Monday, 5 March 2012

Why the Rich Are Less Ethical: They See Greed as Good

(Thanx Dirk!)

"Israel’s own leaders understand the necessity of peace" may be one of the more absurd things Obama's said in office.

Miles Davis - Montreux July 8th 1973

Miles Davis (tp, org)
Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl)
Reggie Lucas (el-g)
Pete Cosey (el-g, per)
Michael Henderson (el-b)
Al Foster (d)
Mtume (per)
Directed by Jean Bovon

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Sunday, 4 March 2012

Minimalistic Pixar Poster Series

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New Art by Christian Chapiron (AKA Kiki Picasso)

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(Thanx GKB!)

Motoi Yamamoto's Incredibly Intricate Salt Mazes

Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto creates incredibly intricate mazes made entirely out of salt! Currently showing at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan is one of his newest works entitled "Forest of Beyond."
The story about why Yamamoto started down this path is a sad and tragic one. He was a third-year student at the Kanazawa College of Art in 1996 when his younger sister died at the young age of 24 — two years after being diagnosed with brain cancer. To ease his grief and to honor her memory, he starting working on these installations. Salt has a special place in the death rituals of Japan, and is often handed out to people at the end of funerals, so they can sprinkle it on themselves to ward off evil. Since 2001, he's been creating these amazing floor installations by filling a plastic bottle, usually used for machine oil, with white salt and then sprinkling it on the floor.
The Hakone installation (seen above and immediately below) looks like a giant tree with visible branches. Working 14 hours a day, it took him two weeks to complete.
As he told Japan Times, "I draw with a wish that, through each line, I am led to a memory of my sister. That is always at the bottom of my work. Each cell-like part, to me, is a memory of her that I call up, like a tiff I had with her over a pudding cake she took from the fridge. My wish is to put such tiny episodes together."
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♪♫ Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller (9/11/1980 Paris)

The Fire This Time (Resist Injustice! Fuck Babylon!) (1995)

New Ways Of Looking At Power
(Keyboards by Augustus Pablo)
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Basslines & Ballistics
(This is Track 1 of the ground-breaking, border-crossing "Dancing on John Wayne's Head" by the Fire This Time. It features the voices of Harry Allen (affiliated with Public Enemy,) Don Patrick Martin, Krystal Cook and Eagleheart Singers. Recorded in Jamaica, and also at KCRK FM Kahnawake Radio Station, Kahnawake Territory, and also in Toronto.)
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Prayer To Jah
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The Fire This Time
If anyone has this album released on 'Extreme' here in Melbourne or the follow up 'Still Dancing on John Wayne's Head' could they get in touch...thanx!

The internet and the canal

The above chart is from a very cool graph made by the Guardian showing major internet cables across the world. This highlights how Egypt, or to be more specific the Suez Canal, is one of the world's major choke points for data traffic between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. I remember a decade ago talking to Egyptian IT types about the potential for Egypt becoming a major data-caching hub (to make internet access between east and west faster by caching content so that data requests would only have to travel half the distance). Yet to my knowledge there are no major data centers in the canal zone — surely a missed opportunity.
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