Classic rock albums revisited

Here they are, I can see them!!! The Ramones are standing on the opposite pavement!! Well, kind of.. Photographer Matthieu Raffard places rock and punk groups  in real life settings – taken from classic albums. A very interesting campaign of the French rock radio station OUÏ FM.

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10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics

Really good songs have usually really good lyrics. And good lyrics stay with you. When we were at school we doodled them on our books and carved them into the desks. What do the digital natives do? Here are the best ideas (and, incidentally, really good songs for the most part) we found around the web:

1. Pick a photo, apply a vintage effect and write the lyrics in helvetica

Paris by the Friendly Fires (the Aeroplane version featuring Au Revoir Simone  kicks major ass, too)
(visual first seen at letlooselove, our title inspired by this)

2. Make a flowchart*

Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash
(visual first seen at Urlesque)
*but be careful not to be trapped on an infinite loop

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Read it elsewhere

Jeff Koons gets the video game treatment, Time Zones get analyzed and religion falls out of fashion:

• Jeff Koons Must Die, the video game – Hunter Jonakin via boingboing
• What if Angry Birds were an action movie directed by Michael Bay (video) – the curious brain
• The fascinating and often absurd convention of Time Zones – BBC
• Rare Beatles photos – npr
• Since Radiohead published a newspaper (The Universal Sigh), Guardian writers are challenging them at their game, by covering Creep – Guardian
• Are symmetrical faces more beautiful? – toxel via holykaw
• 50% of tweets come from 0,05% of users – mashable
• Is religion falling out of fashion? – Discovery news
• Sex is no accident (MTV’s safe sex campaign) – buzzfeed
• This blogger asks his favorite authors to sign their books. The twist? Instead for dedications he asks for insults – insulted by authors via flavorwire
• Read it horizontally, read it vertically; the genius of Lewis Caroll – i love charts