10 Years of Isolation
This man endured 10 years of solitary confinement – I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around that experience. “From May 1980 to May 1990, nuclear scientist Hussain Al-Shahristani — Iraq’s current oil minister — was thrown in solitary confinement and subjected to torture. Last month, in a revelational and deeply personal interview, Al-Shahristani spoke
We are all connected
I’m such a huge dork. i can’t even express how much I love these science + music video mashups featuring Carl Sagan :P If you dig this one, def check out the Sagan + Hawking Mashup (still my fav) Download the Audio files (flac + MP3) here Thx @ Laughing Squid for this one :)
xo Nov 20.09
audio a look at the sad but true Music Industry FAILs – 4 Musical Mistakes Of The Decade .. good article on Transformative v Incremental Change – a look at why big music just doesn’t get the internet revolution.. the story behind the UK ‘draconian pro-copyright plans’ of the leaked Digital Economy Bill (similar to
Apple (Finally) Approves First DJ App
It’s been a long uphill battle for music app developers, with Apple leaving music apps in approval purgatory for loooong periods of time (with no official explanation) – a situation which sparked many music / tech blog posts and eventually led to a dj app petition. Well.. who knows what finally prompted Apple to give
GiveMN.org makes being good easy
As I get older and feel a little bit more like a “grown up” each year, I’ve started to get this nagging feeling that I should be donating to .. something. Volunteering sounds cool but probably isn’t going to happen anytime soon, since I’m busy as hell. Instead I’m gonna skip a few lattes this
xo Nov 13.09
- AUDIO – Wired noted that the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 could bring another round of tumult to the music and publishing industries, due to “provisions that allow authors or their heirs to terminate copyright grants — or at the very least renegotiate much sweeter deals by threatening to do so”.. Creative Deconstruction posted a
GEEK P0RN: The 6th Sense
If you have any interest in future tech and/or are a SciFi Geek – drop whatever you’re doing and bow to this TED Talk. This demonstration of the holy grail of tech toys – the 6th Sense – is freaking awesome. Though the final consumer-perfect version is years off, the technology itself will be released
Mashup: 7 Minute Decade + TiltShift App
Just finished watching the “Newsweek Presents The Decade In Seven Minutes” video – loved it. Watch it here (on Laughing Squid). On a completely unrelated note, I just downloaded the Tiltshift Generator iPhone App after seeing this image of Vegas (left), taken by Rob Sheridan. Then @heideland sent me this cool tiltshift video – check it
xo Nov 06.09
- AUDIO – Jack White’s Third Man Records to going to release “A Glorious Dawn” on Vinyl – if you’ve never seen the video, this is one of my all-time favorite things in the world Explore Music posted 3 articles (and now a follow up) on 11 Ways the Internet Has Ruined Music – all of
Jon Stewart Does Glenn Beck ;)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c