Thursday coffee break: the big picture

Human landscapes from above (from boston.com's Big Picture series)

New URMA issue on my desk

Volume XXXI, No. 2: the Spring 2009 issue of Research & Creative Activity (Indiana University)

Wednesday coffee break: stand by me

"This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by street artists in a virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track -- vocals and guitar -- recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott, a blind singer from the French Quarter,added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley's base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz's added some metal percussion to it. The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones."

Friday coffee break: course description and prereqs

"Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness...."

From INTERNET-AGE WRITING SYLLABUS AND COURSE OVERVIEW, ENG 371WR:
Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era (mcsweeney's)

New URMA issue on my desk

Vol. 38, No. 1: the Spring 2009 issue of ugaResearch (University of Georgia)

All-American Space Fleet:1950s

Twenty-four vintage "Space Fleet" collector's cards from Skelly Gas.

Thursday coffee break: like weird stuff?

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse "The Georgia Guidestones may be the most enigmatic monument in the US: huge slabs of granite, inscribed with directions for rebuilding civilization after the apocalypse. Only one man knows who created them -- and he's not talking." (wired.com)

Earth Day 2009

More at boston.com's Big Picture series

Friday coffee break: infinite photograph

Thursday coffee break: The mother of all finales