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Grey Gardens

Wednesday 8 March 2006

The Maysles brothers’ camp classic is enoying something of a comeback. Could it be because there is a musical version on the way?

Up until few weeks ago we were completely unaware of Grey Gardens, a biodoc about Big and Little Edie, mother and daughter, and distant cousins of Jackie Onassis. The film was made by the Maysles five years after their infamous Rolling Stones film Gimme Shelter and is clearly massively influential — it’s even been lauded as one of the finest documentaries ever made. And yet somehow it didn’t hit our radar — until now.

Suddenly references to Grey Gardens are popping up everywhere in our queer little corner of the world. A mash up of Little Edie prancing around in her leotard to Madonna’s ‘Hung Up’ has appeared on YouTube (via PerezHilton.com)and Kylie Minogue has been styled as her in the new issue of Another Magazine.

We give it a few more weeks before it hits the mass market — the musical is due to open off Broadway next week order your copy of Grey Gardens (REGION 1) (NTSC) quick.

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FourDocs - a reminder

Friday 20 January 2006

Four minute films made by ordinary people, about anything.

A reminder about the new broadband channel from Channel 4 where you can watch and review documentaries about, amongst other things, a glass eye-maker. Even upload your own docs.

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LIFESTREAM / Jan 7^th 2009

What's On...

Jan 9, 2009: Reflections of a Nomadic Learner in the Age of Ubiquitous Communication at London Knowledge Lab

Jan 17, 2009: City streets - Light Grafitti London at Borough Market

Jan 7, 2009: OpenStreetMap Meetup in Euston at The Rocket

Jan 5^th 2009

vortexbox.org

[Bootable CD that turns an old pc into a music server running DLNA]

Listing of Scanned Piano Rolls

[More scanned piano rolls...]

Listing of Scanned Piano Rolls

[Archive of MIDI-fied player piano rolls...]

Jan 4^th 2009

Tom Wolfe on Radical Chic and Leonard Bernstein's Party for the Black Panthers -- New York Magazine

	We posted 2 pictures on Flickr...

Jan 3^rd 2009

AF: “leaving darrell to photograph the poor drowned fox”

Critic’s Notebook - What’s Wrong With Vogue? - NYTimes.com

Jan 2^nd 2009

flickurbook

[Sync flickr sets with facebook albums. Web-based.]

	We posted 1 picture on Flickr...

Jan 1^st 2009

New Year’s Eve 2008

	We posted 31 pictures on Flickr...

AF: “is getting ready to do a lot of untagging”

Dec 31^st 2008

folkrank

[an algorithm for ranking in folksonomies]

Dec 30^th 2008

MisEntropy: A Whitepaper outlining an Ad Pre-Testing model based on Prediction Markets

["The fundamental principles behind current advertising pre-testing models have hardly changed in the past few decades. This paper argues that it’s time to update the discipline with contemporary paradigms of collaborative thinking and decision-making. Using the thinking behind prediction markets, the paper constructs a completely revamped model for ad pre-testing – offering another avenue for advertisers seeking precious market information, while also clarifying the role played by traditional ad pre-testing."]

DB: “ok that's news photo of the year... http://tinyurl.com/5m7p7t”

Ravishing Beasts

[Taxidermy blog. Quite something.]

AF: “is looking for eye lash glue”

DB: “I didn't realise Conny Plank was dead! Shameful!”

Jan 15, 2009: Digital Cities: Virtual Tools for Creating our Built Environment at The Building Centre

Jan 5, 2009: Preview screening of The Wrestler and Q&A with Mickey Rourke - Soho, London at Curzon Soho

Jan 1, 2009: LFM : Kew Gardens For Free! at Royal Botanical Gardens

bookoutlines / FrontPage

[Even better that just reading the back cover!]

Disappearing Witness

Glances

Dec 29^th 2008

The Object Stares Back

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. - WSJ.com

["Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control."]

Dec 28^th 2008

Few View Pirated Copies Of Australia

['Australia' too bad to pirate ...]

What's On...

Need to Know

(Just Say ‘No’ To) Form 696

What Google Is…

Welcome To The Precariat

Who Watches the (Internet) Watchmen?

New Words

The Only Game in Town

XDR-TB

Chrome, The Cloud, McCloud

Our Big Shiny Lifestream Thing

Cute Overlord

The New News

Listless

Product Displacement

BBC Twitters Parliament

Lessons from Tyra

Genius as a Product

IM bttr

Twitter “Not Pointless” Shock

Web 3.0 Starts Today

Nice to Know

Paris is Burning

Cosplay Shoutout!

Urban Cookbook Party Reminder!

Introducing Louise Golbey

RIP Nagi Noda

Harvey Pics

South Bank Takedown