rybesh + 2005   55

Mana
A 92 minute 'round the world motion picture encounter with power objects and how people believe in them, filmed in dazzling High Definition digital video.
cinema  documentary  wishlist  religion  material  culture  2005  HD 
october 2005 by rybesh
Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani? (2005, director: Shinji AOYAMA)
A 107-minute meditation on how noise music can save mankind from certain doom, especially when played really loud.
cinema  wishlist  japan  noise  music  2005 
october 2005 by rybesh
Andy Votel: Songs in the Key of Death
The musical content on "Songs In The Key of Death" ranges from Eastern European psychedelia to Krautrock to funky folk to French pop to soundtracks to dancefloor jazz to Japanese soul!
music  2005  urn:asin:B0007UAS6O  wishlist  dance  electronica  exotica  experimental  funk  jazz  pop  psychedelicpop  psychedelicsoul  rock  soundcollage  soundtracks 
august 2005 by rybesh
C.J. Date: Database in Depth
Date presents what you might call a "clarification" of a relational database usage.
books  2005  urn:asin:0596100124  wishlist  com000000  com062000  computers  database 
august 2005 by rybesh
John Webster, Chris Stakutis: Inescapable Data
Although the title of this book may seem a bit abstract, here is a work that can be appreciated by most anyone, from the most techno savvy industry guru to the mildly technology curious among us...
books  2005  urn:asin:0131852159  wishlist  business  computers  database  mobile  ubicomp 
july 2005 by rybesh
Edward Burtynsky: China
Photographs of both remnant and newly established zones of Chinese industrialization.
books  2005  urn:asin:3865211305  wishlist  photoessays  photography  phototechniques  china 
july 2005 by rybesh
Cormac Mccarthy: No Country for Old Men
In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash.
books  2005  urn:asin:0375406778  wishlist  cormac  drugtraffic  fiction  literary  mccarthy  sheriffs  texas  thrillers  treasure 
july 2005 by rybesh
Evan Eisenberg: The Recording Angel
A book that looks into the psychology and philosophy of the experience of listening to music on records.
books  2005  urn:asin:0300099045  wishlist  musicrecording  performingarts  music  media 
july 2005 by rybesh
Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel: Making Things Public
Instead of looking for democracy only in the official sphere of professional politics, they examine the new atmospheric conditions -- technologies, interfaces, platforms, networks, and mediations that allow things to be made public.
books  2005  urn:asin:0262122790  wishlist  art  history  philosophy  political  politics  representation 
july 2005 by rybesh
Lev Manovich, Andreas Kratky: Soft Cinema
A "cinema," that is, in which human subjectivity and the variable choices made by custom software combine to create films that can run infinitely without ever exactly repeating the same image sequences, screen layouts and narratives.
books  2005  urn:asin:026213456X  wishlist  history  science  technology  cinema  newmedia 
july 2005 by rybesh
Josh Paul: Digital Video Hacks
From acquiring footage, mixing, editing, and adding effects to final distribution, Digital Video Hacks provides unique tips, tools, and techniques for every stage of video production.
books  2005  urn:asin:0596009461  wishlist  computers  interactive  technology  video  howto  tv 
july 2005 by rybesh
Salvador Plascencia: The People of Paper
Part memoir, part lies, this is a story about loving a woman made of paper.
books  2005  urn:asin:1932416218  wishlist  fiction  literary  experimental 
june 2005 by rybesh
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou: Microcosmos
A team of Swiss, Italian and French cinematographers and naturalists take us to a lush meadow in the south of France and reveal, through microphotography, the unseen (or at least, generally unnoticed) inhabitants at work and play there.
cinema  2005  urn:asin:B0000DZ3BS  documentary  wishlist 
june 2005 by rybesh
Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker: New World Pygmies
People talk about the conversational quality of duo performance, but this is more like twin preachers in the mission hall, playing hard priest, soft priest alternately, the one threatening brimstone, the other promising redemption.
music  2005  urn:asin:B000A0GP86  jazz  wishlist 
june 2005 by rybesh
Alva Noe: Action in Perception
Finally, after all these years, we're starting to unlearn duality...
books  2005  urn:asin:0262140888  wishlist  act  medical  neuroscience  perception  psychology 
june 2005 by rybesh
The Go! Team: Thunder Lightning Strike
The Go! Team might just have one of the catchiest albums of the year, "Thunder Lightning Strike...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0002LQ8CQ  wishlist  rock 
june 2005 by rybesh
Susan Jacoby: Freethinkers
Susan Jacoby's history of freethought/secularism in the United States is important for two main reasons...
books  2005  urn:asin:0805077766  wishlist  history  politics  religion  usa 
june 2005 by rybesh
Arthur Russell: World of Echo
It sounds kind of like nick drake if he had played cello instead of guitar...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0006V4D4W  wishlist  avant  experimental  minimalism  spacerock  ambient  chamber  dance 
june 2005 by rybesh
Craig Thompson: Blankets
Thompson's work in Blankets is beautifully done, and he does a great job of illiciting small memories tied to big emotions...
books  2005  urn:asin:1891830430  wishlist  comics  fiction  literary  personalmemoirs 
june 2005 by rybesh
The Fiery Furnaces: EP
This album is a collection of B-sides and other tracks that didn't make it onto the Fiery Furnaces' two full-length studio releases...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0006U3TZ2  wishlist  indierock  rock 
june 2005 by rybesh
Thomas De Zengotita: Mediated
Tired of your newsweekly's glitzy "media" column? Or establishment outlets like CNN Reliable Sources? This book is some non-corporate, free thinking...
books  2005  urn:asin:1582343578  wishlist  influence  massmedia  mediastudies  non  socialscience  sociology 
june 2005 by rybesh
Various: Bizarro World
This is the sequel to the Bizarro Comics anthology from a few years ago...
books  2005  urn:asin:1401206565  wishlist  anthologies  comics  fantasy  fiction  humor  humorous 
june 2005 by rybesh
Various Artists: Project Blowed
Obviously, with a compilation cd, everybody's not necessarily gonna put out their A+ material, but that doesn't mean they're gonna slack off...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0007WFY3Y  wishlist  hiphop 
june 2005 by rybesh
Beck: Guero
The DVD worked fine on our end, but regardless of that, I'm happy I got the "deluxe" version just for the extra tracks that comes with the CD...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0007W22F2  wishlist  indierock  rock 
june 2005 by rybesh
Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture
Discussing law is always a challenge to an author, especially if he/she wishes to make it simple, interesting, and critical...
books  2005  urn:asin:0143034650  wishlist  anthropology  archaeology  creativity  internet  socialscience  sociology 
june 2005 by rybesh
Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz: Never Eat Alone
As much as many (competent, but charming challenged) people like to believe it's what you know that counts, it really does turn out that it is who you know that's more important...
books  2005  urn:asin:0385512058  wishlist  business  careers  generosity  management  motivational  personalgrowth  publicrelations 
june 2005 by rybesh
Various Artists: Run the Road
Compilations with no weak link are hard to come by...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0007NFM8U  wishlist  hiphop 
june 2005 by rybesh
Isis: Oceanic
Isis, the 'indie rock Neurosis', masters of the metal meets post rock pummel, with a flair for epic emotional song writing and capable of tempering their fist-in-your-face brutality with gorgeous melodies and strangely tranquil post rock passages,...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0007NMJCW  wishlist  experimental  dub  metal  rock 
june 2005 by rybesh
John Markoff: What the Dormouse Said
Like many other reviewers of John Markoff's terrific "What the Dormouse Said," I live in the area-- neighborhood, really-- that is Markoff's subject; I've met a few of the characters he writes about; and I've read a lot of the literature on the history...
books  2005  urn:asin:0670033820  wishlist  business  corporate  history  industries  microcomputers  nineteensixties  science  socialaspects  sociology  technology  culture 
june 2005 by rybesh
J. D. Lasica: Darknet
In what is essentially a PR war of hysteria (on both sides), JD presents the middle ground, shifting the focus off the corporations and file-sharing teenagers...
books  2005  urn:asin:0471683345  wishlist  digitalmedia  interactive  internet  networksecurity  performingarts  socialaspects  usa 
june 2005 by rybesh
Stephanie Coontz: Marriage, a History
As I look at today's news, it appears that we don't really know what a marriage is...
books  2005  urn:asin:067003407X  wishlist  history  marriage  socialscience  sociology  world 
june 2005 by rybesh
Bob Goldstein, Guy Kawasaki, Alexis Gerard: Going Visual
This is a book that perfectly captures the convergence that is going on between technology, photography and communication...
books  2005  urn:asin:0471710253  wishlist  business  communication 
june 2005 by rybesh
Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon
Having spent the past several years exploring a somewhat more theme-based form of ambient composition, "Thursday Afternoon" is in many ways a return to form for Brian Eno, embracing instead the structure of "Discreet Music" and "Music For Airports"--...
music  2005  urn:asin:B0007GFFV6  wishlist  ambient  electronic  experimental  prog  rock 
june 2005 by rybesh
Ken Gelder: The Subcultures Reader
Gelder and Thornton have pulled together a book that I could have based my entire senior thesis upon as the sole source...
books  2005  urn:asin:0415344166  wishlist  anthropology  archaeology  culturalstudies  groupidentity  socialscience  sociology  subculture 
june 2005 by rybesh
Greg Wilson: Data Crunching
I think this book is nothing short of stellar...
books  2005  urn:asin:0974514071  wishlist  computers  code 
june 2005 by rybesh
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Charisma
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa seems unable to duplicate the exellence of "The Cure"...
cinema  2005  urn:asin:B0007XT7Q8  wishlist  foreignfilm 
june 2005 by rybesh

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