Friday, 24 February 2012

Scuba - Beatport Live (February 22 2012)


(Thanx Martin!)

Proud

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Apocalypse now...

Commercial freedom, trans issues, and the struggle for respect...

What are you doing tonight?


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Apple iPad sales cleared in Shanghai amid trademark dispute

...and this is one of the Oscar voters? While the likes of Woody Allen and George Lucas aren't!!!

Are women cyclists in more danger than men?

...In 2007, an internal report for Transport for London concluded women cyclists are far more likely to be killed by lorries because, unlike men, they tend to obey red lights and wait at junctions in the driver's blind spot.
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...and don't get me started on the compulsory helmet laws we have out here!!!

Rolling in the Deep


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Anti Shell spokesman John Monaghan is driving to work when...


Shell's battle for the heart of Ireland

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Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Rick Santorum’s bogus statistics

John Peel's record collection to be made into online museum

John Peel's record collection is to be made into an interactive online museum.
Peel's collection, which contains 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and many thousands of CDs, will become part of The Space, a new experimental digital service organised and funded by the Arts Council and the BBC.
The Arts Council will provide initial funding while the BBC will provide support and development advice. Further funding will be sought in the future to complete the project and make every record available online.
Tom Barker, Director, John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, said: "It is the first step in creating an interactive online museum with access to the entire collection, one of the most important archives in modern music history."
Frank Prendergast of Eye Film And Television added: "The idea is to digitally recreate John’s home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while viewing Peel’s personal notes, archive performances and new filmed interviews with musicians."
Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel's wife and Patron of the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts also commented, stating: "We’re very happy that we’ve finally found a way to make John’s amazing collection available to his fans, as he would have wanted. This project is only the beginning of something very exciting."
The Space will run from May to October across various platforms including PCs and smartphones, while it will also be available as a red button on-demand service via Freeview HD.
Arts Council England is committing up to £3.5m, while the BBC is contributing to the partnership by developing the technological solutions and providing ongoing support.
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(Thanx Marco!)

UPDATE:

Virginia Will Not Require Invasive Vaginal Ultrasounds

Thursday, 23 February 2012

From The Vaults: Interview with Jigoku

The affinity for the weird, obscure and bizarre has gained momentum in the last few years reinforced by the likes of tumblr as catalysts of visual ‘debris’. The hunt for the abstruse and low-brow is no passing pop culture fad for audiovisual bricoleurs Jigoku though. Driven by the need to unearth and manipulate random VHS tapes of exploitation cinema classics adding a custom-made soundtrack, the AV collective is hardly a novice on the scene. Jigoku have collaborated with the likes of Italian soundtrack legend Alessandro Alessendroni or Rekids’ Matt Edwards. With the launch of their label Iron Triangle and DVD ‘From the Vaults Vol 1’, a compilation of trailers and edits from their vast collection of exploitation video tapes carefully hand-picked over three decades of digging all over the world, we have caught up with Jigoku’s Lovely Jon, old school East London free party veteran, to talk about the medium and the message...
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