Friday 24 February 2012
Are women cyclists in more danger than men?
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...and don't get me started on the compulsory helmet laws we have out here!!!
John Peel's record collection to be made into online museum
Peel's collection, which contains 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and many thousands of CDs, will become part of The Space, a new experimental digital service organised and funded by the Arts Council and the BBC.
The Arts Council will provide initial funding while the BBC will provide support and development advice. Further funding will be sought in the future to complete the project and make every record available online.
Tom Barker, Director, John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, said: "It is the first step in creating an interactive online museum with access to the entire collection, one of the most important archives in modern music history."
Frank Prendergast of Eye Film And Television added: "The idea is to digitally recreate John’s home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while viewing Peel’s personal notes, archive performances and new filmed interviews with musicians."
Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel's wife and Patron of the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts also commented, stating: "We’re very happy that we’ve finally found a way to make John’s amazing collection available to his fans, as he would have wanted. This project is only the beginning of something very exciting."
The Space will run from May to October across various platforms including PCs and smartphones, while it will also be available as a red button on-demand service via Freeview HD.
Arts Council England is committing up to £3.5m, while the BBC is contributing to the partnership by developing the technological solutions and providing ongoing support.
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(Thanx Marco!)
Thursday 23 February 2012
From The Vaults: Interview with Jigoku
The affinity for the weird, obscure and bizarre has gained momentum in the last few years reinforced by the likes of tumblr as catalysts of visual ‘debris’. The hunt for the abstruse and low-brow is no passing pop culture fad for audiovisual bricoleurs Jigoku though. Driven by the need to unearth and manipulate random VHS tapes of exploitation cinema classics adding a custom-made soundtrack, the AV collective is hardly a novice on the scene. Jigoku have collaborated with the likes of Italian soundtrack legend Alessandro Alessendroni or Rekids’ Matt Edwards. With the launch of their label Iron Triangle and DVD ‘From the Vaults Vol 1’, a compilation of trailers and edits from their vast collection of exploitation video tapes carefully hand-picked over three decades of digging all over the world, we have caught up with Jigoku’s Lovely Jon, old school East London free party veteran, to talk about the medium and the message...MORE
Dr. Kent Hovind - Dinosaurs and the Bible
Dr (?) Hovind traces the Biblical and historical references to dinosaurs and interviews people who claim they have seen living dinosaur!!!
NB: that he is currently in prison
The Dissertation Kent Hovind Doesn't Want You to Read
I do hope that he has met 'Dino' in prison :)
(Thanx Gavin!)
Black Sabbath - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (1975)
(Thanx (again) SJX!)
Not a fan myself but I know some who are...
NYC Phone Booths Turned Into Free Mini Libraries by Architect John Locke
The libraries are part of Locke’s urban intervention project call the Department of Urban Betterment (thus, DUB). The first mini-library was installed on a phone booth eight blocks further north in a rather desolate area that has little foot traffic. The books disappeared within six hours and the plywood shelf within just ten days. In order to counter this, Locke chose a much more conspicuous location near an express train stop on Broadway and put a visible logo on the bottom of each book’s spine. The shelf itself is completely detachable.
The new library hasn’t been vandalized, but Locke believes that the logo makes passersby reluctant to leave with the book and return with another one, which is the idea – to create an egalitarian book-sharing system for the city. He writes on Graceful Spoon, “I intentionally wanted to avoid any directions…but after seeing people hesitate when confronted with 002, perhaps there is a more subtle way to gently describe an intended use.
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(Thanx Walter!)
Faster than light neutrinos? More like faulty wiring
'...the neutrinos may be cleared of any speed violations.' LOL!Cassetteboy VS The News
NSFW. Made from 15 editions of the BBC's News at Six during January 2012.
The music from the end is here: http://soundcloud.com/annefrankingmachine/giogiogio-rough-version-maxed
(ROFL!!! Thanx Stan!)
:)
(Thanx Sander!)
:)))
Bonus: WTF??? (2006)
AWOOOGAH!!! Conservatives Start To Sound The Alarm Over Rick Santorum’s Extremism
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