Rob Ray

Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, with a band! Best quote in the interview... "I've also been in contact with Andre from Outkast recently." OMG! OMG! OMG! I would die...

I'm psyched to announce that Drunken Boat Issue 12 is now live at http://www.drunkenboat.com.

Drunken Boat 12 is my first issue since joining the Drunken Boat editorial team back in April. Ravi Shankar and I co-curated and edited the Desire and Interaction portfolio and I'm pretty darn happy with how it came out!

if you like what you see we sure could use a donation or two... or three.

Totally amazing and haunting color photos from 100 years ago.

"He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time"

from Slate's Quicksand in the Movies.

amazing. (tnx! http://twitter.com/dkmann for tha link!)

Two things have blown my mind today.

Bileebob's new "Get a Phone" track on Underground Resistance.

and this awesome video of Mallakhambs (pole wrestlers) doing their thing.

via dangerous minds

Hearts and stars to the mighty Nance Khlem's Humble Pile project! Chicago peeps, check out her presentation at MESS HALL August 1, 11am – 1pm. Learn how to Loop Your Poop!

compost your shit and piss.
hear us out.
sawdust toilets don’t smell.
they are no more dangerous than wiping.
close the nutrient loop.
operate differently.
billions of humans suck nutrients and don’t give back to the dirt.
change that now.
stop wasting live water.
stop sewage spills by composting your crap.

My new project Pedal to the Mental is up over at Devotion Gallery!

Pedal to the Mental invites cyclists to become “disorienteers” using geographic and environmental queues of BIKE BOX geotagged locations as launchpads for wonder, confusion, imagination, and adventure!

Pedal to the Mental is part of Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown's BIKE BOX open-source locative media bike project presented by free103point9 at Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

There's a ton of great artists participating. Go check it out! The opening is Friday July 16th at 6pm. Bike tours start at 2pm July 17th and go through Sunday July 25th. Devotion is located at 54 Maujer St., Brooklyn, NY. [map]

via California is a Place.

whoa!

""Written by Charles Manson as “Cease To Exist” and recorded by The Beach Boys in 1968 as “Never Learn Not To Love” this song was Manson’s near brush with fame as a musician.

via the almighty Dangerous Minds.

A totally slammin Derrick Carter mix from DEMF! He eases us into this one, but you'll be jackin' around your room in your underwear in no time.

Derrick Carter Live @ Detroit Electronic Movement Festival, Detroit - 30-05-2010 by R_co

might be a better artwork than the piece itself!

Conflict Kitchen - an awesome restaurant project attached to the Waffle Shop in Pittsburgh!

"Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months to highlight another country. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration will be augmented by events, performances, and discussion about the the culture, politics, and issues at stake with each county we focus on."

A cool NPR article on "Starfish Prime" -  a U.S. project to set off a 1.4 megaton atomic bomb (1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) - in the magnetosphere to see if they could disrupt it.

"Back in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb, creating what might be the greatest fireworks spectacular ever. People in Hawaii gathered on rooftops, sipping drinks, as they watched a radioactive rainbow display in the night sky."

Check the video...