links for 2007-12-10
December 10th, 2007 | photography
Your Monday WTF
December 10th, 2007 | researchmaterial
Comes a little earlier.
(found by Drew Mayer, thanks)
links for 2007-12-09
December 9th, 2007 | photography
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Toronto-based latex-design and screen printing team – run by a friend of mine
The 4am: 7
December 7th, 2007 | podcast
The 4am is a mixtape file containing nothing but music donated directly by new and/or unsigned acts. The 4am is of no set length and is released on no set schedule. The 4am is mixed down to 128 of the kbps. The 4am has never been kissed. The 4am does not care any more.
7: Meditation In Ruined Temples
It’s 3am, not 4am, as I write this. But that’s close enough. It’s meditational noise tonight, with slight hints of whisky and cigarette smoke.
“Vilnius Colony” is a term found in my graphic novel TRANSMETROPOLITAN, but that’s not why I’m playing it. Texture says: “I’m heavily influenced by dubstep (Burial, Kode 9, Skream) and lo-fi guitar bands (Sebadoh, Pavement, Silver Jews), and am trying to find a way to fuse the two.”
“Helston Music Fair 1992″ is a new one from 4am regulars Kemper Norton, who have kindly offered me a CD but said “Don’t expect the luxurious packaging and gifts that those Ice Bird tarts have given you though… I happen to know that they keep a dosed and washed graphic designer chained in their bathroom.”
The Intelligence Community is but one of the outlets for the fevered brain of Thor Johnson, whom you can find doing lots of things, some legal, at http://www.thorrific.com. I appear to have lost the email from The Thing With The Stuff, whom I’m fairly sure is one of the aspects of Lauren Heckman.
And finally, Yoda’s House return with “Piamono,” which is, basically, the soundtrack for the end of the world.
I know this one’s another quiet one. I tend to go with the flow of the first track in the submissions pile that really gets to me. Next week I’ll make you listen to The Poxy Boggards instead. I hope you enjoy this. Good night.
(edit – the inline player might be freaking out a bit again. If it stalls out, best to just download it.)
Texture – “Vilnius Colony” (6:34)
Kemper Norton – Helston Music Fair 1992 (5:28)
The Intelligence Community – “Neutron Island BBQ” (4:06)
The Thing with the Stuff – Exhibition 24 (5:41)
Yoda’s House – Piamono (7:11)
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links for 2007-12-07
December 7th, 2007 | photography
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Possibly the best thing John Clute’s ever written: a lecture given in Prague on the subject of Fantastika
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Cory’s shot of a guy inking up as Spider at a convention
Ice Bird Spiral
December 7th, 2007 | music
So the other day those nice people from Ice Bird Spiral saw that I’d given them a mention here, and asked if I’d like a CD. I said yes, of course, what kind people you are, thankyouverymuch and etc.
This is what I received in the post today.
You may embiggen it if you wish.
Amazing. This is what I’m listening to tonight.
Gutterbreakz covered an Ice Bird Spiral gig here — worth reading.
Rachael Gray
December 6th, 2007 | photography
mouse pie
Originally uploaded by Fauxred.
“Mouse on toast, and or mouse pie- the remedy for some obscure ailment, not so long ago.”
God Hates The World
December 5th, 2007 | researchmaterial
The Westboro Baptist Church (that “God Hates Fags” crew from the heart of Jesusland USA) presents their cover “We Are the World,” rewritten and retitled as “God Hates the World.” The following spectacle managed to be both surreal and fleshcrawlingly creepy at the same time. I’m fairly sure all the people on screen are related to each other. If you can stomach it, the last twenty seconds are as close to pure evil as I’ve seen today.
http://view.break.com/278059 – Watch more free videos
(“Thanks” to Trixie Bedlam)
Thomas Cochrane, “The Sea Wolf”
December 5th, 2007 | researchmaterial
I was flicking through Wikipedia, looking for collected links on the half-mad British naval captain Thomas Cochrane, when I discovered this lovely tidbit of writing:
In 1810, Sir Francis Burdett, a Member of Parliament and political ally, had barricaded himself into his home at Piccadilly, London, resisting arrest by the House of Commons. Cochrane went to assist Burdett’s defence of the house.
His approach to this, however, was essentially similar to the approach he had taken in defending forts against enemy attack and would have led to numerous deaths amongst the arresting officers and at least partial destruction of Burdett’s house, along with much of Piccadilly.
On realising what Cochrane planned, Burdett and his allies took steps to end the siege.
Gay Superheroes: All My Fault, Apparently
December 5th, 2007 | comics talk
Comics-blogosphere comedy target of the moment:
“I am soooooo friggin’ sick of gay characters being shoved into my comic books I could scream… Why is it in my face??????…Seriously, I feel that the whole gay culture has been thrust upon me in the last five years…
“…I really think it’s all Warren Ellis’s fault.”
The Mummified Dinosaur
December 4th, 2007 | researchmaterial
Preliminary studies of the 67-million-year-old hadrosaur, named Dakota, are already altering theories of what the ancient creatures’ skin looked like and how quickly they moved, project researchers say.
