The This of being a total something and to what?
„Ein Blog muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.“ (abgewandeltes Zitat von Franz Kafka, I try, Franz, I try… [update] Yoda: There is no try.
I’ll make you dance (what.mp3, 172,9MB full of shitbeats). Tracklist:
Dimension X from Don’t touch that dial
Gunjack – Code 1
Gayle San – Manja
Talia – Desert
Fabian Kempe – Häpenhet feat. Ayda
A.Paul – Data
Jamz – Drop
ETC!ETC! – Shapeshifter
El Farouki … One Night Send
Angel Alanis – Forge your own
Melt – Pusher
88UW – Suspect
Slad – Chubby Inc
Jin Hiyama – Echoes her hair
Jamez – Purist
Bas Mooy – Warsaw
Axel Karakasis – Torpedo
Gunjack – Talk is cheap
Gunjack – Use The Abusers
Basic Implant – Revenge of the 202
Matt K – Unfinished Business
Gunjack – Endgame
Drax – Amphetamine (Gecko Remix)
Gunjack – Use The Abusers
Fabian Kempe – Knockout
Anthony Abuse – Last Appearance
Headroom – Intern
Headroom – Kobol
Gunjack – Silent Killer
Gunjack – Jak is dead
(Der Mann auf dem Bild oben sieht übrigens genau so aus wie Hans, ehemaliger Nachbar. Hat ein halbes Jahr nach meinem Papa ins Gras gebissen mit nur paarundvierzig Jahren wegen Irgendwas mit Hirn, innerhalb von wenigen Tagen. Hans hatte mit zwei Frauen zusammengelebt, die eine blond, die andere brünett. Hans hatte jeden Abend ‘nen Dreier and then he died. True Story. Life is short, kick it in the face as long as you can. And kick it hard.)
Superman Safersex-Artworks
In einer Ausstellung in Neu Delhi zeigen Jiten Thukral und Sumir Tagra Artworks zum Thema AIDS und Safer Sex – mit Superman, Captain Marvel und Wonder Woman als Metaphern für Verhütungsmittel.
Exhibiting now a Gallery Nature Morte in New Delhi, India ias Put It On, Again!, featuring the works of Jiten Thukral & Sumir Tagra. The duo’s art deals explicitly with serious themes of safe sex and the transmission of HIV through a fairly playful prism of bright colors, traditional Indian imagery and figures from popular culture — specifically, the superheroes of DC Comics, including Superman, Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman.
Superman is Giant Condom Metaphor in Indian Safe Sex Campaign
Mubarak for sale on Ebay
Noch kann man den ägyptischen Diktator Hosni Mubarak auf Ebay ersteigern. Das Angebot dürfte aber schneller weg sein, als ich tippen kann. [update]: „This listing (130482973718) has been removed, or this item is not available.“ Screenshot in groß gibt’s hier.
Buy your very own used Egyptian dictator! President Hosni Mubarak is 82 years old. He is currently the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, a position he has held for 30 years! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to buy your very own despot!
All items sold in “as-is” condition! No exchanges! No returns! Thanks for looking and happy bidding!
Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Dictator, Used (via Artthreat), Updates zum heutigen Tag in Ägypten poste ich hier.
OMG! OMFG! It’s the Death From Above 1979-Reunion!
(Vimeo Direkt1979, via Pasqualle)
WE’RE ALL GONNA BURN AND DIE! Mit Abstand die beste Nachricht der Woche… ach was, des Jahres! Auf diese News warte ich seit der Trennung 2006, Holy Mother of Fuck! Von der Website der besten Band der Welt (nach Radiohead):
It’s been 5 years since Death From Above 1979 played a show, 10 years since Jesse played me the first demos & 11 years since we sat in his parents basement and played so loud we knocked the china off the shelves upstairs. 11 seems to be a YES number for me. Though I am usually a pretty rational guy, if I have something on my mind and I see an 11 somewhere, I know I’m on the right path. It’s one of my last remaining superstitions. 2011 has a nice ring to it & if you’re so inclined, it may be the last year ever! So why not say YES? Why not say YES to Coachella? Why not say YES to playing the music we designed to be an undeniable source of power? Why not say YES to stirring up a writhing pit of sweaty humans? YES to riots! YES to heavy music! YES instead of maybe, and YES to make death your adviser and remind yourself always, that this is not a dress rehearsal. This is the big show.
Jesse and I have decided that what we can do together should not be denied.
Together again, as was always the intention, as a collaboration.
The collision of two different worlds.
As this all takes shape, we will reveal it to you.
All of it happening, as it always has, in our own way.
Thank you all for sharing in our excitement!Yes.
SEBASTIEN
Some Words (via Popnutten)
Zur Feier des Tages eine handvoll DFA1979-Videos nach dem Klick, falls wer die Jungs und ihr bislang einziges Album nicht kennen sollte: Hier, unbedingt anhören, eins der besten Alben der 00ers.
123Klan Showreel
(Vimeo Direktklan, via Winkelsen)
Schickes Showreel von 123Klan, die ich jetzt auch schon… über 10 Jahre lang kenne. Jeez, ich werd’ alt.
PressPausePlay: Doku über Kreativität im digitalen Zeitalter
(Youtube Direktplay, via We Like That)
Schöner Trailer zur kommenden Doku „PressPausePlay – A Film about Fear, Hope and Digital Culture“ mit unter anderem Bill Drummond von The KLF, Scott Belsky (Gründer von Behance), Seth Godin, Hot Chip, Moby, Lykke Li, Robyn, Anthony Volodkin (Gründer von The Hype Machine) oder Sean Parker (Mit-Gründer von Napster).. Der Film hat im März Premiere auf dem SXSW Festival, das Blog habe ich mir grade in den Reader gepackt, ich halte Euch auf dem Laufenden (sprich: Ich poste das Ding, sobald es online zu sehen ist.)
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
The film was shot globally between August 2009 – January 2011, covering more than 150 hours of interview footage with international creatives and thinkers – representing the state of digitized culture today.
Fake B-Movie-Trailer
(Youtube Direktfake, via BoingBoing)
Michael S. Deak hat einen Youtube-Channel voller Fake B-Movie-Trailer, die er zusammen mit Freunden und Kollegen neben seinem eigentlichen Job beim Film dreht, der Mann war an den Effekten von Tron:Legacy, Masters of Horror, From Beyond, Friday 13th Teil 7, Bride of Re-Animator und vielen anderen beteiligt und spielt immer wieder Nebenrollen, unter anderem in Return of the Living Dead III oder Weird Science. Toll!
Hier die Links zu all seinen Fake-Trailern, einer toller als der andere:
MARLIN MAN: „Trick photography highlights this fishy tale of a giant Marlin destroying Tokyo“
MOTHMAN: „’The Mothman is loose and destroying your town!’ A take on a late 1950′s sci-fi movie trailer of the Mothman as it wreaks havoc in a New Jersey town.“
TRIANGULUS THE THREE-SIDED MUMMY: „modeled after a 1950′s Mexican horror film about a mummy…with three sides.“
THE LONG DEAD SMELL: „Molded on the old chestnut of the evil hypnotist, The Long Dead Smell trailer tells of ‘Dr. Quietus, who, using his mental powers, causes his victims to destroy themselves’.“
ATTACK OF THE BRAIN LEECHES: „A take on a slimy alien race burrowing into the minds of the unsuspecting American population in an all-out battle for the earth!“
EL REY DE LOS VAMPIROS INFERNALES/TRIANGULO: „A simulated double-feature trailer for the Azteca Theater featuring EL REY DE LOS VAMPIROS INFERNALES (King of the Infernal Vampires) and TRIANGULO LA MOMIA CON TRES CARAS DE MAL (Triangulus The Mummy With Three Bad Faces). Este Sabado!“
SATANTACLES: „Mock 1950′s horror/science fiction trailer about a giant tentacle creature from hell.“
PHIL MATO: GLI UCCISORI DELL’IDIOTA: „A trailer in the tradition of a 1960′s Italian spy movie.“
History of the real Vampire Hunters
Der New Scientist hat einen superinteressanten Artikel über die Geschichte des Vampirglaubens, der bis ins 12. Jahrhundert zurückreicht und seinen Ursprung in dem Aberglauben an Ghuls (Leichenfresser) hat. Leider ist der Artikel nur gegen Anmeldung zu lesen, was sich allerdings für jeden lohnt, der sich für das Thema interessiert. Außerdem habe ich die vier Seiten aus der Printausgabe bei Flickr hochgeladen: True blood: The real vampire slayers.
THE stories must have sent a chill through Paris’s elegant society. Beginning in March 1693, a genteel literary journal called Mercure Galant published a series of macabre articles documenting a plague of undead corpses in Poland and Russia. “This reviving being… comes out of his grave, or a demon in his likeness, [and] goes by night to embrace his near relations or his friends,” Pierre Des Noyers, a scholar and former secretary to Queen Marie-Louise of Poland, reported in their May issue. It then “sucks their blood so much as to weaken and attenuate them, and at last cause their death”.
The only solution was to behead the corpse and drive a stake through its heart, Des Noyers wrote. These creatures, so filled with stolen blood that it poured out of their ears and eyes, went by a name that sounds strangely familiar today: oupires. […]
Vampire-like phenomena were already deeply embedded in folklore by the time of the Mercure Galant stories. […] The creatures portrayed in these early reports weren’t yet the bloodsuckers of Des Noyers’s article, though. The blood around the corpse’s lips was instead believed to be a consequence of their tendency to feed on bodies in the neighbouring graves. Terrified locals sometimes took drastic action to quell this habit; recent excavations near Venice, Italy, found a 16th-century female corpse with a brick jammed between her teeth, apparently to prevent her from snacking on neighbours. When it came to their living victims, however, these creatures were thought to be more likely to hit people than to bite them.
Even the later reports, beginning with the Mercure Galant stories, describe very different creatures from the glamorous vampires that grace modern films. For one thing, they weren’t mysterious nobility like Dracula, but an undead version of the fellow down the block you never got on with. They could also enjoy the midday sun without turning into ash, and, in a blow to their modern reputation as meticulous preeners, they smelled awful.
John Hughes-Artshow and the Ferris Bueller-Boardgame
Die Gallery 1988 in Venice California eröffnet nächste Woche die Ausstellung „The Road to Shermer: A Tribute to John Hughes“ mit Artworks rund um die Filme des besten Coming-Of-Age-Filmers ever. /Film hat ein Preview davon und da gibt’s ein Ferris Bueller-Boardgame! Ein Ferris Bueller-Boardgame! Ich muss das haben!
Wenn sie die Artworks nächste Woche online stellen, schiebe ich nochmal ein Posting hinterher, bis dahin: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Board Game And More From Gallery 1988 John Hughes Art Show
Papercraft-Boombox Vinyl-Packaging
Die Band Graf Orlock hat ihre neue Doppel-10″ plus CD in einem ausfaltbaren Ghettoblaster verpackt: „a handsome foldout boombox, completing a new staple to your bedroom feng shui, and guaranteeing that you misunderstand what this thing will really look like.“ Awesome!
Revolution in Ägypten (7)
[update] Von Al Jazeeras Liveblog: „11:28am: Protester Aida El-Kashes, on the phone from Tahrir Square, describes the situation there as calm and safe. She says all entrances to the square except the one near the Egyptian museum are open and people are getting in. The thousands of protesters who have been through the past days violence together now have bounds to each other “as a big family”, she says..“
[update] „Epic #Werbefail von #vodafone auf #SpOn.“ via Mathias.
[update] NYTimes: Egyptian Government Figures Join Protesters: „With signs of fracturing within Egypt’s ruling elite, hundreds of thousands of people packed Cairo’s central Tahrir Square on Friday, chanting slogans, bowing in prayer and waving Egyptian flags to press a largely peaceful campaign for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak.“
Al Jazeera: Egypt’s ‘final push’ protests begin: „Protesters flood Tahrir Square for ‘Day of Departure’ against the president amid reports of violent standoffs.“
Telepolis: Ägypten: “Day of Departure” – Brutalität abseits der Scheinwerfer und Zuckerstücke für die Öffentlichkeit: „Außerhalb der Kamerablickfelder gibt es weiterhin Unschönes zu melden. So [extern] berichtet al-Jazeera, dass man das Büro des Senders in Kairo verwüstet habe. Am Morgen hieß es noch, dass sich die Schläger außerhalb des Platzes verstecken würden, um, wenn die Lichter ausgehen, erneut zuzuschlagen. Dass die Situation immer kippen könnte, ist jedem O-Ton aus Kairo anzuhören – verantwortlich dafür ist der Schock der letzten Tage.“
[update] HR2 Der Tag: Der Kampf um Kairo (MP3): „Aus Protesten und Demonstrationen sind bürgerkriegsähnliche Zustände geworden. Anhänger und Gegner liefern sich in Kairo und anderen ägyptischen Städten Straßenschlachten, Journalisten werden durch die Straßen gejagt, westliche Residenten fürchten um ihr Leben. Gestern hat sich zum ersten Mal das ägyptische Militär in die blutigen Kämpfe eingemischt und sich zwischen die Fronten in Kairo gestellt. Die Regimegegner wollen heute eine Entscheidung erzwingen: Präsident Mubarak soll zurücktreten. Und was macht der Westen? Angeblich hat US-Präsident Obama einen Plan zur Entmachtung Mubaraks. Ägypten vor der Wende?“
Scientific American: ‘Deep fury’ of Egyptian scientists: A Q&A with a Researcher in Cairo
BoingBoing: Egypt: Kenneth Cole’s failtweet comes to life in street prank
Die Updates von gestern habe ich hier hinzugefügt, Updates von heute folgen, wie sie reinkommen, ich aktualisiere dieses Posting im Laufe des Tages. Hier erstmal Al Jazeeras Liveblog für den 4. Februar und der Livestream (hier auf Youtube).
Von Guardians Liveblog: „Reuters is reporting thousands gathering in Tahrir Square, Cairo, with protesters shouting “Today is the last day … Today is the last day.” Pop songs are being played over speakers. Many of the crowd had remained over night, either keeping vigil or sleeping in tents or on the ground.“
US hatches Mubarak exit strategy as Egypt death toll mounts: „The Obama administration is working on a plan in which the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, would stand down immediately in spite of claims yesterday he was intent on clinging on to power until the elections in the autumn.“
Salon: Meet Mubarak’s American fan club: „The pundits and politicians who are siding with the brutal dictator over Egypt’s people“
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Revolution in Ägypten (6, updated)
Revolution in Ägypten (5, updated)
Revolution in Ägypten (4)
Revolution in Ägypten (3)
Revolution in Ägypten (2)
Revolution in Ägypten
Mutant Muppets-Kuscheltiere
Rachel Peters bietet in ihrem Etsy Shop Frankentoys jede Menge Kuscheltiermutanten an, am besten gefallen mir obigen Siamesischen Ernie-Zwillinge und das Mutant-Kermit Dissection Kit. (via Neatorama)
Don’t make me steal – Digital Media Consumption Manifesto
Über das Wörtchen „steal“ kann man lange diskutieren, dennoch: Signed.
I PROMISE never to illegally download a movie if there was a legal alternative following the criteria on this page
* Content is delivered without ads, or infringement warnings.
* I can find movies or TV shows by year, director, language, country, genre, IMDB ID, etc.
* The release date is global. There are no limits regarding the country you live in.
* I can download nearly every movie ever made.
* I can watch the movie on any device, without any differences in how the movie is presented.
* Movies are not bound to the service provider, and must be DRM-free.
* I can easily understand my rights regarding movies that I rent, buy, or stream at a flat rate.
DON’T MAKE ME STEAL – Digital Media Consumption Manifesto. (via MeFi)
Coming Soon: Ziggy Marleys Ganjacomic – Marijuanaman
Ziggy Marley hatte sein Ganjacomic im Sommer bereits auf der ComicCon angekündigt, im April ist es jetzt soweit und das Teil erscheint bei Image Comics. Das Cover sieht zwar eher suboptimal aus und auch obiges Poster überzeugt mich wirklich nicht, aber natürlich muss ich ein Comic von Ziggy Marley über Marijuanaman, der von einem Planeten stammt, der „is in desperate need of THC. Marijuanaman seeks to save Earth’s marijuana fields from destruction by the drug company PharmeXon, and thus saving his home planet from destruction.“ Must Have!
Based on a character conceived of by Ziggy Marley, written by Man of Action Studios JOE CASEY (GØDLAND, BUTCHER BAKER) and illustrated by JIM MAHFOOD (KICK DRUM COMIX, MIX TAPE), MARIJUANAMAN promises to shatter all expectations — this is not the comic you think it is! The oversized deluxe hardcover graphic novel tells the tale of a noble extraterrestrial champion, who has arrived on Earth to deliver an important message and at the same time save his own planet.
“MARIJUANAMAN represents the hope of the future… the hope that we will utilize all of the power that the universe has given us to save our planet,” Marley explained.
Casey spoke of being part of the creative trio, “Mahfood and I have been friends for over a decade and I’ve been a big fan of his for even longer. This was the perfect project for us to collaborate on because Ziggy’s given us a great concept to go nuts with. This book goes beyond just being a comic… this book is an experience.”
Mahfood added, “It’s been a really unique and thrilling project for me to work on. Ziggy Marley is a visionary and MARIJUANAMAN is his, so he’s involved in every step, but he’s also been cool enough to let Joe and I cut loose and really spread our artistic wings on this project. Through our collaboration, we are creating something that has a unique flavor and feeling. MARIJUANAMAN is not going to be what people except it to be.”
Discover a new hero for our times with MARIJUANAMAN, a 48-page oversized full-color hardcover by Ziggy Marley, Joe Casey, and Jim Mahfood. The book will be in stores April 20, 2011, for $24.99.
Image Comics Releases Ziggy Marley’s “Marijuanaman” on 4/20 (via BoingBoing)
