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In the vein of the very popular lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to, UK's Channel 4 offers lofi hip hop radio - beats to self isolate to over a loop of Richard Ayoade from The IT Crowd. Want to spend this self-isolation time getting to know one specific hip hop artist and his music? Check out Blockhead, Tony Simon from NYC, who's been making beats since '94, and started collabing with Aesop Rock circa 1998 (YouTube interviews x2). Signed to Ninja Tune (who have an [unrelated] ambient livestream) for four of his first five albums (Discogs), since then he's released his music on a couple different labels, plus via Bandcamp, spanning the eras of crate digging to digital discoveries (interview with This Savage Beauty). A selected discography follows ... [more inside]
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Finding yourself at home with time and energy? “The idea of cooking, and baking in particular, really requires a certain level of mindfulness, of putting aside everything else that’s going on around you and being present in the moment,” Ohana says (Tangential content warning: links with significant covid-19 content will be marked [cv19] but most are really just about baking). [more inside]
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Museums, art educators on Facebook using the #artedportraits hashtag, and random folks on Instagram are doing their best imitations of artwork with what's lying around at home.
posted by PussKillian at 12:37 PM PST - 4 comments

corona-cli is an open source, command-line client written by Ahmad Awais to collate and display quick statistics on the COVID epidemic pulled from a variety of sources in a terminal.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:47 AM PST - 19 comments

NBA 2K Beats Copyright Case Over LeBron's Tattoos (Law360 paywall): A Manhattan federal judge ruled Thursday that Take-Two Interactive couldn't be sued for copyright infringement over tattoos on LeBron James and others in the NBA 2K video games, saying tattoo artists gave the players automatic licenses when they inked their bodies: "The undisputed factual record clearly supports the reasonable inference that the tattooists necessarily granted the Players nonexclusive licenses to use the Tattoos as part of their likenesses." Related: Who Owns Your Tattoo? Tattoo Artists Answer (Youtube) [more inside]
posted by not_the_water at 10:19 AM PST - 25 comments

I'm loving these guys and just wanted to share. It looks like they are doing a new corona song everyday. Stay Home; Patient
posted by BoscosMom at 9:47 AM PST - 11 comments

People’s History Podcasts for Young People. A list of history podcasts suitable for high school aged students (and their guardians) who might be learning at home, courtsey iof The Zinn Education Project which provides teaching resources on people’s history and liberation movements in the US and around the world. Related: History and social justice books that have been adapted for young readers. (The Zinn Project, previously)
posted by The Whelk at 8:25 AM PST - 1 comments