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Rick Veitch’s Soul
02.04.2010
03:52 pm
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Arthur magazine spotted this on the blog of Rick Veitch, one of the best artists in weird comics. Rick Veitch did some of the best issues of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing in the 80s, taking on the art duties after Steve Bisette and John Totleben. He later took on the writing duties as well after Moore left, and became a one-man tank churning out monthly issues of the best horror comic at DC. As far as I know those issues have never been collected, but they’re amazing. Anyway, Mr. Veitch just saw his soul in a dream:

Over the last couple weeks I’ve found myself in a number on conversations with different people about the nature of the soul. The soul is one of those subjects that everyone has an opinion of but nobody really knows what the darn thing is or even if it really exists. Interestingly, I had a dream the other night in which I saw my soul! It was basically a globe with lots of geometric shapes attached that was constantly changing at a rapid rate. I’ve made a quick little black and white animation that kind of gets it across. In the dream there was an ever-changing riot of pattern and color on each of the geometric shapes. Maybe at some point I’ll do a color version of this to make it complete…

(Arthur: The Soul of Rick Veitch)

(Rick Veitch: Can’t Get No)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.04.2010
03:52 pm
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Presenting The Amazingly Lifelike L. Ron Hubbard
02.04.2010
02:42 pm
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He’s slept with bandits in Mongolia, and he’s hunted with pygmies in the Philippines!  New to YouTube, and new to these eyes, here’s what purports to be Foghorn Leghorn‘s the Bare Faced Messiah‘s only filmed interview.  Hypnotic.  Boring.  Creepy.  These are just a few of the many adjectives watching it might trigger.  And questions…

Is the father of Scientology‘s face made of wax?  Is someone—or something—else controlling his lips?  What’s with his Peter Cook-resembling acolyte interrogator?  Discuss!  Part I follows, with, below it, links to the entire interview (In Part IV, Hubbard claims turning Scientologist can boost your IQ).

 
LRH Part: II, III, IV, V, VI

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.04.2010
02:42 pm
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New Footage Of The ‘86 Challenger Explosion
02.04.2010
02:35 pm
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Just over 24 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida’s Atlantic Coast.  Some newly discovered footage of that tragedy, filmed from a Florida driveway by optometrist Jack Moss, follows below:

The four-minute film, shot at Moss’ second home in Winter Haven, Fla., might have remained stuffed away in a basement box, lost among the many 8-millimeter tapes he filmed of his family over the years. But shortly before the 88-year-old Moss died in December, he donated the tape to the Space Exploration Archive, a non-profit, educational organization in Louisville.

It’s not slick or polished, which makes it all the more a chilling, poignant snapshot of a tragedy, Marc Wessels, the archive’s executive director, said Thursday on the 24th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. The explosion killed the shuttle’s seven crew members, including science teacher Christa McAuliffe who had been chosen by NASA to become the first civilian in space.

 
Late Optometrist’s Video Offers Rare View Of Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

(via TDB)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.04.2010
02:35 pm
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Pirates And Al Qaeda, Now BFF?
02.04.2010
02:01 pm
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As Foreign Policy reports, it’s entirely possible.  Already overrun with Islamic militias claiming links to al Qaeda, Somalia must also protect its coastline from the piracy that impedes the delivery of needed food and aid.  Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Stephen Musyok, though, is now of the mindset that the two scourges are connected:

“Piracy is another issue which I think has a direct link with these extremist militant groups.”  It’s an odd idea at first.  Al Shabaab has built its image on the harsh brand of Sharia that they hope to impose, and during the Islamic Courts government earlier this decade (of which al Shabaab was a part), piracy was banned.

Not anymore.  Last December, a Canadian intelligence report indicated that Shabaab was in fact training pirates for their “duties.”  Further reporting from Jane’s (summarized here) notes how taxes are levied on the pirates’ booties.  Yes, the pirates and the Islamists are definitely in cahoots.

One way they know that both are getting worse?  “n Nairobi today, property prices today are still rising, and we think this has a direct link with the piracy.” In other words, all those wealthy pirates are buying up fancy homes. And they’ve got a lot of cash to spend.

 

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.04.2010
02:01 pm
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MASTERS OF THE EXTENDED GUITAR, PART TWO: DEREK BAILEY
02.04.2010
01:28 pm
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The late, great Derek Bailey was the Grandaddy of all extended guitarists. It’s safe to say that he completely re-invented the instrument and succeeded in getting up the noses of jazz snobs everywhere (check the pathetic comments) with his seemingly random, atonal approach. But listen carefully and discover an entirely personal and fluid vocabulary utterly removed from convention.

 
Here’s a stellar trio recording with his fellow free-improv giants, Evan Parker and Han Bennink :

 
And finally, here’s the man himself describing his approach far better than any lousy critic ever could.

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds : Masters of the Extended Guitar, Part One: Fred Frith

Posted by Brad Laner
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02.04.2010
01:28 pm
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Augmented (Hyper)Reality
02.04.2010
12:03 pm
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From Keiichi Matsuda:

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.

A film produced for my final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.

Posted by Tara McGinley
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02.04.2010
12:03 pm
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Prayer Vs. Action
02.04.2010
11:35 am
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(via J-Walk Blog)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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02.04.2010
11:35 am
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Lydia Lunch and Wiseblood at the Cat Club, NYC
02.04.2010
12:04 am
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I keep stumbling upon videos on YouTube of things, events, shows where I was actually present, like the Warhol book signing or various parties. It’s odd to have a memory of something, and then one day being able to see that event replay before your eyes. Here’s another: this is what I believe was the onstage debut of Wiseblood, a project of Clint Ruin a/k/a JG Thirlwell, Foetus, etc; and Roli Mosimann (ex-Swans) at the Cat Club in New York City on July 6th 1986.  I think they only did two songs, the stage covered with dry ice smoke and a chair Thirlwell tossed around. It was one of the single most thrilling, spectacular and violent moments of live rock and roll I ever witnessed. When you watch the clip turn it up WAY LOUD.
 
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It had been a super hot Fourth of July weekend that year and a friend of mine wanted to totally freak out his friends who had come into town from Pittsburgh and he trusted that I would know where to take them. So I took them to this show. I wasn’t even 21 at the time, but they never carded you back then in New York. It wasn’t just Wiseblood, although they closed the show, it was also the premiere of Fingered, the notorious underground film made by Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern. Fingered absolutely blew their minds, and then Lydia herself, who the audience had just seen anally violated with a loaded gun on film(!) came out and did one of her patented Lydia Lunch confrontational theater of cruelty raps and this, I think, scared the living shit out of them. I must have seen Lydia perform fifteen times in the late 80s and 90s and to get the full enjoyment—yer money’s worth, let’s say—you have to be in the front row, receiving the full malevolent force of her nihilistic sermon. We were right up front, I made sure of it! These poor guys from Pittsburgh probably thought they were going to die that night.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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02.04.2010
12:04 am
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Woman Charged With Selling Goth Kittens
02.03.2010
10:26 pm
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Pennsylvania dog groomer Holly Crawford, 35, went on trial yesterday for selling online for “hundreds of dollars” cats with pierced ears.  According to Melinda Merck, an animal cruelty investigator and veterinarian, the piercings not only damaged the cats’ hearing, but they hampered as well their sense of jumping and balance.  Not to mention dignity!

Gothic Kittens: Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty For Selling Pierced Cats Online

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.03.2010
10:26 pm
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Easy Reading With Morgan Freeman
02.03.2010
08:33 pm
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He may have just secured his fifth Academy Award nomination for playing Nelson Mandela in Invictus, but Morgan Freeman will always be Easy Reader to me!  Will educational television ever be this groovy again?  As one YouTube commenter notes, the irony here is that in the span of 20-plus years, Freeman went from playing the hippest reader on TV to the illiterate Hoke of Driving Miss Daisy.

 
(via YBNBY)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.03.2010
08:33 pm
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