HUMANWINE, Jake von Slatt, and Make:TV

This is the first of a series of photo backlog-clearing posts…

First, a little background. PBS is shooting a TV series based on Make Magazine, called Make:TV. It’s all about techie DIY, and empowering ordinary people to void their warranties. ;)

So, for the pilot episode, they feature Jake von Slatt of Steampunk Workshop. Besides being a DIYer who makes steampunkish things, he had donated a bunch of stuff to Holly and M@ of HUMANWINE, who have converted a bus to biodiesel and in which they will live and tour with the rest of the band. HUMANWINE played a small show with a few other bands (which I didn’t stay for, it being a Sunday evening) at the old warehouse complex that Pan9 used to be in. Here are the pix. (Click on them to see the fullsize, and get to the rest of the set.) Jake also blogged about this, and put a video up at Google Video:

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Salvador Dali on TV

Followup to the John Cage post, here’s Salvador Dali on What’s My Line?, a classic game show.

Here’s more of him, this time appearing in commercials. See the related videos.

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Mah na mah na

Remember “Man na mah na”, the musical sketch from Sesame Street (or was it The Muppet Show)? Well, apparently, that song was composed for a Swedish porn flick.

Live action “Simpsons” opening sequence

“The Simpsons” had a new opening sequence filmed in Bromley, England. It was live action. Google has a download link, too.

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LIGO video

The project that I did my PhD in, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), has, with the National Science Foundation (NSF), produced a 20 minute video entitled “Einstein’s Messengers” targeted towards the general public. It’s a NOVA-style program. You can watch a streaming version online.

Technorati Tags: gravitational physics, LIGO, physics, science, television, video

Cory Doctorow speaks about an unencumbered net

Or, really, how corporate bigwigs are trying to cripple the fundamental openness of the net. Listen
here.

Listening to ITC-Web2.0-CoryDoctorow-2004.10.07 by Search is a Platform (Web 2.0)

Eminem’s Mosh

So, MTV will be playing Eminem’s new activist video Mosh in medium rotation, according to this post (pointing to this blog entry at GNN by the director of said video). You can vote for it to show on TRL, if so inclined. The video is pretty inspiring. Download it at the link above, or my stashed copy here (47 MB).