People like to express themselves by sharing their emotions with others. Music is used as one of the most significant measures of communicating one’s feelings. Lapbeat is a digital percussion instrument that can be played anywhere, in any position, and at anytime. Lapbeat has been designed with precise ergonomic considerations for playing in a sitting position. This digital percussion instrument has adapted and innovatively redefined the sound structure of classical percussion instruments where sound of the drumming echoes and flows out from below. By installing built-in speakers at the bottom and v-drum (advanced electronic MIDI drum trigger) technology into the touch pads, the timbre of the sound is made deeper and richer.
Anthropologists studying obscure tribes in Peru or Papua New Guinea often mine their folk songs for clues as to how they think and what they believe. In the same way anyone who wants to understand the world’s most politically influential tribea€"the people of Middle America, who pick most American presidentsa€"should pay attention to country music.
Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark.
Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UKs most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring music by legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunninghams first published book of original artwork.
"Float like a butterfly/ Sting like a bee/ Your hands can’t hit/ What your eyes can’t see."
Muhammad Ali’s rhymes, taunts, provocations and exclamations were an endlessly entertaining and insightful facet of his larger-than-life persona. As he once said, "I outwit them and then I outhit them."
A new book, "Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali the First Heavyweight Champion of Rap," proclaims Ali’s verbal barrage was more than self-promotion, but that it sowed the seeds of hip-hop, which was born in the early `70s.
Bright and beautiful in some places. In other places, it will be cloudy and raining. #there
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This speaks of the tangible concerns of particular human beings #incompleteness?
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The latest is, if nothing else, a monument to the fact that #art is
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What am I to do with feelings like these? Useless feelings in a world in which everything must be made useful. #a step
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Toast to warm weather with this cool and fruity beverage featuring a potent strawberry syrup mixed into water or club soda. #strawberry cup
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And on the finish, a slightest bitterness that reminds you of juniper berries. It's a flavor you sit with after each bite, and there are about five of them with each fruit. #apricot
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He insisted that he was only creating "well-drawn clean humor." But something else was surfacing in his work. #little nemo
Businesspeople with good hearts looking to make a difference usually start with three questions: "How can I give back?" "How do I pick a good cause?" and "What skills should I contribute?" But the businesspeople I've met who have made the biggest contribution usually started with a different question: "What can I get?" As a result, they engage more deeply, contribute more of their skills, and do so for longer duration. #cause
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It is thus flawed, a weightless, overly romantic attempt at economic analysis, special only in that it is not an entirely boring read. #weightless
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Are nature and spirituality compatible, are they aloof colleagues, indifferent and incurious about what the other is saying? #physics
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I'm not entirely sure what literary fiction is "supposed" to be...but it is something that we can recognize when we read it, and in terms of speculative stories, it's a suggestion of internal struggle. #weird
A blogger, twitter, and a million dollar suit. #defamation?
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As 2012 begins, what will the year bring about? #leap year
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Scientists published their work in journals that only scientists read, classicists in volumes that only classicists read, and engineers in blue books that no one read. So the reference book was born---the compendium of facts, the chrestomathy of passages, and the anthology of extracts---by which the rest of us could learn and use the information that print technology was producing, filling bookshelves that could be measured by the mile. #wikipedia