Avalanches on the North Polar Scarps in the Planet Mars was caught by the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - the first ever image of active avalanches near it's north pole.Ingrid Daubar Spitale of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who works on targeting the camera and has studied hundreds of HiRISE images, was the first person to notice the avalanches. "It really surprised me," she said. "It's great to see something so dynamic on Mars. A lot of what we see there hasn't changed for millions of years.""We don't know what set off these landslides," said Patrick Russell of the University of Berne, Switzerland, a HiRISE team collaborator. "We plan to take more images of the site through the changing Martian seasons to see if this kind of avalanc
Tel est, donc, le monde musical contemporain ( un monde où plus personne ne joue ni ne chane la moindre note, mais où se crée tout de même, sans conteste ni équivoque, une nouvelle musique). J'avais présupposé que les mixes, les assemblages, le scratch, les cuts et le copier-coller ne pouvaient donner naissance à rien de bon (rien de génial du moins) et c'était vrai tant que l'approche de ceux qui s'adonnaient aux cuts et au copier coller demeurait pour l'essentiel de l'ordre du plagiat: la contribution que disons, Eric B & Rakim ont apporté à leur version de I Know You Got Soul était minimale (c'est la ligne de basse et le beat de Bobby Bird qui définissent le morceau).Et toute réaction d'ordre musical que pourrait susciter chez vous I'll Be Missing You de Puff Daddy est en réalité une réaction au délicieux riff de Police. On peu admirer le goût, le culot, mais pas la créativité: créer de la musique (créer une oeuvre d'art quelque nature que ce
The Avalanches are a much-feted six-man crew of sample addicts from Australia whose debut album, Since I Left You, is a bargain-bin vinyl throwback to the Daisy Age. This album is constructed like a mix tape and calculated to tweak the dance floor. Snatches of familiar rhythms bubble up throughout, giving the record a comfortable lived-in feel but also betraying the fact that the group hasn't dug very far through the crates to source their raw material. There's little doubt that this kind of sample reconstruction has become standard fare for retrogressive adolescents with precious little musical flair and a mania for collecting records. The Avalanches get full marks for their seamless mixing skills, but otherwise it all feels way too tidy, bristling with its own inventiveness when it should be striving for something that transcends its influences.
The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council issued the warning because of the recent conditions that have increased the risk of man-made avalanches in the back-country behind the Remarkables, Treble Cone, Coronet Peak and Cardrona. Avalanche programme manager Steve Schreiber said the man-made avalanches include both deliberate and accidental, and people heading into the areas away from the main ski areas were putting themselves at risk.
Review by Andy Kellman @ allmusic.com
Endless summers for many youths don't consist of beaches and surfboards. Instead, they're spent on blacktops and jungle gyms. More gritty and halfway between the curb and the hoop than anything celestial, the Avalanches remind you of a point in your life when you could blissfully hang upside down from monkey bars and just dangle. Like recklessly riding
