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The reticent soul of Talk Talk
05.06.2010
04:38 pm
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I assume everyone here already recognizes the near-holy genius of late period Talk Talk, right ? O.K., good. Here then are both sides of the I Believe in You single (most certainly the last one they ever promoted with TV appearances) from the mighty Spirit of Eden LP (1988). An exercise in sensual ascetic reticence with brief explosions of un-checked emotion as well as a brave left turn down a dark corner for this one time shiny (but excellent) pop band. I honestly can’t express how much I truly love this music.

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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05.06.2010
04:38 pm
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Horse meat baby food and bunny pureé ?
05.06.2010
03:42 pm
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Si ! But only if you are fortunate enough to live in Italy.
 
via Jonathan Gold’s Twitter feed

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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05.06.2010
03:42 pm
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Baby has argument with himself in mirror
05.06.2010
12:21 pm
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He has a very persuasive argument don’t cha think?  Oh, and I often find myself doing this shit too.

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.06.2010
12:21 pm
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How to catch a frisbee
05.06.2010
02:30 am
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Sockless dude in white pants demonstrating frisbee catching positions. There’s something sort of magical about this photo.
 
(via Awful Library Books)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.06.2010
02:30 am
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Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: The History of White People
05.06.2010
12:16 am
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An interview with Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, the eminent American historian and retired Princeton University professor, discussing her fascinating new book The History of White People. The conversation begins with the answer to the question “What does Caucasian really mean?” As some who has been white my entire life, I admit that I didn’t know. Do you? I think many of you will find this conversation quite interesting.

READ ON
Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.06.2010
12:16 am
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If You Don’t Look Good, We Don’t Look Good: Vidal Sassoon, The Movie
05.05.2010
09:01 pm
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A new documentary about the still spry 82-year old hairdressing legend and fashion icon, Vidal Sassoon, premiered last month at the Tribeca Film Festival. Known for his asymmetric bobs and Mia Farrow’s famous cut in Rosemary’s Baby (which cost $5000!), his unorthodox styles liberated women from the beauty shop and hot rollers for good. Sassoon was the “inventor” of wash-wear hair.

British-born Sassoon was orphaned and joined the Israeli army, fighting in 1948. His revolutionary hairstyles took him to international fame and his hair care product line was sold to Procter & Gamble making him fabulously wealthy. In 2009 he was made a Commander Of The British Empire (CBE) and Sassoon performs charity work across the globe. Sassoon’s organization helped rebuild homes in New Orleans hit by Hurricane Katrina. fights anti-Semitism and offer scholarships to needy applicants to his “Harvard of hairdressing” Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, CA. Dazed Digital recently posted an interesting interview with the famed hairdresser:

The Sixties brought some amazing revolutions in fashion, from Op Art black and white to synthetic futuristic materials and sculptural silhouettes. In London, pioneering Mary Quant embodied the ethos and mood of the Swinging Sixties; in Paris, André Courréges, Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin offered in their designs the perfect synthesis between modernist forms, geometry and architecture, while Rudi Gernreich focused on futuristic designs that emphasised angular body shapes. Inspired by what was going on around him, British-born Israeli hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, set onto revolutionising hair cutting techniques with sculpturally perfect styles.

“I wanted to shape heads as the new young fashion designers were shaping bodies. I wanted to cut hair as they cut cloth. I wanted to be in on the revolution that was simmering,” Sassoon recounted in the ‘60s in his biography ‘Sorry I Kept You Waiting, Madam’. The perfect complement to the clean-cut lines of those fashion designs arrived in 1964 with the Five-Point Geometric Cut, based on perfect geometries, the Bauhaus and architecture. Its success was followed by further asymmetrical and geometric cuts, from the Greek Goddess to the Isadora, the Firefly, the Brush, the Wedge and the Beret.


Read the interview at Dazed Digital.
 
imageActress Nancy Kwan with the signature Sassoon bob she wore in the 1963 film, The Wild Affair:

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.05.2010
09:01 pm
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The Fresh Alternative© Sound of Roye’l: I Found a Girl
05.05.2010
08:54 pm
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No wonder she left him!.

UPDATE: In the comments, deighv heart says:

this is good, but its nothing compared to the citizen kane of sucking which is roye’l’s “in my world”. its awesome on so many levels.

1. the outfit: vest sans shirt, tacky print shorts, scarf around the neck, mismatched kneepads, timberland hiking boots with white athletiuc socks pulled up high, blond braids, gold dangly earrings.

2. the rapping & singing

3. the dancing.

4. the shrug when he’s finished while the song fades out.

5. the post performance interview when he concedes that he doesn’t have any gigs or dates lined up for the future.

all together one of the best bad things on the net!

Enjoy!
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.05.2010
08:54 pm
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Chewbacca hairdid
05.05.2010
08:46 pm
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05.05.2010
08:46 pm
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Which Drugs Are Best for the Environment?
05.05.2010
03:34 pm
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GOOD Magazine on the impact illegal drugs have on the environment. I’ll give you three guesses which one is best for the planet.

A Slate reader recently asked the Green Latern which illegal drug was the least harmful to the environment. If you not only care about your carbon footprint but also enjoy the occasional recreational high, you might find the Lantern’s response enlightening.

Let’s be frank: Most highs for you are kind of a downer for the planet. The conditions under which illegal drugs are produced make it impossible for the government to enforce any sort of clean manufacturing regulations, and the long-standing “War on Drugs” inflicts its own environmental damage. (Think of the RoundUp herbicide sprayed on 120,000 hectares of rural Colombia each year.) There are some ways to measure the eco-credentials of various narcotics, though. To understand how various drugs affect the environment, we need to take a close look at where each one comes from and compare the ways they’re harvested or synthesized.

Ecstasy, which is derived from the sassafras oil of endangered rainforest trees, and crystal meth, which comes from either Asian grasses or the pharmaceutical chemicals ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, are among the most environmentally damaging. Meth’s production is particularly toxic: “In California’s Central Valley, law enforcement estimates between 4 million and 7 million pounds of lab waste were poured into canals and on properties between 2000 and 2004.”

(GOOD: Which Drugs Are Best for the Environment?)

Posted by Jason Louv
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05.05.2010
03:34 pm
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The Alien Agenda: Endangered Species
05.05.2010
03:29 pm
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Believe it or not, this movie was made in 1998.

(Via Everything is Terrible)

Posted by Jason Louv
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05.05.2010
03:29 pm
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