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Queen of Jamaican Culture http://www.metafilter.com/168308/Queen-of-Jamaican-Culture Miss Lou talks Jamaican proverbs and who is Miss Lou, you ask? She was Louise Bennett, poet, folklorist, television presenter, activist and all around Jamaican national treasure. Her archive is kept by McMaster University, and is especially rich in audio recordings, including interviews (e.g. with Sarah Ward on the BBC World Service), storytelling (e.g. her Anancy stories, part 1 and 2) and music (e.g. 1954 Folkways recording, parts 1 and 2). Her music can also be found on Spotify. |
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The last of the Memphis Mafia.. http://www.metafilter.com/168312/The-last-of-the-Memphis-Mafia Red West passes at 81 He was an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter. He was a close high school friend of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. He is probably best known to American film audiences for his role as Red in Road House, alongside Patrick Swayze. He had a co-starring role in the TV series Ba Ba Black Sheep (later Black Sheep Squadron) in the late 1970s. Robert "Red" Gene West was a friend of Elvis Presley and was a member of "The Memphis Mafia." He and Elvis first met in high school and remained close in the years that followed. West also worked as a stuntman and appeared in 16 of Elvis' films. |
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I AM THE DOOMGUY. http://www.metafilter.com/168313/I-AM-THE-DOOMGUY Doomguy's Identity by John Romero "Don Punchatz, the illustrator who created the DOOM logo and the famous front box cover art came over to id in mid-1993 with a male body model. Don brought a nice camera to take pictures. The model's job was to strike various poses for the marine who would be on the cover of the box. [...] The body model took his shirt off and started posing with our plasma gun toy. Don asked us for suggestions so I started telling him that the Marine was going to be attacked by an infinite amount of demons. It would be cool if he was on a hill and firing down into them. The model was holding the gun in various positions and none of them were interesting to me." |
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Fill your nightmare tank: panoramic photo fail edition http://www.metafilter.com/168316/Fill-your-nightmare-tank-panoramic-photo-fail-edition But with that worldwide surge of panoramic photos being taken comes a secondary phenomenon that no one anticipated the nightmarish mutants that appear in failed attempts. Let's just say that when a panoramic shot goes wrong, it really goes wrong.
This collection of failed photos from around the internet will haunt your dreams forever. And if you're craving more bizarre fails, there's an entire subreddit dedicated to the nightmarish glitches. [Some photos look alarmingly NSFW but are not.] |
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Great Grandpa: "anxious bubblegum grunge" from Seattle http://www.metafilter.com/168325/Great-Grandpa-anxious-bubblegum-grunge-from-Seattle The Seattle indie-rock band Great Grandpa doesn't ignore the gracelessness of youth. It embraces it. Dubbed "slacker rock" in that NPR review by Maria Sherman, and " anxious bubblegum grunge" in a Pitchfork review by Ian Cohen, with comparisons to Weezer and Speedy Ortiz (Bandcamp), you have a decent idea of what to expect. If not, the quartet has their debut album and earlier EP up on Bandcamp, and the label for their album, Double Double Whammy, posted the full album to YouTube. In support of that 2015 EP, they made a music video for Mostly Here, and for a few tastes of them live, here's Teen Challenge from their new album, plus, Mostly Here and Cheeto Lust from their EP, plus No Hair as a bonus cut. |
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"I only think about the next mile" http://www.metafilter.com/168329/I-only-think-about-the-next-mile "Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg into the ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980, just before setting out to run across Canada, to raise money for cancer research. During those early days of his Marathon of Hope, as he covered the equivalent of a marathon a day, very few people knew of the 21-year-old from Port Coquitlam, B.C. But through the spring and summer of 1980, Fox captivated the nation with his display of will and strength." This is that story in the words of people who were there. |
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth http://www.metafilter.com/168331/Three-things-cannot-be-long-hidden-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-truth It has been suggested that Stanley Kubrick, the truly gifted director who was responsible for such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, was hired to help fake the Apollo landings. Given Kubrick's painstaking attention to detail, it is now well known that he was involved in this elaborate conspiracy. Most Directors would have been content to use a large sound stage, but Kubrick insisted on shooting on location. One anonymous source, claiming to be a member of Kubrick's film crew for the moon project, has claimed that the Director insisted on shooting on the Lunar surface "Because he wanted to get the light just right." The alleged cameraman has also stated that setting up the sets and operating the cameras in the harsh Lunar environment was extremely difficult, but as they were being paid more than double union scale it was well worth it.
Bonus Science: Washington Post reporter Philip Bump introduces his six-month-old son to his readers by way of analyzing lunar progress in a beloved children's book: Goodnight, Too-Large-to-Be-Astronomically-Accurate Moon. |
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The Living and the Dead http://www.metafilter.com/168333/The-Living-and-the-Dead In a film, on the news, you watch a war. While in a war, you mostly hear it. In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities and ISIS's biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives. Weapons are fired day and night, but only sometimes do you see them fired. As much as images, then, each battle takes on its own sounds.
The battle of Mosul began officially on Oct. 17, 2016. Sonically, it didn't come into its own until some weeks later. In the opening skirmishes, as Iraqi troops encountered Islamic State fighters on farmland and in villages outside the city, rounds whistled unobstructed through the air and thudded in the sod, a vague overture. When the troops breached the easternmost districts of the city proper in early November then you could begin to really listen to the conflict. |
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