i'm not dumping links so much as recycling them

[rone]

divisadero embedded a preview to possibly the greatest videogame-based movie of all time.

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Remember Liquid Television?  sanspoof linked to something that reminds me heavily of the best parts from that show.  As far as LTV goes, one short that always stuck with me was "The Running Man" (part 1/part 2); the haunting music in the final minute remained imperfectly in my memory, so that when i first heard Michael Hedges's "Spare Change", i thought it was the music they used in the cartoon (it isn't).  Although there isn't a performance of "Spare Change" on YouTube, there is a huge amount of Michael Hedges content there, and, well, thank god for YouTube, because now i've seen Michael Hedges play.  Unless you know tronpublic, you've probably never seen anyone play guitar the way Hedges plays "Silent Anticipations".

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Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor.  He does amazing stuff.

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Via warrenelliscom, a levitating, powered lightbulb.  Thank you, Nikola Tesla, wherever you are.

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"It took my 8-year-old son just a few seconds to shake loose some hidden history from within the official transcript of the [Coalition Provisional Authority]."  Thank you, Microsoft Word.

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"Just think about your options.  You know Coach isn't going to give you back your scholarship just like that.  If she finds out [that you're pregnant] and if you decide to keep it, that's gone."

Comments

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

. . . the athlete said the fear of losing her scholarship played a large role in her decision to have a second abortion."

I would have thought fear of losing her scholarship would play a large role in her decision TO USE BIRTH CONTROL.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's hard to be sympathetic when that second unwanted pregnancy rolls around. But it's all a sad tale, of poor decisions made by young women aggravated by a total lack of sympathy from the adults that are supposed to be guiding them.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines, like, that "like" should be forcefully removed from her vocaubulary, like.

[tronpublic.livejournal.com]

Great, I was just about to head out and explore Singapore. Now I'm stuck in the hotel room checking if I'm playing Hedges tunes correctly.

In case anyone is interested, here are some particularly cool examples of his work:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=29CMRsWlDt0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xLD0pxflAM8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xoiL1OdOa3c
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aYSyf0r7Wjw

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm watching him play and i still don't know how he's playing half the notes he's playing. It's like watching a magician doing sleight of hand.

[tronpublic.livejournal.com]

The annoying part is, it doesn't end with learning how he "plays" the notes. There's also the matter of how he _stops_ the notes. Hedges was very concerned with making sure that a given note does not ring beyond it's intended length. Off the top of my head, the last few measures of "Layover" are a good example. Notice how clean it is? He does this with ALL of his songs. When I play his tunes, I don't do the string damping. That's where my obsession ends.

Usually

[notr.livejournal.com]

when you talk about someone playing a smokin' guitar, it's metaphorical.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

I saw "The Running Man" with some friends and after gaping in amazement, we just said to each other, "Don't race with the dead."

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Hashiru Otoko was first in a compilation movie called "The Labyrinth Tales/ Meikyuu Monogatari". (Its release in the US is called NeoTokyo.) I can't find the name of the composer for that particular short film-- the other two films have credited music.
I THINK have an old copy of the original Japanese movie-- I've been meaning to get a VHS player for a bit, being a research nerd for you might be the impetus I need.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia knows all. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Tokyo_%28film%29)

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia knows SOME. I'm hesitant to claim that Yoshino did the music for the whole set of movies because they were created by three different directors. I only know for SURE that Yoshino did the music for The Order to Stop Construction. The first story, Labyrinth/Labyrintos, is set to Gymnopedie, by Satie. Yoshino may have played the piano piece but he sure didn't compose it. Hence my saying that I'd watch it and find out.

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

AIE WHY DOES EVERYONE BUT ME KNOW ABOUT THEO JANSEN AIEEEE

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I HID IT IN A POST WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER CRAP JUST SO YOU'D MISS IT HA HA

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

OH YOU ESS EL BASTARDO!