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Shiptracks

Via Mammoth, shiptracks are:

narrow clouds… form[ed] when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships either emit directly as exhaust or that form as a result of gases within the exhaust

Or: chemtrails for the ocean.

Bookmarks for 2012-05-27

Dawn Above the Cloud Sea on Vimeo
Dawn Above the Cloud Sea After hiking 13km up HuangShan on the first day, we got up at 4am (after only 5hrs of sleep) to go see the sunrise over the mountain. At first it was a tease – the sky got brighter but we did not see the disk of the sun. When it finally began emerging from the grayness of the horizon, a large cloudmist swooped in to block its ascent from view. (the crowd was certainly displeased!) But at long last the mist dissipated, and the glow of morning illuminated the rolling waves of the cloudsea beneath. We were at ???? vista (hou zi guan hai) (monkey gazing at the cloudsea) Equipment: Nikon D300, Tokina 12-24mm, Nikon 35mm 2.0, Nikon 85mm 1.8 Music: Epoch in Dmaj – Caspian James Leng
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surveillance and the sentient city | THE STATE
@cnqmdi: new post at @thestate_: on anonymous, insurrectionism, and cv-dazzling underwear http://t.co/diKJyUyL cc @Triple_Canopy @BiellaColeman http://twitter.com/cnqmdi/status/2057...
(tags:ifttt twitter editmytaglaterwarren! )
Ghosting Season – 13 featuring. Birds Of Passage by Last Night On Earth on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
Ghosting Season – 13 featuring. Birds Of Passage A fascination with taxidermy, a love of Krautrock, and interests ranging from vintage synths to gothic Victoriana – Ghosting Season embody the eccentric and the ethereal. ‘The Very Last Of The Saints’ is the debut album from the Manchester-based duo, aka Gavin Miller and Thomas Ragsdale. Stepping off the path laid by the great British leftfield tradition (Eno, Aphex, Seefeel, Global Communication, Burial, Lone et al), Ghosting Season fuse elements of ambient techno, musique concrete, IDM and post-rock into the kind of textured soundscapes that have won them much critical acclaim via a handful of releases, remixes (Radiohead, Cloud Control) and their formidable live show (Fields, SXSW and beyond). Ghosting Season’s sound first emerged as tangents from Gavin and Tom’s previous band project, worriedaboutsatan. While the latter took its cues from the likes of Explosions In The Sky and Mogwai, the pair’s music began to head off into a different direction, one that was informed far more by electronic music, but still incorporated their love of guitars, vocals and found sounds. This new identity bore its first fruit with 2011’s ‘Far End Of The Graveyard EP’. ‘The Very Last Of The Saints’ is a breathtaking debut, moving from beautifully crafted cerebal electronica to tripped out house, glitchy drone collages and more strobe-friendly peaktime techno. ‘The Very Last Of The Saints’ is the first album release on Sasha’s Last Night On Earth label.
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Buckyballed by adamgreenfield

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Bookmarks for 2012-05-25

Go Dugong feat. Welcome Back Sailors – "White Sun" on Vimeo
Go Dugong feat. Welcome Back Sailors – "White Sun" Taken from the forthcoming release "WHITE SUN" EP. © AMDISCS: Futures Reserve Label Go Dugong
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by ELLEN ROGERS

More and about it

ELLEN ROGERS

via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/c3P2CG

Due To Computer Error, FREAKANGELS Wins Eagle Award Again

I just heard that FREAKANGELS won Favourite Webcomic for the second time at this year’s Eagle Awards.

Anna Petterson, as is now traditional, is looking after it and pouring alcohol on it.

Bookmarks for 2012-05-25

UbuWeb Sound – Daphne Oram
@ubuweb: Daphne Oram Audio Archive – Electronic Music for Radio, TV, Cinema, Ads, Dance. Rec. 1959-77 [MP3]: http://t.co/BvZKJwZ7 http://twitter.com/ubuweb/status/2060...
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Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan, and David Milch Interview – GQ June 2012: Movies + TV: GQ
"The creators of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood are this generation's auteurs. Brett Martin sits them down to discuss the future of television"
(tags:writing tv )

Bookmarks for 2012-05-24

G.O.P. Nightmare Charts – NYTimes.com
@allisonkilkenny: The GOP's nightmare charts http://t.co/u5dmygtd http://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/st...
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5 Things the Pentagon Isn’t Telling Us About the Chinese Military – By Trefor Moss | Foreign Policy
"Here are the five most important questions about Beijing's defense strategy that remain stubbornly unanswered."
(tags:war pol )

Not Here

Today I am deep into the copyedit on GUN MACHINE and not coming out until it’s done.

So look at this instead: by and of my friend Cassandra Melena, who graduates from Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects school today. Congratulations again, Cass.