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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Play on, sisters.

I read an interesting profile of nearly all-girl hard rock band today. The AccoLade isn’t all that interesting, musically - the lyrics are a touch cheesy and the music isn’t my taste, but the New York Times wouldn’t write up any average rock group. This band, you see, is from Jidda, Saudi Arabia. [...]

Official Monty Python YouTube Channel

Monty Python have* their own YouTube channel, and they intend to add loads of high quality video as time wears on.
HOLY SHLAMEEL THIS RULES.
Here’s a fine example:

*I felt the British pluralization was appropriate given the subject matter.

The Sea Forts

Flickr user Tim Mitchard has a photo set about the WWII-era Maunsell Sea Forts (Thanks, Mitch, for permission to use the photo above). These giant tin-cans-on-stilts were an interesting piece of the British defense system against Nazi air raids, and Mitchard has a detailed write-up about the forts and his photography of the relics.

The Price of Love

My friend Stephanie has made a habit of posting an 80s/New Wave music video every Thursday for a while now, and yesterday she posted New Order’s “World” (I’ve embedded the MTV Music version because it’s a little clearer):

New Order |MTV Music
I’m not terribly fond of the song, but the video is fantastic short-form film making. [...]

The Sky In Flames

I have some new snaps on my photostream. This latest batch is pretty motivating for me because for the first time in ages the results look exactly as I imagined them. The only edits I’ve made are the clean-up of a few obvious dust spots. The color and exposure are otherwise spot [...]

The Nerve

I witnessed a young man shoplift today.
I was at Walgreens picking up my meager lunch of Chef Boyardee because I needed some tissues. The young man, wearing his over-sized black jeans and khaki Dickies shirt, walked slowly through the back aisle of the store where I stood. While I deliberated between Oreo Cakesters [...]

Clown

Behold the birthday clown, sad and terrible (with a touch of potty humor - strictly PG, though) :
Scenes From An Unmade Movie : Job from Jason Zada on Vimeo.

Chocolate Pie Chart

This edible info graphic is spectacular. I wonder how it tastes…
(via swissmiss)

Canonet

Ladies and gentlemen, today I received what will be my final film camera for quite some time. Adding to a 35 mm SLR and a 6×6 medium format, I now have a compact 35 mm rangefinder camera - a Canonet QL 17 GIII to be exact.
This camera has a nice wide lens with a [...]

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

The State Library of New South Wales, Australia, has a Flickr account and has uploaded two dozen photos from the first “Australasian Antarctic Expedition” that ran from 1911 to 1914, led by geologist Douglas Mawson. Most of the photos are either silver gelatin prints or negatives, and several of them are quite spectacular.