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Links for 2010-06-22

The TAKE-BACK Manifesto – "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully
"From this point forth, we are only interested in the film itself. By marketing your marketing, you are only alienating us. If you are doing anything, you are making us not want to watch your film."
(tags:movies theory manifesto )
Serotonin Sounds: [interview:] ???
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(tags:music )

PLANETARY For iPad/iPhone/iPod And Playstation

Announced at DC's blog:

DC Comics… is partnering with comiXology and PlayStation®Network for two separate digital comics distribution deals launching today, Wednesday, June 23. In addition, a DC Comics App for the iPhone®, iPad® and iPod® Touch is available allowing consumers an easy way to access DC Comics' content.

Both the comiXology and the PlayStation Network Digital Comics launch offerings will include classic titles from DC Comics, Vertigo and WildStorm, such as… Planetary: All Over...

Station Ident: Way Not Awake Enough For This Shit

Yesterday was very weird. Morning.

(MontiLee Stormer)

The 4am: 22 – Crawling Inside Your Body

The 4am is a selection composed entirely of music sent to me by artists. If you want your music (I'll also take field recordings, noise and spoken-word) to be played on The 4am, email your 128kbps-plus mp3 files directly to warrenellis@gmail.com. Include your website address, please. The 4am is of no set length and is released on no set schedule. The 4am doesn't survive without new music. If you like the 4am, please tell people.

The podcast feed for The 4am is...

Akira The Don's 24-Hour Mixtape

Just got this in email, and it's mirrored, with more details and a video and stuff at this link here:

24 hours. 1 man, making 1 mixtape. All live online. This is ATD24 by Akira The Don. Like Jack Bauer, but with less torture.

At 3am on Wednesday 23rd June, Akira The Don will embark upon the world's first attempt to create an entire mixtape in 24 hours, from start to finish, with the whole project being broadcast live at www.akirathedon.com. Following on from the insanely successful ATD23: The...

Links for 2010-06-22

Serial killer member of religious cult that kills for human hair
"He said they were not interested in ransom or blood from the victims but human hair, which they produce to their seniors to assess their progress."
(tags:crime )Amsterdam deputy mayor wants to use ?decoy Jews? to combat anti-Semitism
The acting mayor of Amsterdam, Lodewijk Asscher, wants to look into the possibility of using so-called 'decoy Jews' to combat anti-Semitic violence.
(tags:crime )Students Design Futuristic Flying...

Station Ident: Awake, Horribly Awake

(Heli Kinnunen)

Night Music: Talvihorros

Music In Four Movements. Buy the download for a mere five British groats pounds.

A Continual Echo of the Sound of Loss (Part I) by Talvihorros

Throughout the recording process I became interested in the fundamental ideas of life and death and why people would choose to take their own lives, (reading 'The Road' on a day long train back to London from Scotland, hungover after New Year certainly contributed to this). Slowly a narrative presented itself and the 4 tracks started to represent a...

Empty Sheet

There'll be no more new comics projects from me in 2010.

Wow, that's a weird thing to type.

Hero Of The Day

"A protester urinates in front of a row of policemen during riots following the death of a 15-year-old boy in San Carlos de Bariloche on June 18, 2010. According to local media, provincial government officials have confirmed that four police officers, involved in the incident which left the boy dead during an alleged robbery, have been removed from their posts. Three people have died and at least 12 have been injured during the clashes."