A souvenir photograph from the Viper Roller Coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain Theme Park in Valencia, California, featuring Tupac and friends. The paper frame is inscribed, “Peace Daniel, Be a Homie, 2Pac.”
The math behind Michael Jordan’s legendary hang time
Michael Jordan’s legendary slam dunk from the free throw line has been calculated at 0.92 seconds of pure hang time. But how many seconds could Jordan have gotten were he doing the same jump on Mars? Or Jupiter? Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson share the math equation behind hang time.
Cynthia Connolly’s Great Book ‘Banned in DC’ Is Finally Back In Print
After nearly 10 years out of production, Banned In DC is finally back in print.
It was thought that the sixth edition – which was released in 2005 – would be the final version of the book, as the many of the negatives used to make the printing plates had deteriorated beyond use. However, due to consistent demand, Connolly decided to undertake the laborious task of recreating the book, hewing as closely as possible to the original design only this time as a permanent digital negative.
Assembled by Cynthia Connolly, Lelsie Clague, and Sharon Cheslow and originally released in December of 1988, Banned in DC collects hundreds of photos, flyers, and stories documenting the DC punk scene of the mid-’80s.
The intention of the book – one of the first to be published on punk in the US — was to capture the feeling and energy of the movement, using stories from the many people who were involved. Images of many of the bands of that time can be found in this book: Minor Threat, Faith, Marginal Man, Scream, Red C, Bad Brains, Nuclear Crayons, Insurrection, Hate from Ignorance, G. I., Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, Void, Second Wind, and many more.
With the seventh edition of Banned in DC, publisher and founding author Cynthia Connolly has added an eight-page afterword explaining how and why the book came together. The story highlights years growing up in Los Angeles in the late ’70s and early ’80s – going to shows and discovering and documenting the punk scene in DC after her family relocated to the area in 1981.
– See more at: http://www.dischord.com/release/SDP01b/banned-in-dc#sthash.yZghp9W6.dpuf
Melissa Bel and Brooke Palsson Cover The Pokemon Theme Song
Pokemon, (gotta catch them all) its you and me
I know its my destiny
Pokemon, oh, you’re my best friend
In a world we must defend
Leonard Cohen Narrates NFB’s ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’ Film From 1994
This two-part series, narrated by Leonard Cohen, explores ancient teachings on death and dying. It was filmed over a four-month period on location in the Himalayas where the original text still yields an essential influence over people’s views of life and death. A Way of Life contains footage of the rites and liturgies surrounding and following the death of a Ladakhi elder. The Dalai Lama explains his own feelings about death, while other scenes within a palliative care hospice in San Francisco depicts the use of the texts to counsel dying AIDS patients. This film, by revealing ancient teachings on how to think about death and dying, can be a valuable source of counsel and comfort.
The Gettysburg Address As Read By Johnny Cash
President Lincoln’s message to America rings down through the ages, right through Johnny Cash.
Comedian Tim Hawkins Has A Funny Guitar Meltdown Onstage
Tim Hawkins gets a new guitar toy. What a train wreck. Brand new from Tim’s concert DVD “That’s the Worst”, available now here.
The 100 Most-Watched Music YouTube Videos of All Time
…and in the week since this was original posted, PSY racked up another 6 million hits.
Hear a 1,000-year-long-song, and you’re only 15 years too late, but it’s ok
Longplayer is a musical composition that has been playing since the beginning of the year 2000, and will play on, never repeating, until it reaches the point at which it first started, exactly 1000 years later. Longplayer is in effect an everlasting piece of music; its score mirrors a planetary system, six musical events whose orbits come into phase once a millennium.
Until now, Longplayer has only been accessible by visiting a handful of “listening posts” or via an online stream.
This app is the first standalone version of Longplayer, creating the music in real time based on the composition’s thousand-year-long score. It requires no data connection and automatically synchronises itself with every other copy of the app across the globe. With this app, you become part of a community of listeners distributed through space and time, across many lifetimes.
The song was created by The Pogues founder Jem Finer. Without feeling a tad bit optimistic, this song just may crack the charts for the next 51,220 weeks.
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