December 2010
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The End of Kodachrome
via neatorama.com Kodachrome is no more. The last roll was processed yesterday on Kansas. This is a watershed moment. Kodachrome was the choice of many professional photographers for colour images and now it is no more. I know you can emulate it digitally but emulations are not the real thing and CCDs are not film emulsions. At least the images shot on it will remain. Posted via email ...
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Taping a video camera to the end of a broadsword
via youtube.com I love this video. It’s all pretty simply made but the results are fantastic. I think it works so well because we’re looking back down the sword giving some kind of fixed reference. Anyway it looks cool. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Charging Bull with Sweater
via neatorama.com Artist Agata Olek gave the Wall Street charging bull sculpture a crocheted skin. It was removed after a couple of hours as there is little humour in the NYC financial district when they’re not dreaming up risky ways to make money. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Filmmakers don't understand science
via io9.com io9 has a nice rundown on how 18 scifi films do with depicting some pretty basic science. It turns out the only two with a clean bill of health are based on true stories. Of course film is a storytelling medium and there’s lots of fantasy involved. Filmmakers keep trying to convince us that Vince Vaughn is funny too. Posted via email from Mad With...
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Bad Children Get Coal (via Fake Science)
via fakescience.tumblr.com What could possibly be more exciting? Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Harvard newspaper staff bow to MPAA dogma without...
Copycense points us to an editorial in the Harvard Crimson apparently supporting the MPAA’s new demands to universities that they need to police their local networks to stop students from file sharing. The editorial has tons of problems — starting with the fact that it ignores that the MPAA lied to get the law passed in the first place. But the editorial has much more serious...
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Gabriel Dawe's modern take on Mexican textiles
Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe creates some stunning installations using only thread, wood and nails. I love how his work links to Mexican textile culture. It is wonderful to see something so modern with such explicit links to its cultural heritage. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Industrial designers should have more accidents:...
via popsci.com As the article points out, “standard crutches are little more than repurposed tree limbs.” Presumably we’ve been limping along with this imperfect tool for a long time. Now Jeff Weber has made it much better. The saddle is mesh and moves to stay paralel to the armpit, the grips are handed, the foot is rounded and it uses less aluminium than a standard...
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The Shroud of Vogue: Visualising editorial ideals...
via bookofjoe.com This image becomes more interesting the more I look at it. It is the past year’s editions of Vogue overlaid, click through for 12 images emphasising each individual cover. The overview tells us a lot about the ideal cover and you can even see the patterns of the text. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Not in Kansas Anymore: A compilation of the famous...
via youtube.com Crikey there’s a lot of them. It’s quite good fun to play spot the movie with this too. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Where do ideas come from?
via toothpastefordinner.com Toothpaste for dinner hits the nail squarely on the head. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Sex education in Ireland: One teacher's story
via thebarbariangoesforth.blogspot.com Annie’s post is shocking and sad. She relates the story of how sex education was handled in a school she taught in. The post is well worth a read. In her schools children were being fed misinformation about contraception to scare them away from using it. Whatever your beliefs about the morality of contraception this is a shameful tactic. If you...
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Kettling to be challenged in the courts: Met...
UK demonstrator challenges legality of “kettling” protestors Cory Doctorow at 3:50 AM Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 Bethany Shiner, a student who was “kettled” in London’s Trafalgar Square during last week’s demonstrations over education cuts in the UK, has launched a legal challenge to the police practice of detaining demonstrators by blockading...
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December 17th Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday: A...
via en.wikipedia.org It’s hard to overestimate the importance of good old Ludwig van. He created modern music and perhaps even the modern conception of the artist. He certainly embodies many traits that have become cliches of our perception of creative people. For me the music is what counts most. It’s almost all glorious but in his later work, particularly those six extraordinary...
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Mosh pit etiquette: Don't be a knucklehead
via heyoscarwilde.tumblr.com From the Beastie Boys tour zine circa 1995. This is a lovely explanation of how to make the pit a great place for everyone to have some fun. The second part of number two is worth repeating, the mosh pit is not a place for sexually assaulting women; groping, tearing or removing clothes is sexual assalt. The do’s are good too. Posted via email from Mad...
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A pictorial survey of flipping the bird (technical...
via theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com Sometimes there is nothing left to do but express yourself with visual or verbal profanity. After the link there’s an impressive gallery of people flipping the bird, some surreptitiously, some blatantly and all (as Kenny Everett used to say) in the best possible taste. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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George Ewart Evans collection - Archival Sound...
via sounds.bl.uk George Ewart Evans collection 250 recordings of interviews and songs made by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977, many in Suffolk, with a smaller number in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The recordings document rural life and agricultural work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, folk beliefs about animals, medicine...
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Firefox Creative Lead Leaves to Launch Stealth...
Aza Raskin, the eccentric lead designer at Mozilla’s Firefox, announced today that he’s leaving his position to co-found a startup in the healthcare market with mobile entrepreneur Sutha Kamal and at least one still-unnamed co-founder. Already well funded by undisclosed investors, Raskin says the company, called Massive Health, will bring a User Experience designer’s...
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Kowloon Walled City, 33,000+ Residents Lived...
via feeds.laughingsquid.com For an idea of how dense the population of Kowloon Walled City was and how it compares to other cities in the world, Wikipedia has lists featuring the highest population densities in the United States and highest population densities in the world. Gutenberg, New Jersey is the densest United States town, with 56,000 people per square mile. Marine Division in...
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Wills and Kate memorial plates that I might even...
via creativereview.co.uk I managed to avoid Chuck and Di’s wedding through luck, but it looks like Little Prince Billy and Kate’s will be impossible to avoid. I do like most of these commemorative plates though. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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12-year-old child intimidated by police over...
Police told schoolboy Nicky Wishart he would be arrested if his picket at David Cameron’s office sparked unrest. Photograph: Virginia Phelps The mother of a 12-year-old boy has criticised Thames Valley police for taking her son out of lessons because he was planning to picket David Cameron’s constituency office today. Nicky Wishart, a pupil at Bartholomew...
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Remixing She Makes War was great fun and you can...
I have had great fun remixing a track from the She Makes War album Disarm. She Makes War - Scared to Capsize (gale 8 to storm 10 veering southwest mix) by rubken Here’s the original, You can listen to and buy the whole album in a dizzying variety of formats here, http://shemakeswar.bandcamp.com, and if you want to have a go yourself justdownload the stems from...
The State of The Music Industry & the...
The reality is: More musicians are making money off their music now then at any point in history. The cost of buying music has gotten lower but the amount of money going into the artist’s pocket has increased. There are more people listening, sharing, buying, monetizing, stealing and engaging with music than at any other point in history. There are more ways for an artist to get...