December 2011
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Croatia, Exposed
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A single, long exposure captured these star trails above a remarkably colorful sea of clouds. As seen from Medvednica mountain, the surrounding peaks and lights illuminating the clouds from below are north of Zagreb, Croatia. Near the center of the also colorful star trail arcs, the North Celestial Pole is off the upper right edge of the frame. Even though this is the age of the...
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Who
http://nofaction.tumblr.com/who
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The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence →
The third in a trilogy that also includes House Of Balloons and Thursday. This one dropped a week ago, and if you missed it you can download by clicking the headline
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“A B-Boy’s Alpha”
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Oozing Sun
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The Sun’s surface keeps changing. The above movie shows how the Sun’s surface oozes during a single hour. The Sun’s photosphere has thousands of bumps called granules and usually a few dark depressions called sunspots. The above time-lapse movie centered on Sunspot 875 was taken in 2006 by the Vacuum Tower Telescope in the Canary Islands of Spain...
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Azealia Banks - “Liquorice”
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Goat Boy Rises
prostheticknowledge:
Happy Birthday Bill Hicks
The comedian would have been 50 today.
If you are in the US, you can watch a very good documentary on Hulu about him here
If you’re into Hicks and haven’t read it yet, you should check out Love All The People, a collection of his routines and interviews and writings
Syd’s voice at 42 seconds
brought me to Badu
brought me to J. Cole
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Watering Holes 0.1
OpenSecrets
the Center for Responsive Politics was founded in 1983 by US Senators Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Hugh Scott (R-Pennsylvania). the website was launched in 1996, and you can read more about it here and here
in short, this site tracks the influence of money on US politics, and how that money affects policy and peoples’ lives
the list of 2012 US presidential hopefuls is...
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The Tip
The History of Tipping—as in, leaving a tip at a restaurant. Not as painfully boring as it sounds.
Where does tipping come from?
Some say the term comes from English pubs in the 18th Century. It’s said that urns were displayed with the label “To Insure Promptitude”, in which patrons could place their money for better service.
Giving money to servants for better...
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(Appropriate Headline For Strange News)
OnlineGamblingPal.com bought a piece of Michael Jackson’s hair for $10,871. They plan on turning the hair into a “one-off roulette ball,” with the hope that it will travel throughout the casino circuit. Read the quote below and go here to read about it in full….
Indeed, considering Jackson dedicated his life to entertaining millions, the prospect of this very special ball captivating crowds at...
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Dirty Ghosts - "Shout It In" (Aesop Rock Remix)
Dirty Ghosts is a San Fran group fronted by Aesop Rock’s wife, Allyson Baker. The band will drop its debut, Metal Moon (co-produced by Aes), in February 2012. Below’s the video for the original “Shout It In”
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Two Different Songs!
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The Shining Path
RJD2 & Phonte
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Yuck, this beat is sick
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Watering Holes
When I mentioned the Art Crimes website here yesterday, I started thinking about other great resources for people researching Whatever to pull information from. I’m sure I’ll post about these sites again, but here are a few if you’re bored and sick of Stumbling:
Index On Censorship
a UK organization originally founded as a magazine in 1972, this site updates frequently with...
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Ty Segall - "Where Your Head Goes"
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“Life In A Glass House”
Radiohead
Amnesiac
2001
Speaking of this album, “Like Spinning Plates” and “You And Whose Army?” are the only two songs used in the 2010 Canadian movie, Incendies, which is excellent and very heavy
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Graffiti Tehran
I almost forget about this website—artcrimes.com, a huge fucking resource documenting graffiti and sketches from all over the world
Here is a piece by Iranian artist A1one:
Purple Naked Ladies →
friscotsc:
site’s up :)
You should check it out. The microwave
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"My rap name is Kool A.D., but my slave name is...
Ring the alarm, it’s the wolf in sheep’s garments
I’m Cheech Marin at the Chicano art opening sponsored by Target
Chancletas on the red carpet, faux Marxist
Throw me in the tar pit, La Brea like
My way plus the highway, Kamehameha like
The whole game lame, players stay alike
Whack, dumb, stupid-I could be all three, plus I could lay the pipe
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Grouper - "Alien Observer"
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Sea Oak by George Saunders →
An awesome short story. Horribly depressing but hilarious. Here’s a paragraph for taste—click the headline for the rest
JOYSTICKS REOPENS ON FRIDAY. It’s a madhouse. They’ve got the fog on. A bridge club offers me fifteen bucks to oil-wrestle Mel Turner. So I oil-wrestle Mel Turner. They offer me twenty bucks to feed them chicken wings from my hand. So I feed them ...
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Tiers
Ann Powers wrote a small piece about the title track from Drake’s Take Care. It’s mostly about the song’s roots—pretty quick, interesting read. In it she notes:
“I’ll Take Care Of You” was written by Brook Benton, a talented singer and writer, who apparently never recorded it
The song is first known to have been recorded by Bobby “Blue” Bland...
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undun →
re-up
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micolm:
incredible.
She’s right
This...