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Tuesday Links

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Beautiful Black Swan posters by LaBoca. Facebook v/s Twitter 2010 infographics . First concept art from Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome.  New Sufjan Stevens songs! preview them here and download them all here Watch Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg being adorable behind the scenes of The Social Network Check out this new music map that recommends you new music This is a really interesting  design  project where familiar brands were minimalized  5 things you can do to save Fringe right now Beautiful ink work by Alberto Seveso top 10 myths about technology  Listen to Bright Eyes new song "Shell Games" from their upcoming album The People's Key Watch the progression of the Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Thursday Links

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Beautiful art by Ken Wong Check out Paste Magazine's review of Sufjan's Age of Adz Sufjan talks about his new album and his change of style There's a Zoolander sequel in the works Watch this wonderful video   by Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon with amazing Dollhouse themes Fox has picked up six episodes of an animated series based on Napoleon Dynamite The 5 most mind-blowing coincidences of all time Vanity Fair takes a look inside J. W. Rinzler’s coffee-table book The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back This is ridiculously amazing:  Footage of Improv Everywhere’s   latest MP3 Experiment

Friday Links

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Beautiful Stanley Chow illustrations on his tumblr Dear blank please blank is a seriously fun and ingenious site 10 movies that defined their generations You can read 2 short stories by Sufjan Stevens here Pushing Daisies creator remakes The Munsters for NBC, Guillermo del Toro might get involved This girl has been turning horrible $1 clothes into something wearable for a year Read a very powerful and interesting book excerpt by  Fred Phelps' son Ellen speaks out about the recent onslaught of GLBTQ youth suicides Read Rolling Stone's Obama interview New Posters for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

First (slightly drunk) impressions of Sufjan's "The Age of Adz"

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The album begins softly and sweetly with "Futile Devices", it's strongly familiar and reminiscent of Sufjan's usual sound,  but it all turns hard the moment "Too Much" starts. At first I thought this was going to be one of those slightly experimental Sufjan songs that are almost unlistenable yet still amazing, but it turns out this song has quite a catchy chorus, and it's catchy in a weird way that leads nicely to "Age of Adz". This song is crazy, absolutely crazy and strangely cinematic, not my favorite, but it's certainly a statement about Sufjan's new sound and evolution as a singer. I guess I should miss his old style more but I honestly can't because this new era is just as interesting as the one that was marked by Illinoise.

Sunday Links

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Brian Viveros ' "The Dirtyland" Show preview is up NEW SUFJAN STEVENS ALBUM! download here Darren Criss, from the amazing Harry Potter parodies A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel, has landed a role on Glee Tracy Shibata joins professional hip hop dancer and choreographer  Scotty Nguyen   in performing an  Inception -tinged dance routine to Usher’s “There Goes My Baby.” Mika and Scissor Sisters are coming to SUE, get tickets here Brilliant letter from Adrian Piper to editors everywhere