slimed

http://www.gooddrawers.com/1/

new philosophies for us to learn

major party supplies

- said that he felt - was becoming addicted to propofol and was trying to wean him off the drug. On June 22, he gave - a mixture of propofol, lorazepam, the generic form of the anti-anxiety drug ativan, and midazolam, a sedative. On June 23, he gave - only the lorazepam and midazolam.

At about 1:30 a.m. on June 25, - said, he gave - a tab of valium. At 2 a.m., he administered lorazepam, and at 3 a.m. administered midazolam. Those drugs were administered again at 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., but - still was unable to sleep.

At about 10:40 a.m., - said, he gave - 25 milligrams of propofol diluted with lidocaine, at which point - went to sleep. After about 10 minutes, - said he left to go to the bathroom, and returned to find that - was no longer breathing. At this point, -'s security services and 911 were called.

party.

I know how easy it is NOT to watch

but we have good taste. so just press play.

Human Embryo (7th week of pregnancy, 5th week p.o.)

This photo of an opened oviduct with an ectopic pregnancy features a spectacularly well preserved 10-millimeter embryo. It is uncommon to see any embryo at all in an ectopic, and for one to be this well preserved (and undisturbed by the prosector's knife) is quite unusual.

Even an embryo this tiny shows very distinct anatomic features, including tail, limb buds, heart (which actually protrudes from the chest), eye cups, cornea/lens, brain, and prominent segmentation into somites. The gestational sac is surrounded by a myriad of chorionic villi resembling elongated party balloons. This embryo is about five weeks old (or seven weeks in the biologically misleading but eminently practical dating system used in obstetrics).

The photo was taken on Kodak Elite 200 slide film, with a Minolta X-370 camera and 100mm f/4 Rokkor bellows lens at near-full extension. The formalin-fixed specimen was immersed in tap-water and pinned to a tray lined with black velvet. The exposure was 1/4 second at f/8.

RADIO

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m3zr0/Mary_Anne_Hobbs_19_08_2009

my homie Alex Pacheco gets some play time. its really real.
verrry good music

Wednesday 19th August

0200
Hudson Mohawke - 'Shower Melody' from the LP 'Butter' (Warp)
Luciano - 'Oenologue' from the LP 'Tribute To The Sun' (Cadenza)
Cataracs feat. The Pack - 'Blueberry Afghani' [BD1982 Bootleg Remix] (Dubplate)
Gemmy - 'Wata Down Sound' (Dubplate)
Pearson Sound - 'Plsn' (Hessle Audio)
Flying Lotus - 'Testament' [Breakage Bill's Suit Mix] from 'L.A. EP 3X3' (Warp)
Mungoes Hi-Fi feat Earl 16 - 'International Roots' [LD mix] (Dubplate)
TRG - 'Strobe Lick' (Dubplate)

Greena
Tracklisting to follow…

Akatombo
Akatombo - ‘Bedlam’ (SWIM)
Akatombo – ‘Friend for Hire’ (Hand-Held)
Akatombo – ‘Ponderlust" from Trace Elements (SWIM)
Akatombo – ‘Pragmatism’ (Hand-Held)
Akatombo – ‘The Sand Collector’ (Hand-Held)
Akatombo – ‘Portable Pariah’ (Hand-Held)
Akatombo – ‘A Prior Disengagement’ (Hand-Held)

0300
Health
Gold Panda – ‘Quitters Raga’
Pictureplane – ‘Cyclical Cyclical’ (Atlantis)
Brian Eno & David Bryne – ‘Regiment’
Tickley Feather – ‘Keyboards Is Drunk’
Alex Pacheco – ‘Tall Grass’
Mike Oldfield – ‘North Star’

Cluekid - 'Original Tearout' (White Label)
Anti Pop Consortium - 'Volcano' From the LP 'Fluorescent Black' (Big Dada)
Dizz1 - 'Walk On' (Dubplate)
Talen feat Cutty Ranks - 'Sniper Sniper - A Cutty Ranks Tale' from ‘The Kingston Book’ (Mouthwatering)
Darqwan – ‘Jah Wan’ (Dubplate)
Seeming To - 'Deer' from the LP 'Seaming Oh Sing At Me' (Dubplate)
Appeal - 'Segregated' from the LP/mixtape 'Art Beats'
Calibre - 'Let Me Hold You' (Signature)

Datamosh Neo Punk Neo Expressionism

http://www.andrewbirk.com/
but theres nothing

boss is back. (cris carter is a sav)

Favre manages to skip camp -- and still get in
August 18, 2009 11:56 AM
Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- The rumors started spreading early Tuesday morning as I was watching Detroit go through a two-hour practice: A private airplane was in Hattiesburg, Miss., waiting to take Brett Favre to Minnesota. I checked in with a few trustworthy people, and their tight-lipped reactions suggested that an event we have considered inevitable at times and impossible at others will become reality.


Favre
So here is my unqualified reaction: Call it the three B's. What a Blatant, Brazen and Brilliant ploy to skip training camp and still be given the reins to a Super Bowl-caliber team.

I suppose it's possible that Favre and the Vikings will provide an alternative explanation for why the quarterback suddenly agreed to sign only a few days after the team broke camp in Mankato, Minn. Perhaps his body is feeling stronger. Or his shoulder is feeling better. Or he suddenly had an epiphany that it was truly now or never.

But no matter what he or the Vikings might say at his introductory news conference, it sure seems evident that Favre has always wanted to play for the Vikings -- but was unwilling to spend even two weeks in a dormitory at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

I thought the Vikings might draw a line at that point, especially given their unequivocal statements that Favre had missed his chance. But ultimately, coach Brad Childress has always known that Favre provided a better option than either Sage Rosenfels or Tarvaris Jackson.

Neither quarterback offered any reason to think differently during training camp. Rosenfels was sharp in the preseason opener at Indianapolis, but he has now missed two days of practice with an ankle injury and had been inconsistent overall in practice.

We'll have much more as the day progresses, but if you want my initial reaction, that's it.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4400006&categoryid=2378529

could be good

Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli talks about the Ducks

Ducks coach Chip Kelly talks about the opening of fall camp

DUCKS GET SI COVER- CAINT NOBODYY FUCK WIT MY BODYY

its real bietch

CRASHING YOUR PARTY LIKE VINCE VAUGHAN AND OWEN WILSON

AMAZING

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

incredible. you will love this.

huh

From the Paper Monument pamphlet, I Like Your Work.
How Artists Must Dress
July 27th, 2009

Artists must first of all distinguish themselves from members of the adjacent professional classes typically present at art world events: dealers, critics, curators, and caterers. They must second of all take care not to look like artists. This double negation founds the generative logic of artists' fashion.

The relationship between an artist's work and attire should not take the form of a direct visual analogy. A stripe painter may not wear stripes.

The relationship between an artist's work and attire should function in the manner of a dialectic, in which the discrepancy between the personal appearance of the artist and the appearance of her work is resolved into a higher conceptual unity. An artist's attire should open her work to a wider range of interpretive possibilities.

The artist's sartorial choices are subject to the same hermeneutic operations as are his work. When dressing, an artist should imagine a five-paragraph review of his clothes—the attitudes and intentions they reveal, their topicality, their relationship to history, the extent to which they challenge or endorse, subvert or affirm dominant forms of fashion—written by a critic he detests.

Communicating an attitude of complete indifference to one's personal appearance is only achievable through a process of self-reflexive critique bordering on the obsessive. Artists who are in reality oblivious to how they dress never achieve this effect.

Whereas a dealer must signal, in wardrobe, a sympathy to the tastes and tendencies of the collector class, an artist is under no obligation to endorse these. Rather, the task of the artist with regard to fashion is to interrogate the relationship between cost and value as it pertains to clothing, and, by analogy, to artworks.

An artist compensates for a limited wardrobe budget by making creative and entertaining clothing choices, much in the way that a dog compensates for a lack of speech through vigorous barking.

Artists are not only permitted but are in fact required to be underdressed at formal institutional functions. But egregious slovenliness without regard to context is a childish ploy, easily seen through.

An artist may dress like a member of the proletariat, but shouldn't imagine he's fooling anyone.

The affluent artist may make a gesture of class solidarity by dressing poorly. She is advised to keep in mind that, at an art opening, the best way to spot an heiress is to look for a destitute schizophrenic. Middle-class or working-class artists, the destitute, and the schizophrenic can use this principle to their social advantage.

The extension of fashion into the violation of norms of personal hygiene and basic grooming constitutes the final arena for radicalism in artists' fashion. Brave, fragrant souls! You will be admired from a distance.
—Roger White
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cann0)))n

the greatest conquerers

its real. old testament.

good angle

>> Over the course of five years, Sara Ziff snuck her ex-boyfriend Ole Schell into fashion shows, shoots, and parties so that he could film "without other people realizing it."   Sometimes he got thrown out, but they were able to collection hundreds of hours of footage along the way, which they edited down to produce Ziff's documentary, Picture Me, which exposes the dirty underbelly of modeling.

In it, the stories are hardly pretty.  Ziff told the Guardian about a 16-year-old model who complained to her agency when a 45-year-old photographer made a pass at her: "Her agency said she should have slept with him."  She captures another model talking about how weight is approached: "In castings, people have slapped my thigh, and I'm not in any sense overweight, I never have been.  I've been the same weight for a long time, but they'll slap your butt and be like 'Oooh, fat' in Italian or in French. 'It's too big here.'"

Ziff, who started modeling at 14 and surpassed her father's income by the time she was 20, relates a story about her third casting ever:

We had to go in one by one. The photographer said he wanted to see me without my shirt on. Then he told me that it was still hard to imagine me for the story so could I take my trousers off. I was standing there in a pair of Mickey Mouse knickers and a sports bra. I didn't even have breasts yet. 'We might need to see you without your bra,' he told me. It was like he was a shark circling me, walking around and around, looking me up and down without saying anything. I did what he told me to. I was just eager to be liked and get the job. I didn't know any better.

Ziff filmed an interview with a model who was sexually assaulted by one of fashion's top photographers at a photoshoot in Paris, but the interview didn't make Picture Me's final cut because the day before the film's New York premiere, the 16-year-old model backed out, fearful of the repercussions.  The Guardian reports the girl's experience, as told by Ziff:

She has very little experience of modelling and is unaccompanied by her agency or parents. She leaves the studio to go to the bathroom and meets the photographer — 'a very, very famous photographer, probably one of the world's top names', according to Ziff — in the hallway. He starts fiddling with her clothes. 'But you're used to this,' says Ziff. 'People touch you all the time. Your collar, or your breasts. It's not strange to be handled like that.' Then suddenly he puts his hands between her legs and sexually assaults her. 'She has no experience of boys, she hasn't even been kissed,' says Ziff. 'She was so shocked she just stood there and didn't say anything. He just looked at her and walked away and they did the rest of the shoot. And she never told anyone.'

Unfortunately, stories like these seem to be a theme among all the footage Ziff has captured.  The film features an interview with another model, Sena Cech, who talks about a casting with a top photographer who asked her to take off her clothes:

She does as instructed and takes off her clothes. Then the photographer starts undressing as well. 'Baby — can you do something a little sexy,' he tells her. The photographer's assistant, who is watching, eggs her on . . . The famous photographer demands to be touched sexually. 'Sena — can you grab his cock and twist it real hard,' his assistant tells her. 'He likes it when you squeeze it real hard and twist it.' 'I did it,' she shrugs, looking into the video camera. 'But later I didn't feel good about it.'

The film is still touring the festival circuit — most recently, it picked up the audience award for Best Picture at the Milan International Film Festival.  The Guardian deems it "one of the best films about the world of modelling and an honest portrayal of an industry built on artifice."  The trailer can be seen below.

Picture Me Trailer

gr8test

yet another state of things update

what would furlghost say?! im trying to stay up w the times but g0ddamn

it's coming...

the music's a little much, but fuck it, god bless america. put on that yacht album or samethaniel 

cain't forget,

Yacht new album review

Album Review

YACHT See Mystery Lights [DFA; 2009] 8.5

Find it at: Insound | eMusic | Lala

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Jona Bechtolt-- founding member of YACHT, former member of the Blow-- is a huge talent, something that may not have been readily apparent on any of his three previous LPs. Those albums, created largely as solo endeavors, will not have prepared listeners for See Mystery Lights. Now an official partnership between Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, who performed on several songs on 2007's I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real, YACHT finally feel like a full-fledged band with direction and vision, particularly given the added weight (or rather, levity) of Evans' influence.

The songs on See Mystery Lights-- from the bouncy, burbling you-can't-take-it-with-you screed "The Afterlife" (which plays like a less spastic companion piece to the Mae Shi's "Run to Your Grave") to the roller rink-ready vocoder vocals of "I'm In Love With a Ripper"-- represent YACHT at their most poppy. It's a collection of stone jams that finds the band finally as hellbent on experimenting and expanding the boundaries of its sonic scope as it is on having fun. Built on electronic foundations-- laser effects, skittering computerized beats, and spacey synth lines (or guitar riffs that have been tuned or distorted to sound like synths)-- these new songs are giddy with creative freedom while remaining tethered in service of their melodies. The vocal melodies are bright and buoyant, but delivered (by either band member, or in unison) in a chanted, oftentimes detached monotone that plays up the repetitive lyrics' mantra-like feel and adds a welcome undercurrent of slacker cool to their otherwise sugary optimism.

See Mystery Lights also marks the first time that YACHT are recording for DFA. Normally a label-change wouldn't be notable, as it is usually less an indicator of artistic choices than it is of financial or business ones, but moving to a label with such a distinctive aesthetic may be enough for many to reconsider their work. YACHT themselves created the track "Summer Song" as an homage to LCD Soundsystem, and LCD/DFA leader James Murphy liked it enough to release it on his label. It's no wonder that Murphy was smitten; the track, which also appears on the full-length, echoes the deadpan vocal delivery and burbling 80s krautrock synths of his own band, as well as cowbell-and-handclap percussion ripped from the Rapture's "House of Jealous Lovers", one of DFA's biggest singles. Even other tracks on the collection-- ones that weren't written specifically in homage to Murphy-- can't help but sound influenced by him. Case in point: "We Have All We've Ever Wanted", with its minimalist dance beat, heavy bass, and Bechtolt's dry, talky delivery, recalls "Losing My Edge", albeit with a lighthearted, anthemic chorus.

Still, while YACHT clearly share influences with Murphy's gang (Eno, Ferry, Neu!, ESG, etc.), their positive, futuristic jams actually sound most closely related to Tom Tom Club. Perhaps that's because, like Tom Tom Club's first self-titled album, which was recorded in Barbados, See Mystery Lights was recorded in a sunny, faraway locale-- in this case, far from the band's native rainy Portland, Oregon, in Marfa, Texas. The vibe of the album is relaxed and sun-soaked-- especially "Psychic City (Voodoo City)", which features an elastic groove built on a dubby, reggae-ish keyboard melody inspired by the bassline of Althea and Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking".

Regardless of influence or intent, however, See Mystery Lights is a triumph. It's a feel-good album for an era that could use a little happiness, a sweaty collection of heady, hedonistic tunes just in time for the hottest days of the year. And the best part is that one spin of this wily, sunny disc will be able to transport you back to summer vacation any day of the year.

— Rebecca Raber, August 5, 2009

.......................... oh yea, those guys

NORTHWEST U.S. BOI

Are Whales Smarter Than We Are?

 Cetacean brains, such as those of dolphins (left) and humpback whales (right), have even more cortical convolutions and surface area than human brains do. Does that mean they're smarter?
Figure from "Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition," Marino et alia, PLOS BiologyOf Whales and Men
by
R. Douglas Fields
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=are-whales-smarter-than-we-are

crystal castles remix of pheonix listomania

http://crystal-castles.tumblr.com/post/129141139/lisztomania-phoenix-remix-classixx

click the link foo