51. podelitev nagrad Grammy, ki je bila danes ponoči v Los Angelesu, je prinesla nove dobitnike v 110 kategorijah. Lanskoletna zmagovalka nagrad Grammy je bila Amy Winehouse, ki jih prejela pet.
Letošnji spisek dobitnikov nagrad:

Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Say”
Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read the Letter”
Best New Artist: Adele
Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman”
Song of the Year: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, “Stay”
Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson

Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)
Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock
Best Metal Performance: Metallica, “My Apocalypse”
Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra”
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Gravity”
Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows
Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry Coldplay John Shearer/Getty Images
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, “Chasing Pavements”
Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War”
Best Spoken
Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)
Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains
Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)
Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, “Be OK”
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, “You’ve Got the Love I Need”
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Al Green Featuring John Legend, “Stay With Me (by the Sea)”
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Alicia Keys; ” Superwoman”
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” Lil’ Wayne Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MTV
Best Rap Song: Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, “Lollipop” (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Estelle Featuring Kanye West, “American Boy”
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, “Swagga Like Us”
Best Rap Solo Performance: Lil Wayne, “A Milli”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Natalie Cole, Still Unforgettable
Best Country Album: George Strait, Troubadour
Best Country Song: Sugarland, “Stay” (Jennifer Nettles, songwriter)
Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner, “Cluster Pluck”
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Killing the Blues”
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Brad Paisley, “Letter to Me”
Carrie Underwood John Shearer/Getty Images
Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Carrie Underwood, “Last Name”
Best Reggae Album: Burning Spear, Jah Is Real
Best Hawaiian Music Album: Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Ikena
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Traditional Folk Album: Pete Seeger, At 89
Best Traditional Blues Album: B.B. King, One Kind Favor
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot
Best Long Form Music Video: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
Best Short Form Music Video: Weezer, “Pork and Beans”
Best Classical Album: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
Best Classical Crossover Album: The King’s Singers, Simple Gifts
Best Classical Contemporary Composition: John Corigliano, composer, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (JoAnn Falletta, conductor)
Best Classical Vocal Performance: John Corigliano, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
Best Small Ensemble Performance: Spotless Rose, Hymns to the Virgin Mary
Best Chamber Music Performance: Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Gloria Cheng, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Hilary Hahn, Schoenberg, Sibelius: Violin Concertos (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)
Best Choral Performance: Sir Simon Rattle, “Symphony of Psalms”
Best Opera Recording: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Best Orchestral Performance: Shostakovich, “Symphony No. 4,” Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
Best Electronic/Dance Album: Daft Punk, Alive 2007
Best Dance Recording: Daft Punk, “Harder Better Faster Stronger”
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin, The Fight of My Life
Best Traditional Gospel Album: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Gaither Vocal Band, Lovin’ Life
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: CeCe Winans, Thy Kingdom Come
Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album: TobyMac, Alive and Transported
Best Gospel Song: Kirk Franklin, “Help Me Believe”
Best Gospel Performance: Mary Mary, “Get Up”
Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico
George Carlin Paul Schiraldi
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, “Be-Bop”
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly
Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil
Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time
Best Comedy Album: George Carlin, It’s Bad For Ya
Best Polka Album: Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, Let the Whole World Sing
Best Contemporary World Music Album: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project
Best Traditional World Music Album: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Best Native American Music Album: Come to Me Great Mystery—Native American Healing Songs
Best Norteño Album: Los Tigres del Norte, Raíces
Best Banda Album: Joan Sebástian, No Es de Madera
Best Tejano Album: Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution, Viva la Revolucion
Best Regional Mexican Album: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera
Best Tropical Latin Album: José Feliciano, Señor Bachata
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: 45, Jaguares
Best Latin Pop Album: Juanes, La Vida…Es un Ratico
Best Musical Show Album: In the Heights
Best Musical Album for Children: They Might Be Giants, Here Come The 123s
Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Bill Harley, Yes to Running!
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Natalie Cole, “Here’s That Rainy Day” (Nan Schwartz, arranger)
Wall*E Disney
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Define Dancing” (From Wall-E) (Thomas Newman, arranger)
Best Instrumental Composition: “The Adventures of Mutt” (From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Best Surround Sound Album: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: MGMT, “Electric Feel,” Justice Remix (Justice, remixers)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: The Raconteurs (Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III), Consolers of the Lonely
Best Historical Album: Art of Field Recording, Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music (Documented by Art Rosenbaum)
Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: In Rainbows
Best Recording Package: Metallica, Death Magnetic (Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors)
Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Down to Earth” (From Wall-E)
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno

(vir)

Objava Podelitev nagrad Grammy – Coldplay, Adele, Duffy, Robert Plant veliki zmagovalci originalno objavljena na had blog.

Ko se je decembra pojavila informacija da je Mirko Tuš, najbogatejši Slovenec, rezerviral dve karti za polet v vesolje (100km v višino in približno šest minut breztežnosti) leta 2010 z družbo Virgin Galactic (v lasti Richarda Bransona), sem najprej pomislil, da bodo pri Tušmobilu naredili akcijo, kjer bodo srečnež izbrali med njihovimi naročniki.
Mesec kasneje se je to uresničilo. Tušmobil ponuja paket Tušmobil Vesolje s tekstom:

Mogoče si prav ti tisti izbranec ali izbranka, ki v letu 2010 odide na suborbitalni polet v vesolje. Pripravi se! Paket tušmobilvesolje.

In tako imamo tudi Slovenci, ki nimamo 200.000$, kolikor stane karta, možnost da se dvignemo “v višave” in s tem postanemo osmi turistični potnik (ne Alien), ki bo lahko o tem “izletu” poročal zanamcem.

(vir: Virgin Galactic Press)
Vendar…

Imam boljšo idejo, ki bi prinesla precej več denarja! Zakaj se ne najde nekdo, ki bi imel pod palcem recimo 1mio$. Kupil bi 5 kart in potem organiziral loterijo, kjer bi za vplačilo 10$ dobil srečko, ki bi te lahko ponesla v vesolje. 20.000 ljudi bi definitivno vložilo denar v takšno loterijo. V Sloveniji verjetno še veliko več, če gledam evforijo ki se dogaja ob milijonskem dobitku za Lotka in nekako ne dvomim da bi “nas” bilo več kot 100.000. In v tem primeru bi bil zaslužek precejšen.

Glede na to, da je tudi Slovenija precej v “riti”, bi mogoče takšno loterijo lahko organizirala kar držva. In bi si tako napolnila blagajno. In ne bi bilo več potrebe po publicističnih izjavah o plačevanju reprezentance iz lastnega žepa in podobnih reči!

Bi ta ideja pila vodo?

Objava Tušmobil Vesolje – Vesolje Veselja originalno objavljena na had blog.

Google – Larry Page in Virgin Group – Sir Richard Branson, sta skupaj ustanovila Virgle Inc. Iščeta prostovoljce – Virgle Pioneer za poselitev Marsa.

The Virgle 100 Year Plan’s milestones will include Virgle Pioneer selection (2008-2010), the first manned journey to Mars (2016), a Virgle Inc. initial public offering to capitalize on the first manned journey to Mars (2016), the founding of the first permanent Martian municipality, Virgle City (2050), and the achievement of a truly self-sustaining Martian civilization with a population exceeding 100,000 (2108). (vir)

Par vprašanj, upload videa in že ste na pol poti do Marsa! :)

Richard Branson on Virgle

Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Virgle

oh, all right. Fine. April Fool’s. Ha, ha, ha. It isn’t real. There. Are you happy? Does it please you to drag us out of our lovely little fantasy world, to crush all our hopes and dreams? Is that really what you need to hear? Fine, you’ve heard it. Virgle isn’t real.
Yet.

(vir)

Objava Virgle Pioneer – Google in Virgin iščeta prostovoljce originalno objavljena na had blog.

Ogled na lastno odgovornost. Videoposnetki prikazujejo realno stanje, ki se dogaja v svetu. Vsi se zavedamo, da se to dogaja, vendar si večinoma zatiskamo oči pred resnico.

Virginia Tech Gunman Cho Seung-Hui Manifesto
Kim Jong-il’s Amazing Bodyguards
Trolley Square Massacre
Columbine High School Massacre
Srebrenica Massacre
Tiananmen Square Massacre

Objava Videoposnetki pokolov originalno objavljena na had blog.

“Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

Alfred Hitchcock

Objava Misel dneva – Alfred Hitchcock originalno objavljena na had blog.

25 letnik, devicnik, se je stavil s prijateljico da mu bo “pomagala pri problemu” ce bo njegovo stran obiskalo 5 miljonov ljudi v 30 dneh…

KLIK

A bi se je kdo branil?
10x Iztok za ta post!

Objava Pomoc devicniku originalno objavljena na had blog.

Zalozba Virgin je dala zanimivo nalogo. Koliko bandov najdes na sliki? Stevilka naj bi bil 75? In koliko jih najdes ti? :)

Klik na slikco

Objava Koliko bandov najdes na sliki? originalno objavljena na had blog.