Category Entertainment

May 31 2012

The Museum of Endangered Sounds

Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone?

My ten-year plan is to complete the data collection phase by the year 2015, and spend the next seven years developing the proper markup language to reinterpret the sounds as a binary composition.

 

MORE AT: –SAVE THE SOUNDS–

May 27 2012

Bone Flute Proves Music 40,000 Years Ago

Music was flourishing in Europe in 40,000BC – millennia before Beethoven or the Beatles.

European’s earliest ancestors were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity more than 40,000 years ago, a study has shown.

Evidence of the musicians was unearthed in Germany in the form of primitive flutes made from bird bones and mammoth ivory.

May 27 2012

Discoveries Into Perception Via Popular Magic Tricks

Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center have unveiled how and why the public perceives some magic tricks in recent studies that could have real-world implications in military tactics, marketing and sports.

May 20 2012

Terry Gilliam Interview (1970)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pGeAIzh7vv0

Here is Terry Gilliam in 1970 explaining how he made the classic “fig leaf” stop-motion animation for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, in a spare bedroom at his apartment. (via Dangerous Minds)