Ottagone / Selected II [2026]
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Sunday, 11 March 2012
Sedation of Millions
- Shepard Fairey
(Thanx George!)
Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Donates Money From Sony Ad to Hacker Group Anonymous
Alec Empire, frontman of the German electropunk group Atari Teenage Riot and founder of the Digital Hardcore label, is now also a 21st century Robin Hood of sorts.
Empire has handed a large sum of money earned from Sony Entertainment off to FreeAnons, which is part of the pro-hacker Anonymous Solidarity Network. The group offers financial support to individuals facing legal trouble for alleged work with the Anonymous hacker group.
The money came from licensing Atari Teenage Riot's song "Black Flags" for use in a commercial for the PlayStation Vita handheld console. It's a particularly humorous move considering that Anonymous has in the past been in direct conflict with Sony.
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Empire has handed a large sum of money earned from Sony Entertainment off to FreeAnons, which is part of the pro-hacker Anonymous Solidarity Network. The group offers financial support to individuals facing legal trouble for alleged work with the Anonymous hacker group.
The money came from licensing Atari Teenage Riot's song "Black Flags" for use in a commercial for the PlayStation Vita handheld console. It's a particularly humorous move considering that Anonymous has in the past been in direct conflict with Sony.
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One more time...
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Dylan and Françoise Hardy backstage at L'Olympia, 1966
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(Thanx Frank!)
Julian Assange on his extradition appeal
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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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
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?
Via...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.”
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.
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.
Friday, 9 March 2012
Trailer Released for Abel Ferrara’s '4:44 Last Day on Earth'
In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They're in love. She's a painter, he's a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that this isn't a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined. The final meltdown will come not without warnings, but with no means of escape. There will be no survivors. As always, there are those who, as their last cigarette is being lit and the blindfold tightened, will still hope against hope for some kind of reprieve. For a miracle. Not our two lovers. They - like the majority of the Earth's population - have accepted their fate: the world is going to end.
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