black propaganda

2007-09-22T19:37:00.000+01:00

The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television

2007-09-21T00:23:00.000+01:00

2007-09-06T11:14:00.000+01:00

Yamaha's "Tenoni On" button-matrix sequencer

2007-09-05T12:42:00.000+01:00

Richard Boxs' 'The Field' : It is only as the sun sets that the collaboration between installation artist Richard Box and Bristol University's physics department comes to life. A sea of household fluorescent tubes lights up around an overhead power line close to the M4 motorway, giving substance to the otherwise unnoticed electrical field that permeates the area.

2007-09-05T11:11:00.000+01:00

The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames.

2007-09-05T11:02:00.000+01:00

more here

2007-09-03T15:57:00.000+01:00

The Not Applicable Artists

2007-09-03T15:03:00.001+01:00

Working Class Hero(A portrait of John Lennon)＠White Cube

2007-09-03T15:00:00.000+01:00

Imagine flying like a bird through a musical composition that surrounds you, immerses you and reacts to your presence...from Squidsoup

2007-09-02T16:52:00.000+01:00

Daito Manabe

2007-09-02T16:44:00.001+01:00

2007-09-02T16:24:00.000+01:00

Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run from shiffman and Vimeo.

2007-03-02T13:46:00.001Z

2007-02-15T17:20:00.000Z

“You don’t need to be controlled–you’re controlling yourself.” - 2006 short film by Rob Petit featuring Iain Sinclair.

2007-02-15T16:37:00.000Z

Fantastic Norman Mclaren inspired stop motion animation

2007-02-15T16:35:00.000Z

this is a music video made by one of our more talented students (17 years old!) - its a sway track called pretty ugly husband

2007-02-15T16:34:00.001Z

sea sick steve

2007-02-14T16:56:00.001Z

2007-01-29T15:04:00.000Z

mutant-sounds.blogspot.com : fine fine fine

2007-01-26T17:13:00.000Z

Genghis Blues Original Soundtrack (95 mb RS) The Story of a Blind Blues Musician's Triumphant Journey to the Lost Land of Tuva. If you like Tuvan throat singing and we do round these parts - then give it a whirl

2007-01-26T17:05:00.001Z

The Thing On The Doorstep

2007-01-26T16:59:00.000Z

Rho-Xs

2007-01-26T16:55:00.000Z

Wolf Eyes with Anthony Braxton : noise + saxophone - When word started going around at the Victoriaville Musique Actuelle Festival in Quebec in 2005 that saxophonist Anthony Braxton wanted to sit in on noizemakers Wolf Eyes' set, most people dismissed it. But the meeting did take place and that led to the Wolf Eyes-Anthony Braxton album, Black Vomit, which was voted No. 14 among the top 50 albums of 2006 by Wire magazine.

2007-01-26T16:49:00.000Z

From Aladdin to Lost Ark, Muslims get angry at 'bad guy' film images (Guardian) : Crude and exaggerated stereotypes are fuelling Islamophobia, says study. Popular films ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to children's cartoons are depicting "crude and exaggerated" stereotypes of Muslims and perpetuating Islamophobia, according to a study published today. A report by the Islamic Human Rights Commission argues that films as diverse as The Siege, a portrayal of a terrorist attack on New York starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis, the Disney film Aladdin and the British comedy East is East have helped demonise Muslims as violent, dangerous and threatening, and reinforce prejudices.

2007-01-26T16:43:00.000Z

Butthole Surfers - Cherub 1987

2007-01-26T15:54:00.000Z

Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart ( sendspace 72 mb ) happpy days

2007-01-26T13:37:00.000Z

The Mayfair Set by Adam Curtis. Well worth the download this ( 900 mb - 3hours : use this website to get grab an AVI )by the same film maker who did 'the power of nightmares' and 'the century of the self'. Quality stuff and gives a damning account of the whole Saudi arms dealing debacle which the current labour govt are covering up nicely.

2007-01-24T14:41:00.000Z

Get my kit on - I'm looking to get a new laptop, furnish it with some new music kit and turn a spare room into a studio. Here are some links, I wanted to keep somewhere special. njoy!

www.dv247.com/dvpc

www.soundcontrol.co.uk

www.johnlewis.com/Computing/Area.aspx

www.m-audio.com

www.novationmusic.com

www.htfr.com

www.turnkey.co.uk

www.thomann.de/gb/index.html

www.djdeckstands.com

www.millennium-music.co.uk

www.alienware.com

2007-01-22T11:36:00.001Z

BBC documentaries on google video

2007-01-22T11:09:00.000Z

Trippy 12-minute 1960s film by Toshio Matsumoto, whose work influenced Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

2007-01-22T11:04:00.001Z

2007-01-22T10:55:00.001Z

careful with those hotdogs now

2007-01-19T16:23:00.000Z

ANIMA MUNDI - THE SOUL OF THE WORLD : Anima Mundi is a film about animals. It contains no actors, ... all » has not plot and has no script. Anima Mundi was created by Godfrey Reggio who also created Koyaanisqatsi.

2007-01-17T12:31:00.000Z

Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4 Hmmm so the story goes like this Manuel Gottsching (Founding member of Ash-Ra Tempel) A Groundbreaking early electronic track which had a massive influence on some of the pioneers of modern dance mucic... Derrick May said that he and his friends would listen to the whole LP over and over again for weeks, Juan Atkins said the same and it fit in with his early vision of Science fiction music from outer space, and clearly had an influence on his early Model 500 / Metroplex output. The whole LP lasts well over 40 minutes, and instead of individual tracks, the LP is a continuous track arranged into phases, with subtle changes in instrumentation whilst maintaining the same background rift and light beat. Sampled a million times since, most notably on "Sueno Latino". Very Inspiring and deep music.

2007-01-17T11:57:00.000Z

Superb short film from 1952 by Norman Mclaren

2007-01-17T11:44:00.000Z

those that travel inside's Journal : ambient community

2007-01-17T11:41:00.000Z

Alexander Thomas | Pamelia Kurstin : Two talented Therimin players - worth a peek

2007-01-16T09:38:00.000Z

Now is the winter of our discon-tent Cool homeless camp-out demo in French capital. Can't believe I came up with that headline. My talents are wasted in Public Sector Corporate Communications. Now, where's that CV?

2007-01-15T17:54:00.000Z

Campaigners in Bristol have altered a ‘benefit cheats’ billboard so the original message targeting people working illegally while on benefit, now highlights the governments decision to halt an inquiry into a corrupt arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

2007-01-15T14:59:00.000Z

Find files (mp3, Movies,...) hosted at Free File Hosts using Google : This handy tool will use Google to find files hosted at free file hoster like rapidshare.de or Megaupload.

2007-01-12T17:00:00.000Z

Berg Sans Nipple - Along The Quai (RS 192kbps cbr) : this is so doin it for me today. This is by far the best album of the year. I can't understand why these guys aren't huge yet...

2007-01-12T16:57:00.000Z

earwacks.livejournal.com

2007-01-12T16:54:00.000Z

idm/electronic music exchange : this community is a beautiful thing

2007-01-12T09:44:00.000Z

www.secondhandsongs.com - Settles pub quiz-generated arguments about cover versions, like 'What Smiths song did awfull Russian lesbopop outfit t.A.T.u. ruin?'. You can skip between coverers and coverees seemlessly. Usefully links to itunes too. Its How soon is now, by the way.

2007-01-08T13:58:00.000Z

Every Little Hurts - I keep getting mysteriously lured away from shopping ethically by ads for cheap shit made and sold by evil companies with dubious environmental records and, above all, poor customer service. So, I made this top ten to keep me on the straight and narrow. Let’s not forget our local shops either, even high st chains are getting mashed up by the big supermarket beginning with T.

1. Rate my shopping - www.ethiscore.org

2. Bankers not wankers - www.co-operativebank.co.uk

3. Dog and bone (and broadband) without the moan - www.phone.coop/

4. Anyway, I think wind turbines look sexy and futuristic in the countyside. Don’t bitch, just switch - www.ecotricity.co.uk

5. No honestly, worms really are the way forward - www.wigglywigglers.com

6. No sweat shirts - www.howies.co.uk

7. Bargain hunters drive slave trade - www.labourbehindthelabel.org

8. Food glorious food - www.whyorganic.org

9. Fuck nike - www.adbusters.org/blackspotshoes

10. Not just free cycles but free everything - http://uk.freecycle.org

2006-12-21T17:07:00.000Z

this is doin it for me today - Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop music Vol. 1 : (RS 87mb) Culled from over 150 ageing cassettes found at the Asian Branch of the Oakland Public Library in California, these recordings showcase a pre and post holocaust Cambodian musical lineage that can't be ignored.

2006-12-21T15:33:00.000Z

eclectic Boing Boing list of videos

2006-12-19T15:26:00.000Z

mr-lucky.blogspot.com : Soundtracks, big cinema or TV, Jazz-OST's, cinematic compositions, soundscapes, etc | Max Nagl - Super 8 (1997) (RS 83mb) Max Nagl, a bona fide Austrian who played clarinet in a marching band, has come through rock, jazz, Improv and film to produce this melange of plastic guitar, found sounds, TV samples and kitschy nostalgia tunes. Fist fights erupt David Shea-style as a backing to Jean De Florette melodica solos. Glockenspiel and accordion solos mingle with kitchen cutlery; Spaghetti Western shoot-outs with manic plastic guitar jams. All recorded onto a four track there´s a deft, spontaneous handheld camera feel - more roaming and impromptu than manic pastiche.

2006-12-19T14:06:00.000Z

schizolipstick : Brain Melt Down for Mood Swings Afflictions. i like...

2006-12-19T13:35:00.001Z

its against the law - just like murder

2006-12-19T11:51:00.000Z

Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire (Taang Records, 1994) (RS 97 mb)

2006-12-19T11:49:00.000Z

This is doin it for me today : Baba Zula & Mad Professor - Ruhani Oyun Havalari Doublemoon - (97 mb)

2006-12-19T11:47:00.000Z

Useful list of Free Documentaries that are in the Public Domain

2006-12-14T15:07:00.000Z

antville Music Video Awards 2006 : if you only watch one...

2006-12-14T15:06:00.000Z

Journerdism : For Journalists & Nerds

2006-12-14T15:05:00.000Z

iNDEXED : quite like this

2006-12-13T12:46:00.000Z

2006-12-13T12:11:00.000Z

Lâszlô Hortobâgyi : curious and prolific Hungarian composer - lots of his albums are here in mp3 - this one of ancient hungarian folksongs is doin it for me today

2006-12-12T15:21:00.000Z

arcadupyrata.blogspot.com

2006-12-12T14:05:00.001Z

differentwaters.blogspot.com

2006-12-12T11:21:00.000Z

Lenin in Space : now i don't speak russian but...

2006-12-04T16:32:00.000Z

Couple of intersting On-U sound related resources : Are Friends Electric - Adrian Sherwood List of Online Albums | Sherwood's Forrest | taxcider's - On-U Videos

2006-11-27T17:31:00.000Z

this is doin it for me today : Antenne's #2, this is worth listening to for the first track alone - black eyed Dog - Nick Drake. (50 mb megaupload)

2006-11-27T16:30:00.000Z

Benn Loxo du taccu : Matt Yanchyshyn's African music for the masses.

2006-11-22T16:39:00.001Z

crusher

2006-11-22T16:22:00.000Z

About 200,000 workers from the umbrella Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, farmers and activists held a nationwide protest on Wednesday to demand legislation to protect non-unionised labour, a stop to South Korea -U.S. talks on a bilateral free trade agreement and a reform of the occupational safety laws

2006-11-22T16:15:00.000Z

obey the cat

2006-11-22T16:12:00.000Z

Nobody Here - Cool flash site

2006-11-22T14:58:00.000Z

Bassoons, flamenco, monks' cowls ... welcome to the new rock underground : Mr Cope writes in the Guardian

2006-11-22T14:38:00.000Z

thethingonthedoorstep.blogspot.com : eclectic industrial difficult hmmm

2006-11-22T14:10:00.000Z

killer bees

2006-11-22T14:01:00.000Z

The Angry Arab tells it like it is : "It is only fair that I say a word about the Lebanese Gemayyel family. No one family in Lebanon has made more contributions to the formulation of a Lebanese version of fascism than this family. Really. In this respect, one has to note that Pierre Gemayyel (the grandfather), and his son Bashir has made great efforts (with the help of Israel) to create a fascist movement for Lebanon modeled after the Nazi party. (As you may recall--search the archives below--Pierre Gemayyel (the grandfather of the assassinated minister--created the Phalanges Party after being impressed with the Nazi party when he observed it during the Olympic games of 1936.) The grandson, Pierre, had no influence in Lebanese politics, and his party, the Phalanges, has become marginal and insignificant. In fact, he was brought into the cabinet by the Harriri dynasty because they were trying to avoid appointing ministers who have bigger standing among Lebanese Christians (like the `Awn movement)."

2006-11-22T12:49:00.000Z

Trap Door -- An International Psychedelic Mystery Mix (90 mb r/S) this is rather fine as well : Tripped out funky psychedelia from around the globe

2006-11-22T11:39:00.000Z

this is doin it for me today - The King meets the Evil Genius - "E.T. Mensah and Dr. Victor Olaiya making a duet album. Two giants of West African Indigenous music putting heads together, blowing horns and singing on the same vinyl!! What a heart-warming thing to do. What can be more befitting as a sovenir (sic) of highlife music.

2006-11-22T11:36:00.000Z

how to handle those pesky complaints from employees (via arthur blog)

2006-11-22T11:12:00.002Z

neko-interrupted.blogspot.com : cats of the middle east

2006-11-22T11:12:00.001Z

magicofjuju.blogspot.com : good shit maynard

2006-11-22T11:10:00.000Z

ok ok so i've been busy at work. gonna try to breathe some life back into this sorry excuse for a blog and see how we go. saddle up

2006-11-16T11:03:00.000Z

Yale Film Analysis Web Site

2006-10-10T17:31:00.000+01:00

23 cool records

2006-10-10T14:16:00.000+01:00

cartoonbrew.com : all things animated

2006-09-09T22:09:00.000+01:00

How Human Rights Watch lost its way in Lebanon (via information clearing house) By Jonathan Cook : The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others. Unfortunately, one of the best -- Human Rights Watch -- has failed that test during the war in Lebanon this summer. To its credit, HRW has risked much opprobrium for taking Israel to task for systematically breaking international law during its assault on Lebanon. That has culminated in a predictable campaign of harassment by pro-Israel organisations in the US -- as well as by the usual suspects like Alan Dershowitz -- that have accused its researchers of libelling Israel and being anti-Semitic. Such attacks reached an obscene pitch after HRW’s executive director, Kenneth Roth, observed in publicity material accompanying a recent report that Israel appeared to have treated south Lebanon as a “free-fire zone” and that its strikes had failed to distinguish between civilians and Hizbullah fighters.

2006-09-09T21:42:00.001+01:00

Government suspends Al-Arabiya TV over sectarian violence claim : The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision of the Iraqi government today to close the Baghdad bureau of the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya for one month. The station reported that police entered its Baghdad offices to halt operations after the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the suspension. Al-Arabiya Executive Editor Nabil Khatib told CPJ the channel received a government statement that said its coverage was fomenting “sectarian violence and war in Iraq,” without providing evidence. “We have never been notified by the government, officially or verbally, that we are violating any clause or any law in Iraq,” Khatib said. The U.S.-backed government in Iraq has a history of banning news outlets, threatening and harassing journalists and bringing criminal prosecutions against the media.

2006-09-09T21:42:00.000+01:00

Army Faces Rising Number of Roadside Bombs in Iraq (via media watch) Roadside bombs in Iraq rose to record numbers this summer -- to about four times as many as in January 2004 -- as tips from Iraqi citizens warning of the bombs and attacks have dropped sharply amid a flaring of sectarian violence, according to a senior U.S. defense official.

2006-09-09T21:34:00.000+01:00

Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps (independent) The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies. "The pressure and tactics have not resulted in a desire for compromise," Karen Abuzayd, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency is said to have warned. "But rather they have created mass despair, anger and a sense of hopelessness and abandonment."

2006-09-05T17:17:00.000+01:00

Classical Connection : Your home for out-of-print classical music.

2006-09-05T14:42:00.000+01:00

MediaWatchWatch : was set up in January 2005 in reaction to the religious campaign against the BBC's broadcasting of Jerry Springer: the Opera. We keep an eye on those groups and individuals who, in order to protect their beliefs from offence, seek to limit freedom of expression.

2006-09-05T12:44:00.000+01:00

this is doin it for me today : Henry & Louis Meet Blue and Red Time Will Tell (116 mb RS 320 kbps no PW) this is the real dubstep business

2006-09-05T12:10:00.000+01:00

2006-09-05T12:02:00.000+01:00

2 x short 'Time Trumpet' Compilations

The BBC has been accused of lacking ‘backbone’ after pulling a controversial episode of Time Trumpet. The corporation had previously defended Armando Iannucci’s satire when it was attacked over its ‘sick’ and ‘disgraceful’ content, including mock footage of a plane crashing into the Houses of Parliament, below, and a photograph of an assassinated Tony Blair. When the Daily Mail and MPs raised the protest earlier this month, the BBC said: ‘The scenarios are so ludicrous that viewers will immediately recognise them as satire’. However, the corporation dropped Thursday’s edition focussing on terrorism, and containing some of the controversial sketches, from the BBC Two schedules. They said ‘Our concern, at this state of heightened alert, is for viewers who do not know what to expect and misunderstand the show.’ But the Independent On Sunday’s media diary column today asked: ‘Is the BBC backing down in the face of terrorism? What backbone.’ And Iannucci used his Observer column to complain about media hysteria and hypersensitivity about terrorism.

2006-09-05T11:14:00.000+01:00

For Gaza's students, classes by 'remote control' (Haaretz) Tomorrow, more than 250 academics and lecturers from universities throughout Israel will submit a petition to the prime minister and the defense minister demanding that students from the Gaza Strip be permitted to attend institutions of higher learning in the West Bank, based on the outcome of individual security examinations.

2006-09-05T10:56:00.000+01:00

Israel begins new settlement push : (bbc) The Israeli government says it plans to build 700 new homes in two settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.
"The Palestinians don't fight the Israelis because they are antisemitic, anti-white, anti-western, or any other such thing. The Israeli historian Benny Morris summed up the conflict in terms of the dispossession and displacement of the Palestinians from their lands. When one strips away from the conflict all the propaganda and the myths that surround it, that is what remains"... - Norman Finkelstein, Professor of Political Theory at DePaul University, Chicago. Cited by information:montreal-palestine

2006-09-05T10:40:00.000+01:00

Letter to the Organizers of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale : We the undersigned groups and organizations request that the Venice Biennale cancel the country exhibition of Israel entitled “LIFE SAVER - Typology of Commemoration in Israel - Architecture and Society” for the following reasons..."

2006-09-05T10:30:00.000+01:00

List of collective massacres perpetrated by Israeli Army in its attack against Lebanon in summer 2006

2006-09-05T10:27:00.000+01:00

Adams to 'share experience' (Guardian) Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Féin, is due to fly to the Middle East today to meet Hamas representatives and lend his support to the search for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. The MP for West Belfast was invited by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas, which emerged as the strongest party in the Palestinian elections in January, is banned in the EU and the US, where it is deemed to be a terrorist organisation.

2006-09-04T15:30:00.000+01:00

Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings : In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film...

2006-09-04T15:18:00.000+01:00

2006-09-04T14:47:00.000+01:00

Strike shows political divisions in Gaza : Thousands of unpaid teachers began the Palestinian school year with a strike that shut down schools across the West Bank and Gaza, as Hamas deployed armed men around schools to try to persuade teachers and students to attend.

2006-09-04T14:40:00.000+01:00

'Last permit' stamped in three languages : by Amira Hass - Last Tuesday, August 29, the American-Palestinian business community got a clear message that hope for their "immunity" from the new Israeli policy was false. Sam Bahour, a founder of the first shopping mall in Ramallah and an economic consultant to international development organizations, went to the Civil Administration in Beit El to get his visa extended. For 14 years he has lived on a tourist visa in Ramallah where his family has resided for generations. In fact, the visa in his American passport was renewed this time too, but only for a month instead of three. Moreover, the official wrote on the stamp in long hand in three languages "last permit." In one month, he would have to leave his home, his family and his friends in Ramallah. Bahour wrote a letter that was circulated on the Internet. "If I only had the e-mail of the multilingual occupation soldier that wrote 'last permit' on my visa, I would send him the attached pictures of my two girls, Areen, 12, and Nadine, 6. I wonder if his/her children look any different on the first day of school," Bahour wrote. He ended the letter with thanks to those who had assisted him and the Israeli friends "who understand that those being denied entry are those that have come to build bridges, not walls. We have come to invest and create a new reality - a reality that ends this racist occupation and brings a brighter future, a joint future, to both Palestinian and Israeli children."

2006-09-04T13:24:00.000+01:00

The computer spy that steals your passwords and credit details (sunday times) interesting piece about Russian websites offering stolen cyber profiles for sale for as little as £1