The Thinking Man's Book Sculptures

Malaysia-born, Tennessee-based artist Daniel Lai, aka Kenjio, uses a visually captivating paper folding technique for his inspired book sculptures. Each book blossoms outward in waves of paper folded unto themselves, accompanied by a clay figurine of a man deep in thought. The sculptor's series of Thinker sculptures, echoing Rodin's The Thinker, exhibit an astute attention to detail and skill in multi-mediums, including paper and clay.
The beautiful imagery created by Kenjio's folding method mimics that of a fully-bloomed flower or perhaps a cog in a timepiece. The literary sculptures reinterpret the appeal of knowledge and reflect the limitations of time to absorb said knowledge. Kenjio has constructed a realm of his own where the thinking man reigns atop his literary throne.
To purchase some of these charming wall pieces, check out the artist's Etsy shop. Also, check out a video interview with the artist, conducted by his local news reporters at Knoxnews, for some insight into his process.
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Snub TV: Boy's Own (Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley & Pete Heller)

Sander Hucke - Berlin Dubtechno Tape 1

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A genuine question as I am (very) confused...

...by the news that James Holmes has been charged with 24 counts of murder and yet he 'only' killed 12 people. 

A friend suggested ' if he has a dual personality, they may both be guilty. 12 x 2 = 24. Simples!' Which at the moment seens the only logical explanation!!!

Can someone shed any light on this for me?

A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away

White Snow

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Alan McGee: The Man who Discovered Oasis (Omnibus BBC 1998)

Paul over at Dangerous Minds has an update on Mr McGee's current activities HERE.

I first came across Alan when he was doing The Living Room club down on Tottenham Court Road back in the early 80's as we had a number of mutual friends. Admire his 'get up and do it' attitude a lot but I really do think that Oasis were one of the worst bands of all time. Shows what I know eh?

Hollyweird Propaganda Dept.

"Get a look at Stars Earn Stripes, the epic new reality series from Mark Burnett and Dick Wolf where eight celebrities face the challenges of real American heroes"

Hmmm!!!

(Thanx GKB!)

♪♫ Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

Relevant still!!!

K-Punk presents Return to the Fourth World

This mix was prompted by the fact that, in several recent pieces of writing about music, I found myself returning to Jon Hassell’s concept of “Fourth World Music” (music that combined elements from the so-called First and Third Worlds). The mix is an attempt to bring together these new approaches with the original take on Fourth World music conceived of by Hassell and Brian Eno.
Mark Fisher aka K-Punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/)

1. AGF & Craig Armstrong Konstantinopolis
2. Jon Hassel Gift Of Fire
3. Shackleton El Din (Part One)
4. Ricardo Villalobos Ichso
5. Kode9 & The SpaceApe Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Version)
6. Lil Silva Seasons
7. Liquid Liquid Optimo
8. 23 Skidoo Kundalini
9. Mantronix Big Band B-Boy
10. Ekoplekz Temporal Drift
11. FD Skwee Lazercrotch – Shanghai Tunnel
12. Miles Davis Great Expectations (excerpt)
13. Moebius & Beerbohm 883
14. African Head Charge Bazaar
15. David Sylvian Brilliant Trees

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(Thanx Mark!)

Best album review ever

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Chris Marker R.I.P.

PUSSY RIOT 4EVER

Madonna, Miuccia Prada, Kate Moss, Patti Smith, Bjork, Stella McCartney, Lady GaGa, Courtney Love...do something together about this awful travesty of justice. Use your vast wealth of fame and money and power to make a change for the benefit of these women and women throughout Russia: come out in support of these strong young punks. How wonderful it would be to see all of the you in balaclavas supporting Pussy Riot...preferably on the next cover and back pages of Vogue/Tatler/Vanity Fair/Purple in ads paid for and produced by YOU - strong women that all benefited from or helped CREATE punk. These are all magazines with weight and all read in Russia. Annie Leibovitz to snap, Anna Wintour to bloody style it if and you wonderful women pay for it to appear EVERYWHERE. Please REPOST this, particularly my friends in Fashion and Music - I know we all have 'mutual' friends here and this will get seen by the right people and this may seem crazy but think of it as your Live Aid moment...and moments like this don't come round very often. It would be FRONT PAGE NEWS AROUND THE WORLD. And Putin and his evil machine may just start to bow to international pressure: the pressure of people and above all the pressure of women to change this world - THEIR WORLD - for the better. PUSSY RIOT 4EVER...  
Dave Dorrell
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Pussy Riot trial over Putin altar protest begins

Laurie Penny: London, Underground

They tell a lot of lies about London. Here’s one of them: during the Battle of Britain, with the Luftwaffe flattening the capital, those Londoners who were too poor to afford their own shelters were encouraged to take refuge on the platforms of the underground. The faded sepia pictures of families bedding down on the platforms of the Central line are still iconic, another representation of the dogged forbearance for which Londoners are renowned. We live in a city that has withstood two thousand years of invasion, rebellion, fires, plagues, wars ,and terrorist attacks and survived. Londoners knuckle down. We don’t grumble. We get on with things. We keep calm – as that resurrected bit of defunct military propaganda now plastering tote bags, tourist tat and novelty chocolates across the country gamely declares – and we carry on.
In fact, it didn’t happen quite like that. What happened was this: When the Blitz began, government ministers decided to close down the Tube during air raids, except for the use of a few officials. They didn’t want hundreds of thousands of refugees in the subways because they feared, as historian Andrew Martin puts it, that if the working class went underground “they might never come out again.” The shelterers, he notes, were “objects of patrician distaste;” signs were put up outside Tube stops forbidding them to enter. Then, on the 19th of September 1940, the British Communist party, who had campaigned against the ban from the start, launched a series of organized riots. They tore open the tubes and Londoners rushed to occupy the platforms as the bombs screamed overhead. After that, the government had no choice but to support the refugees in order to save face...
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