A new video, " S.U.S. (Save UR Soul) ," directed by (a very pregnant ) M.I.A. and featuring Blaqstarr mashup/covering Tom Waits' "Way Down In The Hole," which various artists have covered as the theme song for HBO's "The Wire," with M.I.A. crooning about her laptop. On the video's lo-fi look, from the YouTube credits: "cheapest video ever made , i spent $9.95 on it."
On this exciting election night, in which all my dreams may be realized at the moment McCain's head explodes, I could not think of a better way to start my tenure here than with some Sarah Palin Erotica , an overweight male Scottish Fold residing in Japan who has a thing for putting himself into things.
Prepare yourself for the awesomeness that is Maru in hot cat-in-box action.
A still from a new high-tech production of Berlioz's " Damnation de Faust ," premiering this weekend at the Met . An "interactive opera," the production synthesizes performers and sets through technology: flocks of digital birds fly in sync with an aria, video grass parts its blades for oncoming soldiers, high-def water reflects a passing boat, a JumboTron mirrors a singer's love song in flames.
To bolster his argument that the technology is appropriate, [director Robert] Lepage cites Berlioz’s epoch, a time of technological innovations like photography and electricity. “All these ideas were around,” he said. “They believed these things were modern alchemy.”" Techno-Alchemy at the Opera ," audio slideshow . ( Photo credit: Gareth Cattermole. Link .
