15.3.09

Daito Manabe is a Tokyo musician/artist who's work explores how audience and musician interact with music. Here, he's wired four of his friends with electric stimulation pads, so their faces are controlled by his music.

23.1.09

Pas de deux by Norman McLaren, - NFB

The National Film Board of Canada has begun the process of putting their catalogue online. I could go the easy route with this, and post the Log Driver's Waltz, but instead I'm going to show you one of the most beautiful things ever put to film. Made in 1968 by Norman McLaren, here's Pas de Deux:

The Amazing Lyrebird: The Unseen Footage

A clip from the deleted scenes special feature of David Attenborough's The Life of Birds

21.1.09

Internet Archive: Details: This Is Hormel

Click the happy gentleman below to view one of the most disturbing G-Rated videos on the internet. It's a tour of the one building no sane family would want to tour: the Hormel Plant, home of fine canned meat products.

It's half an hour, but it will give you an "exciting and educational" "new awareness of meat processing". Highlights include: the processed meat vats, the cow skinning, and the dead looks on the employees faces.

20.1.09

Where can I find my own Chris McMillian?

Bartender Chris McMillian prepares a traditional Mint Julep while reciting Joshua Soule Smith's loving ode to the drink, written over 100 years ago.



I'm afraid he's among the last of his breed - bartender as craftsman.

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Would my armpit hair ever grow ??( I am almost 17)?

Sometimes it Feels Like I'm Nothing More Than a Team of 5 German Puppeteers, You Know?

Do Not Hug This Man:



From the aptly named Everything Is Terrible, which you should all be reading anyway.

19.1.09