Photolog pt. VII - Rural Street Art - Fleury-Les-Aubrais Graffiti

I don't know why but I recently enjoyed these pieces of rural street art in the at least a little bit picturesque village of Fleury-Les-Aubrais. Got no clue why... maybe because rural street art is almost an oxymoron--I might wanna call it rurban art: rural art with urban influences.

Neuroscience Videos - Pacman Bonobos and Boxing Brains

Everybody is interested in the brain, because everybody has one.

Recently, I stumbled over two both interesting and entertaining videos from the realm of understandable neuroscience:

--Steven brought this 25 minute TED talk by Susan Savage-Rumbaugh to my attention. Of course the filming is very selective, choosing the brighter moments of her Bonobo cohort, but I consider it a fascinating approach to try to embed non-human primates into--appropriate--human environments and to see how far their abilities go.



--This violent National Geographic animation gives an explanation for the legendary one-punch knockout with reference to cerebral trauma. Remark the dramatic voice and the scary burping sound effects when the brain hits the skull. Mortal Kombat neurology.

Kepos/Polis - The De-Cosumption Diaries

In the 'whereabouts of mankind' series, I stumbled over a nice fresh blog called Kepos/Polis - The De-Consumption Diaries.
It's about a self experiment in which the author's aim is to "use easily accessible information to help [...] decide what to buy/support and what not, as well as how to change [...] behaviour for the good of de-consumption."
He or she is gonna do so with one constraint that's as plausible as necessary: No ideologies!
I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes and grows.

French Rap : Hocus Pocus - HipHop?

Has HipHop been back all the time and it was just my negligence?
Check out this intelligent track simply called "HipHop" by the French crew Hocus Pocus featuring The Procussions, an LA-based rap combo that is signed to Rawkus.

Hip Hop? feat The Procussions

GP's Worldwide Festival Going Truly Worldwide

Almost every day there is an update on the official website of the Worldwide Festival, and most recently it has been revealed that there gonna be three (!) WWFs this year:

• 3 days in Shanghai, May 31-June 2, 2007
  
• 3 days in Sète, Southern France, July 12-14, 2007
• a WWF in London this October 2007

Next year there will be nine, the year after 27 and so forth. Slowly the WWF will take over the world.
Kudos to Gilles Peterson!

Heavy Rotation Daytrade - Manual last.fm

Jus' quickly: I decided to introduce something like a manual last.fm section just below the blogroll. These are tracks I consider interesting at the moment and that are on heavy rotation on my different soundsystems. I try to add them as .mp3 files as long as they are freely available on the net--if not, I'll give links to the myspace pages.

Check out the contagious new Roisin Murphy track Overpowered to be officially released on July 1st.

Sarkomence - Phonological Nicolas Sarkozy Wordplay

Yes, there has been a lot of anti-Sarkozy movement going on ever since his election a week ago.
I don't like the ridiculous Nazi-Sarkozy wordplays that are (not only) much too easy, but there is one I really dig: Sarkomence -
Especially funny, cause at the moment I am heavily working on phonological processing, and Sarkomence's phonological equivalent (for all you non-French speakers) would be "ça recommence" ("It's starting again").
It's been used in combination with all kinds of negative concepts, such as the "Etat Flic" ("Cop State"), etc.