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The Internet Archive has worked with tapers, tape traders, funders, admins, and over 1000 bands to build a great non-commercial music library that is freely accessible. Technically and policy-wise, it has been invigorating as you can probably appreciate. We have made changes in the past and we will make changes again.
Following the policies of the Grateful Dead and the Dead communities we have provided non-commercial access to thousands of great concerts. Based on discussions with many involved, the Internet Archive has been asked to change how the Grateful Dead concert recordings are being distributed on the Archive site for the time being. The full collection will remain safe in the Archive for preservation purposes.
Here is the plan:
Audience recordings are available in streaming format (m3u).
Soundboard recordings are not available.
Additionally, the Grateful Dead recordings will be separated from the Live Music Archive into its own collection. The metadata and reviews for all shows and recordings will remain available.
We appreciate that this change will be a surprise and upset many of you, but please channel reactions in ways that you genuinely think will be productive. If we keep the bigger picture in mind that there are many experiments going on right now, and experiments working well, we can build on the momentum that tape trading started decades ago.
Working together we can keep non-commercial sharing part of our world.
Thank you for helping find balances that work for all involved.
-brewster
Digital Librarian and Founder
-Matt Vernon
Volunteer GD Archivist
happy palace
Here's an MP3 of the sounds made by Iceberg B-09A in Antarctica. It was recorded by scientists from Germany's Alfred Wegener institute for polar and marine research, as they recorded seismic signals to measure earthquakes and tectonic movements on the Ekstroem ice shelf on Antarctica's South Atlantic coast.
From the Wegener Institute press release:
Tracking the signal, the scientists found a 50 by 20 kilometer iceberg that had collided with an underwater peninsula and was slowly scraping around it.
"Once the iceberg stuck fast on the seabed it was like a rock in a river," said scientist Vera Schlindwein. "The water pushes through its crevasses and tunnels at high pressure and the iceberg starts singing.
The iceberg sounds were originally recorded at 0.5 hertz, far below the range of human hearing. The MP3 here is speeded up many times to bring the sounds into the audible range.
bruce babbit "Cities in the Wilderness"
Restoring the Florida Everglades. Dismantling obsolete dams. Returning the wolf to Yellowstone and the condor to the wild. Creating the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Each was a landmark of environmental progress in the 1990s and each was realized under the guidance of then Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt.
Now he draws on these experiences to develop a surprising message: such episodic conservation victories, however important, will not be sufficient either to protect our disappearing open spaces or to contain the blight of urban sprawl.
In his new book, CITIES IN THE WILDERNESS, Bruce Babbitt makes the case for a new national land use policy. Throughout our history, from George Washington’s day to the present, federal policies have encouraged and subsidized destructive resource exploitation and out-of-control development that threaten the American landscape. The time has come for an enlightened role that the federal government can play, to ensure that the places and creatures we care about will endure for generations to come.
Babbitt will discuss:
• What Las Vegas and New Jersey can teach the rest of America about conservation;
• How to consolidate Federal land to preserve ecosystems and wildlife;
• The tactics necessary to bring competing interests to the bargaining table;
• How we can fix the Missouri River;
• New roles and goals for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and
• How smart land use planning makes for better cities and more open space.
The message is clear: America can be a land of growth and opportunity, but not at the expense of the landscapes we cherish.
From Bruce Babbitt’s incisive analysis comes a vision and a program for how it should be done: a federal leadership role in land use planning, a new way of thinking about open space that retains local control while acknowledging national interests. Cities in the Wilderness celebrates key ac-complishments in the environmental field while planning for greater ones – and Bruce Babbitt is an inspirational guide along that path.
Since 2003, the board has been under fire from owners of rejected works and members of the artist’s circle who claim their knowledge of Warhol’s practice is ignored. The board has routinely denied the authenticity of silkscreens made without Warhol’s direct supervision, but his former associates argue that to reject such works contradicts Warhol’s practice of having works of art printed without his direct oversight. Scholars point out that it was precisely Warhol’s blurring of authorship and his adoption of modes of mass production that mark his significance in the history of art. There is growing consensus in the field that, rather than exclude such works from the catalogue raisonné being compiled by the foundation, they should be included, allowing the market to decide their value.
“It is just bad art history and folly not to draw on the contemporaries who actually knew the artist,” says art critic Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph in London, a commentator in a BBC documentary on the controversy, scheduled to air in late January. “They are saying he worked like an Old Master and that his touch was very important,” says Mr Dorment, “but he is a conceptual artist, the main descendant of Duchamp”.
Architects may see a dreamy parallel to Le Corbusier's concrete 1950's apartment-block housing in Marseille, raised up on rows of streamlined columns. Yet Ms. Hadid's design draws as much on the serpentine freeways of Los Angeles and postwar Europe's industrial landscape as it does on such High Modernist precedents. Its imposing, muscular forms celebrate the heroic large-scale urban infrastructure of an earlier era, allowing us to see it with fresh eyes.
while we are at it with the tubes. if you act fast you can still cherry pick Leland Stanford Junior Marching Band covering the tubes's White Punks On Dope off brian turner's playlist for a listen. what puts it over the top and a seriously good listen is the extended fans in the bleechers sing along chant at the end. go ahead and listen, i bet you cant do it just once. 1st times free, cummon just say yes. white punks on dope white punks on dope white punks on dope...
What do you want from life
To kidnap an heiress
or threaten her with a knife
What do you want from life
To get cable TV
and watch it every night
There you sit
a lump in your chair
Where do you sleep
and what do you wear
when you're sleeping
What do you want from life
An Indian guru
to show you the inner light
What do you want from life
a meaningless love affair
with a girl that you met tonight
How can you tell when you're doin' alright
Does your bank account swell
While you're dreaming at night
How do know when you're really in love
Do violins play when you're touching the one
That you're loving
What do you want from life
Someone to love
and somebody that you can trust
What do you want from life
To try and be happy
while you do the nasty things you must
Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number,
a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary's baby,
a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador, a new mastodon,
a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego,
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck,
a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?
thomas hine populuxe
The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of history's great shopping sprees, as many Americans went on a baroque bender and adorned their mass-produced houses, furniture and machines with accouterments of the space ange and of the American frontier. "Live your dreams and meet your budget," one advertisement promised, and unprecedented numbers of Americans were able to do it. What they bought was rarely fine, but it was often fun. There were so many things to buy--a power lawnmower, a modern dinette set, a washer with a window through which you could see the wash water turn disgustingly gray, a family room, a charcoal grill. Products were available in a lurid rainbow of colors and a steadily changiung array of styles. Commonplace objects took extraordinary form, and the novel and exotic quickly turned commonplace.
It was, materially, a kind of gold age, but it was one that left few monuments because the pleasures of its newfound prosperity were, like Groucho Marx's secret word, "something you find around the house." There was so much wealth it did not need to be shared. Each householder was able to have his own little Versailles along a cul-de-sac. People were physically separated, out in their own in a muddy and unfinished landscape, but they were also linked as never before through advertising, television and magazines. Industry saw them as something new, "a mass market," an overwhelmingly powerful generator of profits and economic growth. There was ebullience in this grand display of appetite, a naivete that was winning, and today, touching...
The essence of Populuxe is not merely having things. It is having things in a way that they and never been had before, and it is an expression of outright, thoroughly vulgar joy in bing able to live so well. "You will have a greater chance to be yourself than any people in the history of civilization" House Beautiful told it readers in 1953. The greatness of America would be expresed by enrichment of the environment, bu the addition of new equipment to the household and by giving up European models and, instead, finding inspiration in the American past and, most of all, in its promising future.
paul sawyers on lulu
Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings explains how to purchase steel cargo containers and modify them for use as buildings under 1000 sq ft in size. Learn how you can save up to 40% over tradition lumber and factory made steel structures with these unique building blocks. New and used steel shipping containers are available nationwide. It's easy to buy containers and modify them for use as workshops, garages, cabins, guest houses, super carports, RV - 5th wheel covers, and much more (the book shows how). Enjoy a building that's up to fifty times stronger than most structures, built quick and with amazingly little labor. Take part in the shipping container building revolution with the worlds first book on the subject...Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings! Includes photos, diagrams, plans, and charts. 103 pages, soft cover.
shipping container housing q and a
1. How much of one side can be removed without weakening the structure? None, the moment you make an aperture in the sidewall regardless of location, the structure is weakened. Almost all apertures will require perimeter framing along with some rail to rail intermediate posts (an intermediate post is any reinforcement from bottom to toprail not located at a corner).
2. If you build one yourself, how cheaply can it be done? The lower cost the container will be inversely proportional to the labor you put back into it. Containers that are 20 years old and are still structurally suitable regrettably are usually so dinged up that when it comes to putting on its prom dress (exterior siding) that you end up adding back huge amounts of hat channel and labor to accomodate. Plan on this being dollar for dollar equivalent to DIY stick or Panel built. Consider your containers (ahem, ISBUs) to be your dried in Framing Package.
3. Are they harder or easier to insulate and how are they affected in the hot/cold months? Once insulated they perform the same. The difficulty to insulate is really no different than anything else.
4. What is it like to actually live in one? To live in one unit is OK, that really comes down to location. 40' units are 320 sq ft and I lived in an apartment smaller than that but it was at the beach so who cares. To live in a home, is no different than any other home. Ouyr system cuts open the entire sidewalls so you end up with huge areas.
5. How hard is it to cut out windows and doors? Sidewall corrugations range from 1.5mm to 2.0mm thickness. Plasma torch works well. I once cut an entire 40' unit in half with a Sawzall and a circular saw (took 20 sawzall blades and 4 circular saw blades) Would not recommend that to anyone.
6. What about the gap in between them? All dry containers whether they be STd or HiCubes have camberedd roofs just like the deck of a ship. so not only is there a gap but when two containers are side by side each half of each cvontainer is pitched down toward that gap. For a do it yourselfer, I have succesfully take a piece of 1" angle turned it so the flanges straddled each container then stitch welded it down the center line (when we were done it just looks like a little elongated pitched roof down the gap). then we caulked it liberally.
I would not want to discourage anyone from a DIY project. I would like to stress something Michael speaks of often which is predictability of outcome. The less units cost to start with would be an indicator (not a fact) just an indicator that the boxes are less fair and true for home building. Also when marring two boxes side by side some bottom rails finish above the plane of the wood floor, some even with it, some below it. This causes many problems in the field. Some containers are 9'5 1/2" while others are a true 9'6"
You will usually need to support the home at more locations other than the cornerposts. This will need to be accomplished through intermediate posts ( again just the framing package). Bear in mind you will need to extend that post through the rails and possibly hockeypuck shim to ensure it engages the can above or below it.
I do not want to make it sound daunting, rather eyes wide open. Maybe another thought is not how cheap can it be done, but instead, how much value can I create for the same effort.
I like the computer metaphors (similes?) I think of it that in the 60's computers components used to be housed in steel enclosures. Then at some point someone said lets package it up in some plastic enclosures. The components remained the same, the computing goal remained the same, just the way to enclose it was altered. All these houses of wood, now folks are considering containers as a new enclosure, but living, facades, appliances, function, that will still be the same. Anyway, theres a thought trying to get out somewhere.
My background is the Merchant Marine as a deck officer aboard container and with Steam ship companies as an intermodal equipment manager. Today we are actively engage in the modification and newbuilds of containers. WHile living in China I came across a locale that had 20 stand alone homes made form containers with Sod on the roof. Always thought that was clever but have no data to indicate what it does for R or K values.
You will find Paul Sawyers book very relevant to your project. Do not hesitate to let us all know what your progress is
"The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world," says Kirby Jones, the president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade Association. "Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made."
Ian Schrager, the New York entrepreneur who helped create the trend for stylish boutique hotels with the Royalton in Manhattan, the Delano in Miami Beach and the Mondrian in Los Angeles, went to Cuba in 1994-95. "I was completely enchanted with the country," he says. "I was completely taken with it. To me what was interesting was Old Havana, like Venice, a special place frozen in time."
The two weeks of Mardi Gras parades and parties have for decades been the city's binding cord, bringing together all segments of society and thousands of outsiders for a mix of the sacred and the profane. But with planning for the February Carnival season now under way, Mardi Gras has been plagued by harsh financial realities, indecision, lowered expectations and the possibility that this year's parade lineup could be absent some of its most popular krewes, or social clubs.
After the city announced plans for smaller and fewer Mardi Gras parades, dissatisfied krewes protested. Responding to the pressure, an advisory panel to Mayor C. Ray Nagin recommended Wednesday that an additional weekend be included in an abbreviated Mardi Gras parade season. The mayor is expected to agree to a pre-Lenten Carnival season of eight days, instead of the customary 12, culminating Feb. 28 on Mardi Gras Day (known in English as Fat Tuesday).
WFMU will be featured on New York Noise -- the NYC-area local access cable video show. In addition to an hour's worth of cool videos, there'll be footage shot at the Record Fair, and cameos by a number of WFMU DJs. The WFMU feature will air on NYC cable channel 25 on November 19th at 10 PM, December 2nd at 9 PM, and December 4th at 10 PM. More info on New York Noise can be found here.tape it tivo it watch it
TWOJ Baudrillard (Annotated Bibliography)
9-11 Probers Leave Questions Behind
The private watchdog group formed by the former members of the 9-11 Commission is closing up shop. The announcement of its last media event—a December 5 briefing where the 9-11 Discourse Project "will issue its final assessment of progress on all 9/11 Commission recommendations"—came today. This is no surprise: The project (funded by entities like the Carnegie Corporation, the Drexel Family Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund) was intended to last for just a year after the commission expired in August 2004, its mission to "educate the public on the issue of terrorism and what can be done to make the country safer." But even if this end was long planned, it doesn't mean everyone thinks the job is finished.
"I think it's really ironic that they are closing up shop at a time when their credibility is being called into question because of Able Danger," says Debra Burlingame, whose brother was pilot of the plane that hijackers flew into the Pentagon.
Able Danger is the secret military intelligence unit featured in stories published this summer in which military officers claimed that they had information about lead hijacker Mohammed Atta a year before the 9-11 attack. What's more, the sources of the story claim they told the 9-11 commission about it, but that information was left out of the final report. The 9-11 commissioners have dismissed the story as overblown, claiming in an op-ed piece just this week that their staff checked out the story and found no evidence it was true.
Able Danger isn't the only question that people keep asking. People who lost firefighters sons, husbands, and brothers still want answers regarding the issues of command & control and radio communication. "The questions that remain unanswered are the whole stuff of chapter 9," says Sally Regenhard, founder of the Skyscraper Safety Campaign, who lost her firefighter son in the towers. "What happened to New York?" Others feel the commission played politics with its finding that Iraq and al Qaeda had no meaningful connections. And Burlingame feels the commission was never disposed to really examine what damage was done by the legal "wall" separating intelligence and criminal investigations at the FBI, since one of the commissioners, Jamie Gorelick, played a role in interpreting that rule during her Justice Department stint under Bill Clinton. Other commission members had similar conflicts on other issues, leading to a lot of recusals.
"How did a group of 9/11 families go from being seen as the entirely sympathetic victims of perhaps America’s greatest tragedy to being viewed as a self-interested obstructionist force that could hold up ground zero’s progress for years, banishing any sign of cultural life downtown—except, perhaps, for the culture of mourning?"The Grief Police - No one says the 9/11 families aren’t entitled to their pain. But should a small handful of them have the power to reshape ground zero?
What Bernstein and his IFC colleagues hadn’t counted on was the families. Ielpi and other family activists had long ago come to believe that the memorial for the September 11 victims should be much larger and more prominent than ground-zero developers had envisioned. They saw the IFC as competition—not just for land but for the public’s attention and, not least, charitable donations. In private meetings, they argued that the IFC would take the emphasis away from what happened to their loved ones—and would even use some of the artifacts from the disaster, like Fritz Koenig’s Sphere sculpture from the Twin Towers’ plaza, that they wanted for their memorial. The IFC was meant to be aboveground, the memorial below; the families complained that visitors to ground zero would be distracted by the IFC and its street-level cultural center before they descended to the memorial.
When their lobbying didn’t succeed, they took the battle to another level. In June, a Wall Street Journal op-ed by a 9/11 family member named Debra Burlingame all but accused the IFC of being a left-wing Trojan horse, suggesting that intellectual elites were trying to sneak a blame-America museum onto sacred ground. Under the Take Back the Memorial banner, the family members made the rounds on cable talk shows, appeared before Congress, and were cheered on by right-wing blogs. The PR battle was fought until September, when Governor George Pataki, who had once called for an array of cultural institutions to rise from the ashes, yanked the IFC from the plan for downtown that he largely controls. Burlingame and Take Back the Memorial were victorious.
Now Ielpi, clearly emboldened, makes it plain that the IFC’s defeat was just the beginning. With him on the twentieth floor this morning is Michael Kuo, whose father, Frederick Kuo Jr., perished in the south tower and who is using his master’s degree in urban planning to help Ielpi with his latest project—the establishment of the Tribute Center, a tiny family-initiated visitor center opening soon, next door to the shrouded Deutsche Bank building. Staring out at a stirring, unobstructed view of the pit, the two men present their long-term wish list for all sixteen acres. First, they and the other members of Take Back the Memorial want a memorial that, unlike the current underground Arad design, would dominate the revived site, an unmissable reminder to all Americans of Ielpi’s and the other families’ darkest day. To that end, Take Back the Memorial would like to commandeer the proposed cultural building, or at least its parcel. If the group is successful, that would inflate the exhibition space for the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum to about four times that of the Holocaust Museum.
That’s not all. Next, Ielpi points out the outline of the Twin Towers’ foundations, which the families are fighting in court to have completely preserved, like a Roman ruin; to win that one, they would have to stop construction on the new Santiago Calatrava–designed PATH Terminal, which broke ground this month. To the northeast is the Gehry performing-arts-center site; some family members are uncomfortable with the idea of, as some have put it, dancing on the graves of victims. Then there’s the surrounding scheme for 600,000 square feet of retail space, which some families would like to screen for taste (no Victoria’s Secret, thank you)—and Larry Silverstein’s five planned commercial skyscrapers, including the Freedom Tower, the tenants of which the families may also have something to say about (Middle Eastern businesses, on ground zero?).
After the Avant-garde Sylvère Lotringer
One thing about the avant-garde is that it's mostly humorless. Dada is the glaring exception, but it never was a group to speak of; there were too many holes everywhere. Dada never took itself seriously, didn't even capitalize its name. Andre Breton and his men, on the other hand, capitalized on everything. Breton published the famous Anthology of Black Humor although had no sense of humor to speak of and was color blind. He was a totally uptight little man. Didn't he say that he would never show himself naked in front of a woman if he were not in a glorious state of erection? No wonder he kept his hair long and wore a cape. I don't think he would have ever dropped his pants in front of the Academy as Kafka's chimpanzee did. Kafka's monkey obviously had nothing glorious to show, or to prove, all he wanted was finding a way out , certainly not a way in. He'd been wounded and captured, so he copied human ways as monkeys do in order to be let out of his cage. He couldn't care less about the Academy, just repaid them in their own coin, showing them his ass in lieu of his wound. This is what the avant-garde is supposed to do, drop its pants in front of academies, and not lick their ass.
The avant-garde never monkeyed their way out of their cage. On the contrary, they tried everything to be admitted to the club . Why otherwise would they spend all their time abusing everybody around, like the Situationists? It wasn't exactly the way to keep their distance. The avant-garde wanted everyone to pay attention to them, especially those they attacked. In reality, they became the watchdog of the art world, its most indispensable appendage. It is not surprising then that it was rewarded posthumously. It was all a con-game. They were the bouncers of the art club, standing at the door and keeping the others waiting in the cold. The most exclusive and nasty they were, the more seductive. That's also what happened to French Theory in America. Everyone begged to be let in, terrorized at the thought that could be left out. And then they moved on to something else. They couldn't care less what it was all about and it didn't change anything in their lives. All they cared for was their glorious erection.
The Academy had no way of knowing whether the chimpanzee was candid or pulling their leg. That's what I like so much about humor - it remains imperceptible. The chimpanzee was playing with the code upheld by the Academy and they were too uptight to admit it, or even know for sure that he was challenging them. The real challenge that humor raises is its very existence. And even if it is recognized for what it is, there's nothing much one can do about it. You're damned if you do and damn if you don't. But this is what gets people thinking.
lori landay semiotics teaching notes
the new yorker
“ ‘The illusion of desire has been lost in the ambient pornography and contemporary art has lost the desire of illusion,’ ” he began. “ ‘After the orgies and the liberation of all desires, we have moved into the transsexual, the transparency of sex, with signs and images erasing all its secrets and ambiguity.’ ”
After he read, Baudrillard expanded on his theme. “We say that Disneyland is not, of course, the sanctuary of the imagination, but Disneyland as hyperreal world masks the fact that all America is hyperreal, all America is Disneyland,” he said. “And the same for art. The art scene is but a scene, or obscene”—he paused for chuckles from the audience—“mask for the reality that all the world is trans-aestheticized. We have no more to do with art as such, as an exceptional form. Now the banal reality has become aestheticized, all reality is trans-aestheticized, and that is the very problem. Art was a form, and then it became more and more no more a form but a value, an aesthetic value, and so we come from art to aesthetics—it’s something very, very different. And as art becomes aesthetics it joins with reality, it joins with the banality of reality. Because all reality becomes aesthetical, too, then it’s a total confusion between art and reality, and the result of this confusion is hyperreality. But, in this sense, there is no more radical difference between art and realism. And this is the very end of art. As form.”
Mattress-to-mattress living turns private live into public theatre, and Jasmine, after settlin in, began hovering in corners and doorways to observe her neighbors. She was particularl interested in a middle-aged couple, Caroly Tompkins and Gus Davis, who, despite long residency in New Orleans East, had what others in the shelter called “country-ass ways. After a lifetime with a volatile mother, Jasmin is skittish; Carolyn and Gus mesmerized her with their placidity. He is illiterate, with failing eyesight, and had worked as an oysterman before Katrina and its accompanying oil spills Carolyn has a mellow laugh and, in Jasmine’ estimation, a woeful fashion sense: she wore faded house dress, pink flip-flops, and a blac polyester do-rag every day. The couple’s great interest was their sons, aged one and almost three, whom Carolyn rocked for hours in donated chair to which someone had affixed stickers that said “Wassup?
trailer group
Q: Can anyone tell me the name of the 60s or 70s post-rock group that recorded "Japanese Sandman?" This track of their recording contained the spoken message, "Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for l957 and..."
A: 'Im afraid I've found several music groups that have a song of that title. The main one being a Swing Jazz guy named Freddy Gardner and an individual named Djargo Rhinehardt. However these musicians are all in Jazz of some kind.
Although I wonder if you mean the group The Masked Marauders who did a song called I am the Japanese Sandman.
"Sherman set the Wayback Machine" is of course a reference to Mr. Peabody and his pet human Sherman from The Rocky and Bullwinkle show. (You never know, some people may miss the reference)
nola photo link farm
thanks mark