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Coming soon to Channel 4, Derren Brown, the acclaimed...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:11:00 -0400

Coming soon to Channel 4, Derren Brown, the acclaimed psychological illusionist, returns to Channel 4 for a thought provoking – and life transforming – special.

Following the successes of previous television specials such as Russian Roulette Live, Séance, The Heist and The Events, Derren once again creates edge-of-the-seat television as he takes ‘average Joes’ on an extraordinary psychological journey.

In a powerful transformation, which will include an amazing, must-watch live finale, Derren releases his subjects from the restraints that they have placed on themselves and allows them the opportunity to fulfil their true potential, opening the door to a new and exciting future…

Derren Brown Live – 08/09/10 « Derren Brown Blog

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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:19:30 -0400

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The Wilderness Downtown

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:18:00 -0400

The Wilderness Downtown: portraitoftheartistasayoungman: The Arcade Fire’s New Video: Starring Your...

fuckyeahemilyhaines: “Telethon” - Emily Haines & the Soft...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:29:22 -0400

fuckyeahemilyhaines:

“Telethon” - Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton

When she said nothing is enough
she doesn’t mean don’t try to fix it
Make plans with your other hand
Dream without concession

morematter:mhsteger: John Betjeman (born 28 August, 1906; died...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:53:37 -0400

morematter:mhsteger:

John Betjeman (born 28 August, 1906; died 19 May, 1984), pictured above on a train in Wintage, Oxfordshire, in a 1959 photograph by Mark Kauffman, for LIFE

Inexpensive Progress

Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.

Let’s say goodbye to hedges
And roads with grassy edges
And winding country lanes;
Let all things travel faster
Where motor car is master
Till only Speed remains.

Destroy the ancient inn-signs
But strew the roads with tin signs
‘Keep Left,’ ‘M4,’ ‘Keep Out!’
Command, instruction, warning,
Repetitive adorning
The rockeried roundabout;

For every raw obscenity
Must have its small ‘amenity,’
Its patch of shaven green,
And hoardings look a wonder
In banks of floribunda
With floodlights in between.

Leave no old village standing
Which could provide a landing
For aeroplanes to roar,
But spare such cheap defacements
As huts with shattered casements
Unlived-in since the war.

Let no provincial High Street
Which might be your or my street
Look as it used to do,
But let the chain stores place here
Their miles of black glass facia
And traffic thunder through.

And if there is some scenery,
Some unpretentious greenery,
Surviving anywhere,
It does not need protecting
For soon we’ll be erecting
A Power Station there.

When all our roads are lighted
By concrete monsters sited
Like gallows overhead,
Bathed in the yellow vomit
Each monster belches from it,
We’ll know that we are dead.

—from High and Low (1966)

hipstertracks:evanwalsh: “Night Time” by The xx

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:23:00 -0400

hipstertracks:evanwalsh: “Night Time” by The xx

Report: Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard's "Brownsville Girl" Adapted Into Film

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:25:40 -0400

twentyfourbit: According to an exclusive report by Pajiba, we can add one more potentially epic...

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Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:43:00 -0400

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Banksy, St. Leonards-on-Sea (by the lonely villein)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:34:54 -0400

Banksy, St. Leonards-on-Sea (by the lonely villein)

Video

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:14:24 -0400

Find Myself A City To Live In: Jonathan Lethem’s Imagined Metropolis

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:55:00 -0400

Find Myself A City To Live In: Jonathan Lethem’s Imagined Metropolis: by Richard Greenwald @ The...

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:01:24 -0400

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life: The Lord of the...

Banksy in LA 2010 (by karin freda)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:15:11 -0400

Banksy in LA 2010 (by karin freda)

Anthony and the Johnsons: Thank You For Your Love via Pitchfork:...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:09:01 -0400

Anthony and the Johnsons: Thank You For Your Love

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lilacina:mikehudack:justinday:bestrooftalkever: Have you ever...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:53:32 -0400

lilacina:mikehudack:justinday:bestrooftalkever:

Have you ever been walking around in Lower Manhattan and noticed a trail of paint on the sidewalk?

About 3 years ago, one of my friends in school decided to follow the trail around, and noticed that the trail produced the image that you see above; a strange-looking rendering of what appears to be the word “momo.” MOMO is the name of an artist that used to be based in NYC, and sure enough, the one responsible for “tagging his name” across the width of Manhattan.

After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. It appears that this all happened in 2006, which means that some parts of the line have been covered up with roadwork and redone sidewalks, but most of the line is still visible.

To me, the interesting thing about the line is how similar and different it is to regular graffiti. Essentially, most graffiti writers enjoy seeing their name on things, and the bigger they can get it, the more visible their tag is, the more people will notice their presence and witness the artist conquering their city. MOMO created the largest tag in New York, yet the scale of his work here, so massive that it can’t all be viewed at once, means that thousands of people will walk on it each day and never even notice it. It’s simultaneously the biggest and smallest statement I’ve ever seen an artist make.

MOMO made a video about the line which you can see here.

If you ever walk over it, now you’ll know what you’re looking at.

This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin (read by Larkin) (via...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:46:27 -0400

This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin (read by Larkin) (via mousegeek)

hipstertracks:fake—empire: Arcade Fire - Rococo

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:59:15 -0400

hipstertracks:fake—empire:

Arcade Fire - Rococo

Bird and branch (by William Schaff)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:09:37 -0400

Bird and branch (by William Schaff)

An Anarchist Speaks A provocative anarchist perspective on the...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:50:00 -0400

An Anarchist Speaks

A provocative anarchist perspective on the Toronto G20 protests that you would never get from the mainstream media – worth watching, swear words and all.

(via Adbusters)

memymineyours:terrysdiary: Shadows

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:15:48 -0400

memymineyours:terrysdiary:

Shadows