http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS0Xe52mDAk
This dropped earlier this week: Domo Genesis, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples and Action Bronson all on the same track, produced by Alchemist.
I could write a thousand words about this — how Earl’s voice sounds so different now, how both Vince and Action Bronson just keep getting better and better — but you should really just listen for yourself.
From the Photos That Can’t Possibly Be Real files comes “Ambitious Dreams” by Brad Goldpaint.
During the early morning of June 17, 2012, by pure coincidence, I had an amazing opportunity to witness and photograph the Aurora Borealis over Crater Lake.
Speaking of bands who haven’t sold out and have new albums coming out in September, here’s a new Dinosaur Jr. joint — “Watch the Corners”. So amped for this.
This is a new material, “aerographite,” synthesized by scientists from Kiel University and Hamburg University of Technology. They have a press release:
A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world. It weights only 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimetre, and is therefore 75 times lighter than Styrofoam …
Despite of its low weight Aerographite is highly resilient. While lightweight materials normally withstand compression but not tension, Aerographite features both: an excellent compression and tension load. It is able to be compressed up to 95 percent and be pulled back to its original form without any damage, says professor Rainer Adelung of Kiel University.
New track “Angels” from The xx’s forthcoming sophomore effort Coexist. All Songs Considered has a nice summary of what make The xx and this track special, and I agree.
Judge Rules Nudity Can Be Constitutionally Protected as Free Speech
NIgel Duara, AP:
An Oregon man who stripped nude at Portland’s airport security to protest what he saw as invasive measures was found not guilty of indecent exposure.
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge David Rees ruled Wednesday that John Brennan’s act was one of protest and therefore, protected speech.
Try adding some nudity to your next protest to spice things up a bit!
Why Skin Color of Fictional Characters is Important
A tumblr user known only as “black-ink-on-pink”:
So I’m reading various things on tumblr, related to Legend of Korra, the portrayal and representation of dark-skinned characters in fiction, and the question that comes around is: Why is this even important?
Let me answer that for you.
There’s a lot of gold in the “Production” section of the Bambi article on Wikipedia.
Sidney Franklin, a producer and director at MGM films, purchased the film rights to Felix Salten’s novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods in 1933, intending to adapt it as a live-action film. Deciding it would be too difficult to make such a film, he sold the film rights to Walt Disney in April 1937.
I can’t possibly fathom why this wouldn’t work as a live-action film!
There was a scene involving two autumn leaves conversing and eventually dying by falling to the ground, but the artist found that talking flora didn’t work in the context of the film and instead used a visual metaphor of two realistic leaves falling to the ground.
Screenwriters what were you on, dogs. Why would that have been a good idea.
There was a scene of Bambi stepping on an ant’s nest and showing all the devastation that he caused, but it was cut for pacing reasons.
Yes, it was cut because it threw off the film’s timing. Not because an ant massacre might not be appropriate for a movie like Bambi. No siree bob.
Mistwalker’s first iOS game, “Party Wave”
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square-Enix in 2004 and formed a new studio named Mistwalker. Their first iOS game is coming out soon and it’s called… Party Wave. It’s about surfing. Okay then!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8nlZKrVi4
Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” has died. He was 74.
Babbitt died Monday of complications from brain cancer in Nashville, Tenn., where he had lived for many years, his manager David Spero said in a statement released by Universal Music, the label in which Babbitt contributed to numerous hit records.
J.I.P. (jam in peace) Bob Babbitt. Babbitt performed the bassline in Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”