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This is pretty damn cool. If you’ve ever played the game you’ll know what I mean.

Prince of Persia Animation Reference 1985 from jordan mechner on Vimeo.

A six minute movie depicting “A Summary of Life, the Universe, and Everything”.

Inspired by Richard Dawkin’s best-selling book, The Ancestor’s Tale cinematically documents the evolution of life and the origiens of humans. Through selecting key events in the past, this film displays a passion for the scientific principles of evolution and optimism at human innovation.

Have you seen that 1970s movie called Network starring Albert Finney? If you haven’t you should. Here’s a little taster from that movie with added effects from the 21st century. Also do check out the links given when you click more info on the left hand side.

From quotationspage.com – courtesey of Moon whom I worked with last year.

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
— Unknown

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
— Elbert Hubbard

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex–but Congress can.
— Cullen Hightower

And my favourite:

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile.  The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
— Aleister Crowley

Please join us on Friday night 17th October for this amazing line-up of techno DJs this side of the river!

Love & Respect

Superb article about the rise and eventual fall of the US and USSR as superpowers.

Written by Dmitry Orlov on realitysandwich.com.

Like that of our metaphorical heavyweight champion, a super-power’s diet must contain plenty of red meat, in this case, human flesh. A superpower must continually ingest plenty of highly skilled and motivated personnel managers, scientists, engineers, and military officers, who must be willing to endure hardship, give up their best years, ruin their health, perhaps even give their lives, slaving away designing and building things, fighting and doing all the dirty work.

Read the full article here.

Great visuals! Seems like they spend a lot of time/money to get it just right when performing.

You can check out the article on wired.com here.

This video is from their 2008 tour in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Martin Atkins (drummer with Pigface, Ministry, PiL & Killing Joke) gives an interview to wired.com about his 2006 trip to China and how he met various Chinese musicians and copiled a movie:

Atkins shot 80 hours of video from his 2006 trip into Asia’s 21st century powerhouse, and chopped it down into the recently released documentary Sixteen Days in China.

Read it here.