Archive for November, 2006
Monday, November 27th, 2006
ministrelsy and black face rising again?
Rashod Ollison, writing in the Baltimore Sun, examines the very recent emergence of references to certain racial stereotypes of African Americans within hip-hop:
These ubiquitous urban hits seem to whistle in a disturbing sub-trend in hip-hop. Free of irony or tongue-in-cheek cleverness, so-called “minstrel rap” appears to be a throwback to the days when performers (some [...]
No Comments » - Posted in music, thinking by Marty Finestone
Monday, November 27th, 2006
fujiya & miyagi come to north america
Hate Something Beautiful has tuned me into near-electroclash group Fujiya & Miyagi – who have the most Japanese name of a non-Japanese group. Their bio references a sound that comes out of a love for sumo wrestlers, seventies krautrock and electronic from the early nineties. This British duo’s first full length album, Transparent Things, was [...]
No Comments » - Posted in music by Marty Finestone
Monday, November 27th, 2006
uk lifts ban on mp3 players
The BBC reports that the Wirelesss Telegraphy Act of 1949 will be amended to allow for the use of FM transmitters in cars. Prior to this change, their use constituted operating a radio device without a licence. Changes go in to effect December 8, just in time for the last leg of holiday shopping.
However, many [...]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
a top 10 of unsportsman like plays
#9 is just vicious.
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
beat at cinecitta vol. 1
Here is something snappy for your ears, partiess and playlists. Beat at Cinecitta is a compilation offers a great survey of some of the best songs emanating from 1960’s Italian cinema. 3 volumes have been issued so far.
The first volume in a series dedicated to the most raunchy, erotic beat film music from the vaults [...]
No Comments » - Posted in music, product by Marty Finestone
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
bad air for the beijing games?
Jeff Brooke writes for The Globe and Mail about looming issue of Beijing’s notorious poor air quality and its effect on Olympic athletes in the 2008 Olympiad. Beijing’s air is essentially toxic and there is a permanent brown cloud that hangs in the air, which gets worse in the summer with the humidity.
They [Chinese officials] [...]
No Comments » - Posted in news, sport, thinking by Marty Finestone
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
snazzy pictures + food = my mom’s recipes and more
I came across My Mom’s Recipes and More, an Israeli food blog run by Haifa resident Chanit. The blog combines snazzy pictures, taken by Chanit, with recipes, stories about food and probably a little bit of chutzpah.
2 Comments » - Posted in website by Marty Finestone
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
oh yes, tommy hilfiger and oprah
On November 14, 2006, Stephen Colbert was interviewing clothing company Timberland’s CEO Jeffery Shwartz. The subject of the dedication/ground breaking of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington came up and Shwartz asked Colbert if he saw it. Colbert, in character, replied that he there and was Tommy Hilfiger’s guest. This, I believe was [...]
No Comments » - Posted in this can't be by Marty Finestone
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
someone tell sam jackson he’s my bro
A bit of an oldie on youtube – this parody and song video by DCLugi, takes U2’s Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own and makes it into an ode to Samuel L. Jackson. The Bono impression not half bad too (and this is coming from someone who has met the man).
No Comments » - Posted in video by Marty Finestone
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
the afghanistan museum returning to afghanistan
The Afghanistan Museum in Excile, located in Switzerland, is closing up shop and moving its colleciton to Kabul.
The museum in exile is in the village of Bubendorf, 20 kilometres outside Basel. It was established by Swiss scholar Paul Bucherer-Dietschi in 1999, to house artefacts from war-torn Afghanistan.
But politics quickly intervened, and initial plans to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in news, place by Marty Finestone
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
the kgb file on andrei sakharov
There were 568 KGM file volumes on Andrei Sakharov (Nobel prize winner, activist and nuclear scientist). All 568 files were destroyed in 1989. Memos of those files survived, however, and formed the contents of the book The KGB Files of Andrei Sakharov, by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov (eds.) in 2005. Read the CIA (yes [...]
No Comments » - Posted in person, thinking by Marty Finestone
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
malmo’s turning torso
(photo: Pierre Mens © HSB Turning Torso)
The Turning Torso is a significant building. Significant in design, appearance and stature. At present, it is the tallest building in Scandinavia and the second highest residential structure in Europe. Conceived by architect Santiago Calatrava, the building stands 54 stories and consists of 9 five-story cubes. The design effect [...]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
james design rocking bench
Pictured is the Rocking Bench by James Design, winners of the best New Designer One Year On Show 2006 in London. The bench has been featured in Wallpaper Magazine:
Working with the finest American black walnut and upholstering in any fabric your heart desires (although we’re rather fond of this lime green tweed), Harrison takes the [...]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
nuclear by canada
Paul Webster writes in The Walrus Magazine about the future of the CANDU (Canadian Deutrim Uranium) nuclear reactor, sold by Atomic Canada.
But on the international stage Canadian nuclear technology developed a dubious reputation: the candu, as it turned out, seemed to be the choice of dictatorial regimes and was shunned by most democracies. Authoritarian rulers [...]
No Comments » - Posted in thinking by Marty Finestone
Friday, November 24th, 2006
the czech economy
More important, the absence of an effective government precludes efforts aimed at reining in mandatory social welfare spending and thus preventing continued pressure on discretionary spending. Without rationalisation of entitlement programmes, further expenditure cuts would be necessary in areas vital to long-term economic growth—including infrastructure and research and development—to meet the convergence programme’s fiscal targets [...]
No Comments » - Posted in place, thinking by Marty Finestone
Friday, November 24th, 2006
how the rich countries can best help the poor
Act against corrupt leaders, assisting research and development and enhancing global labour mobility – these are the ways in which rich and developed nations can best assist poor countries. So says this essay in Foreign Affairs Magazine.
Increasing aid and market access for poor countries makes sense but will not do that much good. Wealthy nations [...]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
WMMNA let’s us meet Lalya Gaye
We Make Money Not Art has an interview with Lalya Gaye, who after reading this interview, strikes me as a true creative wonder, who is applying her mind to science.
She’s an engineer and PhD graduate working in multidisciplinary projects that search to explore new territories of personal expression and creativity enabled by ubiquitous computing. Her [...]
No Comments » - Posted in person, thinking by Marty Finestone
Friday, November 24th, 2006
japan and its decorated trucks
Dekotora, short for ‘decotration truck’, is a outlet of creativity in Japan. Truck drivers use a variety of media, such as chrome, neon lights and wild paints to doll up their trucks. Pink Tentacle has a mini-gallery of some dekotora.
(image via Pink Tentacle)
No Comments » - Posted in find, this can't be by Marty Finestone
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
comic look hotel room
This is the “Comic” room in the Arte Luise Kunsthotel in Berlin. The hotel is, shall we say, the hotel of the moment. Each room was the touch of a different designer. This room looks like a cartoon cell. Hop over to the hotel’s site and check out some of the other rooms, like “Loop” [...]
No Comments » - Posted in place by Marty Finestone
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
mortified
Are you one for schadenfreunde? Well then the book Mortified: Real Words Real People Real Pathetic by Dave Nadelberg is for you.
Mortified: Real Words Real People Real Pathetic is an anthology of people’s actual childhood writings, ripped from the pages of their lives and shared with total strangers. The result is a uniquely honest collection [...]
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