Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Walking The Plank

The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown, Craig Ferguson: A Late Night Revolutionary, You Can Design A Maze For 'The Shining's' Stanley Hotel, Arguments With My Mom, The Cop, A Los Angeles Philharmonic Performance Paired With Cool Live Video Projection, A Pirate Is Transforming EU Copyright Law
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BREAKING IT DOWN
The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown
npr.org
From the mid-1960s through the early '70s, Clyde Stubblefield and John "Jabo" Starks created the grooves on many of James Brown's biggest hits, and laid the foundation for modern funk drumming in the process.
FED UP WITH FAKE NIGHT
Craig Ferguson: A Late Night Revolutionary
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Ferguson actively sought out the unrehearsed, the sponteneous, the awkward, the weird, the difficult to bear. He recognized and despised late night's deification of celebrity and took every opportunity to mock us for buying into it. If you like the kind of thing Jimmy Fallon is doing, you have Craig Ferguson to thank for it.
THIS SEEMS DANGEROUS
You Can Design A Maze For 'The Shining's' Stanley Hotel
neatorama.com
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, has been in business over 100 years, but it became much more famous after novelist Stephen King stayed there and was inspired to write "The Shining." The current owners embrace the hotel's connection to the King story (even though the 1980 movie was not filmed there) and are planning to erect a 61,500 square foot hedge maze, consisting of 1,600 to 2,000 Alpine Currant hedge bushes, designed by …well, that could be you!
DOES MOTHER REALLY KNOW BEST?
Arguments With My Mom, The Cop
salon.com
As cases of police brutality pile up, I find myself caught between the woman who raised me and my own worldview.
'VISIONS OF AMERICA'
A Los Angeles Philharmonic Performance Paired With Cool Live Video Projection
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic performs Edgard Varèse's "Amériques" accompanied by a powerful and immersive site-specific architectural video installation. The visual program analyzes and responds to both the sound of the music and the movements of the conductor in real time.
FORCES OTHER MPS TO WALK THE PLANK
A Pirate Is Transforming EU Copyright Law
vocativ.com
The German representative of the Swedish Pirate Party, Julia Reda has been given the responsibility of writing a new copyright law for the European Commission. "I am the Pirate in the European Parliament, representing a young worldwide movement of people who believe in using technology for the empowerment of all."
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CHRISTMAS IN JANUARY
Image: An actress performs during the 'Cabalgata de Reyes,' or the Three Wise Men parade in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. The traditional parade marks the eve of the Epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrating the story of the three wise men believed to have followed a bright star to offer gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus in Bethlehem.
An actress performs during the 'Cabalgata de Reyes,' or the Three Wise Men parade in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. The traditional parade marks the eve of the Epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrating the story of the three wise men believed to have followed a bright star to offer gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus in Bethlehem. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
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