Al Qaeda attacks Internet with Photo of adorable Piglet
(Youtube Direktterror, via Laughing Squid)
Al Qaeda Meme-Terrorism. Wie immer sehr groß von The Onion. Hier das Video der zweiten Attacke: Video Of #CutePiglet Wearing Ballet Shoes Crippling Internet (Do Not Watch – ARCHIVE PURPOSES ONLY).
Human Milk Icecream
Die Eisdiele The Icecreamnist in London verkauft hat eine neue Eiscremesorte namens Baby Gaga am Start. Die besteht aus menschlicher Muttermilch und schmeckt nach Vanille und Zitrone. Das Zeug war natürlich innerhalb von ein paar Stunden ausverkauft und seltsamerweise hab’ ich keinen Platz mehr im Kühlschrank.
The makers say the ice cream is pure, organic and totally natural. A restaurant in London’s Covent Garden is serving a new range of ice cream, made with breast milk. The dessert, called Baby Gaga, is churned with donations from London mother Victoria Hiley, and served with a rusk and an optional shot of Calpol or Bonjela.
Mrs Hiley, 35, said if adults realised how tasty breast milk was more new mothers would be encouraged to breastfeed. Each serving of Baby Gaga at Icecreamists costs £14. Mrs Hiley’s donation was expressed on site and pasteurised before being churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest.
Breast milk ice cream goes on sale in Covent Garden (via Martin, Video via Street Anatomy, Bild via Icecreamnists Facebook)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Muttermilch-Käse
More Cheese from Human Milk, plz!
Ducks are running down the Street with a stringtheoretic Robocat while playing „Killing in the Name of“ in a Quadruplet of WTF
Eine Cyborg-Katze mit Mecha-Sounds, ein Stringtheory-Song, eine Bande Kids, die RATMs „Killing in the Name of“ singen und ein Haufen Gänse und Enten, die die Straße entlangrennen und gleich eine ganze Handvoll Bonustracks inklusive alten Männern mit Lichtschwertern, 90s-Internet und einem Steampunk Tornado-Generator, alles nach dem Klick.
The Lost Art of Pickpocketing
Slate hat einen sehr schönen, sehr melancholischen Artikel über die verschwindende Kunst des Taschendiebstahls.
Pickpocketing in America was once a proud criminal tradition, rich with drama, celebrated in the culture, singular enough that its practitioners developed a whole lexicon to describe its intricacies. Those days appear to be over. “Pickpocketing is more or less dead in this country,” says Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, whose new book Triumph of the City, deals at length with urban crime trends. “I think these skills have been tragically lost. You’ve got to respect the skill of some pickpocket relative to some thug coming up to you with a knife. A knife takes no skill whatsoever. But to lift someone’s wallet without them knowing …”
Marcus Felson, a criminologist at Texas State University who has spent decades studying low-level crime, calls pickpocketing a “lost art.” Last year, a New York City subway detective told the Daily News that the only pickpockets left working the trains anymore were middle-aged or older, and even those are few and far between. “You don’t find young picks anymore,” the cop told the paper. “It’s going to die out.” A transit detective in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which operates the Boston area’s bus, commuter rail, and subway system, concurred via e-mail. “Pickpockets are a dying breed,” he wrote. “The only known pickpockets we encounter are older, middle-aged men; however, they are rarely seen on the system anymore.”
Musicvideos: Bigsleep, The Wombats, LCD Soundsystem, Caribou
(Youtube Direktpsycho, via Videos)
Oben erstmal „All My Demons Have Distortion“ von Psycho 44, nach dem Klick noch viel, viel mehr inklusive einem LCD Soundsystem-Video mit den Muppets und Caribou als Rausschmeißer, unbedingt Bigsleep und Professor Soap wenigstens anspielen, ganz großes Damentennis.
#18DaysInEgypt – Crowdsourced Revolution-Doku
#18DaysInEgypt wird eine Doku über die Revolution in Ägypten und die Rolle des Internets dabei und die soll genau so entstehen, wie wir das ganze Geschehen mitbekommen haben: Über Twitter, Hashtags und Social-Media. Von der Website zum Film:
We want to tell the story of the Egyptian revolution with the same tools that helped share it with the world in realtime. We want #18DaysInEgypt to be a crowd-sourced interactive documentary of the events in Egypt from #Jan25 to #Feb11.
We aim to create a unique media experience using everything you created. Imagine a timeline that includes yours and everyone else’s shared experience as the revolution unfolded. We want the audience to relive the experience through media you and your fellow Egyptians created- minute by minute.
Mehr zum Thema bei GOOD: #18DaysInEgypt, A Crowd-Sourced, Social Media Fueled Documentary in the Making und die Links der letzten Tage halbwegs thematisch sortiert nach dem Klick.
Mexican Druglord Music
Wired hat ein viel zu kurzes Posting über Narcocorridos, das sind Songs, die von mexikanischen Bands für Drogenbarone geschrieben werden. Das Video oben stammt von Movimiento Alterado mit ihrem Song „Sanguinarios del M1“ und das hat auf Youtube fast 6 Millionen Views und ich verwette meinen Arsch, dass noch keiner von Euch davon jemals gehört hat.
Lyrics: „’Con un cuerno de chivo / y bazuka en la nuca / volando cabezas / al que se atraviesa’ (With an AK / and a bazooka taking aim / blowing off the heads / of whoever gets in the way)“ Unbedingt das ganze Posting lesen.
Tubas and accordions, guns and cocaine. Welcome to the weird, violent world of narcocorridos, songs about and for Mexico’s drug lords. The performers aren’t the first musicians to identify with outlaws. But unlike the works of Johnny Cash or Biggie Smalls, the songs belted out by the cantantes de narcocorridos are often commissioned by cartel chiefs themselves. “They sound like country singers and function like the wedding singer from The Godfather,” says music writer Elijah Wald, who tracks the movement. Here are some of los más famosos. Check out their hokey paeans to criminal mayhem on YouTube, but be careful—the quality is as uneven as cheap blow.
Trail of Deads Comic-Artworks
(Youtube Direkttrail, via Boing Boing)
Neulich habe ich noch ganz schwer das neue Trail of Dead-Album abgefeiert, jetzt hier dieses tolle Video über die Artworks und Comics des Sängers Conrad Keely.
Nach dem Klick nochmal mein Kurzreview der Platte:
Kid Zoom Videoportrait
Schöne Arbeiten und tolles Videoportrait über die letzte Ausstellung von Kid Zoom „This City Will Eat Me Alive“.
(Vimeo Direktzoom, via Wooster)
The Business of selling Body Parts
Wired hat ein ziemlich spannendes Posting über Organhandel, legalen wie illegalen. Hier ein nettes Bit über illegalen Bluthandel: „In 2008, blood thieves in India were busted for keeping people prisoner and milking their blood up to three times a week. Some captives had been held for more than two years.“
In the US and like-minded countries, it’s illegal to sell body parts—they can be taken only from those who filled out a donor card before they died or who are willing to give up an organ out of sheer benevolence. This means there isn’t enough tissue to go around. So, as with any outlawed or heavily regulated resource, a bustling underground trade has formed.
Sometimes the market in body parts is exploitive: Desperate people are paid tiny sums for huge donations. Other times it is ghoulish: Pieces are stolen from the recently dead. And every so often, the resource grab is lethal—people are simply killed for their organs. Welcome to the red market.
The Twin Peaks tapes of Agent Cooper
Root Blog hat ein Hörspiel in Form von Agent Coopers diktierte Tapes an Diane: „Circa Twin Peaks Season 2 cassette only release of Agent Dale Cooper’s tape recordings to the mysterious Diane, including those that appeared on the show and others recorded specifically for this release.“
“Diane…”, Dangerous Minds hat das Ding auf Youtube rausgesucht, wo es in mehreren Teilen rumfliegt: The Twin Peaks tapes of Agent Cooper
loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
(Youtube Direkt, via DrLiMa)
Jemand hat die 2006er-Doku über die Reunion-Tour der Pixies 04 bei Youtube hochgeladen. Den Trailer hierzu hatte ich fast genau vor fünf Jahren hier bereits gepostet.
In the history of modern American music there are few bands like the Pixies. Theirs was an unparalleled musical path, influencing countless others despite modest financial success. In 1992, their chief songwriter and vocalist Black Francis announced his intention to quit via a blunt facsimile. That, it seemed, was that. But to the amazement of everyone, the Pixies reunited in 2004. LoudQuietLoud is the story of this unforeseen plot twist – a deeply compelling portrait of four band members and their difficult, tense and ultimately triumphant return. From the first rehearsal to the final bow nearly one year later, the press-shy Pixies granted unprecedented access to award-winning directors Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin. The result ist an insider’s perspective on the Pixies, their relationships with family, fans and each other, and the combustible dynamic when the four members come together on stage.
Amazon-Partnerlink: Loudquietloud: A Film about The Pixies
Explosion Streetart
(Youtube Direktexplosions, via Wooster)
Alexandre Farto macht Streetart mit Explosionen, schöner Clip dazu.
March MODOK Madness 2011
Einmal im Jahr, jeden März, ruft man auf einem Blog die March MODOK Madness aus und jeder kann eigene Interpretationen des vielleicht abgefahrensten Comic-Charakters aller Zeiten einschicken, die Ergebnisse reichen von ganz schlimm bis ganz fantastisch. In knapp einer Woche geht es wieder los und man kann jetzt eigene Mental Organisms Designed Only for Killing einschicken, am Ende des nächsten Monats bringe ich nochmal ein Posting mit meinen Favorites.
In less than a week, we here at the March MODOK Madness return for our annual celebration of everyone’s favorite mental organism, our fourth year running! Thirty-one beautiful days of nothing but MODOK! Send us your beauties! Everyone is welcome! Marvel at the collection! Tell us you love us! Use exclamation points after every sentence! Even this one!
Saving faces: Iain Hutchison on TED.com
Iain Hutchison rekonstruiert Gesichter und spricht auf der TED-Konferenz über die Psychologie hinter fehlenden Gesichtsteilen und wie weit die Medizin in diesem Bereich mittlerweile gekommen ist. Superinteressant und bitte: Schaut Euch das nicht an, wenn ihr keine blutigen Bilder abkönnt. Extrem heftiger Kram dabei, vor den heftigsten Fotos blendet das Video aber auch selbst eine Warnung ein.
Facial surgeon Iain Hutchison works with people whose faces have been severely disfigured. By pushing to improve surgical techniques, he helps to improve their lives; and by commissioning their portraits, he celebrates their humanity. NOTE: This talk contains images of disfigured and badly injured faces that may be disturbing — and Hutchison provides thoughtful answers as to why a disfigured face can shock us so deeply.
