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Official music video for the ‘Panic Bells’ single off the ‘Escape’ EP. Directed & edited by visual effects superstar Aleksandar Janev.

Source: YouTube (click this to watch the clip at 1280×645)

Source: Vimeo

Via Dubber.

Source: Vimeo

Terrific full-length version of an interview David Foster Wallace did in the USA with (I think) a German TV program in 2003. It is 84 minutes long but I really recommend watching this right the way through. I think this guy was on to it on a number of levels.

Link: David Foster Wallace Interview (2003) [zdf.de]

UPDATED:
That zde.de link seems to have been wiped out for some reason. It seems zdf.de got a fancy new Adobe Flash interface & lo, death to old links. Here’s the same interview on YouTube in 9 parts.

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 1 of 9)

Link: http://youtu.be/N5IDAnB_rns

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 2)

Link: http://youtu.be/AlUmT_biDwI

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 3)

Link: http://youtu.be/LPIKae5qRwM

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 4)

Link: http://youtu.be/P7ts3iKppnA

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 5)

Link: http://youtu.be/xx7qMU0f4ts

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 6)

Link: http://youtu.be/ayQ1vihLcGc

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 7)

Link: http://youtu.be/eI0HhPD38_A

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 8)

Link: http://youtu.be/5GZWGFic1Ns

David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (Part 9)

Link: http://youtu.be/vaWdfDXRDyA

Via newclear music.

Some live footage of Bromide Dub from the nsu EP release party at Rising Sun last Saturday…

Source: YouTube

Source: YouTube

Source: YouTube

I had never heard of Al-Hurra, the USA’s government-funded “public diplomacy” TV station broadcasting 24 hours to the world with Arabic sub-titles. The station is strictly prohibited by law from showing in the USA. Just one fascinating fact I took from Taryn Simon’s TED talk:

Source: TED.com

BONUS

• Samantha Power on a complicated hero [ted.com]