The cheapest radio station in the world

The transmission kit is fitted on to an antenna attached to a bamboo pole on a neighbouring three-storey hospital.
A long wire connects the contraption to a creaky, old homemade stereo cassette player in Raghav's radio shack. Three other rusty, locally made battery-powered tape recorders are connected to it with colourful wires and a cordless microphone.
Here the rest of the story.
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Maki Kawakita

Maki Kawakita is a Japanese photographer living in New York. Life like a house of dolls, awesome and brilliant work.
Here last shoots.
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Spectacular Jain festival

Mahamastakabhisheka festival.
Look at images and listen to sounds from the spectacular Indian festival, dedicated to Bahubali.
Karoki Lewis went to southern india for capture the voices and sights of the 2006 festival.
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Dynamic Einstein picture

You can write text on this image to whatever you like, try it, is funny!
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Driving Home from Seattle

Driving Home from Seattle.
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"Bye Bye Berlusconi"

A biting political satire, "Bye Bye Berlusconi", a film about the kidnapping of Silvio Berlusconi, has made quite a splash at the Berlin Film Festival.
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But reality is better than fiction, read the article "Berlusconi says:- I am like Jesus."
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«Poème électronique» (1958) Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse

«Poème électronique» is the first, electronic-spatial environment to combine architecture, film, light and music to a total experience made to functions in time and space.
Here the film by Le Corbusier and Edgard Varèse.
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Metropolis (1927) and M (1931)

Two Masterpieces by Fritz Lang here finally for the download.
Metropolis.
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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder (1931).
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Django Reinhardt

Here's a cool short film of the great Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and his Quintet of the Hot Club of France performing "J'Attenndrai" ("I Will Wait").
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Giacomo Balla (1914)

Italian painter Giacomo Balla was one of the founders of Futurism, signing the Futurist Manifesto which was published in 1910. In this document Balla, along with artists including Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carrà, outlined their primary objective to depict movement, which they saw as symbolic of their commitment to the dynamic forward thrust of the twentieth century. Futurism celebrated the machine - the racing car was heralded as the triumph of the age - and early futurist paintings were concerned with capturing figures and objects in motion.
Balla goes even further than Russolo, the theoretician of 'Intonarumori': towards pure sound and the timbre-word" , the word-colour and, we add, towards the disarticulated phoneme. Here the mp3s of his voice.
Discussione sul futurismo di due critici sudanesi (1914) mp3
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Macchina Tipografica (1914) mp3
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The Swastika Museum

For many millenia, before it was appropriated by the Nazis, the swastika was a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Almost every race, religion and continent honored the swastika -- a perfect example of the universal spread of a symbol thru the collective unconscious used by American Indians, Hindus, Buddhists, Vikings, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and neolithic tribes. There are even Jewish swastikas found in ancient synagogues side-by-side with the star of David!
Here a little Swastika Museum.
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Águas de Março (1973)

"Au, pedra
o fim do caminho.
um resto de toco
um pouco sozinho.
um caco de vidro
a vida, o sol.
a noite, a morte
o lao do anzol.
peroba do campo
o n da madeira.
Canga, candeia
uma Tita Pereira..."
Elis Regina sings a classic written by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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Sniper video

Sydney Morning Herald journalist Paul McGeogh was given a video of an Iraqi sniper boasting that he is about to kill American troops.
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"L'etoile De Mer" Man Ray (1928)

"Magic rites, primitive civilizations, alchemy, the language of flowers, fire, or sleepless nights, are so many stages on the way to unity and the philosophers' stone." Albert Camus
The interesting article about Man Ray's "L'etoile De Mer": A Philosophical Reading
by James M. Magrini.
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And here the classic film for the pleasure of your vision.
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Travel to South East Asia

Scott Stulberg takes nice pictures travelling South East Asia. People, nature, culture...
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Multi-Touch Interaction

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.
Here the video.
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Il Duce's last son, Romano Mussolini, dies at 78

Jazz pianist Romano Mussolini devoted his life to music (ANSA) - Rome, February 3 - Romano Mussolini, the third and youngest son of Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, died on last Friday at the age of 78 . An internationally recognised jazz pianist as well as an accomplished painter, Romano Mussolini tried throughout his life to steer clear of politics and devote himself to his art .
Although he always remained loyal to his father's memory, he avoided speaking of him publicly until late in life, when he finally published two books of memoirs, one of them called "My Father, Il Duce" . I worked with him some years ago, and was a fantastic concert!
Here the photogallery of the funeral in Rome where the nostalgic ones of the old fascist party have paid the extreme salute to the great artist son of the Duce.
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Sigur Ros video

"Hoppipolla" is a real masterpiece of a creation.
Here the video.
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Thorsten Fleisch, filmaker

Born in 1972 in Koblenz, Germany, Thorsten Fleisch began experimenting with Super 8 in 1991. He attended Phillips-Univesitat in Marburg to study art, music and media. Fleisch obtained an eclectic work background ranging from community service in an institution for the mentally ill, to quality control in the automotive industry. He studied film and the culinary arts in Frankfurt with Peter Kubelka in 1996. Fleisch exhibited his films at festivals from 1999 until now. In 2000, he declared Frankfurt's red light district his installation. It was during this time that Fleisch became recognized as one of the world's leading innovators of experimental film with the release of his 16mm film, "Blutrausch", a film made entirely from his own blood.
Here films and music for your download.
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Nosferatu (1922)

Originally released in 1922 as "Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens", director F.W. Munarau's chilling and adaption of Stoker's Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend.
Director: F.W. Murnau
Here the film.
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"Highway 61 Revisited " covers

Interesting tribute covering "Highway 61 Revisited" by emerging bands, Dylan under the covers...
Link (mp3s) (via robotwisdom)

Un chien andalou (1929)

In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obscuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye--to grab the audience's attention. For a basic knowledge of cinema here a classic of classics by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
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Sexy Results

Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Remix) Director - Jaron Albertin.
Here the awesome video.
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Bloc Party

Very nice animation for the videoclip of "Helicopter"/"Pioneers" - Bloc Party
Directed By: Minivegas.
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"Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" - Stars

"Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" - Stars.
Director: George Vale.
Finish loves and forming cracks in the ice, fragility is the change of time ...
Here the video.
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Salvatore Adamo - La Nuit (1965)

"If i forget you during the day, dans la nuit is'nt the same, you are big for me..." sad love-song by an awesome sicilian-belgian singer, Salvatore Adamo, "La Nuit", tipical song from the old radio program "Notturno dall'Italia", here the video when he was very, very, young...
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