This week kicks off a big subscriber drive on Lost At E Minor. We really want more people to check into the site and sign up to the newsletter, and we’re prepared to pay you to help us get there. Well, in CDs anyway. And only one of you. Chosen at random. But it’s a bumper of a prize featuring a stack of albums from our good friends at Universal Music. To be in with a chance of winning, please forward any post on the Lost At E Minor site onto a group of your friends with a suggestion that they check in to see more content like it and then leave a comment under that post with an indication of how many people you sent it to. So it could be as simple as: Chris – 18. The more the merrier. But anyone who leaves a comment will be in with a shot at the CDs and will always have a warm and fuzzy place in our hearts for supporting us in this subscriber drive. Next Monday we’ll be sweetening the prize pot again offering spot prizes to randomly selected people who have forwarded a post on and left a comment on our site during the course of the week. Sweet.
Grand prize: new album releases from Patrick Wolf [The Magic Position]; Klaxons [Myths of the Near Future]; Bumblebeez [Prince Umberto and the Sister of Ill]; New Young Pony Club [Fantastic Playroom]; Blaqk Audio [CexCells]; Feist [The Reminder]; and Amy Winehouse [Back to Black], all courtesy of Universal Music.
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Maths explains the origin of superhero characters
I love the colours and simple reasoning in this clever series by Scottish illustrator Matt Cowen, which uses basic maths equations to explain how certain pop culture icons came to be. Read more
Star Wars Uncut: a fully crowdsourced version of Episode IV
The project of creative technologist, Casey Pugh, this full length version of the George Lucas masterpiece was created from multiple 15 second segments recreated from the original movie and submitted by thousands of Star Wars fans, which were then spliced together by editor Aaron Valdez to form the final product. Genius, as both a commentary on contemporary pop culture trends (there are references to LEGO, stop motion, memes and the like) and on the power of tapping your audience for quality material.
Filmmaker creates LEGO stop motion to propose to girlfriend
Now, this is one for the ages: back in 2010, Atlanta film-maker Walter Thompson created a jaw-dropping LEGO stop motion to propose to Nealey Dozier, his girlfriend of four years. The video took 22 hours of shooting and some 2,600 pictures to splice together, a small sacrifice to pay for years of happiness together. Right? Right! Oh, and she said yes. Bonus.
YOU'RE SAYING (12)
Olof said | 13 August, 2007
Olof, 5.
Lang said | 15 August, 2007
yay cds! Lang – 10 – don’t have that many friends 
Bridie said | 15 August, 2007
Bridie – 12!
bondage said | 16 August, 2007
259 – just cheated and posted a bulletin…
sick bunch of cds
Sheah said | 16 August, 2007
Sheah – 7 Pick me, pick me!
Piwi said | 16 August, 2007
Piwi – 5′s feeling lucky
Jason said | 17 August, 2007
Jason – 2 (while at work, but I will be spreading the word via a post on my website this weekend!)
julie said | 20 August, 2007
Julie – Lucky number 4! I love Patrick Wolf, Feist, Amy etc.
Zolton said | 26 August, 2007
Hey Jase, Sheah, and Jason, you each get a CD as part of our spot CD giveaway! Can you email me at zolton [@] lostateminor.com with your contact details and we’ll send one out to you. You’re still in the running too to be drawn out for the big CD pack, as is everyone else who has left a comment under this post.
Thanks for your support,
Zolton
Zolton said | 7 September, 2007
Thanks everyone who took part in this! Our high-tech computers have punched in all the data and the randomly selected winner of the seven CDs from Universal Music is Bondage. Strange name, nice album collection … Bondage can you please email me your postal address – zolton [@] lostateminor.com – and I’ll get the whopping prize pack in the mail for you. To the other spot winners, your CDs aren’t far away. Just a short hike to the post office! I’ll send them out next week. Thanks again everybody.
Thara said | 15 September, 2007
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HAVE YOUR SAY
Butch cupcakes aren’t the pink, fluffy kind your grandma bakes. They’re a masculine-made alternative for men who just want to eat sweet treats without the sissy nametag. Instead, Butch Cupcakes feature cameo, plaid, wood grain, hound’s-tooth, checkerboard or marble chocolate disks on their icing tops to avoid sprinkled embarrassment from the past. Read more
The funny thing is, anyone who actually has a Moleskine is probably not very likely to punch people, but it’s fun to let people know you’re at least fantasizing about it.
Artist David Shrigley’s animated music video for Blur is so simple, so sweet, so perfect. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched it, yet it still makes me cry every time.
Located on an unassuming side street in central Madrid, El Mollete is a simple restaurant serving knock-out local dishes. Sliced potatoes cooked in olive oil are topped with salty, smoky, fried eggs broken just before serving to release their oozing, deep yellow yolks. Read more
Long before the franchise destroyed our fond childhood memories like Aunt and Uncle Beru on Tatooine, many of us born in the 70s were proud to own the many products associated with the Star Wars movies. Read more
The Futurebirds are an unruly band of boys from Athens, Georgia, but they might as well have been reared in the backwoods of Woodstock by Levon Helm himself. Their debut release, Hampton’s Lullaby, is out on July 13 via Autumn Tone Records.
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How neat is the ‘Duna Duna’ Jaws parody shirt by Threadless designer vomitinc? In case you were wondering, the name cleverly evokes the iconic shark movie title’s killer theme song tune.
WE'RE POSTING / SOME OF THE BEST
A little infectious lollipop rock anyone? Feel free to embarrass yourself singing along at the stoplight. If the other drivers give you that look, roll down the windows and spread the love.
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Pencils made from recycled newspaper
The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.
Communication prosthesis by Sascha Nordmeyer
This ‘communication prosthesis’ by designer Sascha Nordmeyer is hilarious and awesome. I want to wear one to a job interview.
Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here
Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
Get lost in a daydream or a craving for something sweet while gazing at these cool sculptures by Brooklyn-based WiNK WiNK PONY. Made using clay, tree bark, wood, and mossy moss.
Created by graphic t shirt label, the-affair, and printed on beautifully soft American Apparel. Limited edition of 200.
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Jase said | 13 August, 2007
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