New Order’s Blue Monday was released 33 years ago this week. Orkestra Obsolete examine how it would have sounded had it been made 50 years earlier using instruments from the 1930s including dulcimer, musical saw and harmonium.
Because why the hell not.
Editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz sez;
There [is] a typical shot in the filmography of Stanley Kubrick where the character looks in a similar way, almost breaking the fourth wall…
A 2008 interview with the author, inventor and activist Professor Temple Grandin animated in a new instalment of the PBS Blank On Blank series in which she talks about the curious workings of her mind. Sez she:
I was diagnosed with autism as a young child. I had all of the full-blown autism symptoms, no speech, screaming, just everything. I was definitely fully autistic. Now, my brain is visually indexed. I’m basically Totally visual. I mean, everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function. And you type in the keyword and I get pictures, and it comes up in an associational sort of way. I want you to give me some key words and don’t give me something common like house or car, because everybody can visualize that.
A side-by-side compilation of original films and their subsequent remakes by editor Jaume R. Lloret.
THIS is a train station.
A 360° video of Santiago ( he of the Samuel Beckett Bridge) Calatrava’s new transit hub at the World Trade Center site, which opens later this month – seven years late and, at $4 billion, double its original budget.
Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle (NYTimes)
The Goodyear Eagle-360 – a concept envisaged for the autonomous cars of the future featuring road-sensing, ultra-stable spherical tyres that can rotate on any axis.
Yes. Just like the Audi RSQ from I, Robot.
IMLÉ – Fún Orm
Rap as gaeilge by MC Muipéad.
Filmed by Fergal Moloney in a ‘secret Dublin city centre location’.
IMLÉ release their debut album on Gael Linn Records later this year.
(Thanks Cian McCarthy)
Bad Lip Reading does Republican future also-ran Presidential nomination hopeful Ted ‘a new kind of leader’ Cruz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GirQY3sCSS8
ClearHaze revisits the recently reoccupied Grangegorman Squat. To wit:
…a social and cultural experiment highlighting the housing crisis. Shortly after that visit all of the residents were forced to leave. After almost a year a core group have returned to the site so we went and talked with them about their plans for the squat.
Previously: Grangegormanimation
