Art
Doomsday Seed Vault Opens
A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened a few weeks ago. The seed vault is buried deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.[Show as slideshow]
This facility will serve as a backup for hundreds of other seed banks around [...]
Modern Living: Architecture - A new type of Steel Case Study Home
“Purchasing an original Case Study steel and glass home is the opportunity of a fortunate few” I am probably going to use either this one or Rocio romero’s in New Mexico one day. Pierre Koenig was an early proponent of a modern steel home. One organization, Modernist Modular Homes provides a variety of models for [...]
Music - Muse: Thoughts of a Dying Atheist (Video)
This song and performance is so brilliant. Well done. Big crowd. I could look it up where it is I guess.
T-Bob Chopper Project, Part 1
Orange County artist and friend of the site — Robert James — and his partner in art — Tim Tonkin — have started a new project. One that promises to be the first of many joint ventures… The restoration of a ‘67 Triumph chopper with a BSA extended gas tank and a “springer” front end. [...]
Music: Nine Inch Nails’ new album is fan friendly
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails have a new 36 track instrumental album that you can buy. This money goes directly to the artist, the way it should be in my opinion. Trent has been experimenting with new business models and ways of making money from music, and sharing publicly on how each of these [...]
Alien Art: Rendered in Wire
I randomly ran into this today. Lots more pictures in the link to his gallery.
Belial Gallery
Resist
Part of what needs to heal the world is more shopping! The ‘G-Cult’ Marketing Team are always busy creating new and exciting ways to keep the message alive. To this end, they have created two new lines of amazing, life enhancing products all lovingly designed to awaken your inner human being: The first is called [...]
Robert James on Art, Music, Shyness and Growing up OC — Part 1
What follows are transcribed excerpts of my interview with Orange County artist “Robert James”. Be sure to check out more of this fun and interesting interview in the first garbage culture podcast — to be released soon.
On file sharing, copyright and P2P:
I like to think it’s all good. Wow — great things can be done [...]
An Open Letter to Henry Rollins
Dear Henry,
You probably aren’t aware of it, but you have been a great inspiration in my life for many years now. So it is with heavy heart that I sit down this morning to write you this letter.
You see — I live under a cultural rock, and — what with a wife, two gorgeous kids [...]
Go To Zero
Darkroom is a tiny piece of software that does one thing really really well: It allows you to edit text in a closed off (Dark) environment.
It doesn’t pretend to offer anything more then this, and that is precisely why I like it.
As a writer, lyricist and blogger, Darkroom is ideal for getting my words from [...]
