I know WATI isnt even a real news paper but how off the wall is Michelle Malkin ?

Billboard

allows you to get a birds-eye view of the Billboard Hot 100 by listening to all the #1 singles from 1958 through the millenium using a technique I've been working on for a couple of years called time-lapse phonography. The 857 songs used to make the piece are analyzed digitally and a spectral average is then derived from the entire song. Just as a long camera exposure will fuse motion into a single image, spectral averaging allows us to look at the average sonority of a piece of music, however long, giving a sort of average timbre of a piece. This gives us a sense of the average key and register of the song, as well as some clues about the production values present at the time the record was made; for example, the improvements in home stereo equipment over the past fifty years, as well as the gradual replacement of (relatively low-fidelity) AM radio with FM broadcasting has had an impact on how records are mixed... drums and bass lines gradually become louder as you approach the present, increasing the amount of spectral noise and low tones in our averages.

The spectral average of each song used in Billboard plays for one second for each week it stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Thus we run about 52 seconds per year, for a grand total of a 37 minute sound work. The video image tells you what song was used to generate the current spectral average. Note that nothing of the original recording is used in this piece; everything that you hear is derived from a statistical algorithm applied to the original recordings. If you know the song used in the average, you may be able to sing the first few bars (or the main hook in the chorus) over the spectral average and find that you are quite in tune with it; in some cases, you may be surprised not to be.

Just now learned of Bob Denver's death. All obits I find mention an arrest for marijuana in 1998 but none mention an arrest for pot posession in the early 1970's. I swear I remember him being busted back then. Anyone know?

deep sky "in" jokes



thx sally

had to post this because of the odd arrangement of "artists" including my friend tilly.

"Geometric Issues in Contemporary Art"

Artwork by

Larry King, Herb Alpert, Anthony Quinn,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Emilio Pucci, Frank Stella,
Tillamook Cheddar, Chuck Close, Trova,
Little Mike Anderson, Sol Lewitt, Kurt Vonnegut,

Curated by Baird Jones

Friday, Dec. 30, 2005, 10:00 - midnight

Quo Nightclub, 511 w 28th St. (between 10th and 11th Aves.)

Private free vodka mixed drinks reception from 10 - 11:30 in the back VIP Gallery

Free admission for you and your guests from 10 until midnight by saying
that you are there for "The Geometry Show" and doorman Chris

big year end finish at eater

wd50 mentioned

talk about your backspin.. well, he is one oily motherfucker.

youre annexed, canada.

ritter me this

million dollar homepage

the corporation on sundance now.

kubrick on tcm starting now: lolita, 2001, strangelove, paths of glory.

dee snyder on all new cribs now

stream artfilms on ubu

One of those actors whom nobody can identify by name but everybody knows, Vincent Schiavelli met his fate in Scicily yesterday (no, they didn't, the cigarette industry did). Like Charles Durning and John McGiver before him, Vincent Schiavelli was one of those guys who was in virtually every movie of a certain era. From "Ghost" ("I was pushed in front of that subway!") through "Buckaroo Bonzai" ("Nice night.") through "Ridgemont High" ("I just switched to Sanka and I'm having a bad day, so have a heart.") and beyond, not to mention TV roles like "Taxi" ("Lahht-kahhh . . ."), he was one of the essential faces of 80s and 90s pop culture.

iggy pop live (2005) on vh1 classic. replays at midnight.

snl lazy sunday

"sit-down comedy" (original)

larry david on comedy with david steinberg on tv land now

a friends step uncles hedge fund book reviewed.

tivo washington week this week - gets to buz-saw levels at times

good news week

future technology timeline

something about container ships at 8 on discovery channel.

TONIGHT!

Storefront (for art and architecture) Films proudly presents
DIRTY WEEKEND (Mordi e Fuggi/Rapt l'Italienne)
a film by Dino Risi

A film selected by Marko Lulic in conjunction with the current
exhibition Marko Lulic: Modernity in YU

At Anthology Film Archives
Tuesday December 20, 2005
7.30 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
New York, NY

Dirty Weekend is the last of three films Marko Lulic selected to be
shown at Anthology Film Archives this Fall. The November film
Themroc was a stunning success. And Dirty Weekend promises more
absurd, spectacular fun.

The story is about three anarchists Fabrizio, Raul and Silvia who
take an industrialist and his mistress hostage. In exchange for
their hostages they demand a plane and money. While waiting for
their ransom, the anarchists hide out in a villa that belongs to a
retired general. The industrialist reveals himself as a coward, and
is willing to make any compromise to save his life. His mistress
quickly becomes disenchanted by her industrialist lover, and falls
in love with the very charming Fabrizio.

Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Oliver Reed
105 min / color / 1973
A joint French and Italian production

Tickets are $5 for the general public, and free for Anthology and
Storefront members

timbls blog

"Affiliates of terrorist organization Hezbollah cloned the mobiles of senior executives of Canadian operator Rogers Communications....":

"They were cloning the senior executives repeatedly, because everyone was afraid to cut off Ted Rogers' phone," Hopper told Gefen, in an interview that recognised the cleverness of the social engineering trick. "They were using actually a pretty brilliant psychology. Nobody wants to cut off Ted Rogers' phone or any people that are directly under Ted Rogers, so they took their scanners to our building... Nobody wants to shut off Ted. Even if he is calling Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait."

Pretty clever.