M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - June 1st, 2016
Bootleggers Release Literal Mashups
By DJ Useo
The loosely affiliated "Institute Of Bootleggers"
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/ )
has released their latest mashup collection called "Literal Mashups". The album is variety style blends with a healthy smattering of club tracks.
All the mixers on this project have advanced mixing skills. Many will seem new or unknown to the majority of you, while still retaining the ability to mix like a long standing pro. Most are long standing pros.
Among the fifteen contributors are such distinguished international home producers as DeeM, ToToM, DJ Energy, Vincenzo Caira & Francesco Lupo, & The Homogenic Chaos. The many others are not to be sneezed at, either, & not just because that would be disgusting. lol.
The styles roll from club mashups like Deckmann's "We Are The Left Behinds", to hardcore like ToToM's "Born Free to Self Destruct", to AtoZ's classic rock "You Made It Weird Again ( Not Feelin' Crispy )". Thus, you go from Paris Bohm to Nine Inch Nails to Steely Dan, while also going from Felicity to M.I.A. to Pete Holmes ( ! ) in the space of a disc's time. A sweet journey, indeed.
DJ Surda provides the incredible "Heroes For One Day (Video Edit)" ( Asaf Avidan & The Mojos ( Wankelmut Remix ) vs David Bowie ) as
the albums preview video track
( vimeo.com/155602473 ) . I guarantee once you experience it, you'll want the entire album.
There's mirror links for the
collection here
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-institute-of-bootleggers-literal.html )
It would be appreciated if you shared the link on your favorite social platform. We need the thrill of knowing you liked it enough to say so, because we sure ain't gonna get any money out of it. Lmao.
Next week, I have one awesome collection chock full of the most well known names in the "scene". It's one of the "biggies" that comes out every year. Come back in seven days for more mashup thrills. - Konrad
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Paul Krugman: Getting Real About Rural America (NY Times)
Nobody knows how to reverse the heartland's decline.
Alan B. Krueger (NY Times)
Recent and archived work by the late Alan B. Krueger for The New York Times.
Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley: Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Is Dead at 58 (NY Times)
"He is certainly among the most - if not the most - significant labor economists and all-around empirical economists of the last three decades," said Lawrence Katz, a Harvard economist and frequent collaborator. Mr. Krueger, he said, was one of a handful of researchers who "really changed the shape of economics and turned it into a more serious science."
Sarah Ditum: Why we are in danger of entering a digital dark age, losing huge amounts of online information (New Statesman)
There are things I've written that no longer exist, the sites that published them now defunct, and the original documents trapped on some ancient hard drive.
Martin Pengelly: "'Laughter is the great unifier' - behind the incredible life of Molly Ivins" (The Guardian)
Raise Hell, a new documentary about the great Texas columnist, sends an urgent message from the Bush years to a nation under Trump with sharp humour.
Donald Clarke: If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk (Irish Times)
Re-released this week, the 'absolute rubbish' film is one of the most entertaining movies ever.
Hans Rollman: Small Books for Big Brains: Red Circle Minis' Pocket-sized Japanese Fiction (PopMatters)
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Anecdotes
More dance performances ought to be preserved on film and video. Why? Here's one reason. Ballerina Ghislaine Thesmar was inspired to pursue ballet seriously after her dance teacher showed her a film of Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova dancing the title role in Giselle. According to Ms. Thesmar, "I was simply overwhelmed. I suddenly saw what dancing could be. It was watching Ulanova that completely changed my life. From that moment on, I realized that dancing could hold real meaning in one's life. I could see the dimension that a life in dance could offer. Suddenly, I knew what I wanted."
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Nazis, wanted Fritz Lang, the director of Metropolis, to join the Nazi effort and was willing to overlook Mr. Lang's maternal Jewish ancestors. Mr. Lang said that he would give Dr. Goebbels his answer within 24 hours, but that night he sneaked abroad a night train to Paris, carrying some money and jewelry with him. In his compartment, he hid the money under the carpet, and he taped the jewelry to some pipes in the bathroom. Only after crossing the border into France did he feel safe enough to retrieve his money and jewelry.
When Psycho was first released, director Alfred Hitchcock ordered that no audience member be admitted after the film began. The audience assumed that something shocking would happen right away, although the film begins fairly slowly and then something shocking happens. Mr. Hitchcock was doing something radically different - killing off the big star, Janet Leigh, fairly early in the film. Mr. Hitchcock didn't want members of the audience to arrive late and then keep wondering when Ms. Leigh was going to appear on screen.
Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was based on William Randolph Hearst, a fact that embittered Mr. Hearst. After Citizen Kane had been made, and after Mr. Hearst had set his newspaper battalions against the movie, Mr. Hearst and Mr. Welles met on an elevator, and Mr. Welles invited Mr. Hearst to attend the San Francisco premiere of Citizen Kane. Mr. Hearst ignored him and got off the elevator. Mr. Welles shouted after him, "Charles Foster Kane would have accepted."
Fred Astaire and his co-choreographer Hermes Pan revolutionized movie musicals. Before they began to make movies together, movies did not show the entire dance. Instead, directors used a lot of cutaways. The audience would see a little of the dance, then see a cutaway to the face of someone watching the dance, then see a cutaway to the bandleader, etc. However, Mr. Astaire and Mr. Pan insisted that the entire dance be filmed with no cutaways.
In 1939, Ralph Richardson played Captain Durrance in the film The Four Feathers. Captain Durrance is blinded by the African sun, and a scene in which he reads Braille contains an in-joke for fans of Mr. Richardson's performances in Shakespeare. The Captain uses Braille to read Caliban's speech, "The Isle is full of noises," and then he says, "But of course I knew that speech by heart."
Honor Blackman starred on The Avengers for a couple of years and then left the TV series to star as the character Pussy Galore in the James Bond movie Goldfinger. While she was on a promotional tour for the movie, she appeared on KGO-TV, where an interviewer told her, "I've covered topless bathing suits, bottomless bathing suits, and now I've got Pussy Galore!"
When Audrey Hepburn appeared as Eliza Doolittle in the movie version of My Fair Lady, she was made to appear dirty as the flower girl Eliza. Her costume was made to appear dirty, and it even appeared that she had dirt under her fingernails. However, Ms. Hepburn always insisted on wearing perfume although she was otherwise in character.
When Cecil B. DeMille, the director of The Ten Commandments, was asked why he made so many movies with Biblical themes, he replied, "Why let thousands of years of publicity go to waste?" According to Mr. DeMille, "Give me any couple of pages from the Bible and I'll give you a picture."
Fred Astaire often kept on dancing during pauses in the shooting of his films. Co-star Leslie Caron remembers going out for some air, then returning back to the studio to see Mr. Astaire dancing with a coat hanger.
French film director Jean Luc-Godard was asked if a film ought to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. He replied, "Certainly, but not necessarily in that order."
Before the movie cameras begin to roll, Jack Lemmon whispers the words "magic time" to himself because magic is what every actor hopes to produce in every performance.
One of the lessons taught by The Matrix is that even though blacks and women can make important contributions, the Messiah is still a white guy.
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Late-Night Hosts
On March 16, days after President Trump (R-Embarrassingly Inadequate) boasted about his support among police, military members and motorcycle bikers and how they could get "tough" with his opponents, Stephen Colbert sounded wistful on The Late Show. "At times like these, I think about the President we could have had, Hillary Clinton. Not perfect, obviously. But you know, not publicly threatening The Purge," Colbert quipped.
The CBS late-night host's political candor has been credited with the Late Show's ratings rise since Trump's 2016 election. And, in the 18-49 demo this month, Colbert recently topped NBC's Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon for the first time since the host's Late Show launch in 2015.
The former Comedy Central host is also viewed by many Americans as one of the most liberal late-night shows on television today, a new Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult poll finds. (The survey was conducted among a nationally representative sample of 2,201 adults from March 7 to 10 this year.) Some 42 percent of respondents describe Stephen Colbert and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel as "more liberal" politically, while 40 percent think the same of Jimmy Fallon.
Americans seem to have the most favorable impression of Jimmy Fallon among late-night personalities, with 58 percent of respondents saying they generally like the host. The Tonight Show host is followed by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel (56 percent favorable), TBS' Conan O'Brien (48 percent), CBS' Stephen Colbert (44 percent) and NBC's Seth Meyers (40 percent).
Meanwhile, 33 percent of respondents viewed HBO's Bill Maher favorably, with Comedy Central's Trevor Noah (30 percent), HBO's John Oliver (28 percent) and TBS' Samantha Bee (21 percent) trailing by that measure.
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Soap-Bubble Pioneer Wins 2019 Abel Prize
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck
US mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has won the 2019 Abel Prize - one of the field's most prestigious awards - for her wide-ranging work in analysis, geometry and mathematical physics. Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the 6-million-kroner (US$702,500) prize, which is given out by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, since it was first awarded in 2003.
Uhlenbeck learnt that she had won on 17 March, after a friend called and told her that the academy was trying to contact her. "I was completely amazed," she told Nature. "It was totally out of the blue." The academy announced the award on 19 March.
Uhlenbeck is legendary for her skill with partial differential equations, which link variable quantities and their rates of change, and are at the heart of most physical laws. But her long career has stretched across many fields, and she has used the equations to solve problems in geometry and topology.
One of her most influential results - and the one that she says she's most proud of - is the discovery of a phenomenon called bubbling, as part of seminal work she did with mathematician Jonathan Sacks. Sacks and Uhlenbeck were studying '?minimal surfaces', the mathematical theory of how soap films arrange themselves into shapes that minimize their energy. But the theory had been marred by the appearance of points at which energy appeared to become infinitely concentrated. Uhlenbeck's insight was to 'zoom in' on those points to that this were caused by a new bubble splitting off the surface.
She applied similar techniques to do foundational work in the mathematical theory of gauge fields, a generalization of the theory of classical electromagnetic fields, which underlies the standard model of particle physics.
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck
Hosting 2019 Tony Awards
James Corden
James Corden is returning to host the 73rd annual Tony Awards.
The American Theatre Wing on Tuesday announced that the host of CBS' "The Late Late Show" will preside over Broadway's biggest night which honors the season's best plays and musicals. Corden previously hosted the 70th annual Tonys.
Corden won a Tony for best performance by a leading actor in a play for his 2012 performance in "One Man. Two Guvnors."
Nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards will be announced April 30. The awards will be presented June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, airing on CBS.
James Corden
Announces Full Lineup
Woodstock 50
Jay-Z, Dead & Company, the Black Keys, Chance the Rapper, Miley Cyrus, Imagine Dragons and Halsey are among the headliners announced for the Woodstock 50 festival, producer Michael Lang confirmed at a press conference today. The event will take place August 16-18 in Watkins Glen in upstate New York.
Also included in the determinedly eclectic lineup are the Raconteurs, Robert Plant and the Sensational Shapeshifters, Run the Jewels, Gary Clark Jr., Cage the Elephant, Greta Van Fleet, Janelle Monae, Brandi Carlile, Maggie Rogers, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson, Portugal the Man, Dawes, the Lumineers, Bishop Briggs, Pussy Riot, Courtney Barnett, Leon Bridges, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, John Fogerty, Common, Young the Giant and the Zombies.
The bill does include more than a half-dozen artists who performed at the original 1969 festival, including Santana, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Sebastian, CSNY's David Crosby, Melanie, Country Joe McDonald and Canned Heat.
Other artists booked include Michael Franti & Spearhead, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, the Head and the Heart, Soccer Mommy, Vince Staples, Earl Sweatshirt, Bishop Briggs and Amy Helm, daughter of Levon Helm, who played at the original Woodstock with the Band.
Woodstock 50 is not to be confused with the more nostalgically inclined and modest fest taking place that same weekend at the original site, dubbed the Bethel Woods Music and Culture Festival. Carlos Santana appears set to play at both festivals; at the Bethel Woods gathering, he and fellow original Woodstockian Arlo Guthrie will be joined by Ringo Starr, Edgar Winter and the Doobie Brothers.
Woodstock 50
'Ice Quakes', But Only at Night
Antarctic Ice Shelf
As the frozen Antarctic landscape at the bottom of the world adjusts to an ever hotter planet, we keep finding more mysterious phenomena beneath and within the ice. Now, there are "ice quakes" to add to that list.
It wasn't all so long ago that earthquakes were thought to not exist on this unforgiving continent. Scientists know better now, and have just reported another tremulous anomaly: ice quakes that shake the frozen landscape
but only ever at night.
When darkness falls, for a 6-12 hour period during the evening, scientists investigating the behaviour of ice on the McMurdo Ice Shelf picked up these mysterious ice quake vibrations, thanks to seismometers planted across the shelf landscape.
"In these areas we would record tens, hundreds, up to thousands of these per night," says glaciologist Douglas MacAyeal from the University of Chicago.
It's MacAyeal's business to study how meltwater and melting processes are affecting the Antarctic region; while it might sound surprising, it's actually melting that's responsible for setting off this nightly cavalcade of quakes.
Antarctic Ice Shelf
Publishers Sue
Peloton
Publishers representing the writers of songs by Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Carrie Underwood and hundreds of other artists sued Peloton Interactive Inc on Tuesday, accusing the maker of video-streaming stationary bicycles of copyright infringement.
In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the 10 publishers are seeking more than $150 million in damages, accusing Peloton of exploiting their songs by using more than 1,000 in its videos without permission.
They said Peloton must stop "trampling" their rights by using their songs for free. They noted that the company having obtained song licenses from other publishers showed it "fully understood what the copyright law required."
Peloton, in a statement, said it is reviewing the complaint. It also said it has "great respect for songwriters and artists," and has "invested heavily to build a best-in-breed reporting and licensing system."
Founded in 2012, Peloton sells bicycles starting at $2,245, in packages that it said require signing up for memberships to access live and on-demand classes for cycling, running, yoga and other activities. Access to unlimited classes costs $39 a month.
Peloton
Scientists Have Found Out When
An Adult
What makes an adult an adult?
Is there a pre-defined age? Say, when you turn 18 and are officially "legal". Or can you only pass after you've checked off a certain number of pre-selected rites of passage? The mortgage, the marriage, the 9-to-5 job, 2.5 kids, Volvo Hatchback, and white picket fence, etcetera.
Well, science has an answer and the truth appears to be less clear cut. The latest research seems to suggest that we don't become fully formed adults until we reach our thirties - though as with puberty, wisdom teeth, and losing our virginity, the exact age varies from person to person.
The reason scientists have identified our thirties as the entry point to adulthood is due to the extent of changes, particularly in the brain, that takes place in our late teens and throughout our twenties. For example, our neurons continue to develop, connect, and become more refined in our third decade, even if the bulk of the change took place in our mid-teens. (And it can continue to change well past our thirtieth birthday.)
These changes can affect our behavior and even our propensity to develop mental health conditions like schizophrenia. To take the example of schizophrenia, the average age of onset is late teens to early twenties in men and late twenties to early thirties in women.
An Adult
With Light
Levitating Objects
Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects' surfaces.
Though still theoretical, the work is a step toward developing a spacecraft that could reach the nearest planet outside of our solar system in 20 years, powered and accelerated only by light.
A paper describing the research appears online in the March 18 issue of the journal Nature Photonics. The research was done in the laboratory of Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science.
Decades ago, the development of so-called optical tweezers enabled scientists to move and manipulate tiny objects, like nanoparticles, using the radiative pressure from a sharply focused beam of laser light. This work formed the basis for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. However, optical tweezers are only able to manipulate very small objects and only at very short distances.
With this new research, objects of many different shapes and sizes -- from micrometers to meters -- could be manipulated with a light beam. The key is to create specific nanoscale patterns on an object's surface. This patterning interacts with light in such a way that the object can right itself when perturbed, creating a restoring torque to keep it in the light beam. Thus, rather than requiring highly focused laser beams, the objects' patterning is designed to "encode" their own stability. The light source can also be millions of miles away.
Levitating Objects
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 11-17. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 12.08 million.
2. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 10.54 million.
3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.1 million.
4. "FBI," CBS, 8.96 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.47 million.
6. "Bachelor Season Finale" (Tuesday), ABC, 8.24 million.
7. "The Bachelor" (Monday), ABC, 8.16 million.
8. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 7.84 million.
9. "The Good Doctor," ABC, 7.78 million.
10. "This is Us," NBC, 7.75 million.
11. "God Friended Me," CBS, 7.73 million.
12. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.64 million.
13. "Survivor," CBS, 7.54 million.
14. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 7.18 million.
15. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 6.98 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.58 million.
17. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.54 million.
18. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 6.44 million.
19. "Magnum P.I.," CBS, 6.05 million.
20. "New Amsterdam," NBC, 5.99 million.
Ratings
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