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PostSecret Valentine

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:30:24 -0800

This video comes from Frank Warren over at the one of the best sites on the web, PostSecret. It's bright, hopeful, lonely, dark and even a little disturbing. Everything that you've come to expect each Sunday from PostSecret.

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What's a flying flaming piano between friends?

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:21:23 -0800

Aside from being a font, Trebuchet is a rather fascinating cousin to the catapult. Unlike the aforementioned device which relies on wound up tension being sudden released, the Trebuchet employs a massive counterweight system to hurl it's payload...

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Art Adventures: Buenos Aires

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:29:02 -0800

I picked up this video from Matt Petty's Culture Blog over at the San Francisco Chronicle's website. What I really liked about the art here is that the themes have turned from political to playful and the group, DOMA, has made something of a c...

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Alexandre Orion's Metabiotica

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:04:23 -0700

Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion began his pursuits as a teenage graffiti artist in the streets of Sao Paulo City. Now, in his late twenties, Orion experiments with combining his street art and his fascination with photography... a process he cal...

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Siouxsie Goes "Solo"

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:54:12 -0700

This month Siouxsie released her first official solo album, Mantaray.

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The first new Devo song in 17 years.

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:55:54 -0700

The de-evolutionary power that was Devo is back. The band has recorded it's first new song in 17 years for an ad for Dell Computers. The band now have plans to create a full-length music video and are talking about a new CD once they have the mat...

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Yes... it's another animated Low video

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:06:13 -0700

As previously stated, one of my favorite bands is Duluth, Minnesota's Low... here's an animated video of "Hatchet" (sorta) from their latest CD, Drums and Guns. The audio version here is the "Optimimi" version, not included on the CD. This is th...

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iDEATH: Blog Notes

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:53:46 -0700

Since April of this year (2007) I have taken something of a vacaton from this blog. Upon revisiting, I found that several of my favorite videos (namely Amy Sedaris' appearance on Letterman and her voiceover for the demented cartoon "Puberty Pals")...

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Guardian Angel of Abused Dolls

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:27:12 -0700

Over at flickr.com, where I have two photos sites, is the amazing photography of Hans Proppe (who posts under the name Shadowplay). One of Proppe's favorite subjects is his collection of broken and abused dolls. Here is a recent video he made fea...

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Ricky Gervais Show: Monkey News

nobody@vox.com(Caliban23) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:37:52 -0700

If you weren’t one of the millions of listeners to the podcast of The Ricky Gervais Show, then you really missed something special. Gervais and creative partner, Stephen Merchant created the podcast through Guardian UK as a thank you to the fans ...

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