January 2012
65 posts
President John Tyler's grandsons are still alive!! →
kottke.org
As Kottke points out, the two exclamation points are perfectly appropriate in this case, because wow.
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“But for years the true identity of the artist Banksy has been a closely guarded secret, known to just a handful of friends. Now a Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the artist is former public schoolboy Robin Gunningham.”
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Banksy uncovered: The nice middle-class boy who ‘became the graffiti guerrilla’ | Mail Online (via photographsonthebrain)
» Mark says: “Compelling” is a stretch, at least based on the article photographsonthebrain linked to. This one fleshes things out pretty well, but I’m still not sold.
I think “Exit Through the Gift Shop” was a brilliant hoax on Banksy’s part, and if he could pull that off, he’s probably capable of engineering the kind of evidence the Mail has found.
Crazy On You
Heart
Heart| “Crazy On You”
Best Heart song ever. Perfect balance of the pretty and the rock. Also, two excellent but completely different guitar parts.
I saw Heart when I was 19, and this was the second song they played (they did “Bebe le Strange” first, because that was the title song of the album they were supporting). The stage was completely dark while Nancy played her finger-picking intro. She mixed it up enough that it took us a few seconds to realize what song she was playing, but when we figured it out, we predictably went nuts.
As the finger picking ended and she started the aggressive strumming part, they hit her with a white spotlight from directly above. That remains one of the best concert moments I’ve ever experienced.
“Robert Frank made, what, 28,000 photographs for ‘The Americans’”? says Jim Leisy, a fine art photographer, book publisher and head of the Portland Art Museum’s volunteer-based photography council. “But he edited all of that down to 83. That’s what separates good from great, the professional from the amateur. The great ones are also editors. They are willing not to cling to a photograph.”
—Robert Frank and photography: Art in the age of image overload | OregonLive.com (via photographsonthebrain)
"The Washington Post is joining several other media organizations, including the Guardian and NPR, to encourage a one-day crowdsourcing solution for those left searching for answers: #altwiki. That’s basically it. Ask a question on Twitter with the hashtag #altwiki, and we’ll ask our readers to help provide an answer." →
washingtonpost.com
Genius idea. A great way for news organizations, who need to stay objective in this case, to get involved in the Great Blackout.
