SOUNDTRACK: RUSH RADIO (rushradio.org) (since 1998).
How can this online site have been around for fourteen years and I’ve only just heard of it the other day. And only by actively searching for a streaming Rush site. Crazy talk!
So this site is what it says–streaming Rush 24/7. After listening for a little while I determined that it’s basically this person’s iTunes playlist of every Rush song on shuffle. It has that telltale iTunes shuffle–hey, didn’t I just hear that song two tracks ago, or as i na recent example, wasn’t that the song that just ended?–But there’s also a chance that you’ll hear a song that you haven’t heard in forever. There’s even a chance you’ll hear a song you don’t like (!) “Dog Years” is easily my least favorite Rush track ever, but I heard it!
Of course it’s more exciting to randomly hear “The Necromancer,” which just happened.
I don’t understand how come this person is allowed to do this. I don’t understand how he secured a .org domain name. I understand even less how he got a PSA with Geddy Lee talking about something (I forget what already). And I don’t care, I have been listening to this for the last few days and it totally resurrected my love of Rush.
[READ: May 3, 2012] Pavement Chalk Artist
If you’ve never seen a three-dimensional chalk drawing, you’re really missing out. But they’re all over the internet, so it’s easy to find one. Like this one. http://www.moillusions.com/category/3d-sidewalk-drawings-optical-illusions The most recent one I’ve seen is a Lego drawing, and this site http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/incredible-making-of-the-3d-lego-chalk-drawing shows you how they were done, too.
The design style is called anamorphic and it all depends on the angle at which you are looking at the picture. Literally. If you look at it from the wrong angle it looks like complete nonsense. And in the case of this book (and Beever’s work in general), the designs were specifically created for his camera. In other words, he set up the camera and looked through it to get the exact effect he wanted. I can’t quite imagine how you have to look at it in real life for them to look as good as this. (more…)
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