from an wide array of materials obtained from various locales. cave brings elements such as sequins, twigs, feathers, knit pieces, buttons, beads, wire, metal, human hair and voodoo dolls”

Concept Artist Jonathon Keats Turns Loose Change Into Electrochemical Arbitrage – “Unlike credit-default swaps, electrochemical arbitrage is for the 99 percent, and the value is real, measurable in volts and amps. If you want to build your own currency exchange, all you need is some pocket change and seawater.”

Star Wars Continuous Line Illustrations – “Some continuous line Illustrations i drew for my Independent Final Project on Technology.”

Propellerhead’s ‘Figure’ music app is awesome, easy to use, and cheap – “Figure lets you combine drums, bass synth and lead synth together in a simple, blocky interface that looks fantastic on an iPhone screen or even when blown up on the iPad 3′s Retina Display” very sexy interface, love it.

Hackerspace Passport – “There are hundreds of hackerspaces around the world – teaching, sharing and becoming valuable parts of their local communities.”

Street artist Filthy Luker takes over Manchester with a playable version of Space Invaders – “Over in Manchester street artist Filthy Luker, with some help from Red Stripe, has created an outdoor, wall-sized and playable version of Space Invaders.”

Krautwerk 1-8 Condensed: Kraftwerk Covered – “For those that tried and failed to get tickets to MOMA’s Kraftwerk retrospective concerts, there’s a night for us. Krautwerk 1-8 condensed is better than eight days of Kraftwerk concerts;”

MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 – “In conjunction with Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at The Museum of Modern Art, an eight-channel video and sound installation especially developed for the exhibition is now on display in the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome.”

Can Apple give police a key to your encrypted iPhone data? – “Apple declined to comment on iPhone security for this story, so we were unable to confirm whether the company has these abilities or uses them to help law enforcement.”

We Are Not All In It Together – “a dizzying 93 percent of the additional income created in the country that year, compared to 2009 — $288 billion — went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers, those with at least $352,000 in income.”

Inside the world’s quietest room – “A typical quiet room you sleep in at night measures about 30 decibels. A normal conversation is about 60 decibels. This room has been measured at -9 decibels.” I need anechoic chambers! NOW!

Ai Weiwei installs studio webcams for supporters and security services – “On the one-year anniversary of his detention, the artist has a gift to friends worried about his safety and the authorities who want to know what he’s up to”

8bit GoogleMap – love it

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I created these hoping to win tickets for the MOMA Kraftwerk retrospective here.

more tomorrow…

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Sarah Palin: Bums Out With The Bath Water – “Sarah Palin drops dope rhymes, Obama eats a baby and Joe Biden dances like a ninny. And still, somewhere, someone will find a way to pin this on the Bush administration.”

2012 Scotch® Off The Roll Tape Sculpture Contest – mark jenkins stop motion, interesting to see how he works, but this really is just a commercial.

Peter Weyland in TED Talk Video – Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland in a Prometheus, TED talk 2023

Holes Of Happiness – “Holes Of Happiness is a short documentary looking at the reactions of the public to some pothole gardens that have been popping up around East London.”

#learn

▶ This Is What Crazy Looks Like Via Text Messaging… – “Vaughan acts out a woman’s crazy texting spree to a guy after 1 date.”

DJ Shadow @ Dachstock, Bern, Switzerland — April 5th, 2012 – DJ Shadow show in Bern, but I receive an error when I try to click I’m Going

Pixels and Polaroids – “Pixels and Polaroids is a series of images I’ve created combining pseudo-Polaroid photography and retro 80s era video game graphics. The concept behind Pixels and Polaroids was to blend these two elements into one world where pixelated characters live through the eye of a Polaroid camera.”

Media Fasting – “For the last year I’ve been trying, as an experiment, to see what it would be like to cut off the news. That means no newspaper, no Google news, no NPR, no broadcast television of any kind.” I did that several times in my life and can only recommend it.

China Miéville on Apocalyptic London – “The Olympics are slated to cost taxpayers $14.7 billion. In this time of “austerity,” youth clubs and libraries are being shut down as expendable fripperies; this expenditure, though, is not negotiable. The uprisen young of London, participants in extraordinary riots that shook the country last summer, do the math.”

Why shrinks diagnose anti-authoritarians with mental illness – “Bruce Levine, a clinical psychologist, has written on Mad in America about his colleagues’ propensity for diagnosing anti-authoritarians with mental illness. Levine says diagnoses like oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder and anxiety disorder are applied to people who question authority’s legitimacy by mental health practitioners who are, themselves, unconsciously deferential to authority.”

Spray Can Lamp – “Someone had to do it right? At least they the right idea using a vintage Krylon can”

floating cloud installation by berndnaut smilde – “beginning with the concept of a vacant or abandoned room and aspirations of enhancing this ominous environment, smilde introduced smoke, moisture and backlighting. the artist was able to create the entirely eerie and whimsical illusion of a cloud floating within the gallery space.”

Kraftwerk month on DJFood.org #1 – “I’ve decided to make March ‘Kraftwerk month’ on the site, which means I’ll be posting something Kraftwerk-related every day at least. This had been bought on by the recent news of the 8 night residency at MOMA in New York and the subsequent fact that no one I know has managed to get a ticket.”

Preserving Lemons – “The basic protocol is: wash & dry the lemons thoroughly (more emphasis on the wash). Slice the lemons in quarters, stopping before slicing all the way through. Put in a quart jar and mash down releasing the juice. Add just under a tablespoon of salt (I used Redmond’s & yes, that is tablespoon not teaspoon) on top of each lemon.”

25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown – “Police in four nations arrested 25 alleged participants in the Anonymous collective Tuesday for attacks against websites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.”

Occupy London says St Paul’s Cathedral colluded with eviction effort – “I was shocked to see policemen on the balcony,” said Naomi Colvin, a spokeswoman for Occupy. “It seemed to be collusion.”

Der Baum hinter der Anzeige – the tree behind the advert, adbusting from russia

A Show with Ze Frank by Ze Frank – “If we get to $1 Billion I will buy Greece and install sea to sea carpeting!”

The Yes Men on Stratfor – WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists.

Trotzdem Danke – Thanks Anyway – “Armed with only a pail of water, we took on the Germans “stick-up-their-ass” mentality, proving once again that Berlin may be poor but it is still damn “sexy”.” we saw the video in berlin, awesome urban intervention, sadly the video can’t be found online though.

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Hitler was right, this turned out to be a debacle…

Yesterday at 12 pm EST time, 18:00 here, like many Kraftwerk fans worldwide we were perched over our computers trying to score our Kraftwerk MoMA Retrospective Tickets. Both of us had four browser tabs open with the shows we wanted to see according to our priority list: Computerworld, Man-Machine, Radio-Activity and Trans Europe Express. We spammed our reload buttons to get in the queue, which eventually did happen for all our choices. The @ShowClix website then informed us that we were in the queue, no need to reload our browser windows, but no information was given on what position of the queue we were in or how many tickets were left on sale. So we waited and kept checking our tabs, ctrl tab, ctrl tab, ctrl tab.

After about 20 minutes of this one of the queues opened up for us. Man-Machine. Yet the ecstatic joy we felt was of a short nature, because what followed were forty minutes of brutal and total agony between Connection Time Out Failures and dubious Errors processing our Credit Cards.

At times it took minutes to even load the Order Forms and then Payment Forms. One Time when we finally were on the screen where you input Billing Address and Credit Card there was only one minute left on the count down clock, yes, there was a count down, that was supposed to remove us from the line, if we took too long to make our purchase.

Interestingly enough it did not actually remove us from the line, we were able to keep on trying, which technically is of course another failure. But we were not complaining about that part at the moment. But keep trying we did. And the site kept rejecting us or the connection timed out on us.

First it asked for something weird “Territory” on the address form, that is something we never use in Switzerland. Territory? Well, after a few wasted tries with slowloading error message we figured out, that they wanted it to say “Bern”. We had tried “Be” and “CH” before.

But from then on the site stubbornly refused to accept the two Credit Cards. We tried many times over. We received an error message saying that the Credit Card could not be approved and to contact Customer Service. When we did call ShowClix Customer Service we were put on hold with torturous music and a guy who kept asking us, if we knew that we could purchase tickets on their website… Right. Hours later when we finally did get through to Customer Service they were rude and incompetent and didn’t even log my complaint (“Just send us an email and we’ll look into it” “Well, I just called long distance to look into it”).

In all we went through five or six such cycles, each time the count down clock ticked down on us, our Credit Cards rejected, the same Credit Card we had succesfully used a few hours earlier to book a flight and a guest room, the clock ticked down but we were not actually removed from the line… Epic Fail.

At the very end another queue opened up for us, this time for Trans Europe Express. But when we managed to load the Order Form it informed us that all tickets had been sold out.

And eventually this was the message everywhere. All shows sold out.

I hear that many people never even made it out of the queue, and while that is unfortunate, we could have accepted it more easily. It would have meant we were too slow, or too unlucky, or too something else. But to make it out of the queue, to actually choose the tickets and then be refused by a website that fails, that was pure torture. The tickets were right there, ready for us, teasing us, but we were not allowed to pick them up… Horrible.

Well, may be we should have been warned, Man-Machine is scheduled for Friday the 13th…

Even before this debacle we decided to book our trip to NYC at any rate, not depending if we got Kraftwerk tickets or not. It’s been years since we last visited, and there so many great things to check out. It will be my 50th birthday that week and what better place to celebrate it than the city you were born in. Kraftwerk tickets would have been the icing on the caek, a big thank you to @ShowClix for messing that one up…

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a few other posts:
Did anyone get tickets to see Kraftwerk @ MoMA?
Most Kraftwerk Fans Scheisse Outta Luck

edit: ShowClix CEO Joshua DziaBiak issued an apology, pretty much a full on mea culpa, but that still doesn’t give me my ticket…

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stereo skifcha – dubstep kitteh [via b3ta]

Everything is a Remix Part 4 – and finally part 4

How to find your way home- the new google maps – “Listen carefully to her say “around someone’s yard” and “past the mango tree”.”

Plastic Snacks | My Strange Addiction – “Kailyn is only 18 but she consumes a huge amount of plastic objects every day.”

99ProblemsInFilm(EM) – “Jay Z’s “99 Problems” recreated with film clips by Eclectic Method”

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Interview with Kultivator, an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice – “This cooperation of farming and visual art practice involves an organic farm with where pigs are raised, cows are milked, potatoes are harvested and linseed oil is pressed. But KULTIVATOR is also a space for artist residencies, exhibitions, performances, installations and screenings.”

Beauty and the Geek Jeans Embed Real Speakers, Keyboard & Mouse – “So I came up with the idea of putting a keyboard in your pants, and to make jeans with all the important computer stuff (like a mouse, keyboard and the speakers) in it. Besides the new look the jeans would get, there was some sort of freedom behind your computer screen. You didn’t have to be stiff behind your screen, but you can move in any position you want because the keyboard would be in the same place.”

Rem Koolhaas to Build Marina Abramovic’s New Museum of Performance Art – “Marina Abramovic signed a deal with architect Rem Koolhaus earlier this week to design and construct her Center for the Preservation of Performance Art in Hudson, New York.”

MOMA Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 – “Over eight consecutive nights, MoMA presents a chronological exploration of the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk with a live presentation of their complete repertoire in the Museum’s Marron Atrium. Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of Kraftwerk’s studio albums—Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003)—in the order of their release.”

Damien Hirst’s Latest (and Greatest?) Scheme: Saving the World Through Eco-Architecture – “Sustainable luxury flourishes like rooftop wind turbines, solar panels, and the most technologically advanced methods of insulation. He has made it clear the development wasn’t going to be a “retirement home” community, either.” ahh, devon. but I do wonder how they plan to make single homes like this eco-friendly.

Switzerland to Build ‘Janitor Satellite’ to Clean Up Space | Swiss Scientists Combat the Growing Space Junk Problem – “Swiss scientists and engineers have announced the launch of CleanSpace One, a project to build the first in a family of “janitor” satellites that will help clean up space.” this is so swiss, tidy but kinda cool

Shepard to guest star on The Simpsons TV Show on March 4th!! – “On March 4, 2012, Shepard will guest star on the 23rd Season of the iconic television series, The Simpsons. Episode 15 – “Exit Though The Kwik-E-Mart”, In order to get back at his dad, Bart goes undercover as a graffiti street artist and plasters Homer’s unflattering image all over Springfield. But one night, Bart and Milhouse get caught in the act by established street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal” do not read more, shepard pretty much manages to give the whole plot away. but this should be fun.

The Simpsons at 500: your top 10 episodes – “We asked you for your favourite Simpsons episode. Surprisingly the top 10 were made during the first decade of the show”

Anarchistic and self-trained, are street medics the future of first aid? – “Anarchistic, high-energy, and self- organized, street medics have been part of activist counterculture since the 1960s, with major presences at civil-rights protests, anti–Vietnam War actions, the American Indian Movement’s occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, anti-globalization protests in the 1990s and early aughts, and most recently, at Occupy encampments internationally.”

Penny Red: A love letter for London – “London is more than two cities. It is many cities. It is the city and the city and the city and the city, a delicate, dirty palimpsest of history layered on history. A city where kids with hoods and hopeless eyes can start burning police cars and looting the high streets and the question on the lips of the broadsheet writers and politicians who live and work a few streets away can still be: where the hell did these people come from?”

remove app deletes unwanted passersby from photos – “upon pressing the shutter button, the app actually snaps multiple pictures in a row in order to assess the ‘real’ background, without passersby. clicking ‘remove’ automatically displays the composited shot without the objects that the app has detected to be removable;”

The Transparency Grenade – “The Transparency Grenade fights against the lack of corporate and governmental transparency. It captures network traffic and audio at the site of closed meetings and anonymously streams the data to a dedicated server where email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice are extracted and displayed on an online map.”

‘Losing’ the world: American decline in perspective, part 1 – “US foreign policy ‘experts’ only ever provide an echo chamber for American imperial power. A longer, broader view is necessary”

Anarchism Is Not What You Think It Is — And There’s a Whole Lot We Can Learn from It – “The word anarchism has been so stripped of substance that it has come to be equated with chaos and nihilism. That’s not what it means.” Mostly on Kropotkin and his writing

I Love Architecture. | Architecture for Humanity – “Our work has the ability to effect the lives of billions and rather than cynically fighting with each other for the 1% lets work together to restore the pride of the profession and find ways to bring great design for the seven billion people that long for great spaces to live, work and play.”

plastic bottle carrier by ka-lai chan – “the flat rubber-like disk has a ten openings whereby one can easily slip the nozzles of the empty bottles through the holes. the lightweight design has a built-in handle making it user-friendly to carry around, encouraging green behavior.”

1% Art – “If we, as curators, critics, art historians and artists, withdraw our cultural capital from these markets, we have the potential to create a new art field where radical forms of autonomy can develop: not as secessionist “alternatives’ that exist only in the grandiose enactments and magical thinking of artists and theorists, but as fully institutionalized structures, which, with the “properly social magic of institutions,’ will be able to produce, reproduce and reward noncommercial values.”

Ana Tijoux: Addressing Global Unrest In Rhyme – “I live in Chile, with all those student protests, and this parallel situation that is happening with Indignados in Spain, or the crisis in Greece, or Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Oakland. When I was making [the album] I was reading a lot of news and talking about the world with friends, and in the end that totally influenced my work.”

Cindy Sherman as Hugh Hefner, or Is It Hugh Hefner-Esque? – “Perhaps the most remarkable shot is Cindy as Herself, sans make-up, wigs and facial locutions. The photographer as tabula rasa — blank, translucent, riddled with metaphysical tracks from decades of drag. ”

Cinemagram, An Animated Photo GIF Maker for iPhone – “Create a stunning hybrid between photo and video. Animate small portions of your photo to create a magical image that’s part-photo and part-video. Apply vintage / cross processing filters, and share your masterful creation.”

plastic bottle cap art by satoshi hirose – “the piece is formed from plastic– a heap comprised of caps from the recyclable tops of plastic bottles gathered by the artist over the course of nine years.”

The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s evolution, stupid – “We all know how evolution works, except one industry that refuses to evolve: the entertainment industry. Instead of looking at evolution as something inevitable, the industry has made it their business to refuse and/or sue change, by any necessary means.”

What Greek Austerity Looks Like – “Half-Greek and half-Indonesian, photojournalist Eirini Vourloumis moved back to her hometown of Athens, Greece, in 2010 to cover the economic crisis. She found her country unrecognizable.”

Mapping Stereotypes – the swiss perspective map scares me.

Long Term Unemployment Stories – I have been unemployed for so long, reading these stories made me cry and cringe.

The Orb to release album with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – “The Orb’s Alex Paterson has revealed that he’ll be releasing a collaborative album with dub legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry this September.”

Him & Her Chairs, Anatomical Chairs from Designer Fabio Novembre – I ate at the Osha Thai restaurant, and not only the chairs are excellent.

Watchlist: Maria Anwander – “The Kiss 2007/2010″: “The Kiss” was given to the MoMA as a donation without asking for permission. I entered the museum as a regular visitor and gave an intense French kiss to the wall. Next to the invisible kiss I then fixed a fake label, which simulated the style of a regular MoMA caption.”

Oliver Schau: Guerilla-Bänke DN_100 – guerilla benches made with drainage pipes wrapped around bicycle racks and other objects

Luzinterruptus: “Drinking water running through the streets” – “In Madrid, in less than 30 years, more than 50% of the public fountains in service have been lost, which now are seen to be dismantled, broken, without a tap to drink from or simply dry. To criticize the indifference of the administration in regards to a necessary public service, we carried out our action”

Post-Crash Fascism – “Climate change is happening faster than initially predicted, and its impacts are already upon us in the form of more extreme weather events, desertification, ocean acidification, melting glaciers and incrementally rising sea levels.”

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Ana Tijoux: Addressing Global Unrest In Rhyme

“I live in Chile, with all those student protests, and this parallel situation that is happening with Indignados in Spain, or the crisis in Greece, or Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Oakland. When I was making [the album] I was reading a lot of news and talking about the world with friends, and in the end that totally influenced my work.”

After reading this article and listening to the podcast I really wanted to purchase Ana Tijou’s new album La Bala as an mp3 download. I don’t ever buy drm-crippled music, so iTunes is out of the question. amazon.com has the album but won’t let me purchase it where I live. amazon.de just has an import CD, but does not offer an mp3 version. further google searches didn’t give me any viable result. Ana Tijou’s official website does not have a shop.

So where am i going to turn?

This pisses me off, i really wanted to support this artist.
Ana, if you read this, can i paypal you some money?

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The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s evolution, stupid

We all know how evolution works, except one industry that refuses to evolve: the entertainment industry.

Instead of looking at evolution as something inevitable, the industry has made it their business to refuse and/or sue change, by any necessary means.

[...]

“Today I urge everyone to make sure that the entertainment industry does not profit from them anymore. Stop seeing their movies. Stop listening to their music. Make sure that you find alternative ways to culture.

“Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.”

After their appeal was refused by Swedish supreme court, the pirate bay guys face up to a year in prison. But of course this did not change their convictions. After all, the earth really is not flat.

I especially liked the suggestion to boycott the entertainment industry and to find new ways to culture. There’s something to contemplate…

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Whitney Houston album price hike sparks controversy

The music giant is understood to have lifted the wholesale price of Houston’s greatest hits album, The Ultimate Collection, at about 4am California time on Sunday. This meant that the iTunes retail price of the album automatically increased from £4.99 to £7.99.

This just shows how deeply cynical the music industry is. And I have nothing else to add.

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Skyrim Intervention – “When Greg’s family and friends finally have enough of him missing out on real life, they must take drastic measures to convince him to stop, but will he listen?”

Super Mario for Piano and Tap dabce – “My friend and Astoria neighbor Alex MacDonald stopped by to lend his awesome tap dance skills to a stride piano version of the “Super Mario World” theme song.”

Flying People in New York City – “Three human shaped RC planes were flown around New York City to create the illusion of people flying. Lots of fun.”

Untitled on Vimeo – Femen protests WEF in Davos

Radar (Rémi Gaillard) – “Dangerously funny videos created and produced by Rémi GAILLARD…”

#learn

Valentine’s Day Egg in the Basket – toad in a hole

Simply brilliant. Bake an Egg in an Avocado. – A must-cook

Stream Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die in full – What’s all the fuss about? Does it suck or not? Stream the new Lana Del Rey album to make up your own mind.

Survival Research Laboratories: banned in San Francisco – “SRL was recently banned from performing in San Francisco by the SF fire dept. In December 2011, Somarts, a local gallery venue,/arts support organization in the city asked SRL to participate in I am Crime, a show of artists who had been arrested for activities related to their work.”

Aram Bartholls Darth Anonymous-Mask – “Aram Bartholl hat mit der Anonymous-Maske experimentiert, ein paar Formen gebaut und daraus eine Guy Darth-Maske gebastelt: How To Vacuum Form”

david shrigley: brain activity at hayward gallery, london – “southbank centre’s hayward gallery, london, UK, 1st to may 13th, 2012″ great art, wish i was in london

Raising Chickens for Dummies – “It did the best job of anticipating our questions for a low-rent minimal approach. For instance, we had no desire to be cleaning chicken-shit every week, and we opted for deep bedding in the coop, a tip suggested by the book.”

Solid Steel Radio Show 27/1/2012 Part 3 + 4 – Pepe Deluxe by Ninja Tune – “In hour 2 it’s the return of Pepe Deluxe with a mix celebrating the release of his highly anticipated ‘Queen of the wave’ album, out on the 30th January. It’s a concept album,with the usual Pepe elements of late 60′s vinyl influenced sound, plus weird instruments and equipment, including The Great Stalacpipe Organ (the largest instrument in the world).”

Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) – “A fun Sunday project with my daughter on brand logos.” interesting which ones she knows…

Occupy Oakland Move-In Day – Fantastic photos from the occupy oakland move-in day protests

The Flaming Lips ‘Now I Understand’ featuring Apple’s Siri on vocals – “The loose narrative begins with Siri not understanding the moon, the stars, and the sun… but with the power of Erykah Badu’s singing, and her pointing out stars and sun, Siri learns to understand.”

Graphic novelist Craig Thompson on the making of Habibi – “It took the graphic novelist Craig Thompson seven years to complete Habibi, his epic exploration of child slavery and sexual awakening in an imaginary Middle-Eastern kingdom. Here he charts its creation from first thoughts to finished pages”

anselm kiefer: il mistero delle cattedrali – fantastic new work by anselm kiefer, il mistero delle cattedrali. especially that bike just blew my mind

Street Art At Its Best: Duchamp Was Here – clever

A.D.D. comic book: Exclusive essay and excerpt by author Douglas Rushkoff – “But, to me anyway, something never felt right about this line of reasoning. Even if playing video games and answering txt messages shortens the attention span, what if it broadens the attention range? What if the downsides of an A.D.D. approach to life were actually offset by some other, still unidentified advantage? Or in computer programmer’s parlance, what if A.D.D. weren’t a bug, but a feature?”

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‘My First Hardcore Song’ by 8yr old Juliet OFFICIAL – “8 yr old Juliet teamed up with the hottest producer ROB SHARPE this school holidays and smashed out this BRUTAL track..” gives me hope

YEARS – “A record player that plays slices of wood.”

The Many D’ohs of Homer Simpson – “From Season 1-20 of The Simpsons, the D’ohs that Homer Simpson says.”

Burning Man: Rites Of Passage, Burning Man Experience In Day & Night – “Burning Man: Rites Of Passage, Burning Man Experience In Day & Night By Rusty Blazenhoff on January 14, 2012 Burning Man: Rites Of Passage is a two-part film from Brooklyn-based photographer Ahmed that shows “a short glimpse” of the 2011 Burning Man festival experience in day and night.” these films are so beautiful they made me sad that I will never make it to burning man …

The Scream – Edvard Munch’s famous painting animated

#learn

Famous Photogs Pose With Their Most Iconic Images – “Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like. Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos”

the pothole gardener – “londoner steve wheen brings greenery and miniature scenes to the streets of east london in his ‘the pot hole gardener’ project. the idea, which was conceptualized based on guerrilla gardening, is simple: ‘my neighbourhood has a distinct lack of green space,’ wheen reflects; ‘[and] I’m a gardener with no garden.’”

Sandwich Artist – classic art pieces in sandwich form

Herpderpedia, A Collection of Tweets by People Freaking Out About Wikipedia’s SOPA & PIPA Blackout – “This in turn has resulted in quite a few freakouts on Twitter that are being thoughtfully collected by Nick Quaranto on @herpderpedia.

The Occupy movement: three months on – “There are different ways of being on the streets, and all of them are political. As the recession immiserates more and more of us, resistance will increasingly become a process of negotiating trauma, of developing economies of care that include the lost, the destitute, the down-and-out, those who cannot be “fluffy” because they have become crusted over with the debris of desperation. When these occupations are evicted, not everyone involved will be able to go home, scrub the dirt out of their hair and go back to work. Those who have lost their jobs and homes, those who left them to protest, and those who never had them in the first place attract disapprobium from their own side as well as from those determined to slander the anti-capitalist movement as filthy and unkempt. Useful activism, however, usually involves getting your hands dirty.”

#FactsWithoutWikipedia, Twitter Users Create Their Own “Facts” Without the Use of Wikipedia – “With the English language version of Wikipedia blacked out to protest of SOPA and PIPA today, Twitter users have begun creating their own humorous “facts” and tagging them with #FactsWithoutWikipedia.”

Valentine’s Domo – “A plush of pink Domo with heart-shaped glasses”

TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA – “As someone who creates content for the web, earns a living from it, and has had his content pirated, I do feel that we need better legislation against online piracy. I do not, however, think that SOPA or PIPA are the legislation we need.”

iconic black-and-white photos photoshopped in colour – “swedish artist sanna dullaway renders iconic black-and-white photographs in colour, utilizing primarily photoshop CS 5. dullaway, who offers a recolouring and restoration service for old photographs, undertook the works– alongside processing old family photos– as a personal project.”

melted plastic sculptures by stefan gross – “his melted plastic statues are formed from found objects– in this instance, childrens plastic toys. the grittiness of the collection may be observed in the sort of scientific approach gross employs in his practice of filling each toy with plastic organs to then spill as the innards of the disemboweled objects”

Capitalism Works For Me! True/False – “The sign starts here in Cleveland and will tour the US leading up to and beyond the 2012 presidential election. People who vote will be given the opportunity to have their portrait taken and give a short statement about why they voted the way they did. There will be a book, website, and videos that document people’s interactions and thoughts.”

svetlana mikhailova: tools for self-punishment – “Self-Punishment is one of the oldest religious practices in the world. This project explores a topic of what is self-punishment today; Are soul-searching, self-effacement, sorrow and self-incrimination physiological disorders or strength which allows you move forward?”

Strike Against SOPA & PIPA – “Over coming days you’ll be hearing from the many businesses, advocacy organizations, and ordinary Americans who oppose this legislation because of the myriad ways in which it will stifle free speech and innovation. We hope you’ll take our concerns to heart and oppose this legislation.”

Rave Wars II – The Hardcore Strikes Back – “Limited edition of 200 copies.” and it’s already sold out.

Where the hits are streaming in 2011 – “We are also see­ing Hol­ly­wood now treat­ing online as more equiv­a­lent to DVD sales, offer­ing titles for sale online at roughly the same rate as they do on DVD. Let’s hope that this trend con­tin­ues to hold and that the indus­try sees the wis­dom of pro­vid­ing online streams in an ear­lier release win­dow. ”

Half the world’s richest 1% live in the United States – “In the grand scheme of things, even the poorest 5% of Americans are better off financially than two thirds of the entire world.”

WordPress › SOPA Blackout Plugin – “This plugin allows you to set SOPA blackout dates for your WordPress website. SEO friendly plus easy options to configure how often it’s shown.”

STRIKE AGAINST SOPA – lists sites that will go dark on 18.01. to protest SOPA

Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA – great summary why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA

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Thesen gegen die Ausplünderung der Gesellschaft – “Der Kapitalismus braucht keine Demokratie, sondern stabile Verhältnisse. Dass funktionierende demokratische Strukturen eher als Gegenkraft und Bremse des Kapitalismus wirken können und so auch wahrgenommen werden, machten die Reaktionen auf die angekündigte Volksabstimmung in Griechenland und deren baldige Rücknahme deutlich.”

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Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse – “After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I put together this time lapse video of the many amazing places I came across.”

Pingu’s THE THING – “Pingu remake of John Carpenter masterpiece THE THING (1982) This is the 2 minute extended cut.”

Fishing under ice – “Some under ice views from beautiful lake Saarijärvi in Vaala, Finland.”

never a dull moment on the nyc subway – “An awesome performance by two people who have never met before.”

Cat attacks singing card. – this cat has good taste, of course she would attack this card

#learn

How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? – “Here is this fictional character who is now suddenly interacting in the real world. It’s so far up its own rear end”

Raoul Vaneigem Interview – “But indignation isn’t enough. It is less a matter of struggling against a system that is collapsing than in favor of new social structures founded upon direct democracy.”

Global unrest: how the revolution went viral – “The past 18 months have seen extraordinary outpourings of discontent. But what links them? In this extract from his new book, Paul Mason examines how technology has been at the heart of the global unrest, and finds parallels less with 1968, and more with 1914″

Former Homeless Woman Becomes Twitter Celebrity – “The 41-year-old tweets to her more than 4,800 followers about what it was like to be homeless and also advocates for homeless people. When she was homeless, Walsh would tweet from her cell phone or use computers at her local library.”

Peeing out the window of a moving Muni bus – “HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEARS ASSHOLES, I JUST PEED OUT THE WINDOW OF A MOVING BUS.” classy.

The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012 – “we see persistent focus on the politics of the various nation-states, yet those entities are increasingly broke and powerless, their poetical and economic force is waning.” as visionary as ever.

get a free occupy sticker, designed by shepard fairey – one per household is free, but still …

Exhibition – Corporations Are People Too – “In a time where protesters across the country, and the world, are objecting to the influence corporations have over democratically elected governments and one leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President, Mitt Romney, was roundly criticized for claiming during a campaign stop that “Corporations are people too,” a bright spotlight is being shined on the complicated role they play in contemporary life.”

Sweden recognises church of file sharing as a religion – “A group of 3,000 Swedish file sharers have succeeded in getting their organisation, called the Church of Kopimism, recognised as a religion by the Swedish authorities.”

Plan to create Central Park on the roofs of Beirut – “The hanging gardens of Babylon were the inspiration for an architect’s ambition to turn the city of Beirut into a “wonder forest”.”

Mogees – “Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds.”

Paperback Q&A: Jon Ronson on The Psychopath Test – “This struck me as such a huge thought, I kept wondering if I could verify it. Could I become a professional psychopath spotter and journey into the corridors of power?”

Tell Congress To Undo The NDAA, Ban Indefinite Military Detention Of Americans – “President Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law despite startling provisions that will allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens.”

Lost ring found on carrot – “Lena Paahlsson, who lives on a farm near Mora, Sweden, says that she found her wedding ring, lost for 16 years, on a carrot in her garden.”

Record mp3: record live audio and get an mp3 – “Just click the button above to start recording. We will give you an mp3 you can save, and a link you can share with anyone. If you want better sound quality, connect a headset”

Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day. – huge bubbles you can pop every day

The Obliteration Room, Kids Cover All White Room in Polka Dots – “Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama created obliteration room, an art work where she gathered used furniture, recreated a typical Australian home all in white and then allowed children to sticker it in colorful polka dots.”

“Blindside” can’t be seen to be believed. – “It’s called BlindSide, and it’s one of the first games to bring a brand new gaming experience to sighted players, that can also be fully enjoyed by visually impaired gamers. So far we’ve completed 10 minutes of gameplay to prove out the technology, and demonstrate that our core mechanic is fun.” game play by audio cues

Turn Any WordPress Site Into A BitTorrent Tracker – “A new plugin for WordPress allows anyone to set up a fully functioning BitTorrent site in just a few minutes.”

My Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list – this is so meta, it almost hurts

Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future – “The future isn’t pre-ordained. It is contested and contestable. Science fiction isn’t a literature that tells you what will happen tomorrow.”

Guerrilla Grafters: Splicing Fruit-Bearing Branches Onto City Trees – “In San Francisco, a new form of covert agriculture is taking root: making fruit trees out of trees that normally don’t bear fruit, and turning an entire city into an orchard.”

Anonymous 101 Part Deux: Morals Triumph Over Lulz – “In the beginning, there were lulz, pranks and a culture of trolling just to get a rise out of anyone. But despite many original Anons best efforts, Anonymous has grown up to become the net’s immune system, striking back whenever the hive mind perceived that the institutions that run the world crossed the line into hypocrisy.”

25 best Occupy photos of 2011 – “Below, the best photos of the Occupy movement from the past year.”

In Photo Series, Photographer Defies Gravity And Reality – “Paris-based artist and photographer Philippe Ramette has a passion of defying gravity and reality.”

Morrissey Hacked Into Google Earth – “The Google hack insert is a pixeled replica of Morrissey’s pose on the 1986 The Queen Is Dead LP, right at the virtual replica of the location at St Ignatius Walk in Salford, M5 3RX, United Kingdom” sweet

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PK-Training2012 – “Permakultur-Training 2012 – inklusive 72 Stunden-Kurs nach Bill Mollison – März bis Nov. 2012 an 12 verschiedenen Orten neu mit Josef Holzer, Sohn von Sepp Holzer und Margit Rusch Autorin des Buches anders Gärtnern Permakultur Elemente im Hausgarten”

Kevinismus – “Als Kevinismus (auch: Chantalismus) bezeichnet man die krankhafte Unfähigkeit, menschlichem Nachwuchs menschliche Namen zu geben.”

Press Pause Play – “Ein­er­seits bietet die heutige Zeit sicher grandiose Möglichkeiten, der Welt sein Schaf­fen mitzuteilen und so wie z.B. Seth Godin ein Buch kosten­los zu veröf­fentlichen und dabei noch Geld zu ver­di­enen, ander­er­seits besteht angesichts der schieren Masse von uhuere geilem Züg prak­tisch keine Möglichkeit aus diese Masse her­auszustechen, wenn men­sch erst beginnt, Küstler zu sein.”

DMZ is no more – a sad day in comic history, the best graphic novel of the last years ends its run.

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Reggie Watts: Humor in music – “Watts knows this audience well”

Poetic Terror 3: The Final Detonation (Terrorismo Poético 3: O Desembesto Final) – “Short film about urban intervention and street art.”

2012 & The End Of The World – “Why (some) people think the world will come to an end during 2012.”

TotalRandomness512′s Channel – silent video by a kid with a serious heart condition who died a few days after posting this. very moving.

NextLevel Squad – gasmasks! and wicked next generation dance moves

Riley on Marketing – riley has already figured this out

TateShots: Maurice Sendak – “Maurice Sendak, the creative genius behind books such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen’, is an illustrator whose work has been seen by millions of people all over the world.”

How to Film a Revolution – a tutorial – Occupy the Movie – “Big brother, we are watching you. Part of OCCUPY THE MOVIE, an indy film series aiming to be entirely funded by the 99%. Join us, become a crowd funding produce”

robotarm scratch – created by daito manabe and motoi ishibashi

#learn

Richard Prince Lawsuit Focuses on Limits of Appropriation – “recycle and remix culture is gaining speed so rapidly that trying to bring order to it was, even now, like trying to hit a moving target.” well… if then NYT starts to say so…

A break a day, every day, all year. – steinski did a mix for “a break a day” soundcloud.com/365breaks

Kyle Bean: “Soft Guerilla” – “A series of weapons made from harmless materials for a feature article centred around the topic of ‘Guerilla Gardening’ and ‘Yarn Bombing’.”

Fireplace – fireplace software. yup. interactive as well.

Book Review – Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization – “The quality of the book extends way beyond its premise. Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization is composed of 30 essays by artists, art historians, philosophers, cultural critics, social scientists, curators, theatre directors, etc. I expected at least one or two of these texts to be bland, too scholarly, or cliché.” thank you regine.

Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% – I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook”

WonderLand – “a unique but rather simple and elegant artificial lighting and household objects (from vegetables to plastic bags)”

Drexciya: Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I – “You’ve heard bits and pieces of Drexciya, you grasp their importance, but you feel guilty: you don’t really know Drexciya’s music, and you should. But where on earth do you begin?” the electro gods lineage is clear – kraftwerk, drexciya, aphex twin, boards of canada

In Caffeine We Trust: Infographic Print For Tracking Your Coffee Consumption Data – “In Caffeine We Trust: Infographic Print For Tracking Your Coffee Consumption Data”

Car Atlas – Rainbow, 2,500 Toy Cars Arranged in a Circular Rainbow – “London-based artist David T Waller created Car Atlas – Rainbow, a beautiful art installation using nearly 2,500 toy cars arranged in a giant circular rainbow pattern.”

The Boombox Project, A Photobook of Vintage Boomboxes – “The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring fine art photographs of vintage boomboxes.”

Wormworldsaga.com – Part 2 – part 2 is out

Illustrated Map of Argentina’s Primera División Stadiums and Clubs – “all the details you could possibly want on Argentina’s Primera División for the 2012 Clausura”

The Family – “Over 10 years ago, Jocelyn Bain Hogg followed and portrayed the protagonists of organised crime in South London. Gangsters, funerals, big rings, big cigars, diamond-encrusted knuckle duster, more funerals, pimps and prostitutes”

be afraid be very afraid – this graphic gave me a fou rire this morning …

#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You – “On those rare occasions when we want to form a crowd, our tech can work a strange, dark magic.”

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Fionn Regan – Dogwood Blossom

LANA DEL REY-VIDEO GAMES

PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder

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#occupy resources

The San Francisco Sheriff That Shot Scott Olsen – the photo is so obviously photoshopped that I reserve some doubts.

If I can’t wear a short skirt, I don’t want your revolution – “Advising women to avoid arousing potential rapists is a gross misunderstanding of the nature of sexual violence.”

Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating – “People don’t want handouts. It’s not a class uprising and they don’t want civil war — they want just the opposite. They want everyone to live in the same country, and live by the same rules. It’s amazing that some people think that that’s asking a lot.”

Occupy Wall Street is not a Protest but a Prototype – “That’s what makes Occupy so very scary and so very promising. It is not a protest, but a prototype for a new way of living.”

The Occupied Wall Street Journal | – It now has a website. Great Job

L.I. Couple Seeks Trademark For – “Citing the potential of “Occupy Wall Street” to become a “global brand,” a Long Island couple has filed to trademark the name of the amorphous organization responsible for the protests and encampments in lower Manhattan and other U.S. cities” so cynical

OCCUPIED! PieceOPlastic – The Revolution Will Be Blogged | – occupy the interweb, one website at a time

I’m Getting Arrested – Android One-Click App That Lets People Know You’ve Been Arrested

Banksy Artwork for Occupy London Movement – “The Occupy London Movement has received a nice gift in the form of a sculpture from none other than artist Banksy it seems. The artist presents his take on the Monopoly game with Uncle Pennybags looking for a handout.”

Drumming and the Occupation – “Drumming has a loud voice in Liberty Square. Pulse is an important piece of our movement – they are integral to marches, morale, and the general mood of energy we have created. But many within Liberty Square feel as though their voice is being drowned out by the drumming, that it has become difficult to have the conversations that they think are important.”

Anonymous_-_ Survival_Guide_for_Citizens_in_a_Revolution – time to go shopping supplies yet?

A cultural thought experiment – “The diminishing marginal utility law dictates that the more money we have, the less utility we get from any additional incremental gain. And this bites the top 1% very hard indeed.”

An Overview of the Euro Crisis – “European leaders are meeting this week to deal with growing debt problems rattling investors worldwide. Here is a visual guide to the crisis.” The infographic of infographics, precise, clear, informative.

#watch and

“Lord Cain,” by Tim Heidecker (music) – “Because Herman Cain’s actual campaign ads just aren’t weird enough: “Lord Cain,” an opus by Tim Heidecker”

War Costs – “we want to introduce you to the elite among the gang of superrich: the war profiteers. War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S.”

Fox News UK at the Occupy LSX – “Fox News UK’s Don Ronson reporting from the front line at the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest and meeting the proto-fascist hippy-sludge head on.” good fox mock [via b3ta]

Eclectic Method – Zombies – “Zombies mashup for the halloweenin’” ffffffffssssspoooky

android dreams – “A tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose atmospheric work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapses”

Steve Jobs’ iBiography flies off the shelves – “Will Apple carry out Jobs’ goal of waging “thermonuclear war” on Android?” the korean animation version of the steve jobs biography

RAW VIDEO: Ground footage of Occupy Oakland march and crowd dispersal – coverage from Oakland, towards the end of the clip you can see protesters trying to help an injured person on the ground, the group are shot with teargas.

#learn

Let’s not make money – “a few great films that bring context to the current uprising and related issues.” list of 10 films/documentaries addressing the issues the occupy movement is about.

50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts – I tortured myself and watched through all these. Had a flare up from just watching, I think

Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back – “There’s no easy solution. Should a company be expected to maintain features indefinitely because a tiny fraction of their base loves them? There are tangible costs to maintaining old code, and fringe features can clutter an interface, making user experience worse for those that don’t use them.”

Submarine Cable Map – who owns the submarine cables?

Visual Trace Route Tool – Find, Track, and Map the Route to an IP Address – trace route tool

Artist Keiichi Matsuda assigns people fake personalities via Kinect – “The installation explores the construction and broadcast of identity online,” Matsuda told Wired.co.uk. “With social media, we create virtual personas through posting updates, keywords, links, and also by our connections and associations. We wanted to expose this digital aura, while questioning how this new way of defining ourselves may start to trap and enmesh us.”

energy efficient smart thermostat: nest – “‘nest’ is a sensing, automatic energy-saving thermostat, developed by the california-based nest labs company
founded by tony fadell and matt rogers.” it also learns your preferences. and it looks goddamn great.

Performance Artist Gives Birth at Brooklyn Gallery – “While she was expecting, about twenty people a day stopped by for a visit. The gallery won’t say how many actually witnessed the creation of the 9-pound, 2-ounce, 21-inch, flesh and blood work, nor will they release photos and video… yet.”

Kick Other Devices off a Wi-Fi Network with WiFiKill on Android – “The app disables the connection of other devices on the same Wi-Fi network” sounds evil.

Triticum Fever, by Dr. William Davis, author of Wheat Belly – “Modern wheat is the altered offspring of thousands of genetic manipulations, crude and sometimes bizarre techniques that pre-date the age of genetic modification.” Literally all my favorite food items contain weat, pasta, pizza, cookies, pies … this diet would kill me

Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida – “”No real than you are.” This suggests it has the same origin as Lego men who washed ashore in Zandvoort, Holland, three years ago, and then in Brighton, England.”

She Was A Camera – “As an early online community, camgirls learned to both live on and produce the web together. We were our own audience.”

Channel Four livestreams the devouring of a hippo – “If you’re looking for a video to watch while munching your sandwiches at lunchtime, why not head over to Channel Four to watch a live feed of a maggoty hippo being devoured?” No thank you

The building that will take 80 years to grow – “A Swedish design firm has created a two-storey retreat for students at a campus in Milan, but it will take 80 years to grow.”

I’M BANKSY – photographer Kim Guthrie portraits people wearing “i’m Banksy” tshirts

Prune Nourry’s Cow Humanoid Takes the Ganges – “Nourry continues to remix cultural mythology for Holy River by working with local artisans to build an 18-foot-high sculpture out of the clay from the Ganges, traditional trimmings and one hefty guilt trip.” can’t resist to say holy cow to that.

You are the Power of Open: 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign – It’s that time of the year again, yay, another CC tshirt soon

Update: Florian Rivière – More awesome Guerilla urbaine interventions

SKANDAL! BRONCO NACKT! – Berlin street artist Bronco pastes a stencil while he was naked. The stencil says he was naked while he did this. See what he did there?

Authors on Anarchism – an Interview with Alan Moore – “It was later, as I went into my twenties and started to think about things more seriously that I came to a conclusion that basically the only political standpoint that I could possibly adhere to would be an anarchist one.”

USA vs. The Rest of the World – “Dear, United States. This is how the rest of us see your measurement system.”

KALIBER10000 – “Having gratefully enjoyed every millisecond of that fifteen year run, its time has come and so we must bid adieu to Barney and the clan.” k10k pulls the plug

Miranda July: ‘Take a moment to connect with a stranger’ – “Sigh now in preparation”

The deification of Steve Jobs is Apple’s greatest marketing triumph to date – “Apple pays just £3.99 for the production of your £600 iPhone, and it is the workers who pay for their – and our – greed, so we can tweet and be moving dots on a map. As Mike Daisey said, also in the New York Times, Jobs could have done something about this. He could have really changed the world. He chose not to.”

#lang:de

Jetzt kann sich jeder einen Wasserwerfer bauen – “Die Zürcher Stadtpolizei verkauft neuerdings Wasserwerfer. Die Endmontage erweist sich als Herausforderung für Bastler.”

Petition Reitschule: Bleib, wie du bist! – “Ich sage «JA» zu einer lebendigen, alternativen und einzigartigen Reitschule, wie ich sie heute kenne und schätze. Reitschule: Bleib, wie du bist!”

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Talib Kweli at Occupy Wall Street – “Talib Kweli stopped by Liberty Plaza to stand with the people. “This is the end game”

Support the Occupy Movement x Free Downloads – “These FREE downloadable posters are promotional materials to help support the Occupy Wall Street Movement.”

Naomi Klein @ Occupy Wall Street 10-06-2011 – “Author of the Shock Doctrine joins thousands In NYC to shift the economic conversation towards the 99% of the Nation in one of the richest zip codes in the country”

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now – “Let’s treat this beautiful movement as if it is most important thing in the world. Because it is. It really is.”

Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) – “A new angle on Occupy Wall Street reveals the strong micro community that has formed there.”

Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it – “Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.”

Tony Baloney Theme Song – “Tony Baloney (dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb you are) Knows the way eyes feel tonight (ooh-yay-yay-yay-yeah)”

700 Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge as Occupy Wall Street Enters Third Week, Protests Grows Nationwide – “We host a roundtable discussion with Marisa Holmes, an organizer with the main organizing group of Occupy Wall Street, called the General Assembly, Marina Sitrin, an attorney who is part of Occupy Wall Street’s legal working group, and Laurie Penny, a writer and journalist who reported on protests in London earlier this summer”

Anger and Anarchy on Wall Street – “On September 16, 1920, an explosion at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in downtown Manhattan killed 39 people and wounded hundreds more.”

Prepare Your Digital Camera to Document a Protest – “You should backup your photos in case your camera gets lost, or seized by the police. Especially if you have photographs that you wish to remain private. It is a good idea to purchase a separate memory card” – i wish there was some info on how to be careful regarding anonymity, don’t take too many pictures where people’s faces are too easily recognized

Demographic of One, My attempt at creating a funny little… – “My attempt at creating a funny little stencil/protest sign for Occupy Wall Street – by Moly CrabApple”

Twitter / @YourAnonNews – “Here’s the Occupied Wall Street Journal as PDF: http://tinyurl.com/3sefnjy #OccupyWallstreet”

Laurie Penny: It’s easy to mock, but this is how real change begins – “‘I feel bad for you young people’ one of them tells me. ‘You have all the same bullshit to deal with as us. And you don’t even get Woodstock’”

Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street ) – “We want to share insights into the formation of a new social movement as it is still taking shape in real time.”

Why We’re Occupying Wall Street – “We get to the root of what many protestors are looking for from Occupy Wall Street.”

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City – “As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.”

Occupying Wall Street – “The famous statue, the symbol of aggressive market optimism, is normally open for tourists to grope and fondle, but today, in part because of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest, it has been penned. Today, the Wall Street Bull looks amusingly like a panicked animal in a cage.” Laurie Pennys first post.

Occupy Everything
“700+ protestors are arrested after thousands march from Liberty Plaza to the Brooklyn Bridge. Filmed by Kristopher Rae Edited by Kristopher Rae & Nicky Eyebrows Music “The Youth” – MGMT” amazing video

The Sounds of #OccupyWallStreet by danpatterson – a soundscape from #occupywallstreet, CC-licensed

#stevejobs

Steve Jobs Eulogy by “Last True Hacker” Goes Too Far – “On his personal political blog, Stallman remembers Jobs as “The pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool,” and remarks that “I’m not glad he’s dead but I’m glad he’s gone.””

Lieber Steve Jobs, du hast uns die Freiheit genommen. Vielen Dank dafür! – “Das eigentliche Vermächtnis ist genau dieser Zweispalt, in den Steve Jobs die Entwicklung der digitalen Gesellschaft getrieben hat: Wir wollen diesen Lifestyle – und er macht uns unfreier.”

Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer – “Steve Jobs, who died yesterday, combined in himself all the contradictions of the Sixties and of Bay Area experiments in consciousness.”

Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) – very honest, and very timely

#watch and

Average Font – “This project shows what a typeface would look like if it consisted of all fonts installed on my system.”

The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity (International) – the bleeped word is famine. strong

SOUL MAN™ Teaser Guillaume Ivernel (Blacklight Movies) on Vimeo – “trailer for french blaxploitation animation film that looks quite delicious”

#learn

Fear Pics – September 2011 – “Nightmare Fear Factory Flickr Stream shows people freaking out in their Haunted House”

Derek Jarman’s Garden 2003 – a set on Flickr – but where’s the nuclear power plant?

Derek Jarman’s Garden – “Avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman spent the last years of his life, after an HIV diagnosis, tending a bleak, wind-swept patch of land opposite a nuclear power plant on the southern coast of England. With just a few hardy plants and some scavenged pieces of wood he put together a stunning garden.”

The Noisolation Headphones – “The Noisolation Headphones attempt to correct an oversight of our body: our ears can’t blink. We can’t block out molesting noise as easily as we can shut off light or disturbing images.”

You vs. John Paulson – How long does it take super-trader John Paulson to earn your annual income?

Kinshasa One Two – 11 producers – 5 days in the Congo – 1 album – “Kinshasa One Two was recorded in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo over 5 days this past July. DRC Music (a collective of producers gathered by Damon Albarn) set out to make an album with contemporary Congolese musicians and worked with more than 50 local performers”

LulzSec Arrests: A Warning to Dissidents? – “It illustrates how many in the hacker community have strong principles that they expect others of “like mind” to hold – it’s just who happens to be in the group of “like minds” at any one time that is the issue.”

‘I may have been wrong about Twitter’, writes Ricky Gervais – “People say awful idiotic things all the time, but I don’t give up language because of it.”

Q&A: Mashup Kings Cassetteboy On Death Threats, Politics And Patience – “When you’re asked “Do you want to do some good in the world and help fight suffering and oppression?” I’d like to think most people would say yes.”

Searching For Mark Pilgrim – cute story of how mark pilgrim was lost and found…

Rustie – Glass Swords: exclusive album stream – “Listen to the chaotic but charming debut album by this Glaswegian producer”

DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better – “Today sees the release of DJ Shadow‘s new album, ‘The Less You Know, The Better’, in case you hadn’t seen all the press and publicity recently.”

DON’T GO OUTSIDE – best anim gif ever?

Download a new track from David Lynch’s album – “The title track from David Lynch’s debut solo album is now available for free download.” if you dare…

Astor Place Cube Crocheted by Olek – “NYC’s most famous crochet-bomber has encased the Alamo cube in her signature neon crocheting, which reminds us of her epic Wall Street Bull-wrap last from last winter.”

Blowjobs Are Actually Causing Cancer – “You know that wives’ tale about oral sex causing cancer? Turns out it’s true”

Paul Granjon at the Oriel Factory – “Right now, Granjon has a solo show at the Oriel Factory, in Newtown, Wales, where he is presenting ‘a radical new take on production lines.’ He gathered old computers, CD / DVD players, printers, toys, radios and other discarded machines and gave them as raw material to volunteers – the ‘Oriel Factory workers’.”

A comparison of leading WordPress theme frameworks – “Check out the free and premium frameworks and starter themes below. Try a few of them out and then decide which one(s) work best for your projects.”

EAMES: The Architect and the Painter – “Coming Soon: Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.”

Arsenal fans sing Adebayor shooting chant, Wenger refuses a shake – “It should have been you, it should have been you, Shot in Angola. It should have been you.” This was a reference to the horrific machine gun attack on the Togo national team buses before last year’s African Cup of Nations that killed three people. Adebayor was on one of those buses and later said he was “still haunted” by the attempt to kill him and all of his teammates. – this made me cry!

fab ciraolo – fantastic illustrations from chile! especially the round series

Rising atheism in America puts ‘religious right on the defensive’ – “High profile of faith-based politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry masks a steady growth in secularism”

The Wormworld Saga App for iPad launched!* – “The Wormworld Saga App is the kind of thing that I imagined to create. A digital graphic novel that overcomes the limits of traditional book publishing. A hub to connect to just everything around the Wormworld Saga.”

Buddhist monk vs hackerspace – “Rinpoche Fa Zang, a Buddhist monk, believed (incorrectly) that the rule of the San Francisco Noisebridge hackerspace was that “if the space was not being used, it could be used for anything.” So he and his disciples rearranged the hackerspace into a shrine and began conducting services in it.”

90 Percent of Pirates Get Dismissed from Massive Hurt Locker Lawsuit – “The biggest P2P lawsuit ever just got cut down to size. Voltage Pictures, the people behind The Hurt Locker has voluntarily dismissed 90% of the 24,583 filesharers it sued this year, in what could be a big victory for either side.”

#lang:de

Krawall im Stadion: Die bösen Fussballfans sind auch die guten – “Nach den Ausschreitungen beim Zürcher Fussballderby am letzten Sonntag fordern Vereine, Politik und Presse einhellig die Ächtung der Fehlbaren. Und blenden dabei Entscheidendes aus.”

svp werbung auf myspace kunstler sind emport – “Neu tauchen auf dem sozialen Netzwerk mySpace Werbe-Banner auf, die auf die SVP-Kampagne gegen die Masseneinwanderung aufmerksam machen. Weiter heisst es im animierten Banner: “Schweizer wählen SVP”.”

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NONONONO Cat – “The cat has seen the first time a small daughter of my friend.” how about no means no”

“Rick Perry” — A BLR Soundbite – “Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry shares a few poignant thoughts via some very Bad Lip Reading.”

One Pig by Matthew Herbert – “Matthew Herbert talks us through how he came to record One Pig – his latest album, which is made entirely out of a pig …”

American Juggalo – “American Juggalo is a look at the often mocked and misunderstood subculture of Juggalos, hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans who meet once a year for four days at The Gathering of the Juggalos.”

Goldman Sachs Rule The World Not Governments BBC Sept 26 2011 – “Trader Alessio Rastani explains how Goldman Sachs rule the world, not the governments.” smells like yesmen spoof. but as it turns out, it is not a spoof.

PUMPED UP KICKS|DUBSTEP – “DUBSTEPPIN!!!” this guy redefines dub step

Poetry Bombing With Agustina Woodgate for O, MIAMI – “We follow the artist sewing poetry tags into clothes at local thrift shops for monthlong poetry festival” i have such a crush

#learn

lolstreetart #1: PORN 2012 – “I can has cheezburger, porn and street art? Yes, you can! Welcome to the first lolstreetart calender ever – serving you delicious new works made by twelve of the best and most humorous street artists worldwide. Attention: explicit visuals!”

Vibe – “Vibe™ is a new mobile app for communicating with people around you without necessarily knowing them. Vibe works by GPS and is unique in that you choose the range and duration of your messages. It’s also anonymous. Use Vibe to exchange ideas, ask/get advice, buy/sell stuff, or even organize flash mobs!”

Flaming Lips release 24 hour song inside a human skull – “The plan is to insert a hard-drive into the human skulls, which will come covered in chrome and packaged in elegant boxes, and the hard-drive will feature the 24 hour song.”

EU: People vs Banks – “Greece’s people don’t get a cent, and we give a ton of money to rich bankers. And even worse – 30% of our money will go to speculators who recently gambled on a bailout, and want to make a massive profit from gambling on a bailout!”

Hip-Hop Happens – “Released in 1979, the single “Rapper’s Delight” launched hip-hop as a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. The opportunistic 15-minute track also revived the career of its producer, a canny R&B veteran—but it left the true pioneers of rap fuming.”

Christian Leperino – young italian painter as seen in the pavilion academia of the venice biennale; from naples

Pietro Manzo .:: Paintings ::. – young italian painter as seen in the pavilion academia of the venice biennale; from firenze

Occupy Wall Street Media by Jed Brandt – “However, to pull it off, we’re going to need a robust people’s media unbeholden to corporate money. If we want people’s democracy then we’ve got to build a people’s media — the two are inseparable.”

matteo bianchi: muffin pouffe – “the leather cushioned stool takes on the form of the popular sweet treat. hand-made with italian materials, the quirky seat is equipped with hidden storage which is revealed by simply removing the ‘muffin top’.”

Open Letter From Arun Gupta on the Wall Street Occupation: The Revolution Begins at Home – “For too long our minds have been chained by fear, by division, by impotence. The one thing the elite fear most is a great awakening. That day is here. Together we can seize it.”

Penny Red: News from Nowhere 2 – “The question is not whether we can afford to imagine a culture beyond the control of capital and the nation state, but whether we can afford not to.”

Getting High on Krystle – what a story … inside the biggest LSD-production end of 90′s.

Flickr for Android Beats Instagram to the Punch – “Flickr has 68 million registered users that have uploaded more than six billion photos. But newcomer Instagram has momentum and a very loyal user base. This should make for an interesting contest.” Finally an Instagram App for the people with good phones. but. not available in switzerland? why???

AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure – “Link sharing site Delicious re-launched on Monday with unwanted changes, huge technical problems, and a lesson in how to kill a beloved product.” to be fair, lost of things were fixed fast. but still, what a disaster.

I decided not to have children for environmental reasons – “I recognize that I am the population problem. I’m trying to be part of the solution. Let’s make it easier for others to join me.”

First Listen: DJ Shadow, ‘The Less You Know, The Better’ – “Recalling much of his early work, but with a refined slant, the new record has a thoughtfully sequenced beginning, middle and end. Think of The Less You Know, The Better — out Oct. 4 — as an epic film score without the film.”

How Anonymous emerged to Occupy Wall Street – “Mocked at first by some, Occupy Wall Street is showing the potential of online ‘hacktivism’ allied with street protest”

VLC Media Player for Android is almost a reality – “Austen describes his work on VLC for Android to be pre-alpha at this point in time, but he is still able to show some impressive results regarding basic functionality.”

Watchlist: Florian Rivière – provocative, at times vicious urban street art interventions, the ikea style building instructions for palettes are genius.

Mad Max Fans Hit the Desert for Apocalyptic Weekend – “If life after the apocalypse will be anything like Wasteland Weekend — the Mad Max-inspired event in the California desert — then go ahead and push the red button.”

Glitch – … is live. the free to play, browser-based, cute mmo is online and rocking

Logging out of Facebook is not enough – “Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.”

Fraykers Revenge Presents The DJ Shadow Breaks Set Part 3 – “This is something i conjured up a few months ago off the cuff before my machine packed in.. what you get is a Set of Music as Sampled by Mr Shadow as well as some music that sounds like it was sampled by Mr Shadow but is Not.. and some Mashups & re-mixes flung in to the Pot…”

Aakash Nihalani’s Street Art – “Urban artist Aakash Nihalani (previously at Neatorama) sent us a sneak peek at some of his illusory street art featured in a solo exhibit in Delhi, India.”

32 Pictures Of Police Brutality From Occupy Wall Street Protests – “Over 80 people were arrested in downtown Manhattan during a protest against Wall Street on Saturday. Protestors are complaining that police used excessive force. Judge for yourself.”

INFOGRAPHIC: Google Is Destroying Our Memory – “This evolution of how we learn and retain details might allow us to be more efficient in our consumption of information, but what happens to society when we become overly reliant on Google to do the job our brains have always done?”

The revolution will be sketched – “nice drawings from the #occupywallstreet protests”

Snapshots of Last Night’s ‘Occupy Wall St’ Protest – “Despite the massive police presence, demonstrators carried on, celebrating their one week anniversary into the night. Congrats on that and the new library too.”

My World Shared – “Following that first Instameet, helped to grow by Instagramers.com (a worldwide network of avid Instagrammers), many other meetups were organised, where the idea of having an Exhibition was born.” i would guess a first of many instagram “art” shows.

A Succulent Wall How-To – “- A pallet (I found mine for free at a local garden store — mine measured 25 x 38 inches) – Roll of landscaping paper – Staple gun and staples – Potting soil (I used 2.5 cubic feet for the 25×38 pallet)”

The Mayan Prophecies available online and as .pdf download – “Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden makes them available”

80 Arrested as Financial District Protest Moves North – “The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in the financial district as part of a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square.”

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Eine Politikwissenschaftlerin erzählt: Wie ich Piratin wurde – “Die Schröder-SPD war mir ein Graus, die CDU keine Alternative, die FDP zu zynisch, und die Grünen waren mir zu spießig. Ich wollte Freiheit jenseits von Gut und Böse. Deshalb bin ich in der Piratenpartei.”

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#watch and

Scarlett Johansson Nudes – the exact same thing happened to me… no! just joking.

Children's medium used for dissemination of truth – "Guest written by David O'Reilly."

Faces – "This is a technical demo for face substitution technique. The application works in real time and it's developed using the opensource framework for creative coding openFrameworks"

Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit – a trailer for the new gary hustwit documentary

Vicki Bennett "The Doors Of Perspection" [2011] – "The work is created using a technique that expands film scenes beyond the conventional screen ratio. The finished result reveals beautiful panoramic views of the background landscapes as captured by the panning camera, effectively allowing film scenes to be seen as never before."

Toward a Peer-to-Peer Economy – "Toward a Peer-to-Peer Economy is a talk from Hello Etsy in Berlin, given and recorded on September 18, 2011."

morgan freeman explains the universe :: auto-tuned – Lololol

#learn

Slavery Footprint – Made In A Free World – Find out how many slaves work for you – as soon as the servers are back up

We are the 99% – Occupy The Nation – new website trying to become a central hub for the occupy movements around the US

Interview with Plaid – "Over the past three years Andy Turner and Ed Handley AKA Plaid have been working on their new album ‘Scintili’. During this time they’ve also produced the soundtrack for Michael Arias’ feature film Heaven’s Door and have been performing closely with Felix’s Machines, hence why it’s taken almost five years for their album to be released."

Where Graffiti Met Old Masters, Under Riverside Park – Slide Show – NYTimes.com – "Chris Pape, 50, recently revisited the abandoned freight train tunnel under Riverside Park where he began painting huge murals on the walls in 1980. Back then, he armed himself with 40 cans of spray paint and created his first image, a re-creation of the “Mona Lisa.”" he was known as freedom and the tunnel named freedom tunnel after him

In All Our Decadence People Die – "An NYC exhibit displays 3,000 works from English punk band Crass' seven-year reign – Preserved for posterity are 3,000 fanzines, flyers, posters, manuscripts and original works of art sent to the band between 1977 and 1984."

The Time I Turned a Poetry Slam Into A Riot – "It’s important for me to convey exactly how much insanity took place in such a short amount of time. People living in the US then will remember that we were also being told that we were under a major Anthrax attack." finally someone, my old friend diana, who feels the same way I do regarding poetry slams.

replaceface – celebrities painted as generals

Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment – "UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen."

▶ Mr Scruff "Feel It/Bounce" 12" by Mr Scruff – "Here is my latest 12" release on Ninja Tune, two new tunes, “Feel It" & "Bounce”, In similar bass-heavy slo-mo 4/4 territory to the last single "Wobble Control".. late night, heads down, eyes closed business.. just don't bump into anything while you are dancing!"

New poll claims young people more likely to condone offensive language – "Seventy-one percent say that people are more likely to use slurs online, and 51 percent encounter discriminatory words and images on social networking sites. "

PAX Primer – "Every year, tens of thousands of gamers descend on Seattle to attend a convention that began as a webcomic, and has grown into the epicenter of gaming culture. An account from this year’s event, which encompassed nearly every imaginable game genre—and a few never before imagined."

At My Funeral – choose the music you want played at your funeral. still thinking …

Food allergen detector – "There are eight types of food that account for around 90% of allergic reactions: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat."

Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated) – "ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple accounts"

Samuel L Ipsum | Alternative Lorem Ipsum Generator – Motherfucking Placeholder Text Motherfucker

De DJ Mobile 1999 – an art car that doubles as a DJ setup and 14 speaker sound system.

How You Can Help #OCCUPYWALLSTREET – "Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and encourage others to do the same. Don't give the banksters 4 percent of every purchase you make with a credit or debit card – use cash."

Drop at Teufelsberg – "Volounteer agents of the Dead Drop network just installed a Dead Drop* at highest point of the Teufelsberg in Berlin, a former U.S. NSA “listening” aka spy station (Echolon)."

Italy Proposes Draconian One-Strike Anti-Piracy Law – "Building forth on this tough stance, lawmakers are now proposing several new measures that will put Internet users at risk of losing their connection after one alleged infringement."

Tim O'Reilly – Google+ – I just went down to check out the scene at the https://occupywallst.org/ rally. – "Second, the people who were there were the wrong people."

Gingers Get Rejected at the Sperm Banks – "but if you’re a ginger… nobody wants your seed!"

Visiting Berlin, Pope Benedict Faces a Combative Homeland – "After landing Thursday at Tegel Airport in Berlin, he will be officially welcomed at Bellevue Palace by President Christian Wulff, a Catholic who divorced and remarried, and can therefore be barred in some cases from Holy Communion. His host during his stay in Berlin will be the gay Catholic mayor, Klaus Wowereit. "

Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More – a pretty helpful list

A Message From Troy Davis – "I can’t wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing, “I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!”"

Ernie takes a crack at "Scarlett Johanssonning". – rather very funny

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Thom Yorke MoneyBack Mix will make you smile, then wig out, then scream in exstacy and run out the house to hug strangers.

and that’s the truth, ruth.

Tracklist:
Cortical Songs (Thom Yorke Remix) – John Matthias (With Nick Ryan)
The Twist (Unreleased Excerpt) – Thom Yorke
Art & Cash (Bok Bok & Roska Remix) – Modeselektor
Good Evening Mrs Magpie (Modeselektor Remix) – Radiohead
Tinariwen (Four Tet Rmx) – Four Tet
Roforofo Fight (Edit!) – Fela Kuti
Give Up The Ghost (Thriller Houseghost Mix) – Radiohead
Bloom (Blawan Remix) – Radiohead

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#occupywallstreet

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET Orientation Guide
– i so wish i could be in new york today. this could be the greatest protest ever, or a huge disaster. it’s time for a revolution.

#watch and

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins – "Why do bad things happen?" richard dawkins explains his kids of all ages book "the magic of reality"

Berlin und der Banksy-Hype on Vimeo – german news report on the "uncovered banksy"

Sub City Paris – "This is the continuation of a series that explores that moment of uncertainty and magic that happens when you emerge from the depths of the subway system."

"The Wall" Originally by Pink Floyd (performed by Mariachi Cabos) – catchy mariachi version of pink floyd classic, ai aiii aiiiiiiii, no dark sarkasooom.

Silent Climate Parade – a video from last years parade. "Silent Climate Parade 350 ravers gathered with wireless headphones "

POUBELLE FONTAINE (SKIRTING TRASHCAN) Mathieu Tremblin – this trash-can is a squirter

MOVE YA SHOULDER..SEANIE T FEAT: ROOTS MANUVA – It's Simple. a winning ticket

VID 20110628 114715 – after laser-chasing cats, here's laser-chasing baby

Sheeped Away – cute animation short featuring sheep, yup, flossies

Amnesty TV – Episode Five – cassetteboy made a great mashup of israeli primeminister speech

#learn

Cosmonaut #6 (I really love this one) – and finally, a new iPad background image

Roasted sweet potatoes with figs, plus tuna cakes with yuzu yoghurt recipes – sadly we didnt grow any sweet potatoes, but might have to bend some rules here…

scarlettjohanssoning – just to prove, this had to happen [NSFW]

German police seek help over mystery 'forest boy' – "He told the police that he and his father went to live in the woods after his mother died. He said he left the woods in August when his father died, and walked for two weeks before reaching Berlin. He said he couldn't remember where his family came from, but that his name was Ray."

Last Call for Delicious Users: Transfer Your Bookmarks – "The Delicious re-launch is coming soon and we’re excited for existing Delicious users to join us! To do so, you need to accept the AVOS terms of service* and privacy policy* to transfer your bookmarks and user data to the new site by September 23, 2011."

Silent Climate Parade Berlin – i wish i was in berlin for this parade, people march in silence dancing to their music on headphones. 24. 9. 2011

Remembering a Relationship, One Chat at a Time – "Clark is offline." a sad look at gmail chats

Saucy Schnapps: Firm Wins Battle to Register F-Word as Trademark – "Shoppers in Germany might feel a little embarrassed about asking for "Ficken" schnapps by name — after all, the drink is named after the German word for "fuck." But the manufacturer can take solace in the fact that the brand name is now legally protected."

The Artist Is Present – "Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" performance at MOMA, remade as a 1980s-era adventure game. "

Get the facts. Fight the smears. AttackWatch.com – "When another unfounded attack surfaces, we'll arm you with the truth so you can share the facts with your friends and family."

Banksy had it right: The future holds a mere 15 minutes of anonymity for everyone – "Graffiti artist Banksy may have had it right when he claimed invisibility is a superpower and in the future you can be anonymous for only 15 minutes. There are now privacy invasive plans to track the sale of spray paint, prepaid cards, and your license plate."

FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ – "The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”"

Tree Houses – "His follow-up book, New Treehouses of the World, gathers inspirational examples from Thailand, New Zealand and other spots with tree-house culture, and has a short chapter on new tree-house technology." honey, can we move into a tree house?

Apple bans Phone Story game which exposes the seedy side of smartphone creation – "Apple has removed an iPhone app called Phone Story — a darkly satirical mini-game collection that exposes the ugly side of smartphone production"

How The FBI Caught an Actor Uploading Movie Screeners To Pirate Bay – "In April 2011, the FBI raided the apartment of a Screen Actor’s Guild member suspected of uploading several pre-release screeners of Hollywood blockbusters to The Pirate Bay. The man, an actor, has now agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces three years in prison."

'Banned' iPhone Title Phone Story Released For Android – "Following the news that Apple has removed indie developer Molleindustria's latest game from the App Store due to a violation of Apple's review guidelines, the game has now been released on the Android Market."

SneakerTrooper Helmet – "a stormtrooper helmet made from the exclusive Adidas X Star Wars Superskate Mids. This was the first piece that required more than one pair of shoes to create and it gave me hell."

Pure Absinthe Made At Home – nice howto make absinthe at home

Brad Downey | Gestalten – "With the element of surprise firmly on his side, the American artist Brad Downey creates powerful interventions that visually disrupt the routine of our urban perceptions. Downey’s art discourages quick glances and celebrates the double take." nice looking book that

BISAR – First images of the DO NOT THINK exhibition which… – includes a photo of "what lies beneath" by brad downey, yeh the one where he uncovers a banksy…

Phone Story – iPhone game by Molleindustria – "Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your phone's journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence."

YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious – "home page would feature browseable “stacks,” or collections of related images, videos and links shared around topical events. The site would also make personalized recommendations for users, based on their sharing habits." this could go well… was worried

A Tribute to our River "Aare" in Bern City – "As summertime is passing by soon, we thought to give our great daily enjoyment of swimming or floating in the river a little tribute."

Molly Crabapple’s ‘Week in Hell’ in Photos – "After days of self-imposed exile spent covering the walls of an entire hotel room with a hand-drawn mural — plus sips of absynthe and visits from porn stars — she only lost it at the end of her arty binge when the work was done. Thatta girl."

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist – "My country should have control over Google, Skype, Yahoo, etc.," he said by e-mail. "I'm breaking all encryption algorithms and giving power to my country to control all of them."

Internet High Five – "Place hand here"

Two of us – "Have you ever smiled at a complete stranger?"

Why does the female orgasm exist? – "A popular theory has been criticized as male-centric, but it might have unexpected feminist results "

Five minutes with… DJ Shadow – "In terms of the process, I was immersing myself in the work. I secluded myself in a little cabin out on the Sonoma for about four or five days out of the week. Then I’d go back to my wife and kids on the weekend. Then go back to the cabin and wake up and work and spend the night there."

News from Nowhere – "we're supposed to debate and discuss how to build a conceptual new nation, a model society in the wreck of late capitalism. There is a chance, given how many Guardian readers we seem to have on this trip, that we may just all turn pirate and start raiding the coastal towns of Norway and Finland and looting all the humous and complicated jam. "

The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians' – "I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. Living, it's awful for me. I can't on one hand argue the futility of life and the pointlessness of existence and have a family. It doesn't sit comfortably."

#911memorial

Terror's march backwards – "An Absolute Atrocity Special by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris" this created quite some outrage back in 2002

9-11-01 – 9-11-11 TEN YEARS IN A DAY – "9-11-01 is now the convenient excuse to denigrate Muslims and spread ignorance and hatred toward Muslims and people who “look Muslim”. " Henry Rollins' take on 9 11

The Reckoning: America and the World a Decade After 9/11 – this special NYT feature is quite something

Gamer Recreations of the World Trade Center – Waxy.org – "game modders and mappers have recreated the World Trade Center, the events of September 11, and the WTC Memorial in various game engines. Some of these are profane and offensive, quite likely made by teens that have no first-hand memory of the disaster, but most are intended as tributes."

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as usual, if you combine two of the greatest things, the result is pure awesome sauce.

Fela Soul by Gummy Soul