1. Listen to the birds
That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar
Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.
3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn't shake, eat another piece of bread.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
inmate Mike McCormick created sculptures like the one above while incarcerated, with whatever materials he was able to muster in his environment
see more
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Lost Bruce Lee Interview
Bruce Lee "The Lost Interview" 1971 - Be like water my friend - Pierre Berton Show from Maximilian on Vimeo.
its really interesting to hear one mans philosophies said with such conviction that makes you see the truth in it
Monday, February 21, 2011
Rye Rye/DJ Sega project - RYEOT POWRR
working on the dj sega interview has made me a fan of his style, the way this cut up is nice
the entire project is available for download at maddecent
Orgasm, Inc.
Documentary about the "discovery" of female sexual dysfunction and the subsequent efforts to cash in.
looks interesting, so far no screenings in the DC area but heres the list:
Orgasm, Inc. Screenings
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
False News does it again
Fox News gets caught superimposing audio reaction from a 2010 event onto a 2011 event. Even if this is by accident... Come on.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
amazing song Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
this video is so spectacularly disgraceful that i had to cut it out haha
calligraphy
maybe its the music,
maybe its the delicacy and precision of each stroke,
maybe its that every mark on the paper looks instantly perfect -- but this is absolutely captivating
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
most interesting youtube comment ive ever read
"cause there is no such thing as "better" music. there are just different sounds that exist either physically or in our minds, and each of these sounds has a different emotional effect on us. The music that becomes popular has an emotional effect that a large group of people value, but no emotion is intrinsically better than another, just different.I would call a musical genius someone who has great control over the conception of their music, whether it becomes popular or not"
-youTube user TheMrAlwaysRight
-youTube user TheMrAlwaysRight
The latest episodes of Casual
Bye Bye Mubarak
Bye Bye Mubarak from Ramy Rizkallah on Vimeo.
"Feb. 11th 2011. For the first time in 7000 years or more, egyptians peacfully were able to overthrow their Dictator. No one in Egypt could've imagined this happening. I shot this 20 minutes after the VP announced the president's departure, people are chanting that the army and the people are one hand and the army closed the road to help people celebrate.
I just witnessed history."
shot by Egyptian filmmaker Ramy Rizkallah
Monday, February 14, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
josephine baker
Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Nicknamed the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and even the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations.
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture and to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down),[3] for assisting the French Resistance during World War II and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
via wikipedia
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
king and princess
“One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
Monday, February 7, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
out of tragedy - hope
At first glance you would guess that this is some sort of mass/prayer. And you'd be right... almost.
In Alexandria, Egypt, on New Year's Eve, a Coptic Christian Church was attacked by a suicide bomber.
On Christmas (which for many sects outside of Catholic/Protestant occurs after New Year's), there was no attack. Instead, Egyptian Muslims showed up to the Christmas masses and candlelight vigils across the country by the thousands, their presence serving as a human shield to further Islamic extremist attack.
"We either live together, or we die together." This was a slogan coined by Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon credited with birthing the idea of the act of Egyptian solidarity.
What we have in this picture are muslims praying at a protest in Egypt. Surrounding them are Christans, hands linked, returning the favor.
This is literally the most inspiring thing I have seen in a while. Art is cool and everything, but I'm all about the coexistince of the human race, and events as of late have really increased Muslim/Christian tensions and it sucks. I worry sometimes, being that there's no arguing, reasoning, or convincing, of a religious extremist, and as anyone in the United States can see, THESE are the people who represent the majority in the media. So glad to see an image like this one. This should be all over fucking CNN, MSN, and FOX.
Well, it might be. I wouldn't know.
via boingboing
Thursday, February 3, 2011
teen's passionate speech on same sex marriage
Zach Wahls is a 19-year-old college student from Iowa. Here is his message to the House Committee stating his position regarding a vote on the legality of gay marriage
Asmaa Mahfouz
This a vlog from Egypt, a call to arms by a young lady. Its possible that this video going viral served as a strong inspiration to the people of Egypt to spark the uprising. look in her eyes, she's serious.
26-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz of Egypt recorded this video on January 18th, uploaded it to YouTube, and shared it on her Facebook. Within days, the video went viral within Egypt and beyond.
"Whoever says women shouldn't go to the protests because they will get beaten, let him have some honor and manhood and come with me on January 25th" she says in the video, "They don't even have to go to Tahrir Square, just go anywhere and say it: that we are free human beings."
And she condemns the couch potatoes and armchair internet activists, in no uncertain terms.
"Sitting home and just following us on news or on Facebook leads to our humiliation -- it leads to my humiliation!," she says in the video.
"If you have honor and dignity as a man, come and protect me, and other girls in the protest. if you stay home, you deserve what's being done to you, and you will be guilty before your nation and your people. Go down to the street, send SMSes, post it on the internet, make people aware."
The video is popularly credited with helping inspire fellow Egyptians by the thousands to participate in protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, calling for an end of the 30-year authoritarian rule of Hosni Mubarak. The video is also credited with helping to inspire the Egyptian government to block Facebook. Whether it's accurate to credit this one video, and this one young woman, with all of that, I'll leave to activists in Egypt who know the history better than I. But at the very least, her powerful video captures the spirit of an important moment in history.
via boing boing
mother chimpanzee reacting to the death of her infant
this is really sad, but eerily human... it almost looks like she's in denial
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
lets play a game
Think about all the arguments you've had with people. What are they over? Is it about which team is better? Is it about whether or not they said or did something offensive? What was the outcome? Was it productive? Or was it a waste of breath, a reason to attack? Did anyone listen? Did anyone learn? Did it sharpen thought or deteriorate it?
Whatever the answer, are you cool with it?
Are you efforts directed correctly or are your concerns misplaced? Just some questions floating around in my head.
"This is a cold war, you better know what you're fighting for."
- janelle monae, cold war
Whatever the answer, are you cool with it?
Are you efforts directed correctly or are your concerns misplaced? Just some questions floating around in my head.
"This is a cold war, you better know what you're fighting for."
- janelle monae, cold war
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Disney's Imagineers Soundworks
bringing childhood to adulthood. fantasy to reality
Soundworks Collection: Walt Disney Imagineers from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
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