Song of the Day: Björk – Atlantic February 29, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Uncategorized, Images, Sounds, Song of the Day , add a commentÞu veist af allri hlýjunni,
þu finnur allan hitan.
þu veist að ég elska þig,
þu veist ég verð að fara.
ég fer og veiði i matinn
kem aftur hlaðin gjöfum.
með bér og fjaðrir og perlur
og litla Effelturna.
Björk – Atlantic (2.3MB mp3)
from the album Debut +1
Flickr photos from aevarg
and Stuck in Customs
sculpture: Sólfar (Sun Voyager)
by Jón Gunnar Árnason
more photos here
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YouTube Video of the Day: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy February 28, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Sounds, YouTube Video of the Day , add a commenti remember when, i remember,
i remember when i lost my mind —
there was something so pleasant about that place…
And i hope that you are having the time of your life.
But think twice —
that’s my only advice.
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* from the album St. Elsewhere
* Wikipedia:
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Picture(s) of the Day: from Theo Ellsworth February 26, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Portland, Picture of the Day, Comix , 1 comment so farbecause an image speaks volumes in an instant.
Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught
artist living in Portland, Oregon.He writes and draws comics,
makes art zines,
draws constantly,
and on occasion,
teaches workshops.
* He does invisible
* performance art
* that no one will ever see.
* He has a miniature city
* inside of his head that is
* overrun with funny monsters,
* yet he still manages
* to come across as
* a semi-normal guy.
He is abnormally fond
of clouds, and wants to
build things out of them.He is prone to
fits of whimsy,
and tends to have
weird dreams.He is a co-founder of the
Pony Club Gallery and Store.
see more: Capacity Online - The Art of Theo Ellsworth
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YouTube Video of the Day: Lightning Over Tokyo February 17, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, YouTube Video of the Day , 2commentsMemory of lightning: 2007-5-31 from yohpiy
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Song of the Day: Sufjan Stevens - What the Water Wants February 14, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Sounds, Song of the Day , add a commenti’ll show you the sky…
Sufjan Stevens - What the Water Wants (4MB mp3)
from the song Sister
and the album Seven Swans
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Picture of the Day: right place, wrong time February 13, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Picture of the Day , add a commentbecause an image speaks volumes in an instant.
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed two skeletons thought to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, locked in an embrace.
The pair from the Neolithic period were discovered outside Mantua, about 40km (25 miles) south of Verona.
The pair, almost certainly a man and a woman, are thought to have died young as their teeth were mostly intact, said chief archaeologist Elena Menotti.
The burial site was discovered during construction work for a factory building.
“It’s an extraordinary case,” said Ms. Menotti. “There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging - and they really are hugging.”
Flint tools, including arrowheads and a knife, were also found alongside the couple.
Scientists will now study the skeletons and artifacts to work out how and when the two people died, Ms. Menotti said.
“I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited,” she said.
“I’ve been doing this job for 25 years. I’ve done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites, but I’ve never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special,” she said.
Italy won’t split up its
Stone Age “lovers.”
In a Valentine’s Day gift to the country, scientists said they are determined to remove and preserve together the remains of the couple.
Instead of removing the bones one-by-one for reassembly later, archaeologists plan to scoop up the entire section of earth where the couple was buried.
The plot will then be transported for study before being put on display in an Italian museum, thereby preserving the world’s longest known hug for posterity.
“We want to keep them just as they have been all this time — together,” said Ms. Menotti.
Their removal will be a relief for archaeologists who had to hire extra security to guard the rural site outside the northern city of Mantua after the discovery made world headlines.
More importantly, it will give scientists a chance to figure out what was has become one of Italian archaeology’s greatest mysteries.
Was it a sudden death? A ritual sacrifice? Or maybe they were prehistoric, star-crossed lovers who took their own lives.
That is a crowd-pleasing theory in these parts, since Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ was set in nearby Verona.
But scientists acknowledge they still know precious little about the now-famous Stone Age couple, whose embrace has become a subject of world newspaper headlines and chat shows.
Italians dubbed them the “Lovers of Valdaro” after the Mantua suburb of farmland and factories.
photo via CNet News.com
article excerpts via BBC News and Reuters
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Song of the Day: Teenage Fanclub - Radio February 12, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Sounds, Song of the Day , 1 comment so farBaby, justify the reason behind your style.
Find a craze that fits
and stay there for a while…
Hallicrafters 5R34A “Continental” Bakelite Radio (1951)
And now you lighten up my day
with your views —
just out of school
and you’re, “that’s so cool.”
Teenage Fanclub - Radio (3.4MB mp3)
from the album Thirteen
radio photo via Phil’s Old Radios
oneparticularwave on the (last.)fm
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Picture of the Day: from Chris Jordan February 11, 2008
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Cans Seurat by Chris Jordan | 60″ x 92″
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number
used in the US every thirty seconds.
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books…
Cans Seurat, partial zoom
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre
measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints
assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the
individual in a society that is increasingly enormous,
incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
Cans Seurat, detail
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so…
‘Un dimanche après-midi
à l’Île de la Grande Jatte’
or
‘A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte’
by Georges-Pierre Seurat
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Song of the Day: The Beatles - She Said She Said February 10, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Sounds, Song of the Day, Comix , add a commentShe said…
“i know what it is to be sad.”
i said, “who put all those things in your head?”
The Beatles - She Said She Said (2.4MB mp3)
from the album Revolver
SHE SAID: You don’t understand what i said.
I SAID: No, no, no — you’re wrong.
words and music by Lennon/McCartney | sung and played by The Beatles
comic-inspired art by Roy Lichtenstein
via DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN
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YouTube Video/Song of the Day: DJ Earworm - No One Takes Your Freedom February 7, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Sounds, Song of the Day, YouTube Video of the Day , add a commentGotta have some faith in the sound —
it’s the one good thing that i’ve got.
* My own video edit to a brilliant
* mashup by DJ Earworm.
* Apologies for the picture quality,
* all clips were downloaded
* from YouTube.
∞ ∞ ∞
Wikipedia:
Aretha Franklin | George Michael
∞ ∞ ∞
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download/listen:
DJ Earworm - No One Takes Your Freedom
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official site | MySpace | Last.fm
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Picture(s) of the Day: from Jacquelyn Bond February 5, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Politics, Images, Portland, Picture of the Day , add a commentbecause an image speaks volumes in an instant.
‘Hope’ | 18″ x 24″ | watercolor on 100% cotton paper
My political art is inspired by the scary state of this nation these days. Most of my peers don’t vote. They’re afraid to learn about how government works, or even think about politics. They don’t want to be responsible for possibly making bad choices, so they don’t make ANY choices.
I’m very, very passionate
about our rights as citizens
to speak out and make
changes in this country.
I want my art to evoke some
thought from whoever views
it. I don’t care if it makes
them mad or happy, or even
if they agree with me or not.
I just want people to
DO SOMETHING —
get involved, take charge
and help make a difference.
I think we all have the ability to change things for the better, but too many people just watch American Idol
and eat at McDonald’s…The people in my art represent all of us, the American people, in all states and phases — people who have the power to right wrongs and help others. They represent anyone who believes democracy is a good and inspiring notion and want to use that power to help make this country and this world a better place.
‘A Little Help’ | 12″ x 16″ | watercolor on 100% cotton paper
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Wake Up, America! register to vote | Rock the Vote | MoveOn
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YouTube Video of the Day: David Bowie w/NIN - I’m Afraid of Americans February 4, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Politics, Video, Sounds, YouTube Video of the Day , add a commenti’m afraid i can’t help it…
* Enjoy…
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* David Bowie as “The Thin White Duke”
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* Trent Reznor as “Jonny American”
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* starring in: “I’m Afraid of Americans”
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Song of the Day: Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight February 3, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Sounds, Song of the Day , add a comment“Look out the left,” the captain said.
“The lights down there — that’s where we’ll land.”
Up there’s the heavens, down there’s a town.
Blackness everywhere and little lights shine…
i hope they finally fixed your automobile.
Hope it’s better when we meet again…
Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight (2.6MB mp3)
from the album Blue
Flickr photos from caribb and Coy Aune
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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - II Priestess February 2, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Spirituality, Philosophy, Picture of the Day , add a commentbecause an image speaks volumes in an instant.
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As the Priestess, you symbolize the law of knowledge;
you know the truth. Through inner stillness
and equilibrium, you see what lies below the surface.You know yourself. Equanimous and balanced like your
number, two, you are able to see yourself objectively.
Through your dreams and meditations,
you allow your moon subconscious to rise
to the surface of conscious awareness.In your watery receptivity, you are the reflecting pool —
a mirror to others. You are a counselor, a wise owl.
Like the dolphin, you tune in to others through vibrations.
As the Temple of Delphi, you are an oracle. You see.The Queen Nefertiti as a Priestess symbolizes your ability
to bring metaphysical perceptions into the material world.
You can apply the psycho-spiritual arts
in a practical, influential, worldly way.
