June 2009
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Vibe magazine shutting down →
another one bites the dust :(
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Top 40 faces new digital shake-up →
The Top 40 is facing a shake-up as chart bosses consider incorporating songs from music streaming sites.
It’s about time digital was a factor in charts and ratings.
Watchif you haven’t seen Up yet, here’s the short Pixar film, Partly Cloudy, that runs before it. ahhh-mazing.
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Watchvideo artist 1kilo came up with an interesting take on urban flight from 1900 to the present day. In a striking visual parallel, cities declining in population are denoted by small white explosions. Pay particular attention to the years of World War - chilling stuff.
(via Culture Now)
Michael Jackson “Beat It”
The Maccabees “Can You Give It”. Off...
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Can a synthetic tree beat the real thing? →
Global Research Technologies have created a synthetic tree that they say captures CO2 1,000 times faster than regular trees and without the need for direct sunlight.
Hmmmmm…I’m skeptical, but curious.
(via Yahoo! Green - according to my brother, who works at Yahoo!, this is the most heavily trafficked “green site” on the internet. Personally, I love it.)
“If you’re going to go out every night you might as well get paid for it.”
- Bugsy Siegel (I am related to him through marriage)
has progress brought us to a better place?
John Harris interviews Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter →
The bikes … the robots … the dream of man and machine in perfect harmony. How is the Kraftwerk vision of the future shaping up? Ralf Hütter gives a rare interview to John Harris
Nice rare read.
(via Guardian.co.uk)
R.I.P. Andy Hughes of The Orb
(via Trash Menagerie)
Thecocknbullkid “Clean Apart”
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if everything is terrible, then nothing is
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Coconut Records “West Coast”
In...
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Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with... →
If public-health advocates, and now the Senate, get their way, when you look at a menu from a chain restaurant, those calorie counts will be staring you down.
(via, my pal, Maria Gonima)
WatchCheck out “Top 10” exhibit by Space Invader. From 6/27 to 7/25 at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.
(via ViaComT)
if you can’t convince them, confuse them
Indie Rockers, 90210 →
Hollywood’s young and connected throw D.I.Y. music shows for $2
“Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.”
- The Magus by John Fowles
