@ Antinous-
Of course it's truth: we learned it on teh intarnets!
Oh yeah- forgot about Denver Airport. And pentagrams in Washington DC.

Wow, 13 posts in and nobody's played the "OMG THE MASONS R RULING TEH WORLD WITH NEW WORLD ORDUR AND AL QAUEDA AND THE QUEEN OF ENGLNDS A LIZARD AND 9-11 AND SATANIC CHILD RITUALS AT WHITE HOUSE AND RULING TEH BANKS!11!1" tinfoil-hat card yet. Impressive.

As much as I enjoy this stuff (moving to Japan in a year-and not Tokyo btw) I have to agree with #4/Loci:
Same thing every time. Open with a shot of Shibuya Crossing. Maybe throw in a bit about capsule hotels, Akihabara, salarymen, otaku & hentai next? Perhaps balance it with some Zen and you have every Western fluff piece on Japan covered. Especially since they never leave Tokyo.

Disclosure: GF is from Japan and we always make fun of the clichéd representations of Japanese culture we see in things like this.

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#23- Bwahahahahahaha!
#15 - See #23.

Google: Thomas Demand

A papercrafter so 1337, he's made a contemporary art career out of it.

I was going to post something about lieking mudkips but decided that was too obvious.

#3/Scottfree:
I was thinking the same thing. No Adler, either.

Maybe a deSaussure one- by extension, since you mentioned Lacan? Or maybe Lacan with a Slavoj Zizek ventriloquist dummy....

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Always heard about him- mass weddings and all that, but was never sure what he was up to or about. Yeesh.

Well, I guess Anonymous & /b/tards have a new target once they take down Scientology.

I gotta admit- since I started collecting vinyl when I was 14 (I'm 35 now) I've come across my share of flakes. There's something about record collectors....

Luckily, I'm in the camp of buying the record to actually listen to it, as opposed to owning it for it's own sake...you know what I mean... Yeah, I like my Captain Beefheart or obscure 60's psych/70's prog/Kraut bands or whatever- but I don't really care if it's the first edition vinyl. And I can't be bothered to pay $150+ for it. Especially since obscure vinyl rip blogs (eg- Mutantsounds) are out there now...

That said, I did recently start collecting 78's from the SallyAnn and mp3'ing and blogging them....

Oh, man. Such an influence on the sound/onkyo stuff I do now.

I got my first Stockhausen record when I was 10. My mom was a high school English teacher, and she bought it for a "Write to different types of music"(jazz, symphonic, etc) class exercise, and gave the record to me when she was done with it. To me, "Gesang der Junglinge/Kontakte" was just simply the coolest thing ever on headphones for a 10-yr old's wild imagination.

I stumbled on CBC Radio's "Brave New Waves" one summer night a few years later, age 13. I still consider myself very lucky to be exposed to this kind of cool stuff at such a young age...

Choice quote form above link:

"Here’s the thing: We’re of the group of people that thinks using native symbols/icons is blatant pandering and unrepresentative of BC. In fact, we find it kind of offensive. Maybe we’re just soft, but the idea of taking someone’s land, destroying their culture and then paying respect to what may remain of it by using it as a promotional tool for a sporting event is ridiculous."

Biff bang ka-pow!

These creatures are based on Vancouver Island first nations epistemology.

Most likely without consultation of those tribes concerning appropriateness. Cute, though.
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I initially supported the Olympics, but as evermore becomes a gross and crass cash grab I find myself marginalized and hostile to the whole mess.
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Ok, I know we're not on Fark, but THIS THIS THIS.

I think you need to live in Vancouver and make less than $100,000 a year to wonder why people have complaints about anything Olympics-related. Don't get me started.

I offer you this though:
http://onlymagazine.ca/City/the-2010-olympic-mascots-initial-thoughts

You know, normal people have GICs, RRSPs, mutual funds, etc...those pesky artists just have to be all process-based.

Does he take Canadian pennies?

Wow, VVORK goes into the bookmarks bar. We have an owl in our living room, one of those decoy ones you put on your house to scare off other birds. His name is "Stabby". He's our security system.