Melancholia from Zentropa on Vimeo.
I love Lars von Trier. I love conspiracy theories. I love the idea of Nibiru/Zecharia Sitchin. I love Charlotte Gainsbourg. I love Kirsten Dunst. I am ALL kinds of ALL over this movie.
(Thanks, Kate!)
I mentioned the other day how excited I was for the new apps that bring Apple’s iLife suite to the iPad 2. Well, it looks like a band has gone and recorded the first album entirely with GarageBand on the iOS.
As Wired reports, Ultramod has put together an indie-punk “record” using nothing for recording and editing but the $5 app and the $500 iPad. The result, Underwear Party was produced for tens of thousands less and is already for sale for $10 online.
What did Ultramod think of this stripped-down process?
“I see [the GarageBand app] as an everything-combined-into-one package,” said Max “Bunny” Sparber, The Ultramods’ lead singer. “Both new musicians and professional musicians are going to be very surprised with what they can do with it.”
I couldn’t agree more. Listen to a track to see just what this inexpensive solution can do.
(From my iPad blog)
Not to be confused with Soylent Green or Ubik, Product 19 is a cereal from Kellogg’s that was conceived in the 1960s as a healthy competitor for Total. Apparently the copywriter had one of the largest “fuck it” moments in the history of his trade and named the 19th product pushed through his office in 1967 exactly that. No, really. Though still being produced, Product 19 is being discontinued by grocers, thus providing the scifi/surreal (ce-real?) cart you see above.
[…] a modern economy requires “collective action”—it needs government to invest in infrastructure, education, and technology. The United States and the world have benefited greatly from government-sponsored research that led to the Internet, to advances in public health, and so on. But America has long suffered from an under-investment in infrastructure (look at the condition of our highways and bridges, our railroads and airports), in basic research, and in education at all levels.
In light of Pennsylvania’s genius decision to potentially slash funding for public higher education, the recent Vanity Fair article “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%” was most apropos.
I was watching this almost unforgivably ridiculous marketing video that introduces the new 2012 Tiguan the other day and realized something.
(beyond that it’s silly)
This short ad-like thing was filmed in Long Beach, CA and, at about the 36 second mark, you can see the Hilton where I stayed when I was there this month. Just look for the largest building on the left as the Tiguans cross the bridge from the Queen Mary and I was one to the left.
Goose – Synrise from Punx Sthlm on Vimeo.
ESKMO “Lands and Bones” (Warp) (Official Video) from ESKMO on Vimeo.
Thanks be to Cliptip for both.
Audience Calibration Procedure from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery on Vimeo.
You had better believe I’m going to be all over this. Très cool.
Today brought me to the Altoona campus for three project advising sessions with Heather Eckels’ history courses. One really interesting aspect of her teaching is that she asks students in small groups to find a current event relating to controversial social issues and present it at the beginning of class. The first fifteen minutes of each period are devoted to this presentation and a conversation led by the student group, which prepares questions they would like their classmates to think on.
I was particularly taken with this interview clip presented with questions regarding copyright, artists’ rights and the legality of profiting from a post-modern mashup of others’ works. I have been a Girl Talk fan since for years but had never bothered to actually look up an interview with Greg Gillis, who creates an eloquent analogy: we’d have a lot more painters if paint was being given away on the streets. Does make you think, doesn’t it?
In the current battle for my next leased vehicle, a contender from the sidelines makes its way to center stage:
Volkswagen has updated (or will be updating) its Tiguan SUV for the 2012 model year, bringing along a sleek new grille, tweaked interior and price in SEL trim that undercuts the Audi Q5 2.0T by about $4,000 while also being 400 lbs lighter on its feet. I’m definitely going to be driving both back to back to settle this internal argument of mine.