Well Maxine and I are off to OR for Roscoe’s wedding, and then spending a week driving down the coast to SF, where we hope to meet up with Zanna & Greg (still haven’t heard from them tho)…if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to camp in the Redwoods, and with a bit more luck any cam phone pix I take on the trip will make it onto the blog here…
see you on the other side…
Don’t worry everyone, I’ve been to the future, and everything’s fine. I recently returned from the year 2117, and I can tell you that you don’t need to worry, Li’l Wayne is still recording, only now his beats are all glitched up and shimmery. I don’t know how they make that future music, but it sure is grandiose…
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Roscoe pointed out to me a while ago that the Rza has started Wuchess.com, where Wu-Tang chessheads can join up and play each other…now, here comes an NYT vid of a game between Rza and the New York Times chess editor, Dyan Loeb McCain…
and here’s a link to the game they played…you can go through it in steps to see how it went…I’m not that good at chess, but it looks like Rza holds his own pretty well…
With 4.5 million youtube views since it was posted on June 20th, a New York Times piece, and links on every link blog, it’s possible that Matt Harding’s dance vid needs no help from me to get itself passed around the internet…
And yet, like the NYT says:
However you interpret it, you can’t watch “Dancing” for very long without feeling a little happier.
In case you’ve missed this slice of happiness, here it is.
Beautiful animation done to sync with a semi-legendary interview with John Lennon. According to the youtube post:
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.
Hi-er-res so may take a moment to load. Good stuff. Time to piss for peace.
Well the story is a little complicated, and I didn’t do too much internet research, but it seems that in the 80’s, this animatronic band called The Rock-afire Explosion was manufactured for use in a chain of pizza places called Showbiz Pizza Place. The band was life-sized and huge, and they would play popular songs of the day.
Wikipedia says the band’s merchandise is still popular and shows up on ebay…
Recently some guys have gotten ahold of one of the bands and have been re-programming it to play contemporary songs…they have a page where you can "bid" for what you want the next song to be, which is a little weird, but hey, it’s the internet…if you really care, there’s a little mini-doc about the band (and their battle with a certain Chuck E. Cheese) here…
The band’s performances range from so-so to super sweet. I can’t stand this Usher song but somehow when it’s performed by a bear, gorilla, dog and bird it really cooks…
This is on vimeo, via kottke…the effect is pleasing on the eyes, though a bit difficult to describe to people…the maker of the video describes it like this:
The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.
It’s not long, doesn’t have any audio, and totally worth it for the door trick at the end…
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