braineating: 2016

22.11.16

The World Wide Web of Music Influence

Who is you favorite musician of all time? Have you ever pondered if your favorite songs were inspired by the talent other musical artists?

If you do enough digging you will find that for the most part music artists will always name one, if not a handful, of icons in the industry that have positively shaped their successful careers. While examining five of Billboard’s Top 100 Artists in history – The Beatles, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, and The Rolling Stones – Readers compiled all of their connections, collaborations, and relationships listed on Wikipedia into this World Wide Web Of Music Influence Infographic. The popularity and number of linked articles to each artists is indicated through the size of their circles.

Check the full version HERE

10.10.16

An Intricate map of the Alternative Music History

James Quail created this complex map of the most influential alternative music historic characters. As you can see, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Joy Division and The Smiths are the four main generators of this detailed engine. You can buy a printed version here.

Wired website let´s you take a detailed peek of this beast.

6.10.16

António Guterres back in the day and with Angelina Jolie

António Guterres back in 1977 when he resembled Pancho Villa

António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, will be the next UN secretary general, after the security council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of next year.

In a rare show of unity, all 15 ambassadors from the security council emerged from the sixth in a series of straw polls to announce that they had agreed on Guterres, who was UN high commissioner for refugees for a decade, and that they would confirm the choice in a formal vote on Thursday.

“Today after our sixth straw poll we have a clear favourite and his name is António Guterres,” the Russian UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters with his 14 council colleagues standing behind him.

“We have decided to go to a formal vote tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, and we hope it can be done by acclamation.” (theguardian.com)

UN Special Envoy for Refugees and actress Angelina Jolie, right, and then-UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, left, brief the UN Security Council on Syria's refugee crisis, Friday, April 24, 2015.

Deborah Shelton in strong colors!

Deborah Shelton

Ricardo Bofill’s "La Muralla Roja"

27.8.16

And if you need some help on bike headsets...

The headset is the set of components on a bicycle that provides a rotatable interface between the bicycle fork and the head tube of the bicycle frame. The tube through which the steerer of the fork passes is called the head tube. A typical headset consists of two cups that are pressed into the top and bottom of the headtube. Inside the two cups are bearings which provide a low friction contact between the bearing cup and the steerer. (wikipedia)

I had to do it, the disassembly was almost easy, I lost one of the bearings but that problem was solved with a trip to the next door bike shop. When I tried to reverse the process I spent half an hour googling info about this subject until I came across this picture that saved the day. I couldn't open the link www.evanscycles.com but the picture still exists somewhere. You can find the same image on this guide.

14.7.16

Lori Erica Ruff

from Wikipedia:

Lori Erica Ruff was the alias of an unidentified American woman and identity thief who committed suicide on December 24, 2010 in Longview, Texas. After she died, her ex-husband's family discovered a lockbox in a closet in her home. In the box a number of documents were discovered which revealed that Ruff had stolen the identity of Becky Sue Turner, a 2-year-old girl killed in a fire in 1971 in Fife, Washington, in 1988, and then changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy. (...)

8.4.16

"Ass Eating Made Simple" and other amazing books.

"Subways are a great place to catch up on your reading. But how do people react to book covers that are a little embarrassing, and also pretty hilarious? Watch how people react to comedian Scott Rogowsky “reading” some ridiculous books in public."

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A phone case replica of a cleaning product spray bottle.

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