Deambular
This is the tumblelog of Anthony Martinez. Kinda like a blog, but with short-form, mixed-media posts of stuff I like and wish to share.
‘The Present’ Annual Clock Tells Time In Seasons
Inventor and filmmaker Scott Thrift, who created m ss n g p eces, has designed a clock that tells the time in seasons rather than minutes and hours. ‘The Present’ features subtle gradients of pure color and the hand takes a year to complete one clockwise rotation.
DESIGN COMPETITION: RE-IMAGINING MURAKAMI
As anyone who’s ever read any of Haruki Murakami‘s cerebral and trippy novels can tell you, the mental images they create can be both bizarre, harrowing, and beautiful all at once. The Japanese master of Kafka-esque fiction has been heralded for years as a weaver of tales that combine contemporary Japanese society with pop culture references, occult symbols, and dream-like sequencing.
You had to go on the lam stepping in no-man’s land
Ain’t nobody here on your waveband
Nobody even gonna lend you a helping hand
Oh and you’re so alone can you really make it on your own
Keep on moving on a fast train
Yesterday, Google UK unveiled a new homepage Doodle that was so great that it was added to our version today.
A little “Yellow Submarine”-esque animation combines with the Google logo to pay tribute to legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who would be celebrating his 65th birthday.
Great new site from Rion featuring online videos, photos, books, and other media that’s appropriate for little kids…
“There’s just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen. It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them…
But we don’t underestimate kids around here.”
With obvious exceptions, media “made for kids” is mindnumbingly dumb. YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo are amazing resources of not-made-for-kids but totally-appropriate-for-kids stuff like what Rion is posting here. I’ve often wanted a Wikipedia For Little Kids (for the iPad) that’s almost exclusively video- and image-based that I could let Ollie loose on to learn about stuff.
Miles Davis | So What
Watch the sheet music go by as Miles Davis and his bandmates play So What. See also Confirmation by Charlie Parker and Giant Steps by John Coltrane.
Stepping didn’t gain a real foothold until local station WBMX started playing two particular records by artist Jeffree, “Love’s Gonna Last”, and “Mr. Fix-It” in the mid to late 1970s. Neither song was a major Billboard R&B chart hit (“Mr. Fix-It” made it to #53, “Love’s Gonna Last” didn’t chart) but they perfectly complemented the newest version of the Chicago Step. In a classic case of a dance making a record a (local) hit, due to the massive request and playing of “Love’s Gonna Last” on WBMX, it is now considered the ultimate “stepper’s cut”.
Lover’s Melt II: Mixed by Flying Lotus
“Lovers Melt 2 will hopefully be part of your summer sound. Some of my favorite songs ever.. Some you know, some you might not..”
– Flying Lotus
VU REUNION: LOU REED, JOHN CALE, NICO ON FRENCH TV, 1972
In 1972, Velvet Underground alumni Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico reunited before the cameras of the Pop 2 TV program at Le Bataclan, a well-known—and very intimate—Paris venue. It was Cale’s gig originally and he invited Reed and Nico to join him. Reed, who hated rehearsing, spent two days with Cale working out what they were going to do. According to Victor Bockris’ Reed biography Transformer, rock critic Richard Robinson videotaped these rehearsals, which took place in London.
James Booker - Goodnight Sweetheart
Booker’s stage presence started becoming more eccentric also, wearing wigs, capes, eye patches and even a glass eye for his missing left orb. The story behind his lost eye varies, depending on who tells it. Some say it was drug-related, but Dr. John claims in his autobiography that Booker lost the eye after pulling a scam on some record producers they’d written arrangements for.
How Finland became an education leader
So what has happened since is that teaching has become the most highly esteemed profession. Not the highest paid, but the most highly esteemed. Only one out of every 10 people who apply to become teachers will ultimately make it to the classroom. The consequence has been that Finland’s performance on international assessments, called PISA, have consistently outranked every other western country, and really there are only a handful of eastern countries that are educating with the same results.
