Total Eclipse of the Heart

=Best Karaoke Song EVER.

Aquaponics

Check out this article from the New York Times about aquaponic gardens.
Aquaponics is a combination of hydroponics and aquaculture that uses 80-90% less water than traditional growing methods (as you can imagine this is of particular interest to drought-prone places such as Australia) and produces a far greater yield. One of the gardeners interviewed in the article had a harvest of 347 cherry tomatoes from one plant, and 175 cucumbers from three plants. Yowza! Plus they get to have fishies, which can be yummy edible ones like tilapia or trout or pretty ones like giant goldfish. If I ever have enough space, I want to give this a whirl! Imagine having fresh herbs year-round and piles of fresh veggies whenever you want. Mmm.

My 10 Most Played in Words

Inspired by Flavorwire, I took the lyrics from my top 10 most played songs in iTunes (minus my actual top 5, which are non-vocal tracks from the Streets of Rage soundtrack that I like to run to...haha) and made word clouds with Wordle. My top 3 songs are all Jackson 5 :) The rest are kinda influenced by my running soundtrack, but ah well. Enjoy...and try making your own!












PS. This video is amazing:

Pop Song Word Clouds

Using Wordle, the geniuses over at Flavorwire created word clouds for iTunes' 12 top-selling songs of all time. They write: "If you’ve ever bemoaned the state of modern commercial music, the inanity of looking at these consolidated lyrics will do nothing to ease your pain. But it is kind of funny." Haha, I agree.
Can you guess which songs these word clouds belong to?



See them all here.

IKEA and art

Haha...check out this article on flavorpill about various artists' interpretations of IKEA.

Andy Warhol on YouTube

I saw this video on another blog...

(including another gem of a Braniff Air commercial with Dalí...)
And it led me to a multitude of Andy Warhol youtube videos:








I think my favorite is the TDK ad...and the Dalí screen test.
Did you know Andy Warhol had three television shows?
"- Andy Warhol's Fashion (ca. 1980)
- Andy Warhol's TV (ca 19981)
- Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (1987)
ANDY WARHOL'S FASHION was shown on Manhattan Cable, Andy Warhol's TV was shown on the the Madison Square Garden Network and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes was shown on MTV."
from Zamboni, where you can watch and even download some episodes.
Also, couldn't resist posting this Duchamp interview found during the Andy Warhol-athon:

Fever Ray

I never knew much about Fever Ray (aka Karin Dreijer Andersson, the female half of The Knife) until I stumbled across this video:

of her accepting an award in Sweden for best dance performer. I was intrigued, a singer who does not show her face and comes up with ever more imaginative ways to hide it...I mean look at that melting makeup!
So I checked out her music and found this video:

It's gorge...I think I will have to try painting eyes on the palms of my hands.
Check her out!