Adam Buxton's Credit Crunch Song

The genius that is Adam Buxton made this song about the credit crunch for the songwars sections of his radio show on 6music last week.
Its taken me a while to find but its worth it.
This weeks songwars was thier takes on Radioheads Reckoner with Adam doing a Thom Yorke in the shower remix. Genius!

Heroes part 2

Graham & Peter

Reckoner Video

Radiohead - Reckoner - by Clement Picon

The video for reckoner by Radiohead by Clement Picon.
Clement was one of the winners of the Aniboom competition set up to create an animation to go with the song. The band liked it so much they asked for it to be the official video for the song.
Good choice.
Well done.

Heroes

Thom & Kieren

London to Brighton in 4 minutes

Saw this on BBC 4 last night as part of an advert for a program that Ian Hislop is doing about the closure of Britain's train stations.
Really nice footage of the journey between London and Brighton in the 1950s.
Having made this journey recently its really interesting to see how the land surrounding the tracks has changed in 60 years since the railways heyday.
I'm trying to think up a joke about the cost of rail travel now or how the privatisation of the rail network in the 80s changed things but I don't think I need to really.
Nice one Maggie.

New York City Waterfalls

This is an ace installation by German Artist Olafur Eliasson in NewYork.
A series of waterfalls set up around NY. My favourite is the one under Brooklyn Bridge.

Check the website for some beautiful pictures: nycwaterfalls
Check out Olafur's website for more lushness: olafureliasson

This is what the wonderful Wikipedia has to say:

New York City Waterfalls is an art installation by artist Olafur Eliasson, in collaboration with the Public Art Fund, consisting of four man-made waterfalls placed around New York City along the East River.[1][2] At $15.5 million, it is the most expensive public arts project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of The Gates in Central Park.[3][2] The waterfalls officially began flowing on June 26, 2008. They will run from 7 am to 10 pm (under illumination after sunset), until October 13, 2008

CERN

Hello, remember me?
I've been very busy over the last few weeks and not been able to put up any posts, but fear not, I kept a note of the things that got me salivating and I'm back with a vengeance!

First up: CERN!!!
You must have heard about this little gem, probably the biggest news thats not bad news this year, unless you count Theo Walcotts hatrick which over shadowed it in the tabloids. Although to give them respect they did conjour up some cracking puns - "Theos Big Bang" and the Sun opting to go with the front page headline that Theo Walcott had forgotten his keys when he got home.

Anyway: CERN aka The Large Hadron Collider.
The biggest and most ambitious scientific experiment undertaken. Basically it is designed to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the universe itself.
The BBC has a very nice interactive guide that is definatley worth checking out:here
Also they have a very nice logo: