Grandinite

Work. What is work? You go to this place, do stuff with other people who are doing similar stuff, and you get to go home each day. Then, every two weeks, these digits appear in electronic form, either on your atm screen or your computer screen. 0’s and 1’s – [...]

“Dumbo”

Evidence is an 8 minute 35mm film authored by Godfrey Reggio, during his term as director of Fabrica – a new school founded by Benetton – and a student collaborator, Angela Melitopulos. the film was shot in Rome during March 1995 and edited by Miroslav Janek, a collaborator of Fabrica, with music by composer Philip [...]

For every photo I post on Facebook of my little girl, there may a database somewhere storing that information. It’s as though something is exploiting my very human need to share information, but collecting the data. For what reason, who knows. I have not completely thought out the future implications. Sometimes I feel as though [...]

themostimportantvideoyoumayeverwatchreally from prettydamnnotbad on Vimeo.

It’s pretty clear the Media Punditocracy doesn’t like people who question the efficacy and safety of vaccines:
Katzenjammer: What we need is a vaccine against pseudo-science
Colby Cosh: Swine flu and the new “weird-ists”
Christie Blatchford Flu-shot skeptics weave a Web of lies
It’s like some sort of Public Health McCarthyism is emerging. One can’t have questions and [...]

It is somewhat sobering and sad to think that, some time in the future, I may look back on the present times as “The Good Old Days”, when everything was somehow better, neighborhoods safer, streets cleaner, the economy more sound, the standard of living higher, when people were more polite and considerate, and teenagers more [...]

I’m blogging about media today, and there’s a development I’m noticing on YouTube, and that’s the genre of the Holy Ghost Remix video. It’s basically a mashup of old church videos from Penecostal churches and hardcore Drum n Bass music. Drum n Praise. It all started with THIS one, from YouTube user, Si1verF0x. Baptazia/Airloaf has [...]

This is actually a pretty damn good song.
But what the heck is an Eminence Front?
The outward appearance of high status.
Basically, a Calgarian.

Augmented Reality combines aspects of reality with digitally-generated real-time graphics. It’s years ahead of what AT&T envisioned with its “You Will” series of ads from the 90’s.
The following is a video of Robert Cooper, Creative Director at GE, fooling around with the technology that’s been implemented on the GE ‘Smart Grid’ website.
A little [...]

I’m sick of blogging doom. Here’s some media.
Kutiman is on MySpace. I’m not going to tell you much about him, because I sure as hell don’t know enough to give a comprehensive low-down.
CLICK HERE FOR THE GOODS.
Track #4 has to be the most insane D&B inspired track I have heard in [...]

This past weekend was spent figuring out how to hook up my brand new WDTV to watch documentaries from google on my tv instead of computer monitor.
I managed to download Michael Tsarion’s Architects of Control from google video to my external hard drive, and the picture quality was surprisingly good on the tv. This [...]

I’ve covered enough politics and economics over the past while.
It’s time to enjoy some media.
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Original)
Redone by:
MGMT – nicely done
Arcade Fire – okay
Pride of Arizona Marching Band
Euforquestra – true to the original
Matt Eliar – on the piano, it’s beautiful
String Cheese Incident
Chris & Jim’s Acoustic [...]

Between taking cracks at underpriveledged schoolchildren and ramping up the doom talk in an effort to pass more debt onto taxpayers, the New Boss sure as hell looks a lot like the old one:
Washington Times:
From crisis to catastrophe. Off a cliff. Dark, darker, darkest. Mortal danger of absolute collapse. Armageddon.
President Obama and top [...]

This just came in to Albertablogs.com.
It’s a couple from Red Deer who have taken a year off to document Canada.
http://celebratecanada.wordpress.com/

Well, a commenter pointed it out to me, so it’s really an anointing by another’s hand.
The comment came in on THIS post, in which I delve into the use of snowclones for making original cliche-sounding headlines and blog titles.
Tim writes:
I just wanted to let you know you are the only person on the internet who [...]

I love tilt-shift photography.
I love tilt-shift video even more.
Multnomah Falls in Miniature from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.
Sweet mother of Moses, Vimeo is amazing.

There’s a story that first broke on the Army Times website regarding the recent deployment of troops on American soil. I decided to have another look at their site tonight, and was pleased to see that not only was the article a feature, but it also had a forum thread dedicated to discussion of the [...]

Time lapsed, tilt-shift video.

It’s time for some human beatboxing. This is just a collection of videos.
Unreal. Roxorloops. France. 2007. Belgium, 2008.

Yuri Hane. Harmonica & Beatbox. This one’s even better.
Kenny Muhammad’s Wind Technique

Eklips. Roxorloops, ZeDe, Blady Kris.
Rahzel’s Iron man (classic). If your mother only knew. Tutorial.

Blogrolling.com has been hacked. While the hack page is down, I managed to get this to show up in a google search. The blogrolling.com hypertext was replaced by Islami cihad, which is obviously Islamic Jihad.
Someone just did a major job on the blogosphere. It’s like erasing people’s contacts list in their cel phones and forcing [...]