So my wife asks me to scan an article from a needlework magazine. No problem. So I’m looking over the file before I give it to her, and I see what you see here.
At first I’m thinking “Hmm, looks like the OCR screwed up”. Then I realized I wasn’t doing OCR, I was scanning in Photoshop as JPG’s.
So it’s actually supposed to be like this.
From Wikipedia:
Pat Condell (born November 1, 1951) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality. An outspoken atheist, Condell hosts a series of widely-viewed short video monologues denouncing religion.
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New Lady Amherst Pheasant chicks, hatched June 27th, 2008. Our friend Emma suggested the names, carrying the "C" theme from proud parents Corny and Cornelia, and also referencing two local craft beers, which I can get behind totally…
After brooding in her brooding box for a couple of weeks, two of the dozen-or-so eggs Cornelia was sitting on finally produced these little puffballs. This is their third day.
I love it when a plan comes together. Unfortunately, this one… not so much. This was intended as the second in a matched pair of planters. But somehow, don’t ask how, this one ended up about 6 inches wider by the time it was assembled. “Measure twice, cut once” only works if you actually cut to the same size that you measured. Oh well, now I’ll have to make another one.
The power of disco shall free us from tyranny.
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From David Byrne’s website:
Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
In this video interview, David Byrne describes and demonstrates the installation (warning: short commercials)
Additional video here.
From 1982 to Google Video, here is the entire 85-minute feature film Koyaanisqatsi.
From Wikipedia:
Koyaanisqatsi, also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means ‘crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living’, and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.
The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, due to copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.[1]
This Tom and Jerry cartoon, Johann Mouse, is inspired by the work of Viennese composer Johann Strauss II. It won the 1952 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, giving the cat and mouse duo their seventh and final Oscar win. (via Ursi’s Blog)
She’s leaving home (again) … The woman who inspired a Beatles classic has had to quit the Spanish house she built illegally
In a fit of what seemed to be adolescent pique, Melanie Coe, aged 17, ran away from home in 1967 – and became part of pop music legend.
It was her story of sneaking out of her parents’ comfortable North London home, which made front page news in those days, that inspired Paul McCartney and John Lennon to write one of their most beautiful ballads – She’s Leaving Home…
Wednesday morning at five o’clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more…
Four decades on, Melanie, now 58, is on the move again, and this time it’s not by choice.
Caught up in Spain’s complex rural planning laws, she has been forced to demolish her home that was built illegally on protected parkland.
Amazingly, McCartney’s reading of her escape in the newspapers was not the first time he had come across her.
“I first met Paul when I was 13 on the pop show Ready Steady Go!
“He presented me with first prize for miming to Brenda Lee’s Let’s Jump The Broomstick, which meant I danced on the show for a year,” says Melanie.
YouTube video:
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Join NASA’s Return to the Moon! Send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission.
The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names.
Go to the Moon! It’s easy – just type your name and add it.
