quinta-feira, 15 de julho de 2004

National Barbie in a Blender Day. Freeculture.org is throwing a "National Barbie in a Blender Day" to celebrate the victory over Mattel, which sued a photographer for taking pictures of nude Barbies. Freeculture.org has launched an official site for the National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day project, at www.barbieinablender.org. Users are invited to submit artistic pieces inspired by Forsythe's "Food Chain Barbie" series to blended@barbieinablender.org for the site's upcoming gallery of submitted work. Link (Thanks, Alex!) [Boing Boing] 2:28:16 AM    comment []

Music to Phonecam by: Kill Bill Vol. 2 Mashups. During this weekend's launch of the SENT phonecam photography show (press coverage here), pics submitted by the public were displayed on iMac screens, refreshing automatically every few minutes (link), while iTunes blasted some groovy mashups. Many at the show asked about the tunes, so here is one highlight from the playlist. I'll post more over the next few days -- don't want to spoil you with a jam overdose. The tracks people seemed to dig most were all from an amazing mashup album by a group of DJs called Hanzo Steel -- remixes inspired by the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume 2. My favorite track: "Bang Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down" (Link to free MP3 track). The track includes samples from: "Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down" by Nancy Sinatra, "Big Beat" by Billy Squier/"Fix Up Look Sharp" by Dizzee Rascal, "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band (as used by Nas), "Take Me To The Mardis Gras" by Bob James/"Peter Piper" by Run DMC and audio samples from many of the original Kung Fu films which are referenced in Tarantino's movies. I can't stop playing this track. It scratches the funk spot in my brain. Here are two more freebies from the same disc: "Twisted Nerve (Biter's Revenge)" (Link to free MP3). Includes "Twisted Nerve" by Bernard Herrmann and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. And "Ironsides" includes "Ironsides" by Quincy Jones plus Divine Styler. (Link to free MP3). Link to Hanzo Steel home (check the fine cover art! Buy the CD!). Check out SENT in person through Saturday July 17 (12-5pm daily) at the Downtown Standard Hotel in LA. Oh, and the image shown here is one of the 1500 +/- phonecam snapshots submitted by the public. You can never have enough phonecam pics of hot electroclash babes licking themselves in the mirror, I always say. (Thanks for the free tracks, Hanzo Steel!) [Boing Boing] 2:19:26 AM    comment []

Models from Space: 1999 model-maker. Here's a wonderful gallery of the models of Martin Bowers, who did the model-work on Space: 1999 (some are for sale!). Link (Thanks, Asi!) [Boing Boing] 2:17:00 AM    comment []

Origin of colour-trends. Teresa Nielsen Hayden has written an amazing, heavily linked, well-researched piece on the Color Marketing Group, a trade association that determines each season's "in" colours and dictates the national pallette. I knew what was up with the big khaki push. Remember that one? Ads everywhere saying "Hemingway wore khaki"? We'd all been wearing black for several years. We had black levis, good black skirts, black leather or denim jackets, little black dresses—a great installed user base of basic black clothing, plus the colored stuff we wore with it. I hadn't heard anyone sighing for the return of khaki, and if I had, I'd have pointed them to one of the WASP mail-order catalogues. What's the big deal with khaki? It gets dirty too easily, and for a lot of people it's an unbecoming color. But there's only so much new black clothing you can sell a happy consumer who already has a closet full of black-and-coordinates; so the clothing industry pushed khaki remorselessly. Link [Boing Boing] 2:15:07 AM    comment []

Canadian Creative Commons Licenses underway. Andrew sez, "The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic is porting the Creative Commons licensing system to work under Canadian copyright law." Woohoo! Link (Thanks, Andrew!) [Boing Boing] 2:11:56 AM    comment []

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