Centripetal Notion

VIDEO (via FecalFace)
ARTICLE [The Dot and the Line] (Wikipedia)

Thursday 17 May, 2007 at 12:45 am
Animation + Geometry + Math
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There’s a ton more where that came from, hit up electro^plankton. She’s using an Audiopad and a JazzMutant Lemur in these performances, two bleeding edge pieces of audio hardware.

LINK/VIDEOS [Björk @ Coachella] (electro^plankton)

Previously: Björk Announces Volta, Due May 7th / Live Webcast from Coachella 2007 / Touching Music (Audiopad & Lemur)

Tuesday 15 May, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Music + Performance
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LINK/IMAGES [Jantzen's website]

Sunday 13 May, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Architecture + Art/Design + Environment + Technology
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Play-by-play pictures from a couple’s visit to L’Enclume, the restaurant home to world-famous chef Simon Rogan and his cutting edge molecular gastronomy (read: playing chemist/physisict with food).

From their 24-course meal, the items pictured above are, top to bottom:

“Greek meatball and textureless tzatziki” was utterly brilliant. (…) A fabulous juicy kofte meatball, with tzatziki foam. (…)

“Beef rib, watermelon, liquorice, and perilla.” It was a giant clash of techniques that had been showcased earlier. One little fillet was resting on diced watermelon, while the other was resting on a powder that was made from a mix of a rich beef stock reduction and liquorice. As a final show-off move, it was topped with a bone marrow gel. (…)

“Charentais melon, horseradish, smoke”. It’s an elaborate inversion of the expected ingredients. The green ball is not melon, but actually a perfect sphere of horseradish cream, with a crisp coat, similar to a chocolate truffle with a liquid centre. It was floating in melon juice/foam, dressed with drops of red salmon oil.

LINK/IMAGES [play-by-play] (via Kottke)
LINK/IMAGES [restaurant website, more info + pictures]
ARTICLE [molecular gastronomy] (Wikipedia)

Saturday 12 May, 2007 at 10:45 am
Chemistry + Food + Photography + Physics + Science
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LINK/IMAGES [big gallery] (Dark Roasted Blend)
LINK/IMAGES [Vladimir's website]

Friday 11 May, 2007 at 9:49 am
Art/Design + Illustration + Painting
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Earth’s troposphere is carbonated!

VIDEO (YouTube via That’s How It Happened)
ARTICLE [gravity wave] (Wikipedia)

Friday 11 May, 2007 at 8:19 am
Environment + Physics + Science
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Kecak (pronounced: “KEH-chahk” …), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting “cak”, and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where monkeys help Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.

Wikipedia

The clip above is from the 1992 film Baraka.

VIDEO [above clip, from Baraka] (YouTube)
VIDEO [another good clip] (YouTube)
ARTICLE [Kecak] (Wikipedia)

Friday 11 May, 2007 at 4:48 am
Culture + Music + Performance + World
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image credit: Chris Doerr

If this track is anything like the rest of his upcoming album, Finding Forever, then I’m all over it. Common’s 7th studio release will feature Kanye West who also did a majority of the production along with the late J Dilla, Dwele, Lily Allen (what up girl?!), Bilal and D’Angelo. Comes out the 10th of July so heads up.

AUDIO [Common: Finding Forever - "The People"] (via Duncan)
ARTICLE ["Common - Finding Forever Preview"] (HM)

Wednesday 9 May, 2007 at 7:29 am
Music + Performance
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Probably the most poignant interview I’ve seen with John Stewart — this time on Bill Moyers Journal — discussing the role of the Daily Show, Stewart’s opinions on the war, and offering a few props to the political blogosphere.

[The war] hasn’t affected us here in the way that you would imagine a five-year-war would affect a country. (…)

The president says we’re in the fight for our way of life — this is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. (…) Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children’s children all suffer — “so what I’m going to do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad.” So there’s a disconnect there between — you’re telling me this is the fight of our generation, and you’re telling me you’re going to increase troop strength by 10% — and that’s going to do it. I’m sure what he’d like to do is send 400,000 more troops there but he can’t because he doesn’t have ‘em. And the way to get that would be to institute a draft, and the minute you do that, suddenly the country’s not so damn busy anymore. And then they really fight back, and then the whole thing falls apart.

So they have a really delicate balance to walk between keeping us relatively fearful, but not so fearful that we stop what we’re doing and really examine how it is that they’ve been waging this.

VIDEOS (via 3quarksdaily)

Sunday 6 May, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Internet + Life + Politics + World
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image credit: Daniel Ross

Boston.com estimates the total cost of the War in Iraq at around $456 billion. What could we have bought instead? Among other things:

According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.

At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world’s poor for five and a half years.

LINK ["What does $456 billion buy?"] (Boston.com via Popular Doctrine)

Sunday 6 May, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Economics + Life + Politics + World
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