Here’s a great 40 minute performance by the Arcade Fire from earlier this month. They played at a benefit that Neil Young hosted to raise money for a school for children with disabilities: They’re awesome.
Last weekend I discovered a great bluegrass/folk band while having a few drinks at Stoddard’s Fine Food & Ale. Trampled By Turtles, if you’re into this sort of thing:
Via James Fallows, an Owl swooping in on its prey, filmed in HD at 1000 fps:
From the open mic on Monday night: Matches & Heat: Till August: More of Vanessa’s music here.
1. Full resolution photos from the iPhone 4S 2. In defense of Black IPAs 3. The 9-9-9 plan is actually a tax hike 4. 1-year-old thinks a magazine is an iPad 5. Iran tried to send a monkey to space?
Another high-definition time-lapse landscape video. There seem to be dozens of these going around these days. But many are extraordinarily well done, and this one by Dustin Farrell is no exception:
It only reached an altitude of 23 miles, but it definitely looks like space. For a prize of $10k, an amateur rocket builder launched a rocket 121,000 feet into the sky and has footage of the entire event. The video’s pretty amazing: Here’s the initiative website with lots of pictures and tech details, and here’s a much longer video of the launch — worth a watch if you have time.
It’s short, and worth quoting in it’s entirety. Lloyd Constantine in the NYT: WHEN Bank of America told its customers recently that it would start charging them $5 a month to use debit cards, it argued that it was forced to make that change because of regulations that altered the economics of the cards. Other banks agreed. The chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, put the effects of the regulations this way: “If you’re a restaurant and you can’t charge for the soda, you’re going to charge more for the burger.” Both banks were responding to the Federal Reserve’s actions to limit the interchange fees banks charge stores each time a debit card is used for a purchase. But
From a Doctor Doom Orchestra show at the Paradise last month, my good friend Mr. Dave Pratt takes a solo on the sax, followed by a harmonica solo by the Doctor: