August 2008
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Israeli girls in the army
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled...
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Rock Out For Free With Frets On Fire →
Frets on Fire is a free and open source game for Windows, Mac and Linux that comes with the goal of picking up your keyboard and trying to rock out just like the first guys on the keytar. Frets on Fire will definitely remind you of Guitar Hero, because the gameplay is very similar. If you have always wanted to test out the new music games, but didn’t have the cash, read on to find out how you...
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Arse - This is a word that doesn’t seem to exist in America. It basically means the same as ass, but is much ruder. It is used in phrases like “pain in the arse” (a nuisance) or I “can’t be arsed” (I can’t be bothered) or you might hear something was “a half arsed attempt” meaning that it was not done properly.
Arseholed - Drunk! Usually in...
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Draw lines and create 3D objects
Once in a while I StumbleUpon a nice little site that’s just fun (for 20 minutes or so). You can’t export anything or show it to your friends… it’s like doodling, it’s relaxing and it helps clear your thoughts.
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WatchThe Spotnicks - The Rocket Man (1962)
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WatchThis goes on my watch-list. Looks like it’s going to be a goofy action movie of sorts. And it has two huuuge names on the ‘creation team’: Will Eisner (a legend, has one of the most prestigious comic book award ceremonies named after him) and Frank Miller (famous for a lot of stuff I haven’t read because I can’t get passed his artwork).
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New Fullmetal Alchemist anime series is in the...
Despite earlier suggestions to the contrary, studio Bones will announce tomorrow that a new Fullmetal Alchemist anime series is in the works.
The official word will come via the wraparound jacket band for the 20th volume of Hiromu Arakawa’s hit manga, due out Friday in Japan.
Rumors began circulating earlier this summer about a sequel to the hit series when a list of Bones’ animation staff...
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Watchvideo by Lorcan Finnegan:
This is the second video I directed for Dublin band Sickboy. There are a few idea behind this video; two of the band members, Colm and Brian are identical twin brothers - like carbon copies of each other, which got me interested in the idea of copying and reproduction of images. I was also interested in the aesthetic of the fliers and self promotional material being...
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Tool song… i found this by accident at the...
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The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo
one new strip every Saturday.
this is how it begins
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WatchImagining the Tenth Dimension by Rob Bryanton
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Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the... →
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Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life and Death
GM: Yeah! Because it’s the obvious, isn’t it? Again, this isn’t a mystical concept, because I’m not a mystical person sometimes. I got into magic to see if it was real. If someone says, “Ok, a demon will appear if you do this spell,” I just say, “Bullshit.” So, I did this spell, and then the demon appeared. So I had to revise my vision of what the world was and how it worked. Again, that’s another element of magic for me, trying to figure out, why do these things happen—what are we doing to our nervous systems to make us believe a demon has entered the room? It became to me about the actual “nuts and bolts” of it, not the fantastic thing or the mystic thing or the names of angels. I became interested in what’s actually going on.
PWCW: But you tried it out, and a demon did appear?
GM: Yeah!
PWCW: Wow.
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(interview with PW Comics Week). Read the whole interview here: http://bit.ly/QpFlh
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Radiohead contribute to Choke soundtrack
Choke is the movie adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Radiohead’s track on the score is Reckoner from the band’s latest album ‘In Rainbows’.
Other songs you’ll hear are Satan Said Dance (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!), Navy Nurse (The Fiery Furnaces), There’s Been An Accident (The Twilight Singers) and Lake Michigan...
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“Why I’d rather be an optimist than a pessimist: A pessimist can only achieve...”
– Michael Nielsen » Why I’d rather be an optimist than a pessimist
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Pulp Secret interviews Grant Morrison
I love Grant Morrison. There’s so much mythology and phylosophy in his comics. Here’s the interview that Alex from The Stack took at the San Diego ComiCon. These are the highlights:
GM’s new online series with Virgin Comics, Mahabharata
Online comics and the future of the comic book industry
A preview of the Mahabharata series
His opinion on the Batman series and the...
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socio-emotional robotics | and the cutest robot...
a robot-puppet that interacts emotionally with people.
Can you guess where my accent is from?
One of the more successful advertising strategies implemented last year. It’s a really fun game!.. Try it and tell me your score. I guessed 4 accents, and even the region for one of them.
You can also choose to contribute to the next version of the game by recording a clip of yourself reciting one of the two poems (one of witch is Daffodils by Wordsworth… aah, the memories)
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Clay Shirky: Advocate for Internet cooperation
Why you should listen to him:
Clay Shirky’s consulting focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to...
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Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing...
… I know I may have bugged you about Seth Godin numerous other times but this time I can Bug you ONLINE… His books are mostly about advertising and the marketing of ideas, what it means to be remarkable, why it’s important to choose your audience and tailor to their needs before designing a product and why disruptive marketing is less effective today than it was 40 years...
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I Don’t Need Love, I’ve Got My Band...
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iFanboy - Kirkman interview
This is a great, GREAT!, interview.
“Robert Kirkman, writer of Invincible and The Walking Dead, talks about the announcement of his appointment to partner at Image Comics, the big crossover Image United and the launch of the MTV produced Invincible animated comics.”
July 2008
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Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos →
Twenty-five people with albinism have been murdered in Tanzania since March, a BBC investigation has found.
Albinos are targeted for body parts that are used in witchcraft, and killings continue despite government efforts to stamp out the grisly practice, the BBC’s Karen Allen says.
Follow the link in the title for the full story.
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