screw Daft Punk!

Jonzun Crew FTW!

Void Vision - Cyber People

best song ever? close..

Phillip Glass for Sesame Street

Kids (and adults alike) really dig this:

COMPOBOY

how amazing is this???
toy robot, made entirely of 80's hi fi, reel to reel, etc...

The Prefab Messiahs

check out this groooovvvyyy song from the prefab messiahs bout battling satan (when satan was really evil back in '83):

The Prefab Messiahs

Dust to Digital

Dust-to-Digital was started in February 1999 by Lance Ledbetter, a radio disc jockey at WRAS — the student-run voice of Georgia State University. Having been recently introduced to vintage 78 rpm records by the reissue of the Anthology of American Folk Music in 1997, Ledbetter decided to set out on a search for rare gospel recordings.

Four and a half years later, Goodbye, Babylon was released. The six CD box set was accompanied by a 200 page book and hand-packed with raw cotton in a wooden box. The response from music fans around the world was astounding, and Dust-to-Digital followed up the gospel set with Where Will You Be Christmas Day? in 2004.

Dust-to-Digital's mission is to produce high quality cultural artifacts, which combine rare, essential recordings with historic images and detailed texts describing the artists and their works.



Dust to Digital

Disco Rick is creepy

check this

Dancing Duck Man

Check out Dancing Duck Man n help his quest in entertaining the world's poorest children.

Dancing Duck Man

His Name is Alive, "Are We Still Married", video by Brothers Quay

Edward Bernays--Father of Public Relations

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."-Edward Bernays, Propaganda

http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/spin/bernays1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

"A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed "engineering of consent." During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would "Make the World Safe for Democracy." The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.

Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses."

Entoptic Graphomania

Entoptic Graphomania is a surrealist and automatic method of drawing in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots. The method was invented by Dolfi Trost, a Romanian surrealist, in his book "Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques" in 1945.

Project for New American Century

Project for New American Century is a Neoconservative think tank, formed in 1997, whose members include such notable spearheads of the Bush administration such as Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. Their mission statement already announced the idea of America with "a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities."
It also introduces the idea of preemptive war "...it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire."
Many suggestions put forward to President Clinton at the time were largely left without implementation. These ideas had sinister consequences as their authors went on to become the subsequent president's elite officials.
Conspiracy theorists can look into their published report/manifesto for the new century ("Rebuilding America's Defenses", released September 2000) as it states the requirement for America to transform its national security strategy, military missions, and defense budgets, also experiment with new technologies, which would require a massive financial strain. They also understood the difficulty of gaining such consent, unless...
"Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor."
Project for New American Century

National Library of Belarus

in Minsk

Racism - LOLz galore

Check this article bout Dr James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his contribution in the discovery of the structure of DNA, said in an interview to the Sunday Times:
"The 79-year-old geneticist said he was 'inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa' because 'all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really.'. He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that 'people who have to deal with black employees find this not true'."
Amazing.
But what's more amazing was as I was ready to join the universal response of ridicule to this deeply racist claim I soon found out that the response was hardly universal. check out the comments left on this article:
Black People "less intelligent" scientist claims
here's one gem:
"It is quite possible that black people aren't as intelligent than us. But have you ever seen them dance ? Whenever I see their happy smiling faces with their big white teeth and hear their jovial singsong voices, I really wonder. OK, maybe statistically we are more intelligent, but they seem quite unconcerned about it.
Major Eric Coombes, Tunbridge Wells, England"

80 blocks from Tiffany's

A documentary on late 70's New York gangs, directed by Gary Weis, focusing on the Savage Nomads and the Savage Skulls who were the last remains of the infamous South Bronx gangs. It's an interesting insight into uptown New York before the general gentrification, and it's an intimate look at a sub-culture(?) that became widely caricatured by films such as The Warriors, and other such stereotypes. It still feels exploitative (despite arguments of the contrary) but definitely worth looking into.

here's the first 15 minutes: