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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #296 4/29/4 |
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Welcome to the 296th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
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Noise Festival
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Noise isn't just about sound, it's an entire creative canvas brought to web visitors by The Noise Festival, featuring young Australian artists, who are half-rap revolutionaries working in many media: painters and photographers, DJs and writers, even computer geeks, all of whom create the vast diversity of masterpieces site visitors may browse here: illustration, graphic design, painting, mixed media, comics, non-fiction, poetry, raves and rants. Noise is a national youth media arts festival happening live across the media in October. On the site, keep up to date with these most au courant offerings and follow the young artists in addition to their productions. Submissions are invited as well. http://www.noise.net.au/default.asp Picturing Women The female identity has been explored, displayed and analyzed exhaustively, in everything from modern fashion magazines to museum collections. At Picturing Women, it is not only the female form but her persona that bears analysis, and it's a fascinating look-see, showing how women have been figured, fashioned, turned into portraits and postcards. From January until May of 2004, the Picturing Women project presents, interprets, and teaches through an exhibition exploring historical and contemporary representations of women as they are shown in words and pictorial narrative. The
exhibition is structured around four thematic frames: Figuring, Fashioning,
Portraying, and Telling and is curated by a Visiting Fellow at Bryn Mawr's
Center for Visual Culture, Curator of Picturing Women juxtaposes historical
works with 20th- and 21st-century art to promote dialogue on female identity.
The site is the online partner to the exhibit's 200 works spanning the
15th through the 21st centuries, and http://www.picturingwomen.org/ 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time Premiere Magazine has created a list of the 100 greatest --- not necessarily most attractive --- movie characters of all time. A short paragraph follows the name of each character, giving background and sharing their defining moment. At the bottom of the list is Roger "Verbal" Kint of "The Usual Suspects," and the dirty, yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow. Topping the Top Ten is that creepy enigma, Gollum. Give 'em credit; they didn't miss a classic from Annie Hall to Jeff Spiccoli to Norman Bates. http://www.premiere.com/article.asp?section_id=6&article_id=1539 SHORT TAKES Action Comics #1
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/cover.html <><><><> Help Me, Bubby! If you need advice but aren't certain who the most reliable friends are for the good stuff, try Help Me, Bubby! An 88-year old-grandmother of two granddaughters who loves to email, and loves to share her wisdom even more. Bubby's two granddaughters set up her web site so that everyone could bask in good old-fashioned wisdom that's hard to find these days. So go ahead; don't be shy, it's just Bubby! And she may very well help. http://www.helpmebubby.blogspot.com/ <><><><> Spelling Viagra This entire site is dedicated to a scourge of the Internet users most hate: spam. And lately, Viagra-related Spam is the most hated and most prolific. How do those devils get past your junkmail protectors? After 12 days of watching his e-mail, creator of Spelling Viagra started recording all the different spellings of Viagra. The result: was over 600 quintillion spellings!! http://cockeyed.com/lessons/viagra/viagra.html Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: C-SPAN 25th Anniversary C-SPAN celebrates its 25th anniversary by opening a new branch of its web site with information about C-SPAN activities, links to winners of the C-SPAN Story Contest, a special press area, and an overview of the many and impressive C-SPAN milestones. Visitors to the site can watch the first coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives, televised on March 19, 1979, discuss the featured topic in their community: like "American Judiciary: Are State & Federal Outsourcing Unconstitutional?" Billing itself as "Cable's Gift to America," it is hard to envision American news coverage without CSPAN, and yet it's been just 25 years. In 25 years of mixed blessings from the Boob Tube, this one is a blessing -- although occasionally the curse is news-overload---and you do just gotta turn it off sometimes! http://www.c-span.org/C-SPAN25/ The Toymaker Ah, to be a kid again! At The Toymaker, Marilyn Scott Waters, shares a toy secret like printable paper toys to make and play with, completely free of charge! Visitors just click on the toy of choice, print it, follow the instructions, and enjoy. Kids at heart are generous souls. The attractive designs can churn in your yard as pinwheels or sit on your desk with magical creatures inside, like the Window to Fairyland. Even adults can be kids again with this downloadable whimsy from the Toymaker. The Living Room Candidate Campaign commercials from 1952-2000 that brought presidential hopefuls into the nation's living rooms are on hand at The Living Room Candidate. Users click on any year to see the Democratic and Republican candidates for that year, campaign commercials, clips from important debates, and a brief description of how that particular election went down. With six or more commercials for each candidate, some full of song and rhyme, the slogans and catch phrases, the site is educational, enlightening, perhaps even a bit depressing. Certainly full of cultural artifacts. http://www.ammi.org/livingroomcandidate/ **********Advertisement**************
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