Superbrothers: Swords & Sworcery EP
No, it’s not a typo. It’s a musical sub-genre. (via)
An interview with Cooper Renner
at The Collagist:
“Running Night” is part of a short collection which is substantially finished, but it falls within a larger grouping of Malta-related lycanthropic work which is ongoing. The first entry, in terms of being written, is the novel A Death by the Sea, which I drafted during NaNoWriMo in 2008. Four sections of it have been published (New York Tyrant, Keyhole, Anemone Sidecar, Unscroll), and I’d love to find a publisher for the whole thing. Anyway, that started the Malta ball rolling for me. Once I got my mind really wrapped up in this world, ideas kept coming. The framework for the story collection, which I’m calling Dr Fenech’s Guide to Lycanthropy in Malta (1913), is that the doctor is collecting old tales from older men and women on Malta and Gozo and hoping to publish them in England.
. . . and an interview with Phil Bebbington
I just wanted to play and I had never shot medium format – what came after was the wonder of not being tied down by apertures and shutter speeds. Of course you still are as the Holga does have at least one shutter speed and aperture! But it is the freedom, using your time thinking about the shot as you have no control over the shutter and aperture.
Of course, there is a skill to using the Holga – it’s not quite as random as people think.
They need to turn off the overhead light and illuminate the cage
It took me a while to figure it out
Michael and Sarah have the same last name.
Google Zeitgeist 2009
One of my favorite lists of top queries in the US:
How To…
how to kiss
how to draw
how to knit
how to crochet
how to flirt
how to meditate
how to hack
how to sing
how to dance
how to fight
That Which Remains Unseen
Lucy suggests that an Emmanuelle movie is unfolding out of sight, just to the left.
speech to text
So, I know there is plenty of software that lets you talk and turns that into text. Does anyone know if anyone makes something that lets you transcribe recorded audio to text? Seems much more complicated.
December elimae
is now posted. I hope you will find something to enjoy.
Alex Webb, Mexico
His site is flash-based, but definitely worth a look through all his projects.
Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report
Razorfish’s annual study on how technology is changing the way consumers engage with brands.
(Via DigitalBuzz)
Dear Clusterflock
Would you rather have a lingering cold or get hit once with a hammer?
g v e
Tyler Cowen on good vs evil thinking:
An alternative response is 5. “Sooner or later the Republicans will in fact win and I cannot prevent that. Right now the Democrats should spend less money, given the truth of #3. In this regard the Republicans, although evil, are in fact correct in asking the Democrats to spend less money, if only to counterbalance their own depravity.”
Ouch!
The Italian police Lamborghini has gone bye bye.
According to the police, the crash was caused by the driver of a slow-moving Seat Ibiza who emerged without looking from a service station, clipping the Lamborghini and sending the vehicle swerving into the parked cars.
Iron Jesus
“I wouldn’t say it’s a miracle, but it made me say ‘Wow!’ ” said Mary Jo Coady, who was “uplifted” after first noticing the scorched image Sunday.
the dead sea is dying?
The shoreline has receded by more than a kilometre (around a mile) in some places and the world-famous lake, a key tourism destination renowned for the beneficial effect of its minerals, could dry out by 2050, according to some calculations.
When in Rome, Douche as the Romans.
If Japanese have perfected the art of pooping, then the Italians have perfected the art of showering. I half-expected to be teleported to another planet when I stepped into this contraption:
There are 14 different nozzles from which water or steam issues forth–essentially a stand-up (or sit-down if you are brave enough to bare-bottom shared vinyl) Jacuzzi. Besides the 6-8 different options and temperature controls for either steam or jets, it also had piped in music to your choosing. The metal strip over the head provides for a dispersed waterfall effect, my favorite option.
facilities division
“Facilities Division, Pitt Ohio Express, Terminal Leasing,” said the sign. Near 33rd Street in Pittsburgh.
“A Tabletop Conjuror, Rediscovered”
Stuart Sherman (1945-2001) doing one of his performance pieces in Battery Park City. (John Matturri.)
Monday’s New York Times featured a review of two current exhibitions devoted to the late Stuart Sherman, concluding with a nod to
the example he sets for young artists now: how to make art that’s about yourself but isn’t, using nothing, or almost nothing, materially speaking; and how to keep making it whether you have an audience or not because you need to stay alive and want to stay awake.
Video here (from “Your Program of Programs,” 1983).
