Saturday, 10 March 2012

Send in the sock puppets: social media manipulation and Kony

(Thanx SJX!)

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Dylan and Françoise Hardy backstage at L'Olympia, 1966

In 1964, Dylan dedicated a poem to singer and actress Françoise Hardy who he had never met. This photo was taken on 24 May 1966 at l’Olympia, Paris after Dylan refused to return to the stage unless she was brought to him. She recalled that he looked like a vampire with yellow skin and long yellow fingernails. Later, at his 25th birthday party, at the George V, he took Hardy to his suite and serenaded her with I Want You” and Just Like a Woman. She later stated that “the thought that he was giving me a message with his songs did not cross my mind.” They never met again.
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Julian Assange on his extradition appeal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has waged a year-long battle in Britain to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he would be questioned about sexual assault allegations made by two Swedish women in 2010. A lower court upheld the validity of the Swedish arrest warrant. Assange now awaits an answer to his appeal to the British Supreme Court.
He also fears extradition from Sweden to the US on grounds related to the activities of WikiLeaks. Giving credence to those concerns was the emergence of a confidential email from within the US intelligence community, which revealed that American authorities had drawn up a sealed indictment containing espionage or conspiracy charges against Assange.
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Tap Into the Gifted Young Hackers

Andrew Weatherall - XOYORadio005 ('Music's Not For Everyone' 23/2/12)

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Michael Moore Slams Rush Limbaugh Apology On Twitter: ‘Who’s The Prostitute Now, Bitch?’

Cocteau Twins (Live Town & Country Club London 01/11/1990)

A rare nostalgia moment: I didn't think any footage from the Heaven or Las Vegas tour in 1990 existed and I remember how cool it was being able to have a lighting designer for the first time that tour but have never seen how our stage looked from the audience till tonight so this is a treat to me. The whole concert is on youtube now pretty much. And my god, what a voice Elizabeth had on this tour, absolutely perfect on every song. Some rare good memories.

- Simon Raymonde

Peter Bergman, Firesign Theatre founder, dies at 72

Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things)

The visible problem with Invisible Children

290 Cultural Icons: Great Artists, Writers & Thinkers in Their Own Words

Great writers, dazzling filmmakers and musicians, brilliant philosophers and scientists — you can now hear and see them in their own words. Here we present audio and video that captures the words of our greatest cultural icons...
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HOPE?

...In the New Yorker article, Jane Mayer quotes you as saying, “I actually had hopes for Obama.” What’s your opinion on the Obama administration’s stated support for whistle-blowers and, more generally, his counterterrorism record?
Worse than Bush. I have to say that. I actually voted for Obama. It’s all rhetoric for me now. As Americans we were hoodwinked. He’s expanding the secrecy regime far beyond what the Bush even intended, interestingly enough. I think Bush is probably like, “Whoa.”

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Obama Administration: ACTA Is Binding & Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Heads About TPP

State Department Response To Wyden On ACTA

Kenneth Anger: Fireworks (1947)

'Fireworks' was first publicly screened in a version with no opening titles. A title sequence and narrated prologue were later added. In 1966 Anger exibited a version with hand-painting, the only copy of which was subsequently lost in a fire. A later version featured a new title sequence and was printed with a blue cast.
UCLA has preserved the first two release versions in 35mm from surviving early 16mm prints, and is preserving the final version in 16mm from the reconstructed 16mm color and black-and-white A/B rolls.
This print is the version containing Anger's prologue.
UCLA Restoration completed 2006.