Dulux’s Let’s Colour Project

Dulux has a global project – Let’s Colour – that aims to “transform grey spaces with colourful paint”, and so far they have painted Jodhpur pink, London orange and Rio rainbow. Local communities can sign up to have some colour added to their drab surroundings.

The Johnny Cash Project

The Johnny Cash Project is a user generated music video for Johnny Cash’s final studio recording Ain’t No Grave. Users are invited to draw one frame using an image as a template and then all the different frames are integrated into a moving tribute to the man in black. See it at work here.

Fallen Stars

With recent death of yet another troubled celebrity, and in the light of research that suggests teens aspire to be famous above anything else, is there a Blood, Sweat, and… -style deconstruction of the cost of celebrity show to be done?

Life in a Day

Ridley Scott is producing Life in a Day, a documentary that will use footage from people from around the world who have recorded their own lives for a day – the 24th  July, 2010. The documentary will be directed by Kevin Macdonald (Last King of Scotland) and will premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January [...]

18th Century Ship Emerges From Ground Zero

The New York Times reports that construction workers at Ground Zero have uncovered the remains of a 30-ft wooden ship believed to be from the mid- to late 1700s. In 1982 an 18th century cargo ship was discovered at 175 Water Street.  Read the full article.

Mom Jailed for Sex with Son

A Detroit woman has been jailed for up to 30 years for having sex with the 14-yr-old son she gave up for adoption as a two-day old baby. She tracked him down via Facebook before arranging to meet him. The 36-yr-old reportedly said that she didn’t understand what had happened to her to make her [...]

Barack Obama’s Mother: The Antropologist

The late S. Ann Durham is the author of Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia an economic anthropology book based on her research in “a blacksmithing village called Kajar, in the province of Yogyakarta on the island of Java”. She’s also the mother of Barack Obama. The book is based on her dissertation [...]

Parallel Lines

“Five very different films. One piece of dialogue.” Parallel Lines is an online movie project that allows you to watch five films that are all based on the same script (as you might expect from the tagline). Watch them here.
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The Perfection of Pollen

Jonathan Drori, the first Head of Commissioning for BBC Online, has taken to waxing lyrical about the wonders of pollen. Watch the video or read the transcript to find out “why it’s not just something that gets up your nose”:

Consorting with the Rockstars

Flavorwire has revealed the five rockstar “consort” memoirs you must read. They are:

Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie by Angela Bowie with Patrick Carr
Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
Faithfull: An Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton
A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the [...]