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Teruna Jaya (gamelan animated graphical score)
Stephen Malinowski is a YouTuber who makes animated scores, usually of Bach's music, but today I discovered something completely different: his spectacular score for Teruna Jaya, a classic of Balinese gamelan music (12 min.).
Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of synergy
G/O Media, the much-reviled owner of such internet landmarks as Kotaku, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, and The Root, has been selling off their assets recently, including ClickHole (sold to Cards Against Humanity), Lifehacker (Ziff Davis), Deadspin (gutted), Jezebel and the AV Club (Paste). Latest on the auction block is The Onion... who ended up with a surprising buyer: Global Tetrahedron, a name that might ring a few bells for longtime readers. But what does the advent of this ominous conglomerate mean for America's Finest News Source?™
"High school isn't a very important place."
For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King's debut novel Carrie (original review), the New York Times Book Review offers: an appreciation by Margaret Atwood; an essay by Amanda Jayatissa; a collection of reflections from various luminaries; a King reading guide; and a podcast with Grady Hendrix and Damon Lindelof about King's works and influence (NYT gift links throughout).
Colonoscopy strategies
"Before I get into the whys of it, let me say that having my first four colonoscopies all happen within one twelve-month period allowed me to rapidly refine my prep techniques. 'Prep', here, being the common nickname for the nasty stuff you must swallow to thoroughly clean out your guts for a proper examination. I learned that prep takes many forms, today." Jason McIntosh shares "How not to screw it up" and a preparatory technique that includes "Eight coins or other tiny objects you can use as tokens." He further recommends "the delightful 'Welcome to Colonoscopy Land' by Anne Helen Petersen" (previously) which aims to break taboos and discuss "pooping your guts, the best fake sleep of your life, and having no memory of getting a camera pushed up your butt."
We need more IRL events
There's been practically no activity on the IRL MetaFilter page lately. There was a time when it was full of events. This post is to encourage you to create more IRL events and go to them. You'll meet new people, see old friends and make new friends. You'll get to match user names with real names and faces. (To get local IRL alerts, in your MeFi user profile set you location and in preferences make sure "Receive IRL alerts? " is checked)
Infinite Craft
Infinite Craft
- from the creator of the Password Game (previously), a browser-based colossal productivity killer where you simply combine two words, over and over, to make... any/everything?! (Via RPS)
Slime Bowl LVIII
After several years of alternative playoff game broadcasts, the NFL and Nickelodeon are stepping things up with an alternative Super Bowl broadcast on the children's entertainment network.
100 Ballads
Top pop from seventeenth-century England.
Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website presents lyrics and recordings of over 100 of the most successful, from The Judgement of God shewed upon one John Faustus, Doctor in Divinity to A True Relation of the Life and Death of Sir Andrew Barton, a Pyrate and Rover on the Seas. Come and sing along with the chart toppers of the seventeenth century.
How the devil are you? Have you had a good week?
In July 2022, YouTube channel Auto Shenanigans started a new series called Secrets of the Motorway.
With the posting of part 3 of the M25, the series is now complete, and we have 80 short videos about every motorway in mainland Britain.
Surprisingly It's Not Muscular Fan Struggles With Water Bottle
Baseball And The Algorithm:
The MLB YouTube channel has posted 291,289 videos. If you had to guess what happens in the video with the very most views, what would you say?
Frontline Folklore
A movie on local British ritual:
Artist Ben Edge takes you on a journey through the British Ritual Year of 2019, documenting twenty remarkable folk customs and unknowingly capturing the pre-covid ritual landscape of Britain.
Gilded Advent Calendar (SLYT playlist)
Ruth Tappin is a gilder and antiques restorer in Britain. The creation of these 24 tree ornaments serves as a sampler of gilding techniques, further explored in a large and varied collection of longer project videos covering object repair, surface preparation and gilding. Great effort is put into communicating a sense of material properties.
When Fantasia Meets Documentary
Continuing on with his line of documentaries on the history of the Disney parks and their operations, Kevin Perjurer of Defunctland (previously) has released an ambitious new piece - a history of the tumultuous history of EPCOT Center from Walt's death to the park's opening, done through a synesthesic presentation built on music, visuals, and historical footage. (SLYT)
Attn Tiny Desk Concert Booking-Person
Rushad Eggleston aka "The Cello Goblin" aaka Rushadicus has for no good reason escaped attention on the blue
...but just until today!
Ear to the Ground: Rushad Eggleston —part mad-scientist, part musical genius. This mini-documentary explores the creative inspirations of a mind-boggling, genre-bending talent.
"There's a lot going on in here."
Ever wondered how an old pinball machine works ? Technology Connections has you covered: Old pinball machines are amazingly complex.
He Did the Monster Mash(ed Avocado)
Seasonally appropriate frivolous spending!
Looking for seasonally appropriate ways to fritter away your savings? Be a avocado toast monster!
Launches, landings, elements, and the fiery golden apples of the sun
NASA started work on this day in 1958.
So let's mark the occasion by checking on the past month of humanity's exploration of space.
"I just published a wildly over-researched article--
--about a question that has been plaguing me for months: Why is this bridge here?"
The deepest of deep dives into the history of a seemingly trivial phenomenon: a footbridge over a suburban freeway south of Minneapolis. At the same time, an amazing piece of citizen research and reporting on a bit of pre-internet local history. (via)
Tell Me Why It Hurts
"Call it what you want, but the core idea is always shaped like trauma. Once, we were whole, but now we’re not; now we suffer from a sickness we struggle to grasp or name. Yet this wound provides our new identity, at once the thing that gives us the right to speak and the only thing we have left to say when we do. Underwritten by its literalism, our trauma is the guarantor of what we believe we are owed."
How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives. (NYMag)
Happy Disability Pride! Here, Have a Flag!
The Disability Pride Flag represents everyone with a disability, and the design reflects inclusion
This piece explains what the flag means, has some links out to the history of the making of the flag, and is available in both audio and text formats
I’m Deaf and have “perfect” speech. And I want to stop speaking.
Everywhere I go, people compliment me and say they wouldn’t have known I was Deaf if I hadn’t told them.
“They say it kindly, but it’s like they’re giving me a cupcake without realizing there’s a razor blade inside it. […]
Once my friends and I have ordered, we sign up a storm, talking about everything and shy about nothing. What would be the point? People are staring anyway. Our language is lavish, our faces alive. My friends discuss the food, but for me, the food is unimportant. I’m feasting on the smorgasbord of communication ― the luxury of chatting in a language that I not only understand 100% but that is a pleasure in and of itself. Taking nothing for granted, I bask in it all, and everything goes swimmingly.”
Making Accessibility Part of My Home
The sweet vulnerability of creating an accessible home with the person you love and the tenderness towards yourself it requires
“That’s how I feel about anyone seeing proof of my disabilities before I’ve wrapped my head around the fact of the disabilities: like I’ve reached a fragile peace with it, and any harsh comment, any misguided sentiment, any gawking could wreck my growing understanding and acceptance of how much I’ve changed.” (Happy Disability Pride Month!)
it's never been easy but societal growth and progress can and does occur
Being a Gay Game Developer [YouTube]
“To all of my fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community, happy Pride. Being queer these days is a whirlwind of emotions, some very positive and hopeful, and others not so much. Our history is one of courage and struggle, a struggle that continues today. And in this fight, it’s essential to learn from the experiences of our queer elders, both to learn what has changed, and what work remains. One such elder is legendary game designer Tim Cain, who has recently published a video discussing his many years in the game industry as a gay man, and his journey from closeted life to being out to the world. Perhaps best known as the creator of the original Fallout games in the 1990s, Tim Cain has had a storied career in the games industry. [...] Though he knew from a young age that he was gay, Cain stayed in the closet for many years, only coming out in the 2000s after The Temple of Elemental Evil. In a recent YouTube video, he documented that journey from closeted to visible.” [via: Kotaku]
“No one must know or they’ll kill us and destroy the book.”
The Sarajevo Haggadah has been kept in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
off and on since the late 19th Century. It is a medieval Hebrew codex, made to be read at the Passover Seder, and is beautifully illuminated, with a focus on the story of Joseph. The Haggadah has inspired plenty of art, including The Sarajevo Haggadah: The Music of the Book, by Bosnian composer and accordionist Merima Ključo, here performed with the CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra (with a panel discussion afterwards), which itself drew inspiration from Geraldine Brooks novel, The People of the Book. Brooks recounted the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, and its incredible rescue by Islamic scholar Dervis Korkut during World War Two in a 2007 New Yorker article called The Book of Exodus.
Jon Stewart meets Ian Hislop
"Bloody hell!
Jon is in London to talk about populism. Turns out it’s not unique to America! Jon is joined by Ian Hislop, editor of the satirical current affairs publication Private Eye Magazine, to discuss the reign of Rupert Murdoch, the economic consequences of a government run by lunatics, and the explicitly corrupt yet unbeatable right-wing propaganda machine."
Seagulls also drool, especially when eating pepperoni
In March of 2018, 18 years after being banned from the Empress Hotel in British Columbia, Novia Scotia resident Nick Burchill wrote them a letter and asked for forgiveness. In October of 2022, Benedict Cumberbatch did a dramatic reading of the letter.
Cooked with Love: World Recipes Without Borders
Cooked with Love is a recipe book collated by 30 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, with help from social workers, carers, and city officials in Leeds, UK. Featuring recipes from Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Chad, the book is downloadable for free from the first link.
"I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation."
Climate scientist John Kennedy explains via an anecdote involving himself, an orange, and hubris that the phrase "some scientists think" should be taken with a shaker of salt. (SLTwitter)
Online Transgender Archives
In 1960, Virginia Prince founded Transvestia magazine, which continued for 111 issues. The FTM Newsletter was first published in 1987 by Lou Sullivan and extended for 67 issues. Starting in about 1971, Adèle Anderson kept a series of thirteen scrapbooks documenting her interest and experience in gender identity. These online resources are a small part of the collated online resources at the University of Victoria's Transgender Archives which can be followed on twitter, itself part of the Digital Transgender Archives network (twitter).
I’m way too fine to be this stressed yeah
Lizzo dropped a new video/single today: About Damn Time (SLyoutube).
SONDHEIM, In The Style Of…
On March 3, Justin Friello and Andrew Fox released the first of six videos they produced to honor Stephen Sondheim, covering his songs in a variety of styles. Five are currently available. Youtube playlist, individual links inside
No Exit by Sartre
Did you know that playwright Harold Pinter starred in a 1964 BBC production of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit? It's true.
Tavi Gevinson interviews Stevie Nicks for the New yorker!
Stitching together of two separate interviews from 8-9 years apart!
[alternate link] Here is Tavi Gevinson's link to the now sadly defunct Rookie Magazine.
I was wondering what was up with Ms. Gevinson after she closed the magazine. looks like she has transitioned into being a Broadway Actress.
EXTRA: Here is her article on singing Sondheim songs on Broadway [alternate link].
Vinyl crate-digging on single-digit budgets, in podcast form
I'd Buy That For a Dollar is a podcast about “inexpensive, common and underappreciated records that are waiting to be rediscovered.” Hosts Sean Hartman, Peter Cook and Jeremy Ruggles (plus guests) plunder the vinyl discount bins for gems of all genres, mostly from the 70s and 80s. Recommended episodes inside!
Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You
Via the Mahindra Humanities Center's YouTube channel: Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You, a series of six lectures looking at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty. The talk will consider spending time in the slowdown – time in music and stories.
—Christmas is almost down our throats.
Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.
Old-school rave to make you happy
DJ Chrissy (mentioned before here on the blue) has a new album out, and it's a glorious throwback to old-school rave. Resident Advisor has nice things to say. Available to listen on most (all?) streaming platforms.
HR weighs in: can we butter cats to keep them out of our printers?
Yesterday on Reddit's popular "Am I the Asshole" sub, someone asked 'AITA for ‘enforcing an ethnic stereotype’ by joking that orange cats are often dumb?' about a work conflict between the poster and another (human) employee over potential unfair treatment of new [feline] employee Jorts vis a vis existing [feline] employee Jean. HR stepped in and a recent update shares the resolved situation: mediation has ended with all parties happy with the outcome. Jorts will receive an apology, a new photo of himself to accompany his official staff bio rather than a photo of a sweet potato, and all employees will vow to refrain from buttering other employees in the future, no matter how good their intentions.
MetaFilter Takes On Halloween
From the Projects page: The Worst House On The Internet by missjenny, Ha-Ha-Haunted House... of Comedy by under_petticoat_rule, and two short horror/gothic stories by Countess Elena.
spoopy creppy szn
Looking for non-Spotify/whatever other streaming service you use Halloween playlists? Let ole Jack Fear over at PopDose give you the trick AND treat of FOURTEEN downloadable mixtapes.
Everybody wants to etc.
Tears For Fears announce first album in 17 years: ‘The Tipping Point', out in February. The eponymous first single is quite good.
Themes, dreams and schemes - We're gonna need more ice!
Over 100 episodes broadcast between 2006 and 2009, Bob Dylan hosted "Theme Time Radio Hour". After a hiatus of 12 years ("I mean, does anybody even still have a radio? Some folks might even be listening on a smart toaster."), a new episode emerged in 2020: Whiskey (playlist).