BLADERUNNERESQUE BIOPUNK SHORT: Loom [4K, RED]
Luke Scott in cooperation with RED Camera presents "LOOM". A film shot completely in 4K format in the tone and style of Ridley Scott's dystopian Blade Runner. The film was originally intended to help showcase the prototype REDray 3D laser player. The film was constructed for 3D, the film needed to push the limits of the cameras exposure sensitivity and colour range and 4K projection. Visually the film is unmatched to date in it's use of RED's new technology.
MOVIE: ridley scott on blade runner 2
It's not a rumour – it's happening. With Harrison Ford? I don't know yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don't know how long he can live [laughs]. And that's all I'm going to say at this stage. (via io9)
CG: realtime separable subsurface scattering (and some human skin with acne)
This movie represents hours and hours of research, desperation, excitement, happiness, pride, sadness and extreme dedication. Hope you like it.
IMPORTANT: designed to be viewed in HD at fullscreen with scaling off on a 1080p device. Be patient and wait for the movie to load before playing, it's a 1080p movie. Some subtleties are lost in the online version, so I encourage to download the original blu-ray quality version (or the original demo) below, to better appreciate the skin and fine scale render details (but be aware that you will need a powerful computer to play it).
It shows our latest and final advances on real-time skin rendering (Separable Subsurface Scattering), which enables to quickly render skin in just two post-processing passes. Everything is written from scratch using DirectX 10 and rendered in real-time, from the skin to the film grain; if you have a powerful GPU you can download the original demo here... (read more on vimeo)
CYBERPUNK: Blade Runneresque short TRUE SKIN released, heavy on implants
I posted the teaser to an orgy of biopunk promises in early May. Yep, it was True Skin, something the internets hailed as biopunk, nodding to the cyberprosthetics-heavy high concept of nineties' cyberpunk science fiction. It was in Shoreditch, post-job interview, when I saw that True Skin is finally OUT in all its six-minute entirety. And don't get me wrong, it is both amazing and an answer to my question about the memory uploading spam the other day.
Bangkok Market, left in the rain after a neon streak facial. Blade Runner gave us the wet Babel claustrophobia of urban labyrinths and it's been with us ever since from Neuromancer to Ghost in the Shell and all the short films that try real hard to stay with us with their thick eyecandy, staying one of the key motifs that still elude us. Or who knows. The future might be unevenly distributed but it's still a network of stolen iPhones on which suburban kids sketch up plans of mayhem, distribution, violence and getting properly shitfaced. Maybe it's the umbrellas with the glowing shafts and the augmented reality shopping wizards for new hands that keep the future at a relatively safe distance.
True Skin brings all that first-generation gangster romance back - I stole I am on the run I am hiding - and its clichés remind me all the more of the uncomprehensible floorplan Kurzweil gave us about the humanity doing everything it can imagine and then all the things it cannot. Downloading my memories before I get killed so that I could revive myself in a vat a couple hundred miles away doesn't really cut it anymore. For anyone who hasn't read Count Zero or the Richard K. Morgan novels, it's a wonderful treat. For us who've read them already, it's a wonderful visual treat and a great production. It's just the ever-repeating high concept that makes us wonder: just how much did the Mirrorshades Group writers hardwire and solidify our ideas about possible futures?
Whatever readings, pills or brainhacks we need to come up with new ideas about man-machine fusion - I believe we want them now. Now, like the techno kids of Berlin, hellbent on the everpresent alternative: very fucking bad or very fucking good, we don't care. But whichever it is, we want it now.
(True Skin is a wonderful piece of first-generation cyberpunk short film with lots of implants, augmented reality and Hajime Sorayama-inspired robot prostitutes. Get the full credits here.)
MUSIC: The Birthday Massacre - Leaving Tonight (2012)
Easily the best track off the new album of Canadian goth/80s/noir rock band The Birthday Massacre entitled Hide and Seek. Which is actually out TODAY. Buy it now from Metropolis Records or out of sheer curiosity, stream it via revolvermag.com.
SPAM: human memory storage
Getting a tad bit Takeshi Kovacs here at Muswell Hill - there is a caffeine drip going straight into my right eye and the left one is looking at the mail I've just gotten with the subject MARIUSZ, HAVE YOU UPLOADED YOUR MEMORIES TODAY? which reminds me of all the great (...not) spam waves of the early double-zeroes. Landing page (above) is somewhere between Battle Royale and Max Headroom and is at revolution-memory-insurance.com. No idea which game, service, opt-in mailing list or future employer with a plan did that to me but I find this perversely entertaining. And the 20-second loop on the site has been on for more than half an hour. Hypnotic at the very least, but then again we took the hobbits to Isengard and only stopped at the seven hour mark because Windows died a terminal crash. Keeping you updated on this as more details come up.
MUSIC: "Keep it Together" - new track by Trent Reznor/How To Destroy Angels
Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels project has released its first new song since covering Bryan Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. "Keep It Together" is an understated electronic burbler featuring the vocals of husband-and-wife team Mariqueen Maandig and Reznor. The song hails from the recently announced An Omen EP, out November 13 via Columbia, and suggests that the Amazon-leaked track listing for the new set may be correct after all. As Stereogum points out, the Reznor-scored Call of Duty: Black Ops II video game is out the same day. (via spin)
MUSIC MAKING: AudioGL Beta - creating music in the 80s cyberspace
Here in flatland, ideas for musical interfaces may have become largely well-trodden. Not so in the third dimension. And so, one of the most unusual audiovisual interfaces has now hit beta, ready for you to explore. And that does mean “explore”: think navigation through spinning, animated galaxies of musical objects in this spatial modular sound environment. With the beta available, you can determine whether that´s a bold, new final frontier, or just the wheel, reinvented.
The work of Toronto-based artist and engineer Jonathan Heppner, AudioGL is a stunning vision of music creation in 3D space, with modular synths, advanced user-editable modulation, and a freely-navigable, open-ended spatial workspace. (via createdigitalmusic.com, sent by @dismay22, thx!)
MUSIC: REWORK_Philip Glass remixed
REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed usually meets somewhere in the middle between calming ambient pieces and kinetic electronic contraptions, with a frequent emphasis on pastiche that suits both its subject and its highest-profile guest participants. Beck, for example, stitches together more than 20 Glass works in as many minutes, living up to his stated desire to present a distillation of the composer's entire career as a continuum; the result moves through many phases, with frequently gorgeous results. Dan Deacon, who knows his way around compositions that swirl and clatter hypnotically, constructs "Alight Spiral Snip" around repetitive dissonance before letting the piece give way to smeared-out beauty. Tyondai Braxton gives "Rubric" a toy-box peppiness redolent of his own compositions, while Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson — who knows his way around works both orchestral and experimental — crafts what sounds like an especially inventive bit of portentous film score in "Protest." (via npr.org, sent by @dismay22)
ROBOTS: Bina48 (interview with creator Bruce Duncan)
The entire last week I was living next door to one of the world’s famous avatars: Bina48. A true celebrity. And I have to admit, it was very quiet. I know about Bina48 for a few years now, I’ve made many interviews with one of Bina48′s creators so to say, Martine Rothblatt, but I never met her in “person”. Yesterday was the day.
(read more here, via @presleysylwia)
PHOTO: the prospect of immortality (murray ballard)
“The Prospect of Immortality” is a fascinating photo series about cryonics, a method for preserving deceased humans and animals in the hope that they can be revived by future medical technologies. British photographer Murray Ballard worked on the series between 2006 and 2012, traveling around the world to visit members of the small but dedicated cryonics community and the handful of cryonics facilities that currently exist. The series is named after a 1962 book of the same name by Robert Ettinger—the “father of cryonics.” Ballard’s series will be turned into a book in the spring of 2013. (photo gallery at murrayballard.com, via laughingsquid.com, sent by cloudjunky, thx!)
newsflash, 2012-10-09
planetdamage.com is back after two weeks of maintenance mode, settling in, coping with London, finding good coffee, harassing eBay vendors and getting mildly accustomed to the absurdly non-existent taste of food ingredients. Habaneros still have a nice bite, though. If you have any postworthy news, send it to planetdamage at gmail and brace yourself for content. Cringe softly.
2012: back in the uk
Missing the hard-edge content? Good. I miss it too. I mean I really don't, I've got hilarious amounts of new stuff bookmarked. On the other hand I just moved to London, well, a week ago, to be exact, and this is the first opportunity this week for chilling out and just blogging. Mostly because the exhaustion of the gods is in my bones. I opened a Tumblr in Hungarian for stories and pictures for friends or those who're interested in moving to the UK as well and you can find it at damageinlondon.tumblr.com - and most of my content goes to Twitter (which is mainly reblogs) or Facebook. I'll need some time to get accustomed to everything and take up the new tempo but things are heading in the right direction. I would also love to get some extra time to work my site/portfolio hybrid. I am also looking for freelance / part-time / fulltime jobs (infographics/blogging/social media/community management are the four pillars of strength) so if you've heard of anything, know of anything or want to employ a NINJA OF ROCK, you know who to talk to. Lots and lots of background work at the moment so please bear with patience - it will be worth the arduous wait. (Send me links, though, will try to find a way to mash it out once a day.)
hyper matrix shape shifting wall by jonpasang
Check out this cool shape shifting wall called Hyper-Matrix. The 180 degree installation by Korean media artist group Jonpasang will make you look twice as thousands of motorized cubes continuously change positions creating new and impressive patterns.
Jonpasang collaborated with Hyundai to create Hyper-Matrix at the auto manufacturers Pavilion in Seoul, South Korea. (via enpundit, sent by a LOT OF YOU)
shannan click goes anime in 2012 september issue of dazed and confused
Model Shannan Click (Women) goes wild for photographer Gregory Harris in this crazy editorial from the pages of Dazed & Confused September. Stylist Tony Irvine references pop culture, assembling looks that combine anime, comic book and cyber goth aesthetic with menacing results, while hair and make-up by Anthony Turner and Yadim is colorful and wide eyed. / Casting Director: Anita Bitton @ The Establishment (more images at fashiongonerogue, sent by Miss Vividfluxury)
first look at the robocop remake
ComingSoon.net has your first look at Joel Kinnaman ("The Killing") in the new RoboCop suit! Filming started today in Toronto and you can see the updated design below.
Directed by Jose Padilha, the August 9, 2013 release co-stars Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Columbia Pictures, the film was written by Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk, based on the 1987 motion picture written by Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner. The film is produced by Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, with Bill Carraro serving as executive producer. (via comingsoon.net, sent by Ripla!)
eladó bringa (UPDATE: eladva)
Költözök, úgyhogy eladom a bringám, furcsa érzés persze, de ez most muszáj. 54es váz (170cm vagyok), Shimano fékek meg Shimano négyfokozatú agyváltó (örök darab, sohaelnemromlós, mondja Sinred barátom, aki amúgy összeszerelte nekem ezt az egészcsodát), dt küllős, fűzött kerekek vannak benne, adok hozzá pumpa meg ABUS lánc+lock, összesen 60.
UPDATE: Eladva. Köszi a shareket meg jelentkezéseket mindenkinek.
CLOTHES: Chestburster augmented reality t-shirt
Augmented Reality T-Shirt Demo
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TRAILER: BRANDED (on the verge of ripping the consensus apart)
Branded, the new dystopian movie about the evil world behind advertising, was written and directed by two marketing executives (Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn). And the movie's terrifying imagery comes straight from their extensive experience in the field.
But what's this bizarre-looking movie really about? What are these strange creatures bubbling behind out soda pop ads? We sat down with Bradshaw, and he told us everything — including the most dangerous advertising entity in the real world. (read the complete interview on io9)
Liking the way where the interview is headed, this is apparently more Tibetan thoughtform tulpas than anything else. Not aliens. A consensual patchwork of sizzling brain desire, more like.
MUSIC VIDEO: ANGELSPIT - Violence
Official video for "Violence" by Angelspit from their album "Hello My Name Is".
Video by Tamas Mesmer
www.tamasmesmer.comcast:
Alec Parkinson
Lucy ClementsDOP: Arthur Loveday
Editor/Vfx: YuHang Fong
Production Design: Gabriella Pusztai
Grading: Mazin Power @ Finishing Factory / www.finishingfactory.co.uk
Gaffer: Jaime Armengol
Assistant Production Designer: Martina Sottile
Production Assistant: Ana Carolina Sena
AND ALSO:
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TRAILER: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Fifteen years after their traumatic gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel have become a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. (sent by Ripla, thx!)
COSPLAY: caitlin fairchild
Gen 13 Caitlin Fairchild art by J Scott Campbell
http://site.jscottcampbellstore.com/PHOTO by Eric Jones ~theirison on deviantART, model is Angela Ryan (via cyspace)
DESIGN: russian qr code dome at the venice biennale
A cool idea was realized by the Russians and presented at the Venice Biennale, the thirteenth International Architecture Exhibition. Specially for the event an original dome was built, the walls inside of it are all covered with periodically glowing QR-codes (quick response codes enciphering some visual information).
All visitors are given tablet PCs that help to decipher the codes and see the images hidden this way. (via englishrussia.com)
#musicmonday: completely random image posts
mid-first-coffee, "look-what-i-found" musician-related images among my bookmarks, apparently i have quite a few of those...as well. yes, this is a reason why don't communicate before the first two coffees. in related news, i cannot unsee the invisibles when looking at these pics
Atari Teenage Riot in Montreal 2012 (source)
Earlier today i made a surprise guest performance on main stage at Summer Rites with Adamski (source)
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