Moby was in town @ The Current this past week and, in addition to hosting Theft of the Dial, left us with some great live recordings, including this moving Gospel rendition:
Category: energy
Humans Swimming
Are you a human? Do you like to swim? How about free-diving? How about static free diving?
On Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: Sound as Image
translating information from one sense into another, especially sound to image, is one of the things technology does well case in point is Close Encounters of the Third Kind is this captivating? in the case of Close Encounters it is. however, personally, i can only say that in other cases, such as the one below,…
Still My Guitar Gently Weeps
Just imagine the collective talent and experience onstage at one time here:
Help Each Cheder Out
Fire ants build a living life raft in the Amazon (via kottke.org):
Rags to Riches : Jay DeMerit
Our pal’s brother, Jay DeMerit, has overcome seemingly impossible odds, triumphantly making it to the big time: JOHANNESBURG  On an unlikely United States national soccer team, there is no more unlikely player than defender Jay DeMerit, whose nickname is Rags to Riches and whose adventurous career path to the Confederations Cup involved van rides…
Yacht Rockers live on!
If there was ever any doubt that Yacht Rock would live on, may it be quashed by this and this and have a listen for yourself:
one example of a music video
surely most of you have seen this before but i still watch it from time-to-time:
Salt
From Wikipedia: Chloride and sodium ions, the two major components of salt, are necessary for the survival of all known living creatures, including humans. Salt is involved in regulating the water content (fluid balance) of the body. = c
Flow = Attention deconcentration?
It comes up around nearly every turn. It’s one of the wobbles of life that leads us into such ideas repeatedly: Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process…
Frankie : 3 weeks
Puppy! This is Frankie, Meta’s little sister. She turned 3 weeks old today. Same mother and father, too. Frankie will be joining us soon. Reposted from metapup.com = c
Everyone Forever Now
Everyone Forever Now – “Stoop Sitting” from Daniel Mercadante on Vimeo. Watch more = c
Above and Beyond Alaska hosts Andy Summers
Our pals, Sean and Becky Janes, gave Andy Summers and his son the tour of Southeast recently via their outfit Above and Beyond Alaska. That’s Sean on the right in the picture below. Highly recommended if you’re thinking about making it out to the Last Frontier – but of course, we’re biased: = c
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
I just cannot seem to get enough of this band lately: I’ve been sleeping for forty days and Yeah, I know that I’m sleeping cause this dream’s too amazing She got gold doorknobs where her eyes used to be, yeah One turn and I learned what it really means to see, yeah It’s the magical…
Cranies (sic)
I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today. Is that how we say SMS in the plural? Doesn’t really matter. Case in point: “I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today.” It was from my father, who’s never cared much about his spelling, only about the message: Cheers, Pop. Happy Birthday,…
The blues of Bloody Ol’ Mule
Haven’t heard of him yet but we have a feeling you will soon – listen to more here: = c
Blur : Tender
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Wind Power Will Save Us All
Wind power has already sparked a clean energy revolution, however, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that wind power could provide for the entire world’s current and future energy needs. In order to estimate something like the planet’s capacity for this, researchers first sectioned Earth into areas of…
Hero : James Burke
James Burke has the storytelling powers of the immortal. Here we can listen and see him discuss the thinking behind his work. Groovy, indeed. = c
Danny Wilcox Frazier
I give thanks to the gods for Danny Wilcox Frazier. Responsible for chronicling the Midwestern way of life in multiple mediums, he is true to the cause of his homeland and to the powers that live here, unknown to those on the coasts who dare not venture out of their safely *cool* havens for parts…
Garage Sale Jukebox
Here we see a picture of David Browne posing for his pseudo-wedding portrait [long story] back in 2006. He and his bride, Sarah Lukacs, are old pals of ours from our days living in Seattle, where these two still live and are always up to one scheme or another. His latest is Garage Sale Jukebox….