Green, News
Peruvian Paints Mountains White Because He Misses The Glaciers - Environmental Activism Or Idiocy?
Travis Walter Donovan :: Thursday, June 17th, 2010 7:25 pm
Nobody sheds a tear for each sorrowful drop of melting glacier like Eduardo Gold does. The Peruvian man was apparently so tormented by the scarring nightmares left in the wake of watching Waterworld (who doesn’t have trouble sleeping with Kevin Costner on the mind?) that he spent his countless wide-eyed nights hatching a plan to save the ice from its inevitable liquefied doom: Whitewash the Andes. Sound ridiculous? Well, the World Bank gave him $200k for the idea! MORE »
News, Opinion
Gulf Oil Spill: Who’s To Blame? Look In The Mirror
Travis Walter Donovan :: Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 4:45 pm
Massive amounts of oil continue to flood into the Gulf of Mexico at an incalculably disastrous rate following the explosion that destroyed BP’s offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, on April 20. The world looks on as corporations and governments alike stumble over themselves in a clumsy effort to put a band-aid on what quickly became the United States’ most catastrophic environmental disaster, now growing to veritable unprecedented eco-pocalypse status. MORE »
News, technology
Google Music: Because Aren’t We All Sick Of iTunes?
Travis Walter Donovan :: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 7:30 pm
In a further step toward their eventual world domination, Google could be launching their own iTunes-slaughtering music service platform as early as this fall, CNET reports. In addition to multiple industry sources confirming the rumor, Google not only previewed a web-based music browser at their I/O conference last month, but a “Google Music” logo has been discovered hosted on their domain. MORE »
News
Oil Spill Estimate Increased For The Nth Time
Travis Walter Donovan :: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 7:00 pm
A brand new oil spill estimate puts the flow between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day. That puts to shame the severely miscalculated 5,000 barrels a day we found horrific enough at the beginning of this whole mess. To put this in perspective: the high end of the new estimate would mean the Gulf oil spill, now on day 57, has eclipsed the size of 13 Exxon Valdez spills, while the best case scenario has surpassed that same catastrophe more than 7 times over. MORE »
Bands, News
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony Is An Electronic Nintendocore Wonder
Travis Walter Donovan :: Thursday, June 10th, 2010 7:35 pm
On August 24th, Cantaloupe Music will release tech wizard Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony, the follow up to his 2004 release, 1-Bit Music. The album isn’t a traditional recording, as the jewel case houses an array of scattered electronic bits surgically intertwined with wires rather than a compact disc. Via a single headphone jack mounted into the CD case, the listener plugs in and actually hears as the electronic circuit performs in real time a 1-bit lo-fi symphony (as the title implies) with its minimalist construction employing a simple on/off switch and volume control.
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Bands, News
El Guincho Streaming New EP, Announces Short US Tour
Travis Walter Donovan :: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 7:30 pm
El Guincho, the recording project of Pablo Díaz-Reixa, is set to release his next album on July 13th with Young Turks, preceded by a short US tour. Piratas de Sudamérica, El Guincho’s first release since 2008’s Alegranza!, is the debut in a series of five limited edition EPs that find the Spanish musician giving his own personal spin on old South American classics.
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