Author Archives: Niall Murphy

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmlkmVoPuQA

Sword Dance and Shadowgraph: Japanese performance artist, Taichi Saotome takes on a variety of silhouetted and computer-generated foes with his samurai blade. So he does.

geekologie

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The Canadian author and journalist, Pierre Berton hosted his own talk show in the 60s and early 70s. Among his many iconic guests were Malcolm X (1965), Lenny Bruce (1966), and Bruce Lee.

This is the only in-depth interview Lee ever took part in. It was filmed at the end of 1971, 20 months before his death, subsequently lost, then rediscovered in 1994, when it was aired  as a TV special.

Sure, it’s 25 minutes long. But if you’re any class of a Lee fan, that’s a good thing.

video via DailyWh.at/image: Rama’s Screen

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOoFEKiK8A

The SoloWheel: it’s a gyro-stabilised electric unicycle from Inventist Inc – the people who brought you the Aquaskipper.

Think of it as the world’s smallest Segway. Or better still, don’t think of it at all.

gizmag

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIChsFrdf00

A few days ago, veteran actor James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader, among many other things) was persuaded to recite the lyrics of Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ on the Gayle King Show.

Now, did you think the internet was ever going to leave it at that?

DailyWh.at

Images from photographer and former Road Records proprietor, Dave Kennedy’s website Visions Of The Phoenix Park. Sez he:

I’ve been taking photographs since my early twenties. I moved into digital about five years ago but still enjoy a day out with a camera loaded with old style film. I particularly enjoy a day out with a monstrous medium format film camera, there is something very wholesome about carrying around a piece of equipment that weighs far too much for the purpose it serves.

I like to shoot a lot in infra-red, it’s something I became hooked on a few years ago and now I find it hard to take normal photographs.

Only open a wet week, but big on promise.

Lots more at Dave’s Flickr Photostream.

(Thanks Sinéad)