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In my inbox the other day arrived a Coupe Decale mixtape from San Francisco's Chief Boima. It was awesome, like nothing I've heard before, not just straight African stuff but a house party style mash up with Bashment, Juke & Hip Hop. So fresh.I started trying to write a post but realized I know bugger all about Coupe Decale so I gave up and asked the man himself to fill us in.   Hi Chief Boima. How's it going?Hi Vamanos, Let's Go!...Things are good out here in cloudy California. Tell me about Coupe Decale music.

Concern about the potential health effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical widely used in consumer plastic products, is growing, following the release this week of a draft report from the US National Toxicology Program (NTP). That report says there's "some concern" about the potential negative health effects of BPA on infants and children and calls for more research to determine just what the risks of BPA exposure might be.

This has been bubbling under for a while now, and I for one have been trying to switch to metal containers...

As Brazil's top baile funk DJs like Sany Pitbull & Sandrinho are using more and more sophisticated MPC beat rocking equipment (sin decks even).While....In Europe, their funk wielding contemporaries are taking it back to the (Miami Bass) old school and chopping up funk breaks with vinyl.

Firstly a big shout to anyone who has downloaded my Mercado Negro mix. Blogaridddims mix coming soon.Back to todays business = Spitting sick bars over trancy bassline garage. East London's Mz. Bratt's answer to Wearing My Rolex. Look out for her heavy Terror Danja produced joints.Mz. Bratt - Wearing My Rolex RemixAn MC led banger from DJ Q & Bonez. After listening to so much southern grime, good to hear some northern man on the mic.

Here's a little pre-release tipoff from my man Grubblemouse. Physically reminiscent of a Victorian cyclorama, The O2 Memory Project is a 10 foot high cylinder designed by Jason Bruges with eleven cameras placed equidistance around its perimeter. Each of these cameras takes a picture in sequence every five seconds, creating a 360 degree, digital panorama of the outside location very minute. Animated lights on The O2 Memory Project's exterior shell signal when each camera is about to take a shot.

Swift Wind Turbine is a quiet, rooftop mounted wind turbine. Unlike some designs you've seen previously, this one has an outer ring and five blades. The outer ring acts as a diffuser -- the wind travels down the blades and is dispersed along the ring, therefore eliminating noise and keeping the turbine quiet. The company estimates a noise of less than 35 decibels for all wind speeds. The 7 foot diameter ring needs a roof line clearance of a couple feet and in good winds, can generate up to 2000 kWh of power (1.5 kW @ 14 m/s).

check their slightly wiffy flash site here

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Help is a new line of healthcare products designed by Richard Fine who was inspired when shopping for pain relievers for a headache. The experience only made his head hurt more: the ugly packaging screamed out slogans under the neon lights, adding to the confusion.

Fine’s response was to create simple packaging out of 100% recycled soft molded paper pulp, designed to be calming. The first two products are “help I have a headache” tablets and “help I’ve cut myself” bandages.

So now we know that 'help' is at hand!

I need to lay my hands on this little chap. He rolls around making beats, sampling himself and doing it again. He gets robot of the month award for sure.

What it does? Basically:

* Navigate around, collect some data, avoid obstacles, until it
* Finds something "worth playing on" (a single isolated object or a wide flat surface that it can find an angle onto)
* Snakes into place
* Plays some beats on what it have found, and samples this, checking it has a "good sound"
* Based on data collected in the area, and sample just made, then compose a little rhythm, and plays this along with the sample

SILLOF is a dude that takes Figure Modification to another level. I am really into his WWII mods at the moment, but it is all worth a peek.

11 - the beautiful game is GRO design and Tim modelmakers's new table football table scheduled to be exhibited during Milan Design Week (from April 16th - 21st, Via Forcella 8, Milan).

For many of us, table football is a game that is close to our hearts, holding cherished memories of our childhood and youth.

It's all in the wrist action apparently!

Record breaking attempt: Earthrace, will attempt to circumnavigate the globe running 100% biodiesel, and with a net zero carbon-footprint.

Demonstrating further commitment to the cause, the skipper Pete Bethune underwent liposuction and donated enough to produce 100ml of biofuel, while two other, larger volunteers also had the procedure, making a total of 10 litres of human fat. This in turn produced seven litres of biofuel, which could help the boat travel about 15km.

Utah Saints - "Something Good '08"
by tkf

Pleasantly surprised that Ministry of Sound decided to pick this up for a refurbishing.
The Utah Saints have pulled off some great some stuff in their career, and hopefully this brings them back on tour.

Gotta love this video, too. Not going to say much about it, but it's a small pleasure.

http://www.archive.org/details/Surveillance

'Surveillance' comes out of INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH the 5th in the INVIGILATOR series conceived by artists Paul Conneally, Nikki Pugh and Kev Ryan.

The poem is a direct transcript taken by Paul Conneally as he heard it of INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH participant artist Harry Palmer in the discussion workshop which formed part of INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH and took place after the Invigilators had returned to VIVID art gallery in the heart of Birmingham's Digbeth area.

The sound track is made from a snippet of Harry saying the word ' surveillance ' combined with the ambient sounds of the VIVID space that the artist led discussion was taking place in.

WARNING! The soundtrack of Surveillance contains backmasked material - hidden messages.

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Another aspect of Invigilator:Digbeth are the 'emotion grids' that participants were asked to fill in when at the work place. I spent some time last night looking at these and the accompanying emotional words list - a list of emotionally related words that participants could circle if they felt applied to them at the time - as many as they wanted to circle or not. One group posted a filled in Emotion Grid through the letterbox of the building 'Good For Wood' (which sounds like a good title for a porno movie) and pasted another on the building itself.

One of the most widely known symbols in the world, in Britain it is recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament – and in particular as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In the United States and much of the rest of the world it is known more broadly as the peace symbol.

Unveiled at a British ban-the-bomb rally on April 4, 1958, and designed by the late Graphic Designer late Gerald Holtom: "I drew myself . . . a man in despair . . . put a circle around it to represent the world."

Concert sauvage dans le métro !
by lapapsprod

I am having trouble with this video... On the one hand I'm giving them full props for adding some value to time wasted on that instrument of torture... On the other... PHIL COLLINS. Please No. Hug 'em or Slap 'em?

BTW they are called Naturally Seven

Couldn't agree more with the majority of this, but I don't see Protein Peeps in the list. Have dropped them a line to complain.

Invigilators
before they set off
on their walk to work
as part of
Invigilator : Digbeth.

Invigilator is a series of public interventions. It's a collaborative project withNikki Pugh and Kev Ryan.

The latest piece is INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH - this intervention took place on the 29th of March.

Florian Krautli’s magnetic curtains design is something that makes interior designers queasy.

The idea behind these curtains is to allow the owner to shape the curtains however desired, thus providing the perfect amount of light, separation and such. Then again, the magnetic curtains would eliminate any kind of smooth, swooping lines that curtains are accustomed to and that interior designers thrive off!

Onlymatt's house is going to full of these I heard.

We ventured down the rabbit hole of design and stumbled upon this interesting Wonderland inspiration called “Fungus Chair” by China’s Mad Hatters, MAD Design.

Architect Ma Yansong, designed this public seating area for MAD as part of a public art project at the Zhangjiang business park in Pudong, Shanghai.

By incorporating modern materials and an interlocking design, these mushroom seating solutions offer a twist on public park seating usually only seen by Alice herself, and after all, Ma Yansong is a fun-guy.

As the story goes, Alfred Heineken was strolling along by the sea in Jamaica, and was shocked at the number of beer bottles littering the beach. He was also concerned with the lack of cheap building materials, and at the resulting living conditions for the poor. Putting two and two together, he envisioned a “World Bottle” which would be imported for drinking but kept for construction.

Shame the idea got Canned (sic) How about a campaign to bring it back? Hang on, I better fire up that crusty Facebook account

Wattoogle is a Google powered search engine that is designed for saving electricity, and is mainly black in color.

Every time you load Google with their white background your (CRT) monitor is using roughly 74 watts of power, but every time you load up Wattoogle your monitor is using about 59 watts of power for a savings of 15 watts.

Worth a try for you peeps rocking the CRT setup.

Data shows that Splenda is excreted by humans nearly 100 percent unchanged, and can persist in the environment for years. Some scientists say the substance could change organisms' feeding behaviors and interfere with plant photosynthesis. They report, for example, that it could possibly shut down CO2 uptake in algae.

Splenda was approved in the 1990s for human consumption in Canada and the US, followed by EU countries. None of these countries thought it necessary to conduct an environmental impact assessment since the chemical wasn't considered toxic in any way.

I always thought the stuff was a bad idea... If you don't want sugar in your tea, just don't put it in dude.