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The Corpus Clock & Chronophage

By Kai | Published: September 19, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “The hour approaches. The beast’s jaws gape, its tail quivers and then snap! Another minute has been devoured, and the hour strikes with the ominous clonk of a chain dropping into a coffin. The creature blinks twice in satisfaction.” This is how the [...]

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Animatus – Hyungkoo Lee

By Kai | Published: August 19, 2008

Animatus is an exhibition of reconstructions of 3D skeletons of classic cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry and Donald Duck. Anatomical drawings? A bit odd, but I like it. above: Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (source: hyungkoolee.net) South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee is exhibiting his Animatus show in the Natural History Museum [...]

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Exploding Whale

By Kai | Published: August 15, 2008

This is a little bit older, but a brilliant bit of reasoning by the kiwi’s – disposing of a stranded eight ton dead stinking whale which can not be burried or cut up: easy, blow it up and “let the scavengers, seagulls, crabs and what-not can clean it up”. You need to a flashplayer enabled [...]

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Tour de France – Stephen Roche & Sean Yates

By Kai | Published: July 4, 2008

Tomorrow (5th July) the hardest bike race in the world will start once again. The BBC gives us the former tour winner Stephen Roche, Britain’s Sean Yates and British cycling supremo Dave Brailsford, and their views ahead of this years tour. In another interview, Mark Cavendish looks ahead positively: “it is more than feasible [one, [...]

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Getty Images Moodstream

By Kai | Published: June 13, 2008

Getty Images – the leading supplier of stock images with an archive of 70 million still images and illustrations and more than 30,000 hours of stock film footage – has this intriguing website – Moodstream. The website claims: “Moodstream is a powerful brainstorming tool designed to help take you in inspiring, unexpected directions. Whether you [...]

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MoMA – Design and the Elastic Mind

By Kai | Published: June 6, 2008

This post comes a little late since the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has already finished. However, the accompanying online exhibition, with its intuitive cross-referencing interface, is seriously cool and worth exploring! Here is what the exhibition is all about: Design and the Elastic Mind explores [...]

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Vintage Adverts

By Kai | Published: June 5, 2008

For all of you fans of advertising: there is a bunch of resources cataloguing old, and somewhat creepy adverts, especially the “Demonic Tots” gallery on Plan59 (museum of mid century illustration) is worthy of note. Found in Mom’s basement is a rolling blog, regularily updated with new (read old) adverts, and with a lot of [...]

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Out of Print Books – Back due to popular demand

By Kai | Published: June 3, 2008

Faber and Faber launches print on demand classics to make available a large number of titles which until now have been out of print (P-O-D website: Faber finds). The launch was written about in the Guardian Books section (2 May 2008) and talked about on the Today Programme this morning (3 June 2008). The Guardian [...]

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Throw your hand in the air and rock like you just don’t care

By Kai | Published: June 3, 2008

Public Enemy’s Chuck D speaks to Nicola Stanbridge on BBC 4′s Today Programme about Barack Obama, Racism, Rap & Violence, File sharing, and other things. 11.35min

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Funky Research

By Kai | Published: May 23, 2008

For all of you funk headz out there – here is a blog I stumbeled across a few days ago, purely for research purposes, of course…

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