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'Sohei Nishino, 28, is one of the rising gems of contemporary Japanese photography. His extraordinary photographic dioramas, monumental in size, map out the artist’s personal impressions of the world’s major cities in several thousand intimate details. Nishino’s collages are not precise geographic recreations, but an imperfect mix of landmarks and iconic features conceived from his personal ‘re-experiencing’ of a city.
'When photographing a city, Nishino walks the entire city on foot for a month, wandering the streets and recording from every possible angle. In total he uses over 300 rolls of black and white film and took over 10,000 pictures. In the following three months Nishino selects some 4,000 of these photographs, hand printed in his own dark room, which he then meticulously pieces together with scissors and glue in his Tokyo studio. The result was an aerial view of the city, which was then reshot as a completed collage to produce a final image in photographic form.
'This lengthy and painstaking process, all done by hand, only allows for the creation of three maps per year. Nishino’s re-imagination of a city presents a convincing record despite its geographical inaccuracies, a map embodying the intricacies of a city through the eyes and recollection of an outsider.' -- Art Daily
London
Tokyo
New York City
Istanbul
Paris
Video: How the London map was made
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5 one man Metal bands
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from Bad Nature, or with Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marías
from The Evening Redness in the West
'This is a 57-page long novella about Elvis Presley shooting the film Fun in Acapulco in Mexico. A translator is hired to ensure that Elvis pronounces his few handful of Spanish lines in a proper Castillian accent. But when a drunk American and Elvis insult the local "white mafia" leader, and a translation is necessary, the protagonist soon finds himself on the hunted. The story is kind of Marías-lite, but the opening sentence is a typical sinewy sentence from one of Spain's greatest living writers.' -- Peter McLachlin, TERITW
No one knows what it is to be hunted down without having lived it, and unless the chase was active and constant, carried out with deliberation, determination, dedication and never a break, with perseverance and fanaticism, as if the pursuers had nothing else to do in life but look for you, keep after you, follow your trail, locate you, catch up with you and then, at best, wait for the moment to settle the score. It isn’t that someone has it in for you and stands at the ready to pounce should you cross his path or give him the chance; it isn’t that someone has sworn revenge and waits, waits, does no more than wait and therefore remains passive, or schemes in preparation for his blows, which as long as they’re machinations cannot be blows, we think the blows will fall but they may not, the enemy may drop dead of a heart attack before he sets to work in earnest, before he truly applies himself to harming us, destroying us. Or he may forget, calm down, something may distract him and he may forget, and if we don’t happen to cross his path again we may be able to get away; vengeance is extremely wearying and hatred tends to evaporate, it’s a fragile, ephemeral feeling, impermanent, fleeting, so difficult to maintain that it quickly gives way to rancor or resentment which are more bearable, easier to retrieve, much less virulent and somehow less pressing, while hatred is always in a tearing hurry, always urgent: I want him now, I want him dead, bring me the son of a bitch’s head, I want to see him flayed and his body smeared with tar and feathers, a carcass, skinned and butchered, and then he will be no one and this hatred that is exhausting me will end.
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The 100 Worst Song Lyrics Ever
from progressiveboink.com
If I could fall, into the sky.
Do you think time, would pass me by?
"A Thousand Miles" Vanessa Carlton
You can say that I'm one curly fry in the box of the regular
Messing with the flavor oh the flavor that you savor
Saving me for last but you better not eat me at all
Living in a fast food bag making friends with the ketchup and salt
"Too Much Food" Jason Mraz
You taste like honey, honey.
Tell me can I be your honey?
"Disease" Rob Thomas
Is that yo ass, or yo momma half reindeer?
"Shake Ya Tailfeather" Nelly, Diddy, Murphy Lee
Because she’s mine
The doggone girl is mine
Don’t waste your time
Because the doggone girl is mine
"The Girl is Mine" - Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it
"Your Body is a Wonderland" - John Mayer
(the rest)
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Reynard Seifert, who's a really good writer, has a new and really good eBook out called Everything Is On Sale (Unnecessary Press), and that's the cover (above), and that's his bio (below), and that's a short excerpt (further below), and you can download the book for absolutely no charge whatsoever (further below), and you can watch him do something on video (even further below). Everything is recommended.
'Reynard Seifert contributes to HTMLGIANT, programs California Select on Viva Radio, edits Titular, and publishes hahaclever. His fiction has appeared on We Are Champion, LIES/ISLE, PANK, Hobart, Pindeldyboz, and elsewhere. He is a substitute teacher from Austin, where he failed to become a filmmaker, but grew up in rural South Texas, where he failed to become a cowboy. Large breakfasts are a large part of his day. The rest is spent reading in parks, public libraries, coffee shops, and on rooftops. In the corner of his room, a fully packed hiking bag waits for something to happen.' -- Thought Catalog
Excerpt:
The other day I found out bean curd is not a cheese and I thought this is the way life is. The way mirrors are creepy with nothing in them, the way you examine a box of frozen food, from all sides, before you find the directions, even though you already saw the directions, right there on the back – this is the way a big black lab pulling a white boy on a skateboard is running past me fast like pretty fast but not as fast as their light is going fast and glowing tight. The big black lab looking happy with its tongue hanging out the way its tongue is there hanging out, the way white boy smoking looking bummed at me or at least I think the most of which is a kind of righteous indifference. Turning to watch them pass holding my groceries in my arms the way my groceries are held in my arms the sun shining down on us all, I think I am happy too so I smile a little smile, it’s the least of the most I can do for the world on which we live.
Hollow eyes of a man wearing a t-shirt reading YR MOM AND MY MOM HAVE THE SAME FACES scrawled in what appears to be feces, smiling smelling vacant-like my way then back to his hands crawling up and down going up and down the side of a brick wall asking the question of questions which is what is up and what is down less obviously than he could as in what does that mean drawling sideways out of your mouth everything is on sale! the way you are now and then. Crouching he turns to me and says it again he says it crouching now. Everything is on sale he says. Everything. Bend your knees. Arms in the air like I don’t give a good goddamn he looks at me and says I don’t care for your life, the light from mine eyes filling his holes in with pink seething little sacks of yogurt melting mush mush leaving him less yogurt than before yogurt which is to say not yogurt, which is to say he is not gogurt because he is deadgurt he is yo.
Download 'EIOS' for free here or here.
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'Reported way back on February 7, 2011 by a French gaming blog, the videogame studio Blizzard's World of Warcraft and StarCraft themed amusement park Joyland appears to be more than just rumor after recent photos of the construction in Wunjin district, China surfaced along with a Chinese news report.
'This won't be the first time a "unique" theme park has come to fruition in China. In 2009 there was a Kingdom of Dwarves theme park that showcased people of short stature. There's also Oriental Land near Shanghai, China. Oriental Land features a water park, boat rides, military defense training and a full sized American aircraft replica complete with Chinese military hardware on display inside.
'Completing the circle of weird is Joyland, which will apparently be comprised of five themed sections: Terrain of Warcraft, Universe of StarCraft, Island of Mystery, Moles World (the cute section), and World of Legend. Joyland was supposed to open by this March, but judging by the photos it doesn't look like it is going to be ready by then. Then again this is China we're talking about, where entire hotels have been built in six days.' -- destructoid.com
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Fiction Daily: {Tiny TOE Press} is interesting. Talk a bit about them.
{herocious} : My girlfriend’s dad has a shed with tools and plenty of spare building material. Whenever we’re in there, we listen to dub reggae and make very approximate drafts of ideas. {Tiny TOE Press} happened inside this shed. We built it out of wood scraps and screws. Now it sits on the far edge of our kitchen table. It looks like a very old machine.
As far as electricity, it’s powerless, but when touched the right way, this jig makes books. DIY style. Every book {Tiny TOE Press} makes is handcrafted. I feel like they should have their own alcohol content.
Fiction Daily: What did you find out after finishing your first novel, AUSTIN NIGHTS?
{herocious} : Everything about AUSTIN NIGHTS started on a blank screen.The same one I’m writing on now. Absolutely no plot. The first sentence came from nowhere, or from somewhere so distant. It was all very free, very freeing, the process of writing. Story came in spurts and I had no idea what this thing would become. I’d say during this time I was attentive. My eyes were always recording, my ears were turning dialogue into audio tracks, I spent every day hunting for clues. When I found something memorable, I’d turn it into words without trying to fit it into the so-called larger picture. My loyalty was to each spurt, hoping the sum of these would at least add up to some kind of chunk. But at some point the story discovered its universe, and it had to operate according to certain laws, and I realized how brutally I had turned a very free world into something with walls.
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5 wind chimes
Pierre Huyghe 'Wind Chime (After Dream)'
Wind Chime Alarm Clock
Ivo Malec 'Wind Chimes' (1982)
おふさ観音 （風鈴まつ
Martin Bonadeo 'Wind Chimes/Schulmerich Carillon' (2004)
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'Sam Hengel drew crude sketches depicting scenes of violence and warfare, but police say none of them help explain why the 15-year-old held his high school classmates hostage at gunpoint for six hours on Nov. 29 before fatally shooting himself when a SWAT team swarmed the classroom. Marinette Police Chief Jeffrey Skorik told reporters Friday that detectives had closed their investigation without uncovering the teenager's motives. The months-long investigation included interviews with Hengel's family, friends, teachers, Marinette High School classmates and even his Boy Scout leaders.
"This is an inexplicable anomaly in the life of Sam Hengel as everyone knew him," Skorik said.
Skorik released 355 pages of investigative documents, including interviews that painted a portrait of a smart, quiet leader who was well-liked and didn't have problems with bullies. Hengel apparently acted alone and never gave those around him reason to suspect he was planning an attack, Skorik said. "We still don't know why he did this and what his intentions were. I don't know that we could have done anything differently that would have prevented this outcome." Hengel didn't play violent video games, Skorik added, and there was no evidence to suggest he was emotionally distraught over a breakup or other issue. Toxicology reports came back clean.
'The police report included an undated drawing with Hengel's name on it. The sketch showed a helicopter dropping a bomb on a square labeled 'city' while a stick figure on the ground fires a grenade at the bomb. Bullets from the helicopter split another figure in half, and a paratrooper fires into trees. Elsewhere one stick figure pushes another off a steep hill. Skorik told AP he didn't think there was any link between the drawing and the hostage incident.' -- Kansas City Star
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p.s. Hey. So, I'm either on my way to Italy, or, most likely, already in Italy itself as you read this. Here (above) are some things for you to investigate while I'm away. Be good, stay alive and well, and I'll see you guys with new stuff in a week on Thursday, the 31st if not before. Yep, that's it. Take care.
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