An Artist and Inventor Whose Medium Was Sound

This is why the LAPD created a riot scene

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Heterosis – A Kinetic Typeface

The typeface featured in this video was constructed from transparent acrylic and transparent elastic. All the characters were photographed 60 times at intervals of 6 degrees of rotation in order to produce the motion loop.

Each character in this kinetic typeface was designed by 'blending' two (essentially 1 dimensional) vector lines across a spatial plane in order to produce a 3 dimensional letter. The result is a set of characters that holds more possibilities than the standard 2 dimensional alphabets to which we are accustomed.
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Richard Hell & Tom Verlaine (CBGB's April 1975)

Photo by Richard E. Aaron
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What's going on in Israel?

Police fire on protesters in L.A. (Livestream)

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Michael C Moynihan ‏@mcmoynihan

I will remind everyone talking about Condi: Drudge regularly links to Alex Jones stories. That is all.

Why Romney's Quit Date at Bain Matters

Hassan-i Sabbah and the Secret Order of Hashishins

One thing I have never really understood is the supposed use of hashish as a primer for battle etc. Wouldn't it more likely to have been khat they used?

Billy Bragg on Woody Guthrie's centenary

The return of a pariah

Jah Shaka

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Canada's Highest Court Shakes Up Copyright Laws

When Black Metal's Anti-Religious Message Gets Turned on Islam

"Burn the Quran! Burn the fucking Quran!" a woman screams hoarsely, over and over again. Tinny guitars course beneath her howls, sawing away at any semblance of melody. Sampled snippets of fundamentalist Islamic rhetoric filter through, and muffled voices exhort their unseen audience to praise Allah and to destroy the infidel.
To fans of heavy music, the hallmarks are immediately recognizable. This is raw, mid-tempo black metal, a lo-fi example of heavy metal's most evil subgenre. Black metal feeds upon hatred, nihilism, and anti-human behavior. Extremity is everything. It drinks the blood of Christ, turns upon its own, and takes almost carnal pleasure in the theory and imagery of war. The music from the early days of this scene conjured images of the ashes of burned churches and the dried blood of murder, and yet the genre, in its middle age, often doesn't shock the way it once did. The hellish noise of this particular song, though, does. There's something different about it. This is real...
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Romney stayed longer at Bain

The timing of Romney’s departure from Bain is a key point of contention because he has said his resignation in February 1999 meant he was not responsible for Bain Capital companies that went bankrupt or laid off workers after that date...