Delia Derbyshire was a pioneer of electronic music and created one of the most important pieces of electronic music ever! Watch her 7 part documentary series HERE.
Thievery Corporation:Saudade
Thievery Corporation: Saudade
Every language has words and phrases that elude easy translation. In Portuguese, "saudade" (pronounced by Brazilians as "sow-DAH-djee") is one of those. Some musicians equate it with the blues; it's generally associated with melancholy and longing. In its most recent bio, the Washington, D.C., electronic duo Thievery Corporation defines it as "a longing for something or someone that is lost."
Though countless songs have "saudade" in the title, the condition of saudade isn't usually conveyed through words. It's evoked. Its wistfulness radiates through every element of the music — from the sound Joao Gilberto makes humming that iconic introduction to "The Girl From Ipanema" to the yearning melody itself to the precise chop of the rhythm guitar behind the voice. You can't just order up saudade. There's no setting for it on a drum machine; no software emulation available. It comes seeping through the music, between the notes, as delicate and evanescent as a May breeze.
Thievery Corporation's Eric Hilton and Rob Garza offer a vibey, transfixingly contemporary take on saudade with Saudade, their seventh full-length album. Since 1996's Songs From the Thievery Hi-Fi, which was dedicated to composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, Thievery has explored every square foot of the intersection where bossa nova and electronic sample manipulation meet. The duo has been praised for its sleek acid-jazz dream sequences and frenetic rhythm programming. It's delivered thick instrumental collages dotted with random curio-drawer samples, and also original songs that emphasize live vocals. (The 2000 gem Mirror Conspiracy includes a cameo by the similarly inclined Bebel Gilberto.) The new work is quite possibly the most traditional Thievery release yet: Most of its 13 songs are tightly structured verse-chorus endeavors, with contemplative vocals set against sophisticated chord sequences and minimal acoustic-electric backdrops. In contrast to what often grabs attention in electronic dance music, it's calm, serene, uncluttered and defiantly warm.
As on previous efforts, the settings are inviting and sumptuous. Thievery Corporation understands that the sway of Brazilian rhythm is most seductive when it has room to breathe; on many of these tracks, the beats are efficient and businesslike, a mode of transport that never calls attention to itself. This allows the stone-simple melody of "Decollage," one of several tracks featuring the entrancing singer LouLou Ghelichkhani, to simply drift along as if it's floating through clouds. Other tracks, particularly the moody "Sola in Citta" (sung in Italian) and the filmic "Le Coeur" (in French), are deeply textured tone poems on the theme of sensuality; they conjure lazy afternoons in bed, or stolen moments of romance in the jet-set international enclaves of a bygone era.
Lounge exotica often devolves into cliché, but not here: Among the messages of Saudade is that the aura of classic bossa nova, circa Astrud Gilberto, shares aesthetic affinities with the pathos of Edith Piaf, the anguish of Cuban bolero, the pillow-talking maneuvers of Serge Gainsbourg — traits that, if handled with sensitivity, can be recombined and re-contextualized in illuminating ways. Where many others treat Brazilian music as a stereotype (generic beach music or foreplay accompaniment), Thievery regards it as something fundamental: a global unifier, an essence that can signify nuanced emotions whether the words are in Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish or English (all languages represented here). Brazilians talk about saudade as a mood that just comes along and takes over one's emotional landscape, with waves of cascading disappointment melting into wistful, brokenhearted reflection. It's one of those things you feel first, and ponder its component parts later. That can be extremely difficult to translate into music, but Thievery Corporation does just that on Saudade.
-Tom Moon, NPR
Track List:
1. Décollage (feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani)
2. Meu Nego (feat. Karina Zeviani)
3. Quem Me Leva (feat. Elin Melgarejo)
4. Firelight (feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani)
5. Sola In Citta (feat. Elin Melgarejo)
6. No More Disguise (feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani)
7. Saudade
8. Claridad (feat. Natalia Clavier)
9. Nos Dois (feat. Karina Zeviani)
10. Le Ceour (feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani)
11. Para Sempre (feat. Elin Melgarejo)
12. Bateau Rouge (feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani
13. Depth Of My Soul (feat. Shana Halligan)
Barrack's Row Entertainment Group File for Chapter 11, Hawk n' Dove included.
Legendary Capitol Hill Bar Hawk ‘n’ Dove Files for Bankruptcy
Legendary Capitol Hill Bar Hawk ‘n’ Dove Files for Bankruptcy
The owner of a handful of popular Washington D.C. bars and restaurants—including legendary Capitol Hill watering hole Hawk ‘n’ Dove—filed for bankruptcy protection Friday.
Baltimore-based Barrack’s Row Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Washington D.C., putting eating spots like Hawk ‘n’ Dove, Senart’s Oyster House and The Chesapeake Room into protection with it.
Barrack’s Row, which is owned by a group of investors, said it has between $1 million and $10 million in debt. The company’s bankruptcy lawyer couldn’t be reached after 5 p.m. on Friday, and Manager Richard Cervera who signed the bankruptcy petition couldn’t be reached at two of the restaurants.
It’s unclear what prompted the filing, but given D.C.’s high journalist-per-capita ratio, we expect the details won’t be secret for long.
Here’s what we do know from court papers: the company said it picked bankruptcy lawyers to help it negotiate borrowing agreements and to access cash that would be otherwise unavailable without Chapter 11 protection.
Hiring bankruptcy lawyers “will allow the [companies] to reorganize their affairs with as little disruption to their ordinary course of business as possible,” the company said in court papers.
The investors also put into bankruptcy the yet-to-be opened Willie’s Brew and ‘Que, a barbeque-themed sports bar in the historic Boilermaker building. The other restaurants that filed are Park Tavern, Boxcar Tavern, Lola’s Barracks Bar & Grill, Molly Malone’s and Pacifico Cantina.
As D.C. Hill staffers know, Hawk ‘n’ Dove was closed for an eternity for renovations. But even after it reopened, the Washington Post said in an article last year that bar was still searching for an identity:
Even stranger, months after reopening the Hawk & Dove as an upscale sports bar, Richard Cervera apparently decided to hire a fine-dining chef who would perform the gastronomic equivalent of a Hail Mary pass: Convert the burger-and-wings crowd into foie gras eaters.
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-BANKB-19536
Kardashian/Jenner Plan to Ruin Magazines, First Vogue Now: Kris Jenner 'planning naked Playboy photoshoot'
While her daughter Kim Kardashian is causing all sorts of drama with her Vogue covershoot - it seems the self-proclaimed Queen of F****** Everything has masterminded something of her own.
The immaculate (yet slightly weathered) 58-year-old Kris Jenner is "in the best shape of her life," so is naturally negotiating with Playboy to get NAKED for the iconic magazine.
A source told heat: "Kris has been talking about posing for Playboy magazine for a while now. She's in the best shape of her life and is keen to show it off.
"The bikini shot she posted on Instagram recently was well received that she's said, 'Why not?'"
The article in the latest issue of heat quotes a Playboy spokesperson: "We never comment one way or the other about these types of rumours."
But the momager wouldn't be the first in the Kardashian clan to grace the illustrious Playboy pages alongside the glamorous Bunnies.
Kim, 33, glammed up the magazine in 2007 after Kris persuaded her to do it.
"They might never ask you again. Do it and you'll have these beautiful pictures to look at when you're my age," she told Kim at the time.
VIA Daily Mail
Ken Forsse, the creator of Teddy Ruxpin has passed (80's me weeps)
Ken Forsse, the creator of Teddy Ruxpin, Husband, Father, former Disney Imagineer and Animator, Dreamer, and Friend - passed away peacefully and without pain on Thursday, March 20th, 2014 at his home in Southern California at age 77.
Ken had a remarkable life and career, and I hope to post an official statement from his family soon, as well as memories from his friends and colleagues. This website in general will grow into a tribute to Ken and his life's work.
Below, I have posted my own tribute to Ken. We had a unique and remarkable friendship that spanned the final 15 years of his life, and I will be forever grateful to have known him and will miss him just as long. Please keep his family, friends and fellow Alchemists in your prayers during this difficult time.
Grainy VHS footage exists of the moment my friendship with Ken Forsse began – over a decade before he’d know my name or I could pronounce his. I usually give it a spin every Christmas. It’s good for a chuckle at the expense of the 1986 adults of the family (the hair and the clothes) but otherwise I don’t really need it to time travel the way I do with other home movies. My first encounter with Teddy Ruxpin is an indelible memory.
Like most other almost three year olds during Reagan’s second term, I had Teddy at the #1 spot on my Christmas list. The commercials advertised the technological advances this toy featured, and that would’ve been marketing enough – but there was something much deeper about Teddy’s aura, an innocence and wonder, visible even in thirty second advertisements, that made him the thing I couldn’t live without.
Santa Clause – donning the same glasses and NAVY tattoo as my Grandpa – delivered. In the middle of a pile of gifts waiting to be unwrapped, Teddy’s eyes glowed magically with Christmas light reflection as he asked if we could be friends. The man or woman who came up with Teddy’s slogan – A Friend for Life Comes To Life – described that moment aptly.
Over the next several years, as promised at the beginning of The Airship story – Teddy and I had lots of good times together. In what was at times a difficult childhood, Teddy allowed me to escape to a world of happiness and adventure. The good guys were altruistic and loyal friends. Bad guys were known for exactly what they were, and at the end of the day didn’t win. Ken’s characters had passion and held convictions, cared for one another, and genuinely fell in love. Other than my family and spiritual beliefs, there is no greater influence on my life, how I view the world, and how I wish it could be – than his creations.
From a young age I wanted to be a part of something as meaningful to others as Teddy was to me, and Ken became my hero. I knew very little about him and as the years rolled by into the age of the Internet, I began trying to find out more information about Ken and Teddy’s history. In the summer of 1998, I taught myself enough coding skills to make a passable website and what is now called Teddy Ruxpin Online was created in hopes of finding out more information and meeting fellow fans.
Teddy’s theme song talks about good dreams coming true, and mine certainly did. About a year into the production of the website, I was contacted by Mr. & Mrs. Forsse and began a correspondence that lasted three years. When we were able to meet in person in 2002, I found that my friendship with Ken had really begun when I was befriended by Teddy. Teddy’s virtues were described by the six crystals that were the centerpiece of his story. Imagination, Trust, Bravery, Honesty, Friendship and Freedom. These were all qualities Ken manifested, some even more so than his fictional creations. The transition from acquaintanceship to friendship was seamless because the first time we sat down together and talked, Ken seemed like an old friend. In a situation rivaled only by a couple others I can think of – Steve Whitmire writing a fan letter to Jim Henson and then becoming the voice of Kermit the Frog, for instance – I found the person I believed in for all these years also believed in me. Ken encouraged me with a doubtless spirit and esteem much higher than I held for myself. I’ve yet to accomplish anything worth the faith Ken had in me, but I know if I’m ever able to I will owe much of it to him. His life, the way he lived it and it’s accomplishments made my own infinitely better.
I tried for years to aptly tell Ken this – and one of the moments I’ll always cherish most from our friendship was the time I was finally able to. In 2011 while sitting across from him at a BBQ restaurant, (me inhaling my ribs, Ken taking his in the way he did everything in life, more slowly with enjoyment, and likely thinking of an invention that would make them taste even better) I told him how much Teddy meant to me, how much his friendship meant to me, and how I wouldn’t be the same person without him. He humbly responded that it validated his life’s work to know that was true.
Teddy became a sensation because Ken was an innovator. He became a friend for life because of Ken’s creativity, heart, leadership and eye for choosing other talented people of the same spirit to help him dream his dream. Ken will forever be my friend and hero because he honestly lived the golden rule, and held to the values of Freedom, Imagination, Trust, Bravery, Honesty and Friendship not only in fiction but also in reality. He lived his passions, dreamed, created, loved and allowed himself to be loved in return – and found a partner of tantamount treasure in his wife and partner Jan. I can only dream my life will be half as well lived.
Josh Isaacson
The sequester grounded the aerial team, which is now flying high
Are the Suburbs Making People Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck?
Most people living paycheck-to-paycheck aren't actually poor. They make a decent amount, and they have a decent amount of wealth.
And, believe it or not, this makes sense.
Now, you might expect that people without any liquid savings like cash or checking accounts wouldn't have any illiquid savings like housing or retirement accounts, either. Basically, that everyone follows Suze Orman's advice, and builds up an eight month emergency fund before putting any money into investments.
But a new Brookings paper shows that this isn't the world that we live in. The researchers found that about 33 percent of households have very few liquid savings, but, of those, about 66 percent have at least $50,000 in illiquid savings. In other words, someone living "hand-to-mouth," as the authors put it, is twice as likely to be middle class as poor. And, as you can see below, that's been true throughout the past 25 years.
So who are these wealthy cash-poor people? Well, they tend to be older, married, and better-paid. You can see some of this in the chart below. Most poor hand-to-mouth people (the red line) are younger, peaking around 22 years old and then falling rapidly from there. But most wealthy hand-to-mouth people (the blue line) are in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. It's a U-shaped distribution: there aren't many young people who are wealthy and cash-poor, it goes up as people hit middle age, and then it falls as people get to retirement.
This shouldn't be too much of a mystery. Imagine a couple that's getting ready to have kids, and wants to buy a house near good schools. Well, that's expensive. As Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi pointed out in The Two Income Trap, buying a house in a school district you can't really afford is one of the biggest causes of bankruptcies. Couples can only afford the mortgage with both their salaries, so they'll get in trouble if either of them loses their job.
But even if everything goes right, they'll still be cash-poor for a long time. They'll probably have to use most of their savings on the down payment, and use a big part of their income on the mortgage payments. In other words, the wealthy hand-to-mouth are parents overextending themselves to get their kids into the best schools possible in our de facto private system.
This has big policy implications. For one, school vouchers might be a good idea to cut the link between housing and education. That could keep so many people from becoming cash-poor and wealthy—a precarious thing—in the first place. For another, it tells us that we shouldn't phase out tax cuts quite so much when we're doing stimulus. Economists typically think that richer people are less likely to spend, say, a tax rebate, because they have fewer things they need to spend on. But that's not true for the wealthy hand-to-mouth. They're almost as likely to spend as poor households.
In any case, it's a frightening reminder that there's nothing riskier nowadays than trying to live a middle class lifestyle.
Tasteless? Bavaria Radler Commercial w/Tupac, Elvis & Kurt Cobain
18 Famous Literary First Lines Perfectly Paired With Rap Lyrics
Are you an aspiring rap lyricist? Have I got the tool for you! RapPad is a site where you can compose your raps with the help of rhyme lookups, syllable counters, and a library of beats. It also puts you in touch with a community for discussion, feedback, and online rap battles.
But even if you’re not planning on writing raps, it offers a unique kind of linguistic fun. With the “Generate Line” feature, you can give RapPad a line, and it will write the next line for you by pulling from a library of successful rap songs. I entered a bunch of famous first lines from literature, and got RapPad to give me back some gems. Are they literature? Are they rap? Let’s call it raperature. Or maybe literatrap? Anyway, here are 18 literary first lines paired with rap lyrics.
1. Ernest Hemingway/Wale
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff
With an impending mixtape that only seems like a myth
(The Old Man and The Sea and “New Soul”)
2. William Butler Yeats/Run-D.M.C.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
I won’t stop rockin’ till I retire
(“The Second Coming” and “King of Rock”)
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge/J. Cole
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Pay dues like a hair salon
(“Kubla Khan”and “The Last Stretch”)
4. Founding fathers/Earl Sweatshirt
We hold these truths to be self-evident
Say hi to the Ritalin regiment
(“Declaration of Independence” and “Pigions”)
5. Gertrude Stein/Cam’ron
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Sorta like drano...you know how the game goes
(“Sacred Emily” and “Spend the Night”)
6. Jane Austen/Black Cobain
It is a truth universally acknowledged
That a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
I’m in your head like a mnemonic device
(Pride and Prejudice and “Busy Now”)
7. Leo Tolstoy/Cam’ron
All happy families are alike
Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
Drinking sake on a Suzuki, we in Osaka Bay
(Anna Karenina and “Down and Out”)
8. George Orwell/Kendrick Lamar
It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
And if you hard then wreck your car and walk up to my crime scene
(1984 and “Ignorance is Bliss”)
9. Robert Frost/2Pac
Whose woods these are I think I know
Creep with me through that immortal flow
(“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Thug Passion”)
10. Virginia Woolf/Wale
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself
Fall in love with defeat, throw my endeavors on the shelf
(Mrs. Dalloway and “The Artistic Integrity”)
11. Allen Ginsberg/2Pac
I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
See me and hope I'm intoxicated or slightly faded
(“Howl” and “Ain’t Hard 2 Find”)
12. Emily Dickinson/Wale
Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me
In the face of adversity, I prepared a verse to see
(“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “DC or Nothing”)
13. William Shakespeare/J. Cole
If music be the food of love, play on
At dinner with Hov, hoping that he pass the baton
(Twelfth Night and “Beautiful Bliss”)
14. Dylan Thomas/Ace Hood
Do not go gentle into that good night
Tell by your handbag that boy don't do you right
(“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and “Body 2 Body”)
15. Charles Dickens/Schoolboy Q
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Daylight saving times all the time on this block of mines
(A Tale of Two Cities and “Live Again”)
16. Lewis Carroll/Kendrick Lamar
Twas brillig and the slythy toves
Wayne told me that, and that's just how it goes
(“Jabberwocky” and “Michael Jordan”)
17. William Blake/Lil Wayne
Tyger tyger burning bright, in the forests of the night
I’m off the hook like cordless phones, my identity so right
(“The Tyger” and “My Weezy”)
18. Walt Whitman/Big Sean
O captain, my captain, our fearful trip is done
Rolling in more green than a hole in one
(“Oh Captain! My Captain!” and “Life Should Go On”)
Via Mental Floss
Wu-Tang Clan to Release 1 Copy of Secretly Recorded Album
'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' will be locked in an engraved vault created in the Moroccan mountains
While the fate of Wu-Tang Clan's 20th anniversary album A Better Tomorrow hangs in limbo, RZA just revealed the hip hop collective recorded an entirely different double-album that's ready to meet the world.
That is, if the world is willing to pay.
Over the last few years, Wu-Tang Clan secretly recorded 31 songs for the 128-minute album Once Upon a Time In Shaolin. Wu-Tang mad genius RZA recently revealed the album's existence to Forbes and his diabolical plan to release only one copy of it. Ever.
“We’re about to sell an album like nobody else sold it before,” RZA told Forbes. "We’re about to put out a piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of music. We’re making a single-sale collector’s item. This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king.”
Befitting its one-of-a-kind status, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin won't come in a jewel case or cardboard sleeve. The album will be housed in an engraved box (pictured above) that was handcrafted at the foot of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains.
Given its mythic backstory and the fact that it could go for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, we're voting Quentin Tarantino as the person most-likely to purchase this hip hop Holy Grail.
As for those of us accustomed to paying approximately a dollar per song, there's a much cheaper option for at least hearing Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The musical tome will tour museums and galleries across the country as a piece of priceless art, with venues charging $30-50 for admission and permitting each ticket holder one listen to the two-hour LP.
"One leak of this thing nullifies the entire concept," said producer Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougar, who oversaw most of this new album. So expect TSA-style security checks at any venue housing Once Upon a Time in Shaolin to prevent pirates from leaking the album.
As for what happens when the sole physical copy of the album sells, well, that's anybody's guess what's next. Will the buyer hide it away forever, generously share it with the world or just use it as a hipster bragging point for the rest of their life?
VIA Fuse
“It’s like the quest to create a new smartphone, but in food”Nom Nom
Remember the cake pop?
In 2006, you probably thought it was a passing fancy, a faddish combination of cake and lollipop that had quickly disappeared into the netherworld of baby-shower catering. In fact, it was a canary in a coal mine for the far more powerful Cronut, a croissant-doughnut hybrid that, a year after its birth in a SoHo bakery, still draws a line of more than a hundred people every day and sells out by 10 a.m.
The Internet-driven fame of the Cronut has galvanized bakers and pastry chefs in other cities to replicate it; versions have been spotted in Scandinavia, Australia and Taiwan. Cynics (and the busy lawyers for Dominique Ansel, the pastry chef who trademarked the name internationally) see in this a flood of copycat get-rich-quick schemes.
But like major shifts in art, technology or fashion, it also represents an outpouring of creative energy that could change the genre forever. Smart bakers are abandoning the croissant-doughnut formula and examining their own pastry cases with a speculative eye. The race to invent the next big thing in hybrid desserts is on, and it is fierce.
“It’s like the quest to create a new smartphone, but in food,” said Mr. Ansel, who stands in for Steve Jobs in this simile. And the dozens of bakers who are busy inventing doissants, mallomacs, crookies and the like are app developers, locked in a fight to create the best new product for the platform.
“We started working on the cragel as soon as we heard about the Cronut,” said Jenny Puente, a co-owner of House of Bagels in San Francisco. In order to create a true hybrid, Ms. Puente spent a year working out the logistics of entwining the flaky pastry of a croissant with the chewy dough of a bagel, then boiling the result, as a true bagel must be boiled before being baked.
Many of the new hybrids seem slapped together and less than appetizing, like the scronut, an icing-slathered scone doughnut spotted at the Cheese Emporium in Greenport, N.Y. Like the man-beasts created in “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” they are not likely to survive for long in the real world. Others are more intriguing and within reach of the home cook; many were even invented in the years B.C. — Before Cronut.
Here are some of the most promising:
Scone/muffin
The scuffin, sold at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco and online by the owners of Frog Hollow farm, has a stout, sconelike dough formed in a muffin shape and a shot of fruit preserves in the center.
Mallomar/macaron
The mallomac, a French-style macaron from Dana’s Bakery in New York, presses a brown sugar meringue cookie against a marshmallow, sealed together in a chocolate shell.
Rice Krispie Treat/ice cream pop
Spotted at the all-Rice-Krispie-Treat boutique Treat House on the Upper West Side. Vanilla ice cream is sandwiched between thin slabs of Rice Krispie Treats, the whole dipped in chocolate to form a frozen shell.
Birthday cake/truffle
A signature of the Momofuku Milk Bar chef Christina Tosi: yellow cake ground with cream cheese and rainbow sprinkles, rolled into balls and coated in cake crumbs.
Macaron/ice cream sandwich
The New York chef François Payard makes colorful rectangles of meringue and combines them with his innovative ice creams. For example, pale green pistachio meringues around pistachio ice cream swirled with bright raspberry sorbet.
Pie/milkshake
This is what happens at Hill Country Chicken in the Flatiron district when a miniature pie (like blueberry or banana) is dropped into a milkshake machine with vanilla ice cream and enough milk to blend it into a drinkable mass.
Brownie/chocolate chip cookie
The popular Brookster at Baked in Brooklyn is a like a cup of brownie batter that holds a puck of chocolate chip cookie dough, baked together so they meet but do not mix.
Pain au chocolat/almond croissant
Hervé Poussot, like other French pastry chefs, presents this combination at Almondine, his bakery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. As if dark chocolate folded in buttery pastry isn’t indulgent enough, spread it with almond paste and sprinkle on sliced almonds before baking.
Chocolate éclair/cake
This combination exists in Southern cookbooks and online recipes as a no-bake dessert made by layering graham crackers, instant vanilla pudding and canned chocolate frosting. But it begs to be rebuilt with classic éclair ingredients: layers of crisp pâte-à-choux, vanilla pastry cream and chocolate fondant or ganache.
David Sax, the author of “The Tastemakers,” a forthcoming book on food fads, said that for longevity, he would bet on the éclair cake. “Mass appeal with just the right degree of sexy,” he said. “It’s a classy thing and an everyday thing, French meets American, all rolled into one.”
VIA NYTIMES
Daft Punk Releases Awesome Vintage Posters Inspired by the Disco Era
Daft Punk's helmeted personas and high-tech stage designs makes them seem like a band of the future, but for a new ad campaign, they're looking back to their disco roots. For a rollout of new merch, Daft Punk has created posters that stir up memories of '70s dance floors.
The retro posters are part of an ad campaign for Daft Punk's newly released T-shirts, belt buckles, and canvas tote bags. The posters include the duo's lyrics, along with cheesy slogans, and vintage graphics. Even though they look a lot cooler than some of the clothing, only one poster is for sale, the "Lose Yourself to the Dance Floor" one, which mimics the cover of a '70s action film. Groovy, baby.
VIA Complex
The J Dilla "Still Shinning" Documentary
Here Are The 14 Most SHOCKING Drug-Related Transformations I’ve Ever Seen. This Is Disturbing.
Not even once.” That’s the phrase that will come to mind after you see this drastic “before and after drugs” photos, brought to you by Rehabs. These photos chart the lives of different individuals who decided to embrace a life of drugs and crime. From their first arrest to their last, both their lives and their bodies were destroyed by drugs.
It’s hard to believe that people could be okay with doing this to their body. Seeing this may make you sick.
http://www.viralnova.com/faces-of-meth-reboot/
The Uber of Dry Cleaning / Fluff & Fold - Theres an App for that
Neato. Any Joodlum reader try this ?
http://www.getwashio.com/
Putin Probably Killed his Lover
Zurich| Iouri Michaelevitch, a former personnal assistant of the Russian President, was found dead last monday in his swiss appartment after some of the neighbors complained about the smell emanating from the residence. According to the city’s police departmnent, many clues collected on the site suggest that he might have been the victim of an elaborate murder plot.
“The police forces have only been able to proceed to preliminary analysis before we spotted a source of radiations on the scene and had to call a decontamination team” explains Sven Munger of the Zurich Police Department.”We can confirm that the radioactive agent is a very rare russian product named TCDD Dioxin. The clues we have collected are insufficient to pronounce a definitive conclusion, but the complexity of the of plot we have exposed greatly reduces the number of suspects.”
The victim had attracted a lot of attention from the Russian government and media in 2011 when he had written a book entitled “Я был любовник Путина” (“I was Putin’s Lover“), which was taken off the shelves before the official release, after a presidential decree. A warrant demanding the arrest of the author was also issued across Russia, leading him to file a demand of political asylum from the helvetic state.
Many sources also claim that Mr Michaelevitch had dinner with an attaché of the Russian embassy five days before his body was found, a case strangely similar to that of the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in 1999.
Via worldnewsdailyreport.com
Is Kanye West a vampire? The Internet has more fun w/ April Fools Vogue
April Fools Vogue Cover keeps giving and giving.....
Is Kanye West a vampire? The Twitterverse certainly thinks so. BuzzFeed editor Katherine Miller was one of the first to notice that a photo from Vogue’s spread on West, Kim Kardashian and baby North seemed to show that the rapper has no reflection.
n the photo, Kardashian and her baby are standing in front of a mirror taking a selfie with her iPhone. West stands in front of them, taking another photo of the pair with his iPad. The problem is, the entire family seems to vanish in the mirror. It’s plausible that Kardashian is blocking her own reflection, but then what happened to West, and what’s more, the photographer?
Moreover, as many eagle-eyed commenters on Jezebel pointed out, the photo on West’s iPad doesn’t even match the angle from where he’s standing, and it’s unlikely the photo of the screen would be that sharp. It’s clear that there has been some heavy photo-editing on the photo, which led a few users on Twitter to make their own amendments.
Via Metro
Johnny Cash's great-niece found fatally stabbed, stuffed in box
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The great-niece of the late singer Johnny Cash has been found stabbed to death and stuffed in a box in a house, authorities in Tennessee said Thursday.
Putnam County Sheriff David Andrews said Courtney Cash's body was found Wednesday morning in a home near Cookeville, about 70 miles east of Nashville.
Cash's body was found in a chest just inside the front door, Andrews said. A man identified as William Austin Johnson, Cash's boyfriend, was being treated for stab wounds at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Andrews said.
Andrews said the pair had gone out with a friend before an altercation took place in the house where Johnson and Cash lived with their young child. The friend, identified as Wayne Gary Masciarella, has been charged with first-degree murder.
Johnson escaped the attack and took the child with him before driving to the hospital, Andrews said. The scene inside the house was "somewhat bloody," Andrews told reporters at a news conference.
"There was a struggle," the sheriff said.
The suspect may have been trying to hide Cash's body, Andrews said. A motive was not released, but Andrews indicated the stabbings were likely connected to drugs.
"This is a senseless, tragic death of a young lady whose life was probably taken as a direct or indirect result of drugs," Andrews said.
Johnny Cash's brother, Tommy Cash, released a statement asking for prayers for the family after the loss of his granddaughter.
"We are completely heartbroken," the statement said.
Masciarella is being held without bond. He has a court date scheduled for April 21. Officials in Putnam County said they do not know if he has a lawyer.
The Family Tree of DOGS
Have you ever wondered how tiny chihuahua can be related to a rottweiler or a pit bull terrier can be similar to a dalmatian?
One artist has created a dog family tree that highlights the diversity of dogs and how breeds are interconnected.
From terriers to toys and mountain dogs to sight hounds, it delineates almost every standard pure-breed dog so you can see how one canine is connected to another.
For example, the chart shows that a chihuahua – the smallest breed of dog that heralds from Mexico – can be easily linked to rottweilers, which are popularly known to make good – and sometimes ferocious – guard dogs.
According to the chart, chihuahuas are part of the toy group and are closely related to toy pinchers, which are in turn linked to pinchers and then common guard dogs such as the rotweiller.
In the similar way, the giant saint bernard is related to the little pug via the working dogs group, then common guard dogs group, followed by the pincher and toy pincer groups, which then link to the 'toy' dogs of which the pug is a member.
It might seem incredible that dogs with such different visible characteristics – from their size to their type of hair – can be so different, but it is because all dogs are members of the same species – Canis lupus familiaris.
Their genetic code is relatively simple compared to other species and is therefore easily adaptable as drastic changes - such as the type of hair or ears – is controlled by a single genetic variation.
The family tree makes it easy to see which dogs belong to the same ‘family’ groups. For instance, groups of dogs such as setters, pointers, spaniels and retrievers belong to the ‘sporting dogs’ group, as well as individual breeds including the vizsla and wirehaired pointing griffon.
Dalmatians are relatively closely related to a number of unlikely breeds. According to the chart, the spotty dogs are closely linked to the diminutive French bulldog and candy-floss like bichon frise.
The ‘diagram of dogs’ is for sale as a limited edition print and Pop Chart Lab, the company selling it, said: ‘Dog lovers of every preference are sure to spot their favourite canine compadre in this pedigreed presentation of man's best friends - a taxonomical treat that's best in show.’
According to a study published earlier this year, dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 11,000 and 34,000 years ago
U.S. scientists said that part of the genetic overlap observed between some modern dogs and wolves is the result of interbreeding after dog domestication and not a direct line of descent from one group of wolves.
They believe their research reflects a more complicated history than the popular story that early farmers adopted a few docile, friendly wolves that later became our modern canine companions.
Instead, the earliest dogs may have first lived among hunter-gatherer societies and adapted to agricultural life later, according to the study.
Researchers from the University of Chicago said that dogs are more closely related to each other than to wolves, regardless of geographic origin as they do not descend from a single line of wolves.
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Falling Records by Tori Ori Ori
Obsessed by the analog machines of the past, Japanese musician Ei Wada mastered the craft of tweaking the sounds from old tape recorders. He performed wild shows with the Open Reel Ensemble, from the stage of TEDxTokyo to last year’s Issey Miyake catwalk, creating unique sounds from analog sources.
The artist recreated the analog magic for the visitors of last month’s Media Arts Festival in his work Toki Ori Ori Nasu. With their wheels slowly turning, 4 old-fashioned recorders poured their tapes into narrow glass containers, creating ever-changing twisted shapes. Once the tapes came to an end, the spectators were in for a surprising musical treat
Among the elaborate high-tech installations of the festival, this surprisingly simple tribute to analog media resonated well with the audience. The tape patterns mesmerized those who came near the work, and crowds rushed to the recorders as soon as the tapes rewinded. We can thank Ai Wada for showing us that after decades of use – and years of abandon – old media still has surprises in store for us.
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