Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Ghost in the Machine: The Clash

Ghost in the Machine: The Clash

London Calling, cassette tape on canvas, 2009 — By Erika Iris Simmons

Two things that I really love about this illus­tra­tion by Erika Iris Simmons:

  1. It’s the iconic image from the cover of The Clash’s mas­ter­piece London Calling.
  2. It’s ren­dered with casette tape!

View it at the largest size to see the detail.

Fever° From Shaun Inman

Shaun Inman launched Fever today, a re-​imagined feed reader. The big dif­fer­ence between Fever and other prod­ucts like Google Reader, is that it is designed to help float impor­tant or trend­ing links and dis­cus­sions to the top. So rather than read­ing through hun­dreds of posts to find what’s hot, Fever ana­lyzes all of your feeds, and looks for re-​linking and repeat references.

I haven’t yet sprung for a license, (mostly because there isn’t any offline caching so that I can read on the subway). But, there is a lovely look­ing iPhone-​optimized site, and it looks as thought­fully and lov­ingly designed as his web ana­lyt­ics prod­uct, Mint.

Be sure to watch the video demo, and note that Fever is not a hosted service—you have to install it on your own server.

Reunited Blur Perform First Gig in Nearly 10 Years

Oh man, I’m so excited for the Blur reunion this summer, even though it seems lim­ited to the UK for now. The first of these new gigs hap­pened on June 13th at the site of their first gig, and from the looks of a few YouTube videos, they sound fantastic.

From NY Mag’s Vul­ture Blog:

On Sat­ur­day, before an audi­ence of 150, Blur played its first con­cert as a four-​piece in a decade, at Essex, England’s East Anglian Rail­way Museum (it’s where they per­formed one of their ear­li­est gigs) — and some won­der­ful person has uploaded video of prac­ti­cally the entire show.

Video of Blur performing ‘There’s no Other Way’ on June 13th.

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[Via HalfAlien]