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

[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.