Links for 2010-04-27
April 27th, 2010 | brainjuice
- Recovering the music of ashes
"WHEN Anastasia Russell-Head and Jim Batt talk about making music, they delight in using phrases that make your imagination run wild. One such term is ''archaeoacoustics'', a beguiling though somewhat questionable theory based on the idea that objects carry sounds with them as they travel through time…"
(tags:music haunt ) - The One Million Megawat | THIS IS WEIRD VIBRATIONS // the politics of sound
"Dhammakaya is a very new movement within Buddhism, and breaks from many of its classical precepts. As a philosophy, it has roots in the early 20th century, with a revered monk named Luang Phor Sodh who purportedly rediscovered a long-lost method of attaining enlightenment. In fact, the current sect is a posthumous interpretation of Luang Phor?s teachings that wasn?t founded until the 1970s, and its leaders are at least as successful as entrepreneurs as they are as philosophers."
(tags:architecture cult ) - BBC News – Chile cult leader Schaefer dies in Chile prison
"Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi army corporal who founded a cult-like community in Chile, has died in jail."
(tags:crime history cult ) - Diana McCarthy: 23 character designs
'Out of the 23 character designs shown here only 15-18 will be included in the AGRESHUN series. I just wanted to share them with you guys to get your feedback on which you would like to see."
(tags:comics peopleiknow ) - Back home – Charlie’s Diary
Welcome home, Charlie (he was stranded in Japan due to Icelandic Geo-Fart)
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