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This is music from bands confirmed for SXSW 2008.
It’s from http://sxsw.ning.com/ which is run by the lovely Corey Denis – all about how to prepare yourself for the SXSW musical and film..ical excursion held annually in Austin, TX.
http://www.daehanmindecline.com/digital/20071230b.html
This abandoned park is in Korea and was run by a corrupt businessman. I lifted this caption from the site, but check the site out. Tons more photos.
Okpo Land
I’m not sure how other people view the photos on this page, but when I look at them I feel reverence for the past, for the people who were displaced, and for the dark little places where people don’t look. I’m always respectful and I never resort to vandalism, rarely leave graffiti unless it’s on a chalk board, and almost never take anything.But Okpo Land is different. This was an amusement park run by obviously a corrupt businessman. After the first accident in the park resulting in a fatality, he kept the place open and refused to pay damages to the victim’s family. The second fatality, this time a young girl (aged 4 according to one source), resulted in the closure of the park in 1999. I can’t be sure, and my only source is Laura’s comments on her pictures, but I think the last fatality took place exactly where this photo is staged. This pedal-powered duck derailed, dumping the young girl out, and she was killed by the fall. A few meters away we found the shattered duck head from the ride. The fall either happened right here, or a few meters back up the track, in which case the ride was pulled up to the platform and then just abandoned. It must have been a quick closure–open one day, then closed the next and everything not nailed down was taken.
I dislike the owner of this place, which is different from all other places I’ve visited. Coming to this place is different than peeking inside a condemned hanok in downtown Seoul or a girls’ high school. This place has also been abandoned longer and is more decayed, so we took more safety precautions than normal.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/005195.html
There are a lot of mistranslations around china that accidentally or purposely (?) translate to stuff like:
From the article:
People who see signs employing the f-word all over China, even in large stores and fancy restaurants, are not only aghast, they wonder how the dickens such a gross mistranslation could have originated and proliferated. I believe that the explanation given in the previous paragraph adequately and accurately accounts for the origin of the basic GAN1/4 = “fuck” mistranslation. The question that remains, then, is how did this virus spread? Theories abound, to say the least. I have intelligent colleagues who believe that naughty people do this on purpose just to scandalize customers and clients. Others hold that it is done to make English look like an uncouth language. Still others maintain that devious foreign translators plant these mistranslations all over the place to make Chinese look stupid and crude. And there are so many additional theories that attempt to account for the GAN1/4 = “fuck” misrendering that I can’t keep track of them.
http://www.japanesebugfights.com
i wasn’t able to embed any video but there are like 30 bug fights you can watch on the website!
This looks interesting. You download a photoshop template for a skateboard graphic, design it up, and submit. There are cash prizes or you could win a board.
http://horsehater.blogspot.com/
This sets the tone of the site:
Look, this is a website about horses and how much we hate them. They are gross and stupid and disgusting and smell like shit. There are flies all over them and they make dumb noises. HORSES ARE TERRIBLE!!!
I am shaking right now because I hate horses so much. I hate them the way that fat people hate diets, the way that lazy people hate work, the way that Jewish people hate Hitler, the way black people hate white people. I REALLY HATE THEM!!
AHHHHHHHHHH!
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20071029-000003&print=1
[part of the theory:]
The idea that dreams are a dojo for perfecting waking activities fits well with what is already known about practice. Mental rehearsal through visualization improves skills, enhances learning, and changes the brain, polishing performance in almost any domain, from sports to piano playing.
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Some researchers argue that dreams are designed specifically to help us come up with creative solutions. But if that’s the case, it’s infuriatingly inconsistent—and complicated by the fact that we rarely remember our dreams.
Those who awake with brilliant solutions to scientific or artistic problems are the exception. German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé struggled to find the molecular structure of benzene until he dreamed about a snake devouring its own tail and realized benzene was a closed circle—a ring. The self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came up with every one of his proofs in dreams. Paul McCartney dreamed “Yesterday,” woke up, and wrote it down.
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We are a team of artists that came together from around the globe due to our shared love of colour. We produce sets of prints and products for your enjoyment, we spread colour around the world, we exhibit, inhabit and incubate colour!
The Decoder Ring Design Concern is a multidisciplinary design partnership founded in 2004 with roots in music and retail identity, design and promotion. Founded on a boldly simple mission statement, “Do work we love for clients we admire,” Decoder has grown in a relatively short time to become a celebrated and respected force in the creative industry. Their bold, brash and often unconventional design solutions have been featured in publications, music venues and galleries worldwide.
Celtx helps you develop your story by gathering and organizing details on key elements like locations, scenes and characters.
PRE-VISUALIZATION TOOLS
StoryboardingTake your media project to the next step by dragging and dropping individual or batch images in to the Storyboard feature. Add detailed descriptions to communicate your creative vision. Use the slideshow feature to play the images to help pre-visualize your media project.
Media Rich Breakdowns You can add sound files, video clips, digital photos and scanned documents to your project to create a media intensive breakdown. You can then associate the media with any one of the 34 production categories, including wardrobe, props and locations.
http://pranks.com/2007/12/15/facebook-takes-it-on-the-chin/
http://www.facebookbusinesssolutions.com/
re: Facebook’s Beacon software
Participating BlueFlip artists get to donate 10% of the sale price of their prints to a non-profit charity of their choice. The artist gets compensated for their work, the customer gets a high quality print, and charities get a generous donation. How cool is that?
Some samples from the site by an artist named Will Murai:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html
From the site:
Explanation: Today the Solstice occurs at 0608 Universal Time, the Sun reaching its southernmost declination in planet Earth’s sky. Of course, the December Solstice marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the south. When viewed from northern latitudes, the Sun will make its lowest arc through the sky along the southern horizon. So in the north, the Solstice day has the shortest length of time between sunrise and sunset and fewest hours of daylight. This striking composite image follows the Sun’s path through the December Solstice day of 2005 in a beautiful blue sky, looking down the Tyrrhenian Sea coast from Santa Severa toward Fiumicino, Italy. The view covers about 115 degrees in 43 separate, well-planned exposures from sunrise to sunset.
From their site:
Pillowhead is a visionary team comprised of Benjamin Robert Stottlemyer and
Candace Renee Ponton. Our skills consist of, but are not limited to, art direction,
advertising, elaborate illustrations, editorial, fashion, and digital design.
These are the shows I *hope* I can make it to for SF Sketchfest
DAY 9: Friday, January 18
An Evening with Dr. Katz Professional Therapist, and Patients
with Maria Bamford, Bob Odenkirk and more
The Eureka Theatre at 8PM
DAY 10: Saturday, January 19
Match Game Live:
with panelists Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman and host Jimmy Pardo
The Eureka Theatre at 9:30PM
DAY 11: Sunday, January 20
Freaks and Geeks Speak!
Reunion Panel and Q&A with original cast members Dave (Gruber) Allen, Steve Bannos, Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, Samm Levine, Busy Philipps, Martin Starr and creator Paul Feig
Moderated by Patton Oswalt
Cobb’s Comedy Club at 2PM
Jon Benjamin and Eugene Mirman’s Fresh Faces of Comedy:
Bob Odenkirk
Tim and Eric
Michael Showalter
Short Film Contest with John Lehr from 10 Items or Less
Musical guest Zach Rogue (from Rogue Wave)
Mezzanine at 8PM
21+
Match Game Live:
with panelists Mary Lynn Rajskub, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Paul F. Tompkins, Doug Benson, Scott Aukerman and host Jimmy Pardo
142 Throckmorton Theatre at 8PM
DAY 12: Monday, January 21
Comedy Death-Ray:
Patton Oswalt, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Paul F. Tompkins, Doug Benson and hosts The Fun Bunch (Scott Aukerman & BJ Porter)
Cobb’s Comedy Club at 8PM
DAY 17: Saturday, January 26
The Kids in the Hall
Part One: The SF Sketchfest Tribute: The Kids in the Hall in conversation
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre at 8PM
DAY 18: Sunday, January 27
The Kids in the Hall
Part Two: The Kids in the Hall in a rare performance
New and Classic Sketches!
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre at 8PM
