Writers reach tentative deal with producers
A resolution would be good news for the producers. The strike, Hollywood’s longest since 1988 and one that has thrown tens of thousands of people out of work, has shut down production on dozens of television shows (including viewer favorites like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “CSI”), forcing the networks to patch together prime-time schedules with reruns and increased doses of reality shows. Movie studios have been forced to delay some of their feature film plans, including prospective blockbusters like “Angels and Demons,” the sequel to “The Da Vinci Code.”
Friday, February 15, 2008
Mike Huckabee, candidat à l'élection présidentielle
“I didn’t major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.”
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
Election Américaine : Un nombre de votant en augmentation
Obama gets convincing wins in three states
In Nebraska, The Omaha World-Herald reported that organizers at two caucus sites had been so overrun by crowds that they abandoned traditional caucusing and asked voters to drop makeshift scrap-paper ballots into a box instead. In Sarpy County, in suburban Omaha, traffic backed up on Highway 370 when thousands of voters showed up at a precinct where organizers had planned for hundreds.
In Washington, the Democratic party reported record-breaking numbers of caucusgoers, with early totals suggesting turnout would be nearly be nearly double what it was in 2004 — itself a record year — when 100,000 Democrats caucused.
In Nebraska, The Omaha World-Herald reported that organizers at two caucus sites had been so overrun by crowds that they abandoned traditional caucusing and asked voters to drop makeshift scrap-paper ballots into a box instead. In Sarpy County, in suburban Omaha, traffic backed up on Highway 370 when thousands of voters showed up at a precinct where organizers had planned for hundreds.
In Washington, the Democratic party reported record-breaking numbers of caucusgoers, with early totals suggesting turnout would be nearly be nearly double what it was in 2004 — itself a record year — when 100,000 Democrats caucused.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Mindflesh - Trailer
Mindflesh
Trailer for Cronenberg-style horror thriller, MindFlesh staring Christopher Fairbank (Aliens, Batman, Fifth Element), Lucy Liemann (Bourne Ultimatum), Peter Bramhill (Human Traffic) and introducing sexy French actress Carole Derrien.
Trailer for Cronenberg-style horror thriller, MindFlesh staring Christopher Fairbank (Aliens, Batman, Fifth Element), Lucy Liemann (Bourne Ultimatum), Peter Bramhill (Human Traffic) and introducing sexy French actress Carole Derrien.
Monday, February 11, 2008
J.G. Ballard
Interview de JG Ballard
Interview avec l'auteur de Crash, entre autre.
James Graham Ballard (born 15 November 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His best known books are the controversial Crash, and the autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, both of which have been adapted to film.
Interview avec l'auteur de Crash, entre autre.
James Graham Ballard (born 15 November 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His best known books are the controversial Crash, and the autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, both of which have been adapted to film.
Documentaire sur le lien entre la science et la science fiction
Monsters of the atomic age
26 minute documentary by Geoff Tarulli (pisscubes sur Relapse) exploring nuclear fears of the 50s and how they manifested themselves in the sci-fi movies of the time.
26 minute documentary by Geoff Tarulli (pisscubes sur Relapse) exploring nuclear fears of the 50s and how they manifested themselves in the sci-fi movies of the time.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Def Jux documentary
Un extrait d'un reportage sur le label Def Jux (el-P, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif ...) produit par la télévision allemande.
Aesop Rock - On creation
The fact that I was making music in this indie way was very much based on the fact that I didn’t want to talk to anybody. I like to create shit -- I like to stay up at night and create things and make something out of nothing so that when I wake up I have something to show for yesterday.
Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock
Friday, February 08, 2008
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Un mamifère immunisé contre l'acide
Strange creature immune to pain
Curiously, the researchers found that mole rats remained completely insensitive to acids, even with the Substance P genes. This suggests there is a fundamental difference in how their nerves respond to such pain.
"Acid acts on the capsaicin receptor and on another family of receptors called acid-sensitive ion channels," Park said. "Acid is not as specific as capsaicin. The mole rat is the only animal that shows completely no response to acid."
Scientists theorize naked mole rats evolved this insensitivity to acid due to underground living. The rodents exhale high levels of carbon dioxide, and in such tight, poorly ventilated spaces it builds up in tissues, making them more acidic. In response, the mole rats became desensitized to acid.
[...]
"We're learning which nerve fibers are important for which kinds of pain, so we'll be able to develop new strategies and targets."
Lewin added, "We really do not understand the molecular mechanism of acid sensing in humans, although it is thought to be pretty important in inflammatory pain. An animal that naturally lacks such a mechanism may help us identify what the mechanism actually is."
Curiously, the researchers found that mole rats remained completely insensitive to acids, even with the Substance P genes. This suggests there is a fundamental difference in how their nerves respond to such pain.
"Acid acts on the capsaicin receptor and on another family of receptors called acid-sensitive ion channels," Park said. "Acid is not as specific as capsaicin. The mole rat is the only animal that shows completely no response to acid."
Scientists theorize naked mole rats evolved this insensitivity to acid due to underground living. The rodents exhale high levels of carbon dioxide, and in such tight, poorly ventilated spaces it builds up in tissues, making them more acidic. In response, the mole rats became desensitized to acid.
[...]
"We're learning which nerve fibers are important for which kinds of pain, so we'll be able to develop new strategies and targets."
Lewin added, "We really do not understand the molecular mechanism of acid sensing in humans, although it is thought to be pretty important in inflammatory pain. An animal that naturally lacks such a mechanism may help us identify what the mechanism actually is."
Thursday, January 31, 2008
L'appetit sexuel : Pourquoi et comment ?
No cruise for sex drive
Biologically, researchers have determined a few areas of the brain which influence your sex drive. Structurally, our hypothalamus in the brain assists in the physical response to arousal. If you need an exact location, contact Pillasco, he will provide the brain map and Green Monkey kidney cells! Also, the amygdala, nestled toward the back of your brain, has found to have a correlation of its size to sex drive. Basically, the larger your….um….amygdala, the larger your sexual appetite! Hormones play a large part in your libido. Hormones are heavily influenced by your physical being. When you decide to skip breakfast and starve yourself, besides getting cranky, your libido decreases. Weight gain or weight loss also disrupts your hormone levels.
[...]
Such cultural pressures also affect men. The notion that any man who isn't consistently ready to fuck is lacking in the masculine department can make a man question his self-worth if he is not feeling the need for sex or would like to do more stereotypically feminine activities like cuddle, play with flowers or douche. Granted these pressures do not have as much detrimental effects on men as they do on women, however it is still important to examine how gender stereotypes can play in to sexuality and sex drive. There are a few theories that exist examining why men are obsessed with sex. They explain that because men are often socialized to only exhibit a limited amount of emotions publicly, like happiness, anger or lust, their only medium for expressing the many other emotions they experience is through sex. While this seems a little too simplistic to me, it is quite fascinating to think that one of the main reasons for the male sex drive is not because of high levels of testosterone but due to the need to express their emotions in a socially acceptable way.
Biologically, researchers have determined a few areas of the brain which influence your sex drive. Structurally, our hypothalamus in the brain assists in the physical response to arousal. If you need an exact location, contact Pillasco, he will provide the brain map and Green Monkey kidney cells! Also, the amygdala, nestled toward the back of your brain, has found to have a correlation of its size to sex drive. Basically, the larger your….um….amygdala, the larger your sexual appetite! Hormones play a large part in your libido. Hormones are heavily influenced by your physical being. When you decide to skip breakfast and starve yourself, besides getting cranky, your libido decreases. Weight gain or weight loss also disrupts your hormone levels.
[...]
Such cultural pressures also affect men. The notion that any man who isn't consistently ready to fuck is lacking in the masculine department can make a man question his self-worth if he is not feeling the need for sex or would like to do more stereotypically feminine activities like cuddle, play with flowers or douche. Granted these pressures do not have as much detrimental effects on men as they do on women, however it is still important to examine how gender stereotypes can play in to sexuality and sex drive. There are a few theories that exist examining why men are obsessed with sex. They explain that because men are often socialized to only exhibit a limited amount of emotions publicly, like happiness, anger or lust, their only medium for expressing the many other emotions they experience is through sex. While this seems a little too simplistic to me, it is quite fascinating to think that one of the main reasons for the male sex drive is not because of high levels of testosterone but due to the need to express their emotions in a socially acceptable way.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Le prix de la célébrité
Your own personal paparazzi
The trend is driven by the twin obsessions with chronicling one's life and experiencing fame. "We live in a culture where if it's not documented, it doesn't exist," says Josh Gamson, a University of San Francisco professor of sociology who studies culture and mass media. "And if you don't have people asking who you are, you're nobody." University of Pennsylvania sociologist David Grazian, who wrote On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife, calls personal paparazzi reality marketers, who make the act of being photographed more meaningful than the actual photos. "The goal isn't to produce a product," he says. "It's to heighten the experience of the event. In that sense, there doesn't even need to be any film in the camera."
The trend is driven by the twin obsessions with chronicling one's life and experiencing fame. "We live in a culture where if it's not documented, it doesn't exist," says Josh Gamson, a University of San Francisco professor of sociology who studies culture and mass media. "And if you don't have people asking who you are, you're nobody." University of Pennsylvania sociologist David Grazian, who wrote On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife, calls personal paparazzi reality marketers, who make the act of being photographed more meaningful than the actual photos. "The goal isn't to produce a product," he says. "It's to heighten the experience of the event. In that sense, there doesn't even need to be any film in the camera."
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Tom Cruise et la Scientologie
Tom Cruise explique le sens de la scientologie pour lui (youtube)
Extrait du monologue :
"We are the authorities on the mind, [...] we can rehabilitate criminals, we are hapiness, we can bring peace and unite cultures."
Extrait du monologue :
"We are the authorities on the mind, [...] we can rehabilitate criminals, we are hapiness, we can bring peace and unite cultures."
Justice ?
Dad takes law into his own hands
When the Arlington father caught his teenage stepson sexually assaulting his 8-year-old daughter late Jan. 2, the 32-year-old man did the right thing -- he called police, investigators say.
The 18-year-old was arrested by Arlington police on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. The girl was taken to the hospital where an examination revealed she'd been raped anally. And the father issued a stern warning to his wife.
"He didn't want anybody to help [the teen]," said Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, supervisor of the Fort Worth sex crimes unit, adding that the man also stated that he would hurt his stepson.
But unbeknownst to the father, police say, the man's wife posted bond for her son's release from the Arlington Jail. When the teen called home for a ride on the early afternoon of Jan. 3, his stepfather answered the phone and arrived at the jail to pick up the teen.
But the pair didn't go home, investigators say. Instead, the Arlington man reportedly drove his stepson to an abandoned house in east Fort Worth where he delivered his own brand of justice. Police say he severely beat the teen with a baseball bat, then anally raped him with a wrenchlike metal tool.
On Friday, the father turned himself in at the Tarrant County Jail on a warrant for aggravated sexual assault. He was released Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond.
When the Arlington father caught his teenage stepson sexually assaulting his 8-year-old daughter late Jan. 2, the 32-year-old man did the right thing -- he called police, investigators say.
The 18-year-old was arrested by Arlington police on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. The girl was taken to the hospital where an examination revealed she'd been raped anally. And the father issued a stern warning to his wife.
"He didn't want anybody to help [the teen]," said Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, supervisor of the Fort Worth sex crimes unit, adding that the man also stated that he would hurt his stepson.
But unbeknownst to the father, police say, the man's wife posted bond for her son's release from the Arlington Jail. When the teen called home for a ride on the early afternoon of Jan. 3, his stepfather answered the phone and arrived at the jail to pick up the teen.
But the pair didn't go home, investigators say. Instead, the Arlington man reportedly drove his stepson to an abandoned house in east Fort Worth where he delivered his own brand of justice. Police say he severely beat the teen with a baseball bat, then anally raped him with a wrenchlike metal tool.
On Friday, the father turned himself in at the Tarrant County Jail on a warrant for aggravated sexual assault. He was released Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Monday, January 07, 2008
La science en marche
Five unbelievably cool research facilities
some incredible beasts have been constructed in the name of research and below are 5 of the most immediately intriguing. there are plenty more out there which will be highlighted in the near future as i’m making this a series of sorts. let me know if you have any in mind for the next collection.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Conversation entre des "illuminés"
Rupert Sheldrac, Terrence McKenna & ralp Abraham - The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities. Through challenge and synergy they venture where few have gone before, leading their readers on an exciting journey of discovery. Their discussions focus on the evolution of the mind, the role of psychedelics, skepticism, the psychic powers of animals, the structure of time, the life of the heavens, the nature of God, and transformations of consciousness.
Chaos theory (wikipedia) : In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities. Through challenge and synergy they venture where few have gone before, leading their readers on an exciting journey of discovery. Their discussions focus on the evolution of the mind, the role of psychedelics, skepticism, the psychic powers of animals, the structure of time, the life of the heavens, the nature of God, and transformations of consciousness.
Chaos theory (wikipedia) : In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
The Amazing Screw On Head
The Amazing Screw On Head
Première épisode de la série animé d'un personnage crée par Mike Mignola (Hellboy).
Première épisode de la série animé d'un personnage crée par Mike Mignola (Hellboy).
Shynia Tsukamoto - Filmographie
Twitch - Shynia Tsukamoto
Une collection de bandes annonces de films de Shynia Tsukamoto (Testuo, Bullet Ballet ...).
Une collection de bandes annonces de films de Shynia Tsukamoto (Testuo, Bullet Ballet ...).
Friday, November 16, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Social Networking = Social Advertising
Facebook is marketing your brand preference (with your permission)
Facebook says that many of its 50 million active users already tell friends about particular products or brands they like, and the only change will be that those communications might start to carry ad messages from the companies that sell them. Facebook is letting advertisers set up their own profile pages at no charge and encouraging companies like Blockbuster, Condé Nast and Coca-Cola to share information with Facebook about the actions of Facebook members on their sites.
[...]
Facebook users will not be able to avoid these personally recommended ads if they are friends with participating people. Participation can involve joining a fan club for a brand, recommending a product or sharing information about their purchases from external Web sites.
Facebook says that many of its 50 million active users already tell friends about particular products or brands they like, and the only change will be that those communications might start to carry ad messages from the companies that sell them. Facebook is letting advertisers set up their own profile pages at no charge and encouraging companies like Blockbuster, Condé Nast and Coca-Cola to share information with Facebook about the actions of Facebook members on their sites.
[...]
Facebook users will not be able to avoid these personally recommended ads if they are friends with participating people. Participation can involve joining a fan club for a brand, recommending a product or sharing information about their purchases from external Web sites.
Sarkozy et les americains
Congress warms to France's new president
In a speech to a joint meeting of Congress — a rare honor for a head of state — Mr. Sarkozy seemed to strike all the right notes. He spoke of his love of the American dream and cultural icons of the 20th century, from Elvis Presley to Ernest Hemingway. He expressed admiration for American values and for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He thanked the United States for saving France in two world wars, rebuilding Europe with the Marshall Plan and fighting Communism during the cold war.
[...]
“It’s safe to say that you’ve impressed a lot of people here on your journey,” Mr. Bush said, calling Mr. Sarkozy “the kind of fellow I like to deal with.”
[...]
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said of Mr. Sarkozy’s performance: “You just heard a Ronald Reagan speech from a president of France. It was an almost out-of-body experience for all of us.”
In a speech to a joint meeting of Congress — a rare honor for a head of state — Mr. Sarkozy seemed to strike all the right notes. He spoke of his love of the American dream and cultural icons of the 20th century, from Elvis Presley to Ernest Hemingway. He expressed admiration for American values and for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He thanked the United States for saving France in two world wars, rebuilding Europe with the Marshall Plan and fighting Communism during the cold war.
[...]
“It’s safe to say that you’ve impressed a lot of people here on your journey,” Mr. Bush said, calling Mr. Sarkozy “the kind of fellow I like to deal with.”
[...]
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said of Mr. Sarkozy’s performance: “You just heard a Ronald Reagan speech from a president of France. It was an almost out-of-body experience for all of us.”
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Derek Miller - Fin de Stylus Magazine
2007 Year-end thoughts
Before Stylus, I’d never have believed you could become so close to people you’d never met. In space that lacks physique, you kind of meet as avatars. The board was a way for so many of us to piss away empty time at work or late at night, to gossip and needle and call-foul at music, sports, our jobs, drinks of choice. I think we all came to a persona of our own more than perhaps we were ourselves. A dress-up, extroverted place for what I expect are really a room-full of introverts (spoken like one. . .) It was dreamspace, the most virtual of realities, but it was also a place where those of us who’d been around for a while began to feel we could come, first-coffee in the morning, to put some kind of steady perspective back in place. But it only worked because we came to know at least a bit of something about each other by what we’d read and written. There was a frankness gained by putting so much of ourselves in pieces about music—or pieces about music which often had nothing to do with music. We pressed and confined each other, in turns, with a challenge of putting something in writing, formally or informally
Before Stylus, I’d never have believed you could become so close to people you’d never met. In space that lacks physique, you kind of meet as avatars. The board was a way for so many of us to piss away empty time at work or late at night, to gossip and needle and call-foul at music, sports, our jobs, drinks of choice. I think we all came to a persona of our own more than perhaps we were ourselves. A dress-up, extroverted place for what I expect are really a room-full of introverts (spoken like one. . .) It was dreamspace, the most virtual of realities, but it was also a place where those of us who’d been around for a while began to feel we could come, first-coffee in the morning, to put some kind of steady perspective back in place. But it only worked because we came to know at least a bit of something about each other by what we’d read and written. There was a frankness gained by putting so much of ourselves in pieces about music—or pieces about music which often had nothing to do with music. We pressed and confined each other, in turns, with a challenge of putting something in writing, formally or informally
Buddha Machine
FM3 Buddha Machine
La création la plus populaire de la scène underground electronique chinoise.
La création la plus populaire de la scène underground electronique chinoise.
New York Times
The Evangelical crackup
Les mouvements d'opinions au sein des communautés evangelistes après les différentes défaites de George W. Bush et ses promesses non tenues.
These days, Westlink has found less confrontational ways to oppose abortion, mainly by helping to pay for a medical center called Choices. Housed in a cozy-looking white-shingled cottage next to Dr. Tiller’s bunkerlike abortion facility, Choices discourages women from ending pregnancies by offering 3-D ultrasound scans and adoption advice.
[...]
Of these, Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister before he became governor of Arkansas, stands out in the polls and in his rhetoric. [...] On the campaign trail, he criticizes chief executives’ pay and says his faith demands environmental regulation. “We shouldn’t allow a child to live under a bridge or in the back seat of a car,” Huckabee said in a recent debate. “We shouldn’t be satisfied that elderly people are being abused or neglected in nursing homes.”Huckabee told me that he welcomed a broadening of the evangelical political agenda. “You can’t just say ‘respect life’ exclusively in the gestation period,” he said, repeating a campaign theme.
Les mouvements d'opinions au sein des communautés evangelistes après les différentes défaites de George W. Bush et ses promesses non tenues.
These days, Westlink has found less confrontational ways to oppose abortion, mainly by helping to pay for a medical center called Choices. Housed in a cozy-looking white-shingled cottage next to Dr. Tiller’s bunkerlike abortion facility, Choices discourages women from ending pregnancies by offering 3-D ultrasound scans and adoption advice.
[...]
Of these, Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister before he became governor of Arkansas, stands out in the polls and in his rhetoric. [...] On the campaign trail, he criticizes chief executives’ pay and says his faith demands environmental regulation. “We shouldn’t allow a child to live under a bridge or in the back seat of a car,” Huckabee said in a recent debate. “We shouldn’t be satisfied that elderly people are being abused or neglected in nursing homes.”Huckabee told me that he welcomed a broadening of the evangelical political agenda. “You can’t just say ‘respect life’ exclusively in the gestation period,” he said, repeating a campaign theme.
But the leaders of the Christian conservative movement have not rallied to him. Many say he cannot win because he has not raised enough money. Perkins and others have criticized Huckabee for taking too soft an approach to the Middle East. Others worry that his record on taxes will anger allies on the right. And some Christian conservatives take his “gestation period” line as a slight to their movement.
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Democrats, meanwhile, sense an opportunity. Now the campaigns of all three Democratic front-runners are actively courting evangelical voters. At a White House event to mark the National Day of Prayer that I attended in the spring, Senator Clinton even walked over to shake hands with Dobson. Visibly surprised, he told her she was in his prayers.All three Democratic candidates are speaking very personally, in evangelical language, about their own faith. What does Clinton pray about? “It depends upon the time of day,” she said. Edwards says he cannot name his greatest sin: “I sin every single day.” Obama talks about his introduction to “someone named Jesus Christ” and about being “an instrument of God.”
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In the Wichita churches this summer, Obama was the Democrat who drew the most interest. Several mentioned that he had spoken at Warren’s Saddleback church and said they were intrigued. But just as many people ruled out Obama because they suspected that he was not Christian at all but in fact a crypto-Muslim — a rumor that spread around the Internet earlier this year.Rudy, the values slayer
Did we do that ? par Thomas Friedman
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
La revanche du nounours rose
Charlie White - Adicolor pink
Un clip d'une minute vingt sur un ours en peluche qui transforme sa patronne en poupet. Vous avez dit inquiétant ?
Un clip d'une minute vingt sur un ours en peluche qui transforme sa patronne en poupet. Vous avez dit inquiétant ?
Monday, October 22, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Warren Ellis - Threat status
somedays, MySpace would be the very ironic image of stark existential loneliness within a sea of people if it wasn't for the users whose profiles have been hacked to send out waves of spam. Somewhere, a lonely boy's eyes are welling up with joy, his heart filled near to bursting with the feeling of someone wanting to communicate with him. Yes, he says. I do need a bigger cock that plays ringtones and ejaculates restaurant vouchers. Just keep talking to me.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami sur Wikipedia
Fondateur du mouvement Super flat au Japon. Un de ses élève les plus connu est Yoshitomo Nara. Takashi Murakami - Murakami sur Amazon
Fondateur du mouvement Super flat au Japon. Un de ses élève les plus connu est Yoshitomo Nara. Takashi Murakami - Murakami sur Amazon
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Alan Moore - Pornographie, magie et Promethea
Alan Moore - the Wondeful wizard of Northerhampton
'The basic stance that we were taking in Lost Girls is that the sexual imagination cannot be policed, you cannot shut areas of it off and I think that if you do, it actually becomes dangerous. I think that if you shut off parts of people's sexual imagination then that part becomes a dark space in which they can fester and become something generally appalling.'
What we wanted to say with Lost Girls was there's a big difference between pornography and art. Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings. Pornography does the exact opposite: it's an isolating thing. Everybody thinks, ''I bet it's only me who has had these thoughts. I bet there's never been anybody as low as me in the entire history of the world." We wanted to say, "Look, it's OK. It's OK for you to have these thoughts.
[...]
The first step into magic is the human imagination. The world of the mind and the world of matter are both real, but in different ways. In fact, if one is more important than the other, it's probably the world of the imagination, where the world of human artefacts, well, all of it, actually originates. The basic paradigm of science tends to rule out consciousness, imagination, because they're not repeatable in empirical laboratory conditions. So it struck me that perhaps through magic there might be a different way to interact with the mind. This might in fact have been what magicians were talking about all along.
[...]
The 'tarot stuff' is the issue entitled 'The Magic Theatre', a history of the universe from pre-Big Bang to the present day told through the major arcana (the picture cards) of the tarot. Moore did it in rhyming verse. He gave each page a title and all 21 titles were anagrams of 'Promethea' ('Pa Theorem'; 'Ape Mother'; 'Me Atop Her'; 'Heart Poem'; 'Meet Harpo' etc). Gags and puns abound, and at the bottom of each page a long, rambling joke is told in segments, which will, we are told, if properly understood, explain magic. 'The Magic Theatre' is a virtuoso demonstration of what an Alan Moore comic can do that novels and films can't get near – provide multiple strands of simultaneous narrative and visual information that wind around each other in dizzying fashion, echoing and commenting on each other.
'The basic stance that we were taking in Lost Girls is that the sexual imagination cannot be policed, you cannot shut areas of it off and I think that if you do, it actually becomes dangerous. I think that if you shut off parts of people's sexual imagination then that part becomes a dark space in which they can fester and become something generally appalling.'
What we wanted to say with Lost Girls was there's a big difference between pornography and art. Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings. Pornography does the exact opposite: it's an isolating thing. Everybody thinks, ''I bet it's only me who has had these thoughts. I bet there's never been anybody as low as me in the entire history of the world." We wanted to say, "Look, it's OK. It's OK for you to have these thoughts.
[...]
The first step into magic is the human imagination. The world of the mind and the world of matter are both real, but in different ways. In fact, if one is more important than the other, it's probably the world of the imagination, where the world of human artefacts, well, all of it, actually originates. The basic paradigm of science tends to rule out consciousness, imagination, because they're not repeatable in empirical laboratory conditions. So it struck me that perhaps through magic there might be a different way to interact with the mind. This might in fact have been what magicians were talking about all along.
[...]
The 'tarot stuff' is the issue entitled 'The Magic Theatre', a history of the universe from pre-Big Bang to the present day told through the major arcana (the picture cards) of the tarot. Moore did it in rhyming verse. He gave each page a title and all 21 titles were anagrams of 'Promethea' ('Pa Theorem'; 'Ape Mother'; 'Me Atop Her'; 'Heart Poem'; 'Meet Harpo' etc). Gags and puns abound, and at the bottom of each page a long, rambling joke is told in segments, which will, we are told, if properly understood, explain magic. 'The Magic Theatre' is a virtuoso demonstration of what an Alan Moore comic can do that novels and films can't get near – provide multiple strands of simultaneous narrative and visual information that wind around each other in dizzying fashion, echoing and commenting on each other.
'It was one of the best things we've ever done. I was dead pleased with that. I was smug for months…' (Gebbie is quick to attest to the smugness.) 'We were haemorrhaging readers, but the ones who stayed behind had presumably sustained such neurological damage that they were no longer capable of cancelling their subscription – a hardcore readership who stayed with us right to the end and really appreciated it and really enjoyed it.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Mark Briggs - Guide du journalisme moderne
Journalism : How to survive and thrive
Un guide à l'attention des journalistes pour manipuler les nouveaux outils du web. 132 pages disponible en pdf. A imprimer pour un meilleur confort de lecture.
Un guide à l'attention des journalistes pour manipuler les nouveaux outils du web. 132 pages disponible en pdf. A imprimer pour un meilleur confort de lecture.
Blackwater : Des mercenaires en Irak
Hired gun fetish
As far as I can tell, America has never fought a war in which mercenaries made up a large part of the armed force. But in Iraq, they are so central to the effort that, as Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution points out in a new report, “the private military industry has suffered more losses in Iraq than the rest of the coalition of allied nations combined.”
Yet even among the contractors, Blackwater has the worst reputation. On Christmas Eve 2006, a drunken Blackwater employee reportedly shot and killed a guard of the Iraqi vice president. (The employee was flown out of the country, and has not been charged.) In May 2007, Blackwater employees reportedly shot an employee of Iraq’s Interior Ministry, leading to an armed standoff between the firm and Iraqi police.
As far as I can tell, America has never fought a war in which mercenaries made up a large part of the armed force. But in Iraq, they are so central to the effort that, as Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution points out in a new report, “the private military industry has suffered more losses in Iraq than the rest of the coalition of allied nations combined.”
And, yes, the so-called private security contractors are mercenaries. They’re heavily armed. They carry out military missions, but they’re private employees who don’t answer to military discipline. On the other hand, they don’t seem to be accountable to Iraqi or U.S. law, either. And they behave accordingly.
We may never know what really happened in a crowded Baghdad square two weeks ago. Employees of Blackwater USA claim that they were attacked by gunmen. Iraqi police and witnesses say that the contractors began firing randomly at a car that didn’t get out of their way.
What we do know is that more than 20 civilians were killed, including the couple and child in the car. And the Iraqi version of events is entirely consistent with many other documented incidents involving security contractors.
[...]Yet even among the contractors, Blackwater has the worst reputation. On Christmas Eve 2006, a drunken Blackwater employee reportedly shot and killed a guard of the Iraqi vice president. (The employee was flown out of the country, and has not been charged.) In May 2007, Blackwater employees reportedly shot an employee of Iraq’s Interior Ministry, leading to an armed standoff between the firm and Iraqi police.
Iraqis aren’t the only victims of this behavior. Of the nearly 4,000 American service members who have died in Iraq, scores if not hundreds would surely still be alive if it weren’t for the hatred such incidents engender.
Deux mots de vocabulaire : Blackwater et I.E.D.
Blackwater shooting site was chaotic
“It raises the first question of why didn’t they just stay in place, since they are safe in the compound,” the official said. “Usually the concept would be, if an I.E.D. detonates in the street, you would wait 15 to 30 minutes, until things calmed down,” he said, using the abbreviation for improvised explosive device.
Blackwater : Entreprise de "mercenaires" employé par le gouvernement américain dans le conflit Irakien.
I.E.D. : Improvised explosive device
“It raises the first question of why didn’t they just stay in place, since they are safe in the compound,” the official said. “Usually the concept would be, if an I.E.D. detonates in the street, you would wait 15 to 30 minutes, until things calmed down,” he said, using the abbreviation for improvised explosive device.
Blackwater : Entreprise de "mercenaires" employé par le gouvernement américain dans le conflit Irakien.
I.E.D. : Improvised explosive device
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Moebius
Moebius redux
Un reportage, co produit par Arte, sur le dessinateur Moebius, aka Jean Giraud. Sous titré en anglais.
Un reportage, co produit par Arte, sur le dessinateur Moebius, aka Jean Giraud. Sous titré en anglais.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Suicide par pénétration de crayon dans l'oeil
Suicide by ballpoint pen
An unfortunate, but amazing case: a 25-year-old schizophrenic man shoved a 14.5-cm-long ballpoint pen through his eye socket, all the way to his cerebellum (in the rear of the brain).
[...]
Its amazing that, with a 14 cm plastic pen stuck in his brain, the patient was still conscious enough to discuss his injury with hospital staff. What was he thinking as he slowly pushed that pen further and further into his brain?
An unfortunate, but amazing case: a 25-year-old schizophrenic man shoved a 14.5-cm-long ballpoint pen through his eye socket, all the way to his cerebellum (in the rear of the brain).
[...]
Its amazing that, with a 14 cm plastic pen stuck in his brain, the patient was still conscious enough to discuss his injury with hospital staff. What was he thinking as he slowly pushed that pen further and further into his brain?
Monday, September 24, 2007
Warren Ellis' Bad Signal - Nemo
I first encountered the idea of
Monty Cantsin around '88, though
he was created around '77. Monty
Cantsin is a Neoist construct: an
open pop star. Because in '77 they
didn't have the term "open source."
The idea being that artists could
choose to record under the name
Monty Cantsin, thereby generating
a fake oeuvre for a fake pop star,
confusing the fuck out of the
uninitiated. (See also "Karen Eliot,"
"Luther Blissett")
There's no derogatory side to
Monty Cantsin - he doesn't do the
work of, say, Alan Smithee, or
Harlan Ellison's damning Cordwainer
Bird pseudonym (a name he applies
to work that's been fucked over,
allowing him to retain rights and
royalty payments regardless).
Monty Cantsin is an artistic joke.
Anyone can be Monty Cantsin.
And while having a drink or two last
night, the notion came to me: it'd
be amusing if comics had one of
those. If music has a Monty Cantsin,
maybe comics should have a
Nemo Woodbine. An open source
comics creator. Sometimes she's
a cartoonist. Sometimes he's a
writer.
And the best thing about Nemo
Woodbine might be that she's
granted her copyright and royalties
in perpetuity to the Comic Book
Legal Defense Fund or something.
Anything he earns beyond his page
rate, and the rights to whatever
she did, live with the Fund: her
gift to the medium.
Just throwing the idea out there for
someone to do something with, or
not.
Monty Cantsin around '88, though
he was created around '77. Monty
Cantsin is a Neoist construct: an
open pop star. Because in '77 they
didn't have the term "open source."
The idea being that artists could
choose to record under the name
Monty Cantsin, thereby generating
a fake oeuvre for a fake pop star,
confusing the fuck out of the
uninitiated. (See also "Karen Eliot,"
"Luther Blissett")
There's no derogatory side to
Monty Cantsin - he doesn't do the
work of, say, Alan Smithee, or
Harlan Ellison's damning Cordwainer
Bird pseudonym (a name he applies
to work that's been fucked over,
allowing him to retain rights and
royalty payments regardless).
Monty Cantsin is an artistic joke.
Anyone can be Monty Cantsin.
And while having a drink or two last
night, the notion came to me: it'd
be amusing if comics had one of
those. If music has a Monty Cantsin,
maybe comics should have a
Nemo Woodbine. An open source
comics creator. Sometimes she's
a cartoonist. Sometimes he's a
writer.
And the best thing about Nemo
Woodbine might be that she's
granted her copyright and royalties
in perpetuity to the Comic Book
Legal Defense Fund or something.
Anything he earns beyond his page
rate, and the rights to whatever
she did, live with the Fund: her
gift to the medium.
Just throwing the idea out there for
someone to do something with, or
not.
Friday, September 21, 2007
This is youtube material
The monkey-hanging legend is the most famous story connected with Hartlepool. During the Napoleonic Wars a French ship was wrecked off the Hartlepool coast.
During the Napoleonic Wars there was a fear of a French invasion of Britain and much public concern about the possibility of French infiltrators and spies.
The fishermen of Hartlepool fearing an invasion kept a close watch on the French vessel as it struggled against the storm but when the vessel was severely battered and sunk they turned their attention to the wreckage washed ashore. Among the wreckage lay one wet and sorrowful looking survivor, the ship's pet monkey dressed to amuse in a military style uniform.
The fishermen apparently questioned the monkey and held a beach-based trial. Unfamiliar with what a Frenchman looked like they came to the conclusion that this monkey was a French spy and should be sentenced to death. The unfortunate creature was to die by hanging, with the mast of a fishing boat (a coble) providing a convenient gallows
Cette charmante anecdote concerne la même ville où cet autre fait divers a eu lieu
Man urinates on dying woman declaring it youtube material
Shouting, "This is YouTube material!" a 27-year-old British man urinated on a dying woman who had collapsed on the street, the BBC and local Hartepool Mail and Northern Echo tell us. He also doused her with a bucket of water and covered her with shaving cream.
During the Napoleonic Wars there was a fear of a French invasion of Britain and much public concern about the possibility of French infiltrators and spies.
The fishermen of Hartlepool fearing an invasion kept a close watch on the French vessel as it struggled against the storm but when the vessel was severely battered and sunk they turned their attention to the wreckage washed ashore. Among the wreckage lay one wet and sorrowful looking survivor, the ship's pet monkey dressed to amuse in a military style uniform.
The fishermen apparently questioned the monkey and held a beach-based trial. Unfamiliar with what a Frenchman looked like they came to the conclusion that this monkey was a French spy and should be sentenced to death. The unfortunate creature was to die by hanging, with the mast of a fishing boat (a coble) providing a convenient gallows
Cette charmante anecdote concerne la même ville où cet autre fait divers a eu lieu
Man urinates on dying woman declaring it youtube material
Shouting, "This is YouTube material!" a 27-year-old British man urinated on a dying woman who had collapsed on the street, the BBC and local Hartepool Mail and Northern Echo tell us. He also doused her with a bucket of water and covered her with shaving cream.
The woman, 50-year-old Christine Lakinski, died at the scene of pancreatic failure.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Hunter S Thompson - Son influence
Hunter S Thompson films
Un symposium, résumé en 19 videos, sur l'effet de Hunter S Thompson sur le journalisme et la politique américaine.
Un symposium, résumé en 19 videos, sur l'effet de Hunter S Thompson sur le journalisme et la politique américaine.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Des livres sculptés
Brian Dettmer - Book autopsies
Cet artiste sculpte des livres pour réveller les illustrations intérieurs. Très très impressionant.
Cet artiste sculpte des livres pour réveller les illustrations intérieurs. Très très impressionant.
Richard Dawkins on Book Club
Richard Dawkins - Interview
Parce que je suis un fan boy et que, sérieusement, le type est interessant a écouter.
Parce que je suis un fan boy et que, sérieusement, le type est interessant a écouter.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Comment finissent les super tankers ?
End of the line
Un photo reportage au Bangladesh sur le desassemblage de super tankers.
Un photo reportage au Bangladesh sur le desassemblage de super tankers.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Hilary Clinton milite pour un système de santé plus efficace
Clinton calls for universal health care
She called for a requirement for businesses to obtain insurance for employees, and said the wealthy should pay higher taxes to help defray the cost for those less able to pay for it. She put the government's cost at $110 billion a year.
[...]
Addressing a crowd at a medical center in the early voting state of Iowa, Clinton laid out her proposal, with the centerpiece a so-called "individual mandate," requiring everyone to have health insurance - just as most states require drivers to purchase auto insurance. Rival John Edwards has also offered a plan that includes an individual mandate, while the proposal outlined by Barack Obama does not.
Clinton's plan builds on the existing employer-based system of coverage. People who receive insurance through the workplace could continue to do so; businesses, in turn, would be required to offer insurance to employees, or contribute to a government-run pool that would help pay for those not covered. Clinton would also offer a tax subsidy to small businesses to help them afford the cost of providing coverage to their workers.
[...]
Her speech came nearly 14 years after her first attempt at a universal healthcare plan that was highly criticized by Republicans as a socialized medical plan that eventually fell apart and left a stain on the former First Lady's record, reports CBS News reporter Fernando Suarez. Despite her failed attempt in 1993 Clinton assured the crowd of about 150 doctors, nurses and patients that she grew from her experience.
She called for a requirement for businesses to obtain insurance for employees, and said the wealthy should pay higher taxes to help defray the cost for those less able to pay for it. She put the government's cost at $110 billion a year.
[...]
Addressing a crowd at a medical center in the early voting state of Iowa, Clinton laid out her proposal, with the centerpiece a so-called "individual mandate," requiring everyone to have health insurance - just as most states require drivers to purchase auto insurance. Rival John Edwards has also offered a plan that includes an individual mandate, while the proposal outlined by Barack Obama does not.
Clinton's plan builds on the existing employer-based system of coverage. People who receive insurance through the workplace could continue to do so; businesses, in turn, would be required to offer insurance to employees, or contribute to a government-run pool that would help pay for those not covered. Clinton would also offer a tax subsidy to small businesses to help them afford the cost of providing coverage to their workers.
[...]
Her speech came nearly 14 years after her first attempt at a universal healthcare plan that was highly criticized by Republicans as a socialized medical plan that eventually fell apart and left a stain on the former First Lady's record, reports CBS News reporter Fernando Suarez. Despite her failed attempt in 1993 Clinton assured the crowd of about 150 doctors, nurses and patients that she grew from her experience.
Alterati
Hidden elements - the dark side of alternate reality games
Post modern apocalypse - Another look at how to market the apocalypse
Post modern times
Welcome to Postmodern Times, a series of short animated films presenting new ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation. Our first episode, "Toward 2012", introduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice. Future segments will focus on shamanism, sustainability, alternative energy systems, the Mayan Calendar, quantum physics and synchronicity, human sexuality, and a host of other subjects. We are currently looking for investors to take this project forward.
Post modern apocalypse - Another look at how to market the apocalypse
Post modern times
Welcome to Postmodern Times, a series of short animated films presenting new ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation. Our first episode, "Toward 2012", introduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice. Future segments will focus on shamanism, sustainability, alternative energy systems, the Mayan Calendar, quantum physics and synchronicity, human sexuality, and a host of other subjects. We are currently looking for investors to take this project forward.
Bruce Sterling - Mediadefender 0 - Hackers 1
Seven hundred megabytes of leaked internal email
Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender suffered an embarrassing leak this weekend, when almost 700MB of internal company e-mail was distributed on the Internet via BitTorrent.
I wanted to link to http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg01968.html, where Media Defender was instructed to track down and block the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero torrents, and that included ftp data to Interscope servers as a way to illustrate the fantabulous trainwreckery that is this case.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender suffered an embarrassing leak this weekend, when almost 700MB of internal company e-mail was distributed on the Internet via BitTorrent.
"The e-mails reveal many aspects of MediaDefender's elaborate P2P disruption strategies, illuminate previously undisclosed details about the MiiVi scandal, and bring to light details regarding MediaDefender's collaboration with the New York Attorney General's office on a secret law enforcement project.
AlteratiI wanted to link to http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg01968.html, where Media Defender was instructed to track down and block the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero torrents, and that included ftp data to Interscope servers as a way to illustrate the fantabulous trainwreckery that is this case.
Alterati - Débat entre deux théoriciens branché UFO
War of the future worlds
The gist of Daniel’s argument is that one can never know for sure what is going to happen in the future, and our thoughts create reality, so that promoting negative future scenarios instead of more healthy and positive ones is irresponsible, especially when one has a platform that reaches as many as Whitley’s.
The gist of Daniel’s argument is that one can never know for sure what is going to happen in the future, and our thoughts create reality, so that promoting negative future scenarios instead of more healthy and positive ones is irresponsible, especially when one has a platform that reaches as many as Whitley’s.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Plusieurs liens
Modern day Da vinci
Un homme qui réalise des machines en bois fonctionnant sur le mouvement perpetuel et dont le but est d'en construire qui pourrait avancer eternellement.
Z Machine - Wikipedia
The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. It is operated by Sandia National Laboratories to gather data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. The Z machine is located at Sandia's main site in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Un homme qui réalise des machines en bois fonctionnant sur le mouvement perpetuel et dont le but est d'en construire qui pourrait avancer eternellement.
Z Machine - Wikipedia
The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. It is operated by Sandia National Laboratories to gather data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. The Z machine is located at Sandia's main site in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
La situation desastreuse du Zimbabwe continue et risque de continuer
Zimbabwe's precarious survival
It is a situation that suits the governments on both sides.
It is a situation that suits the governments on both sides.
Among the refugees, there are doctors, engineers, agricultural experts, just the kind of people who are needed by South Africa's growing economy
Zimbabweans have long since given up hope that the South African leader - Thabo Mbeki - will put pressure on his old friend, Robert Mugabe, to reform.
And as for Robert Mugabe, an opposition politician in Harare says: "This makes him a very, very happy dictator.
"He gets rid of his opponents and they in turn send back money to their families in Zimbabwe and that keeps things ticking over."
Anyone expecting a swift conclusion to Zimbabwe's agony will be disappointed.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
The other side of outsourcing - Thomas Friedman
The other side of outsourcing sur youtube
Un reportage de the Discovery Channel par Thomas Friedman (auteur de the World is flat) que Wikipedia définit comme tel :
In "The Other Side of Outsourcing" (2004), he visited a call center in Bangalore, interviewing the young Indians working there, and then traveled to an impoverished rural part of India, where he debated the pros and cons of globalization with locals (this trip spawned his eventual bestselling book "The World is Flat").
Un reportage de the Discovery Channel par Thomas Friedman (auteur de the World is flat) que Wikipedia définit comme tel :
In "The Other Side of Outsourcing" (2004), he visited a call center in Bangalore, interviewing the young Indians working there, and then traveled to an impoverished rural part of India, where he debated the pros and cons of globalization with locals (this trip spawned his eventual bestselling book "The World is Flat").
Monday, September 03, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Jenkem - Une nouvelle drogue ... particulière
African children high on sewage
They are manufacturing "Jenkem", a disgusting, noxious mixture made from fermented sewage. It is cheap, potent and very popular among the thousands of street-children in Lusaka. When they cannot afford glue or are too scared to steal petrol, these youngsters turn to Jenkem as a way of getting high.
They are manufacturing "Jenkem", a disgusting, noxious mixture made from fermented sewage. It is cheap, potent and very popular among the thousands of street-children in Lusaka. When they cannot afford glue or are too scared to steal petrol, these youngsters turn to Jenkem as a way of getting high.
"It lasts about an hour", says one user, 16-year-old Luke Mpande, who prefers Jenkem to other substances.
"With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with Jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life."
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
the Invisibles - Spank the monkey
the Invisibles
Une chronique de la série. Inclu, pour ceux qui ne connaitrait pas encore, l'anecdote fameuse du rituel demandé aux lecteurs de la série par Grant Morrisson.
Une chronique de la série. Inclu, pour ceux qui ne connaitrait pas encore, l'anecdote fameuse du rituel demandé aux lecteurs de la série par Grant Morrisson.
La vie d'un garçon employé comme mascotte par les nazis
The secret history of the nazi mascot
In newsreels, he was paraded as 'the Reich's youngest Nazi' and he witnessed some unspeakable atrocities.
In newsreels, he was paraded as 'the Reich's youngest Nazi' and he witnessed some unspeakable atrocities.
But his SS masters never discovered the most essential detail about his life: their little Nazi mascot was Jewish.
"They didn't know that I was a Jewish boy who had escaped a Nazi death squad. They thought I was a Russian orphan."
[...]
Young Alex saw action on the Russian front, and was even used by the SS to lure Jewish people to their deaths.Outside the cattle trains which carried victims to the concentration camps, he handed out chocolate bars to tempt them in.
Wet artificial life - Wikipedia
Wet artificial life - Définition wikipedia
Wet artificial life or wet alife refers to research efforts to safely synthesize self-sustaining new cellular life forms from abiotic components such as pure chemical substances. The name derives from the assumption that liquids are required for the new cells to be viable. This research involved experiments with chemical substrates in water. If such a research goal were accomplished, it would be comparable to the synthesis of urea in 1828, which discredited the concept of vitalism. As of 2007, some scientists were optimistic that a genuine fulfillment of that goal is achievable within the coming decade while other experts in the field, such as Francis Collins are pessimistic about that timeframe.
In biology, Abiotic components are non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment. These may be classified as light, temperature, water, atmospheric gases, and wind as well as soil (edaphic) and physiographic (nature of land surface) factors.
Wet artificial life or wet alife refers to research efforts to safely synthesize self-sustaining new cellular life forms from abiotic components such as pure chemical substances. The name derives from the assumption that liquids are required for the new cells to be viable. This research involved experiments with chemical substrates in water. If such a research goal were accomplished, it would be comparable to the synthesis of urea in 1828, which discredited the concept of vitalism. As of 2007, some scientists were optimistic that a genuine fulfillment of that goal is achievable within the coming decade while other experts in the field, such as Francis Collins are pessimistic about that timeframe.
In biology, Abiotic components are non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment. These may be classified as light, temperature, water, atmospheric gases, and wind as well as soil (edaphic) and physiographic (nature of land surface) factors.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Warren Ellis @ 2006
Another day down the mines of our lives. We drink 'til we stink and smoke 'til we choke because that's how we get things done, you and me. Spending our lives making things and making things out of our lives, because anything else would be dull as hell and we're damned if we're going to sit at the other end of whatever years we get saying, well, what the fuck was that for?
Years of scars, lipstick and tears, and every day the dawn comes on we turn our eyes up in surprise, saying, "There's that goddamn sun again."
Years of scars, lipstick and tears, and every day the dawn comes on we turn our eyes up in surprise, saying, "There's that goddamn sun again."
Thursday, August 16, 2007
La contrepartie de la pillule miracle enerve les pro lifes
Pro-life groups put brakes on improved contraceptive pills
It sounds like a dream ticket for women: a safer contraceptive pill that also treats a range of health problems. But the drug's development is being delayed because in high doses, it is the abortion pill reviled by the anti-abortion lobby and the government of George Bush, says David Baird, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, speaking on Monday at a press briefing in London. "Lack of investment in these compounds for use in conditions other than contraception has stemmed from the Bush administration and its policies," he says.
It sounds like a dream ticket for women: a safer contraceptive pill that also treats a range of health problems. But the drug's development is being delayed because in high doses, it is the abortion pill reviled by the anti-abortion lobby and the government of George Bush, says David Baird, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, speaking on Monday at a press briefing in London. "Lack of investment in these compounds for use in conditions other than contraception has stemmed from the Bush administration and its policies," he says.
In high doses, progesterone receptor moderators (PRMs) like mifepristone (RU-486) terminate an early pregnancy by halting development of the placenta. In much smaller doses, they could combat endometriosis, fibroids and even brain cancers, because they block the action of the hormone progesterone.
PRMs given as contraceptives would also stop periods altogether - dramatically cutting monthly exposure to oestrogen and progesterone, hormones also linked with breast cancer.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Neige - Interview
Interview avec Neige sur Pitchfork media
Neige, musicien français de black metal, joue dans Amesoeurs, Peste Noire et Alcest.
Playing in such different projects gives me the opportunity to explore different sides of my personality and of my tastes. I am not someone close-minded; I can appreciate many sorts of music and artistic processes. My purpose is to get to the bottom of things. I wish to push the opposites of my personality in order to develop them until their very end; it really raises the spirit and helps me to understand myself better.
Neige, musicien français de black metal, joue dans Amesoeurs, Peste Noire et Alcest.
Playing in such different projects gives me the opportunity to explore different sides of my personality and of my tastes. I am not someone close-minded; I can appreciate many sorts of music and artistic processes. My purpose is to get to the bottom of things. I wish to push the opposites of my personality in order to develop them until their very end; it really raises the spirit and helps me to understand myself better.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Des groupes de soutiens pour anorexique
Seeking thinspiration
The popularity of social networking websites has opened up a whole new world of interaction, but with it, darker trends are emerging. Groups which appear to extol grave eating disorders as a glamorous lifestyle choice are appearing on sites which claim tens of millions of active users.
Many girls in these groups, aged from about 15 to 30, claim their goal weight is below seven stone (45kg), and for some it is as low as five stone (32kg).
The popularity of social networking websites has opened up a whole new world of interaction, but with it, darker trends are emerging. Groups which appear to extol grave eating disorders as a glamorous lifestyle choice are appearing on sites which claim tens of millions of active users.
Members of such groups post pictures of painfully skinny girls for "thinspiration", compare dangerously low goal weights and measurements, and team up to "keep each other strong" in their quest to lose weight.
They swap stories on how they vomit until they cough blood, are often too weak to get out of bed and how they're scared family or friends will find out and force them into recovery.
[...]Many girls in these groups, aged from about 15 to 30, claim their goal weight is below seven stone (45kg), and for some it is as low as five stone (32kg).
"We always want to be the thinnest," Andrea says. "'Thinner is the winner', that's a quote that we live by."
Zeitgeist - Autre reportage conspirationiste
Zeitgeist - the Movie
Un nouveau documentaire portant sur le 11 septembre, la réserve fédérale et la religion chretienne. A vue de nez, Illuminati power !
Un nouveau documentaire portant sur le 11 septembre, la réserve fédérale et la religion chretienne. A vue de nez, Illuminati power !
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Occam's Razor - Définition
Occam's Razor - Wikipedia
Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"):
Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"):
Bertrand Russel - Wikipedia
Bertrand Russel - Wikipedia
A relire. Homme très interessant mais théories complexes (ou mal expliquées).
A relire. Homme très interessant mais théories complexes (ou mal expliquées).
John Stuart Mill - Un homme bien
John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism
Mill distinguishes between "happiness" and "contentment," claiming that the former is of higher value than the latter, a belief wittily encapsulated in his statement that it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
[...]
Mill's argument is that the 'simple pleasures' tend to be preferred by people who have no experience with high art, and are therefore not in a proper position to judge. For this reason, in his life Mill supported legislation that would have granted extra voting power to university graduates, on the grounds that they were in a better position to judge what would be best for society. It should be noted that in this Mill in no way devalued the uneducated as people, and he certainly would have advocated sending the poor but talented to universities; it is the education, and not the intrinsic nature, of the educated that Mill believed qualified them to have more influence in government.
Mill distinguishes between "happiness" and "contentment," claiming that the former is of higher value than the latter, a belief wittily encapsulated in his statement that it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
[...]
Mill's argument is that the 'simple pleasures' tend to be preferred by people who have no experience with high art, and are therefore not in a proper position to judge. For this reason, in his life Mill supported legislation that would have granted extra voting power to university graduates, on the grounds that they were in a better position to judge what would be best for society. It should be noted that in this Mill in no way devalued the uneducated as people, and he certainly would have advocated sending the poor but talented to universities; it is the education, and not the intrinsic nature, of the educated that Mill believed qualified them to have more influence in government.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Victory Records - Témoignage d'un ex employé
Behind the scenes at Victory Records
Témoignage d'un ex employé de Victory sur les pratiques du label et la personnalité tyrannique de son directeur.
Témoignage d'un ex employé de Victory sur les pratiques du label et la personnalité tyrannique de son directeur.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Warren Ellis - Sur les medias
the Sunday hangover
Which makes it, in its way, the perfect object lesson of American news. Given the time, CNN and their kin can present the news in such a way that it makes no sense to anyone, and increases no-one’s understanding of current events and the times they live in. I spent nine days in America this time, and it felt like I was in a bottle lost on the tide.
Which makes it, in its way, the perfect object lesson of American news. Given the time, CNN and their kin can present the news in such a way that it makes no sense to anyone, and increases no-one’s understanding of current events and the times they live in. I spent nine days in America this time, and it felt like I was in a bottle lost on the tide.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Warren Ellis interview William Gibson
William Gibson discusses spook coutry and interactive fiction
Something that started with Pattern Recognition was that I?discovered I could Google the world of the novel. I began to regard it as a sort of extended text — hypertext pages hovering just outside the printed page. There have been threads on my Web site — readers Googling and finding my footprints. I still get people asking me about "the possibilities of interactive fiction," and they seem to have no clue how we're already so there.
Something that started with Pattern Recognition was that I?discovered I could Google the world of the novel. I began to regard it as a sort of extended text — hypertext pages hovering just outside the printed page. There have been threads on my Web site — readers Googling and finding my footprints. I still get people asking me about "the possibilities of interactive fiction," and they seem to have no clue how we're already so there.
Ben Templesmith à propos de Ashley Wood
Ashley Wood speaks
From Ben Templesmith about Ashley Wood: ”Ash is a force of nature. Artistically, he's incorporated the best of many great artists and then infused them with his own demon seed to make an all together different animal. Truly unique now. Just talking to him these days it's scary to see the sheer amount of ideas and creativity coming out of him. This man will not stop!
From Ben Templesmith about Ashley Wood: ”Ash is a force of nature. Artistically, he's incorporated the best of many great artists and then infused them with his own demon seed to make an all together different animal. Truly unique now. Just talking to him these days it's scary to see the sheer amount of ideas and creativity coming out of him. This man will not stop!
Ashley Wood - Interview
Design is kinky - Ashley Wood
What are your main influences?
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargeant, Bob Peak, Bernie Fuchs.
What materials do you use to produce your work? How much is done on the computer?
Depends on the piece and what it's for. The painted pieces all start off as oil paintings, some I work until they're complete oil paintings, others are used as a step in a computer aided process. As for the materials that I use, a lot of oil paint, digital photography and tons of Staedtler Calligraphic Duo markers.
What are your main influences?
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargeant, Bob Peak, Bernie Fuchs.
What materials do you use to produce your work? How much is done on the computer?
Depends on the piece and what it's for. The painted pieces all start off as oil paintings, some I work until they're complete oil paintings, others are used as a step in a computer aided process. As for the materials that I use, a lot of oil paint, digital photography and tons of Staedtler Calligraphic Duo markers.
Prêcher l'abstinence ne sert a rien
"No-sex" programmes not working
The Oxford University team reviewed 13 US trials involving over 15,000 people aged 10 to 21.
However, such groups have so far failed to gain the foothold they have in the US where a third of the President's HIV budget is given to abstinence programmes.
The Oxford University team reviewed 13 US trials involving over 15,000 people aged 10 to 21.
They found abstinence programmes had no negative or positive impact on the rates of sex infections or unprotected sex, the British Medical Journal said.
[...]However, such groups have so far failed to gain the foothold they have in the US where a third of the President's HIV budget is given to abstinence programmes.
The latest study, which included trials comparing young people attending abstinence-only programmes against those receiving no sex education, raises questions over whether they work in developed countries.
Researchers found none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals lost their virginity, whether they had unprotected sex, the number of sexual partners, the rates of sexually transmitted diseases or the number of pregnancies.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Les vegansexuals
Carnivore sex off the menu
A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.
A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.
Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.
[...]
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them."I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.
She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.
Jeremy Fish - Concepteur graphique de None shall pass
Silkybunnies
Site officiel de Jeremy Fish, graphiste qui s'est occupé, entre autre, d'un projet avec Aesop Rock et du dernier album de ce dernier.
Site officiel de Jeremy Fish, graphiste qui s'est occupé, entre autre, d'un projet avec Aesop Rock et du dernier album de ce dernier.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Wikipedia - Tatouage en prison
Wikipedia - Criminal tatoo
Les tatouage en prison, et plus spécialement leur signification, en Russie.
Les tatouage en prison, et plus spécialement leur signification, en Russie.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Noam Chomsky - Conférence
Noam Chomsky - Distorted morals
Une conférence de Noam Chomsky à l'université d'Harvard sur la guerre contre le terrorisme mené par le gouvernement des Etats Unis.
Une conférence de Noam Chomsky à l'université d'Harvard sur la guerre contre le terrorisme mené par le gouvernement des Etats Unis.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Cedric Delseaux - Photographie inspiré de Star Wars
Cedric Delseaux
Un photographe français présente une série de clichés inspiré de Star Wars ou des personnages et des situations sont reproduites dans un environnement réaliste. Le grain de la photo est particulié, très doux et riche. Du très beaux travail présenté sur un site à la navigation agréable.
Un photographe français présente une série de clichés inspiré de Star Wars ou des personnages et des situations sont reproduites dans un environnement réaliste. Le grain de la photo est particulié, très doux et riche. Du très beaux travail présenté sur un site à la navigation agréable.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Autopsie de l'alien de Roswell
Area 51Military top secret Roswell Autopsy
La fameuse autopsie de l'extra terrestre qui a tant passionné les conspirationistes. Bien sur le document est faux et un groupe de type a avoué l'avoir réalisé avec les moyens d'un autre film lors de son tournage. Marrant et court, a voir pour le principe.
La fameuse autopsie de l'extra terrestre qui a tant passionné les conspirationistes. Bien sur le document est faux et un groupe de type a avoué l'avoir réalisé avec les moyens d'un autre film lors de son tournage. Marrant et court, a voir pour le principe.
Reportage de la BBC - Ventes d'enfants en Bulgarie
Laying bait for baby smugglers
The aim of the report was to expose Bulgaria's criminal trade in babies in all its cynicism.
The aim of the report was to expose Bulgaria's criminal trade in babies in all its cynicism.
Apart from Harry, the BBC team met relatives of the children. A grandfather turned up with a photograph, trying to sell his "jewel of a granddaughter" without his daughter's knowledge.
How did it feel to operate in an environment of such moral squalor?
"You have to control your emotions because it is quite a tense situation," says Craig.
"You have to put them aside and worry about them when you've finished the task in hand.
"I'm a parent myself and I was just happy when it was over."
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
William S. Burroughs (1984)
Burroughs
Un documentaire sur la vie de l'auteur William S. Burroughs (Le festin nu, Junky ...) datant de 1984.
Un documentaire sur la vie de l'auteur William S. Burroughs (Le festin nu, Junky ...) datant de 1984.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Alex Jones et les Illuminatis
the Order of death
Le baroudeur des théories de conspiration raconte l'histoire du supposé groupe de conspirateur et son action dans le monde à travers le monde. De la parnoïa a haute dose.
Le baroudeur des théories de conspiration raconte l'histoire du supposé groupe de conspirateur et son action dans le monde à travers le monde. De la parnoïa a haute dose.
Reportage sur les consommateurs de poupées gonflables
Guys and dolls
Un reportage de 45 minute sur des hommes qui couchent et vivent, litterallement, avec des poupées.
Un reportage de 45 minute sur des hommes qui couchent et vivent, litterallement, avec des poupées.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Wizard Rock
Trailer d'un documentaire sur le Wizard Rock
Le Wizard Rock a déjà engendré une centaine de groupe et provient d'une obsession pour Harry Potter. Le concept du fan prend donc place maintenant dans le cadre de la musique et dépasse donc les fans fictions et les fan arts. Maintenant, vous avez aussi la fan music.
Le Wizard Rock a déjà engendré une centaine de groupe et provient d'une obsession pour Harry Potter. Le concept du fan prend donc place maintenant dans le cadre de la musique et dépasse donc les fans fictions et les fan arts. Maintenant, vous avez aussi la fan music.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
9/11 revisited
9/11 revisited v.2
Un reportage assez interessant sur le 11 septembre et la fameuse théories des bombes et de la démolition du WTC. Toujours a prendre avec des pincettes mais l'argumentaire est plus convaincant, mené par des intervenants spécialistes, scientifiques et autre. Tout ce qui concerne le Batiment 7 est, a mon sens, le plus interessant et le plus troublant, bien que l'ensemble du reportage pose des questions pertinentes. En tout cas, je le recommende plus que 9/11 mysteries (precedemment posté) qui est plus orienté Illuminatis.
Un reportage assez interessant sur le 11 septembre et la fameuse théories des bombes et de la démolition du WTC. Toujours a prendre avec des pincettes mais l'argumentaire est plus convaincant, mené par des intervenants spécialistes, scientifiques et autre. Tout ce qui concerne le Batiment 7 est, a mon sens, le plus interessant et le plus troublant, bien que l'ensemble du reportage pose des questions pertinentes. En tout cas, je le recommende plus que 9/11 mysteries (precedemment posté) qui est plus orienté Illuminatis.
Deux artistes: Trevor Brown et Edward Gorey
Trevor Brown
Edward Gorey sur Wikipedia
Deux artistes affiliés au monde de l'enfance mais avec deux attitudes très différentes mais très originales. Le premier peint surtout des enfants tandis que l'autre semble surtout avoir illustré des livres pour enfant. Ce qui les rejoint est leur attitude asymétrique par rapport a ce qu'il représente.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Documentaire sur le shoegaze en préparation
Fallen not broken
"With nearly two years of filming under his belt, filmmaker Eric Green of L.A.-based Hypnagogia Films is nearing completion of his documentary chronicling the 1985-91 shoegaze movement of Great Britain. Titled Beautiful Noise, it’s about the influence of the Cocteau Twins, Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine and the subsequent rise of outfits such as Ride, Curve, Slowdive, Lush, Chapterhouse, Swervedriver, Pale Saints and Boo Radleys, as well as more ambient-inclined and experimental artists like Flying Saucer Attack, AR Kane and Seefeel."
"With nearly two years of filming under his belt, filmmaker Eric Green of L.A.-based Hypnagogia Films is nearing completion of his documentary chronicling the 1985-91 shoegaze movement of Great Britain. Titled Beautiful Noise, it’s about the influence of the Cocteau Twins, Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine and the subsequent rise of outfits such as Ride, Curve, Slowdive, Lush, Chapterhouse, Swervedriver, Pale Saints and Boo Radleys, as well as more ambient-inclined and experimental artists like Flying Saucer Attack, AR Kane and Seefeel."
Autechre - Recommendation
Hamilton (Genghis Tron) parle de Autechre
Yeah, Squarepusher is one-of-a-fucking-kind, that's for sure. He is his own entity and category, like Autechre or Boards...there's no one like him. Or actually, lots of people try to sound like him now, but no one really can.
Hororo and Zesty, where to start with Autechre all depends on what you're into. Confeld is definitely one of the most confrontational/difficult recordings they ever made, so I definitely would recommend trying other albums. Here are some of my personal favorites, as well as recommended tracks from each album. But they have so many other albums which are amazing too, so don't let me suggestions limit your explorations...
Inculabula (1993) -- Their debut album...very "classic" early 90's sounding in the synth sounds and the techno song structutres. Definitely their simplest and most melodic/accessible album, but still very creepy and cold. As they went on in their career, they chose to be much more restrained in how melodic their albums were, but this one puts their ability to write amazing melodies at the forefront. Easy to get into. Recommended tracks: "Eggshell" and "Bike"
LP5 (1998) -- This was the album which really god me into Autechre. It's a good starting point beacuse it's mid-way through their career, so they've really hit their stride at this point in terms of creativity + weirdness...but it's not AS weird and abrasive as the stuff they'd start doing a few years later. Recommended tracks: "Acroyear2" and "Rae".
EP7 (1999) -- It's an "EP" but it has 11 songs and is an hour long...anyways, this might be my favorite Autechre release. Similar in style to LP5, perhaps a bit weirder and more alien. Recommended tracks: "Rpeg" and "Dropp"
Untilted (2005) -- Throughout the 2000's, Autechre released several really abrasive and difficult albums...they're awesome, particularly Draft 7.30 and the Ganz Graf EP, but they were incredibly fucked up and pretty difficult to digest regularly. Untilted (make sure you spell it right) is plenty strange, but I think it represents a new stage for Autechre. The drums are much more repetitive and hard-hitting, spiraling around in looping patterns while gradually shifting with each repitition. And they are even some killer melodies as well. Recommended tracks: "Lcc" and "Ipacial Section"
Yeah, Squarepusher is one-of-a-fucking-kind, that's for sure. He is his own entity and category, like Autechre or Boards...there's no one like him. Or actually, lots of people try to sound like him now, but no one really can.
Hororo and Zesty, where to start with Autechre all depends on what you're into. Confeld is definitely one of the most confrontational/difficult recordings they ever made, so I definitely would recommend trying other albums. Here are some of my personal favorites, as well as recommended tracks from each album. But they have so many other albums which are amazing too, so don't let me suggestions limit your explorations...
Inculabula (1993) -- Their debut album...very "classic" early 90's sounding in the synth sounds and the techno song structutres. Definitely their simplest and most melodic/accessible album, but still very creepy and cold. As they went on in their career, they chose to be much more restrained in how melodic their albums were, but this one puts their ability to write amazing melodies at the forefront. Easy to get into. Recommended tracks: "Eggshell" and "Bike"
LP5 (1998) -- This was the album which really god me into Autechre. It's a good starting point beacuse it's mid-way through their career, so they've really hit their stride at this point in terms of creativity + weirdness...but it's not AS weird and abrasive as the stuff they'd start doing a few years later. Recommended tracks: "Acroyear2" and "Rae".
EP7 (1999) -- It's an "EP" but it has 11 songs and is an hour long...anyways, this might be my favorite Autechre release. Similar in style to LP5, perhaps a bit weirder and more alien. Recommended tracks: "Rpeg" and "Dropp"
Untilted (2005) -- Throughout the 2000's, Autechre released several really abrasive and difficult albums...they're awesome, particularly Draft 7.30 and the Ganz Graf EP, but they were incredibly fucked up and pretty difficult to digest regularly. Untilted (make sure you spell it right) is plenty strange, but I think it represents a new stage for Autechre. The drums are much more repetitive and hard-hitting, spiraling around in looping patterns while gradually shifting with each repitition. And they are even some killer melodies as well. Recommended tracks: "Lcc" and "Ipacial Section"
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Un peu de Bukowsky
CB
The history of a tough motherfucker
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and
terrorized
a white cross-eyed tailless cat
I took him in and fed him and he stayed
grew to trust me until a friend drove up the driveway
and ran him over
I took what was left to a vet who said, 'not much
chance...give him these pills...his backbone
is crushed, but is was crushed before and somehow
mended, if he lives he'll never walk, look at
these x-rays, he's been shot, look here, the pellets
are still there...also, he once had a tail, somebody
cut it off...'
I took the cat back, it was a hot summer, one of the
hottest in decades, I put him on the bathroom
floor, gave him water and pills, he wouldn't eat, he
wouldn't touch the water, I dipped my finger into it
and wet his mouth and I talked to him, I didn't go any-
where, I put in a lot of bathroom time and talked to
him and gently touched him and he looked back at
me with those pale blue crossed eyes and as the days went
by he made his first move
dragging himself forward by his front legs
(the rear ones wouldn't work)
he made it to the litter box
crawled over and in,
it was like the trumpet of possible victory
blowing in that bathroom and into the city, I
related to that cat-I'd had it bad, not that
bad but bad enough
one morning he got up, stood up, fell back down and
just looked at me.
'you can make it, ' I said to him.
he kept trying, getting up falling down, finally
he walked a few steps, he was like a drunk, the
rear legs just didn't want to do it and he fell again, rested,
then got up.
you know the rest: now he's better than ever, cross-eyed
almost toothless, but the grace is back, and that look in
his eyes never left...
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about
life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,
shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say, 'look, look
at this! '
but they don't understand, they say something like, 'you
say you've been influenced by Celine? '
'no, ' I hold the cat up, 'by what happens, by
things like this, by this, by this! '
I shake the cat, hold him up in
the smoky and drunken light, he's relaxed he knows...
it's then that the interviews end
although I am proud sometimes when I see the pictures
later and there I am and there is the cat and we are photo-
graphed together.
he too knows it's bullshit but that somehow it all helps.
The history of a tough motherfucker
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and
terrorized
a white cross-eyed tailless cat
I took him in and fed him and he stayed
grew to trust me until a friend drove up the driveway
and ran him over
I took what was left to a vet who said, 'not much
chance...give him these pills...his backbone
is crushed, but is was crushed before and somehow
mended, if he lives he'll never walk, look at
these x-rays, he's been shot, look here, the pellets
are still there...also, he once had a tail, somebody
cut it off...'
I took the cat back, it was a hot summer, one of the
hottest in decades, I put him on the bathroom
floor, gave him water and pills, he wouldn't eat, he
wouldn't touch the water, I dipped my finger into it
and wet his mouth and I talked to him, I didn't go any-
where, I put in a lot of bathroom time and talked to
him and gently touched him and he looked back at
me with those pale blue crossed eyes and as the days went
by he made his first move
dragging himself forward by his front legs
(the rear ones wouldn't work)
he made it to the litter box
crawled over and in,
it was like the trumpet of possible victory
blowing in that bathroom and into the city, I
related to that cat-I'd had it bad, not that
bad but bad enough
one morning he got up, stood up, fell back down and
just looked at me.
'you can make it, ' I said to him.
he kept trying, getting up falling down, finally
he walked a few steps, he was like a drunk, the
rear legs just didn't want to do it and he fell again, rested,
then got up.
you know the rest: now he's better than ever, cross-eyed
almost toothless, but the grace is back, and that look in
his eyes never left...
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about
life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,
shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say, 'look, look
at this! '
but they don't understand, they say something like, 'you
say you've been influenced by Celine? '
'no, ' I hold the cat up, 'by what happens, by
things like this, by this, by this! '
I shake the cat, hold him up in
the smoky and drunken light, he's relaxed he knows...
it's then that the interviews end
although I am proud sometimes when I see the pictures
later and there I am and there is the cat and we are photo-
graphed together.
he too knows it's bullshit but that somehow it all helps.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
Appel à la prière pour tout les chrétiens le 7 Juillet 2007
Prayon777
Christians please don't fight other Christians over belief issues when non-belief is rampant in young people and neglect for righteousness has become the norm.
[...]
Friends this is bigger then big. Our Father has surprises.
Father gave our country to be the light of the nations. Taking Jesus Christ out of anything only brings hell. Just look at the Muslim world or deep superstitious parts of Africa and you can see that. Our Country no longer has been using prayer but force. When we bring Christ into our thinking or our families, or nation's thinking then, blessings have to follow. On 777 all who will pray are bringing Christ into the focus and mind of the world. Evil will retreat somewhat and righteousness will be fed and grow.
Please devote this day to the Father and his son. Let’s give our Heavenly Father a day he will cherish. A day where his chosen children who really love him, or those who need help kneel down and thank him and plead for his grace and mercy on our failed and failing world. The ManChild Team feels that there will be more time before the Visible return of Christ. This is for the sake of spreading the Gospel and turning the wicked and misguided from sin. 777 will most likely be a day of warm happy feelings; spiritual excitement and we pray some healings. Of course we'll take a miracle, but accept what happens as the Fathers Will.
Christians please don't fight other Christians over belief issues when non-belief is rampant in young people and neglect for righteousness has become the norm.
[...]
Friends this is bigger then big. Our Father has surprises.
Scripture states that it has not even dawned on the saints or man what God has planned for them.
Father gave our country to be the light of the nations. Taking Jesus Christ out of anything only brings hell. Just look at the Muslim world or deep superstitious parts of Africa and you can see that. Our Country no longer has been using prayer but force. When we bring Christ into our thinking or our families, or nation's thinking then, blessings have to follow. On 777 all who will pray are bringing Christ into the focus and mind of the world. Evil will retreat somewhat and righteousness will be fed and grow.
Brother President Bush; please support prayer.
[...]
Sing, Dance, clap, or shout to the Lord. Set off your best fireworks on July 7. But just let the air be full of Praises, Gatherings in every place we want or just alone.
Pray on "the Washington Mall" or places that were or are special to your Christian church.
Les connaissances scientifiques déplorables des americains
1 in 5 americans believes the sun revolves around the Earth
"American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Said Jon D. Miller, a political scientists who directs the Center for Biomedical Communications at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, he regularly surveys Americans for his clients which include the National Science Foundation on the public’s knowledge and attitudes towards science in general.
"American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Said Jon D. Miller, a political scientists who directs the Center for Biomedical Communications at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, he regularly surveys Americans for his clients which include the National Science Foundation on the public’s knowledge and attitudes towards science in general.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
La mort de Chris Benoit et son traitement médiatique
The circumstances surrounding (and fallout of) the Benoit family tragedy
Un résumé des événements qui entourent la mort du catcheur Chris Benoit et le meurtre par ses propres mains de sa famille.
Un résumé des événements qui entourent la mort du catcheur Chris Benoit et le meurtre par ses propres mains de sa famille.
"The religion of one age is the litteray entertainment of the next"
Wikipedia - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Référence trouvé dans the God delusion de Richard Dawkins.
Référence trouvé dans the God delusion de Richard Dawkins.
Liberté de la presse aux Etats Unis
Our rotted press, a division of "camp victory"
Un article de Salon.com sur l'attitude des médias américains vis a vis des informations officiels de l'armée durant l'actuel guerre en Irak.
Un article de Salon.com sur l'attitude des médias américains vis a vis des informations officiels de l'armée durant l'actuel guerre en Irak.
Richard Dawkin - the Root of all evil
The Root of all evil
Reportage de Channel 4 (Angleterre) par Richard Dawkin, l'auteur de the God delusion. Un reportage en deux parties sur l'inexistence de Dieu.
Reportage de Channel 4 (Angleterre) par Richard Dawkin, l'auteur de the God delusion. Un reportage en deux parties sur l'inexistence de Dieu.
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