Nice to see that ACRONYM goes back in time to its classic and clean styles and features that made it so outstanding.

Buck 65 and D-Sisive joined together to form The Ricardo Christoff Apparatus, and will release an album called “The 100 Story Building”. The concept of the album? To write songs about your life. Or your friends. Or enemies. How does it work? The duo will be taking submissions from the fans in the form of stories – actual things that happened to them or someone they know – and then will pick the best entries and turn them into songs.

Each song will be named after the person who the story is about. According to the group, the story should be “funny, strange, tragic, inspiring, epic”. So send your greatest story ever told to 100storybuilding@gmail.com and leave the rest to them. Via

Corey Ian Haim, * December 23, 1971, † March 10, 2010.

Ian Worrell used straight pencil and paper for the man and cat line animation and composited them in After Effects onto backgrounds constructed in Photoshop out of various pieces (pen/ink, pencil, paint, photos, etc.). I like the analog/digital mix of media. Via

A 10-part mini-series from the creators of Band of Brothers and producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman,  telling the stories of three Marines during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. Episode 1 airs March 14.

… after getting an estimate for the work.

DARE TWS / Sigi von Koeding, * 1968, † March 6, 2010.

Saul Bass says it all in 2 minutes.

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From the 2010 album Fallen House Sunken City out on Strange Famous Rec.

Beatmakers including Daedelus and J.Rocc turn old vinyl into new music in this mini doc directed by Bryan Younce and Mark McNeill. Via

La Chureca in Nicaragua is one of the Western worlds biggest open garbage dumps. Even the briefest visit is a considerable challenge. Nevertheless it is home to far over a thousand people. Most deaths on the dump are due to a lung disease, that is known there as ‘lead’. For children growing up around La Chureca, it’s the standard course of events.

Marten Persiel and Xabier Garay’s Chureca project is a documentary film as well as an active participation in one of Spains most ambitious foreign aid projects to date: the complete clean-up of La Chureca, the construction of recycling facilities and an entire village, including a school, a hospital and community service projects. One of these projects is a skate park, which aims at getting Chureca kids in touch with other young people, whose world doesn’t consist of nothing but trash.

New mix by The Custodian Of Records for Stuck In The Past. You should subscribe to their outstanding podcast.

Four years ago, Dr. Lou Robbins found a mug shot and started collecting original images from the dark side of the food world. He found bartenders, cooks, and waiters who had been pushed over the edge and were accused of murder, theft, pimping and pandering, and drunken and disorderly conduct.

Now he presents his collection for the first time to the public in his show “Food Industry Mug Shots 1899-1954”, which opens Friday at Rabelais Books in Portland, Maine. Via

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From the 2001 12″ The Shoplifter out on Sub Verse Music.

I like the type elements in the super weird intro scene of the 2007 release Ex Drummer directed by Koen Mortier.

The Confederate P120 Fighter is made of 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum, maximized torque-to-weight with 120-cubic inch radial twin engine with 160 horsepower. Only 50 produced. Via

The Porsche 918 Spyder prototype : Hybrid drive with 718 PS, fuel consumption of only 3.4 litres, 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds, top speed of 320 km/h (198 mph) plus.

The high-profile line-up for issue #3 includes seven interviews of Milton Glaser, Sir Paul Smith, Tom Dixon, Keith Schofield, Tom Gauld and Maisie Broadhead. Further articles include Geoff McFetridge, Ken Garland, Johan Lofgren, Keetra Dean Dixon, Dan Germain and Michael Marriott.

The publication also acts as an archive for the most interesting work posted on itsnicethat.com from the last six months. All pre-orders received before midnight on March 31st will receive an exclusive, large-scale screen print from illustrator Parra.

You can pre-oder now at the It’s Nice That Shop for £10.

Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile’s massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth’s overall mass, scientists from NASA say.

As a result, the length of a day is now a little shorter (1.26 microseconds) than it was before Saturday’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake.

“There are four essential parts in making abstract information experiencable: information itself, relevant senses, fitting emotion and a direct reference of the presentation to the information. With our method you can not only design fitting media, but also check existing media for its potential.” Jochen Winker and Stefan Kuzaj.

Incredible video by Andy Bruntel. Via

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The title track from their 2009 album Say G&E!

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An audiovisual installation during the Mutek festival in Montreal by Olivier Ratsi, Joanie Lemercier and Thomas Vaquié. Via

Two days – all about bikes. March 6 to 7.

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Unreleased track. Photocredit.

Although there isn’t an official statement yet, confirmations from second hand sources reveal that Guru has fallen into a coma after suffering cardiac arrest. Godspeed and all the best.

A movie about the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky.

In southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, thousands of American, Afghan and British troops entered Marja in the biggest offensive of the war, with the goal of destroying the Taliban’s largest haven.

LODOWN issue no. 70 launch event at Civilist Berlin. Tuesday March 2, 19:00.

So weird, so beautiful. By Vanessa Bruno

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From the 2009 album Logos.

Have you ever been watching TV or a movie and pointed to the screen and said, “Hey! It’s that Guy!”? Well, here is where you’ll find him – All “That Guys!” on one page.