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Tribute to Escher
Jul 21st
Interactive computer graphics (CG) 3D panorama – awesome!
Be sure to:
- go fullscreen (button top left)
- right-click on the image to change the projection. Try “little planet” for ultra trippiness.
Statement by Nico Roig, the artist:
This is … a full CG generated panorama – don’t expect to find it anywhere!
I made it to give special recognition to M.C.Escher’s work, a very talented artist widely known. This impossible world was inspired by Escher’s lithograph “Relativity”. Be careful not to get sick wandering around!
Visit the artist’s web page for more info on this project and access to the rest of his photos and panoramas: http://www.360cities.net/image/tribute-to-escher#58.88,-0.03,16.2
Holly Miranda, Joints [Video]
May 4th
This morning I got an awesome cut from the neat music discovery website Track In The Box, Holly Miranda singing her original “Joints”.
From the Track in a Box website:
This track is off Miranda’s The Magicians’s Private Library (great title), but this version is from a trio of sessions with just her and fiddle player/solo artist Marques Toliver (who is amazing in his own right) which follows the two of them playing around Williamsburg. Miranda’s voice is absolutely phenomenal in a wait are you for real and why are you not everywhere sort of way, and while there are plenty of ‘she sounds like (insert female vocalist’s name here)’ comparisons out there, that’s really not doing it justice. She is amazing; there’s a bit with an echo in the staircase that’s… gah! Just listen, then listen again, then listen to the rest of the sessions, then listen to the album, then start over again. That’s what’s been going on over here anyway.
http://www.hollymiranda.com/lyrics
Joints
Dreamt of you again last night
Called your phone to hear your voice
I know
I know you know
That I’ll never let you go
How do I let go?I can feel it in my joints
It aches and creaks and
There’s no point
In growing old
Oh this life I’ve made on my own
Is lonely with the love I’ve knownWhere are you
Is where I want to be
Where are you
Is where I want to be
Earliest Known Led Zeppelin Recording (Video)
Apr 7th
Behold, the earliest known Led Zeppelin recording. Part of a December 1968 show that took place three weeks before the band’s Led Zeppelin album came out, this version of “Dazed and Confused” is part of a full-show bootleg that’s been available to fans for awhile. This is just its first time on YouTube.
Linkage:
- Link to You Tube video.
- See article about the bootleg and this video on exclaim.ca Earliest Known Led Zeppelin Recording Hits YouTube.
- Found via Boing Boing, Earliest known Led Zeppelin recording.
The Front Fell Off – Video
Mar 10th
In 1987, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe began to broadcast on radio a series of weekly interviews in which prominent and newsworthy figures spoke openly about issues of the day. This was of great benefit to the public and the idea moved to television in 1989. It has now been a regular feature in the vibrant Australian media mix for 20 years and is getting into its stride nicely. In the interviews, John makes no attempt to look or sound like the person he is pretending to be, but deals with matters as he sees fit. Bryan persists with dignity and strives for understanding.
For recent Clarke & Dawe episodes please visit http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/clarkedawe.htm.
The Front Fell Off 1991 (http://www.mrjohnclarke.com/clarkedawe-episodes-03.shtml)
Our Blue Marble as of January 2, 2009 – Video
Mar 8th
GEOS-5 Modeled Clouds at 3.5-km Global Resolution:
This visualization shows clouds from a simulation using the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Verison 5 (GEOS-5.). The global atmospheric simulation ran at 3.5 km per grid cell and covered a single day: January 2, 2009. The model output the results at 10 minute intervals. Since there is only one day of simulation data, the sequence of clouds repeats several times. The white flash indicates the sequence is about to repeat.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Flickr: GEOS-5 Modeled Clouds at 3.5-km Global Resolution
To view more go to: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3659
See the original of this item on AdequateBird.com: Our Blue Marble as of January 2, 2009 – Video
GEOS-5 Modeled Clouds at 3.5-km Global Resolution
Dirty Deeds, Done with Sheep! (Demonsheep Part 2 – Video)
Feb 23rd
A reply to Carly Fiorina’s demon sheep (Carly Fiorina DEMON SHEEP, The Pink Floyd Remix) via RedState Demonsheep Part 2.
Townes Van Zandt in Heartworn Highways – Waitin’ Around To Die (Video)
Feb 16th
Watch the guy with the hat as he listens to this song. Brought tears to my eyes.
This is an excerpt from the documentary Heartworn Highways (IMDB, Wikipedia). From Wikipedia:
Heartworn Highways is documentary film by James Szalapski whose vision captured some of the founders of the Outlaw Country movement in Texas and Tennessee in the last weeks of 1975 and the first weeks of 1976. The film was not released theatrically until 1981.
The documentary covers singer-songwriters whose songs are more traditional to early folk and country music instead of following in the tradition of the previous generation. Some of film’s featured performers are Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell, Gamble Rogers, Steve Young, and The Charlie Daniels Band. The movie features the first known recordings of grammy award winners Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell who were quite young at the time and appear to be students of mentor Guy Clark. Steve Earle was also a big fan of Van Zandt at the time.
