Anne Frank, Belieber
Unbeliebable: Geht Justin Bieber ins Anne Frank Haus in Amsterdam und meint so:
Yesterday night Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, together with his friends and guards. Fans were waiting outside to see a glimpse of him. He stayed more than an hour in the museum. In our guestbook he wrote: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”
Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank ‘would have been a belieber’
Das Anne Frank Haus dazu:
‘He’s 19, it’s a strange life he’s living, it wasn’t very sensible but he didn’t mean bad…’ – @annefrankhouse press office
— anna holligan (@annaholligan) 14. April 2013
Hitlers Toilet
Sehr passend zum grandios am aktuellen Zeitgeist vorbei getitelten Spiegel diese Woche: Hitlers Klo.
According to Kohfeldt, the toilet came off of Hitler’s biggest private yacht, the Aviso Grille, which was between 400 and 500 feet long, and at the time one of the biggest private boats in existence. “He wanted to ride it down the Thames in London and go live in Windsor Palace when he invaded,” Kohfeldt told me on a subzero morning last week as he pulled a sink—also from the ship, and now in pieces—out of a box and laid them out for me to examine each of the maker’s stamps and faucets. Another resident of Florence, Dick Glass—an expert on Hitler’s yacht—told me that the ship was armed, had a crew of 245 men, a private room for Eva Braun, and was bigger than J.P. Morgan’s ship Corsair. The Aviso Grille also played a significant role in one particular moment in history: Hitler’s Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz stood on the deck of the ship on May 1, 1945, and gave the first word of the Führer’s death and took command of Germany.
After the war ended, the Aviso Grille was taken to the United States and ended up in the hands of New Jersey shipyard owner Harry Doan, who illegally charged visitors 25 cents to board and tour Hitler’s Yacht. However, according to Glass, both Doan and the federal government wanted to prevent the ship from becoming a memorial to Hitler, and so it was scrapped in Doan’s salvage yard in the early 1950s.
At that point, Sam Carlani needed a new toilet. Doan, his close friend and poker buddy, told him he had one available.
WWII Crypto-Pigeon-Skeleton found in Chimney
In einem Schornstein hat man das Skelett einer Taube des britischen Geheimdienstes gefunden, komplett mit verschlüsselter Nachricht am Bein und die haben sie nun zu den Kryptographen in Bletchley Park geschickt (das ist die Institution, an der Alan Turing damals den Enigma-Code geknackt hat), wo sie nun entschlüsselt wird. Die Meldung kommt von der Daily Mail, ist aber trotzdem awesome.
Experts say the red capsule Mr Martin found is the type used by the Special Operations Executive. Their human agents undertook sabotage missions such as blowing up trains, bridges and factories in German-occupied territory. The message was written by a Sergeant W Stott and contains columns of groups of five letters. It is thought that its intended recipient, ‘X02’, is code for Bomber Command. […]
‘The message Mr Martin found must be highly top secret,’ Mr Hill said. ‘The aluminium ring found on the bird’s leg tells us it was born in 1940, and we know it’s an Allied Forces pigeon because of the red capsule it was carrying, but that’s all we know.’
Skeleton of hero World War II carrier pigeon found in chimney with a secret message still attached to its leg (and now Bletchley Park are trying to crack the code) (via MeFi)
Winston Churchills Pressure Chamber
Grade in meinen Feedreader gewandert: Scan Zen – „hi-res vintage images, paper ephemeras – ads, photos, illustrations, articles, whatever i capture or scan or find on the web“. Von dort bzw. aus dem Life Mag vom 10. Februar 1947: Winstons shell.
Designer Graham demostrates Winston Churchill’s personal pressure chamber, created to enable him to make high-altitude flights safely. In: Life, 10 Feb 1947.
To protect the precious bulk of Winston Churchill in wartime a special one-man pressure chamber was built for the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta. Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash trays, telephone and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere.
Bookmarks for Dezember 17th: 1966 Batman-Intro in Lego, International Food-Art-Incident and Saddam, Googles L-Team
Sweden Is Lending The Country’s Twitter To Citizens | Geekosystem: In a weird but awesome move, Sweden has started a campaign where its official Twitter account, @sweden, will be taken over and operated by a different Swede every week.
Occupy Goes to Washington, Finding Politics is Complicated | Threat Level | Wired.com: Even by Occupy Wall Street standards, the Washington, D.C. situation is messy and uncertain.
Artist Michael Rakowitz on How His Saddam Hussein Dinner Party Became an International Incident | Artinfo: When a dinner of venison topped with date and tahini sauce was served on plates taken from Saddam Husseins private collection at Park Avenue Autumn for Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitzs project „Spoils“, the assorted art-world diners didn’t bat an eye – but now New York Citys Iraqi mission has, turning Rakowitzs piece into an international incident. The controversy, exploding on the eve of the U.S.s supposed withdrawal from Iraq, has had reverberations touching the artist, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and president Obama himself. As Iraqi artifacts, the plates have been confiscated by the Iraqi mission after a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the restaurant, and were presented by Obama to the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team | Reuters: The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as "The OC," short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: „L Team“ short for Larry’s Team.
Parting Shot: ‘Go Freelance,’ The Board Game About Being a Comics Freelancer
What If… Herge Created The X-Men?
ARYZ x MONTANA LiSBOA | Silkscreen Print on Vimeo
The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
awesome Gmail Tips : Gmail as you have never known it before
Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs Published ~ 1982
Web Symbols typeface
StarCraft changed my life
Early sound recordings heard for first time: Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California together with digital conversion experts at the Library of Congress and curators of the work and industry division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have succeeded in playing some of the earliest experimental sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell.
Bradley Manning Had Secrets | Adam Butcher – Writer. Director. Filmmaker: The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky – YouTube: Professor Noam Chomsky presented a lecture „Changing Contours of Global Order“ a look at our drastically changing world, and the implications for domestic and world order on 4 November 2011. This was a free public lecture and was Professor Chomskys only public appearance in Melbourne, Australia.
Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU – YouTube: SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics.
Adrian Frutiger – Ein Leben – YouTube: Mit Schriften wie der Univers und der Frutiger hat sich Adrian Frutiger schon zu Lebzeiten ein Denkmal gesetzt. Seine Schriften haben den Alltag geprägt und sind zum Beispiel auf den Euro Scheinen wieder zu finden. Einer der größten Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts ist den meisten Menschen vollkommen unbekannt. Dieses Interview soll das ändern.
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0 | Webmonkey | Wired.com: Popcorn is simply a JavaScript library that aims to simplify the process of adding external data culled from around the web to your video. To give an idea of what’s possible with Popcorn, Mozilla is showcasing the movie One Millionth Tower, a documentary film about an apartment building and how residents imagine the future. One Millionth Tower premiered online last weekend at Wired.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to the Underwire blog.
One Millionth Tower uses some tricks beyond Popcorn (like WebGL for some 3D elements), but most of its coolest effects — like the way the environment in the film changes based on the real-time weather conditions and time of day at the Toronto high-rises where the documentary was filmed — are all courtesy of Popcorn.
If it happens to be snowing in Toronto when you watch the film, it will begin snowing in the virtual world of One Millionth Tower.
Clifford Stolls History of the Curta Calculator
Zu Curt Herzstarks Curta Calculator, dem ersten Taschenrechner der Welt, den er im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald zumindest konzeptionell fertigstellte und der 1948 auf den Markt kam, hatte ich schonmal was vor ein paar Jahren. Aber damals kannte ich die Geschichte hinter der Maschine noch nicht und jetzt hat AT&Ts Techchannel ein weiteres Video von meinem Lieblingsirren Clifford Stoll online gestellt, in dem er diese erzählt.
Auf The CURTA Calculator Page findet man so ziemlich alles zum Thema, die Bilder habe ich von dort, Snip von Wikipedia:
The Curta was conceived by Curt Herzstark (1902–1988) in the 1930s in Vienna. By 1938, he had filed a key patent, covering his complemented stepped drum, Deutsches Reichspatent (German Empire Patent) No. 747073. This single drum replaced the multiple drums, typically around 10 or so, of contemporary calculators, and it enabled not only addition, but subtraction through nines complement math, essentially subtracting by adding. The nines’ complement math breakthrough eliminated the significant mechanical complexity created when “borrowing” during subtraction. This drum would prove to be the key to the small, hand-held mechanical calculator the Curta would become.
His work on the pocket calculator stopped in 1938 when the Nazis forced him and his company to concentrate on manufacturing measuring instruments and distance gauges for the German army.
Herzstark, the son of a Catholic mother but Jewish father, was taken into custody in 1943, eventually finding himself at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Ironically, it was in the concentration camp that he was encouraged to continue his earlier research: “While I was imprisoned inside [Buchenwald] I had, after a few days, told the [people] in the work production scheduling department of my ideas. The head of the department, Mr. Munich said, ‘See, Herzstark, I understand you’ve been working on a new thing, a small calculating machine. Do you know, I can give you a tip. We will allow you to make and draw everything. If it is really worth something, then we will give it to the Führer as a present after we win the war. Then, surely, you will be made an Aryan.’ For me, that was the first time I thought to myself, my God, if you do this, you can extend your life. And then and there I started to draw the CURTA, the way I had imagined it.”
Pink Mustaches for Girls and the english Spies, who wanted to make Hitler a Woman
Toll! Pinke Schnurrbärte für Mädchen! (via Daniel) Dabei fällt mir die Story ein, die ich heute morgen beim Telegraph gelesen hatte: Spione wollten Hitler Estrogene ins Essen geben, um ihn weiblicher zu machen. Und das steht nicht in der Weekly World News sondern im konservativen britschen Blatt Telegraph.
Now it has come to light that British spies looked at an even more audacious way of derailing the man behind the German war machine – by giving him female sex hormones. Agents planned to smuggle doses of oestrogen into his food to make him less aggressive and more like his docile younger sister Paula, who worked as a secretary. Spies working for the British were close enough to Hitler to have access to his food, said Professor Brian Ford, who discovered the plot.
Bookmarks for July 26th: The Strokes, CCC, The Golden Photocopier
Stereogum Presents… STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It – Stereogum: The Strokes‘ debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection, STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It
Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas | ScienceBlog.com: Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.
Mit dem Hacken davongekommen – einestages: Es war die Geburtsstunde des Chaos Computer Clubs: In subversiver Runde trafen sich im September 1981 in den Räumen der Berliner "taz" Nerds aus der ganzen Bundesrepublik. Bekannt wurde die Hackerverbindung allerdings erst drei Jahre später – mit einem Coup, der eine Hamburger Bank arm machte.
SLOW DEATH FUNNIES ~ #1-#9 ~ 1970-77 – Art by Irons, Corben, Holmes, Stout, McCarthy & Jaxon
Larry Todd
German designer Anke Domaske and her fashions made from milk | euromaxx – YouTube
‘Ecohols’ by JØRN: Wie sähen die Produkte der großen Spirituosen-Marken aus, füllte man sie statt in ihre markanten Flaschen in Getränkekartons? Zeiten ändern sich, was bleibt von der Marke?
Points of Departure: Today, there are more than 49,000 airports around the world. That’s a lot. But to give you a better idea of the current state of commercial aviation, take a moment to explore our map below and have a look at the 6,000 most popular airports on the globe.
Colour pictures revealed of London blitz from Nazi bombers in World War II | Mail Online: For many, photographs from the World War II have only been seen in grainy black and white. But now, new colour images have emerged that show the full horror of the destruction inflicted by Nazi bombings across London. The powerful images were released to mark the 70th anniversary of the launch of Winston Churchill's 'V for Victory' campaign on July 19, 1941.
Infinite Mario – HTML5: Based on Super Mario 3, this HTML5 Super Mario game goes on forever.
Dangerous Minds | Beat This!: A hip hop history: The terrific Beat This!: A Hip hop History takes us up through roots of hip hop culture starting in the late 1970s in the South Bronx and features Kool Herc, Planet Rock, Kurtis Blow, Jazzy Jay, Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McClaren and many more. Great vintage footage of Manhattan, the Bronx, beatboxing, graffiti and breakdancing. Directed by the British film maker Dick Fontaine.
Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Nits d’Estiu, july & august 2011 on Vimeo
GAZA STRIP on Vimeo: In early 2001 I spent three months in Gaza filming material for this documentary, GAZA STRIP, working with local fixer and translator, Mohammed Mohanna. The second Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation had begun in September, 2000, and there had already been large numbers of deaths in Gaza when I started this project.
Letters of Note: The Internet Tidal Wave: May 26th, 1995: Bill Gates sends a memo, entitled "The Internet Tidal Wave," to all executive staff within Microsoft. In it, he makes clear his intention to focus the company's efforts online with immediate effect and "assign the Internet the highest level of importance," going on to call it, "the most important single development to come along since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981."<br />
A few highlights from a long but highly quotable 16-year-old memo include: Gates forewarning, "One scary possibility being discussed by Internet fans is whether they should get together and create something far less expensive than a PC which is powerful enough for Web browsing"; the Microsoft boss later grumbling that after 10 hours of browsing the Internet, he "had not seen a single Word .DOC, AVI file, Windows .EXE (other than content viewers), or other Microsoft file format," then adding, "I did see a great number of Quicktime files"…
How To Assemble A Medical Training Device | English Russia: Welcome to one of the companies located in Saint-Petersburg that produces devices for rendering the first aid and plastic skeletons.
ROBOT DRUMMER.mov – YouTube: It started when our drummer drank all our beer.
50 Jahre Perry Rhodan: Opa from Outer Space – einestages: 2600 Hefte, 156.000 Seiten, eine 3000 Jahre umfassende Geschichte: Seit dem Bau der Berliner Mauer liegt die Science-Fiction-Serie "Perry Rhodan" am Kiosk, ein Heer von Autoren schreibt das Weltraum-Epos seit nunmehr 50 Jahren fort. Längst hat sich auch außerhalb der Hefte um die Serie ein bizarres Paralleluniversum gebildet.
How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? : Planet Money : NPR: At a writing camp, a record label hires the best music writers in the country and drops them into the nicest recording studios in town for about two weeks. It's a temporary version of the old music-industry hit factories, where writers and producers cranked out pop songs.
Shoah auf Youtube
Youtube-User Sternwolf27 hat die komplette, 540 Minuten lange Doku „Shoah“ über den Holocaust in 59 Teilen bei Youtube hochgeladen. Von Wikipedia: „Shoah ragt aus anderen Holocaust-Dokumentationen heraus: Die Art der Auseinandersetzung, die der Film vom Zuschauer fordert, ist in einem übertragenen Sinn äußerst schmerzhaft – der Zuschauer wird so sehr in die Augenzeugenberichte hereingezogen, dass er selbst ein Teil der Gesprächssituation oder der Geschichte zu sein glaubt. Ein Gefühl der unmittelbaren Teilhabe hervorzurufen, das ist das Anliegen des Films. Die Fragen, die der Regisseur stellt, oft zu kleinen Details, sind nicht von vornherein mit Urteilen belegt, so dass man zum Teil ein ganz neues, sich annäherndes Bild des Grauens vermittelt bekommt.“ (via MeFi)
Doku-Trailer zu Marwencol: Artist builds miniature WWII-Scenes after Brain-Trauma
Illustrator Mark Hogancamp wurde vor 10 Jahren von fünf Teenagern ins Koma geprügelt. Als er daraus erwachte, hatte er einen großen Teil seines Gedächtnisses und sein Talent zum Zeichnen verloren. Also schnappte er sich eine Kamera und fotografierte miniaturisierte WWII-Szenen im Inglorious Basterds-Style, die er hinter seinem Haus aus altem Holz und Actionfiguren bastelte und in einem imaginären Dorf ansiedelte. „Marwencol“ ist eine Doku über das alles und die sieht definitiv aus wie etwas, das ich mir ansehen muss. Hier der Trailer:
(Youtube DirektWWII, via Neatorama)
Wall Street Journal hat ein kleines Portrait über Mark Hogancamp: Illustrator’s War Games Prove Restorative.
Mr. Hogancamp has invented an alternate reality, populated with more than 100 1:6 scale model dolls who come to life in a matching town that he constructed in his yard. They have been cast as characters in an evolving, often violent wartime narrative that he painstakingly photographs, conjuring personas from friends, family members and celebrities—like Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead, who has become the medic Pvt. Yorke, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who flies a scale model Messerschmitt.
“Inglourious Barbies,” is how “Marwencol” director Jeff Malmberg affectionately describes the scenarios, alluding to the World War II fantasy directed by Quentin Tarantino, one of Mr. Hogancamp’s only acknowledged influences and, as he’s happy to note, a fellow foot fetishist. The stories unfold in slideshows Mr. Hogancamp makes for his own enjoyment, using dolls made by Dragon Novelties, purchased with money he saves back from his disability benefits.
Bizarre WWII Cyber-Puppen von Olivier Pauwels
Olivier Pauwels vereint auf extrem bizarre Weise alte Puppen mit diversen elektronischen und mechanischen Bauteilen aus altem Schrott und erschafft so faszinierende Skulpturen die an das Vergangene, das Gegenwärtige und die Zukunft erinnern sollen. Weitere Informationen über seine Werke und sein Schaffen könnt ihr euch in der Device Gallery holen. via sweetstation
Martin aka Mister Honk ist seines Zeichens Herzblut-Mediendesigner, Vollzeit-Nerd, leidenschaftlicher Biertrinker und für die nächsten Tage hier im NC Gastblogger.
Nazi-Dinos-HalfLife-Mod
(Youtube Direktdinos, via io9)
Nazis erwecken Dinosaurier im zweiten Weltkrieg, die man im Half Life 2-Mod „Dino D-Day“ plattmachen muss. Klingt für mich so ein bisschen wie ein Prequel von „Dead Snow“ (Trailer), in dem Nazi-Zombies eine Gruppe Urlauber dezimieren.
You’ll play as Sgt. Jack Hardgrave, a renowned paleontologist who thought he put his career on hold to go to war…then Hitler resurrected dinosaurs and unleashed them on the Allies in 1942. When the Fuhrer’s monster army saw battle for the first time in North Africa Hardgrave was on the front lines – nearly getting eaten alive by beasts he spent his life studying.
Batman, Superman, Flash, Spidey und Darth Vader in WWII
Der indonesische Künstler Agan Harahap fügt gerne Superhelden und Darth Vader in historische Fotos aus dem zweiten Weltkrieg ein. Bisher hat er nur fünf Collagen, das ist also insgesamt noch sehr ausbaufähig. Oben Superman bei der Überwachung der Bergung geretteter Kunstwerke aus dem Schloß Neuschwanstein und Batman beim Motivieren von Englischen Paratroopern. Die anderen drei Artworks mit Spidey, Anakin und Flash gibt’s in Harahaps Galerie auf Deviant Art.
(via SciFi-Wire, Danke Felix!)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Vintage WWII-Star Wars Photography
Nazi Star Wars
WWII-Mickey Mouse-Gasmaske
Der Zweck einer Mickey Mouse-Gasmaske ergibt ja durchaus Sinn, aber ich finde die Tatsache alleine schon ziemlich strange, dass es tatsächlich eine von Disney abgesegnete und damit quasi „offizielle“ Mickey Mouse-Gasmaske gab.
On January 7th, 1942, one month after Pearl Harbor, T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval introduced a protective mask for children. This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. After approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced sample masks for review. Other comic book character designs were to follow, depending on the success of the Mickey Mouse mask.
The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. This would reduce the fear associated with wearing a gas mask and hopefully, improve their wear time and, hence, survivability.
The Mickey Mouse Mask (via Seehere)
Artist recreates Holocaust as Boardgame
Brenda Brathwaite vom Savannah College of Art and Design hat ein Brettspiel erschaffen, das den Holocaust nachstellt. Das „Spiel“-Kunstwerk ist laut dem Text alles andere als Fun. Wall Street Journal hat einen Artikel inklusive Interview.
Brathwaite created “Train” to explore the tragedy and devastation of the Holocaust. It made its debut last month at the Games for Change conference in New York City. Players load boxcars with tiny yellow figurines and are asked to move the trains from one end of the course to the other. They pull cards that either impede their progress or free some of the characters. Once a train reaches the “finish line,” the game is completed and it is revealed that the destination of the trains is Auschwitz. Nobody “wins.”
Snip vom Interview:
Not all players have the same experiences. I understand that someone who played the game compared it to “Halo”?
Yes, that has happened only once, and it was incredibly surprising to me, to the other players and to the people watching. It is not a common experience. The woman later told me she felt guilty about it, though. I think her callousness was an incredible learning opportunity for all of us. Some people approach the game and see it for what it is immediately, and their reaction is no less visceral than those who play the game. There are those who play all the way until the end and then realize where the trains were going – and it is such a steep drop. People become nauseated. Their faces flush. People have cried. There is always a one-hour period of discussion after (or two hours at MIT).
With that singular “Halo” exception, no one has ever wanted to play again.
The Board Game No One Wants to Play More Than Once (via Waxy)
