French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

Splish from Omar on Vimeo.

Have new camera, will take videos of pouring rain while waiting for BMF class to start :D

A list.

1) Tidy

2) Go to bed

via Metafilter of all places. Now all over Twitter.

It is though? Little bits get thrown at the wall that is Twitter and like some old Post-It slowly fall down and disappear.

The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?

via BoingBoing

Diamonds On A Boat from Nicholas Audsley on Vimeo.

Wow.
Found via http://breakingmorewaves.blogspot.com/

I went to the Cornerhouse yesterday to see Home. Little independent cinema in the city centre a lot like the Showroom in Sheffield.

Anyway, what I wanted to write about was the VW ‘idents’ that they are showing in independent cinemas. Think Orange phone adverts but nicer. Featuring actual people. I just really liked it. Anyway here’s the first one…

Second | Third

(It just occured to me that these definitely fall under lovely-life-message-now-buy-our-product-to-achieve-that. What you gonna do?)

Ha. I like it actually.

I should go to bed.