As we're lifelong contributors to 'anthrophony' we're pretty culpable....but still, fascinating studies.
Look to the stars!
The Chestnut Tree Café. ...it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
In Rainbows video competition
Plastic. Is. Everywhere.
Bhopal was the worst industrial disaster in history. A leak of methyl isocynate killed 20,000, injured millions more and Union Carbide... um, er...
THE REVOLUTION WILL (NOT) BE TELEVISED
the artists have no recollection of most of this.
There Will Be Blood
film info for the UK
ken korda as Adam Buxton on Scotch Mist
Jonny Greenwood: 'There Will Be Blood' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Available from Tuesday 18th December.
Vote vote vote! Mmm... participatory democracy...
As they say, we don't live in the Information Age, or even the Oil Age. We all have to eat. We live in the Agriculture Age.
Download books on to your Blackberry instead of using it to send email, 'browse' the 'web' or any of the other tedious business-related 'apps'. It'll still look like you're really really busy.
This is great if you should be doing something boring for someone else.
Man, I couldn't even read this, it looked so scary. But maybe you can? Maybe it has a happy ending?
Fascinating, horrifying, beautiful photography.
Put that important work aside. Slack off. Play this, it's great.
Well-written, urgent and frequently very funny. Featuring the now-legendary 'Crap Arrest of the Week'.
Bored? Read a magazine. No celebrity cellulite in this one, I'm afraid.
If only. People are beginning to question the idea of filling our streets with fast-moving metal objects that smell bad and make those driving them behave worse.
Fill 'er up. While you're at it, check the dipstick thing.
Derrick May on Strings of Life
Messiaen's bird song imitations along with field recordings.
Simply incredible. Housing estates are the new up.
I found this when I was looking for pictures of housing estates. The Typologies are fantastic.
Dedication's whatchooneed.
Send your old computer somewhere more useful/less harmful than the local dump. Turns out Apple computers have a terrible environmental impact. Doh.
i want the T shirt
An excellent independent liberal reporter on the Middle East.
Why don't you switch off your television set and do something less boring instead?
Anyone annoyed by the occasional use of badly-strung together Esperanto might like this. On the other hand, sub est pli nova supreni, as any fule kno.
Art assignments, made by 'the general public'.
A photography site that is about having fun
A new monochrome project from the inventor of thedailynice.com.
I love this. stnly
mr michael stipe has a camera and knows how to use it.
My eyes are too tired to read all of this but it looks like the sort of powerpoint presentation you'd come away from feeling pretty ropey.
It's awards season! I do love a red carpet, a revealing dress, tears, gratitude. Why not grab a ringside seat?
Starbucks have more than 500 outlets in the uk alone, which is quite amazing. So it's easy to find one. If you want to find alternative caffeinemongers, this works...
he's such a nice man that Michael O'Leary ... the spirit of free enterprise.
Flying. It's a very boring way to travel and it's destroying the atmosphere. It's 'cheap' though, eh? Oh no it isn't.
George Monbiot's excellent addition to the longrunning "we're all going to die/oh no we aren't/oh yes we are" internet compendium. He's got a book out, you know.
Sat, 19 July
HOUSE OF CARDS
so as you may know we have completed a video for the song- it has been in the land of google, and now also if you want to download a higher quality version without the internet streaming pixellation squash and enjoy it on whatever screen appliance,
click here to download.it was a strange experience, sitting in front of a lazer in the dark, then emailing back an forth with James the director as he sat in front of computers for a whole month with the amazing technicians who processed the data etc.. but it says something about the song and came out better than i had dared hope.
Thom
Tue, 01 July
Radiohead Lighting
Richard Young, our production manager, has just put up an article about the low power, LED lighting design on tour.
Click on the link in the banner above or
LEDColin
Mon, 30 June
Net Neutrality
from preoccupations.org, via lots of other people...
we didn't put ' in rainbows ' out on the internet so that the next time A T & T would be releasing our music
Save the Internet Colin
Sun, 29 June
Sat, 28 June
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Fri, 27 June
Glasgow Green
Colin
malahide in rainbow
today in glasgow its raining.
sometimes this happens in glasgow.
it doesn't matter.
bring a raincoat.
and i f the sun comes out it may look like this.
this is from the first nights show in dublin.
just before we went on.
alan mcdermott took it.
Thom
One Little Plane - "Until"
This is a lovely summer's record, one for sunny week end mornings and all the times in between. It was made by Kathryn, and produced by Kieran Hebden, who has toured with us before as " Fourtet ". I left my copy in Oxford, bugger, but I'm getting another one in Manchester. You can get it from the 30th of June, from Amazon and Boomkat and other fine music outlets.
Here is the link to Kathryn's site, with all the touring info.
OneLittlePlaneColin
Sun, 22 June
How I learnt to post on Dead Air Space
Colin
Sat, 21 June
MeeBOX
Is a new comedy show by Adam Buxton, who kindly helped us with our Web Casting. Jonny did the music for the show, and it's on BBC3, this Sunday 22nd June, at 11.45pm, and then again on Thursday 26th.
It's also on all next week
on bbc's iplayer.
Here are some linky tasters
FUNKY SONGS OF PRAISESAUSAGESTODAY ON XANTIARWe will be dialling in after our German Festival tomorrow night.
Tchuss!
Colin
Wed, 18 June
Video contest
Thank you to everyone who entered their work into the In Rainbows /Aniboom video contest. Thanks also to those people who took the time to view and vote for their favourite animation.
From the 900 entries submitted, there is now a shortlist of 13.
The band will be picking the winner in the next month; Aniboom will award the winner a $10,000 prize to produce a full-length music video.
You can view the
shortlisted animations here between now and then - and give them your own rating if you wish.
Happy viewing
Mon, 09 June
thom and Jonny playing the rip by portishead -
Colin
Fri, 06 June
Nude Remix Fun
Check out this brilliant remix of Nude - Jonny and I had a spectrum flashback moment
LinkThankyou to David Smith for the link.
visit his web site on technology and culture
LinkColin
