Monday, 8 July 2013

♪♫ New Order Live @Bestival 2012 (Albumstream)

♪♫ Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline and Shahzad Ismaily - Live @ Le Poisson Rouge (New York City 11/6/13)

Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure

When Yasiin Bey was force-fed Guantánamo Bay-style – eyewitness account

As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure.

Obama urged to halt Ramadan force-feeding at Guantánamo

Liquid City

For 400 years, New York has embraced, spurned, ignored, harnessed, and feared the water that made its greatness possible. Now our relationship must get even more complex.

♪♫ Bernie Worrell Orchestra w/ Mike Watt & Lili Hayden - Maggot Brain

At the Bootleg Bar in LA January 22, 2012

Sunday, 7 July 2013

Johnny Depp on Letterman (June 27 2013)

The Lone Ranger Represents Everything That’s Wrong With Hollywood Blockbusters

The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero

I asked if he ever talked about it. Jason shook his head no. Did they find out anyway? “Always.”

How NSA surveillance destroys privacy and undermines our sovereignty

[...] The largest black chamber ever constructed is being built now, in Utah. Called the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, its storage capacity is estimated to exceed a yottabyte, the largest unit of data that computer scientists have. That’s around half a sextillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, more than enough to store everything that’s ever been written, as well as every email and phone call to be made in the coming century. Australia is building its own sister system at HMAS Harman just outside Canberra, partly to accommodate the data that will flow to us from Utah. The question now is: what will these black chambers be filled with? And how?

♪♫ Underground in Africa

Deep spiritual jazz produced under the heat of the Apartheid regime in South Africa by independent label owner Rashid Vally.
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Arthur Buxton: Paris Vogue Covers 1981-2011

Visualising Colour Trends

Cody Petts: Pine typeface

'Pine is a finely crafted typeface meant to embody the strength and elegance of nature," explains Petts, a student of the Multimedia Design program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. "Laser cut from wood, each character has rich physicality while maintaining graphic sophistication.'
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DH & WSB

Photo by Bobby Grossman

♪♫ Andrew Weatherall - deathmetaldiscoclub #020 Mix

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Tracklist:
1) Joe's Bakery - Mamba Gascoine
2) Femi vs KCRW - Eh Oh (Garth's Fiya Dubb)
3) Emiliana Torrini - Speed of Dark (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
4) Kalidasa - Waiting Game (Craig Bratley Remix)
5) Craig Bratley - Obsession (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
6) Out Cold - All I Want (Ewan Pearson Remix)
7) Avanti - Cabezaurio
8) Duncan Gray - Peach
9) The Cosmologist - Keep It Up (The Cosmologist 2013 Soul Reconstruction)
10) The Asphodells - Skwatch (Black Merlin's Reel To Reel Remix)
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