Thursday 10 April 2014

Tuesday 8 April 2014

Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines

Backlash beginning in 5-4-3-2-1...


On-U Sound: Sunday Roast (Live Edition 5/4/13)


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Chris Raschka: The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra


How Glasgow was prepared for a Cold War nuclear strike

Monday 7 April 2014

Cyberpunk (Edinburgh 1983)

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Nick Cave talks '20,000 Days on Earth' and trusting the filmmakers


An alleged Dept. of Immigration Policy Adviser uses social media

...All employees will need to make these judgements for themselves. Before posting material on matters of public policy, ask yourself whether a Prime Minister, from either political party, having read the material, would feel confident that any advice from you was impartial and balanced.
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Previous employment?

Redface has another big day at the ballpark in Cleveland


360° Video using 6 GoPro Cameras: spherical panorama timelapse


HA!

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(Thanx Robin!)

Love

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Leunig

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Nick Drake & Beverley Martyn - Reckless Jane


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So much for free speech

Australian Border Protection forces Facebook content removal through Twitter

Free speech, but only for Abbott elite

Celt Islam - The Dervish Lodge Mix

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Manifesto of the BLACK THORN LEAGUE

We are all very anxious

Throbbing Gristle - Live @Rafters Club Manchester (4 December 1980)

More photographs by Peter Bargh HERE
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This was a good night. The Psychic Youth Rally with Cabaret Voltaire playing too, but I do remember that it seemed weird seeing TG in such a large venue

Sunday 6 April 2014

'Get your arse out'


Only by turning the tables on sexual aggression can we see how bad it is



Artwork by child in Immigration detention in Australia (2014)

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Nine Inch Nails - Live @Austin City Limits


All Time LowSanctified
Came Back Haunted
Copy of A
The Frail/The Wretched
The Big Come Down
In This Twilight
While I'm Still Here
Hurt
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Youn Sun Nah - Enter Sandman


YES...the Metallica song, but the Korean singer makes it a completely different music... gorgeous!

Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank

So now you know...


Stewart Baker VS Jacob Appelbaum

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The Unlimited Dream Company


The Unlimited Dream Company, written, edited & directed by Sam Scoggins. 16mm, 24 mins, color, 1983.
“The British science fiction writer J.G. BALLARD talks about his life and work. Meanwhile a crashed pilot stalks the landscapes of his dreams. The film is concerned with what constitutes an adequate picture of a person, the role of the imagination in transforming the world.”

Psychic TV - La Edad de Oro (TVE Studios Madrid October 16, 1984)


Remember them this way not this...

Lamb Cake

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Psychic TV - Dreams Less Demo Cassette


1 - White Nights (Alternate Mix)
2 - Eden2 (No Insert)
3 - Nursery Funk
4 - Twisted (Backing Track)
5 - Breakthrough
6 - Cold Steel (Alex Vocals)
7 - In The Nursery (Backing Track)
8 - Ancient Lights (Alternate Mix)
9 - Translucent Carriages (Early Mix)
10 - Botanica (Alternate Mix)
11 - Eden3 (Alternate Mix)
12 - Thee Orchids (Alternate Mix)
13 - Iron Glove (Alternate Mix)

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(Thanx Martin!)

WOW!

'Blue Yodel No 6' Singer "EmiSunshine" is only 9-years-old, but already she can sing, play the ukulele, banjolele, mandolin, kazoo, and a little piano. In this video she is captured playing Jimmie Rodgers' "Blue Yodel No. 6" by an impressed bystander. At The Sweetwater, Tennessee Flea Market

Saturday 5 April 2014

Michael Faber on J.G. Ballard's 'Kindness of Women'

Like many men scarred by war, JG Ballard spent much of his life determined not to talk about it. Had he died in his early 50s (not such an improbable fate, given his intake of alcohol and tobacco) only one short story, "The Dead Time", would have existed to pay direct witness to his wartime experience. He preferred to divert the memories into more fantastical conceptions: drowned worlds, concrete islands, terminal beaches, atrocity exhibitions.
It wasn't until the 1980s that he commanded his fiction to shine a documentary torch into his own life, to illuminate, and perhaps to exorcise his Shanghai ghosts. He confronted them first in Empire of the Sun, tackled them again from another angle in The Kindness of Women, and finally – just before he died – offered a conventionally "truthful" account in his autobiography, Miracles of Life. The Kindness of Women, marketed as a "sequel" to Empire of the Sun, steered back towards the provocative style of Ballard's earlier work, exploring the psychic fallout of horror and violence. The scene where young Jim watches four somnolent Japanese soldiers slowly murder a Chinese prisoner with telephone wire is a masterpiece of understatement and baleful resonance: even as Jim negotiates his own escape, we know that, on a deeper level, there is no escaping from such a sight.
Seventeen novella-like chapters fictionalise the key phases of Ballard's life from 1937 to 1987, starting with his childhood in Shanghai where the rich, perpetually tipsy westerners play tennis, go shopping and sidestep the growing mound of refugee bodies felled by hunger, typhus and bombs. "To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme." Those last 15 words serve as a manifesto for all of Ballard's novels.
If the strangeness of Shanghai is meant to foreshadow Auschwitz, Vietnam and the contextless chaos of modern media, Jim's medical studies in postwar England tell us a lot about Ballard's values as a prose-writer. When he begins to dissect a cadaver, a friend warns him: "You'll have to cut away all the fat before you reach the fascia." It's an appropriate metaphor for Ballard's clinical approach to narrative, an odd mixture of focus and nonchalance. While he liked to set himself apart from oh-so-literary avant-gardists by insisting that he was "an old-fashioned storyteller at heart", he was impatient with the conventions that had underpinned respectable mainstream fiction since the Victorians. Surrealism's emphasis on the inexplicable and SF's tolerance for haphazard characterisation and unnaturalistic dialogue suited his own inclinations, even if some readers might find these things alienating.
It is in the area of physicality – especially sex – that Ballard's style jars most with the conventions of British fiction. It's hard to imagine another English author who could come up with a sentence like: "Her small, detergent-chafed hands, with their smell of lipstick, semen and rectal mucus, ran across my forehead." Frequent references to penises, labia, pelvises and prostates underscore Jim's contention that "Gray's Anatomy is a far greater novel than Ulysses." Ballard is unashamedly fascinated by the flesh – every pore, blemish and scar of it. The scenes in The Kindness of Women where Jim dissects the woman's carcass inspire some of Ballard's most tender, most respectful, most reverent writing.
For all his modernity, however, Ballard was formed by the fashions of a previous age; he could never quite shake the values instilled in him by Biggles and Boy's Own. His ambivalent fascination with soldiers, his disdain for the defeatism of the British in Singapore, and his lifelong love affair with fighter planes, set him apart from the long-haired peaceniks of later generations. His relationship with the times was atypical. Indifferent to music, immune to the charms of psychedelia and bemused by the idealism of hippies, he felt less enamoured of the 1960s than many of his fellow experimenters. He approved of the shake-up of the class system, and celebrated the rise of the literary counterculture that promoted his work, but in The Kindness of Women he chooses to present the 60s as an era driven to psychosis by a steady diet of drugs, assassinations, war trauma and TV. "The demise of feeling and emotion, the death of affect, presided like a morbid sun over the playground of that ominous decade."

J.G. Ballard: five years on

Richard Heslop and Mark French: Shooting The Hunter (Tribute to Derek Jarman)

Richard was one of the cameramen on Derek's film The Garden and this video contains original Super 8 shot by him on the set, together with contemporary footage shot around Prospect Cottage which features in the film. Original music by Fritz Catlin (Skintologists/23 Skidoo). Edited by Ben Cole