Girls making Gun-Sounds
(Youtube Direktgun, via Arbroath)
Girls making Gun-Sounds. Best blog in the world, forever. No Contest.
Musicvideos: Alex Turner, Mystery Jets, Das Pop, Cold War Kids
(Youtube Direkt♥, via Videos)
Oben erstmal das große „I like U“ von The Chase, nach dem Klick noch ein Haufen weiterer Clips.
Zoetrope on a Bike
(Vimeo Direkttrope, via Cartoonbrew)
Schöne Zoetrope-Animation von Tim Wheatley auf einem Rad.
Copyright-Infringement via Gentech
Craig Venter hat 2010 eine (verschlüsselte) Zeile aus James Joyce’ „A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man“ in die DNA einer künstlichen Mikrobe eingebaut und die vermehrt sich jetzt brav und remixt die Zeile bei jeder Mutation.
Und die Besitzer der Rechte an James Joyce’ Werk halten das für eine Verletzung ihres Urheberrechts und haben Venter einen Cease & Desist-Letter geschickt, sowas ähnliches wie eine Unterlassungserklärung bei uns. Copyright, immer wieder für ein großes WTF gut.
Der Zeichner Janosch
Sehr schöner Beitrag von 3Sats Kulturzeit über Janosch, „bekennender Autist, Anarchist, Aussteiger“, anlässlich seines 80sten Geburtstags.
[update] Hier das komplette 45minütige Interview. Ganz groß.
Snake dies of silicone poisoning after biting Models fake breast
Die Meldung ist mit ziemlicher Sicherheit ein Fake, aber die Headline kann ich mir nicht entgehen lassen: Snake dies of silicone poisoning after biting Israeli model’s fake breast: „A snake who bit Israeli model and actress Orit Fox in the chest died after being poisoned by an unusual venom – the silicone in the buxom blonde’s surgically enhanced breasts.“
[update] Discover Mag: No, YouTube’s Fake-Boob-Biting Snake Didn’t Die of Silicone Poisoning: „If the snake in YouTube’s latest viral video could talk (and were still alive), it’d probably take a line from Mark Twain: ‘Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.’“
Chatroulette Love Song
(Youtube Direktlove, via Nils)
Erinnert sich noch jemand an Chatroulette? Das scheint’s tatsächlich noch zu geben und der junge Mann oben spielt der Dame mit dem bezaubernden Lächeln ein ziemlich gelungenes Ständchen. Toll!
The Meowmorphosis: Kafka with Kittens
Von den Leuten, die schon Jane Austen mit Zombies remixt haben kommt jetzt Kafka mit Katzen: „One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.“ OMG!
The phenomenal success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies inspired a massively popular literary-remix movement. Now Quirk Classics once again charts bold new territory, turning the monster-mash-up formula inside out to infuse Franz Kafka’s horrific masterpiece, “The Metamorphosis,” with the fuzziest, snuggliest, most adorable creatures possible: kittens!
Gregor Samsa is a humble young man who supports his unemployed parents and teenage sister by working as a traveling fabric salesman. But his life goes strangely wrong in the very first sentence of The Meowmorphosis, when he wakes up late for work and discovers that he has inexplicably become an adorable kitten. His family must admit that, yes, their son is now OMG so cute—but what good is cute when there are bills to pay? How can Gregor be so selfish as to devote his attention to a ball of yarn? And how dare he jump out the bedroom window to wander through Kafka’s literary landscape? Never before has a cat’s tale been so poignant, strange, and horrifyingly funny.
The Meowmorphosis (via Superpunch)
Amazon-Partnerlink: The Meowmorphosis (Quirk Classics)
Inside Gaddafis Mansion in London
Dass libysche Aktivisten die Londoner Villa von Gaddafis Sohn besetzten, habt Ihr vielleicht mitbekommen. Die wurden jetzt von Laurie Penny interviewt und sie hat sich die Bude dabei gleich mal angesehen.
“My family had to leave Libya just to survive,” says a young, bearded man in spectacles, perching awkwardly on a white leather sofa. We are in the front room of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb, recently expropriated by activists in alliance with Libyan exiles. An hour earlier, I had passed through an open window near some ugly, imported ferns belonging to Muammar Gaddafi’s son and heir, having been invited to meet the members of the Free Libyan Embassy.
We drink stewed tea from Saif’s best china and eat cheese sandwiches using his silver cutlery, while the young man, Abdulla, tells me about how his uncle was “disappeared” by Saif’s father. “In Libya, people disappear all the time. There was a prison massacre where 1,200 people died. They poured cement over the bodies.” Abdulla nervously adjusts his glasses. “It’s important that people know we’re not creating a civil war for no reason.
Inside the Saif house – The UK home of Colonel Gaddafi’s son is in the hands of Libyan exiles. This is what it’s like from within (via BoingBoing)
Discoverys final Piss in Space
Fantastischer, fast schon fäkalpoetischer Shot von Jens Hackmann aus Weikersheim: Das ist die Discovery auf ihrem letzten Rückflug zur Erde beim Ablassen des Schmutzwassers oder anders ausgedrückt: Astronaut-Piss in Space. Gibt’s auch als Video auf Youtube.
What looked like a bright shooting star with a wide, curly tail is most likely Discovery performing a waste water dump while soaring in orbit near the end of its 39th and final mission.
Jens Hackmann of Weikersheim, Germany recorded the special moment in a short movie that appeared on Spaceweather.com. In the images and movie from March 8, Discovery is visible in the twilight skies over Europe, leaving a trail of what may be frozen, crystallized urine and waste water, disposed in preparation for the shuttle’s landing the next day.
LHC Panoramas
360Cities hat gleich eine ganze Reihe von Panoramafotos aus dem Large Hadron Collider, aufgenommen von Laurent Egli während der LHC für Wartungsarbeiten angehalten wurde.
360 Cities (Jan): Can you share with our readers how a mortal man can manage to get an invitation to get inside?
Laurent: Taking of these image has been made possible through a meeting with Maximillien Brice. Max is the head photographer for CERN and has become a personal friend of mine. So when he called me to tell me that the LHC was being stopped for some maintenance and that we had a small window of opportunity to go down on monday the 7 th of ferbruary I couldn’t not jump on the occasion.
Laurent: 18:30 we meet in front of the information center of CERN which is on the Swiss side near the village of Meyrin. You have to know that the LHC is a huge circle tunnel that covers tens of kilometers at an average of 100 m under the surface of the canton of Geneva in Switzerland and the department of Ain in France. Along this very long tunnel filled with high end technology and supra conductor magnets there are various caverns hosting experiments related to finding the boson of Higgs. One of the is the CMS or compact mudon solenoid. After driving for 15 minutes on the French side we reach the small village of Cessy near Gex. It’s there that lays one of the shafts that is going to take us down to the CMS. Before going down we have to wait a couple of minutes for the supervisor who will be accompanying us down. This facility is under very high security. Each staff member caries a huge pass around his neck the size of a cell phone. This device is also a densitometer that records the level of radiation that the personel is submited to. Iris recognition doors complete the security system to make sure absolutely no one enters without proper surveillance.
Virtual Tour: The Large Hadron Collider CMS Experiment in CERN
Scenes from the Suburbs: Trailer zu Spike Jonzes Arcade Fire-Kurzfilm
(Youtube Direktspike, via Juxtapoz)
Trailer zu Spike Jonzes Arcade Fire-Kurzfilm „Scenes from the Suburbs“, der schon zur Berlinale gezeigt wurde und demnächst auf DVD erscheint. Der Kurzfilm war auch die Basis des ersten Clips zu „The Suburbs“ aus dem aktuellen Arcade Fire-Album.
Doku-Trailer: Foo Fighters: Back And Forth
(Youtube Direktfoo, via Marco)
Schöner Trailer zur kommenden Foo Fighters-Doku „Back And Forth“, die grade auf dem SXSW Premiere feiert.
Wah Wah-Doku „Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World“
(Vimeo Direktwahwah, via KFMW)
Schöne Doku über das Wah Wah, die gleich mal mit Shaft und 70s-Porno einsteigt. Toll!
Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World tells the story of the wah wah effect pedal, from its invention in 1966 to the present day. Musicians, engineers, and historians discuss the impact of the pedal on popular music and demonstrate the various ways it has been used, as well as how its evolution has improved the ability of artists to express themselves musically.
The film features interviews with Brad Plunkett, the inventor of the pedal, plus many other musical luminaries such as Ben Fong-Torres, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Buddy Guy, Art Thompson, Eddie Kramer, Kirk Hammett, Dweezil Zappa, and Jim Dunlop. These professionals explain how a musical novelty transcended convention and has become timelessly woven into the fabric of modern pop-culture.
Youtube Masher:
Youtube Masher: Schönes Onlinetool, um einfache Videomashups schnell zusammenzuklicken. (via Notcot)
