Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom

Directed by Edouard Salier.

Also, just found that you can pre-order some nice limited edition 180-gram vinyl prints of Heligoland, the new album from Massive Attack.

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Posted 2 hours ago

Happy Metal Friday.

It's become somewhat of an unsaid tradition every Friday for the past few months for myself and bunch of people on Twitter (some of whom I probably never would have connected with if it weren't for said day) to celebrate Metal Friday.

I love having a network of metalheads that just take every Friday to use the #metalfriday hashtag and go off about metal. 

From having been hooked up with lots of cool peeps & being turned on to different thrash/grindcore/death/industrial/technical/prog/what-have-you metal bands (today a gem was unearthed to me: Revocation - 'Existence is Futile') I'm glad the trend is carving a niche.

Don't you wish you had a jacket with all those metal patches on it? \m/

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Posted 2 days ago

Twitpic from Space

I thought this was worth bookmarking. There is some definite authenticity to seeing an image like this come directly to us from an astronaut (Jose Hernandez) and not a media outlet, or debuting in an "important" magazine article about space.

Space is cool on its own.

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Posted 2 days ago

Showcase of Floral Typography | Vandelay Design Blog

Nice gallery of well-integrated floral type.

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Posted 3 days ago

Kaki King - Playing With Pink Noise

What happens when someone gives you a guitar and says "Just do whatever".

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Posted 5 days ago

Smiling Teeth Dogs

Not pushing Dentastix.

It's just too creepy and funny when dogs have big people teeth.

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Posted 5 days ago

Kraftwerk - Computer World

"Broad musical interest" is a mild statement at best for myself. Music is something that's really transcendent to me, flowing seamlessly from genre to genre sometimes only listening to the production value or trying to single out how many layers of guitar are squished into a song. I guess that's why I feel compelled to opine for a bit on an electronic glitch record from almost 30 years ago.

I was flipping through some vinyl in a local record store and came upon Kraftwerk's 'Computer World', originally released in 1981. In a lump with some other goodies (Judas Priest's 'Sin After Sin', Scorpions debut before they sucked 'Blackout') I grabbed it.

On New Year's Eve we had some friends in from NYC, and had a eency-weency throwdown at our place. At one point, I grabbed 'Computer World' and threw it on the record player. It must've been the perfect storm of the right vibes and kooky things in the brain: instant hit.

Dancing and laughing to 'Pocket Calculator' and figuring out how to count to four in Japanese ate up just about the rest of the evening. From there we were looking up live performances on my iPhone and listening to side A on repeat (side B had some warp to it, but still makes for an interesting listening experience if you have patience and want to feel like you're walking sideways).

My only previous exposure to Kraftwerk was from a friend while I was living in Florida: their live album 'Minimum Maximum'. Quirky electronic soundscapes worthy of a great seat of headphones and your full attention. But there was something about the environment that 'Computer World' was unleashed in. Plus, listening to it on vinyl stands as its own experience, and the fact that it was 1981 when it was released puts it way ahead of its time.

The pure inventiveness of it and the realization that the nihilist band Autobahn from The Big Lebowski are either bowing to Kraftwerk's awesomeness or completely making fun of it (I bet on the latter) only fueled everyone's interest, and soon the record was being spun every time we have friends over. It should also be noted that I had no idea how integral 'Computer World' was on the world of electronic music when it was released until I was informed by a buddy of mine that did some post-hangout research.

I've heard friends referring to the band's site, where you can screw around with the Pocket Calculator containing the actual samples, and I know for a fact someone bought it on iTunes for a weekend drive to Jersey. Kraftwerk & New Jersey. Who would've thunk it?

I guess I dwell on this because I can't remember the last time I had so much fun listening to a record that resonated with people with so many different musical tastes and caused a bit of a wave of interest. 

Vinyl rules.

Sample the whole record here.

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Posted 5 days ago

U.S. Data Consumption in One Day

I feel like this is either a great solution or a big problem. I'm part of the problem side. Data visualization about data consumption. Data, data, data, data.

Data rules.

Infographic by Rob Vargas.

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Posted 6 days ago

David Lynch's 'Dumbland'

Crude, absurd & definitely NSFW unless everyone around you has a crass sense of humor (I've always been pretty fortunate in that department), & still makes me laugh like a crazy man. 

8 episodes in all. Thanks Jamesey for bringing this stuff back around.

Oh, and here's a funny little write-up on 'Dumbland'.

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Posted 9 days ago

"I Am The Law."

It's a treasure chest, trust me. And you know there's a Battlefield Earth appearance right?

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Posted 9 days ago