Kempa.com: More Vinyl Manufacturing Minutiae: "one of the most ingenious uses of this technology is in children's toys, the classic example being the See & Say - a pull-string toy that plays a variety of randomized prerecorded sounds"

"One Two Cha Cha Cha - Usha Uthup & Chorus." bollywood via troubled diva.

passerby: "Michelle Handelman will spend one day in Bryant Park clandestinely documenting visitors to the park, recording their conversations, photographing them, and taking note of their location/time in the park. During a single performance, entitled Passerby, she will work with performers to recreate five of the situations she observed in the exact locations at the same time they originally occurred. Handelman's project addresses the possibility for or lack of privacy in public space as well as the prevalence of and high tolerance for surveillance and will take place on Tuesday, June 29th, from 1-4PM in Bryant Park, 6th Avenue between 40th/42nd Streets. Rain date is Thursday, July 1st."

via tom moody

mp3s bythe sugar bears via mystical beast.

Doug Hilsinger & Caroleen Beatty - Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy): "30th Anniversary remake of Brian Eno's 1974 Classic"

cvs parking lot by pat padua

new england ruins via artnotes

"WIG STALLS CONEY I. COASTER TILL RESCUERS PULL RUG OUT FROM UNDER RIDERS": via gothamist

the poozies - all i want: "An astonishing reinterpretation of 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly,' the fine song from Lerner/Lowew's My Fair Lady."

stairway to stardom

Childrens Music Games by Morton Subotnick Creating Music

hello

ordinary days: street photography by Corvisier - Barberis

Turning the Pages: "Discover the British Library's award-winning system Turning the Pages. Just click on the links, wait a few moments, then turn the pages of our great books."

silmonia paris photography

Props for strindberg and helium, which *did* lead me to miss julie at dcac.

Stills Gallery - Narelle Autio and Trent Parke: "The Seventh Wave, a series of black and white underwater images, depicts the drama and otherworldliness which lies under the surface of the water."

Photography by Frank Paulin

Fafblog interviews: OSAMA BIN LADEN.:
"FAFBLOG: So Osama bin Laden, how's evil doin?
OSAMA BIN LADEN: MWAHAHAHAHA! Oh, evil stands ready to triumph over good, little Fafnir!
FB: Oh I do not believe that Osama bin Laden! Good will always triumph over evil.
OBL: Not THIS time! This time I'm hatching my most diabolical scheme ever - my plot to elect JOHN KERRY president!
FB: Oh no!"

Ag magazine | Tissue of lies: "how to apply some simple digital trickery to recreate the carbon tissue process, one of the most demanding vintage printing techniques"

World's Largest Roadside Attractions: "A collection of larger-than-life roadside attractions from around the world"

this and that from metafilter.

Worlds Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction: "World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things"

the splatometer: "Throughout June, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is asking drivers to fit a special sticky panel on their cars to catch insects.

The "splatometer" will then be removed and the number of insects counted. "

Morguefile.com :: free stock photos archive

Foreword: Covers so bad: early Harlequin book covers

Digital Sucks: " (Holga Camera Photography, Diana Camera Photography, Plastic Camera Photography, Pinhole Camera Photography, and Toy Camera Photography)"

shocking, weird, hard to find movies

ice ice hoffy: "Ice-T recently revealed that he and Hasselhoff, star of 80's action television show 'Knight Rider' and the worldwide hit 'Bay Watch' are working on a rap album."

Phototalk: "'The digital revolution is creating a gaping hole in our heritage'
[Digital Cameras, Photography and The Implications Part II]"

Modern Ruins by Phillip Buehler

Gunkanjima-text-E: "I was twenty-two when I first visited the island I had dreamed about ever since childhood. Much like a fortress built upon the sea, surrounded by high walls,the island possessed an air of a small kingdom, where its denizens boasted 'There is nothing we don't have here.' They were right. They did have everything within their miniature kingdom - except a cemetery. But, the irony of it was proven by the passag e of time. Already, the island had been doomed to turn into an enormous graveyard."

ID ~ Interchangeable Disturbances:

"Interchangeable Disturbance (ID) consists of 60 color photographs centered on the desires and fantasies of a wedding cake figurine."

GrandGuignol.com :: Grand Guignol Online

Dokaka.com!:

Japanese a cappella beat-box. Come for "Smells Like Teen Spirit"; stay for "Ramblin' man."

wire vs. britney!

STRANGER a DAY : 2004

Big Ideas. Big Thinkers. Kirk Varnedoe | Thirteen/WNET

Die Anstalt

plush therapy

The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld: Lyrics and Clips:

"direct quotes from Rumsfeld's Pentagon briefings and other interviews ... [music] Written by composer and pianist Bryant Kong, the songs are in an accessible style based in classical music, with strong popular influences from cabaret to pop music. They are sung by soprano Elender Wall."

Welcome to McDonald's Asian Pacific Islander Americans - i'm lovin' it!

?!

i touch myself:

"by a choir of teenage girls from Belgium"

The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - Saturday Night Live:

"On 22nd November 1980 The Magic Band gave a storming performance of Ashtray Heart and Hot Head in front of a studio audience for Saturday Night Live. Here you can download excellent quality mp3s of the tunes, kindly sent to me by Hammy, and a video of the complete performance kindly sent to me by Benjamin Horrendous."

hairy diamond - givin' up:

music (for robots): Uaaaaaaaaaaa...:

Japanese dub.

Can the Subaltern Sing? Or Who's Ashamed of William Hung?:

Lays out some objections I have to this novelty-actification of the Other, but ends with crap about the redefinition of masculinity. So *that's* what Stepin Fetchit was ...

rush on torture:

"Folks, these torture pictures with the women torturers, I mean Marv Albert looking at those pictures would say, "Hey, that doesn't look so bad." You know, if you really look at these pictures, I mean I don't know if it's just me but it looks like anything you'd see Madonna or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe you can get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean this is something you can see at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City: the Movie."

via
uggabugga.

Raymondo's Dance-O-Rama:

"After World War II, many Japanese performers and recording artists had very successful careers adopting a variety of western styles ranging from Big Band to Cha-cha, but always with a distinctive eastern flavor. One vocal group that achieved tremendous popularity in this area was the duo of Emi and Umi Ito, better known as the Peanuts. Here in the west, we were treated to their vocal stylings in Japanese monster movies, wherein they played the tiny priestesses of Mothra. Here's one of their albums, a charming selection of pop tunes from 1963 (many sung in english)."

The Rasterbator:

"The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures out of relatively small image files. The pictures can be assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 5 meters in size"

WFMU's Blast of Hot Air: May 2004:

"MP3s from the fringes: new sounds, obscure audio, found sound, and other sonic stimulants unique to WFMU."

oh, great:


Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists

""My kids kept recognizing flaws in the presentation," said Mrs. Passmore, of Jackson, Ala. "You know — the whole `millions of years ago dinosaurs ruled the earth' thing." "

THE TOFU HUT:

"The Sterling Jubilee Singers - 'Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb'"

The New Creation's Troubled

god in the garage

BELLYBONGO LP sharity - Tony Rey:

"TONY REY & the LIBRARIANS AT RAMADA INN NORTHLINE"

Godly Garb & Games - Christian T Shirts and Christian Bible Games

Wear a prayer for the president. Sport Christianified logos for Reese's peanut butter cups, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew.

70's teen diary:

"I've been throwing darts at pictures of Jon Travolta all afternoon. It's been very cold outside lately.Daryl is so cute it's hard to believe. Sheilds & Yarnell were on the Tonight Show."

Loto "So Happy Together"

Not a Turtles cover, but happy and together and from Portugal.

the last two mp3s brought to you by Fluxblog .

Loretta Lynn with Jack White 'Portland, Oregon':

interviews with street photographers:

"Each photographer was sent a questionnaire which they filled in and emailed back. Some kept the question-answer format, others just wrote statements based on the questions we asked. There are plenty of gems, insights and advice that, we think, anyone looking to get started in street photography will learn from."

aworks :: new american classical music:

"Organ and Silence is a two-hour organ work (the Wesley Roberts recording is about an hour), distinguished by lengthy periods of silence. A set of notes or a phrase will be followed by complete silence. It might be a short pause or it might be say a 10 second gap and then another musical phrase. All sixteen movements follow that same pattern of short musical fragment, pause, then repeat for three or four minutes."

exhilarator:

"The cartoon with its sheer endless humoristic allegories is among the oldest of trades, and a creative one at that. We want to breathe new life into all those used and out-laughed witnesses of human tragedy - but how? We have asked our friend algorithmic random generator to give us a hand. We split the image from the text and shove the gag into a new interpretation..."

Disfarmer: black and white photographs of rural America in the 1940's:

" In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, the Arkansas artist known as Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939-1945. Critics have hailed Disfarmer's remarkable black and white portraits as 'a work of artistic genius' and 'a classical episode in the history of American photography.' "

The New York Review of Books: Disco Dreams:

"Become hollow. Make room. Learn to despise your own internal protests at what bores or irritates you with its unfamiliarity. Be shaped by strangeness. Love what abrades. The future can come into being only by stripping away what was formerly locked in place."

imperial archive:

"The United States and Its Territories, 1898-1930: The Age of Imperialism is an extraordinary collection of fully searchable digital Filipiniana"

The New York Times > New York Region > Couple Takes Protest Up Tree in Central Park:

"...The couple, one clad in a thong and the other in boxer shorts, climbed up 35 feet into a pine tree, just north of the Wollman Rink, at about 4:20 p.m. The two people, identified by the police as a 32-year-old man with feminine breasts and a 17-year-old boy, shouted threats at rescue workers and drank soft drinks..."

"...'I live in Switzerland, which is uneventful,' said Katerina Usvitsky, 23, a graphic designer. 'Things like this don't happen there.'"

bookofjoe: Dulce de Leche:

"You will not believe until you taste it that such a simple thing can yield such a superb result."

The Travel Diaries of Jose Rizal

Airbag - A Better Tighty Whitey.:

"There's a lot of talk about the recently declassified White House brief that mentions a possible attack by Al Queda forces within the United States but nothing about the state of intelligence reports given to the President of the United States.

I speak specifically to the design of the document. It's clearly inefficient in its purpose to communicate the assessment of threats against the United States. While a better designed document might not save the world, I believe it would help the President (Bush or otherwise) to quickly and more effectively assess the information given to him.

In a world with Jakob Neilson, how is it possible that nobody in the West Wing has learned the word usability?"

via typographica.

Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement Zone - Forced Entries:

black and white photographs by John Divola

patience and prudence, "tonight you belong to me":

via the tofu hut.

The Suburbs Are Killing Us:

"Like Sam Cooke, Derrick Harriott has a tenor voice that's sweeter than yer honey. But unlike Cooke, Harriott is a Jamaican and not an American, hence relatively few folks outside of the reggae world know him, his work or his angelic voice."

Instamatic

bootlegging

Reuters | Breaking News from Around the Globe:

"'Devils, I don't have any chicken or duck for you,' he was quoted as saying by local police chief Phoeung Vat. 'If you want to eat anything, you can eat my penis.'"

.. Oddio Overplay ..: "

These silly little Oddio Overplay compilations gather music freely available online as a means of supporting the artists and tuning folks in to music they might not otherwise hear."

The Electric Company Digital Archive:

"This site is devoted to the preservation of the sights, sounds and music of the popular 1970s children's television program The Electric Company."

FreewayBlogger.com:

"When you put a sign on the freeway
people will read it
until someone takes it down."

Coincidences: philip, sigourney, and a chicken:

"so I said, 'I don't know, I'll photograph her with a f**ing chicken!!' and the editor goes 'BRILLIANT!' "

Misys gives Pecker head job:

"After 14 years inside Misys in Europe, Rudi Pecker has been elevated to the financial technology company's Singapore office, to become head of Asia Pacific sales."

Advertising: Thoroughly Modern Mr. Peanut:

"The goal was to keep Mr. Peanut as 'a sophisticated icon,' he added, yet also make him 'fun, social, popular, entertaining, friendly...'"

Bromoilography :

"Bromoil combines the skills, nuances and attibutes of fine art photography,printmaking and painting. This historic process is truly a happy marriage of craft and art"

Parsing spam

She sat there until daylight, unwearied, and wishing in her heart that the night might prolong itself indefinitely. But time which has brought me age has also brought me leisure, and I have availed myself of it to write my recollections of so much of the war between the states in which my own immediate cavalry command took part. He is one who speaks good English, and wears gloves as if he were used to them.

I googled that graf and found three different sources. There must be a program that scrapes sentences from different web sites - but what's the criterion? These are obscure and literary sources ...

She sat there until daylight, unwearied, and wishing in her heart that the night might prolong itself indefinitely.

is from a short story by Nikolai Gogol;

But time which has brought me age has also brought me leisure, and I have availed myself of it to write my recollections of so much of the war between the states in which my own immediate cavalry command took part.

is from a Civil War memoir;


He is one who speaks good English, and wears gloves as if he were used to them.

is from German travel and adventure writer Karl May:


The context of the last is worth quoting at length:

"I suppose you know what a tenderfoot is. He is one who speaks good English, and wears gloves as if he were used to them. He also has a prejudice in favor of nice handkerchiefs and well-kept finger-nails; he may know a good deal about history, but he is liable to mistake turkey-tracks for bear-prints, and, though he has learned astronomy, he could never find his way by the stars. The tenderfoot sticks his bowie-knife into his belt in such a manner that it runs into his thigh when he bends; and when he builds a fire on the prairie he makes it so big that it flames as high as a tree, yet feels surprised that the Indians notice it." (from Winnetou, the Apache Knight)

SawStop Videos:

"In our video demonstrations, we are cutting a sheet of plywood or particle board and place a hot dog in the path of the blade to simulate a user's finger. The SawStop system detects contact between the hot dog and the blade of the saw and stops the blade in approximately 5 milliseconds or less, resulting in only a small nick in the skin of the hot dog. "

underoosiania:

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"I Just Want To Be Friends.":

"Joelogon's Foolproof Guide to Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend"

LiveJournal Images:

"This tool takes images from the most recent entries at LiveJournal.com... They may be subject to copyright and may not be work safe."

RingSurf: Play it Loud:

mp3blogacopia

comix remixed:

"The Japanese school system is a funny thing; exams happen three weeks before the term ends, meaning three weeks of students rather unwilling to learn anything new. That being so, I decided to corrupt my high schoolers in the most amusing, English-oriented manner possible. I made a short class on American comics with artwork and examples of popular comic books and comic strips. Then came the exciting part: making your own American-style comic!"

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rearmost t. downturn
chalkier p. desolate


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From: For K. Marat
Subject: Squadoosh, cheapest meds around
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:07:09 -0400

Guten Tag :))
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Squadoosh, interested in saving up to 70% on medications?

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together
I suppose.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

Stupendously B. Blunted
Motherland J. Latticeworky


From: Domesticated S. Grownup
Subject: Squadoosh, Supreme medication for you!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:43:32 -0700

Rise and shine!
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

Squadoosh, searching for a source to buy medication?
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafT.
I used to be indecisive now I'm not sure.

We can send our products worldwide
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Your easy solution is here

You are absolutely anonymous!
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Let us live while we live.

Bozo and Friends:

"Bozo Capitol Record Readers were originally issued in the late 1940s as beautifully designed 78RPM albums. These colorful 'books that talk' were synchronized with the records so that each time Bozo gave his signal, it was time to turn the page. 45s in boxed sets and paper sleeves followed shortly afterward as well as LPs."

Stasis_Space gallery : present : The Audible Still-Life

"At first, we just thought we would plug in the five oranges as if they were a normal electronic device, (and consequentially to sacrifice their integrity). Assign each one a mixer channel, eq, pan, and volume, and use two contact microphones on the table, and another on the oranges, to increase the spatial values. The resulting sound is almost the same as the one you get when touching a connected jack with your hands. So we started touching and playing the oranges."

Bush Joke Video: DC Humor in Bad Taste | MFA

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall:

"General Sanchez is right about one thing ... this is not Vietnam ... Oh no, its not that easy."

today in spam

From: Domesticated S. Grownup
Subject: Squadoosh, Supreme medication for you!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:43:32 -0700

Rise and shine!
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the
basic tool of the actor's trade.

Squadoosh, searching for a source to buy medication?
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of
law to notions born in the cafT.
I used to be indecisive now I'm not sure.

We can send our products worldwide
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language,
and for language.
Your easy solution is here
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You are absolutely anonymous!
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Let us live while we live.

other correspondents:

Stupendously B. Blunted
Motherland J. Latticework

NBC10.com - News - Performers Whip Easter Bunny At Church Play:

"A church in western Pennsylvania trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting sever"

IKEA FARTFULL work bench:

"care instructions
Wipe clean with a damp cloth."

Spam poetry of the day

From: Dilettante V. Pillsbury thermometers@usa.net
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:58:07 -0400

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Hung Out to Dry by David Ng:

"In the not so distant past, watchdog groups like the Media Action Network for Asian Americans eagerly protested the likes of MADtv's Asian manicurist Ms. Swan, as well as Mr. Wong, the animated Web series from the now defunct icebox.com, in which the titular houseboy was repeatedly goaded by his blonde boss into pronouncing words like cotillion. As an erstwhile fan of both caricatures, I find it strange that these groups have remained silent with regard to Hung, who, unlike Swan or Wong, is a real person, and whose cultural impact will be more lasting and potentially harmful. "

SouthernMedia's News Music Search Archive - News theme and news music information!: "
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