SE7EN + Radiohead

The other week, Radiohead delivered a webcast of some odds-and-ends multimedia stuff. This is one of the items that someone with editing software expanded on.

Vocabulary Very Helpful

I learned about this through the BBC News website. Free Rice is an internet word game where for every word you correctly find its definition, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice through the UN's World Food Program to aid impoverished peoples. The money is provided by the assortment of advertisers on the site. Here's a link:

Modern Art Is Not Static

Takashi Murakami, (born February 1, 1962) in Tokyo is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist.

Murakami works in both fine arts media, such as painting; as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.

This guy captured my attention yesterday morning. They profiled him on CBS Sunday Morning. Most notably, he did the artwork for Kanye West's "Graduation" album. He gets compared often to Warhol except his work transcends mere canvas. Plus he looks like my old boss at Domino's Pizza.