Miss Tigri

Miss Tigri via 40Fakes

John McEntire Producing for Jaga Jazzist

More pictures from Jaga Jazzist's trip to Chicago. I'm going nuts waiting for this album to come out.

Suspect Your Elders

(via morphineandicecream)

The Spy Who Shagged Me

Alien³

The above image is intended to be the first in a series.  As I've set about ripping the DVDs I own (or license, or whatever) to be played via boxee, I've been taking screenshots of each of the preview images.  I've been using Handbrake, and the preview function shows 10 images chosen at a standard interval from the selected title.  Some of these turn out to be neat, some are kinda worthless.

Each day I plan to use random.org to help me pick a screenshot to display.  If what I get isn't worth posting - maybe I'll try a different random result, or maybe I'll just wait until the next day to try again.  Anyway, should be good times, sharing my film collection one random frame at a time.

Prague Spring

Spring - Prague, 1968.
Prague Spring by The Legendary Pink Dots

Reconciling these is difficult for me.

Samurai Pac-Man

via Point of Focus, can't quite make out the watermark so no further attribution. :(

Anders Kjellesvik - GAD

via preik

Jaga Jazzist - Day & Another Day

Truth to Power

via Point of Focus

Chevy

via bigfun

JAPAN

via supernative via this isn't happiness

Grasses and Rushes, Patrick Winfield, 2008

grasses and rushes via bigfun

via funeralface

via funeralface via bigfun

Floating Logos by Matt Siber

The Floating Logos series by Matt Siber via Preik

Space Invaders maybe?

Asimov & Moyers

I've read countless of his books and stories, but this is the first time I've actually seen and heard Isaac Asimov... and now that I have, I really, really, really want Christopher Walken to play him in a biopic.

Fiat Currency?

This wasn't there when I parked here last night...

Testing Blog It

Just a quick test... Doesn't seem to be a way to post photos...

Canceling Hulu

So the reply I left yesterday didn't make it past their moderation.  I'm guessing that's because it had the word "piracy" in it.  No matter, I've just canceled my account.  Screw those guys.

Hulu blocks boxee

They announced it on their site today, and I left a comment:

Even though I've never used Boxee, I see this as the final nail in the coffin for Hulu.

The first really big faux pas was that your content isn't permanent. I watched Ghostbusters one day, and the next day it was gone. On the Internet, that doesn't work. You can't do that; you're breaking a rule. When stuff like that happens, you lose the trust of your users - who won't return to your site if the experience isn't continually better than the last time.

Now, with this update and what content you have remaining, you're imposing limits on how we consume it. If that's the case... well, what's the point? How long before Hulu only works in certain web browsers? At certain times? In certain places?  

In your post you said there's no "win" for us consumers, but I disagree. The "win" is the lesson we're taking away from this situation. We've learned that the content providers haven't learned what we want. We've learned that as it stands today, the only way to enjoy the content we want in the way we want, is through piracy - or not at all. Their bottom line and yours will depend on whether or not you both can provide a better experience for us consumers.

This is just more evidence that the content providers either don't get it or don't care.  It's also a great argument for alternative media.

Edit: It's interesting to note that my comment wasn't immediately published.  Also; this morning Hulu's feed republished all of their latest stories - presumably so the boxee post would get lost in the shuffle.  Dirty pool.