Below is a YouTube video of Vic Chesnutt preforming the song Everything I Say from the album North Star Deserter. It’s nothing short of remarkable. It kept me clued to the screen. Made me laugh. Made me sad. Gave me goosebumps. A genius at work.
My life’s work, she says. But it isn’t her life’s work.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.
The idea is nice, but by no means unique. I know 3-4 people who all have had similar ideas and i’m sure thousands of people (slightly more productive and creative than my friends ;)) have made their own YouTube collaborations and/or aggregation.
But. This is really good.
I believe what makes this a bit special is that it adds another dimension with the spoken words piece, titled Information and written by Daniel Donahoo.
Visit the site www.inbflat.net to have a play. Below I’ve embedded the spoken word piece with the lyrics.
She closes the lid, and unplugs a device no bigger than her thumb from the computer. “My life’s work”, she says. But it isn’t her life’s work. “You see, we store information like an Escher painting. It shouldn’t all fit in there, but it does. And every day we manage to fit more and more into smaller and smaller spaces, until one day, she says, we’ll be able to fit all the information the world has, everything that everyone knows, and believes and dreams into nothing. It will all be there, stored and filed, tagged with any keyword you might imagine. Our hard drives will be thin air, they’ll make nanobots look like elephants. And elephants will be in there too, tagged, accessible with search terms like ‘grey’, ‘ivory’ and ‘the largest land-dwelling mammal’.
We’ll process away at nothing, and understand everything. We’ll think of a word, and the information will slip in, not through our ears or eyes, but straight through our skin. Information will breath in and out of us, permeate our skin, and knowing will be as deep as it is wide.
You see, our work here is to learn so much, To be so full of knowing, that all there is left to do is unlearn. Humanity must get to a point where we let go. We leave the useless ideas and the spent idealogies in the recycle bin, like an adolescent brain shedding neurons, like a snake slithering from its old skin, like an old man who’s come to understand so well, the point where reality meets the intangible, that he is able to decide which breath will be his last. And he will enjoy that breath more than any he’s taken in his entire life.”
And her life’s work is more than a 4Mb flash drive.
“My life’s work,” she says, “is the impact this has.”
“This is not about what I produce. This is all about what others receive.”
If your happy talking… then why did you come here?
The above video is Jeff Tweedy in an attempt to understand why people go to a concerts and then just talk to their mates instead of listening and taking part in the experience.
I think most of us have experienced it.
Jeff put’s it really well.
It’s really really cool, if you just, if everybody was really quiet for just one second. You feel yourself being in a room full of people. With all their hearts beating. And all of their thoughts and feelings and you’re part of it. You’re not just you. You’re part of a group of people. In a really beautiful way. It’s a really wonderful thing to be part of. But you have to pay attention to it.
It’s not just me. I’m not just being some pissy artist. It’s what you do when you go to a concert. You’re being a part of it.
You don’t set yourself apart from everybody.
You’re part of something.
It’s wonderful.
It’s joyous.
On Google buying YouTube
They way I read it, Google is acually not buying YouTube, Google is buying the people who are visiting and using YouTube. Google is buying the addspace for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares.
The two companies will continue to operate independently.
and
It [YouTube] has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.
If you ask me, it’s a shame they becomes one.
Yeah, but I’m the professor and feel that I should know
An old class mate, Lars Johannessen, send out this link to the school network spam mailing list.
It made me laugh.
It also reminded me about ignorant beautiful blonds from scandinavia and that we, as interactive designers, should never forget that not everyone knows what a browser, back button, RSS, screen, fold etc and so on, actually means/is.
links for 2006-10-01
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Crazy Egg
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YouTube – who want to be a millionnaire
“Dad I don’t really need you help…” -
Gregory Durell Graphic Design 2004-06
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Vargas Organisation, London
Spaghetti. -
Apple .Mac webmail
The new webmail for .Mac looks… like Mail.app -
A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
Lesson No. 4 (with thanks to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry): Perfection is not when there’s nothing to add, but when there’s nothing to take away -
Trend Regenmode – PHOTOLOUNGE
Fashion done the german way. More goodies here - Get your Helvetica wall here
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Disco – Blog Archive – Amsterdam Disco, Take 2
Burn a cd a…. simpler way? - Digital Web Magazine – Objectifying JavaScript
- Ett liv i exil: Chris
- Guardian Unlimited Business | Hackney wins logo case against Nike
- Royal Mail starts selling stamps via Internet
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hackney on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
“This is Hackney repackaged, branded and sold back to its original inhabitants at a vastly inflated price they can’t afford.” -
Attack of the 20-inch Notebook
Making the rounds in Manhattan with Dell’s 18-pound monster. - Infinite Loop: Apple to “upgrade” retail outlets
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Occam’s razor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In short, when given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated formulation. - Under marknaden pågick även en tävling om den bästa lingon receptet som Byaliv arrangera tillsammans med universitet i Umeå
Links for 2006-09-15
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YouTube – Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush 9/11/06
8:45 min long and very wordy, but contain some very interesting bits. -
Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual – New York Times
The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. -
Easy CSS hacks for IE7 – Nano See, Nano Do
*+html - Vertical Centering in CSS
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Flashbeer
This did make me laugh out loud. - A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection
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Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer
“However, for the remainder of you — those hoping to refine web design and development skills — I hope this comes as bookmark-worthy material.” -
Computer hood
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BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat
“A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal.”
Links for 2006-09-10
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | ‘War on terror’ loses clear direction
“…many governments and peoples do not see Iraq as part of the answer to terror. They see it as part of the cause. They therefore want to distance themselves from American policy.” -
“If you’re feeling charitable, you can call it Pop Art. If you’re not, you can call it repeatedly reaching for High Culture and falling woefully short.”
This quote is taken from a review on one of Madonna’s Confession shows at Wembly in London. The review is very hard on Madonna. But on the same time it’s a very very fun read, and I would not questioned wether Mr Steve Price is right or wrong. -
SVERIGES SEXIGA GEOGRAFI
For my Swedish audience. - Pornography drives the development of technology.
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Cambrian House > How it Works > Development Community
“We all have great ideas. What we lack is a vehicle to realize them. That’s why we created Cambrian House. “We can help you build your Web-based and desktop product ideas that can be sold over the Internet.” -
YouTube – jesus camp trailer
‘Holy shit’ isn’t the right word, but the first word that comes to mind. -
Widon’t // ShaunInman.com
One of those things I have had planed to do, but then someone go’s of and does it before me. Thanks. Simple. Brilliant. And… it’s probably a better solution then what I would have created. - Subtraction: Meetings in Progress, Lots of Them
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pictures of the family of the person who stole my cell phone posted to my flickr account
Interesting post, but also the follow up link on the attention it got, practicalist: glare of attention is extremely interesting. -
September 11th 2001 | America’s longest war | Economist.com
“A nation once joined together in shock and vulnerability is now riven by failure and recrimination” -
Star Wars: The Official Site
What have changed. -
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | How 9/11 changed America: In statistics
It coming up to 5 years. -
The Discovery Channel Killed Steve Irwin – The Jason Calacanis Weblog
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Dubai 1990 vs 2003
Found this, and many other great links that i post, at airbagindustries ‘Longboard’ rss (link feed). -
Accessible JavaScript Newsticker by Bartelme
Does what it says on the box. - cabel.name: Multiplayer Game Of The Year
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YouTube – George Galloway Savages SKY NEWS!
Very very refreshing. - starbucks makes podcasts
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Guitar Tapping » SpikedHumor.com
Truly amazing! and it makes me wonder if he ever learned to play the guitar the… right way. -
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed
‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed. -
Ravers seize £10 million house | News | This is London
“Hundreds of screaming teenagers are turning up in droves and heavy metal and rock music has been blasting out day and night.” Wow. Didn’t know that the rave scene liked heavy metal and rock! -
web2logo.com
Feels like I have posted this already. But just in case I haven’t, and you are looking for a lot of web 2 trendy logos – your welcome. -
CTV.ca | ‘Unfortunate’ photo wasn’t tampered with: IKEA
An IKEA catalogue with a photo that appears to show a dog with a larger-than-normal, human-like appendage has not been tampered with, according to the furniture giant’s Canadian office. The dog, which appears to be a greyhound or whippet, seems to have one. -
glumbert.com | media | Say this tongue twister, or else…
For willow and her tongue twisters. -
The Identity Archives Project | Keyword-searchable database of logos and brand identity designs
“The Identity Archives Project website is a free resource, built on the contributions of graphic designers and brand identity specialists.” -
Local Weather – CBS News
“George Bush spends 58% of US Budget on Whiskey and some Bling for his hommies” Nice little hack ;) -
Optimus keyboard
Very old. Still very nice. - TOPSHOP: VIDEO PODCAST
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BBC NEWS | Business | Google chief joins Apple’s board
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Teen data on Myspace compromised | The Register
“Many myspacers use CSS [cascading style sheets] to hide their comments, friends list and blog links,” wrote AtariBoy. “These elements are not deleted tho [sic] and are still available publicly to anyone. You can view them by one of two methods below.” - Musicast
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Pageviews are Obsolete
“Remember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of “hits”?”