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Today’s Updates to the Year-End “Best of 2008″ Books & Music Lists

Today’s additions to the “best of 2008″ books and music lists (Keep up with daily additions at the update archive page):

“Best of 2008″ Books Lists additions:

Library Journal (best teen fiction for adults) St. John’s Telegram (best Canadian cookbooks) William Hill Sports Book of the Year shortlist (best sports books)

“Best of 2008″ Music Lists additions:

Allan’s World of Music (hottest Canadian bands) Art Vinyl reader poll (best vinyl cover art) Cinematically Correct (albums) Hummin Cummins (top songs) Joe.Blog (top Australian/New Zealand bands) Open Your Eyes (top Australian artists) Polaroids of Androids (favourite Australian/New Zealand bands) Popeater reader poll (best musician, album) A Reminder (top Australia/New Zealand bands) Too Many Sebastians (music) Torr (top albums)

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daily updates to the 2008 year-end “best of 2008″ books & music lists

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EAST Interview: Morgan Sorne

morgan sornein the multifaceted vastness of the east austin studio walkabout, morgan sorne is her own prism. her talent spans the artistic spectrum, but it’s her visual manoeuvres, along with incorporated poetry, that liking on stand-by viewers into her studio this weekend.

Morgan’s work can be seen during the East Austin Studio Tour at the Smith Road Studio (#71 on the interactive E.A.S.T. map), which is located at 1406 Smith Road.

Many of your paintings feature poetry on the bodies of human figures. What are the challenges you face in making painting a physical art?

The poetry came as a solution to a problem. I think problems inspire the best art making for me. I currently try to avoid too much pre-meditation on any work of mine. My obstacle in the past has been my thinking too much about the end result. My art comes from a present-tense state of being. I like the idea of discovery, even if that discovery is frightening or ugly. For me, those revelations are what exhilarate me–enhancing and complimenting and fighting with the other parts of my work.

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Are there any rituals you practice to help get into your required artistic space?

If I have a ritual, it is to constantly have a hand in many different vocations and activities. I find that I am constantly in a zone of creative thought. The obstacle is usually filtering ideas. I have noticed that activities like manual labor, accounting?anything working other parts of my brain fuel new ideas and productivity. If I am not involved in multiple disciplines, I tend to have a harder time feeling inspired, or producing.

How do the various art forms you practice engage each other as a whole?

I have always had an affinity for music, poetry, visual art, and performance. Each discipline lends itself to the other for me. I compose music and hear visuals that become songs; the visuals evolve into physical art works, and the songs become characters or traits that I incorporate into my performance as an actor. All of these processes are interconnected and nourish one another. My goal has been, and will always be, to present my music, art and performance as complimentary forces that compel and inspire my self, and then (hopefully) my audience. Do you prefer to work alone, or are there artists you enjoy collaborating with? Who would you like to work with in the future?

I have worked with great people before, but I tend to work best alone. I am a fairly new person here in Austin, but in the short time I have been here, I have met and worked with some fantastic filmmakers, artists, writers and musicians. I am open to any opportunities that present themselves.

Where can your work be seen/purchased locally?

I will have some work at Gallery Lombardi in December, and aside from the EAST Studio tour, I will be featured in the 2009 Texas Biennial at Women and Their Workplace next March.

What excites you most about the Austin art scene?

I love how supportive the city of Austin is for events like EAST. I have talked with the founders of the tour, and feel that this is a great time to be starting a career in the arts here. There are so many major centers for the arts in Texas, and I am happy to have the feeling that Austin is really catching up with those. Publications like Cantanker were such a pleasant surprise for me when I first arrived here. I want to see EAST and the enthusiasm for Austin as an art scene to continue growing.

Will we be able to tour your studio? What can we look forward to?

My studio will be open to visit. I am very excited about two new bodies of work that will be shown for the first time during EAST. You will just have to come and see for your self!

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Halloween Ideas

here are some daunting halloween ideas for you, hope you would enjoy them!you can whittle some truly beautiful and artistic pumpkins freehand, but if you need to engender really detailed carvings you’ll want to use a pumpkin carving matrix. if you’ve never carved a pumpkin this way to come you may be a tittle intimidated, but don’t worry, its easier than you think and you’ll love the results. you can find all kinds of stencil booklets at retailers during the halloween season. cast off tree trunks or cut sections of inspissated limbs make great stands for your jack o’ lanterns.go on increase some spider web to your party decorations and haunt, you can find it at most stores selling halloween products. good attach to something and pull it wrong all concluded!use apples for taper candle holders. choose undersized, round apples that make sit deep-rooted on a garden apartment surface and remove the stems. arranged a small round hole in the transcend of each apple - deep and to the utmost enough to securely hold a taper candle. make sure the apples are shaped so that they own a unbroken bottom, so they won’t tip atop of.videotape your halloween memories! interview some of your turn the trick-or-treaters, your yard haunt, carved jack-o-lanterns. you’ll be glad you did when you sit down to chaperon it later!having a party for little ghouls? let slip them kind their instruments out of oat meal cans, tin cans, add a reasonable plastic flute, noise makers, kazoos and start a musical halloween walk through your neighborhood! the kids bonk it and the neighbors last wishes as, too!follow a scarecrow fit your front porch or yard to great your trick or treaters. surround it with a scary or autumn scene to Non-Standard real make it stand out! stuff jeans and an age-old shirt with newspaper, use a stuffed mask or artificial pumpkin because the head. add some straw for effect. if you want to go more horror themed, use Possibly man of the tons latex scarecrow masks that can be set. there are some really creepy ones that would look great with this set-up!use a plastic cauldron partially filled with hot top, then add some waterless acheter viagra ice and a glow stick to initiate an unearthly centerpiece owing your table. be careful handling the dry ice! it can blaze skin quite easy as pie.

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I refuse to go there.

some people often call me messy, and they say that i like to start “stuff” on my blog from time to for the moment. i have been called a “flame thrower”, and an “irresponsible blow hard” among other things. but tonight i am fighting privately. tonight i am going to be responsible and take the high road and not give in to internet rumors, lies, and innuendos. take this story of cindy mccain’s proceeding conducive to in the event. if i was as messy and as irresponsible as some folks say that i am, i would have been blogging about it. but i am here to tell you that there is not a isolated piece of evidence to confirm that this plot outline is in fact true, so i am going to leave it unparalleled. just because those folks down the national enquirer are reporting it, that doesn’t make it candidly. i recognize they broke the john edwards story, but they got lucky with that one. those communist over at the “huffington post” should be red-faced of themselves as a remedy for republishing it. i have to approve with the responsible bloggers relish these folks, and say that this was impartial an internet blogger driven story, and that there is no truth to it whatsoever….. ahhh field, you are such an asshole, if this was an internet fishing about michelle obama would you have disinterested mentioned it on your blog? wow! what a tough question? that undoubtedly is causing me to do some significant soul searching. you know what, i doubtlessly wouldn’t have even mentioned this story if it was about michelle obama. i should be fair and honorable, and not give in to my depraved salacious instincts.okay, that’s it, i am star-crossed i settle accounts mentioned this information on my blog, and i am not going to give this story any play and go there. i should know better, this is just wrong. in fact, i feel so bad about this that i won’t mention it here ever again. unless….ahh never mind, i won’t mention it again, age!

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Sarkozy to Putin: ?Do you want to end up like Bush?’

the london times’ charles bremner has identified one positive aspect of president bush’s foreign policy legacy: with russian tanks only 30 miles from tbilisi on august 12, mr. sarkozy told mr. putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of georgia’s government. according to [sarkozy's chief diplomatic adviser, jean-david] levitte, the russian seemed unconcerned by …

Going Down the Path of Consumer Debt - Again

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The Sideshow 11.13.08

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Miyamoto comments on Wii HD rumors

a wii hd has been rumored for quite some time, but speculation recently increased when analyst michael pachter said that he is “absolutely convinced” that a wii hd procedure was on the way and after john davison seemed positive that it would launch in 2011. shigeru miyamoto was recently interviewed by 3sat, and of course, … related posts:

Discountoid: Valkyria Chronicles, Brothers in Arms, other cheap crap!

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He’s gonna love her ’till the money comes.

And speaking of the money coming, it’s time once again to collect this week’s gaming deals in Discountoid. Valkyria Chronicles is seeing a nice little price reduction at Circuit City this week. And while you’re there, check and see if your location is one of the 155 stores the retailer plans to close by year’s end. Word has it that they have already started clearance pricing merchandise and games are reported to be 10% off.

Best Buy and Gamestop have slashed prices on Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway with a $30 reduction. And, if you’re that one guy who planned to pre-order Left 4 Dead but haven’t yet, Fry’s Electronics will take a good chunk out of the price for you if you frequent their fine establishment to do so.

More deals follow the jump.

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Engineers’ Miniature Solar Cells Much Smaller Than This: o

Engineers have constructed a solar array smaller than a dime out f 20 solar cells, each cell tinier than a quarter of this lowercase “o.”

The mini photoelectric device only generates seven volts of electricity, but that could be enough to power microsensors like those military planners imagine will provide the soldier of the future with first-person-shooter-like battlefield intelligence. That’s why the Army is a major sponsor of the project, which is described in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

Unlike conventional silicon solar cells, the new device is created from carbon-based, organic polymers, which the study’s authors argue could transform electronics, even though right now they are far less efficient than silicon cells.

“The world’s next generation of microelectronics may be dominated by ‘plastic electronics’ andorganic solar cells are expected to play an important role in these future technologies,” writes lead author, Xioamei Jiang.

The Army is leading the charge on microscale power production for one simple reason. Energy ? in the form of batteries ? is expensive and heavy on the battlefield, so the armed forces have been pouring money into alternative-energy projects that could provide long-lasting, self-produced, and cheap electricity. One alt energy startup founder noted earlier this year that soldiers can pack 30 pounds of batteries for a 24-hour mission, which ends up costing the military $57,000 per soldier per year.

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Jiang began building the solar power array in an effort to power a microscopic sensor known as a microelectromechanical system, which uses carbon nanotubes to sense dangerous chemicals. The array can’t fully power the system yet, but they anticipate that a future generation of the array could charge the detector, perhaps by next year.

The Army’s interest is broad. They are looking into a wide variety of low-power sensors that monitor the soldier’s body and environment. When integrated with other technologies, they could eventually provide real-time data about the soldier’s mind, body and military situation.

“You can start to imagine how power becomes a very, very important parameter to the soldier,” Barry Perlman, associate director for technology at the Army’s Communications Electronics Research and Development Center at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, told Wired.com earlier this year. “Every sensor needs power … so we have quite a few people concerned with how to generate power.”

Citation: Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. “Fabrication of organic solar array for applications in microelectromechanical systems” DOI: 10.1063/1.2998825

Image: Courtesy Xiaomei Jiang. The surface area of the total device is 2.2 centimeters squared.

WiSci 2.0: Alexis Madrigal’s Twitter , Google Reader feed, and webpage; Wired Science on Facebook.

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Krejza amongst the wickets in Nagpur

Australia debutant Jason Krejza snared two wickets in the morning session on day one of the fourth and final Test against India in Nagpur this afternoon.

India reached lunch on 3 for 122 with Krejza, named in place of paceman Stuart Clark, claiming the wickets of Rahul Dravid (0) and Virender Sehwag (66), despite conceding 48 runs from his six overs.

Sachin Tendulkar was not out on 16 and VVS Laxman was on 4 at the break.

To keep-up-to-date with the action in Nagpur you can visit Grandstand’s live scorecard and game log, as well as listen to commentary highlights from the morning session below:

(NB: ABC Local Radio does not have online streaming rights for the India versus Australia series.)

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