Getty allowing bloggers and social media users to embed their images for free

By Jack Brummet, Arts Ed.

This is pretty awesome - I am testing the new free embedding feature from Getty for (non-commercial) blogs and social media. It works!  Now, we have a legit way to use these images.  This is good news indeed for those of us who have been pushing the fragile boundaries of #FairUse. 

This is a shot of Big Star backstage at Tramps in NYC on November 8, 1995.  ( L-R Jon Auer, Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens,Ken Stringfellow).


Waylon Jennings performing with Willie Nelson.

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Drawing: Faces #645 - the Real Change vendor

By Jack Brummet

[9"x12" India Ink scratchboard; with original image digitally reversed]

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Alien Lore No. 258 - The Nazi Flying Saucers of World War II

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.

A nice video on a subject that is fairly controversial even among UFOlogists.  "a short video about info long forgotten and re-found about WW2 German flying saucers."

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ATIT Reheated: Audio Lost and found: Amazing downloadable MP3s from the great WFMU Blog

By Jack Brummet, Audio Ephemera Ed.

I'm a huge fan of old audio ephemera, from the hundreds of Jean Shepherd shows I have to recordings of chatter on shortwave, the famous numbers recordings of codes for spies, the famous Buddy Rich rant tapes, and the "shut up and play" compilation of rock and rollers freaking out on stage and ripping into their audiences (Courtney Love, Mike Love, Elvis, Jim Morrison, Lou Reed, etc.). A great source all of this exists on the WFMU radio site that often releases free weird recordings that have slipped into the public domain.  When I lived in NYC (1977-1982), I often listened to WFMU. . .it often went far afield, and was always wonderful.

WFMU's beware of the blog is a great web site with lot of goodies for downloading. You should visit once in a while... in the meantime, here are three gems that you can download.




1) How Do I learn. A collection of 6 MP3s from a collection of old educational film strips. Check out the cut "Who's afraid?" . . .it is genuinely spooky.



2) Flying Saucers Unlimited. This record is probably the score for Frank Stranges UFO documentary Phenomena 7.7. Pretty cool. The Reverend Strange is unquestionably way way out there.



3) Sound off Saxons! This is amazing. "Created as a keepsake for the 1965 graduating class of North High School in Torrance, CA, this album takes you through the school and introduces you to the multiple characters and events there — all with the corniest, dated humor you can imagine."

This is a slice of a world that has long since disappeared. It was already gone by the time I graduated from high school.

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15 favorite videogames

By Jack Brummet, Videogame Ed.

                                             

There is a "thing" going around Facebook where you list 15 videogames that had an impact on them.  These are my fifteen.

title-platform-publisher

• Majestic (PC) Electronic Arts
• Castle Wolfenstein 3D (PC) Developed by Id Software; Publisher: Apogee Software
• House of the Dead (arcade version) and Typing Of The Dead (PC) Sega
• Super Monkey Ball (GameCube) Developed by Amusement Vision; Publisher: Sega
• Wario Ware: Mega Microgame$! (GBA) Nintendo
• SimCity (PC) Maxis
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (GameCube; I didn't play the N64 version) Nintendo
• Oregon Trail (Mac) MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium)
• Katamari Damacy (PS/2) Namco
• GTA III (PS/2) Rockstar Games
• Tetris DS (NDS) Developed [originally] by: Alexey Pajitnov; Published by Nintendo
• Limbo (XBLA) Playdead 
• Silent Hill 2 (PS/2) Konami
• Scribblenauts (NDS) Developed by: 5th Cell; Published by WB Games 
• Rayman Raving Rabbids (Wii) Ubisoft

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Testing bullet-proof vests

By Jack Brummet, Police Ed.

W.H. Murphy of the Protective Garment Corp. of New York stood less than ten feet from Frederick County, Md. Deputy Sheriff Charles W. Smith and let the deputy fire a .38 caliber revolver straight at his chest.  Murphy never batted an eye. . .

"The bullet which Deputy Smith fired into the vest Wednesday was presented to him for a souvenir."  circa 1923

[Images from Wikipedia Commons and Shorpy.com.]

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Drawing: faces #637 - crowd control

By Jack Brummet

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ATIT Reheated: A letter to us from President George W. Bush, circa 2005

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

Yeah, we didn't get him to fly to Seattle,  but he did send a nice regrets note.

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Hard times in prison in Norway

By Jack Brummet, Penology Ed.

Norway’s prison system is the most inmate-friendly in the world, but mass murderer Anders Breivik, serving 21 years (really?) for the 2011 bomb-and-gun attacks that killed 77 people,  sent wardens 12 demands in November, including upgrading his manual typewriter and bumping his PlayStation 2 to a PS3, so he can play more games.

Breivik also demanded that his weekly “allowance” of $50 be doubled, and said if the “torture” continues, he would launch a hunger strike. He had earlier threatened a hunger strike in 2012, over inhumane conditions including  cold coffee, lack of skin moisturizer, and not enough butter for his bread.) [information from an article in the Los Angeles Times, 2-18-2014]

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People Molesting Statues (and vice versa), Part 2

By Jack Brummet, Public Art Ed.

With millions and millions of people routinely carry cameras in their pocket every day, we see new photographic categories all the time.  We like to think of these as statue outrages.  We found these on various spots on the internet, and also received a number of them from ATIT readers/fans.

Our previous post on statue molestations and outrages appears here. 

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Billy Joel's heavy metal band, Attilla

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.

Billy Joel had a heavy metal band--Attila--in 1969/70.  He was partners in the band with Jon Small. . .until Joel and Small's wife fell in love. 

“They released only one album, Attila, in 1970. Attila is often selected by critics and other music journalists as one of the worst rock albums of all time. Joel himself has gone on record as describing the album as “psychedelic bullshit”.  - Wikipedia 

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Queen Elizabeth fires an L85 battle rifle in Surrey, England.

Queen Elizabeth fires an L85 battle rifle in Surrey, England.  The source and photographer are unknown. . .which is a little odd, considering the detail in the caption that accompanied the photo on Retronaut.com.

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