SylK's Playground

A Letterpress Film

2012-02-01T08:56:00.000+01:00

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film: a short film by Danny Cooke about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier.

More Social Media Tips From Grandma

2012-02-01T08:52:00.002+01:00

This is one smart grandma.

Madrid-based Creative Director Chacho Puebla is back with more social media tips that your grandmother should give you.

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Container Color Systems Poster

2012-02-01T08:45:00.000+01:00

You can put these on your wall any time.

Shipping container posters by Antrepo.

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Grown Up

2012-02-01T08:37:00.000+01:00

Below 25 ways to tell you are grown up. Shit happens.

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Fuck The Past ...

2012-02-01T08:29:00.000+01:00

Nice shoes!

From the new Undercover Spring/Summer 2012 Collection we present the ‘Fuck The Past, Fuck The Future’ lace-up shoes. Overall a rather simple and classic leather lace-up, the Japanese brand infuses their own personal twist with embroideries on the upper.

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Voting

2012-02-01T01:43:00.003+01:00

Yeah

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Dr Martens Spring

2012-02-01T01:41:00.000+01:00

Dr Martens Spring / Summer 2012 collection. I like!

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Too Much ...

2012-02-01T01:34:00.001+01:00

The source I don't know, but ... thanks Anne!!

Feist 'The Bad In Each Other'

2012-02-01T01:30:00.001+01:00

New video by Feist 'The Bad In Each Other'

M.I.A. 'Bad Girls'

2012-02-01T01:28:00.000+01:00

And here it is, the new M.I.A. 'Bad Girls', no video (yet).

Rock Climbing Building

2012-02-01T01:18:00.002+01:00

"Unique dormitory building on the campus of Twente university in Enschede, Netherlands is equipped with 30 meter climbing wall.

Designed by Arons and Gelauff architects, this cool dorm has 87 student apartments. The climbing wall features over 2500 hand and foot grips."

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Louis C.K. On Swearing

2012-02-01T01:09:00.002+01:00

Hilarious!

Louis C.K. talks about when it is appropriate to use inappropriate language.

Pelvic Muscle Exerciser

2012-02-01T01:05:00.002+01:00

Weird looking contraption.

"The Super Kegel Pelvic Muscle Exerciser Super Kegel Pelvic Muscle Exerciser is made of rubber coated steel allowing a simple tension adjustable home exercise that takes just minutes a day to strengthen pelvic muscles, and tighten the thighs and buttocks."

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New HQ Redbull

2012-02-01T00:55:00.000+01:00

The Redbull new headquarters in Amsterdam designed by Sid Lee Architecture.

Cardboard Wardrobe

2012-02-01T00:46:00.000+01:00

Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini created portraits of women in carboard wardrobes, that mimic the look of historical paintings.

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Matthew's Day Off

2012-02-01T00:39:00.000+01:00

To celebrate the launch of the all-new 2012 CR-V, Honda brought Ferris Bueller's Day Off back in a big game commercial. We cast Matthew Broderick as himself, skipping out on a day of acting work and living it up in his all-new CR-V. Relive movie history with Honda's fresh twist and wonderful homage to this '80s classic.

Sushi Etiquette

2012-02-01T00:33:00.000+01:00

And now I have a problem. I love 'dumping' my wasabi in my soy sauce.

Dear Jourdon ... Please Come Back

2012-02-01T00:26:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the copy paste, but this letter is a must-read.

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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).

(Source: The Freedmen's Book; Image: A group of escaped slaves in Virginia in 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.)

Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865

To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson,
Big Spring, Tennessee

Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.

In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.

Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.

From your old servant,
Jourdon Anderson.

Zapping Testicles

2012-02-01T00:17:00.001+01:00

THE scientific research of 2012. New contraceptive device for men. Do you want to have sex but no offspring? Oops, let's wait 15min so I can zapp my testicles with ultrasound. (At least the monkeys didn't mind. There is a possibility that it feels right, it only sounds weird)

"Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine rotated high-frequency ultrasound transducers around the testes of rats. They put the animals’ testes in a cup full of saline solution to provide better conduction between the transducer and the skin. Then they measured the animals’ sperm counts to see how much they dropped. After several tests, scientists led by James Tsuruta found the ideal therapy was two 15-minute sessions, two days apart, which led to a dramatic reduction in sperm."

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Table vs Step Ladder

2012-02-01T00:09:00.000+01:00

Is this a new Olympic sport? Who will win? WTF?

I Could Live Here

2012-01-31T23:56:00.001+01:00

Carrara House in Pilar, Argentina, was designed by Andres Remy Arquitectos.

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Ken Hollings On John Cage

2012-01-31T23:41:00.001+01:00

Ken Hollings on the legacy of John Cage (or the post-Cageian universe).

Project Unbreakable

2012-01-31T23:38:00.002+01:00

And unbreakable we are.

"Project Unbreakable was created in October of 2011 by Grace Brown. Grace uses photography to help heal those who were sexually abused by asking them to write a quote from their attacker on a poster and photographing them holding the poster. Rape survivor and advocate for victims of sexual abuse, Yvonne Moss, describes the project as a way for victims to take the power back of the words that were once used against them."

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Sdrawkcab

2012-01-31T23:29:00.001+01:00

You can say any common word to Alyssa. She will pronounce it backwards the proper way in 3 seconds or less.

La Mer De Pianos - The Sea Of Pianos

2012-01-31T23:24:00.001+01:00

Craftmanship.

Short film about Marc Manceaux, the owner of the oldest piano shop in Paris. Directed, shot & edited by Tom Wrigglesworth & Mathieu Cuvelier.