I offer this as perhaps the last post of 2012. It's time to get back to being one with the terrain, in Lucky 13.
This is amazing.
Monday, December 31, 2012
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Just Crazy | Jones' Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage
Yes. I would buy anything this fella is sellin'. He seems like a good guy. Honest.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Yule | Recordings of Christmas Past
Curators at the Museum of London have discovered what they believe to be the first ever recordings of a family Christmas, made 110 years ago by the Wall family who lived in New Southgate in North London. The recordings were made between 1902 and 1917 on wax cylinders made by a phonograph machine.
Absolutely fascinating story. [BBC]
Absolutely fascinating story. [BBC]
Yule | Listverse "10 Remarkable Origins of Common Christmas Traditions"
From how Christmas itself came about to where Santa came from... another fantastic list by the fine folks at ListVerse!
Monday, December 24, 2012
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Crazy Musician | Newton Faulkner "Teardrops" live Massive Attack cover
...in an elevator in Paradiso, Amsterdam...
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Crazy Musician | Modern Day Jester live on the London Underground
So... a live busker performance by Modern Day Jester on-board a London Underground subway car. His twitter: @moderndayjester
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Crazy Musician | Matt Andersen "Ain't No Sunshine"
For all my Lunenburg NS buddies out there... Matt Andersen at the Pearl Theatre on October 16, 2009, eh bah?
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Just Crazy | Jonathan Mann & Ivory King "We've Got to Break Up"
Not gonna lie. This is a bit odd. After five years a couple decides to break up, and write a song to explain why to their friends and family, and post it on youTube.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Crazy Statistician | Andrew Walker "One day of activity..."
Brought to my attention some time ago by the ever-interesting Price Tags... Andrew Walker runs transit information through home-made custom software (based on a program for satellite-tracking software) to create a visualization of the transit activity of one day (4am to 4am) in a city. He started with Vancouver:
And recently came out with New York City.
Both are quite beautiful.
And recently came out with New York City.
Both are quite beautiful.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Crazy Band | Skydiggers "A Penny More"
One of the few bands I will actually leave a comment on... truly one of the great voices recorded, with music so suited as to be almost miraculous... the Skydiggers are Canadian Musical Gold. I spent a lot of time with their Road Radio album, and it is amazing in its depth and beauty.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Just Crazy | Oppa Gangnam "Westcoast" Style parody
This was all over the tubes a bunch of weeks back... I'm "future-posting" it because I didn't bother to watch it for a week or so after it first came out... and it's surprisingly really well done. Amazing job, and I honestly didn't expect that. I love being surprised by my community's incredible talent and skill, and can't give the folks that put this together enough props. Nice one!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Crazy Band | Len "It's My Neighbourhood"
Always the best in bubble-gum pop, Len ("Steal My Sunshine") is back with new tunes, looking forward to Summer 2013! (Shout-out to Ms. Sedun for the cameo...!)
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Movin' Pixers | Hannibal Lecter gets fed a french fry
Director Jonathan Demme feeds Anthony Hopkins, as Hannibal Lecter, on the set of 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Funny Pages | Brad Guigar "Evil Inc."
A web-comic I've been reading for a while (and enjoying) has been Brad Guigar's Evil Inc.
It's about a corporation staffed by evil superheroes.
Unfortunately, the site also doesn't have any mechanism for embedding any of the strips, as far as I can tell. So check out the Evil Inc website.
Anyhoo. Mr. Guigar has tried his luck with stand-up comedy.
It's about a corporation staffed by evil superheroes.
Unfortunately, the site also doesn't have any mechanism for embedding any of the strips, as far as I can tell. So check out the Evil Inc website.
Anyhoo. Mr. Guigar has tried his luck with stand-up comedy.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
pong'd | SimCityEA Gamplay Trailer
I'm not going to lie: this is really exciting to me. I discovered the thrill of morphing game-simulation aspects into real-world theorizing a great many years ago... through the original SimCity. Coming February 2013!
Monday, May 28, 2012
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Crazy Musician | Chris Cornell "I Will Always Love You"
Whitney Houston cover, live on February 16, 2012 in San Francisco.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Hell in a Handbasket | The Warlord Problem
By now quite a few people have seen the "Kony 2012" campaign, the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube meme by which Joseph Kony, war criminal and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army has been hefted into the internet limelight for the stated purpose of making him famous, to bring him to justice.
There are supporters and detractors on both sides of this issue. Much of the controversy revolves around the manipulative manner in which the subject is presented by the filmmakers, to elicit an emotional response rather than to offer good journalism.
To me, this is one of the most eloquent: Patrick Kigongo "Don't Reduce Uganda to a Meme." [good]
Mr. Kigongo writes with a healthy dose of skepticism (perhaps even resignation) that Mr. Kony's sudden noteriety will last within the Meme-Cycle to do more than scratch the surface of "American" apathy toward world events and injustices. I get the impression he feels Mr. Kony is littered across Facebook pages right now, but will quickly fall off the radar when the next 'cat-playing-saxifone' video hits the tubes.
He's probably quite right.
But the point is not that attention will shift from Mr. Kony to some other distraction, but that Mr. Kony, for a brief time, is in the consciousness of individuals previously unaware, and spoken of by individuals that perhaps didn't even know this sort of unacceptable behaviour still exists.
Though we may not agree on the method of delivery, I would like to think we can all agree that "this sort of thing" is unacceptable behaviour. Anywhere. By anyone.
A problem can only be solved by starting a discussion, and using this time to educate others as to what the problem is.
Because the problem is not Joseph Kony. We have to include practices in the DemRep Congo and other African nations, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other armed groups in the Phillipines, the... well, you get the idea... individuals within these and other groups are not necessarily even indicted by the International Criminal Court yet. But they should be. (Here's another GOOD article about who the "next 6 Konys" should be. [good])
And then, one by one, we should make a plan, if we are dedicated to avenging unacceptable behaviour in resolving conflict, to finding these individuals and bringing them to justice.
But before running off with righteousness we need to know what to do the day after that. The underlying problems that created the situation will still be there. What do we do to rehabilitate and re-introduce these children back into "normal" society?
And further questions of another line: is this our problem to solve, or are we over-simplifying the situation at the expense of African capability? The idea this may be little more than new round of "The White Man's Burden" has been circulating among the discussions.
The point of all this: take the controversial Kony 2012 video as the conversation-starter, and get into the conversation already under way. It's good to talk about things on a global basis, rather than regionalizing problems. But it's not like suddenly we know about this Joseph Kony guy, or that child-soldiers exist -- it's just that you do now. And that's a good thing. [UN]
There are supporters and detractors on both sides of this issue. Much of the controversy revolves around the manipulative manner in which the subject is presented by the filmmakers, to elicit an emotional response rather than to offer good journalism.
To me, this is one of the most eloquent: Patrick Kigongo "Don't Reduce Uganda to a Meme." [good]
Mr. Kigongo writes with a healthy dose of skepticism (perhaps even resignation) that Mr. Kony's sudden noteriety will last within the Meme-Cycle to do more than scratch the surface of "American" apathy toward world events and injustices. I get the impression he feels Mr. Kony is littered across Facebook pages right now, but will quickly fall off the radar when the next 'cat-playing-saxifone' video hits the tubes.
He's probably quite right.
But the point is not that attention will shift from Mr. Kony to some other distraction, but that Mr. Kony, for a brief time, is in the consciousness of individuals previously unaware, and spoken of by individuals that perhaps didn't even know this sort of unacceptable behaviour still exists.
Though we may not agree on the method of delivery, I would like to think we can all agree that "this sort of thing" is unacceptable behaviour. Anywhere. By anyone.
A problem can only be solved by starting a discussion, and using this time to educate others as to what the problem is.
Because the problem is not Joseph Kony. We have to include practices in the DemRep Congo and other African nations, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other armed groups in the Phillipines, the... well, you get the idea... individuals within these and other groups are not necessarily even indicted by the International Criminal Court yet. But they should be. (Here's another GOOD article about who the "next 6 Konys" should be. [good])
And then, one by one, we should make a plan, if we are dedicated to avenging unacceptable behaviour in resolving conflict, to finding these individuals and bringing them to justice.
But before running off with righteousness we need to know what to do the day after that. The underlying problems that created the situation will still be there. What do we do to rehabilitate and re-introduce these children back into "normal" society?
And further questions of another line: is this our problem to solve, or are we over-simplifying the situation at the expense of African capability? The idea this may be little more than new round of "The White Man's Burden" has been circulating among the discussions.
The point of all this: take the controversial Kony 2012 video as the conversation-starter, and get into the conversation already under way. It's good to talk about things on a global basis, rather than regionalizing problems. But it's not like suddenly we know about this Joseph Kony guy, or that child-soldiers exist -- it's just that you do now. And that's a good thing. [UN]
Sunday, March 11, 2012
pong'd | SimCity 5
EA and Maxis have announced SimCity 5 has been scheduled for a 2013 release. The SimCity series has been one of my all-time favourite simulation games. I've had many a thinkthoughtthunk while immersed in one iteration or another. And I started on the first release, back in 1989... great memories.
Here is a bit of discussion, with trailer at the beginning:
And here is the Trailer alone:
Here is a bit of discussion, with trailer at the beginning:
And here is the Trailer alone:
Wisdom | Horace
"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palace of kings."
Horace.
[wikipedia]
[project gutenberg]
Horace.
[wikipedia]
[project gutenberg]
Saturday, March 10, 2012
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Satan Alert! | Amish Heat Surge Fireplace
Fine -- there may be Amish involvement in this, but it looks to basically be an electric fireplace with an "Amish-made" cabinet around it.
But first... the Amish are involved in selling an electric fireplace?! And second... if you watch the background of the workshop the cabinets are being built in, there are florescent lights in the ceiling, and the usual lit exit signs at the doors... again... electricity?
While I might say Wikipedia is not the definitive guide to All Things Amish, the article about Amish Furniture clearly says, "Amish beliefs prevent the use of electricity." While I can see the wiggle-room, it still seems a bit on the shadier side of grey.
But then again, perhaps things are not quite what popular imagination thinks the Amish are all about... here are two young Amish hoodlums road-racing...
But first... the Amish are involved in selling an electric fireplace?! And second... if you watch the background of the workshop the cabinets are being built in, there are florescent lights in the ceiling, and the usual lit exit signs at the doors... again... electricity?
While I might say Wikipedia is not the definitive guide to All Things Amish, the article about Amish Furniture clearly says, "Amish beliefs prevent the use of electricity." While I can see the wiggle-room, it still seems a bit on the shadier side of grey.
But then again, perhaps things are not quite what popular imagination thinks the Amish are all about... here are two young Amish hoodlums road-racing...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Crazy Musician | Sherman Downey "Indifferences Lay Waiting"
Last month I was invited to see Sherman Downey & the Silver Lining play in sherin's living room when the boys were on their way back from their 2012 tour of Australia. An intimate venue, to say the least, and it was a fantastic time. I was introduced to this song, Indifferences Lay Waiting, sometime last year or so by SK:ff playing it on an acoustic guitar in the parking lot outside our studio. It's a great tune.
Thanks to REd for finding the video. If you like the tune, be sure to visit the Sherman Downey site.
Thanks to REd for finding the video. If you like the tune, be sure to visit the Sherman Downey site.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Crazy Driver | Austrian Freeride Bicyclists
I can imagine why there is music overdubbed, rather than the original soundtrack -- the original soundtrack must've consisted of "...omigadomigadimgonnaDIEimgonnaDIEomigadomigad..."
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Goodbye 2011. Welcome, 2012.
As we say goodbye to 2011 and welcome 2012, here is David Attenborough reciting "Wonderful World" for the BBC.
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