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The sixty-second song remix contest
Freeform radio station and bloggers extraordinaire WFMU recently challenged listeners to cut-and-paste their favorite songs down to one minute or less. Now, dozens of these warp-speed tunes exist for everyone to enjoy, ridicule, and designate Exhibit A in the collapse of civilization. Here for more of
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SpinCycle
A turntable that allows you to arrange and play colors visually and musically, spinCycle is fitted with a camera that takes the place of tonearm on a normal turntable. Rather than a needle playing grooves in a record, spinCycle creates sounds based on colors that the camera sees. The DJ places brightly colored plexiglass circles on the spinning platter, creating beautiful color patterns that are then translated into sounds. Check out
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Email clock
"Like many people, I have a lot of anxiety about my email inbox. With every kilobyte that comes in, another minute of my life disappears, time I could spend doing things I enjoy more than checking email. But I can't stop checking my email compulsively while I'm working, and email programs make it even easier to feed my compulsion. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would compulsively check my email for me, and worry over the amount continually coming in, so I wouldn't have to..." Here for more of
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Matisse, Mexico and early 20th century
"As a culture, we have become so thoroughly exposed to the great works of Western art that it's easy to take them for granted. Seeing a Picasso reproduction in a book or poster is a little like hearing the Rolling Stones on the radio for the umpteenth time. What was once groundbreaking and even scandalous in its day has become commonplace, safe." Read the full story:
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Fifty coolest websites
Many of this last year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips. Here for Time's
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The 500 Greatest albums of all time
What does The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, The Clash, and Velvet Underground have in common? They all made it on the top 10 of Rolling Stone's Special Collectors' Issue. Here for RS's
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Trailing Bob Dylan
When filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker hit the road with Bob Dylan in 1965 to shoot a documentary of the musician's tour of England, he was unaware that he would make history. For one, Pennebaker barely knew who Dylan was. In addition, he couldn't have predicted that his Spartan black-and-white documentary, which eschews traditional story-telling techniques such as narration and interviews, would be hailed as the greatest rock documentary of all time. Here for
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DIWO - Do It With Others
The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists to share a freely accessible form of distribution.The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists to share a freely accessible form of distribution. HTTP Gallery in London. Private View: Thur 1st March, 7 & 9 PM / Exhibition: 2nd March - 1st April, 2007 Friday - Sunday: 12noon - 5pm. Here for more of
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Sculptures of the American Dream
All of spring 2007 Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishoj, DK Denmark) presents 22 of Duane Hanson's lifelike sculptures and nine sculpture parts. With satire, humour and compassion Duane Hanson puts a human face on the American Dream: that of the bodybuilder, the cowboy, the pensioner, etc. Here for more of
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Metamorphosis
In Gairloch Gardens Sculptor David Altmejd's complex, labyrinthine work, populated by ghoulish entities drawn from fairy tales and Hollywood B-movies, juxtaposes a modernist architectural model with a teeming world of sensory excess. On exhibit at Oakville Galleries (Oakville, ON, CA Canada) 27 January - 25 March 2007. Here for more of
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Pixel Perfect
The convergence of the potent domains of technology and art is illustrated by fifteen artists whose innovations have explored the creative possibilities of this powerful medium. Endless avenues of imagination are traversed as these artists capture images to shape and mold them to their particular taste and artistic vision. On view at Agora Gallery 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York 2007-01-26 until 2007-02-15. Here for more of
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Age-Maps
Since the late 1980s, photographer Bobby Neel Adams has used a collage technique he calls "photo-surgery." In this process, two photographs of the person, from different periods of time (child and adult), are spliced together. A fusion where a soet of jump-in-time is established at the tear." Map your years with
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ReadyMerchs
Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5"x11" page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time. Here for more of
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Siege of 'Little Green Men'
"On the night of August 21, 1955, during the heyday of flying-saucer reports, a western Kentucky family encountered--well, that is the question: what were the humanoid-like creatures that terrified a family at their farmhouse? What actually happened at Kelly, Kentucky, that evening?" Here to find out more
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Looking at Rembrandt
"Amsterdam may have capitulated to the whoremongers, real and metaphorical, years ago, but the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth evokes the Dutch Golden Age, when piety and prosperity honored each other, and when artistic excellence served them both." Here for more of
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