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February 3, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-02-02
"The Nottingham Caves Survey is in the process of recording all of Nottingham's 450+ sandstone caves. The project is now underway and we are surveying caves even as you read this."
(tags:history geo )
English Russia » Destiny Of A Soviet Spaceship
"There were also 4 models of "Buran" spaceship. One of them still rests in Baikonur cosmodrome. In the 1990s it was used by local youth for drinking sessions, so some windows are broken and its general condition is very poor."
(tags:space history )
Research uses quantum mechanics to melt glass at absolute zero
Prof. Eran Rabani of Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a new quantum mechanical effect with glass-forming liquids. They've determined that it's possible to melt glass — not by heating it, but by cooling it to a temperature near Absolute Zero.
(tags:sci )
Mike Avon Oeming decided to do a piece of FREAKANGELS art...
Mike Avon Oeming decided to do a piece of FREAKANGELS art for fun, and it's gorgeous.
From an anonymous reader, one I've never seen before: on ...
From an anonymous reader, one I've never seen before: on the left is Pat Mills' & Kev O'Neill's Marshal Law, but on the right is Lazarus Churchyard, by me and D'Israeli…
February 2, 2011
Night Music: Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell
This album is eight hours long. That's right. An eight-hour piece of ambient drone music broken into thirteen chapters. The album's name, FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE EDGE OF HELL, is such a perfectly fitting descriptor of the sound that I have little more to add. I'm only 90 minutes in and I swear I can hear organs playing from inside a pit. The liner notes read:
Every effort was made to preserve the original quality of this recording. The shifting, actively oppressive nature of the environment had an irreversible effect on both the equipment and personnel. As a result, some damage was permanent.
Wonderful. You can click through and buy it — as I am going to — or just leave warrenellis.com up in a tab and stream it here by activating the widget below.
G'night.
Spider Jerusalems:
Wayne Ree, Sarah Chatelain, David Can...
Spider Jerusalems:
Wayne Ree, Sarah Chatelain, David Canario
Also from the left, those are Spider Jerusalems originally by Darick Robertson, Jae Lee and Tony Harris.
Bookmarks for 2011-02-01
"the hauntological society is an information resource for all things hauntological. established Saturday 1 January 2011."
(tags:hauntology )
radioartnet | Blog | Radiophonic Creation Day Call of Works
"International Radiophonic Creation Day is a biennal event honouring radio creation on its widest sense : soundscape, Hörspiel, radio drama, experimental music, various sounds…"
(tags:radio radiophonic )
restored ratzer map of new york
"The Brooklyn Historical Society has strikingly restored this beautiful map, an early edition of Bernard Ratzer's "Plan of the City of New York" from 1770:"
(tags:history maps )
Nominations Open for Eagle Awards 2011
nominations open on Friday 4 February and run until 7th March for the world-famous Eagle Awards"
(tags:comics )
Echo Lake Shoot A Video With Microsoft Kinect Camera
As directed by Daniel Nixon, quoted here as saying:
As far as I know (and I'm scared of checking) this is the first music video to be made with the Microsoft Kinect camera. The footage was shot on that piece of £130 equipment and recorded to custom software running on a laptop.
Echo Lake – Young Silence from Dan Nixon on Vimeo.
The band sent me the link. And here's the video. Doesn't hurt that it's a perfectly lovely piece of music, from Echo Lake's forthcoming YOUNG SILENCE EP on No Pain In Pop.
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Michael Fischer, Eric Howald,...
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Michael Fischer, Eric Howald, and "James, Miki Marsala's manbeast."
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February 1, 2011
RxRy: Alpha
Download the teaser package for the next RxRy release. It's all soundtracks from the liquid space of the next universe up the line, like this:
A | RxRy | 1 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.
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