schaden.com: "The In-between series ot photo books is being published as part of the "Europe Today" project organized by the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee. The aim of this project is to photograph an ever-changing Europe. It parallels the project, "European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today," started in 1999, in which European photographers have been photographing Japan. In respons to this important change, the "Europe Today" project was inaugurated, sending 13 Japanese photographers to these 25 countries in order to create a photographic book. They will act as "in-betweens" between Japan and Europe. Each photographer visited two countries except for one who visited only one country." More
dailydrone.org: "dailydrone setzt sich in Form eines Weblogs mit den ausufernden Kernthemen rund um audible und visuelle Entwicklungen auseinander. Gethreaded und verlinkt werden Inhalte mit unterschiedlichen Zugängen zu diesen Themen; DIY, OpenSource, Ästhetik, Technologie, Software, Games, Generativa, Glitch, etc. und auch deren soziale Interaktionen: Konzerte, Konferenzen, Usergroups, etc. die eine wesentliche Basis für das fußen solcher Entwicklungen darstellen."
The Best Pop Song Ever Recorded?
It was released nearly 41 years ago, but Bob Dylan's classic single, "Like A Rolling Stone" is still considered a triumph. In 2004 Rolling Stone Magazine declared it the best song of all time, and rock journalist and author Greil Marcus explains why he believes it remains the best pop song ever recorded. Plus, visual artist and composer Laurie Anderson talks about her video work "Hidden Inside Mountains", that is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. Listen here
Laurie Anderson talks about her video work "Hidden Inside Mountains", that is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. Listen here
A History of Chemical Weapons
The U.S. military searched without success for chemical weapons in Iraq. But author Jonathan Tucker says chemical warfare is still a serious threat.
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Audio interview with Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom. Listen here
Attack of the Vloggers! Listen here
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wnyc.org: "Eric Schlosser's best-selling exposé Fast Food Nation investigated the impact that restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King have on the waistlines and wallets of Americans. Now, he's teamed up with reporter Charles Wilson for Chew on This, a look at how the fast food industry targets children--one out of every five public schools in the US, for example, serves brand name fast food. The book is written for kids, with an emphasis on teaching them what's really in the fries and burgers they eat." Listen/Download here
Industrie vs Filesharing
Teil 1: Umsätze vs P2P Downloads
Die Verantwortlichen der Musik- und Filmindustrie sehen die Ursache der zurückgehenden Umsätze ihrer Branchen einzig und allein in den so genannten Raubkopien und P2P Netzwerken. Eventuelle andere Faktoren, wie zum Beispiel die wirtschaftliche Lage, Desinteresse der Käufer an den Veröffentlichungen oder der Wandel im Freizeitverhalten der Jugendlichen werden nicht berücksichtigt.
Teil 2: DVDs Hui, Musik Pfui
Wie steht es um Branchen und Medien, die vom Filesharing betroffen sind? Also Musik, Kino, DVDs und Videospiele? Plattenfirmen und Kinos geht es bekanntermaßen schlecht, der Verkauf und Verleih von DVDs boomen und auch mit Videospielen wir jede Menge Geld umgesetzt.
Teil 3: Swens Musikmarktanalyse
Was passiert mit der Musikindustrie ? | Schwindende Umsätze in der Musikbranche sind nichts Neues. Die Betrachtungen, Gedanken und Analysen von Swen Emmerling widmen sich in einem weiteren Teil womöglich verzerrter Tatsachen und werfen ein paar Fragen auf. Ursachenforschung auf Phlow.
Teil 4 Kaufen, Kaufen, Kaufen!
Geiz ist Geil? | Man kann diesen Werbespruch kaum noch ertragen. Könnte aber der Geiz von uns Deutschen Schuld an der Misere der Musikbranche sein?
Teil 5 CDs, DVDs und Störche
"In seinem neuesten Artikel nimmt Swen Emmerling die Milchmädchenrechnung der Tonträgerbranche wieder einmal genauer unter die Lupe und liefert eigene Erklärungen für die Misere der Musikindustrie in seinem abschließenden Resümée."
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1967)
A team of astronauts crashes on the surface of Venus. Accompanied by their robot, they explore the surface and end up destroying the Venusian God. This film is also known as The Gill Women and The Gill Women of Venus. Download here
Bororo UFO (1972)
Czech sci-fi film Bororo is about visiting aliens from Pleiades, they are trying to give our planet a cure for all diseases, but the international drug companies kill everyone, just to protect their profits. 1972 old communist era film. Download here
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction Classic I am Legend and later remade as The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston. This classic features Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer. Download here
The Kid (1921)
The Kid was Charlie Chaplin's first full-length movie. It, more than anything else to that date, made Chaplin a living legend. It took over a year to produce, and was an incredible success for Chaplin. Download here
The John Glenn Story (1963)
This brief, 30-minute biographical documentary looks at the early life and professional career of American astronaut John Glenn (before his days in politics). Several of the people who knew him back when in New Concord, Ohio take up a certain amount of time reminiscing on Glenn's boyhood and then the docu segues into the astronaut's preparations for his space flight -- three orbits around the earth, and then home again. Included are interior shots aboard the Friendship Seven space capsule, and Glenn's comments as he works inside the capsule during this mission. Download here
dradio.de: "Am 11. Mai 1931 feierte der Film "M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" Premiere. Er war Fritz Langs erster Tonfilm und sein bedeutendster. "M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" zählt zu den wichtigsten Werken der deutschen Filmgeschichte. Lang wagte darin einen Blick in die seelischen Abgründe eines Massenmörders. Heute vor 75 Jahren feierte der Filmklassiker in Berlin Premiere." Weiter
dradio.de: "Angesichts steigender Energiepreise wird die Atomwirtschaft nicht müde, einen Ausstieg aus dem Atom-Ausstieg zu fordern. Doch dass eine Fortsetzung der bisherigen Energiepolitik - basierend auf Erdöl, Gas, Kohle, Uran und ein bisschen erneuerbare Energien - unvermeidbar in die Klimakatastrophe führt, zeigt Wolfgang Gründinger in seinem faktenreichen Buch Die Energiefalle." Weiter
allmusic.com: "One of the prime figures in the growth of Kraut-rock, Conrad Schnitzler made important contributions to the early history of Kraftwerk and Kluster. Like many in the Kraut-rock community, Schnitzler was greatly inspired by influences in the visual artistic world as well as the musical; he studied sculpture with Joseph Beuys, and composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, also looking to John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer for inspiration. By 1969, he was working with Tangerine Dream, with whom he recorded Electronic Meditation. The album became one of the most distinctive in TD's discography, and Schnitzler takes much of the credit for its chance-taking approach." More
The WIRE May 2006: "[...] Nevertheless, Mattin's music has an undeniable roughness, a lack of politeness that sets him apart from other more hi-tech, high-concept laptoppers. He's a contrarian, intent on going against the grain at all times, never doing what's expected of him. His albums can dwell on hellish noise (such as his 2004 Pink Noise collaboration with ex-Hijokaidan vocalist Junko) or centre on the flimsiest wisps of sound - he has recorded with both Taku Sugimoto and Radu Malfatti, probably the most restrained musicians working today. “Most of my work has to do with the preconceptions that people might have and trying to contradict them, trying to put a different perspective on what can be done in a performance situation,” he says. “I try not to make a hierarchy of sounds, I try to deal with the instrument against the way it was conceived. Often with computer musicians it's a macho kind of attitude, one guy with a laptop, very enclosed. So I try to break this by playing with the lid closed, or with the computer off, or with just the speakers.”" Read on
allmusic.com: "One of the most enigmatic figures in rock history, Scott Walker was known as Scotty Engel when he cut obscure flop records in the late '50s and early '60s in the teen idol vein. He then hooked up with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form the Walker Brothers. They weren't named Walker, they weren't brothers, and they weren't English, but they nevertheless became a part of the British Invasion after moving to the U.K. in 1965. They enjoyed a couple of years of massive success there (and a couple of hits in the U.S.) in a Righteous Brothers vein. As their full-throated lead singer and principal songwriter, Walker was the dominant artistic force in the group, who split in 1967." More
tavistalks.com "This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Bob Marley and Wall Street Journal Editor Christopher John Farley reveals some little known facts about the reggae legend in his new book, Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley ." Listen here
npr.org "Two years ago, a group of singing herdsmen from Mongolia traveled to Elko, Nevada, for a musical exchange with a group of singing cowboys from the American West. In September, the herdsmen hosted their American counterparts on the Mongolian steppe. Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center went along on a road trip to Genghis Khan's ancient capital of Karakorum." Listen here
wfmu.org: "Tom Verlaine, the innovative singer/guitarist, most famously of the trailblazing late-70's New York band Television, will stop by to chat and perform guest-DJ duties." Listen Real Audio
Raster Noton is a German record label specialiced in minimal electronic mausic. They provide lots of mp3 files via their homepage, but unfortunately it's not indicated if it's a full track or just a snippet. below you will find all files which are at least 3 minutes long.
allmusic.com "Though Donnacha Costello first began producing music back in 1989, it wasn't until late 2000 that he globally emerged as a truly remarkable producer. Long recognized as one of Dublin, Ireland's most talented producers, Costello may have began his musical career in 1989, but he first began to dabble in minimal electronic music around 1996 after completing his philosophy degree and immersing himself in the concepts of Steve Reich and John Cage. In fact, his inspiration led him away from Dublin to New York City, where he took his minimal take on electronic music a step farther, integrating the dub aesthetics and crackle sounds practiced by artists such as Pole." More
Moby Dick
This American Icon continues to resonate in our culture more than 150 years after it was written. Kurt Andersen explores the contemporary influence of Herman Melville's brilliant novel. The composer and performer Laurie Anderson was inspired by the novel to write a strange, cool, modern opera. Her Songs and Stories from Moby-Dick premiered in 1999. Listen here
Examining the Pixies
The Pixies' rise to critical fame in the late 1980s and wildly successful reunion tour have firmly established the band as an alternative rock legend. Music writer Ben Sisario breaks down their album "Doolittle" and explains why it was truly ahead of its time. Listen here
From Russia with MP3's
Australian journalist Charles Wright explain those super-cheap MP3 Web sites based in Russia. Listen here
Lullabies From the "Axis of Evil"
In his 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush singled out Iran, Iraq, and North Korea and their allies as part of an "axis of evil." In response to this branding, the Norwegian Eric Hillestade traveled to Iraq, Palestine, Iran and North Korea to record lullabies mothers sang to their children. The result is a new compilation called “Lullabies from the Axis of Evil.” The album contains lullabies from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan and Cuba, sung by women from these countries, along with a western version sung by singers like Nina Hagen (Germany), Eddi Reader (Scotland), and Lila Downs (USA/Mexico). Listen here
Halliburton
George W. Bush isn't the first President with ties to Halliburton. On today's edition of Backstory, we'll take an in-depth look at the company with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, a correspondent for The Economist, and the author of Power to the People. Listen here
In the Footsteps of Muhammad
In the Footsteps of Muhammad Edward Stourton traces the roots of Islam and its prophet Muhammad, the mystic and warrior at the heart of this vast faith movement. Listen here
In the Footsteps of Jesus
There has never been a greater public demand for information about Jesus, the real man. Mel Gibson's The Passion and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code have both tapped into this desire to learn more about the man who is at the centre of the world's largest religion. Listen here
Freud
In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary. Listen here
npr.org "Two years ago, a group of singing herdsmen from Mongolia traveled to Elko, Nevada, for a musical exchange with a group of singing cowboys from the American West. In September, the herdsmen hosted their American counterparts on the Mongolian steppe. Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center went along on a road trip to Genghis Khan's ancient capital of Karakorum." 