Month: November 2013

A False Sense of Security

Two years ago, I left the US for Europe and Africa. Upon my return, I found a nation that had traded away vaunted ideals for a false sense of security....

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Connect : A-Side B-Side Gallery

Interweaving visual and auditory dialogues of installation, painting, music, spoken word and sculpture which invite the viewer to engage with the sensuality of creative expression....

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Mutation : Error 500

Containing personnel from The Wildhearts, Napalm Death and The Cardiacs, this brings together the various elements in a way that borders on magical. ...

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Manraze Release EP

Manraze release their EP: I Surrender...

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Gonzo Bikery in Huntington Beach

To be truthful we built the bike as an inside joke. A thumb in the air to every motorcycle cool guy trope we've ever come across. ...

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Flunking Sleepy Teenagers

Teenagers who go to bed late during the school year are more prone to academic and emotional difficulties in the long run. News item...

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David Apparicio (Chrysalis Foundation) :Interview

Our current UK criminal justice system is a broken business model with a resultant 75% failure rate. This failure rate would not be tolerated in any other industry/business. ...

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Bat Splat. Wind Turbines Meet Flying Mammals

A new estimate of bat deaths caused by wind turbines...

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Veronica Falls : Tufnell Park Dome [Live]

Showing no great deviation from the sound of their second record, but also that they’re far from out of ideas, Veronica Falls light up Tufnell Park Dome...

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Weekend Nachos : Still

Weekend Nachos are pretty sick people, perhaps even dangerous...

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The Princely Treasures of Liechtenstein

My senses did register the location as a slightly jarring combination of old and new, however my impressions were still that of awe and gilded opulence. ...

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Splashback : The Physics of Urination

Randy Hurd of Brigham Young University hopes to eventually create an optimization function to find the ideal approach for urinal usage. ...

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Loitered Lens : Touchstone

Oceans of Time ought to cement Touchstone’s growing reputation as one of the most exciting bands in the scene....

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A Stab in the Dark : Mugger Patterns

The first study to look at the hourly pattern of street robbery in London found a 160% rise in the rate of muggings during the hours of darkness in the capital...

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Dear Media, Where Were You?

A few days ago on 5th November, hacktivist group Anonymous succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in 477 locations in over 150 countries around the world. ...

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Monkey Mindgames : The Brain-Machine Interface

In a study led by Duke researchers, monkeys have learned to control the movement of both arms on an avatar using just their brain activity....

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Peru Maravilloso [Album]

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed...

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Kunt and the Gang : Long Island, Rickmansworth

An evening of total past the knuckle filth for one evening only at Long Island, Rickmansworth....

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Zombiezzzzzzzz: Putting the genre to rest

Hordes of undead roaming the streets are one thing, but stagnant and creatively bankrupt popular culture that never goes away is another. It’s time the genre got shot in the head....

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When Arguing : Wives Matter More

When it comes to keeping the peace, it's more important for wives – than for husbands – to calm down after a heated argument...

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Palms [Album]

The emphasis on tight contrapuntal instrumentation elevates Palms as one of THE records of 2013....

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Dustbowl II : Our Dying Soil

Cultivating soil continuously for too long destroys the bacteria which convert the organic matter into nutrients...

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Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

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Why Computers Can’t Tell Jokes

Unlike digital computers, which are designed to follow rules, the computations performed by the neural networks that make up our brain are inherently context dependent...

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Burton Morris : Poptastic

When I paint a coffee cup it is because it represents the coffee shop culture as a whole. Something that is very much a part of my daily life....

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Measuring Creativity

A team of researchers led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist has created a quick but reliable test that can measure a person's creativity from single spoken words....

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Loitered Lens : The Presence LDN

Do it out in the street and they’d lock you up. Do it up on a stage and everybody gets into it. I guess that’s the weird magic of the thing – going nuts in a public place. The Presence LDN,...

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Hello Girls! Women Gawp at Cleavage Too

Though the men in the study exhibited such visual behavior consistently, the researchers found that women's eye patterns actually were similar to men's. ...

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Daring to Have Dreams

All too many individuals had their dreams kicked out of them at an early age. We must come back to fantasy to keep a grip on reality....

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Hastings Storytelling Festival

Hastings Storytelling Festival celebrates the narrative art, and may just restore your faith in a decent yarn. None of which will be 140 characters or less....

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