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Wordle

Wordle tags words from a feed and makes a cloud out of them.
Bird hird the word from Paperlilies blog who came up with the idea of making
The Internet Zombie Movie

R.I.P. George Carlin

He was more than just one of the greatest comedians of all time. He was an important voice in American history, calling bullshit on all scales.

Soundamus gives you a feed of upcoming music releases of artists you listen to

If you have a last.fm account and you scrobble your music, soundamus lets you know when new music is being released from your last.fm data. All you have to do is put in your last.fm user name and it generates an rss feed, which you can then add to your favorite reader.

You can also add the info to your google, outlook or windows calendar.

Morning Walk

Such is Life

Massive Atack + Blade Runner = Swizzle My Dizzle

via io9:

"Mixing 1980s SF dystopia with electronica, this year's Meltdown Festival in the UK will include a couple of performances that may be of interest to fans of Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott or DJ-friendly orchestras. The annual festival, this year curated by Massive Attack, coffee-table favorites and creators of the House theme music. Plus the festival will give fans even a special one-off IMAX screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut along with a hipper, younger version of the soundtrack.

As well as gigs by such disparate acts as Funkadelic, Elbow, Grace Jones and Terry Callier, the festival - running from the 14th to the 22nd of June in venues across London - will include a collaboration between the Heritage Orchestra and Massive Attack, performing Vangelis' complete soundtrack to Ridley Scott's 1982 adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?.

The Heritage Orchestra, a 45-piece orchestra dedicated to blurring boundaries between musical genres, describe themselves as having a "unique approach [that integrates] the rules of jazz, electronica, DJ-Culture and contemporary-classical" and have previously worked with acts like Amon Tobin and Plaid. For the Meltdown performance, their music will be mixed live by Massive Attack who will, undoubtedly, be channeling the spirit of the synthesizer sound of the original into the evening.

Of course, if you'd rather hear something with more bass, don't worry; Adrian Sherwood's DJing the Stiff Little Fingers gig the next night. Limited tickets for the various events go on sale this Thursday, with a wide release the following day."

Check the week's line up at Meltdown.

Anyone have a spare ticket to London? I'll buy you lunch.

I would especially like to see Martina Topley-Bird and Terry Callier (and Parliament Funkadelic of course)

Also, if you're a Blade Runner fan, you should have the Esper Edition of the soundtrack.

Selda Bagcan - Check It

This album is pretty neat-o. Turkish psychedelic folk-rock from 1974. She belts with conviction. Fuzzy guitars, the saz, pretty funky drumming and some early synth sounds.

Selda Bagcan was/is a protest folk musician who has been imprisoned a number of times because of her music.

Here is a detailed description from the Finders Keepers label

Selda

Falling Bush via Planet Dan

Almost a year ago I discovered StumbleUpon and for a couple months I had my fix of distractions and the security in knowing a click would take me to new lands of discovery. Then it started cycling and I shrugged meh. I'm sure it's blossomed to the size of Gilbert Grape's mom by now but all I need is another distraction.
So from the vaults of my Stumble folder I beseech the classic Bush Falls created by PlanetDan.
Ragdoll physics + Randomly placed spheres = a lost hour that feels like 5 minutes.
Drag on Bush and you can fling him off the screen to come back into limbo and with experienced mouse-work you can make him hump a ball.So here's the link. Added to his arsenal are Falling Hillary and Falling Hillary in a bikini
The rest of his site is great though. He has a book called "Stoned on Jesus" and an admirably honest book about how babies are born in Germany.

The Art of Kris Kuksi

Check out this video: A New Divinity-The Production



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I've had some pictures of his work on my comp for awhile; check him out! Besides his main site, he has a DeviantArt page you can go to by clicking here or under one of the pictures below.

From the News page off of his website:

"Kuksi’s art speaks of a timelessness; potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep. He treats morbidity with a sympathetic touch and symbolizes the paradox of the death of the individual by objective personification of death. There is a fear of this consciousness because it drops in upon us without mercy, and yet there is a need to appeal to it in order to provide a sense of security, however deluded that sense may be. Kuksi’s art warns us that this appeal is irrelevant, and that we should be slow to create a need for it. His themes also teach us that although death may pursue us arbitrarily, we should never neglect to mourn the tremendous loss of individual potential."


Psychotropic Anatomy by *kuksi on deviantART

The Deadly Sins by *kuksi on deviantART

Pronation of Christ by *kuksi on deviantART

Love Dance Remix Rough Drafts

I'm remixing 2 versions of a song called Love Dance composed by Martin Denny.
There's another version sung by Sondi Sodsai.
Still need to spice up the drums, add a couple more sounds but here's a couple versions so far.

Vegas (Henderson)

Cool New Blog: io9

From Lifehacker:
"We're thrilled to announce a new member of the family this morning: our sister site io9 is everything and anything you want to know about science fiction, futurism, space, comics, hackers, science, and all manner of geeky culture."

Great style, good humor and I'm not finding many posts that aren't interesting, like this one:

Zorine the Queen of the Nudists and Alpha the Mechanical Man

ahh Retro Futurism

A couple others include:

First-Mutant-Man-Born-Without-an-Asshole

&

First-Glimpse-of-Indiana-Jones-Aliens-++-in-Lego!

iz fun.

2001 Hip Hop Mix

Another old cd mix
featuring a Mini Set of Wu-Tang/Gravediggaz and Goodie Mob.

Artists include:

Dres Ft Ed OG
Prince Paul ft Guru & Planet Asia
Aceyalone
Souls of Mischief
Talib Kweli
Cypress Hill
Wu-Tang/Gravediggaz
Busta & Rah Digga
Goodie Mob

Sketches of 2007