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(Credit to Liam Foster)

The best way of showing the total devastation of Japan at the moment

has been done by the New York Times. Click and drag the sliders left and right to show birds eye views of busy industrial districts on April 4th 2010 turn to razed wastelands on March 12th 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?src=tptw

Bahaha

On a completely unrelated note, click here to listen to a Duck Sauce X Charlie Sheen remix thingy.

Dilated Peoples ft Kanye West - This Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbo9QlcLcX8&feature=player_embedded

 Video's genius.

(Credit to Alex Statham)

The Bengal Stripe in Mexico

  El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

Lake Zirahuén

Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, exterior

Camecuaro

 Blue-dyed fox pelt

Teotihuacan, Temple of The Sun

Teotihuacan, Temple of The Moon

 Stone skull décor at the Templo Mayor

Interior of the original basilica

A natural stream flowing into the gardens of the basilica

Interior of the Pocito Chapel

Yay for Grandmaaa!

Captures how shit builds up on every surface of my room.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_astp3BjM
Gil Scott-Heron. His voice is like whisky and the Mississippi delta.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA&feature=relmfu
And it's also haunting and deep, deep dark.

Don't have a Ray Ban shop near you?

Try 'em on on the internet!

 Mmmm, virtual Wayfarers. Go to http://ray-ban.com/uk/science/virtual-mirror (you'll need a webcam).

"Can we just go on to the next video please?"

Whoever said American kids can't make the correct decisions clearly hasn't seen this! My new favourite YouTube series.

William's rad. And Dylan. And Morgan!

MC Solaar (again)

Powaaa

Nicholls got good music taste

MC Solaar. "The only notable French rapper during the 90s". I borrowed 'Cinquième As' from my French teacher at school, the inimitable Mr. Nicholls, and definately didn't regret it. Despite not understanding a large part of it (it's French rap, they speak quick enough as it is!), his flow and delivery vastly makes up for it, and from the sections I do understand, it's easy to see CA is a really poignant album. Similar to with Method Man and Redman's 'Blackout!', I find it really hard to pick a favourite track, but the title track ('Le Cinquième As') and 'L'Homme Qui Voulait Trois Milliards' (below) are pretty high up there.

Mc solaar l'homme qui voulait 3 milliard by Tribaliste

 

(Broken that last one rather a lot of late thanks to the beginnings of hay fever. FH.)

 

An ordinary phone booth was transformed into an aquarium by artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino as part of the Lyon Light Festival in France.
As the designers stated:

“With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium, full of exotically colored fish; an invitation to escape and travel.”

Saw this as a caption to a photo on the wall of a teahouse in Nepal, and it's probably the best motto I've seen. Living every day as if it's your last doesn't work, because it's a very very small chance it is going to be. Following this, you never stop being your own person, whilst moving away from negative things.

 A section of the solar disk recorded in 30mph winds at the Winter Star Party on West Summerland Key. The massive detached prominence was visible for hours.

Mos Def

Any man who can be in The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy film as well as having been one of the most influential rappers of the 90s hip hop scene is a good man by my standards!

Truth Part 2

 

Charlie Sheen dubstep remix

Had to happen sometime!

Electro like you've never heard it before

I'm not even sure how this guy made these or what all the jargon actually means, but from what I can see he's managed to capture the sound of Paint and Firefox. Listen below, it's incredible!

Windows 7 x64 MS Paint EXE Interpereted as PCM Data by R2Bl3nd

Firefox.exe by R2Bl3nd

My mind is made up

I'm getting these suckaz! Beats by Dre 'Solo HD' limited edition (PRODUCT) RED. Not only do they look, and sound, sick (I can bear testament to that having tried some), some of the profit goes towards RED, an AIDS in Africa research and treatment charity. £169.99 from all good purveyers of music and technology.

Arcade Fire - 'Funerals'

Arcade Fire have been as good from the beginning as the hype surrounding them recently shows they are now. 'Funerals', their debut, is classic Arcade Fire, with tracks that sound like quiet happiness in music form, and tracks that speak powerfully of missed family members. The most well known track on it is probably 'Rebellion (Lies)', and those of you who saw the Where The Wild Things Are trailer (which you must have done unless you were living under a rock) will recognise 'Wake Up'. This album definately deserves its place iin Nick Grimshaw's 1000 Albums Everyone Says You Should Listen To. Click here to listen.

Ludacris - 'Incognegro'/ 'Back For The First Time'

"Hey ho, how you been ho? Probably doing ho stuff, 'cause there you ho again"

Ludacris' first album, reissued by Def Jam under 'Back For The First Time' in 2000, is sick. Should be in Grimshaw's 1000 Albums as far as I'm concerned. Plus it's one of those rap albums where the skits actually funny!

My blog in a nutshell

 

in the words of Oi Polloi.