Antony Gormley’s Naked Men Perched on NYC Buildings

British artist Antony Gormley conquers New York’s Flatiron District with his legion of naked men inhabiting pathways and sidewalks in and around Madison Square Park and perched on ledges and rooftops of buildings from 14th to 34th streets on Manhattan’s East Side. Cast from the artist’s own lean body in iron and fiberglass, the 31 anatomically correct statues, which make up the installation Event Horizon, literally swarm the park. Finding them is a bit like playing the game “Where’s Waldo” yet once spotted they bring to mind the angels watching over Berlin in Wim Wenders’ film Wings Of Desire.

Winner of the 1994 Turner Prize, Gormley is celebrated in the UK for his spectacular public art works. His massive Angel of the North sculpture extends its wings high on a hill in Gateshead, while 100 life-size, cast iron figures in Another Place stretch out into the sea on Crosby Beach. Event Horizon, which marks Gormley’s U.S. public art debut, was first installed in 2007 on bridges, rooftops and streets along the South Bank of London’s Thames River. The New York installation, which is supported by its own website with a map, photos, and a video of Gormley discussing the project while scouting locations around Madison Square Park, remains on view through August 15.

Click here to view a slideshow of photos of the installation>>

Note: Following recent controversy about whether his sculptures looked like jumpers, we asked Gormley to comment. Here’s what he had to say:

“I am confident that New Yorkers and visitors to this city will understand that the figures are works of art. The ambition of Event Horizon is to activate the skyline and to perhaps make people visually aware of their surroundings. Silhouetted against the sky these bodyforms look out into space at large asking: Where does human evolution fit in the scheme of things?”

Paul Laster @'Flavourwire'

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Musicvideo for Dominik Eulberg's: SANSULA (oder der letzte Grund) This is a low budget musicvideo done completely without CGI. All Takes are shot in a Forest with a Video Projector, an HD cam and some curious Frogs.

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First Listen: David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - 'Here Lies Love'

Here Lies Love, a collaboration between David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, tells the story of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and her rise to prominence. Throughout the album's two discs and 22 songs, they also tell the parallel tale of Estella Cumpas, the servant who raised Marcos.
Byrne and Fatboy Slim tell their stories using club music from the '70s disco era — Imelda Marcos loved the discos — and they incorporate quotes from the first lady and her husband, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, to help with the narrative.
The story is told using 22 prominent guest singers. Of those, 20 are women who portray the story's two main characters, including Sharon Jones, Annie Clark of St. Vincent, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, Tori Amos, Nellie McKay, Kate Pierson of The B-52's, Martha Wainwright, Santigold and Cyndi Lauper. Steve Earle provides the voice of Ferdinand Marcos, while David Byrne sings lead on one song and shares the spotlight on another.
Musically, Fatboy Slim (a.k.a. Norman Cook) provides many of the beats, while Byrne mostly plays guitars, though that's a bit of an oversimplification. Many other musicians add rhythm and texture to a record filled with horns, woodwinds, strings and keyboards by Tom Gandey, a.k.a. Cagedbaby. Byrne and Cook composed many of the songs together, while Byrne wrote many on his own.
Here Lies Love — available here in its entirety until its release on April 6 — is a theatrical affair, though no theater piece is in the offing. For now, there's just the two CDs, the 120-page book and a DVD that includes historical footage cleverly edited to six of album's songs. Please leave your thoughts on the album in the comments section below.

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What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

Homeless!

Broken Haze - Raid System

 

 ..First up is Broken Haze, fitting as he’s the label head really. While he’s only been releasing music officially for a few years, he has managed to create his own unique blend of electro and future hip hop and made a name for himself in Japan in a relatively short time as not just a producer to watch out for but also a live performer worth catching. Filled with cut up melodies, chopped up drums, digital glitches, dark moods and at times quite heavy and industrial, his music echoes with the likes of The Glitch Mob, Prefuse 73 or Clark. His debut album was released in April 2008, entitled ‘Raid System’. He also forms half of Nerdz Era, a Japanese duo that makes full on, dancefloor friendly electro.

For this guest mix he’s chosen to showcase his own work and that of his friends, a perfect snapshot of his sound and a mix that deserves big speakers and a big sound for the full effect. Be sure to check his myspace and the Raid System site for more on him. He’s also got a track forthcoming on Jus Like Music’s ‘Oscillations’ compilation. And if you like what you hear tune into the monthly Raid System Radio sessions, broadcasted on Ustream live from the legendary Jar Beat Records shop in Kichi Jyoji.

Stay tuned for the rest of the series including guest mixes from XLII and Ken One. Next up is XLII..

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Patents on breast cancer genes ruled invalid in ACLU/PubPat case

Nazi scandal engulfs Human Rights Watch

WTF??? 'Scarface' - The School Play (Thanx Fifi!)

Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Live @ Manchester College of Commerce 2/05/69)

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This is an unreleased version from the 'Ummagumma' test pressing!

Change yr socks twice a day - it's the apocalypse!

"Uh These are just ideas put into a fictional (and very vague) scenario. Hopefully you are smart enough to figure out if they are appropriate and best for your situation."!!!

 

Found on the Hutaree militia site, "The End of the World as We Know It" Man. When the apocalypse comes, TEOTWAWKI Man recommends using insoles -- "Gels or what-have-you" -- and generally taking care of your feet.

"It's recommended to change your socks, twice a day actually, just to let 'em air out, if nothing else," he says, to the occasional accompaniment of rifle fire and combat plane. "Also, foot powder is recommended."

Lots more on these folks on the show tonight. For now, file this under things that can't be 100 percent, absolutely proved: TEOTWAWKI Man looks an awful lot like Joshua Clough, the guy who's second from the left on the bottom row in this collection of Hutaree mug shots. Clough, now indicted along with eight other Hutaree members for seditious conspiracy, apparently couldn't cut it with Michigan's mainline militia movement.

Amy Cooter, who's been studying the state's militias for a doctorate at the University of Michigan, says TEOTWAWKI Man looks like Clough to her. She reports that the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia -- host of the annual Pumpkin Purge -- sent Clough packing at least a couple of years back.

"He was asked to leave because he was not training safely -- just not following basic safety precautions," Cooter says. She describes the relationship between the Hutaree and the rest of the Michigan's militias as distant. The Hutaree are expressly apocalyptic Christian. The rest of the movement, she says, "is concerned with the Constitution."

The TEOTWAWKI Man videos were posted to YouTube under the account of JC2 Productions (Commercials! Weddings! Movies! Special effects!) We wrote to them and got no answer -- maybe because TEOTWAWKI Man is in jail. Maybe.

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The Flamingos - Jump Children

Derrick May on meeting Juan Atkins & Kevin Saunderson (Melbourne 2006)

M-Flo vs NERDZ ERA - Miss You [NERDZ ERA remix]

    

Bat out of Hell? How a flying fox virus might help cure Ebola, HIV and other deadly plagues...

It seems germ warfare is about to introduce a new kind of WMD...

Lee is an expert on the viral envelope, the dynamic outside surface of a virus that latches onto a cell, then changes its shape to let the virus enter and infect the cell. This work began as part of a biodefense grant from the National Institutes of Health, screening a library of 30,000 compounds for activity against the envelope of Nipah virus, an emerging infection first identified in 1999 in Malaysia.

Nipah is so deadly that work with the virus itself can only be done in biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) labs where researchers wear tightly sealed hazmat suits with internal oxygen supplies. The labs themselves are strongly secured. There are only four in the U.S.

Lee got around that by creating a hybrid virus. He striped off the envelope covering the relatively benign vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and added the Nipah envelope to that core. This allowed him to screen the compounds in his lab at the university using much lower BLS-2 safety standards, to see if they inhibited viral entry into the cell.

"One compound (LJ001) looked really good, it had an IC50 of one micromolar [meaning that it inhibited the pathogen at a low concentration], which for an initial read is okay. Most importantly, it wasn't toxic" to cell cultures, Lee explained.

Mike Wolf, a grad student in the lab, wanted to make sure the compound was specific to Nipah, so he screened it against VSV. When the inhibition curves came back identical, he originally was disappointed because the study's funding was based on exploring potential therapeutics for Nipah.

Lee, however, encouraged him to be more persistent, and curious. After a series of studies confirmed the activity and lack of toxicity, Lee sent double-blinded samples of the compound and control to a colleague at the BSL-4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston who tested it against Nipah, Ebola and other viruses. They were shocked when LJ001 inhibited viral entry to all of them.

Bob Roehr @'ScientificAmerican'