Boston
Youtube Direktrun, via Digg
Die umfassendste Berichterstattung zu den Explosionen in Boston findet man wohl auf Reddit (Thread 1, 2, 3, 4) und natürlich auf Boston.com, oben ein Video aus der Perspektive eines der Läufer (Lautstärke runterdrehen). Mittlerweile geht man von Terroranschlägen aus, das Wall Street Journal hatte gestern Nacht fünf weitere, nicht explodierte Sprengsätze gemeldet. Hier zwei Info-Bits, die mir für die Anschläge relevant erscheinen:
The Atlantic Wire: The Boston Marathon’s Final Mile Was Dedicated to Newtown Victims: „Newtown families were reportedly seated in the VIP section right by where the explosions went off.“
Political Violence (hervorragendes, sehr zurückgelehntes Blog über politisch motivierte Gewalt von Politik-Wissenschaftlern): Terror in Boston:
The most probable story relates to the timing. April 19, 1985 — federal agents arrested the leaders of the Covenant, Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, an extremist group in Arkansas. April 19, 1993 — federal agents chose to lay siege to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. April 19, 1995 — Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. All three of these events dealt with gun rights and federal agencies confronting groups with extreme beliefs on the issue.
It is Tax Day and Patriot Day, a celebration of the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War. Controversial gun legislation is currently being debated in Congress.
Abandoned McDonalds in Fukushima
Google hat gestern seine Streetview-Maps aus Fukushima online gestellt, was ich mir grade zum ersten mal richtig angesehen habe. Spooky. Chris hat mir grade das vorrottende McDonalds dort geschickt, nach dem Klick noch ein verwesender Sony-Laden: Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan McDonalds (Danke Chris!)
Vintage Desaster-Porn from Japanese Magazines
Hier ein Dutzend Doomsday-Pics aus meiner Sammlung alter Illus aus japanischen Magazinen. Die hier kommen aus 1968er Ausgaben des Shone-Magazins „End of the World“ und „Desasters of the modern World“, nach dem Klick in HighRes.
Getting high in New York after Sandy
Was machen New Yorker, wenn sie wegen Hurrikan Sandy in ihrer Wohnung rumlungern müssen, es keinen Strom gibt und auch sonst wenig zu tun ist? Kiffen natürlich. Die Graslieferservice der Stadt sind jedenfalls ziemlich beschäftigt:
“I did 34 calls today,” said a salesperson from a popular weed delivery service — who we’ll call Sam — to ANIMAL last night in Bushwick. “That might be a record.” The herbal courier attributed the uptick in business to a daily exodus of pot-seeking Manhattanites.
With power still out in neighborhoods like the East Village and Lower East Side and absolutely no outages right across the river in Williamsburg and Bushwick, Brooklyn has become an important staging area.”A lot of people from Manhattan are going to their friends’ apartments in Brooklyn to buy their weed. We’re almost sold out.”
WEED DELIVERY SERVICE BOOMING DUE TO SANDY
Und: BIKE ART INSTALLATION POWERS DIY CHARGING CENTER IN BLACKED-OUT LES, CAPITALISM REESTABLISHED IN THIRD WORLD MANHATTAN
Sharknado: The Asylum films a Web-Meme
Seit es Photoshop gibt, shoppen Leute nach jeder Überschwemmung Haie in die Katastrophenbilder, das Sandy-Beispiel wäre hier der Hai auf der Wall Street, Bild rechts. Dem nehmen sich jetzt die Qualitätsfilmer von The Asylum an und machen daraus den Arthouse-Streifen „Sharknado“. Finally! Außer dem Poster ist noch nichts bekannt, es steht allerdings außer Frage, dass das hier Citizen Kane oder Dark Knight ganz schön alt aussehen lassen wird und Hitchcock beisst sich grade im Grab in den Arsch, weil der nicht auf diese Idee gekommen ist.
Guys, there’s a film coming and it might just blow your mind. From the team at The Asylum comes a film that combines the nature-run-amok genre with the “wild weather” disaster flicks that have inundated the direct-to-DVD/VOD market.
It’s called Sharknado, and it’s exactly what you think it is. A tornado made of motherf**kin’ sharks.
The Most Important Film of the American Film Market? Sharknado is Coming!
Biking thru Sandy
Vimeo Direktbikes, via Marc
Mehr Sandy:
Photo of the Day: Pizza Without Power at Motorino
After Sandy, It’s Pizza And Homemade Meatballs For The Lucky In New Jersey
Sandy on Tumblr: Beating the Hurricane Blues
Lights Out in NYC
Sandy’s Toll on Medical Research: „Where’s the worst place for an animal lab? In the basement.“
The Jersey Shore, Before and After Sandy
The Big Picture: Hurricane Sandy: The Superstorm, Hurricane Sandy: Recovery
In Focus: Hurricane Sandy: The Aftermath
The Story Behind Hurricane Sandy’s First Viral Photo
Bloomberg nails it: It’s Global Warming, Stupid!
Cover Story der kommenden Business Week-Ausgabe, hier der Artikel dazu: It’s Global Warming, Stupid. (via Gawker)
New Yorks Diesel-Web
Ich liebe diese Story auf The Verge über das Not-Internet über Fog Creek Software, die während New York im Dunkeln liegt und zu einem Großteil vom Netz abgeschnitten ist, ihre Infrastruktur aufrecht erhalten… mit dieselbetriebenen Notfallaggregator. Gibt dem ganzen Internet-Ding irgendwie eine madmax-artige Erdung, die Story, finde ich:
The storm hit. The power went out. Fog Creek’s data center, Peer1, switched to an emergency diesel generator on the 17th floor, just as planned. Fog Creek’s bug tracking system, FogBugz, remained online. So did its code review service Kiln, productivity tool Trello, and sister site Stack Exchange. But around 9 a.m. the next morning, there came an urgent phone call. Water had surged into the basement and lobby of the data center, immersing the 20,000-gallon tank of diesel fuel and wiping out the fuel pumps and monitoring equipment. There was no way to know how much fuel was left, but Peer1 estimated it at about three hours of power.
The Fog Creek family went into crisis mode. The Trello team hustled to get its service transferred to Amazon’s cloud hosting within 10 hours. Fog Creek had to locate one of its systems administrators, who was incommunicado. An employee trekked to the apartment where his coworker was relaxing without power or cell service, climbed 13 flights to surprise the administrator at his door, and yanked him back to reality.
Then, employees picked up a few five-gallon buckets normally used to hold supplies for the office fish, purchased drums of diesel fuel from gas stations around the city, and headed down to their darkened, flooded data center.
Profile-Picture through Hurricane Sandy
Der Mann muss wirklich mal seinen Hinterhof aufräumen. Ganze Landstriche sind da umgefallen bei dem Wind gestern. „My new profile pic, compliments of hurricane sandy.“ (via Neatorama)
Becci Manson @ TED: (Re)touching lives through photos
Schöner TED-Talk von Foto-Composer Becci Manson, die nach dem Tsunami nach Japan reiste und bei Aufräumarbeiten jede Menge halb zerstörter Fotografien sammelte. Dann rief sie eine Aktion ins Leben, in der hunderte Freiwillige auf der ganzen Welt die Bilder wieder herstellten. Der Talk hat mich mehr berührt, als ich gedacht hätte, wahrscheinlich, weil ich seit über 15 Jahren mit Photoshop arbeite und exakt weiß, was sie meint, wenn sie davon redet, einen Kimono aus Pixelfetzen praktisch manuell neu zu „malen“.
Snip aus ‘nem Interview auf dem TED-Blog:
“Reiko Yamada brought us her photos one day in Rikuzentakata. Her home had been destroyed by the wave, but she and her three children managed to escape to safety. The wave ripped the second story off their house and washed it away. When they eventually found the top of the house, the photos were still inside and Reiko managed to salvage them. Although she accidentally smudged them as she tried to clean them herself, retouchers from Singapore and Australia helped restore them.”
Overall Manson says, “These stories always emphasize for me the importance photos have to people. It’s not always about the fact that it’s a photo of a certain person or event. It can often just be about the immediate memories the image conjures and evokes — like a certain smell or sound. Our connection to them is so much deeper than most of us realize.”
Saving the photographs of those who lost their homes and loved ones in the Japanese tsunami
Abandoned Nuclear Exclusion Zone in Japan
The Big Picture hat eine Bilderstrecke von David Guttenfelder, der für National Geographic in die Evakuierungszone um Fukushima gefahren ist.
What does a sudden evacuation look like? After everyone is gone, what happens to the places they’ve abandoned? National Geographic Magazine sent Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder to the nuclear exclusion zone around Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant to find out. Evacuated shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami led to a nuclear radiation crisis, the area has been largely untouched, with food rotting on store shelves and children’s backpacks waiting in classrooms. The area may face the same fate as the town of Pripyat, Ukraine after the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago. […] Collected here are Guttenfelder’s haunting images just released of a place abandoned, and of people dealing with the loss.
3D-printed Seismogram of Tōhoku-Earthquake
Luke Jerram hat das Seismogram des Erdbebens in Japan Anfang des Jahres um 360° rotiert und das Ergebnis auf einem 3D-Printer ausgedruckt. Schöne Arbeit, gutes Konzept!
This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
To create the sculpture a seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology. The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.
Insurance-Idiots: Illegal Downloads reason for Festival-Accidents:
„Das Drama beim belgischen Popfestival “Pukkelpop“ Ende August war [Versicherungs-]Experten zufolge eine indirekte Auswirkung des gestiegenen illegalen Downloads von Musik im Netz.“ ‘Illegale Downloads schuld an tödlichem Festivaldrama’ (via Fefe)
The London Beer Flood of 1814
Superinteressantes Posting auf Badass Digest über einen Unfall einer Brauerei in Central London (Tottenham Court Road) im Jahr 1814, infolge dessen 1.470.000 Liter Bier die Straßen überflutete und mehrere Menschen ums Leben kamen.
Late in the afternoon at the Horse Shoe on Monday October 17th 1814 an 800lb iron restraining hoop fell off one of the vats, which was full to the brim with 3,550 barrels (more than a million pints) of finest 10-month-old Meux’s Porter. A clerk made a note of the occurrence but thought no more of it until about an hour later when the wooden staves of the vat burst asunder. The resulting flood of beer, weighing close to 600 tons, plus wood and metal from the vat knocked out the wall of the brewery and gushed into the street, destroying more vessels which were holding about another 1200 barrels of beer.
The torrent flooded the cellars of surrounding houses, and even some street-level rooms up to ceiling height. It’s said that wave of beer was 15 feet high. Two adjacent houses were flattened and one wall of the nearby Tavistock Arms collapsed, trapping and killing a 14-year-old barmaid. In all, eight people died as a direct result of the accident, although there’s an urban myth that a ninth victim died some days later of alcohol poisoning following a heroic attempt to drink up the spate.
The London Beer Flood of 1814, mehr bei Wikipedia, hier die Meldung im Archiv der Times,
