I have certain fascinations, passions, interests and obsessions. Always having a camera in my pocket means I now take thousands of photos related to them. Sometimes the meaning can only be demonstrated in sequence or juxtaposition. Most of the...
Read moreDennis Hopper on David Letterman talking Blue Velvet and River’s Edge
Sadly this clip does not include the anecdote about the night Natalie Wood took a Champagne bath that Hopper related during the interview. The time I played slide guitar on a performance of Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams‘ with Brown...
Read moreRemembering Dennis Hopper Part 1
The above is from Hermann Vaske’s excellent The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money. I used to make everyone in my art department and all the sales reps who used our materials watch this movie. The work and life of Dennis Hopper...
Read moreThe Aesthetic of Our Anger
$3.99 gets you two Toy Story army men with parachutes or an entire 40 piece army force. Which side are you on? Please go read: 1-2-3-4 What are we Fighting For by Adam Curtis
Read moreStephen Fry on Language
While assembling the accounts and inventories of the past year that the IRS wants for some reason or other, I have spent an excessive amount of that time with a TV on. I have gone through an incredible number of season box sets and the like...
Read moreHappy Hollow 2010 – Another World by Tom Otterness
HappyHollow20101, originally uploaded by Marc Arsenault – Wow Cool. Today (Sunday March 14, 2010), San Jose’s beloved childrens’ playground and zoo, Happy Hollow reopened after a nearly two year renovation and closure. Clearly...
Read moreRadiohead’s Ed O’Brien talks 6Music
I wasn’t quite sure what to say about 6Music, other than “they’re really cool, and I’m psyched that they have played my music, so speak up and save this awesome station”. It also seems weird to be a...
Read moreSave BBC 6Music & BBC Asian Network
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Read moreStellar Content-Based Advertising FAIL On BBC News
On February 20, 2010, the BBC posted “Dutch cabinet collapses in dispute over Afghanistan” as the top story on their News homepage. The complicated mechanisms of content-based advertising placement brilliantly selected to display a...
Read moreThis Time (I’m Gonna Try it My Way) – Behind the scenes at DJShadow.com
DJ Shadow live in Chile 2006. photo by Leo Prieto. Licensed under Creative Commons In 2006 DJ Shadow dropped his most recent solo album, The Outsider, and set in motion the process of creating one of the most fully-realized and successful artist...
Read moreSupport Disaster Relief in Haiti
U.S. President Obama signed a bill into law today that allows American taxpayers to deduct contributions made to relief in Haiti before March 1, 2010 on their 2009 tax return. So, you really have no excuse not to help out now. Wow Cool endorses...
Read moreGumby Discovers that the Blockheads never read Silent Spring
This is the video I was looking for a few days ago. A lesson for me in not relying on YouTube. Gumby puts the kibosh on the blockheads latest evil scheme, a pesticide protection racket, that has the worms up in arms and gasmasks, even. Available...
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