mad.scientists

almost a week since the last post. i got to keep up with rudeblog's reader demands.
after a couple of weeks in the sad end of the world mood posting, i decided to focus on some other interesting topics that have come to my attention. we all need to keep our eyes wide open though, regarding world affairs, famine, war and poverty. at least check out how you can help the most damaged continent by globalization and capitalism: africa... read this article (or other) and get your ass on it!
back to shallow news... have you ever wondered how a google share is worth more than an aol-time-warner? how do these guys keep on bringing things like google earth, froogle or scholar? well... i ran into this thing that shocked me and i bet yo will too... click here to enter google labs!

. : : more fire!

nile.perch

still shocked by the war, famine and poverty images i saw in james nachtwey's work and after taking a glance at some interesting information in whatreallyhappened.com, i decided i was completely ignorant in major events happening in the world today and that i needed to learn more about them. i remembered i read about this documentary and i wondered if it was still on the theater, it was. it's a film called darwin's nightmare and it's definetely worth watching. crude reality on capitalist system draining third world countries' resources and people. famine, disease, war, prostitution, planes and most importantly... fish.

try to catch it if it's somewhere near you and try to understand how the world is working and how the hell can we do something about it. doubtfully through a weblog but it might as well work as a start.

darwin's nightmare trailer

darwin's nightmare online (the girl you see was killed by an australian pilot...just because)

antiwar.photography

i suppose that most people are aware that war has been a companion to humankind’s evolution since unthinkable times. actually, right now there is war going on in some parts of the world… everywhere is war. however, it doesn’t seem so real until we run into some shocking images of someone who was a witness, not at spectator like the vast majority of the planet. It’s absolutely depressing to see people having to live a life where nothing matters anymore but to kill someone or die. imagine yourself forced to be with hundreds of your kind against hundreds of foreigners or radicals in some matter opposed to you. is your mind blank when you face yourself with the certainty of getting killed? how can you feel then when you are not killed, but covered in someone else’s blood and he’s just lying there, lifeless… anonymous?

check out the wonderful work of a goddamn brave man: james nachtwey and get a glimpse of real people in real wars. he’s got a really big book called “inferno” and you definitely need to give it a try…order it online cheapskate! ;P

"until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... everywhere is war... me say war" bob m.

james nachtwey online

inferno book on amazon, get it now!

lying.dogs

i have always been a huge fan of maynard's work, either musically or visually. tool and a perfect circle have always been giving rock music an interesting perspective on sound and concept. a couple of weeks ago i found out that maynard appeared in a short independent film playing the role of a police officer in middle o f nowhere (texas or similar) and the starring role was played by audioslave's drummer brad wilk. i saw the trailer on the official site and it seemed kind of interesting although i think it might fall into the classic all american-desert drama plot. but you definetely need to see maynard's look, it's simply overwhelming, he looks like some other guy, seriously.

if you happen to get the movie please do comment on it's content 'cause spite my big commitment to being a tool/apc/maynard fan i'm just not ordering it online. check it out for yourself and send me a copy if you do buy it.

sleeping dogs lie trailer

the.zermatist

wondering about the origins of mankind has always been kind of annoying for me 'cause i can't seem to have a good day afterwards. there's a big amount of uncertainty in all the data and theories available in our century and people seem to be okay with it. we don't know where we're going and where we came from...doesn't matter as long as there's a new item to buy or a new idol to follow.

stanislav szukalski was one of the many that worked fiercely to create a valid theory, but this was only a kind of sideproject to his main interests and doings. at some point he was pointed out in his native poland as the "greatest living artist"; sculpture, drawings, paintings and texts made szukalski in the mid 30's an artist to name a museum after and a pride for poland. later his work was demolished altogether with his museum during the world war II, that's how he has remained esentially unknown through all these years.

now there's an exhibition in san francisco showing a large number of szukalski's work, if you happen to live nearby, please do drop by and prepare to be shocked by artwork inspired by ancient humanity... goddamn, i shoul've thought of that!!

stanislav szukalski's official site

szukalski expo at varnish fine art gallery

time

back with the posting rampage.

live 8 has certainly been an interesting topic in the past weeks. i don't really know how it was supposed to work or which were the real intentions bob geldorf (and his horrible voice) had to make this show happen... besides tons of money and worldwide speculation.

i watched some of the performances and i really think there were some good shows scheduled. most of the artists showed some kind of weird commitment to eradicate poverty but sometimes they ended up doing stupid things like having an african kid beside them... just for no reason as if they were some kind of pokemon companion you can use to make people think you are supporting "the cause".

i hope it was at least 10% real...that would be enough to consider this a real attempt.

but regarding music, what shocked me the most was watching pink floyd getting back together after twenty something years of no relationship and a reunion definetely out of the question.

i got to see pink floyd without waters a long time ago and it was simply astonishing, i was about 12. then i saw waters separately in 2002 and it was aslo a great show, obviously and i was completely aware at that time how big was pink floyd in music history.

but man, time has certainly passed since the original echoes recording... still, it was a great show and a marvelous thing to watch.

pink floyd at live8 london, july 2nd 2005

italian.iceland

i don't really know how to determine if someone's famous or not. i keep on running into artists or matters of all sorts thinking they're kind of underground and then discover there's a huge fanbase to almost everything... sometime's it's depressing. i guess i like too much showing new things to people and then see how much they become excited with fresh information or inspiration, i know it happens to me.

i hope you haven't heard her before, 'cause the first listening of her songs is simply mindbending. she's from iceland and has got a great voice. she's been around for a while but i've never seen her been recognized in major media sources. although she made a song for the lord of the rings: the two towers... the gollum song. emiliana torrini has just released a new album, more acoustic and proper for rainy afternoons in a lonely beach... preferably asia or somewhere similar; that should be nice.enter the world of emiliana and summon an adequate place to listen to her songs. i'm in love again...

emiliana torrini's official website