the dejavu

2010-10-28T07:58:00.001-07:00

www.mmminds.tumblr.com

un chien andalou

2010-08-05T22:50:00.001-07:00

" Hong Kong, August 4. Images of dancers are reflected in a mirror during a rehearsal of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's "Whisper of Flowers" led by Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwai-min." Image via AP

he had it coming.

2010-07-31T01:44:00.000-07:00

My favorite number from Chicago, amazing choreography. Number 1 & 4 are my favorites!

St. INXS

2010-07-11T16:51:00.000-07:00

Beck's Record Club comes together for INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

Record Club: INXS "Never Tear Us Apart" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

The Specials

2010-07-01T21:37:00.000-07:00

The Specials do it big on stage, why aren't there bands that have this kind of stage presence nowadays?

Pure Imagination

2010-06-26T00:10:00.000-07:00

"Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

This place has to be my number one dream destination.
Gotta find that golden ticket!

the ganges

2010-06-25T20:06:00.001-07:00

i'll be there for you...

2010-06-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

Can you guess where?

best episode ever! (click to enlarge)

Thoughts 6.22.10

2010-06-21T23:58:00.001-07:00

I'd like to think that there is no such thing as being "smart." The word revolves around the way a person carries themselves along with their level of determination. This is usually superficially credited to the idea of them being naturally "gifted." Working hard to reach your goals...now, isn't that just a "smart" thing to do? Being "smart" is merely a choice, not an endowment.

On another note, I would really like to go swimming in the rain...

Mr. Octopus

2010-06-19T14:21:00.000-07:00

how to use a vuvuzuela

2010-06-16T15:34:00.000-07:00

Covered by Blue

2010-06-15T22:50:00.000-07:00

Gliese 581c is a waterworld with oceans 10 times deeper than Earth's deepest trenches.

2010-06-09T14:48:00.000-07:00

Well I don't like you either, fool!

2010-06-05T15:29:00.000-07:00

The most ridiculously AWESOME commercial ever made,

By the way, Nike just got beat.

red black white

2010-06-04T20:47:00.000-07:00

The truth doesn't make a noise, live.

news RAPort

2010-06-03T23:28:00.000-07:00

Krink before Krink

2010-06-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

This kid knows whatsup, Krink before it came to be:

Krink has perfected the art of the drip:

language of the universe

2010-06-02T17:13:00.000-07:00

Nikki Graziano shows us that all things can be explained by mathematical functions

90s Recess: Chinese Jump Rope

2010-06-01T16:42:00.000-07:00

Anyone still have theirs? Lets play!

2010-05-30T14:58:00.000-07:00

Theres something about these square film photographs of kids taken by gzi24.

Joan Holloway on Planet BB

2010-05-25T15:40:00.000-07:00

Christina Hendricks as an android set to Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside?!

This might end up being the best music video of the year.

The teaser reminds me of long drives to Palm Springs

all i can say is slam on

2010-05-25T15:00:00.000-07:00

THE game of the 90s, POGS!

Modern Mimes

2010-05-23T01:23:00.000-07:00

Love this classic scene from Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. He speaks!

write the future

2010-05-21T16:24:00.000-07:00

And I thought those Jose+10 ads couldn't be topped...

bananana box

2010-05-20T15:47:00.001-07:00

Japan will always be ahead of the game. Naoto Fukasawa

90s Computer Lab

2010-05-19T03:46:00.000-07:00

These were the days when everyone was fighting over Zoombinis because no one wanted to end up dealing with dysentery on the Oregon Trail again. And although Carmen Sandiego was what all the cool 6th graders played, everyone knew the most primitive version of Number Crunchers was da bomb!

Number Munchers

Math Rescue

Zoombinis

Oregon Trail

Treasure Mathstorm

Math Blaster

credits to hoysay

tunnanunnanunna

2010-05-19T02:31:00.000-07:00

zakumi

2010-05-17T02:58:00.000-07:00

South Africa 2010, best World Cup mascot yet?

Personally, I find 2002's virtual characters a bit scary. And Italy's creativity with their 1990 mascot just...astounds me :/

no pia no

2010-05-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

Leiko Shiga's photographs of her brother playing a piano

JAK&JIL

2010-05-09T16:24:00.000-07:00

I am a longtime fan of JAK & JIL BLOG. Tommy does impeccable work fashion and photography while carrying a very unique point of view.

random

2010-05-07T17:55:00.000-07:00

don't know who took these

10 Minutes

2010-05-05T01:22:00.000-07:00

A short film by Ahmed Imamovic that really puts things in perspective

world's end girlfriend

2010-05-03T20:49:00.000-07:00

nothing is original

2010-05-02T00:13:00.000-07:00

robots in disguise

2010-04-25T22:24:00.000-07:00

trust.

2010-04-22T01:01:00.000-07:00

Janak, your daily beard may be a bit unsavory. Click to enlarge.

Get Low

2010-04-21T15:28:00.000-07:00

LCD Soundsystem is playing at my house

2010-04-21T00:51:00.000-07:00

For all you who don't know, Murphy is Madness

Def Dekker Mos Des

2010-04-18T17:24:00.000-07:00

Max Tannone's top rated remix albums:

Jay-Z + Radiohead

Mos Def + Dub

WUI

2010-04-15T22:49:00.001-07:00

Tim Walker in Wonderland

2010-04-14T21:51:00.000-07:00

More at TimWalkerPhotography, or here.

Trailer Genius

2010-04-12T15:30:00.000-07:00

Kubrick made these trailers without a single line of dialogue, a master of sound

The Shining

Eyes Wide Shut

Untitled

2010-04-11T19:03:00.000-07:00

Long overdue post of one of my favorite photographers, Francesca Woodman.

we be to rap what key be to lock

2010-04-08T15:23:00.000-07:00

Pre-symphony of science Bill Nye, checkin' in with Digable Planets Rebirth of Slick in matter form.

what can a music video do to a song?

2010-04-04T00:24:00.000-07:00

Smashing Pumpkins, 1979: Nostalgia? Rosy retrospection? Or is this really how I expected my future to be at thirteen? This song makes me want to let out a long sigh.

Smashing Pumpkins 1979
Uploaded by chicethautaine. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.

Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime: Byrne's choreography to this song make this video more than amazing. A few of my own dance moves are borrowed from this video, especially the arm chop at 1:20.

Beastie Boys, Sabotage: What's better than fake staches and a 1970s stakeout gone horribly wrong? It's almost as if the song was made just for this video.

UNKLE, Rabbit in Your Headlight: This video has been interpreted in many ways; translate it in your own. The final expression on the man's face is just priceless.

Iron and Wine, Boy With a Coin: Simply beautiful.

Around the World

2010-03-29T21:50:00.000-07:00

by Aaron Huey, hes good.

Same as it ever was...

2010-03-25T22:28:00.000-07:00

The genius of David Bryne

Alice in Waterland

2010-03-23T18:05:00.000-07:00

I once tried to take photos like these but my camera short circuited and had to stay buried in rice for weeks in hopes of revival. Elena Kalis on the other hand does a beautiful job with Alice in Waterland:

Lights, Camera

2010-03-19T14:01:00.000-07:00

The work of Geraldine Brezca, QT's clapperboard operator

Bodypainting?

2010-03-18T15:22:00.000-07:00

Not your average bodypainting:

Alexa Meade paints acryllic on flesh and clothing, a real walking, living painting.

You can find more here.

Chicken Tikka Disasta

2010-03-10T20:58:00.001-08:00

By Slinkachu

Space Jam

2010-03-08T13:31:00.000-08:00

Riding in a spaceship, 1984, picking up a signal, never heard before

the fake piano jamming is unbeatable

Culture-Bound

2010-03-07T21:26:00.000-08:00

Culture-bound syndrome:

Culture-specific syndrome or culture-bound syndrome is a combination of psychiatric and somatic Symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures. While a substantial portion of mental disorders, in the way they are manifested and experienced, are at least partially conditioned by the culture in which they are found, some disorders are more culture-specific than others. (wikipedia)

Examples:

Taijin Kyofusho: A form of social anxiety wherein the sufferer dreads any type of social contact, is afraid of eye contact, fears harming people, has a phobia of blushing, a phobia of deformed bodies and a phobia of body odor. Taijin Kyofusho affects 10-20% of the Japanese population, and is more prevalent within males.

Ghost Sickness: A psychotic disorder of Navajo origin wherin the sufferer experiences a pervasive feeling of terror, loss of appetite, nightmares, hallucinations, weakness and a feeling of suffocation.

Piblokto: Also known as “Arctic Hysteria”, appears exclusively among the Inuit peoples of the Arctic Circle. Most often seen among women, symptoms include uncontrolled behaviour, running around naked, echolalia, depression, coprophagia and so forth.

fiction

2010-03-07T20:26:00.000-08:00

Rube

2010-03-02T21:08:00.000-08:00

OK GO!

Mouse slang

2010-02-27T23:28:00.001-08:00

Broken Bells with "The High Road:

The High Road

Broken Bells | MySpace Music Videos

How to Disappear Completely

2010-02-23T15:22:00.000-08:00

the invisible man

we've lived it all...

2010-02-23T00:38:00.000-08:00

"You’d start out dead and get it out of the way.Then, wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day.

You get kicked out for being too healthy; go collect your pension, then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you’re generally promiscuous and you get ready for High School.

You go to primary school, you become a kid , you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a baby, and then…

You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions; central heating, room service on tap, larger quarters everyday,

And then Voila!, you finish off as an orgasm!"

- Woody Allen

Image by Tierney Gearon

Giferrific

2010-02-18T13:43:00.001-08:00

Yes, GIFs rule the world.

Plastic Beach

2010-02-16T18:39:00.001-08:00

Gorillaz Manifesto (How to save the world)

As part of our 25 Big Ideas for 2010 feature, Murdoc Niccals from Gorillaz preaches his Manifesto for a Better Tomorrow. We can look forward to interesting times indeed.

The manufacture of cheap, personal, domestic submarines

"Well, as the world gets wetter, and dry land gets scarcer, that '78 per cent' of water on the Earth's surface is going to look like a great big playground. To navigate these new terrains, we're all going to need something zippy to get around in. When the prices on personal submarines plummet and they go into affordable mass production, someone's gonna emerge as the new Henry Ford of the amphibious world. 'A submarine for everyone as long as it's, er... yellow.'"

Reanimating dead musicians and creating cyborg bands using DNA samples

"With the world evolving, we musicians must evolve too. Filesharing, holographic touring, 3D screens, digital playback... it's all happening. But most importantly we need to scrape up the DNA of both current and bygone musical geniuses and create a new genre of 'virtual' musicians that can live on forever. This is good in case you're getting grief off the mouthy ones or one goes missing. Or they just die..."

Turn old weapons into theme parks

"With a potential £130 billion about to be spent on new Trident missiles, it seems a shame to simply chuck the old ones in the bin. It's important to get our money back from somewhere (besides flicking them on to our friends in Africa). I suggest we strip out the explosive, more 'genocidal' parts and use them to build a really exciting theme park. It'd be incredible AND educational for the kids. A real life World of Warcraft, weapons-based adventure park."

Invention of a cheap new fuel source for when the oil runs out...

"The oil reserves are running dry and demand for oil is going to raise prices, creating a worldwide panic. It's clear we'll need a new cheap fuel source. Even Bono's private jet can't run on hot air alone. I suggest something that runs on renewable energies, like... booze and sound. The energy created from rock concerts and the like - think of it. Sonic-powered boats! Powered purely by alcohol and loudness. Ethanol. Vodka. Sambuca. Whatever. I suggest dark rum and shouting - ideal for pirate-based bands..."

Unite the apps, tools, widgets and innovations under one goal - something useful

"Instead of using these communicative tools to post an ancient Goth playlist or a video clip of a monkey falling off a skateboard, we should focus on a single, worldwide puzzle to solve. Simple things like how to get off the planet or how to cure poverty, bend time, kill death, etc. Then we'd be free to explore the limitless currents of time and space across the universe, rather than bashing each other over the head with the antiquated concepts of class, territory, commerce and religion."

Get down with the kids with national service

"Children are the future. Employ and exploit them! Kids can assimilate an entire genre in an afternoon, while downloading more applications and tools than the last generation had in a lifetime. It's time to capture them, stick them in a factory or on an island and make them work out how to run the future. Properly. They don't need much to survive: glass of water, a Pot Noodle... It'd be a kind of new national service, a compulsory boot camp for ideas."

Create a fully functional 'bullshit detector'

"Very important, this one. I'm sure we could develop this as some kind of iPhone app... imagine if you could just strap it on to the mouth of, say, a company spokesman, ad exec or statesman and simply decode what they're saying into some sort of... 'truth'. A kind of Babel Fish for bullshit. I think Joe Strummer had one knocking about in his garage somewhere, didn't he?"

Make meditation compulsory in schools

"As Noodle says, 'It's important to teach kids how to be measured in their minds. How to be bored, learn poise, breathing, a sense of calm and freedom from the desire for more; the understanding that knowing how to pause can be an advance.' "Part of evolution is knowing when to stop. After fiddling with my iPhone I feel so cranked up and speedy I could bite someone's face, like someone's been scribbling in my brain. Can't be good for the kids today growing up staring at the info equivalent of a strobe light smashing round their bonces 24/7."

Government funding for research into near-death experiences

"I've turned blue a number of times and it's always the same thing: black tunnel, white light and someone trying to put their hands round my neck. Governments around the world should assign more money into NDE research. If there's life after death - fantastic! Then we can get back to trying to wipe each other out - secure in the knowledge that death is just a dream, and everything's cool forever. What a great way to start 2010!"

Reform the greatest group on the planet

"Kick-start the future by reassembling the world's greatest band. Gorillaz are the pinnacle of evolution. We create wonderful new technologies, revolutionary concepts and mind-numbing innovations - then chuck them overboard. By mixing up the best talent with the most pivotal minds - rappers with writers, soul heroes with animators, digital technicians with pontificating tosspots - Gorillaz are like a big entertainment council. 'Fingers on the pulse, feet on the button.' Gorillaz should be running this funny little globe shop..."

Life Aquatic in Translation

2010-02-14T00:35:00.000-08:00

Kuroshio Sea in Japan

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Psychadellic Badu

2010-02-13T11:24:00.000-08:00

Erykah Baduuuuu through a kaleidoscope

Long Live McQueen

2010-02-11T15:06:00.000-08:00

Such original thought and creative perspective. A true genius of fashion,

Lee Alexander McQueen. Rest in peace.

Words of wisdom

2010-02-07T13:25:00.000-08:00

Pretty much how things were back then.

Beat it to the streets

2010-02-03T20:19:00.000-08:00

People partying in the streets of Rio

Revenge

2010-01-31T21:57:00.000-08:00

from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,

Seu Jorge as David Bowie:

Examination

2010-01-24T22:02:00.000-08:00

What's new pussycat?

Guest post by Frank the Tank

coco.

2010-01-24T18:31:00.000-08:00

Free fall

2010-01-22T16:21:00.000-08:00

Set to break the sound barrier, Felix and the suit:

Exit Through the Gift Shop

2010-01-21T12:53:00.000-08:00

Banksy is at it again,

theres space for ol dat i see

2010-01-13T00:48:00.001-08:00

space ODYSSEY. MIA knows the future of music.

fowl shitty

2010-01-11T00:51:00.000-08:00

ring ranga dong

2010-01-08T18:45:00.000-08:00

Chromeo mapped their sound after these guys.

Synthesize, Analyze

2010-01-06T00:46:00.000-08:00

I got my technique down and everything

2009-12-29T20:29:00.000-08:00

makes perfect sense.

500th post, best music of 2009

2009-12-13T00:22:00.000-08:00

500th post on 7hedejavu!

The best albums of 2009, here's my list and a player so you can listen to some picks from the albums.

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

4. The XX

5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz

6. Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing

7. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon

8. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young

9. The Dead Weather - Only By The Night

10. Mos Def - The Ecstatic

confessions: life + birds + secret agents + love poems + death

2009-12-06T16:30:00.000-08:00

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God from Frank Warren on Vimeo.

Jose + 10

2009-12-05T20:43:00.000-08:00

All this World Cup talk has got me watching those old Adidas commercials from 2006 again:

Beatboxing: Wind Technique

2009-12-05T19:05:00.000-08:00

lucy in the sky with diamonds....

2009-12-03T23:00:00.001-08:00

"These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance w ith psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him."

First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug)

An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal. The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet."

4 hours 25 minutes after first dose.

Patient retreated to the bunk, spending approximately 2 hours lying, waving his hands in the air. His return to the activity box is sudden and deliberate, changing media to pen and water colour.

'This will be the best drawing, Like the first one, only better. If I'm not careful I'll lose control of my movements, but I won't, because I know. I know' - (this saying is then repeated many times).

Patient makes the last half-a-dozen strokes of the drawing while running back and forth across the room.

5 hours 45 minutes after first dose.

Patient continues to move about the room, intersecting the space in complex variations. It's an hour and a half before he settles down to draw again - he appears over the effects of the drug.

'I can feel my knees again, I think it's starting to wear off. This is a pretty good drawing - this pencil is mighty hard to hold' - (he is holding a crayon).

See the progress here

Back Tuva Future!

2009-11-30T22:15:00.000-08:00

Recently, I have been a bit obsessed with Tuvan throat and overtone singing. The singers are able to produce up to four notes at a time!

It Was a Good Day

2009-11-21T14:36:00.000-08:00

The song, the skating, and the city!

One of the best commercials I've ever seen:

Scientologists and Vampires

2009-11-19T18:08:00.000-08:00

Both of the aforementioned make great videos.

Charlotte Gainsbourg "Heaven Can Wait" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Animal Friends!

2009-11-18T20:24:00.000-08:00

I want a monkey baby!

Penns and Paper

2009-11-12T22:52:00.000-08:00

The Photography of late great, Irving Penn

domo kitty!

2009-11-09T01:45:00.000-08:00

My two loves make ugly babies :(

If you wish to make an apple pie out of scratch

2009-11-06T00:06:00.000-08:00

you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking - A Glorious Dawn, soon to be released on Jack White's label.

too many days to get lost

2009-11-05T11:25:00.000-08:00

Bill Murray beats basketball

I Got Game feat. Peter Venkman from Keith Fujimoto on Vimeo.

god destroys dino. man creates dino.

2009-11-02T15:07:00.000-08:00

Some of the best movies I've seen

Click for a bigger view.

via xkcd

transmogrification

2009-10-26T13:11:00.000-07:00

i love librarians

2009-10-22T19:58:00.000-07:00

I want this to be my library. Endless reads + easy access!

Rule of the day: don't let your book list collect dust!

To the new season

2009-10-20T14:40:00.000-07:00

Jack Nicholson courtesy of Coop, Scott, Rambis, and Magic!

Camoman

2009-10-20T00:14:00.000-07:00

Guest post by Willie

Now this is a story all about how, my life got flipped-turned upside down...

2009-10-16T21:38:00.000-07:00

Funniest thing I have ever seen in my life:

Sarang Hae, Drummer

2009-10-16T20:44:00.000-07:00

Stealing the show, Rockin out.

Boys Don't Cry

2009-10-15T23:53:00.000-07:00

take the stairs

2009-10-09T12:09:00.000-07:00

Piano Stairs by Volkswagon

Let Love Rule

2009-10-07T16:06:00.000-07:00

This video came out of nowhere, but damn is it cool.

Justice + Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule

By Keith Schofield

too true

2009-10-04T00:42:00.001-07:00

squint your eyes

2009-10-02T12:34:00.000-07:00

Crayon portraits by Christian Faur.