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Drummond and Hammond’s cigar box guitars
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This little outfit working out of Bristol are producing every delta blues aficionado’s dream piece of kit. The cigar box guitar used to be commonplace among African-American musicians in the impoverished American South, who around the time of the Great Depression were too poor to afford the real thing. Like the washboard, it was a [...]
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The Most Unexplainable Images On The Web
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This photo collection is perhaps best viewed after a hard drink. Suffice to say it’s one of the finest and weirdest collection of images I’ve ever come across.
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DOCO: Orchestra formed in a Paraguayan rubbish dump
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This looks like it could be a brilliant piece of television. Too often documentaries filmed in the developing world have a depressing air, but this one about an orchestra formed from the scraps of a Paraguayan rubbish dump is the right remedy.
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Bryan Saunders’ drug-fuelled art creations
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Bryan Saunders breathes new life into experimental art. Some 50 paintings soon to be on display alongside Damien Hirst’s were drug-fuelled creations that have won him legions of admirers.
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Brighton’s X-rated Christmas lights
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Someone in Brighton clearly isn’t happy. Unfortunately for the powers that be in this bohemian seaside town on England’s southern coast, that person is in charge of putting up the Christmas lights. What he does with them is brilliant.
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This is the greatest elevator prank ever
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Now I’m all for becoming the victim of wily pranksters, but this piece of ingenuity from Brazil might just send me to an early grave. See what happens when the lights go out. It makes for brilliant viewing, but I’m not sure I’d want to be on the receiving end.
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Southeast Asia’s non-PC toilet signs
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Even though I’ve lived in Southeast Asia for nearly four years, the local battles with translations into English still regularly draw a guilty laugh. My collection of massively non-PC toilet signs for the disabled is a work in progress. One day I hope to own a gallery.
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Rives’s Poetry: the Johnny Appleseed of Sound
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This man has a unique way with words. Rives has set TED alight on a number of occasions, but I feel this performance of Mockingbird is up there with his most exquisite.
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Letters of Note: gems of correspondence
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This side-splitting memo from Matt Stone prior to the release of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut in 1999 is one many gems of correspondence contained in Letters of Note. Others include a terse resignation note from a young William Faulkner, and the wife of Aldous Huxley’s touching account of the author’s last LSD-infused moments on earth. Read the memo below.
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Photos by blind photographer Sonia Soberats
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The work of the blind photographer, Sonia Soberats, is simply mind-blowing. The New York Times Lens blog did a recent profile of the 77-year-old in which she explains how she only began photography classes in 2001, a decade after she lost her sight.
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A Ghost That Follows Me: new music by Blacks&
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The bedroom-esque production of Blacks&’s hazy, beachside pop lends a warm, stripped down quality to their music. The LA-based group are only a year old and have an EP out, A Ghost That Follows Me, which is available for download from their website.
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Photos of dying icebergs and dramatic cloudscapes
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American photographer Camille Seaman has released a stunning collection of images of dying icebergs and apocalyptic cloudscapes. Her work is powerful, atmospheric and highly accomplished, not surprising given she has studied alongside such luminaries as Sebastien Salgado and Steve McCurry.
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Remembering murdered Kent songwriter/busker Taigh
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Over the years, this young guy became a very popular busker in my hometown of Canterbury, Kent. His voice would carry far down the high street, and he became a regular and welcome part of the furniture. Someone took his and a fellow busker’s life a couple of months ago. His younger brother released this [...]
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Irina Werning’s Back to the Future photo series
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Argentine photographer Irina Werning has complied this beautiful and poignant collection of portraits of adults re-enacting images of themselves as kids. From what I gather, she has asked people to submit photographs of themselves and then returned with them to these same spots at the same times in their lives. She’ll take this project round the world, from Baghdad to Eurodisney, and is looking for willing participants.
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Bug fighting in South East Asia
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Of all the little idiosyncratic activities I’ve come across since living in Southeast Asia, this nears the favourite. The bug fights are held in a cemetery about half an hour outside of Chiang Mai late in the year when the stags are at their randiest. It pulls an impressive crowd who bet some hefty dollars on the winner, claimed by the beetle who throws its opponent off the revolving log and struts (or crawls) to victory.
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