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Bizarre Mies van der Rohe pop video

April 7th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)


The thought of making a pop video about the most uptight of uptight modernist architects makes the mind boggle.

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Charlton Heston on the Origin of Man Part 1

April 6th, 2008 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

Charlton Heston on the Origin of Man Part 1

Charlton Heston was simultaneously a Civil Rights activist and the head of the NRA. Confused? Well this will either help or perplex you beyond caring. Not something to sit through the whole of, but it does give some insight as to how odd Charlton Heston was.

Some fundamentalists believe that the Earth is a few thousand years old and that rocks and dinosaurs are too. This piece suggests that Charlton (what a great first name) believed that modern humans were millions of years old instead.

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Les Horribles Cernettes - You Only Love Your Collider

March 28th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

An amateur pop promo made by people working at CERN in the 90s. The people in this video were the subject of the first ever photo on the web.

According to band member, Silvano de Gennaro:

“Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of “the CERN girls” to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the “World Wide Web”. I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim’s now famous “info.cern.ch”.”

Cray-zee

LHC - Collider

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