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Wow, this is awesome. Today the head of the US copyright office proposed a law that would make me a...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:47:23 -0400

Wow, this is awesome. Today the head of the US copyright office proposed a law that would make me a felon. Over a year ago, I built the website http://gendale.net/sound.html. I built it because Spotify didn’t have any rap mixtapes on it, and I like to listen to rap mixtapes. I don’t think you can really connect with rap today without the internet mixtape scene. Now the same luddites who proposed and supported SOPA are proposing a law that could PUT ME IN JAIL?

These people represent the interests and money from lobbyists in Hollywood and the Recording Industry. Rather than adapt to new technology, they are resting on their laurels and using their economic advantage to punish new technology and make it as primitive as the old technology, the technology that they have complete control over. I’m no copyright anarchist, and I think authors’ rights are important. This is not about artists’ rights. If it was, the Beatles would still own the rights to their songs.

Take me to jail. I’m going to keep streaming music.

http://bgr.com/2013/03/22/music-streaming-felony-proposal-392709/?utm_source=b-yahoo-orig_pub&utm_medium=feed

nathanjohnson: Early sketches for the traveling wine-o-phone....

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:06:58 -0500

nathanjohnson:

Early sketches for the traveling wine-o-phone. Cinematic Underground tour, 2005

We used tuned wine glasses quite a bit on the score for Brick, but as we prepared for the US Cinematic Underground tour, I started thinking about a way to travel with them. Little did I know that my eventual collaborator Jonny Rodgers was simultaneously working on a design, which would go on to accompany the Faux Fix tour years later. His version was much more reliable (the glasses were glued in to a flight case with built-in mics), and while ours were taped into a rickety suitcase, we did think to fill it with christmas lights, so at least that was a score on the visual side of things.

110 years of title cards [x] 1902 - 2012

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:34:00 -0500

110 years of title cards [x]

1902 - 2012

theavc: As you might imagine, these Django Unchained action...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:20:45 -0500

theavc:

As you might imagine, these Django Unchained action figures aren’t going over very well

It’s all part of “the cruel, inhuman business that is action figure trafficking.”

Wooooh

dorkly: Alec Guinness Hated ‘Star Wars’ He hated it almost as...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:19:36 -0500

dorkly:

Alec Guinness Hated ‘Star Wars’

He hated it almost as much as he hated Tennyson Ford and Paul Lucas’ other film, Kentucky Smith and the Stealers of the Ghost Box.

minimalmovieposters: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by Paul...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:47:51 -0500

minimalmovieposters:

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by Paul Alp

starwarsverses:

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:33:37 -0500

starwarsverses:

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:30:02 -0500

starwarsverses:

swagswagswagswagblog: Joe Campbell swag

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:32:55 -0500

swagswagswagswagblog:

Joe Campbell swag

nehrujackets: This police sketch provided December 30, 2012 by...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:01:38 -0500

nehrujackets:

This police sketch provided December 30, 2012 by the New York City Police Department shows a likeness of the woman believed to have pushed a man, 46-year-old Sunando Sen, from India to his death in front of a subway on December 27. A 31-year-old New York woman, Erika Menendez , was scheduled to appear before a judge Sunday after being charged with murder as a hate crime for shoving Sen to his death in front of an oncoming subway train. Menendez of the Bronx borough, was motivated by hatred of Muslims and Hindus, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims. Ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers, I’ve been beating them up,” she told police. Menendez, who is awaiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court, faces from 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

+ “There is no reason. I just pushed him in front of the train because I thought it would be cool. I just pushed him because he was Muslim.”

+ Menendez laughed uncontrollably and smiled during the hearing, telling prosecutors that she pushed Sen onto the subway track for no reason.

+ “Tell your client this is not funny. You’re going to have to have your client stop laughing. This is not appropriate.”

This is awful

Attack of the Klōnes

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:50:31 -0500

starwarsverses:

κλών (genitive κλωνός) m, third declension; (klōn)

twig, spray, slip

fasces (singular fascis)

A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism

http://swagswagswagswagblog.tumblr.com/post/39176889680

Made with Paper

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:07:30 -0500

Made with Paper

jtotheizzoe: sciencepopularis: Reddit’s mind-blowing...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:31:10 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

sciencepopularis:

Reddit’s mind-blowing sentences

So, a while back I saw a Reddit thread about mind-blowing sentences and what struck me was how many of the best had foundations in scientific disciplines, from human conciousness to genetics. Seeing these sentences, I couldn’t help but put together a nice album that I knew us Tumblrs would love.

In case the hydrogen one has you stumped, as reddit user ‘Propionate’ put it:

“Really hot plasma, Hydrogen, Big clouds of hydrogen, Big balls of hydrogen, stars, supernova, heavier elements like carbon, clouds of heavier elements, big balls of heavier elements, planets, life, humans”

Everyone should make it a point to think about something like this at least once a day.

MOVIES WHASSUP

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:30:34 -0400

“Now - it’s quite simple - the cinema loved by the Cahiers - from the beginning - is a CINEMA HAUNTED BY WRITING. This is the key which makes it possible to understand all the successive tastes and choices”.

Video

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:08:11 -0400

UuuuuuuhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHH!!! (Taken with Instagram)

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:37:04 -0400

UuuuuuuhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHH!!! (Taken with Instagram)

Photo

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:10:13 -0400

swagswagswagswagBLOG: the entertainer (pt 1)

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:07:37 -0400

swagswagswagswagBLOG: the entertainer (pt 1):

swagswagswagswagblog:

what is going on in hollywood? this is some kind of a disaster. at one point, cinema goers left their homes in order to see wondrous images on an enormous screen, and today we are trapped in a glimmerless pit of so called realism and drama and shit. what has happened to the entertainment industry?…

myedol: Emceez Ansari This is the funniest tumblr blog I’ve...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:37:02 -0400

myedol:

Emceez Ansari

This is the funniest tumblr blog I’ve stumbled upon since The Cosby Sweater Project. As a big fan of Aziz Ansari and an avid listener of rap music this is like striking gold for me. I look forward to see what album covers are honored with his little Indian face next.

Artist: | Tumblr | Twitter |

spvrsh: DR AND FLEA. THIS PHOTO IS TOO MUCH.

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:53:08 -0400

spvrsh:

DR AND FLEA. THIS PHOTO IS TOO MUCH.