Ghost Bike – Houston Street

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Ghost Bike - Houston Street
Collage from Video. Play below.

Beginning in June 2005, members of Visual Resistance have been creating small and somber memorials for New York City bicyclists killed by automobiles. Each time a biker is killed, a bicycle painted all white is locked to a street sign and a small stenciled plaque is bolted in place above it.

The installations are meant as reminders of the tragedy that took place on an otherwise anonymous street corner, and as quiet statements in support of bikers’ right to safe travel. It was inspired by Ghost Bike Pittsburgh, which was in turn inspired by a similar effort in St. Louis. In recent months, Ghost Bikes have appeared in cities across the country, as well as in the UK. visualresistance.org/wordpress/ghostbikes

Cory Doctorow – Authors@Google

Thursday, May 31st, 2007


Great lecture from science fiction author and Boing Boinger, Cory Doctorow, talking about copyright law and creativity at Google. He is on tour promoting his collection of computer related stories: Overclocked, stories of the future present.

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be available on Google Video, whose player has random access along the timeline. The You Tube player annoyingly needs to load fully before you can choose a location, and it doesn’t seem to cache in my browser. So I’ve had to restart the damn thing three times, and listen to the intro three times and still haven’t gotten to the end of the lecture. This isn’t so bad for the usual under-ten-minutes You Tube Video, but this one is almost an hour long. We’ll listen to the end together.
Cory mentions some problem he has with Google Video’s drm, that I guess does not apply to You Tube. Maybe this is why it is on You Tube.

Oingo Boingo on Gong Show 1976

Thursday, May 31st, 2007


Actually: “The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,” a Dada Cabaret act, what Danny Elfman (on trombone) was doing prior to Oingo Boingo and creating lots of great film music for Tim Burton among others. You get to see some classic Chuck Barris, Shari Lewis, Bill Bixby and Buddy Hackett as well. Very entertaining.
Via Boing Boing

Washington Square Park – May 29, 2007

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Washington Square - May 29, 2007
Jazz musicians, NYU film students, living statue, etc.

A couple minutes in the Large Dog Run

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

A couple minutes in the Large Dog Run
A collage of captures from the video


Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2007, Tompkins Square Park.

Mike Malloy on Sirius and NovaM

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Mike Malloy, formerly of Air America, is now on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Talk Left. You can also hear him streaming on NovaM Radio 9 – Midnight Eastern Time.

Cindy Sheehan resigns as the “Face” of the American anti-war movement.

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Excerpts:
“I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.

The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system?

However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of “right or left”, but “right and wrong.”

If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

Good-bye America …you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

It’s up to you now.

Royksopp – Remind Me

Monday, May 28th, 2007


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