Neil Gaiman, famed author and blogger, interviews the creators of the Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.

"Everybody on TV's a fucking zombie, right? I mean, watch a 50 Cent video where he's in the middle of a club, and he's just surrounded by zombies."
- Damon Albarn

Preshrunk writes an open letter to all Hipsters.

"Dear Hipsters, No matter how much you loved "Napoleon Dynamite", Vote For Pedro shirts aren't cool anymore."

agreed. (via)

The Hubble Space Telescope finds an interesting image of the star Fomalhaut.

"The ring is composed of dust particles in orbit around Fomalhaut, a bright star located just 25 light years away in the constellation Pisces Australis – or the Southern Fish."

A funny summer edition of the popular comic strip.

Anupama and Robert were married this past weekend in a joint Hindu/Christian Ceremony.

The Hindu Ceremony took place on friday and was possibly the most beautiful wedding I've ever been to. Anu's family belongs to a cast in Indian culture that is descendant from royalty. So she was treated as such during her wedding. Her wedding Sari was unbelievable. All the clothing for the Hindu ceremony was handmade in India.

For his part, Rob, the groom and white dude, was a really good sport. Considering he had to do stuff like ride in on a white horse, and burn coconuts to ward of evil spirits.

By comparison the Christian Ceremony was short, but I think that was because we had just spent about 5 hours watching the couple being married already. After spending all morning and afternoon dancing with the Hindus sitting in a church pew was just kind of... well, boring.

Outside of a few specifics during each ceremony everyone involved was very respectful to talk about "God." Without getting to specific about which and whose God they were referring to. It was clear that both families were devout and yet respectful because these two people loved each other very much.

Check out the rest of the wedding photos. (sorry matt-o in the hustle and bustle I missed getting a picture of the mehndi altogether.)

This weekend I get to go to the Hindu portion of a Hindu/Christian wedding ceremony.

Actually, the wedding starts tonight, and goes until friday. And, from what I hear, this is one of the shorter ceremonies. They sometimes go for longer, involving pre-marriage rituals that can take up to 4 days.

I'm looking forward to taking lots of pictures.

Friend and co-worker Mack has a good post about how U.S. copyright laws are killing creativity and stifling artists.

One of our favorite U.K. bands The GO! Team has run into trouble trying to clear samples on their debut album. You can still get their album in digital format on iTunes, do it quick though, who knows how long it will be for sale in any format.

We've seen Carl Sagan talk about Time Travel previously. He eluded to a discovery like this.

A new model in Quantum Mechanics states that time travel can occur within a feedback loop, but only where the backwards movement is "complementary" to the present timeline.

This new model will cancel out the notion of a Grandfather Paradox, which states that if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you would never be born to travel back in time in the first place.

"You go back to kill your father, but you'd arrive after he'd left the room, you wouldn't find him, or you'd change your mind," said Professor Greenberger.

This makes Doc Brown very happy.

Thorsten Fleisch is a german born short film maker. At his website Fleischfilm.com you can see his collection of films. Also, be warned, when you put the words "German" and "short films" in the same sentence expect some existential weirdo stuff. But it's good.

The one that caught my eye is titled Gestalt, and it's projecting fourth dimensional quaternions (a group of fractals) into a three-dimensional space. Yeah what does that mean...

Well if we were ever to be greeted by a fourth dimensional being, we would only be able to see "slices" of that being as he intersected with our meager 3 dimensions. Most of our inter-dimensional traveller would be invisible to us, as it would only exist in the fourth dimension, and therefore beyond our ability to envision, or even comprehend. Inter-dimensional travel caught your interest? check out the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. See also, Cosmos on DVD by Carl Sagan.

This film attempts to re-create what a fourth dimensional object would look like to us.... and... that's COOL! (via metafilter)

Now it all starts to make sense.
Recently we saw The Decemberists play here in Atlanta in the hottest concert I've ever been to.
Whu?
What's that?
Oh no, not "hot" like, "Yo dat girl's HOT" more like, "Jesus, I'm about to pass out from dehydration." hot. The Decemberists requested the air conditioning be turned off in the venue, as it interferes with their various wind and string instruments. OK. It did sound awesome, when I wasn't delirious from heat exhaustion.

A female member of The Decemberists named Petra Haden sang a Kate Bush song a cappella. It was great. She even has a whole album where she covers the entire The Who album Sell Out.

Now, flash back to 1995 a little band makes a record called The Return of the Rentals. The lead singer was a god-like figure I had come to admire from my favorite band Weezer. Rumor had it that former Weezer bass player Matt Sharp had a falling out with Rivers Coumo and he left to form his own band, with some girls from another band called That Dog. They called their new band The Rentals.

One of those girls from That Dog was none other than Petra Haden, of the now infamous Decemberists.

clunkyrobot is teh suck.

Soren is a 19 year old college student living in Colorado. He makes detailed and elaborate mecha robots out of regular everyday lego sets. All of them are cool, and some of them are unbelievable:

Here is his official website with even more lego models. (via boingboing)

The good old Zombie Sitcom has risen from the dead. The whimsical drawings and photoshopped collages are only the tip of the rotting flesh-burg.

Man dresses up as the tetris peice "L" attempts to find places to fit.

why is this so cute? (via)

The Institute of Physics in London has developed a flash based interface to detail The Evolution of Physics.

It's no wikipedia on the subject, but the site will give you a virtual history of the growth and development of physics, and you can even ask it questions that it tries to answer automatically with links from it's database. (via)

My buddy, and old art school vegan Scott has been doing a lot of motion graphics lately.

A few months ago he had just finished writing and directing his first short film The Exectutives New Clothes.

If you live in Atlanta, and have been watching IFC(like we've been), then you might have seen this commercial for the Atlanta Film Festival. Scott did the motion graphics work for it.

I remember when I first saw it, before I knew that Scott had worked on it, I thought it was a good use of the new deconstructed futurist typography style that I love so much. That beat they use is bad ass.

A new magazine interviews matt and mike.

During his lifetime Andy Warhol produced a series of Time Capsules. He became meticulous about them, his goal being to complete one per month. The plain brown cardboard boxes would sit next to his desk all month while he found various personal and everyday objects to include inside. At the end of the month they would be sealed and dated and put away until they were scheduled to be opened.

Number 21 was just opened, you can see it's content online.

Someone took the time to listen carefully and transcribe the whispers both Sayid and Sawyer hear in the jungle during 2 episodes of Lost. It doesn't tell much, so it won't spoil anything, but it does add to the exact thing that makes this show so interesting. Layers dude... layers.

According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, matter causes space to curve. And because space and time are intertwined, matter will also cause time to curve.

When two stars are trapped in orbit around each other it's called a Binary Star system. It looks something like this. This phenomenon causes massive ripples called gravity waves to spiral outward from the twin stars. These ripples severely distort space-time, and are a direct consequence of Einstioen's Theory being proven out.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been developing a spacecraft called a Laser Interferometer Space Antenna to measure these ripples in space-time. They call it LISA and it would be the first dedicated space-based gravitational wave observatory. With this technology NASA hopes that it may be able to measure gravitational waves that escaped from the earliest moments of the Big Bang.