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On the 12th of January, Willow and I walked down to the Vegas Gallery on Redchurch Street to attend, embarrassingly, the last day of the Daniel Johnston’s art exhibition, ‘Its The End Of The Show’. It had been running from the 15th November, literally 30 meters down the road from where I work… and I almost missed it. Shame on me.

I’m no art critic, but I know what I like and what I don’t like. And I like Daniel Johnston. Mainly his music, but his drawings and paintings are in a similar vain and I find it extremely refreshing.

If you haven’t heard Daniel Johnston (or of him), the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston (released 2005) can be a good start.

If you’re looking for a good album, have a go with the compilation The Late Great Daniel Johnston - Discovered Covered, where disc one features artists like Eels, Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie, Beck etc etc covering Daniel’s songs, and disc two holds the original songs preformed by Daniel.

To browse some of his art, visit the store on his official site, hihowareyou.com or the art section on his official fan site Rejectedunknown.com.

Unless your heart is the size of a peanut, you will find joy in Daniel Johnston’s work.

This video installation presents the abstraction and re-organization of the top 25 grossing films of all time (as of March 2001, worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation). Every frame of each film is subjected to a custom process that determines a grid of four colors most representative of that frame. These simplified versions are re-synched with their unaltered soundtrack and arranged by sales rank left-to-right and top-to-bottom, yielding the animated grid and accompanying chaotic audio.

Very nice, by Jason Salavon.

The top 25 grossing films of all time (as of March 2001, worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation):

1. Titanic
2. Phantom Menace
3. Jurassic Park
4. Independence Day
5. Star Wars
6. The Lion King
7. E.T.
8. Forrest Gump
9. The Sixth Sense
10. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
11. Men in Black
12. Armageddon
13. The Empire Strikes Back
14. Home Alone
15. Mission Impossible II
16. Ghost
17. Terminator 2
18. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
19. Twister
20. Toy Story 2
21. Saving Private Ryan
22. Aladdin
23. Jaws
24. Return of the Jedi
25. The Matrix

In the past the streets were hung with posters in fights over political beliefs. Now the struggle is over financial power and business gain.

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  this kind of shit gives me the creeps.
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  “I personally use a 2048×1536 display, and I wouldn’t even call that a really big screen. Within the next 10 years, I expect monitors of, say, 5000×3000 to be in fairly common use, at least among high-end business professionals.” yeah… and mobile phones will be a microchip you install in your ear!!! Seriously?
• BBC NEWS | Health | Medical notes | Hot weather risks
  See this as education.
• 787 Cliparts
  I love when people put down an incredible amount of time on things that is just simple… very very nice.
• The Elements of Style for Designers - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
• Genius At Work - A 20 Song Live YouTube Montage
  20 live Radiohead songs for someone with more time on there hands then me.
• Mickes Biluthyrning-Visby
  A guy at work are going over to Sweden in a few weeks, and he’s renting a Volvo 240! Now that’s quality.
• Peace Not War CD: Music Index
• Ani Difranco - Self Evident
  At some point i will write an entire post about this masterpiece.
• Home of the PingPongPixel
  Very very nice. Watch the movie.