More slo-mo goodness. I must say I’m not over-keen on the soundtrack, but if you are, it’s over here.
(via 3quarksdaily)
A pick from the Guardian’s pick of Sydney dust storm pictures. Nothing really to add, just wanted to fix this event in place on the blog…
(via Sydney dust storm: your pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk)
Soul check: if this doesn’t make you very happy, then you don’t have one. Sorry about that.
(via Projo)
My tune for the day: Neil Young, Don’t Be Denied, from Time Fades Away (1973). Usual disclaimers apply.
I suspect that it’s in the quality of Neil’s delivery (it remains the only version of the song that’s seen official release), and I’m wondering about the parallels between Neil’s situation at the time, and where Barack Obama is at today: riding a tsunami of popular support; recently bereaved; cognizant that What Needs To Be Done lies outside middle class Americans’ comfort zone.
Neil Young, of course, only had to give voice to it (and he was allowed to do it drunk) whereas Obama, bless ‘im, will be expected to Actually Do Something. I suppose it helps that, if this were actually an election for President of the World, Obama would walk it right now. That’s some serious political capital there.
Best of luck, d00d. Srsly.
[Don't forget to vote, now, guys?]
The jewel amongst the Obama campaign videos. It seems like a year ago I first saw this (maybe it was) and here it is again, amongst a selection of YouTubes at 3quarksdaily. The looming election is making me anxious: possibly more because Obama seems to have the upper hand at this point. It has to do with the past two (stolen) elections, the worrying inaction over fraudulent electronic voting, and the possible reaction amongst USAian voters to Obama’s global popularity. Is it possible that they would elect McCain out of sheer spite?
Technical note: it seems that, the valid Youtube embed code no longer works in Firefox, possibly since the advent of version 3. It still works in Safari and Opera, so now there are two characters in the frame to be yelled at, mocked and derided: Mozilla for fixing that which was not broken, and Youtube, who have still not provided an embed code that will validate. So, the above video is embedded with the standard, non-valid code.
Dubai, as noted previously, is expected to become a major exporter of apocalyptic omens, portents and casual weirdness for that arbitrary portion of the coming century that we can describe — with due trepidation — as “foreseeable”.
I passed over the picture from the same set that recalled Edvard Munch’s Scream, in favour of this more generally surreal version of L.S. Lowry as directed by Cronenberg; the effect is somewhat lightened, perhaps not in the best possible way, by the fact that the DRB post is titled Goblin Attack!, after other business, unrelated hitherto.
(Note my utter lack of interest in the technicalities, either in the how-exactly of the installation, nor the (no doubt impressive) specs for the keen sliding-about sports anorak. I’m strictly here for the Signs-of-the-End-Times ambience.)
enthusemarc, twittering