Month: February 2016
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The Oldest Footage – London and NY
I love these wonderful films, taking the early films of London and New York and mapping them, and in the London film actually showing what it’s like today. The films date from 1890 – 1920’s, missing is William Friese-Greene whose 4/5 fps film from 1889 is lost. And probably was a con anyway, his systems…
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DJ Charles IV’s Rainy Night Selection
This is partly an excuse to post 8 tracks I’m digging at the moment, but seriously my iPod – Charles IV – has selected podcasts and mixes before now, and somehow has an uncanny knack sometimes to group tunes together on shuffle. I don’t have time at the moment to capture them into a mix,…
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RIP Vanity and Maurice
Dead at 57? So sad. She was the original Nasty Girl. RIP Denise Matthews. Also a sad warning sign to all about drugs and the music industry. Surprised to find this online, I thought The Purple One had scrubbed all Vanity 6 from the Interwebs, he had done so when I did a mashup with…
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An Order of Fish, Ma’am?
Well I hear it was a shallow bay…;-) (via Chris Lumpy)
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NASA Space Travel Posters
Love these retro-themed space travel posters from NASA/JPL. Also fascinating is the text with them, from “Jupiter’s auroras are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth’s” to “Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars.” Fact-y AND beautiful? Nice! More over at their site called ‘Visions of the Future’…
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Meowpurrdy
Love the video for Run The Jewels Meowpurrdy by Cyriak, from Meow The Jewels, I must’ve missed this from January. Trippy.