Washboard Rhythm Kings 1933

Japanese acrobats - 1904

http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_1.html

Rock On

Some Questions About the State of Things Mar. 18, 2011 By Daniel Coffeen

Daniel is an independent writer, reader, teacher, and philosopher living in San Francisco.

Do I really need to wake up five days a week — five days! that’s almost everyday! — at some ungodly hour so I can get to work on time?

(Isn’t it healthier to let one’s body wake up in its own time? An alarm clock is, well, alarming and is not the way to greet the day. Isn’t this obvious? Tis why I work for myself — sorta, as there’s no such thing: work is working with others — such are the demands of any economy. But fuckin’ a — the alarm clock has to be one of the nastiest inventions).

Do I really need to work 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 hours a week? When am I supposed to, I dunno, shop, pay bills, date, fuck, masturbate, contemplate, write, think, ponder, dream, caress a woman’s thighs, kiss her neck, indulge a lengthy conversation about Bunuel, watch Assayas’ 5.5 hour film, “Carlos,” one of the greatest films of the past 25 years?

(This is not an advancement from the hunting/gathering days; we work all the time just to get by. Leisure — which should be the benefit of these big brains of ours — has been exiled.)

Do I really need to work so much just to make enough money to pay my bills — even a so-called good salary only lets me pay my more expensive bills such as for a nice bottle of tequila and a sushi feast? The so-called good salary of the middle-class in today’s urban America damns you to a lifetime of work and a modest retirement at, say, 79.

(My god, that’s insane! Why do we stand for this? Why aren’t we shrieking in the streets? Pulling our hair out? Is it the Zoloft that leaves us mute? The indigestion from all those lattes? What is it that placates us so?)

watch this music piece

http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html

Una Noche Idishe - Papirosn

LAURIE ANDERSON - ZERO AND ONE

LAURIE ANDERSON - GRAVITY'S ANGEL

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

http://vimeo.com/7640196

Just released Busby Berkeley Collection,

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2006/03/landscape-architecture-musical.html


Just released Busby Berkeley Collection, which packages together five of the visionary's greatest works: Footlight Parade (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames (1934), Gold Diggers of 1935, and 42nd Street (1933).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000E0OE1M/pruned-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&adid=1ZKDVZJ7E9TZPAANH2M3&link_code=as1

ELVIS - LOVING YOU.wmv

Elvis Presley Loving You

Ted Lucas / Plain And Sane And Simple Melody

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum

Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland

Twin Shadow 'Slow' (NSFW)

Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

Boston - peace/piece of mind (WITH LYRICS)

Midnight Special - Billy Swan "I Can Help"

Elvis Presley - I Can Help

Bachman - Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride

Brenton Wood Gimme A Little Sign

Global Intelligence Website

http://www.stratfor.com/

Dancing Merengue Dog

The Ultimate Rejection Letter

Herbert A. Millington

Chair - Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I
regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me
an assistant professor position in your department.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually
large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field
of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in
rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at
this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor
in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.
Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,

Chris L. Jensen

I Think I Might Learn Wushu

Look for me on FaceBook: Joseph Smith | MySpace Video

how to make a good TED talk

http://get-tedpad.com/

source: http://blog.postrank.com/2010/05/and-the-most-engaging-ted-talk-is/

Rep Rap

RepRap from Adrian Bowyer on Vimeo.

David Byrne Interview

David Bowie- Starman

Tame Impala - Half Full Glass Of Wine

The Psychology of Open Source Explained

The Psychology of Open Source Explained

Success = (focus area/# of focus areas) + K

K = a constant = luck, opportunity, etc

Know your niche = efficiency
Don’t make yourself diffuse, stretched to thing, or overextended

Find a way to roll many things under your 1 focus area

Find balance

Pandas In the Wild from chris keener on Vimeo.

http://www.heyokay.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvJy0zoXOY

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb

Jerry Lee Lewis - Why Don't You Love Me Like You use To Do

Just Imagine...(Film from 1930)...they way people thought 1980 would be like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NggcoxQX0yo

Bruce Lee - Lost Interview - Click here for the most popular videos

http://vimeo.com/9679622

The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (1964)

Wings/Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (HQ)

Animal Collective - Brothersport

Otis Redding - Glory of Love

T.Rex Ride A White Swan Marc Bolan

Snow-Informer (By Alex3030)

Peggy Lee: Fever!

Patches

visotsky - kupola

The Beatles - This Boy

Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town (1958)

Glenn Campbell - Southern Nights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Bill Withers - Grandma's Hands

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Hoagy Carmichael and Jack Teagarden (1939)

Am I Blue (1944) Hoagy Carmichael

Tennessee ernie Ford - 16 Tons

Hey Now (part)

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

france gall - laisse tomber les filles

Old San Fransisco Traincar ride

http://www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905

Bas Rutten Street Defense - The Better Version

Oingo Boingo - Private Life

Solid Potato Salad - The Ross Sisters (1944)

Fighting Giraffes - Excellent Footage

John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me (Joe Meek)

John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me (Joe Meek)

Basketball Jones

Garrett Bodine makes a mess

Garrett Bodine makes a mess

Battle at Kruger

First McDonalds Commercial - Creeepy!

Very old Big Mac 70's commercial

Mr. Yuk Commercial

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes [Official Music Video]

David Bowie - Life On Mars?

KRAFTWERK-THE ROBOTS 1975

Ninja III Evil Ninja killing spree

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane