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Peruvian Grey Alien skull discovered

Simon Hilton — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:17:26 +0000

“It has a non-human appearance because the head is triangular and big, almost the same size as the body. At first we believed it to be a child’s body until Spanish and Russian doctors came and confirmed that, yes, it’s an extraterrestrial being.”

Renato Davila Riquelme, an anthropologist working at the Privado Ritos Andinos museum in Cusco on the 20 inch tall remains.

More here.

Arthur Cardre has insane flex, balance & breakdance skills

Simon Hilton — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:47:16 +0000

Training

Balance

Rush Before Injury

Mr Lovenstein: I have sooo much to do today.

Simon Hilton — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:48:04 +0000

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The Little People Project: “Scars”

Simon Hilton — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:48:46 +0000

Aldwych, London

”The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war” - MacArthur

You can donate to the Poppy Appeal here.

From the genius that is The Little People Project by Slinkachu

Geocaching.com iPhone App

Simon Hilton — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:55:44 +0000

Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online. Try Geocache online by putting in your postcode here to search for Geocaches near you.

The iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4G use a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi positioning and cell towers to determine your approximate location. Groundspeak’s iPhone Application then queries the Geocaching.com database in real-time and provides a list of geocaches near you.

iPhone App here

The Kitten Covers

Simon Hilton — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:34:35 +0000

Relax and take a moment to enjoy The Kitten Covers.

Project Thirty-Three

Simon Hilton — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:58:41 +0000

The seemingly infinite number of vintage record jackets that convey their message with only simple shapes and typography never cease to amaze.

Project Thirty-Three is the personal collection of Jive Time Records, a Seattle-based store specializing in used vinyl. It’s a shrine to circles and dots, squares and rectangles, and triangles, and the brilliant designers that made them come to life on album covers.

Sir Paul McCartney makes a cup of tea

Simon Hilton — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:32:55 +0000

Doctor Sandra Cabot – 1 hour “Love Your Liver” presentation

Simon Hilton — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:27:36 +0000

Dr Cabot is a genius. A must-see.

Spend an hour with The Liver Doctor, Sandra Cabot MD, while she explains how your liver works and how best to maintain a healthy liver and even reverse some liver diseases. Learn why your liver health is so important and how some simple changes in your diet can greatly improve your health and increase longevity. This one hour long presentation is your personal consultation right in your own home. Learn why successfully treating various forms of hepatitis with drugs alone can be so difficult and how, with nutritional medicine, your chances of avoiding liver disease are much higher. Love your liver and live longer !

In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead (doco)

Simon Hilton — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:30:20 +0000

Part 1

Paul Cronin’s mesmerizing documentary In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead is a long, continually surprising film about a remarkable Englishman who turned his back on film. A debonair, charismatic workaholic, Whitehead, now nearly 70, is a dream subject: as an independent-minded cameraman in 1960s London, he recorded key moments of cultural upheaval with an eye as keen as his intellect. With retrospectives slated for Anthology Film Archives and the Rotterdam Film Festival, a re-discovery of Whitehead’s underseen oeuvre is underway to which this ambitious docu, world-preemed in Vienna in October, is an invaluable companion piece.

Whitehead has lived so many lives, cats are jealous. No additional commentators weigh in for this docu. It’s just gifted raconteur Whitehead — whose adventures in publishing, music recording, high finance, lensing et al. fairly drip with historic serendipity — relating his life and his work. But in Cronin’s deft hands, that’s more than enough to profitably fill more than three hours of sometimes contradictory screentime.

Well-edited visuals – mostly drawn from Whitehead’s own drool-worthy archives – accompany the subject’s non-stop flow of anecdotes and pithy, tantalizing observations. Cronin, whose previous sprightly excavations of film lore include a doc on Amos Vogel and one about the making of Medium Cool, put this only slightly overlong portrait together for a mere $6,000.

Whitehead was working as a newsreel cameraman for Italian television when he shot Wholly Communion, a unique record of the night in 1965 that the leading American beat poets – Ginsburg, Ferlinghetti, Corso – read to a capacity crowd of 7,000 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Forty minutes worth of black-and-white film stock edited down to 33 minutes got a commercial release and put Whitehead on the map.

When, as a direct result, the Rolling Stones’ manager hired him to shoot the Stones on tour in Dublin and Belfast, Whitehead “had never heard a single Stones song.” Whitehead was apparently the first person ever to film Jimi Hendrix and became the first ever to record Pink Floyd. All the same, Whitehead insists ’60s London was not swinging except to the headline writers at Time magazine.

The leading foreign filmmakers of the day had a huge impact on Whitehead, who watched Godard’s Alphaville “in a trance” and was “demolished and psychologically ill for weeks.” Determined to publish the screenplay in English, Whitehead offers an account of meeting Godard to arrange a translation even though “there was no script” that’s a hoot.

Living in New York from October 1967 through May 1968, Whitehead caught footage of the student occupation of Columbia University that shows, among other things, a young Paul Auster listening to a young Tom Hayden.

Andy Warhol approached the textbook handsome Whitehead about appearing in a film that would entail having sex with Viva. Whitehead declined, but was intimate with an exciting roster of artistic women from Nico to Nathalie Delon to Niki de Saint-Phalle.

Questioning film’s ability to depict reality and concluding that “the technology was standing between me and authentic experience,” Whitehead quit filmmaking after six years.

The two-part docu looks at the layers of Whitehead’s richly varied life including his adventures as a painter, mutual funds wiz, compulsive diarist and aspiring novelist. The first half lasts 100 minutes.

Second half, clocking in at 98 minutes, examines how Whitehead morphed from an urban media maven into a truth seeker at one with nature. Cronin orders the information so as to keep viewers guessing about his mercurial subject – just as we think we “know” who he is, we have the figurative rug pulled out from under us.

The polar opposite of an ivory tower academic or flippant playboy, Whitehead possesses a restless energy and obvious work ethic that save him from being a dilettante. Seeing Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal had a life-changing impact on the man; it’s not too far-fetched to imagine that seeing this doc and watching Whitehead’s small but seminal body of work might send some unsuspecting lad or lass careening off on hitherto unimagined adventures.

Lisa Nesselson, Variety, 18 December 2006

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