Take one part Punk, one part Gypsy music, and three parts lunatic lead singer, garnish with an insane amount of energy and a love of sex, drugs, and rock & roll and you will have something close to the Gogol Bordello experience. I’ve been sitting on this post for a number of days, hoping to …
Gotta love this juxtaposition of videos on the front page of YouTube.
Abandoned buildings, melted bricks, and a city’s despair: photo essays from a variety of sources, via BoingBoing. You want some future? How about viruses as batteries, bionic eyes, surveillance that would put Big Brother to shame, and a whole new meaning to the phrase, there’s gold in them thar hills. Need a break from reading? …
Actually, several more reasons: She is also co-creating a play with high school students at Lexington High School. How many Rock Stars do that? And then there is this: *sigh* *swoon*
When time moves around space. Even as the air lights up the night. Bi-valves taste the past to trace the future. Spacey music from a cork. I’m inspired, let’s take a trip into space!! Now for videos: See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.
Really cool photos from an abandoned hospital. Each image is rich with unknown and lost stories. (Via Boing Boing)Desert Breath is a gorgeous art project created in the Sahara. IO9 covers it here and the artist website is here. BoingBoing once again has a link to amazing cool awesomeness, this time a promo video for …
Sharing some fun videos. Enjoy! An amazing film that creates an entire world, offers compelling characters, and scary action scenes and does it in a few minutes and with no dialogue: 9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animation by FrFKmeron A lovely rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on a ukelele: If you never watched …
This is an awesome archive of old films. Unfortunately they don’t allow for embedding, but check out the old time erotica, or a science fiction short from 1909 , or watch cowboys take Broadway by storm in one of John Ford’s earliest movies, or (cause you know you want to) check out some more old …
I’ve been reading a bunch of HP Lovecraft’s stories recently, plowing my way through the second of three Omnibus collections but out by Grafton Books in the mid-80s. For teen boys of a certain type—namely geeks those into science fiction and horror—Lovecraft is a name to conjure by. There is something about Lovecraft’s writing that …
First up, the depressing news that America, land of the free and home of the brave, ranks 36th among nations for the freedom of the press: The United States is ranked 36th in the world in terms of press freedom, up from 48th last year, according to a report released Wednesday by Reporters Sans Frontieres. …