July 2009
1 tag
Louvre Online Opens English Database →
Yesterday, the Louvre announced that it will make an English-language version of of its online database available on its website Lovre.Fr.. American Friends of the Louvre a distinguished group itself, provided a grant of $380,000 for the database. 22,000 works of art from the Louvre, as well as high-resolution images and the locations of works and galleries within the museum are now available.
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
TRON →
Online reports are suggesting that Daft Punk are well on their way to completing the soundtrack to the forthcoming Tron Legacy movie. Check out the new Light Cycle Reveal, which may or may not be the soundtrack from Daft Punk. Be sure to check out the Tron Legacy trailer (directed by the guy who did iSpec; the little viral site, with imaginary Space Paranoids machine is great too.
1 tag
1 tag
Associated Repress →
Parasitic Aggregators, what the fuck?! AP to crack down on article linking with impossible vaporware (related: Associated rePress, a tumblelog I just created in five minutes using the AP’s own RSS feeds) [via]
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
Charles Atlas Muscle Man →
How the original 97-pound weakling transformed himself into Charles Atlas and brought the physical fitness movement to the masses
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
1 tag
1 tag
GLAAD Panel On Homophobia In Online Communities →
GLAAD Panel On Homophobia In Online Communities A Resounding Success: One of the big issues the board tackled was the fact that unlike many words, “gay” functions as a pejorative as well as an identifier, which means issues surrounding how to handle the word are complex…Stephen Toulouse, Program Manager for Policy and Enforcement on Microsoft’s XBox LIVE spoke about how...
1 tag
3 tags
WatchTrippy Superargo Trailer, A 1960s Italian version of El Santo, equal parts skilled wrestler and secret agenet. Wears a bulletproof costume. Human technology user is in peak physical condition, allowing him to hold his breath for up to seven minutes, cause wounds to seal and blood to clot in seconds, or resist extreme cold, vulnerable to electricity. Enemies include, Diabolikus, El Tigre. Fights...
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
R.I.P. Author Frank McCourt →
Frank McCourt, author of the popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela’s Ashes,” died in Manhattan on Sunday. He was 78. I like what his brother had to say about him in the Time Magazine obituary; “What kept McCourt alive then, and would make him as a writer, was his humor and his love of words. “In reality, our life was worse than Frank wrote,” said McCourt’s...
1 tag
I’ll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground...
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
Israeli Cock Rockers Monotonix →
“You do not go to a Monotonix show to see what they play; you go to see what they do. Most of their shows begin on the floor, with the audience. Other fourth-wall crashers have their own atmospheric conceits: Electro-spazz emcee Dan Deacon sets up in the crowd and turns rooms into waggle-dancing obstacle courses of sing-alongs, monologues, and loosely scripted contests; noise-monster duo...
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
Gay is Not The New Black →
“Bars such as The Prop House, or Bulldogs in Atlanta, Georgia, exist because a large number of gay blacks — particularly those who date other blacks, and live in the black community — do not feel a part of the larger gay movement. There are Gay Pride celebrations, and then there are Black Gay Prides. There’s a popular bar in the heart of the nation’s capital that...
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
Better Vimeo Embeds on Tumblr →
“Vimeo offers plenty of customisation options when embedding its player, but Tumblr’s automated code generator doesn’t respect these, overwriting them with its own defaults. To fix this, (Matthew Buchanen) wrote a quick jQuery function to rewrite Tumblr’s default options string for all Vimeo embeds on the current page.”
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
U.K. National Portrait Gallery Threatens U.S.... →
I just had this conversation with someone regarding this topic and photographing items at a musuem. Frankly I think this article is dreadfully boring and I question the museums motives; who really has the time, and the money? Why the grab on property if the puprose is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content. It’s really just a sick and twisted...
1 tag
Ain’t Got No Home - Clarence Frogman Henry