Model Airplanes

The title of this compilation of seminal proto-then-post-punk legends Pere Ubu’s early material immediately brought to mind the tag line for an old cultural radio show in the France of my youth, “L’élite pour tous!”. “The elite for all”, the show proclaimed, advancing an ambition to share the concepts of high art with those that were supposedly excluded from its lofty realm. Whilst the quick blurb on the album’s cover suggests that Pere Ubu reject “high” culture altogether in favour of privileging the rough edges of society’s underbelly, it’s also inescapable that they brought an intellectual, almost dadaist aesthetic to rock roll, yet all the while preserved the primeval, shouty essence of rock’s origins in ways that perhaps other supposed art rock bands did not.

Pere Ubu grew out of Rocket From The Tombs, a Stooges-meets-Cochrane, punk-before-it-existed Cleveland band that took the essence of 50s r’n’r and added a great big dollop of youthful gob into the mix. Their style, all urban working class male angst, was not all that far removed from the fledgling Ramones, albeit with a more nihilistic Midwestern vibe rather than street-smart New York vip. As they evolved into Pere Ubu (early RFTT material was compiled onto the excellent The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs CD in 2002), however, their teenagery angst made way for greater cerebrality, as they took their name from proto-surrealist playwright Alfred Jarry’s controversial play Ubu Roi, immediately signalling

Article source: http://thequietus.com/articles/18341-pere-ubu-elitism-for-the-people-1975-1978-review

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Article source: http://www.oakridger.com/article/20150713/NEWS/150719963

SAN DIEGO — What separates a drone from a smartphone? Well, other than the fact that your iPhone can’t fly (yet), drones don’t have an equivalent app store.

At least not for the moment, says Jordi Munoz, co-founder and president of the largest US commercial drone operation, 3D Robotics.

“The smartphone was a product that was intended for a consumer market, and now it went all the way to industrial applications and even the medical industry,” Munoz says. “The same is happening with drones.”

We’re sitting

Article source: http://www.cnet.com/news/3d-robotics-cnet-road-trip-2015/

July 14, 2015 | By Alec

The original Benton maquette.

While you rarely think about it when visiting a museum, many of those exhibited pieces are very delicate and need to be handled with extreme care. But what do you do when you have to take these fragile works of art out to multiple venues, or even a national tour? While you might be successful through extreme fussing about, the curators from a museum in Salem, MA, chose a 3D printing solution. For a national tour of an exhibition on Thomas Hart Benton, the Peabody Essex Museum created a 3D printed replica of a particularly fragile clay maquette.

For the uninitiated, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA is among the most important art museum in the United States. It was founded in 1992 when the Essex Institute merged their collection with that of the Peabody Museum of Salem. Their total collection – consisting of approximately 1,2 million pieces – incorporates very important works of from a number of fields, including American, Asian, Oceanic, African and maritime art.

Last month, a new exhibition called “American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood” opened to the public, focusing on the amazing works Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). An artist with strong links to the early movie industry, he developed a cinematic style of painting that combined cinematic production techniques with European artistic traditions. Through paintings, murals, illustrated books and drawings, he made major impact on twentieth century America. The exhibition is open to the

Article source: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20150714-museum-uses-3d-printing-to-take-fragile-maquette-by-thomas-hart-benton-on-tour.html

By MARTHA BELLISLE and GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press

SEATTLE (AP) – Search crews looking for a small plane that crashed in north-central Washington with three people aboard said Tuesday night they have located wreckage in the general area where a crash survivor emerged from the woods.

Aerial searchers spotted the wreckage in the same vicinity where 16-year-old survivor Autumn Veatch emerged from the woods on Monday. However, crews were not able to reach the heavily wooded site Tuesday night and no positive identification has been made of either the plane or the two missing occupants, Leland and Sharon Bowman of Marion, Montana, said Barbara LaBoe, a Washington state Transportation Department spokeswoman for the plane search.

Efforts to reach the site will resume in the morning, LaBoe said. Search officials will assess whether air crews can be used and also will coordinate ground crew searches with the Skagit County sheriff’s office.

Autumn Veatch has said the Bowmans, her step-grandparents, did not survive the Saturday crash.

The plane piloted by Leland Bowman was bringing her home from a Montana visit.

The teen was released Tuesday evening from Three Rivers Hospital in Brewster.

In her hometown of Bellingham, Washington, family friends gathered Tuesday night in anticipation of a happy homecoming, bringing balloons and flowers to the apartment of the teen’s father, David Veatch.

“We just want to show her and her family that we care and we love her,” said one friend, Amber Shockey. She added that Veatch had said “she was happy to be coming home.”

The teen left the burning

Article source: http://www.kswo.com/story/29541036/rescuer-says-teens-survival-hike-after-crash-was-miracle