February 2010
20 posts
“In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground...”
– Michael Azerrad
(via Frank Chimero) (via marco)
Joanna Newsom - Go Long (from Have One On Me,...
Scam Detective: Before we start, I’d like to apologise for losing my temper with you last time we spoke. I said some things that I should not have said and it was rude. I’m sorry.
John: It’s ok, I understand you getting angry. I know I have done some very bad things.
Scam Detective: I want to talk about the gang you worked with. Tell me about your relationship with the rest of the gang.
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Scam-Detective: We spoke last week about your involvement with advance fee fraud scams and “phishing” emails. You told me that you were recruited into a gang at the age of 15 and were convicted of fraud a little over 2 years ago, serving 2 years in prison for your crimes. You also told me that you are now working with the Nigerian authorities to bring other scammers to justice, whilst trying to...
Scam-Detective: Thank you for agreeing to talk to us about your experience ‘working’ as a scammer in Lagos, Nigeria. Tell us a little about yourself.
John: I’m 23 years old and was released from prison in Nigeria in October last year where I served two years for fraud. I am now doing a business studies course at college and am in the UK on a student exchange programme. As part of my...
Wikipedia: Metabolist Movement →
In the late 1950s a small group of young Japanese architects and designers joined forces under the title of “Metabolism”. Their visions for cities of the future inhabited by a mass society were characterized by large scale, flexible, and expandable structures that evoked the processes of organic growth. In their view, the traditional laws of fixed form and function were obsolete....
Wikipedia: Nakagin Capsule Tower →
On April 15, 2007, the building’s residents, citing squalid, cramped conditions as well as concerns over asbestos, voted to demolish the building and replace it with a much larger, more modern tower.[1][2] In the interest of preserving his design, Kurokawa proposed taking advantage of the flexible design by “unplugging” the existing boxes and replacing them with updated units, a...
Beach Boys - Big Sur (from Holland, 1973)
Wikipedia: William Morris →
Neil Young - Powderfinger (from Rust Never Sleeps,...