LEGO Sets Have Gotten Difficult (and expensive)

LEGO is an abbreviation of the two Danish words leg godt, meaning "play well."

The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, and has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder.

Over the 70 years, it has come from a small carpenter's workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world's sixth-largest manufacturer of toys.

If you think of LEGOs as kids' toys, you haven't checked out the complexity of the sets these days. take a look at Town Plan, or the may LEGO Star Wars sets like Cloud City, the LEGO Bionicle series such as "Red Toa Vakama" or the Make & Create Café Corner.

Watch some LEGO video.

Good Copy Bad Copy

GOOD COPY BAD COPY - a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. EXPLICIT

13,500 People Singing Hey Jude

13,500 people singing Hey Jude together in Trafalgar Square. The event was organized by T-Mobile and most people thought it was going to be a mass dance event.

Heth and Jed

Heth & Jed
New York, Rock / Pop Rock / Alternative Rock




Heth Weinstein - Vocals, guitars, beats, ebow
Jed Weinstein - Bass, synths, additional vocals

Community Rock for the people, by the people.

"A truly interesting and beautiful sculpture of sound" Shanon Tate, Brooklyn Excelsior

Desperate for cash, and with visions of five-dollar Chinese lunch specials driving them onward, brothers Heth and Jed descended the icy subway steps to busk for the very first time. That was almost four years ago. Since then they’ve lived a buskers’ life of daily street performance. Together they’ve unlocked the mysteries of this ancient tradition and to date have sold over 30,000 copies of their CDs (Clean & Between the In and the Out), and their DVD (CitySession), currently airing nationally on Rave T.V.

They've turned on millions to their unique sound as they transform public spaces into sound labs using live looping and an array effects to explore sonic textures never before heard on the streets of N.Y.C. The duo performs over 200 street and subway shows annually, but can also be seen regularly, at venues such as The Mercury Lounge, The Living Room and Pianos.

In 2006, they were selected out of a field of 400 applicants for a coveted spot in the MTA’s Music Under New York program, which allows artists to perform at sanctioned locations within the subway system. Now they can spend more time writing songs for their new CD with producer Jamie Candiloro (Ryan Adams, REM, The Eagles) and less time getting arrested.

http://www.hethandjed.com

International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day 2009

International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day 2009 is today.

Nearly 1300 people are signed up which means thousands and thousands of sunflowers will be sown today, if they haven't been already.

If you miss today, you can still get in on the action -
see http://paradelle.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/guerilla-gardening/

It's not to late to sow over the next few weeks in many places around the northern hemisphere.

Take a photo of where you sow them, upload them to this event and stay in touch and share our sunflower's progress around the world.

Rosa Rose Garten, Berlin

http://www.guerrillagardening.org