Some news sources out there seem to be a little dense and are not listing to the restructuring of the pop songs in Earworm’s year-end mashup. This mashup has a relevant meaning to what has been occurring with the financial system and the state of the world in the year 2011. You can refer to pop music as the “lowest common denominator” ummm Slate, but if you listen carefully to Earworm’s restructuring of these songs, you will hear that there is always a running theme in pop music that he pulls together, even in such a clear way that even mentally challenged “journalists” that regurgitate postings from blogs should be able to understand.

Not a fan of Duck Sauce but I am digging this video.

Doppelgänger kissing mask by Portuguese artist Didier Faustino.

As part of the “Conversations” circuit at Designer’s Days, Didier Faustino is installing “Interzone” in the windows of Lafayette Maison with Doppelgänger, a piece produced for the occasion.

A white mask separates into two. Its conjoined parts fuse together recreating a sort of prosthesis for a mirror kiss.

The double entry mask pivots the heads of those who put it on, defining the minimum limits, an immaterial border becoming real.

Doppelgänger seems to prevent contact and yet it reveals a link, the meeting of the mouths which slot into one another through a perfectly traced, proportioned orifice.

Like a hygienist mask maintained in equilibrium, Doppelgänger appears to be like a prosthesis which controls the kiss.

Doppelgänger forces the tête-à-tête to feel the other, to let them slip into their inner world, with the risk of meeting their alter ego and losing themselves within it.

Via dezeen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_Y740aReI

Madonna -- Justify My Love (1990)

We can’t fly! Loving this song.

Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly (Extended Drums Mix)
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San Francisco is still a very provincial city when it comes to architecture but University of California’s recently opened ‘Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building’, designed by firm Rafael Vinoly architects, seems to have made it past the nimby approval apparatus with a very “edgy” design.



“The building’s location on a steeply sloping hillside – in a city plagued by earthquakes – was a defining element in its construction. The architects’ circuitous use of stairways and sloping walkways has deftly resolved the former, maximising all available space and ensuring a fluid and cohesive whole. Meanwhile, the entire complex is also supported by steel space trusses and concrete piers, which are specifically engineered to absorb earthquakes through seismic base isolation. ”



via Wallpaper

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLA7JMPE_xU

DJ Earworm just released his annual mashup of the top 25 pop songs from the Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 chart.


Now that 2010 is almost over, can we be done with Ke$ha?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKSl0oEfdYE

Sherpa – feathers

Motorcycle made of feathers by artist Tim Hawkinson.

Metric -- It’s A Sin
[See post to listen to audio]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7I5UaB7mx4