The Baseball Biography Project

"The Baseball Biography Project is an ongoing effort to research and write comprehensive biographical articles on people who played or managed in the major leagues, or otherwise made a significant contribution to the sport. The project is run by the Bioproject Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)."
SABR

A Piece of Monologue

Jean Martin 1922 - 2009
"A Piece of Monologue is an independent website that examines literature, film and contemporary issues in critical theory. The site offers a broad selection of news, commentary, and analysis, spanning a wide range of cultural texts — in particular, those pertaining to modernism, continental philosophy and the work of Samuel Beckett."
A Piece of Monologue

Sten and Lex's "Poster Stencils"

"The video above shows their process of pasting up the matrix of the stencil, cut on paper, on a panel of wood as a poster. They then paint on the matrix in black and when it all all dry they destroy the matrix, letting some parts of the matrix stay pasted to the wood. In this manner the stencil is not reproducible and the matrix 'dies' in the work itself."
Wooster Collective, flickr

New German Cinema

Wikipedia - "New German cinema ... is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors. Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of 'small' motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors (particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff) into better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios."
Wikipedia, Criterion, "The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style" By Caryl Flinn, Director and Films

Creem

Wikipedia -"Creem (whose trademark is capitalized CREEM - despite the magazine's masthead appearing in lower case letters), 'America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine', was a monthly rock 'n' roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. It suspended production in 1989 but received a short-lived renaissance in the early '90s as a glossy tabloid. Lester Bangs, often cited as 'America's Greatest Rock Critic', became editor in 1971."
Wikipedia, Free Williamsburg, Punk Turns 30, facebook

Billie Holiday

Wikipedia - "Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

Robin Blaser - Les Chimeres

"I do not know what in the hell Robert Duncan was talking about in regard to Robin Blaser’s translation of Gerard de Nerval’s Les Chimeres. Granted I cannot read French and have not read Duncan’s translation, so what do I know, but I can say that I found Blaser’s Les Chimeres (The Chimeras) masterful and moving. I plan on reading much more of his work in the future."
Mimeo Mimeo, Les Chimeres versions - Google, Gerard de Nerval, Les Chimeres

Hootenanny

Wikipedia - "Hootenanny was a musical variety television show broadcast in the United States on ABC from April 1963 to September 1964. The program was hosted by Jack Linkletter. It primarily featured pop-oriented folk music acts, including The Journeymen, The Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four, Ian & Sylvia, The Big 3, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, The Tarriers, Bud & Travis, and the Smothers Brothers. Although both popular and influential, the program is primarily remembered today for the controversy created when the producers blacklisted certain folk music acts, which then led to a boycott by others."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

McSweeney's

Wikipedia - "McSweeney's is an American publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers, author of the books You Shall Know Our Velocity, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, Zeitoun, and the novelization of the film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are."
Wikipedia, McSweeney's Store, McSweeney's

Neil Young and Miles Davis

"In the loosely related fields of planetary science and apocalyptic fiction, the phrase 'minimum orbit intersection distance,' or MOID, describes the closest point of contact between the paths of two orbiting objects. Most vividly invoked whenever an asteroid encroaches on our corner of the solar system, that bit of jargon also has its aesthetic uses. Consider the coordinates of Neil Young and Miles Davis on the evenings of March 6 and 7, 1970, at the juncture of East Sixth Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan."
at Length

Red Lake

"Once I got there I connected with Lorenzo who runs the place. I learned later that he lives above the trading post. He said he'd run the place since 1991 and thinks the lower part was built in 1891. (Dig that.) I love old trading posts. The inside of this one is totally old school."
Wooster Collective, yo mama!

Allen Ruppersberg

Wikipedia - "Born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio, Allen Ruppersberg is one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books."
Wikipedia, Dia Art, LA Times, Santa Monica - Museum of Art

Cut-up technique

Wikipedia - "The cut-up technique (also called fishbowling or découpage) is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text (or multiple texts) is cut up into smaller portions at random, and rearranged to create a new text. Most commonly, cut ups are used to offer a non-linear alternative to traditional reading and writing."
Wikipedia, The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin - Ubu, William S. Burroughs and Cut-up, An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory, Burroughs on Cut-Ups (Historic Audio Remixed to Fanciful Video Visuals), 1965 Paris Review, YouTube - the cut up, (1 - William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin, the Cut-ups), (2 - William S. Burroughs), (3 - William S. Burroughs)

The Standells

"Even though they never sought out the image, the Standells are listed in most rock history books as the God Fathers of Punk Rock. Perhaps it was because of their snarly, moody look or their vicious, burning sound. Perhaps it was the us - against - them lyrics found in their songs. Regardless, it's a label that they've learned to live with."
Classic Bands, Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Ann Hamilton

Wikipedia - "Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also active in the fields of photography, printmaking, video, and video installation."
Wikipedia, art:21, Ann Hamilton, Interactive Environments UCLA DMA, Ann Hamilton - Visiting Artist, "Largest Gallery to Re-Open with an Installation by Ann Hamilton" - MASS MoCA, artnet, Google - Ann Hamilton: an inventory of objects, YouTube - KQED Spark, YouTube - Human Carriage

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Wikipedia - "The guide uses a graph style layout to roughly depict the chronological order of genres' appearance and contains 7 separate but interlinked pages for various areas of electronic music (house, techno, breakbeat, jungle, hardcore, downtempo and trance)."
Wikipedia, Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Music Matters

"Music Matters is a collective of people across the music industry, including artists, retailers, songwriters, labels and managers, formed to remind listeners of the significance and value of music."
Music Matters, Guardian - "Behind the music: Does Music Matters really matter?"

A History of the Sky

"Time-lapse movies are compelling because they give us a glimpse of events that are continually occurring around us, but at a rate normally far too slow to for us to observe directly. A History of the Sky enables the viewer to appreciate the rhythms of weather, the lengthening and shortening of days, and other atmospheric events on an immediate aesthetic level: the clouds, fog, wind, and rain form a rich visual texture, and sunrises and sunsets cascade across the screen."
A History of the Sky

ARTBOOK

"ARTBOOK presents the complete D.A.P. catalog of more than 8,500 books on art and visual culture from the world's most distinguished museums and fine art publishers."
ARTBOOK

Bread and Roses

Wikipedia - "The slogan 'Bread and Roses' originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to 'the women in the West.' It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often known as the 'Bread and Roses strike'."
Wikipedia, Bread and Roses, YouTube, (1)

Astrology

Universum
Wikipedia - "Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs which hold that the relative positions of celestial bodies and related details can provide information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer."
Wikipedia

The Future Sound of London

Wikipedia - "The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a prolific British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music."
Wikipedia, FSOL, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Cuneiform Press

"Kyle Schlesinger, proprietor of Cuneiform Press, publishes and lectures on topics related to poetics, visual communication, and artists' books."
News, Cuneiform Press

dust science

Music for Real Airports
"Social Networking, you can’t move for it these days and its strange that people often spend more time chatting on it than their actual real-life neighbours. Dust and Dog have a long history of working with networks and not talking to other humans, even before the internet existed."
dust science

Twin Peaks: How Laura Palmer's death marked the rebirth of TV drama

"It's hard to recall now the excitement generated by David Lynch's Twin Peaks when it first aired on British television back in 1990. But it managed to make staying in seem urgent and exhilarating. There were Twin Peaks evenings, at which fans gathered in each other's houses to watch this revolutionary entertainment, a sort of surreal soap-cum-murder-mystery."
Guardian, John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV, Wikipedia, Twin Peaks, DUGPA, YouTube - Angelo Badalamenti

In Which These Are The 100 Greatest Writers Of All Time

"Other lists of this kind have been attempted, none very successfully. We would like to stress that there is a crucial difference between 'an important writer' and 'a great writer'; the latter is at this time our sole interest. We will account for some of the names that did not make this list in a later dispatch. There is nothing bad to say about anyone we list here, except in some cases that they were anti-Semitic or racist, hated women or hated men. Literary crimes are usually relative, the caveats of which we shall enumerate..."
This Recording

The Red Wheelbarrow

Wikipedia - "The Red Wheelbarrow is a poem by and often considered the masterwork of American 20th-century writer William Carlos Williams. The 1923 poem exemplifies the Imagist-influenced philosophy of 'no ideas but in things'. This provides another layer of meaning beneath the surface reading. The style of the poem forgoes traditional British stress patterns to create a typical 'American' image."
Wikipedia, Modern American Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Guardian

Art and Popular Culture

Drowning Girl, Lichtenstein
"If this encyclopedia were a city, it would feature prominently nightclubs, record stores, red light districts, museums, libraries, second hand book stores and comic book shops."
Art and Popular Culture, Wikipedia

Elizabeth Peyton

Dallas, TX (January 1978), 1994
Wikipedia - "Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid-1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy."
Wikipedia, New Museum, artnet, MoMA, YouTube, (1)

Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention

"Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer (military, civil, and aeronautical), inventor, anatomist, cartographer, theoretician, and musician. His instinctive curiosity led him to numerous discoveries and achievements, some of which we are still only beginning to comprehend from the thousands of pages of his surviving handwritten notes and drawings."
The Getty

Seamus Heaney

Wikipedia - "Seamus Heaney ... (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), MIT World - Video

graphic-exchange

"I am Fabien Barral. I am a graphic designer. I am passionate about images and graphic design. I am a house in the countryside of Auvergne, France."
graphic-exchange

Junior Walker & the All Stars

Wikipedia - "Junior Walker (born Autry DeWalt Mixon, Jr., June 14, 1931 – November 23, 1995) & the All Stars were signed to the Motown label in the 1960s, and became one of the label's signature acts."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

The Little Bookroom

"The Little Bookroom’s travel books take readers off the beaten path and provide an imaginative entrée into the world’s best-loved cities, including Paris, New York, Rome, Florence, and London."
The Little Bookroom

The Light Crust Doughboys

Wikipedia - "The Light Crust Doughboys were a Texas Western swing band formed in 1931 by Bob Wills, Milton Brown and W. Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel. The band achieved its peak popularity in the years leading up to World War II. In addition to launching Wills, Brown and O'Daniel, it provided a venue for many of the best musicians in the Western swing genre. It was initially formed to promote the products of a flour mill (Burrus Mill and Elevator Company, producer of Light Crust Flour), hence the name."
Wikipedia, Rockabilly Hall, TSHN Online, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)