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Check out the Colleen Woods series blog post.

From wikipedia: Speedcore is a form of hardcore techno that is characterized by a high rate of beats per minute and aggressive themes. The name originates from the high BPM rate, which rarely drops below 300 BPM. Earlier Speedcore tracks averaged at about 250 BPM, whereas more recent tracks sometimes exceed 1000 BPM. Some people classify higher BPM tracks (around 600-800 BPM), as splittercore, and upon reaching 1000 BPM and beyond, the music becomes known as extratone.

Something for everyone.

MOCA The Artist’s Museum Video Series (Interviews):

Mark Bradford
Robbie Conal
Dave Muller
Catherine Opie
Amanda Ross-Ho
Alexis Smith
Diana Thater
Marnie Weber

Shouts to Felipe!

J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Courtesy musician Nick Pittsinger, who used the free program Paulstretch, this is “U Smile” made slower. Like, a lot slower—eight times slower, to be exact. Thanks Fernando, via Gawker.

“My name is Richard, my stage name is Nozinja, from Nozinja Music Productions. I’m from Giyani in Limpopo. I’m an engineer, I’m a producer, I’m a composer. It’s my record label. I’m the marketing manager. I transport them — I’ve got a micro-bus. I do everything on my own. I’ve got manufacturing. I buy CDs, I will silk-screen myself. I sing, too. I’m a scout for talent. When you look at the person, you must see the artist. He or she must be able to dance. If you can dance, you can sell. Shangaan dancers, they dance, they can go on for almost an hour with that speed, without getting tired. When you see them dance you feel like they have got no bones. It’s similar to the Zulus, but faster and we put a lot of style inside. There’s disco in there, we use Pantsula moves.
We don’t use the sounds of the hip-hop guys, or the afro-pop, or whatever, we’re using Shangaan sounds. The traditional Shangaan music is fast. You play it slow, they won’t dance.”
– Shangaan Electro “New Wave Dance Music From South Africa” available from Honest Jons Records

Wow, this cd could have read (c) rephlex 1996.

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NPR Article

Photographers have been enticed by the subject of food since the earliest years of the medium. Drawn exclusively from the Museum’s collection, this selection of more than 20 works highlights important technological and aesthetic developments, including bountiful still life compositions, innovative close-ups and photograms, and documentary studies. Among the photographers featured are Roger Fenton, Adolphe Braun, Edward Weston, Bill Owens, Martin Parr, and Taryn Simon.

Event information + LA Times article

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Apr 6, 2010 (Tuesday) to Aug 22, 2010 (Sunday)

Video interview of Rupert Parkes, Photek in his home studio in 1996. Related videos in the series have footage of Source Direct while they were 20 years old in parents basement studio and squarepusher.

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The Street Names of Los Angeles A History is a series of videos presented by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, featuring historic photographs and documents from the Seaver Center for Western History Research.

I grew up in Los Angeles… I should know this stuff!

Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF): Its purpose was to study the effects of space on a multitude of materials.

Every inch of its outside surface was covered with Science. 57 separate experiments, mounted in 86 trays, involving the participation of “more than 200 principal investigators from 33 private companies, 21 universities, seven NASA centers, nine Department of Defense laboratories and eight foreign countries.

Behind the scenes documentary of a small label Kning Disk.

1940s Studio Organization, 20th Century Fox.

The following diagrams outline the structure of the 20th Century Fox film studio in the 1940s. The charts detail everything from the highest to the most menial of positions at the studio, from the catering through the legal department. They appear in approximately the same order as they appeared in the book they were scanned from.

Soothing

Mouse on a huge trackball, roaming in Quake level…

“This montage of AT&T ads came from a 1993 Newsweek CD-ROM, when Newsweek thought that one day, magazines would be sent to you in CD-ROM form, sponsored with ads. It’s an interesting view of the future.”

I am sending over a fax… from tokyo.

Trevor Jackson is the man.

Momus video interview.

“Every city has its own gang history, part of Chicago’s are Gang cards, most prominent in the 70’s and early 80’s”

Klansmen dingbats!

Thanks Ray for the link.