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I was at MerleFest this weekend listening to Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Alison Kraus, etc.
When it got dark someone started selling these glowing juggling balls with an RGB LED inside that quickly strobed through all three colors, creating the illusion of constant white light. The effect of this was when you moved or tossed the ball around the white light’s persistence deteriorated, creating a cool rainbow ghosting trail.
While still in pre-production, the KeyPort is designed to collect all your keys into one compact unit. You can make copies of your original keys on special blanks and program the built in wireless remote for your car. Other features include RFID and an LED flashlight.
You probably definitely want to check the full size version. I wish I knew
who the artist was, where it’s located, etc. — all those really
interesting/useless things us monkeys like to keep track of.
“Awww, pat me on my back and call me shorty.”
Tis the season for music festivals. AT&T is broadcasting live video from this year’s Coachella in Indio, California starting this Friday, the 27th of April and ending on Sunday the 29th.
The acts this year read like a hall of fame: Björk, DJ Shadow, Rufus Wainwright, Nickel Creek, Of Montreal, Amy Winehouse, The Noisettes, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire, Ghostface Killah, CocoRosie, The Roots, Damien Rice, Infected Mushroom, Lily Allen, Mika … I don’t know, a lot.
Still touring for her album Ys, now somewhere in the UK, Joanna Newsom released an EP with her acoustic band this Tuesday (the 24th of April) with one new song and two pulled in from the past and reworked.
“They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.”
I’ve not read much of Vonnegut’s work myself — only bits and pieces here and there. In the wake of his passing, bits of his quoted wisdom have flooded our consciousness, though none thus far have been presented as well for me as in this recent article from The A.V. Club.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
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OK so maybe it’s only a few feet wide but the idea is there. Max speed: 125 mph (200 kmph) and it looks like some kind of stealth ninja fish. I smell the future
Just when you thought Hubble was down for the count (and it is, still, sadly) — scientists celebrate the 17th anniversary of the telescope’s launch and deployment with one of the largest panoramic images ever taken using the HST’s cameras. The above images are snapshots from a massive (read: 29566×14321 pixels) image spanning 50 light-years across, of a region in the Carina Nebula where, as the press release says, “a maelstrom of star birth — and death — is taking place”.
“These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 - a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.”
Today (Monday, the 23rd of April), NASA is releasing the first high-resolution 3D images of the sun from the STEREO spacecraft. The images will appear on their website and at museums & science centers around the world (not very many locations). More information @ NASA, including where to get 3D glasses and exhibition locations.
Kristen is cuter than I am really prepared to handle. And her sketch/series “Princess of Pets” with Kurt Braunohler is hilarious.
Really beautiful idea — I’d love to see it in person.
“Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom.”
“The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.”
I didn’t even know we were training horses to dance, much less they could perform like this. The clip is from the 2006 World Equestrian Games Grand Prix Freestyle Dressage, featuring the horse known in human tongue as Blue Hors Matine and his/her(?) rider Andreas Helgstrand.
Starring Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and a baby.
Feist’s newest album, The Reminder, comes out May 1st in the US and Canada, and April 23rd everywhere else.
Formed in 2003, the band consists of English blues-born guitarist Dan Smith, Zimbabwe-bred singer/bassist (and latent aspiring circus performer) Shingai Shoniwa and veteran rock drummer Jamie Morrison.
A National Geographic study reveals the distribution of single men and women around the country. Blue and red represent an excess of single men and women respectively. It’s middle school all over again — the boys grouping up on one side of the continent and the girls on the other.
This is the kind of thing that, in several years given more advanced animation, more interesting music, and a more generous budget, could become mind-blowingly cool. Not that it isn’t already cool but I’m thinking more along the scale of Fantasia 2010.
The fourth volume of the collaborative Flight comic book is scheduled for release on July 10th. In the meantime, check out this recently published 57-page preview and interview with Kazu Kibuishi, Flight editor and artist behind Copper.
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