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Theatre composer Jason Robert Brown (bio) tries to explain to a young fan why it’s wrong to download sheet music from the Internet for free. Via.
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Dancing Robots
comment posted at 10:04 AM on Jun-22-10

Comics great Al Williamson has died.
comment posted at 5:52 PM on Jun-14-10

Last week, this postcard appeared on the popular PostSecret^[1st][etc], a blog in which people anonymously share their secrets via postcard.
comment posted at 11:39 AM on Jun-13-10

Why are so many recent Young Adult novels set in nightmarish futuristic dystopias? Because they're just like high school.
comment posted at 12:43 PM on Jun-8-10

What do Snoop Dogg, Noel Gallagher, Ciara, David Beckham, Ian Brown, Daft Punk, & Star Wars have in common? Just ask Adidas. The Star Wars cantina scene is sacred cinema, but Adidas went ahead and remade it for their current World Cup ad campaign. The new cut seamlessly combines the original footage with new shots of our favorite electro-house droids, Snoop Dogg, Noel Gallagher, Ciara, David Beckham, Ian Brown and more. It appears that Daft Punk did not remix the original cantina music, though.
comment posted at 7:57 PM on Jun-4-10

Pope John Paul II, the musical: Two priests, two dancers and a team of young actors are bringing John Paul II to the stage this month, with a musical version of the pope's life and work.
comment posted at 7:53 AM on Jun-4-10

Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed to play ultrasonic concert for dogs.
comment posted at 10:05 PM on Jun-1-10

Lightspeed, a new online Science Fiction magazine featuring fiction and nonfiction, launches today.
comment posted at 5:03 PM on Jun-1-10

WikiWorld was a comic series developed for Wikipedia by Greg Williams using the encyclopedia's text and released under a Creative Commons license. It's topics range from the concept of a redshirt in science fiction, public radio personalities like (MeFi's own) John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell and Terry Gross, Godwin's Law, Ann Coulter and world domination.
comment posted at 7:36 AM on Jun-1-10

LARP - what is it? - a comprehensive guide in comicbook form.
comment posted at 9:57 AM on May-30-10

Why Ray Bradbury made me want to write, by Neil Gaiman
comment posted at 4:19 PM on May-23-10

From James Randi, Martin Gardner died.
comment posted at 7:35 PM on May-22-10

On May 18th, 1980, thirty years ago today, at 8:32 a.m., the ground shook beneath Mount St. Helens in Washington state as a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck, setting off one of the largest landslides in recorded history - the entire north slope of the volcano slid away. As the land moved, it exposed the superheated core of the volcano setting off gigantic explosions and eruptions of steam, ash and rock debris. The blast was heard hundreds of miles away, the pressure wave flattened entire forests, the heat melted glaciers and set off destructive mudflows, and 57 people lost their lives. A photo-essay.
comment posted at 1:10 PM on May-18-10

BBC World Service has over 500 audio documentaries you can download. The subject matter is incredibly wide ranging, for example, internet cafés, the influence of Islamic art on William Morris, South African female AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane, Yiddish, the importance of cows, novelist Chinua Achebe, financial risk management, Obama as an intellectual, the physical and emotional effects of a car crash and many, many more. If the quantity and variety are overwhelming, you can subscribe to a podcast, which delivers a new documentary to you every single day.
comment posted at 6:29 PM on May-8-10

Everybody Edits is a fun Flash game where everyone edits the world and plays in it together.
comment posted at 4:36 PM on May-8-10

Need some good music for a lazy Sunday? Bo Hansson, Swedish prog-rock organist recently passed away and he may have just what you need. So sit back and listen to some tracks off his most well known album Music Inspired By The Lord Of The Rings: Leaving Shire/The Old Forest & Tom Bombadil/Fog on the Barrow-Downs Black Riders/Flight to the Ford At the House of Elrond & The Ring Goes South Journey in the Dark Lothlorien Shadowfax Horns of Rohan and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields Dreams in the House of Healing Homeward Bound/The Scouring of the Shire The Grey Heavens
comment posted at 5:01 PM on May-2-10

Dick Giordano, a comic book artist and former executive editor at DC Comics, passed away on March 27th.
comment posted at 5:06 PM on May-2-10

Super Mario Crossover - Play Super Mario Bros. as Bill S, Samus, Link, Simon, Mega Man or, of course, as Mario.
comment posted at 4:38 PM on Apr-28-10

The Tea Party's Toxic Take on History (single link Slate) The piece has interesting internal links. The points about history distortions are at the end. Here's a little more about the author. The Tea Party is a significant preoccupation for him. Previously (briefly!) on Metafilter, but taken down at poster's request.
comment posted at 1:12 PM on Apr-26-10

Archie Comics Introduces Openly Gay Character (not from The Onion)
comment posted at 2:01 PM on Apr-24-10

The Daily News has posted a 215 image gallery of photos by serial killer Rodney Acala 66, convicted of the murders of 4 women and a girl in California. Authorities suspect there may be many more victims; possibly up to 20, killed between the years of 1971 to `79. The NYPD has released the photos in hopes of identifying possible victims & closing a bunch of cold cases. Thus informed, I find these photos deeply haunting; most are basic, boilerplate snapshots typical of their era, while others have a bizarre dreamlike quality (i.e.- in #3 in the posted series a young woman appears unfocused & wraithlike, her raised arms framed by trees, in #9 a subject bending over backwards at first appears to hung upside down, mouth vanished by foliage) several subjects in the series appear again & again. Alcala's photos reveal him as a pretentious manipulative hack, whose unintended best are evidence of the beast within. 21 women featured in a previous series of 120 shots have been found alive.
comment posted at 12:30 PM on Apr-24-10

Carl Macek, who created Robotech, brought Akira to America and was a co-founder of Spumco, passed away this Saturday.
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Did you know how slow you run?
comment posted at 8:08 AM on Apr-8-10

Heaven All Day, a minimalist but evocative long-form comic. [via mefi projects]
comment posted at 9:10 AM on Mar-31-10

Andy Rehfeldt dubs videos with different musical styles: What a Wonderful World (death metal version), Enter Sandman (smooth jazz version), Hammer Smashed Face (radio Disney version), I Gotta Feeling (Psycho version), and more.
comment posted at 9:15 AM on Mar-26-10

MoMA has acquired the @ symbol into its collection, and provides a short history on @ to accompany the announcement.
comment posted at 10:06 PM on Mar-22-10

The Daily Dish (no not that one): This is artist Klari Reis painting on petri dishes, creating surprisingly organic works of art.
comment posted at 7:56 AM on Mar-18-10

Remember Adventure Time with Finn and Jake?! Cartoon Network starts airing it Monday, April 5th. Go watch the promo and then play the totally awesome game!
comment posted at 2:30 PM on Mar-9-10

Japan: It's not funny anymore
comment posted at 8:36 AM on Mar-8-10

The primarily instrumental band Clogs finally finds its voice, with Shara Worden (mp3) -- she of My Brightest Diamond and the Decemberists -- leading the vocal charge in their new album The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton. (The album also features Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger.)
comment posted at 10:51 AM on Mar-2-10

Ulysses "Seen" is an ambitious, ongoing project to create a webcomic adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. Each page of the comic offers an accompanying reader's guide, and there's a blog about the progress of the project.
comment posted at 10:48 AM on Jan-21-10

The Business Plot of 1933 has reached a logical conclusion: the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely (pdf) to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress.
comment posted at 7:43 AM on Jan-21-10

The Nerds of Paradise: a new webcomic from Dale Beran, the writer of A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible (Previously).
comment posted at 10:57 AM on Dec-20-09

Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, probably best known for his work on Alien, as well numerous other science fiction films, has passed away age 63.
comment posted at 5:26 AM on Dec-18-09

If, like me, you have the maturity of a 12-year old boy, you will find this lovingly-illustrated, NSFW tale hillarious.
comment posted at 10:58 AM on Dec-16-09

Millenium Falcon Bed. I want to put this on my Amazon wishlist. Don't you?
comment posted at 10:07 AM on Dec-14-09

Masters of Pen and Ink: Franklin Booth, Joseph Clement Coll, Michael Kaluta, Roy Krenkel, Norman Lindsay, Howard Pyle, J. Allen St. John, and Bernie Wrightson.
comment posted at 7:52 AM on Dec-11-09

I had this concept--after a strange dream, while scoping out the I Dreamed I Saw st. Augustine tab in my just-in-case-it-disappears downloaded dylanchords, of ...St. Augustine as a slow moody slide in Open D ala Blind Texas Marlin. But then I got to wondering whether someone might have a chord dictionary online where a few variations on a first position B Minor in Open D might be found. Voila! Achtung, Baby! Behold Brian's huge chordlist collection. Oh, man, he's got your standard and open tunings on guitar plus mandolin, uke, banjos, bouzouki, pipa and lute. A living room guitarist's must have, no doubt, although a few more open tunings for pipa would have been nice...
comment posted at 1:08 PM on Dec-9-09

Starting her comics career as a colorist, Marie Severin was largely responsible for the distinctive color palette of EC Comics, where her brother Johnny Severin also worked. She later worked in the Marvel Bullpen, drawing just about everything, including many well loved staff caricatures. She turned 80 this year; here are a few of her Marvel covers from the 60s and 70s.
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Two months & three thousand photographs later: here is a fascinating YouTube video of the making of Abigail Uhteg's new art book The Complex of All of These.
comment posted at 1:47 PM on Nov-16-09

Tom Sanford, a NY based artist, has created paintings depicting pop-culture icons before, but none have created a "regular trickle of hate mail/criticism" like this one.
comment posted at 9:54 AM on Nov-12-09

Re-inhabited Circle Ks - an exhibit of identical storefronts abandoned by a national chain of convenience stores and re-purposed by new businesses.
comment posted at 8:06 AM on Nov-10-09

The frequently excellent photo-blog The Big Picture at the Boston Globe has posted a collection of stunning and, well, alien-looking photos of the martian landscape.
comment posted at 8:47 AM on Nov-7-09

Stereo Images from Juneau
comment posted at 7:15 AM on Nov-2-09

When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. ... These little stories, illuminating and entertaining syntheses of Armstrong’s passions, now reside in the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College in Flushing, New York.
comment posted at 8:54 PM on Oct-28-09

aliens, planet Voca, music The Voca people are 8 friendly aliens from the planet Voca, a musical planet that has no verbal communication but use vocal expressions only. They have heard the music from earth for decades now and with their imitation abilities they have decided to pay a one evening tribute to humanity and to perform the songs they love as musical- gratitude. And, for your continued enjoyment, a more.... because, sometimes we take things way too seriously around here!
comment posted at 7:58 AM on Oct-20-09