tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210742162011-07-30T20:31:30.403-04:00Blog? 300 TFLOPS of computational power and this is the best word we can come up with?Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.comBlogger1221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-83711657242861576852011-05-23T14:43:00.000-04:002011-05-23T14:43:01.467-04:00

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Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-35052242098514112902009-05-04T20:45:00.001-04:002009-05-04T20:50:46.166-04:00

Winnie the Pooh sure has changed...

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-10689870822296111162008-08-29T13:40:00.000-04:002008-08-29T13:52:02.575-04:00

Tasty retro themed 8bit vizcandy featured on the brilliant Tokyo Mango. My favorite line in the description - "It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory." I love the beautiful trajectory of that Engrish phrase! Enjoy.

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Eye candy isn't the only thing I'm about. I really enjoyed this lecture given by the astrophysicist Martin Rees at the TED conference in 2005. Makes you wonder if we can turn this boat around before we go over the cosmic falls.

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There's something about well done claymation that makes me feel all squiggly inside. Like comfort food for the brain. Especially when I'm trapped in the house with my family, trying not to get smooshed by God's giant spitwad. It really taps into my memory of being snow bound in rural PA, with only a Rankin and Bass reindeer to entertain me. But in this case you have to replace an even-toed arctic

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Tron + Stop Motion + Papercraft = 23 kinds of cool TronUploaded by freres-hueon

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Some more of my grandad's stories.See previous post for background and disclaimers.Original files hosted at ourmedia.org under a Creative Commons licenseThis episode:-Feet in the path-Dugout canoe-Career in sailing

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I lost my grandfather last year and I wanted to find some way to remember him.I'm in the process digitizing some of his stories and posting them to ourmedia/archive.org.Eventually I'd like to clean these up and turn them into a multimedia project.As I upload I'll post links to audio streams here.Audio quality and PCness may sometimes be questionable so be warned.This is the raw and unedited

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The only way to fight the meme is to embrace the meme.Graphic goofiness by daydreamthiefThis work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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For Uncle Bill to tell it like it is.

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Should we start prepping ourselves for fuzzy culture?Bruce Sterling featured David Armano's presentation in his blog.Dig it. | View | Upload your ownNot sure how much of a send up this is on Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, but it fits in so well to the way that I've been thinking about indie media production and my extremely fuzzy role in that process.Like a lot of people who get into media

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Classic.George A. Romero made this grandaddy of flesh eating shamblin' goodness.Tasty.

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What sweet little ghouls and goblins.Here are some public domain goodies to put in your bags.Vincent Price in an Italian adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.Mind the fish hooks and razor blades...

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I'll do myself a favor by poking some holes in my high-falutin' Halloween rant.I also like dressing up like a fool, scaring the crap out of the neighborhood kids, and eating candy till I'm sick.So there.Boo!!!Ghost pic courtesy of Salendron under a CC license.

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Why is Halloween is such a psychic touchstone for me?At least for me, this holiday seems to be the most genuine expression of the human condition. While other holidays try to gloss over the horror that most people deal with on a daily basis, Halloween seems to be a slight tip of the hat to the universal equalizer. In a world filled with genocide, cancer, environmental meltdown, etc., it's nice to

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Wow...It's like Battleship Potempkin meets Singin' in the Rain.

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Just found this interesting documentary by Henry Porter on the use of CCTV in Britain and the rise of a surveillance state in response to the "war on some terror".As a film maker, 21st century video voyeur, and armchair civil libertarian this subject fascinates me. The idea that we'll be safer if we allow governments, corporations, and now individuals to monitor everyone else certainly sets off

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-6359669272160719852007-10-14T11:45:00.000-04:002007-10-14T12:13:29.712-04:00

Amazing to see a major Hollywood player like De Palma butting heads with his studio heads in public over his film "Redacted".This one clip raises issues of censorship, free speech, and the problems of applying fair use in film making.This debate is long over due. Maybe having some heavy hitters weighing in on the subject will shake things up.Cross your fingers.

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I just finished this horrific article in the NYT about the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo.It's hard enough for me to understand what motivates an individual to commit acts of sexual violence.How do you come up with an answer for what would motivate groups to do something like this? 130+ years of conflict, exploitation, environmental destruction, and political conflict certainly have

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Here's how Wikipedia defines it.Has anyone else noticed this extreme bleedover from the cyberpunk of the 80s and 90s to the scary news headlines of the present??He was a perpetual outsider, a rogue factor adrift on the secret seas of intercorpo- rate politics. No company man would have been capable of taking the initiatives Turner was required to take in the course of an extraction. No company

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This has been around for a bit, but I thought it was interesting when thinking about the psyop stuff brought up in Jon Ronson's documentary.While encouraging prisoners in this sort of display is interesting and relatively harmless, I wonder what the folks in charge of Gitmo thought when they watched this for the first time.I really like Chris Nakashima-Brown's post about this same clip. This

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Getting warmer on the psychic warfare search...I definitely see... wires?? And the name Alex or Alexander keeps coming up.Does that mean anything to you?http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/dinner-with.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/new-correlation.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/psychokinesis-a.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/cyberwar_panic_.htmlPhoto courtesy of

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I'm making another venture into the social network world with a facebook page.I have a bunch of mixed feelings about this.It's great connecting with all of these people that I've met in the past few years.But I can't help wishing for the days when I was just a ghost in the machine.Part of me wants to just remain a "Whatever happend to..."Design is fairly clean and the apps aren't too

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Just finshed watching David Choe train hop, hitch, float, and gently con his way across the United States in this amazing and disturbingly sweet web documentary.You see this outlaw artist in the middle of a very Gummo landscape at times.Definitely not for the faint of heart or easily offended.But, for every venture into near Springeresque territory, their are these little poignant moments of dark

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Electric Dragon 80000VWow...How do I describe this?Sex Pistols meets Power Rangers?Amazing visuals with a visceral hypernoise rock punch.Definitely need to hunt down some more Sogo Ishii flicks.

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So not to lose this psychic warfare momentum, but I'm having some trouble tracking down any great sources for evidence that other governments engaged in this sort of research.Apart from just pop culture hearsay about Russian psychic weapons, Nazi occult rituals, etc., the evidence seems to be a bit more sparse.If anyone comes across any good books and/or movies dealing with these subjects, let me

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-31470947892370299792007-09-16T19:02:00.000-04:002007-09-16T21:30:31.563-04:00

Crazy Rulers of the World (1/3) - The Men Who Stare at GoatsJon Ronson's documentary Channel 4 documentary on high weirdness in the U.S. military.How does this blow my mind? Let me count the ways...1, 3, 4??Let's say at least 7. Nice round number.While I've read and heard about the government's dabbling in the paranormal, this weird little "what if" branch of history is completely new to me.I'm

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1598023408149850462007-01-12T14:54:00.000-05:002008-12-09T11:27:35.660-05:00

How do you write an obituary in E-Prime?Let's see.It appears that the metamagician and reality tunnel demolitions expert who occupied the memespace labeled by many as Robert Anton Wilsonhas experienced what some domesticated primates would describe as the cessation of all biological processes at around 4:50 AM January 11th (using local temporal coordinates).All Hail Eris!

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011107 Originally uploaded by NC Sylvis Photos. New year.New semester.New camera.New excuses for not blogging.I swear I'll be better this time.This time it'll be different.You'll see.It'll all be like brand new.Just trust me.

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1157951179000716172006-09-11T00:43:00.000-04:002006-09-11T01:09:08.986-04:00

So here's my 2 cents.How about a media fast today?Instead of wallowing in the miserable media mud pit, turn off your computer, TV, radio, phone, and avoid the paper or magazines if you can.You can't avoid it completely. Some fool will come up to you and ask you where you were when it happened, and how terrible it was, and how we need to fly our flags so the they don't win this war(?). Just nod,

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Wow!My friend Ndesanjo Macha attended the recent Wikipedia conference and was featured in the New York Times for his work on the Swahili version of Wikipedia.I'm not sure which is cooler, NYT coverage, or helping to create a web based free content encyclopedia in your own language.I'll vote for the wiki.Be sure to check out his blogs.http://jikomboe.com/http://digitalafrica.blogspot.com/http://

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Hideous Kinky Originally uploaded by SteveFE. Great macro shot.

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Chad Wood: Tree parasite (2) Originally uploaded by orangeacid.

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1156281029927293142006-08-22T17:05:00.000-04:002006-08-22T17:10:29.936-04:00

Tick Originally uploaded by SteveFE. Hahaha...Get it?Arty picture of a tick...So I get started on this parasite trip.Go to Flickr.com>Explore>Creative Commons>Attribution license, and do a search for parasites and you come up with stuff like this.This amazing arty picture of a tick burrowed up to its neck in this person.Beautifully composed and exposed shot that makes my skin

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1156207715155494672006-08-21T20:19:00.000-04:002006-08-21T20:54:21.586-04:00

Chad has some really neat posts about his experiences covering the bird flu in Indonesia. He's doing a bit of online brainstorming to try to come up a PSA/public health education program to help out. Some good suggestions are using SMS messaging, or hijacking the Indo version of telenovelas, called sinetrons to spread a better meme.Let's help them come up with a Mr. Yuk for H5N1.(Mr. Yuk via

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My friend Chad is back to blogging at http://jakartachad.blogspot.com with some great posts about the avian flu outbreak and the government responses. While he describes some horrific and frightening incidents, he once again manages to put a human face on this tragedy. Check it out.

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100_0317 Originally uploaded by NC Sylvis Photos. Missed this guy like crazy.

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080406 Originally uploaded by NC Sylvis Photos. Missed this one too.

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1155393969102200262006-08-12T10:37:00.000-04:002006-08-12T10:46:09.116-04:00

Wow...http://pouringdown.tv/What the hell am I doing??I need to update my lame excuses book.-No time-No money-No camera-No talent-Bad parents-Planets out of alignmentThere, everything's covered.Now I can get back to sitting around in my underwear, searching Youtube for girls gone wild videos, eating fried egg sandwiches, and draining any scrap of creativity I have left.

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1155392203408276402006-08-12T09:46:00.000-04:002006-08-12T10:16:43.453-04:00

Sorry for leaving everybody hanging.I was so burnt out from the process that I fled to the comfort of Hogtown for a much needed vacation.Now that I'm back and I have some perspective on those 48 hours, I'll try to make some sense of it all.Our genre was horror, our prop was bubble wrap, our line was "It's just like my mother always told me." , and we had to have a character named Bob or Barbara

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1153584563189425802006-07-22T12:04:00.000-04:002006-07-22T14:10:28.763-04:00

I'm in the middle of the Greensboro 48 Hour Film Festival.http://www.48hourfilm.com/greensboro/Team Daydreamthief is rocking it old school.Good times!

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1152654371523213332006-07-11T17:07:00.000-04:002006-07-11T17:46:11.756-04:00

Whether you're a Democratic-Republican or a Federalist, pour a little bit of mead on the corner for the original gangsters.202 years ago today Vice President Aaron Burr fatally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.Booyaka!Better watch your step when you besmirch the character of cabinet member who packs a flint lock gat.RIP Hambone.(image via

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Everyone put their burgers and kool-aid down for a few minutes and let's just take some time to really read this document and think about how this experiment is going.In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with

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William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving PrayerWhile technically this is a "Thanksgiving Prayer", this piece by Burroughs really cuts to the dark heart of this holiday. There are a lot of great things about this country, but there is also a really dark aspect to our history. Leave it to the deviant gentleman junkie to pick at the bloody flag that covers the foul smelling wound that America won't

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1151296050250548722006-06-26T00:27:00.000-04:002006-06-26T00:27:30.256-04:00

A little UAV lite taking you up to news hour...I'm going to start collecting defense contractor videos. Dig that music. I picture some Israeli humming this little ditty while he's hunting down targets. Angel of death elevator music.

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1151203619533360722006-06-24T22:32:00.000-04:002006-06-24T22:46:59.566-04:00

Colbert nails Stephen Hawking.Score another one for the gut!

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Okay, my man is laying it all out for the Charlotte city council. No ice in the arena, somebody with their hand in the pie, and now a rogue helicopter pilot flying between the magnolia tree (you know the one) and his property line. Looks like they're gonna just sit on their hands again. Well I urge my audience to help my friend out and call John Walsh and urge him to issue a America's most

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Just watched David Cronenberg's Videodrome for the first time.Whoa...It's not like I wasn't aware of this film before today. I had seen clips and read some brief descriptions of the plot. But nothing can prepare you for that kind of biomech hallucinatory horror. Amazing. I can't even imagine what that would have done to my 13 year old brain.I love the original trailer for the film. Like

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Threat levels are raised to their highest levels as approximately 1000 villagers flee from the volcano after an eruption. Let's hope that area will be spared another horrific natural disasterI'm keeping one eye on the news and another on Chad's blog.

Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-1150310596677676462006-06-14T14:07:00.000-04:002006-06-14T14:43:16.753-04:00

Browsing through Robotwisdom and I came upon this amazing video link of four turntablists named Birdy Nam Nam from Paris. Great to see people taking this artform in completely different directions. The scratching that came from the early days of hip hop, pushed by pioneers such as DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Grand Wizard Theodore, has blossomed into this artform all its own.

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Sorry for the absence.Took a bit of a break to recharge my batteries and reseat my logic cards.Helping out with the Mount Merapi blog took more out of me than I thought.It was kind of hard switching modes. The Merapi blog was a much more serious endeavor, and it didn't feel quite right bouncing back to my blog and blathering about movies, media, and me. Not that I don't think that the light and

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Absolutely nothing!Say it again!Okay that's not fair.The recent events are making me seriously look at what I (and all the other netheads) are doing.I recently posted to a local Greensboro board about my thoughts on the state of the blogosphere.I'll mirror part of that text here -As a netizen and newborn blogger/vlogger, I'm wondering can any of this help anybody. Initially I helped him set up

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I just did a quick emergency post over at the Mount Merapi blog for my friend Chad.There was a 6.2 earthquake in the area of Yogyakarta and thousands are dead and injured. Chad wasn't in the area at the time, but he is on his way back to report on the disaster. I guess there are a bunch of people who feel like me this morning. Relieved because our friend/colleague/son/brother is safe, sickened

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I love me some youtube. Lord knows I do.Let's break down the debate going on in my head.(+)Content aside, the interface for uploading is dirt simple and fast.Straight forward interface and audience numbers seem to be huge and growing by the second.(-)But their design is way too clunky and old school.And the quality is so so.On the other hand there is blip.tv.(+)Nice clean design. Lots of groovy

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ahhh...The academic creative drought has ended.The irony that I can be a film student and not have any time for my own creative expressions isn't lost on me.Messing around with Resolume and Premiere.Music/glitch sounds via ML Oslo EP @ http://www.opsound.org/artist/ml/ under a Creative Commons license.

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Over at the Mount Merapi Blog, there's a great new post that ties in volcanism, meta -reporting, magic, and golf. That's what I'm talking about. The volcano is big scary news, but in the end it's just God's giant science fair project. It's the human stories that make this interesting and important. Listening to my friend navigate his way through a conversation with village women making food

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I just did a guest post on Chad's blog about this new experiment and what it means for indy media.Is it just pie in the sky net dreams?Can anybody make a difference?There's a lot of things in the world that could use some fixing right now (Shrub, I know you're listening...)Can we take back the media?Can we fix our broken political machine?Educate our children (and adults)?Take care of the poor

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...why don't you do it yourself?Okay.I will.I'll put up a Paypal donate button on the sidebar.As an independent multimedian, I would love to make some sort of living from this.Cable modem, laptop, software, cameras, mini dv tapes all start to add up after a while. If I could just cover those expenses, this experiment would be worth it. This is a no no/low pressure request.If you like what you

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Doing research for Chad's net journalism project, I drew inspiration from Joshua Ellis' project Dark Miracle. I first came across Joshua's story via boingboing. Joshua uses Paypal and micropatronage to fund his work. Amazing story, and an important step in the future of newmedia. Check out his site and this video. And if you can afford it, drop in a few bucks. A little bit here and there

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My friend Chad, who is a freelance reporter living in Jakarta, Indonesia is in Jogjarkarta, about ten miles from Mount Merapi, reporting on it's impending eruption. He has set up a blog, and is making his first foray into Net journalism. He's in the process of setting up a Paypal tip jar to help with his expenses. Stop by, and if you can, help him out.Also, check out Trish Anderton's personal

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This semester I was volunteer teaching film to the kids at the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club of Greensboro. Amazing experience. I hope the kids learned as much from me as I learned from them.We will have a showing of the kid's works at the Carousel Theatre in Greensboro, at 7 PM this evening, with part of the ticket sales going back to the club. Stop by and enjoy the show. I want to take

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Happy Birthday to Me! Watch the video Aaron's first birthday.

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Break out the Pumas and the cardboard.Newcleus is about to rock your world.Wikiwikiwikiwiki

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My hero.Watch all three.Now!Looks like youtube has pulled the vids due to "copyright infringement", but crooks and liars still has some links to videos of the event.Check out this post about the controversy on Boingboing.Looks like C-SPAN has officially posted the videos to Google video.

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I made this quick little video with Google Earth and Moviemaker.Now I just need to Trish and Chad to go on a high speed chase while I follow them by satellite. Call me Tony Scott.

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Watch the VideoI just posted this clip to blip.tv.I've been wandering around the net, trying out different video services.I'll try to post a review of the best/worst in the near future.Here's a link to the youtube post of this vid for comparison.The resolution isn't as nice, but I'm wondering if the flash format makes it a bit more accessible. Any thoughts from my Mac/Linux/TRS-80 running BSD

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Time for some Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.This one's going out to TT Boy.peace,Professor Griff(image via wikipedia)

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So I'm paddling through the electro surf on youtube, and I do a search for Outkast which leads me to this kid doing the crip walk in his living room which leads me to this wikipedia entry which leads me back to youtube to a whole bunch of crip walk media ( as well as blood walking ). Then I google "crip blog" and I come across this site which leads me to the postings of this girl from Indy. Her

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I'm doing research for a possible art project and I came across this site.I love that they have a whole section devoted to gear for pets and kids.

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Why does this remind me of Bellona in Dhalgren?The idea that there is this ghost city in the Ukraine still glowing with poison from Chernobyl is strangely attractive in some way.I have the bizarre desire to put on a heavy duty hazmat suit and play in the ruins of this man-made Pompeii.

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This photo just blows me away.When was the last time you saw someone in this country who feels passionate enough about his political views to take on the police with a wrist rocket??phalano.com is a great blog about the protests going on in Nepal.It makes me feel kind of guilty and spoiled.Maybe I'll write a letter to my representative.It's a start.(via boingboing)

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(Exariam ambience via Galdson and opsound)

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End of semester is kicking my ass, but I won't forget about Old School Thursday.Nobody beats the Biz.And if you order now, you get this bonus.

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Big news for documentary fans.Bright Eye Pictures is releasing their film Monster Road on DVD.This is an amazing film about the animator Bruce Bickford, with a fantastic soundtrackby Sharkquest.Disclaimer of bias... Brett Ingram was one of my professors, but I was a fanboy even before taking his class. Watching this movie encouraged me to take his class, and to think about documentary filmmaking

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Okay.Fridays were going to be video haiku day, but flash wasn't playing nice with my other programs, so I leave you with this gem from the mullet haiku archive.Sphinx standing guardA double-wide sarcophagusGet off my property( mullet by mulletjunky.com )

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You know the time.It's like Sun Ra, George Clinton, and Kraftwerk had a love child.(image via wikipedia.org)

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Damn if I can say it you can slap me right here!orWhy I hate acapella...Well, not these guys.You have to give them credit for being able to rock those old school chops and wear those straw hats.But everyone else is on notice.I'm declaring a 10 year moratorium on this scourge.I'm not banning it completely.We just need to give it a rest.I don't want to hear any more versions of the Super Mario

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I've decided to make Fridays my video theme day.This Friday is going to be video haiku day.Video because... because it's on video.Haiku because it's a short... kinda poetic...Just trust me.It's a video haiku.17 seconds = 17 syllablesThat's about as close as I could come this week.I'll be a bit more strict about the rules in the future.Feel free to submit your own vidkus.I'll post the best.Enjoy.j

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(via boingboing)

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...it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.It's time for old school hip hop video Thursday.Let's get in the time machine.Set the dial to 1983.I'm sitting in my mom's car listening to a best of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tape I just bought at Jamesway.Playing The Message and Survival over and over and over...Like Biggie said-I let my tape rock '’til my tape popped.For a 13 year

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Oh man.How many job applications for how many McJobs did I want to answer the questions like this?The Nihilist Job ResumeWork Experience Lead Sales Representative, Howard Brothers Trucking Co. (June 2003 to present) As the leading sales representative at Howard Brothers, I implemented a new invoicing database lauded by my maudlin, foolhardy management team as "wonderfully efficient and

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The Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain released this comic book on fair use and copyright.(via detritus.net)(image used under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license)

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Here are some ways to educate yourself and get involved in the copyfight.If you're looking for a much more flexible alternative to the current copyright model-http://creativecommons.org/A model based on the open source movement-http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/A Stanford Law School professor who has done a great deal to help shape the arguments against the current model-http://www.lessig.org/Music

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Tofuhut has a great piece about the Sinatra/Biggie mashup and the recent court case that stopped sales of Biggie's '94 album Ready to Die. This kind of stuff makes me ill. Who benefits from these suits? Let me see... record companies/lawyers?!? The line between protecting the artist and stifling the creative process has been erased a long time ago. This goes way beyond hip hop and music

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It's not about a salaryIt's all about realityBlastmaster and BDP are kicking off old school hip hop video Thursday.Check it.

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hdr_9783-9731b Originally uploaded by tomarus. Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rode around their shores... burning with the fires of Orc.

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American Motor Over Smoldered Field Originally uploaded by Aleksandra Radonić. Okay.I'm in a flickr mood today.But just look at this photo.My lungs are burning just looking at it.Gorgeous colors.Pretty carcinogens.

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fishyoto Originally uploaded by jasylv. Get it?Fish have scales, and this is a fish in extreme close up.So I've messed with it's "scale"...-ahem-Okay, the joke sucks but I thought the picture was neat.Anybody??

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Баба-Ружина кућа / Grandma-Rose's house II Originally uploaded by Aleksandra Radonić. Just meditating on these great photos of walls of abandoned houses in Belgrade.Strangely haunting and peaceful at the same time.

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When I was a kid Stevie Wonder was like a god to me.His sound was this incredible mixture of soul and electronic wizardry.Even today, I get chills when I hear a song like "Superstition".Dig Stevie covering The Carpenters' "Close to You" using a talk box.

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I would love to have a whole TV station devoted to nothing but failed pilots.So much more entertaining than real TV.I think I've found my true purpose in life.

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color photo project 015 Originally uploaded by jasylv. I drive on her streets'Cause she's my companionI walk through her hills'Cause she knows who I amShe sees my good deedsAnd she kisses me windyI never worryNow that is a lie

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Sticking with the rock theme...Dig this amazing post about a battle of the bands in Jakarta.Rock knows no borders and obeys no international treaties.

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rocknroll Originally uploaded by Inspector Clay. We salute you!

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Check out these great nano movies with an elevator theme.Check out #14. Extra creepy... and brilliant.(via webzen)

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Here's an interesting flash music video that seems to generate unique visuals based on the viewers local weather data. hypnotic.

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This just makes me giddy.via Wooster Collective

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Thursday is old school hip hop video day!Time to kick back and enjoy some vids from the group that brought me back to hip hop. Thanks guys,Prof DefBeat

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Where did I first see this animation?Sesame Street?Electric Company?The Muppets?Captain Kangaroo?I'm leaning towards Mr. Hooper's neighborhood.I would love to find a compilation of the animation shorts that ran on Sesame Street and Electric Company.

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