Recently, I came across astonishing and beautiful photos of sculptures from some Flickr contacts:
1. waterincatania, 2. Italian Garden, Hyde Park, 3. Untitled
They also remind me an episode of Doctor Who (more info here, here or here) where statues had a pivotal role.
Interestingly, following the airing of “Blink”, someone has created a group on Flickr called: Don’t blink.
A few months ago, a colleague of mine showed me this brilliant visual story but later I couldn’t access the page anymore when I wanted to, until somebody submitted it again on Digg. Enjoy!
to change a bit, I’ve got a positive thing to say about MySpace.
Few months ago I’ve been to the 606 club (a well known Jazz club in Chelsea) to listen to a band centered around the lead female singer.
It was a great moment.
The singer was advertising her album, and she gave the audience the url to here website on MySpace. Her name was Juliet Kelly.
Is she one of these “3 millions” ?
(*cough*, see my previous post for why I’d rather take this number with caution)
I think if her tunes were downloadable, I could be attracted, not because they are MP3 or lacks of DRM, but because they come straight from the artist.
(it’s comparable to the Fair Trade for third world food producers)
This will give a kick in all of this stinky music distribution business.
I think the problem is more the Music industry rather than DRMs.
But, I’d be honest and say that right now, buying it on the iTunes Music Store (her songs are also available there 
doesn’t bother me at all as it is more convenient for me:
Oh and by the way, any artist can submit songs directly to the iTunes Music Store without having to be signed in a label.
Myspace to Sell MP3s From Unsigned Bands: “soldrinero writes ‘Yahoo! news is hosting a story about a new competitor to Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Nearly all the other iTunes competitors have been strongly controlled by the music industry, shackled in DRM, and giving little back to artists. The new MySpace music store will feature vanilla MP3 downloads at prices set by the individual bands (3 million of them!), all or nearly all of whom are unsigned musicians with no industry affiliation. Is this the example we have all been waiting for of how the Internet will obviate the business model of the recording industry?’ (Via Slashdot.) ,“
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Good morning , morning fun.
Remixed advertisements photoshopping contest: “Cory Doctorow: Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: ‘Bad Ads.’ “ (Via Boing Boing.)
Collection of interesting Photoshopped images. Some are funny. Some are strange. Worth a quick peek.
Tune your telnet to telnet ascii-wm.net 2006
Or read about it here (also has mirrors).
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(Via mir.aculo.us.)
Unfortunately I’ve never come across these signs in the London underground.
I guess I would have (almost) died laughting rolling on the floor otherwise:
