SUNDAY SUMMARY: week 24
Gestalt terrorism - my week in one image.
Week 24! Completely unexpected death prognosis combined with low-grade Mattel psychology! Putting my head around glitch electronica and weird glitchery VST plugins to rehash old electro tracks! Finding Budapest's most scovillery food outside the Indian HELL CURRY culinary jurisdiction! Random book signings! Tune in next week for more half-sensical summaries! And now, off to the Xiu Xiu Larsen gig!
TRACKS OVERPLAYED
ono sendai: a prototype
- Flip up and pull apart monitor from flexible LED technology
- Touch sensitive keyboard areas, with nanotechnology. Buttons rise from the surface to provide haptic feedback
- Custom key arrangement for maximum ergonomics
- Flip case at front hides jack-in plugs and earpiece on retractable cords
- Handle on rear for easy mobility
- Fully integrated wireless cyberspace fusion, access, and processing
phatandy's take on Neuromancer's Ono Sendai cyberspace deck via ripperdoc
miértkonzisztencia, skin hunger
akkor és ott lehet hogy jó ötlet volt
felvenni a Bobby Quine exoszemélyiséget
de így most már
levetném
köszönöm
felköpni mélyről a tusoló csempéjére
aztán majd lefolyhat a bringatúra maradékával
piócaviselkedésű persze, néha fekete, néha pantone-kaméleon
de lyukakon mászik be, bár személyiség még sose húgycsőkatéterezett meg
és ennek őszintén örülök
amúgy.
TEASER: Azarkant
This is the first official teaser of my upcoming short film Azarkant. It will be a sci-fi Full CG animated film, which tells of the adventures in deep space.
In the future, a team of astronauts are sent on a ten year journey to a distant planet to find new life. On their way, they encounter a large, abandoned spaceship that is drifting in the orbit of a mysterious planet. They board the ship with anticipation of the great discoveries to uncover inside. However, they do not know what terrible secret this spacecraft keeps -- a nightmarish threat which is far bigger and scarier than anything they could have imagined. (This trailer comes from PD reader Jeremy Stanz - thx! - who said "Plays kinda like a baby Prometheus." and it does!, more here)
BANDCAMP: lhasa mencur - consensual hallucination
Debut solo venture from London based sound artist Lhasa Mencur - an exploration of luscious textures, razor sharp melodies and meticulously crafted glitches and beats the EP aims to take the listener into an uncertain future with its subtly underpinned cyberpunk inspired narrative and vivid ambient spaces. Also featuring as the official OST for upcoming game Dirac.
Lhasa just tagged this as cyberpunk on SoundCloud and BandCamp and that's just spot-on - his debut EP running along with Cybo and earlier Hecq and hitting the moods with many of the artists we came to love for their paragliding above neon Moscow (that would be Tympanik and Hymen). Grab his 3-track glitch-ambient EP Consensual Hallucination off BandCamp - that also serves as a soundtrack for a soon-to-be-released multiplayer game called Dirac (trailers #1 & #2). And this just got released on my birthday. Which makes it even a more pressing matter for you to download it in no time.
the sunday witch house lunchbox (ooooo, crim3s, gl▲ss †33†h)
Coming from the obscure cabinet of weird little treasures of lovely long-time reader of ROCK, surrealcatharsis.
KICKSTARTER: support the California Deathrock Book!
Kickstarter crowdfunding just succeeded for a book of deathrock subculture photography by Amelia G and Forrest Black. Best known for their work with Blue Blood, the photography of Amelia G and Forrest Black has also been published by Rolling Stone, Playboy, Tattoo Savage, Picture, MTV, Orkus, New Grave, Permission, Alternative Press, Meltdown, Ghastly, Sonic Seducer, and many others.
For more than a decade, Amelia G and Forrest Black's personal work has been documenting various subcultures. Amelia G says the West Coast deathrock scene has been one of their favorite subcultures to shoot. Publishing a fifteen year retrospective of deathrock imagery would definitely be a labor of love, so the subculture documentarians appealed to their friends and
readers to back a Kickstarter project to put the book out. (kickstarter link - donations accepted from 5USD)
URGENT: looking for media/creative jobs in London
Looking for a full-time job in London, mostly related to writing (tech, pop and alternative culture), community management (7+ yrs) or uni lecturer work (2 yrs + 5 yrs radio). Or brainstorming on creative aspects of social media and startups.
Mostly rooted in technology, futurism, cyberpunk, fringe culture and social media. Got a movie script under my belt, also first book just gotten published in Hungary (in nationwide distribution at the moment), translation is in the works!
My visual resume is shared above - if you can reshare or retweet this, I'd really appreciate that. (If you have ideas about non-London works, drop me a mail. Contacts in the resume.) Thanks!
cameras made from human skulls (the works of wayne martin belger)
Just gotten another idea for the fiction projects I'm working on - and bone as a ritual apparatus (either technological or occult) is a powerful fusion. Find out more at Wayne Martin Belger's Boy of Blue site and this all comes, weirdly, from IO9 (you can check out photographs done with skull cameras at both sites).
Third Eye Camera - Designed to study the beauty of decay. 4"x5" camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Brass, Silver, Gem Stones and a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl. Light and time enters at the third eye, exposing the film in the middle of the skull.
Yama (Tibetan Skull Camera) - Yama's eyes are cast from bronze and silver with a brass pinhole in each. A divider runs down the middle of the skull creating two separate cameras. A finished contact print mounted on copper is inserted in to the back of the camera to view what Yama saw in 3D.
Yama is made from Aluminium, Titanium, Copper, Brass, Bronze Steel, Silver, Gold, Mercury with 4 Sapphires, 3 Rubies (The one at Yama's third eye was $5000.00), Asian and American Turquoise, Sand, Blood, and 9 Opals inlayed in the Skull. The film loading system is pneumatic. A 300psi air tank in the middle of the camera powers 2 pneumatic pistons to move the film holder forward and lock it into place. The switch to open and close the film chamber is located under the jaw.
planetdamage mega linkbox, 2012 may
Welcome. To start a new era in the history of this blog (and my own life and head and everything), I gotta release all the bookmarks that I've stored away in the past 12-18 months (some 350+ links) thinking I just need a few hours and I'll write mega insane amazing thematic posts. No. Not gonna happen. I know the structure is very minimal and this is too dense but you gotta fight through the gorgeous bits of knowledge, buckets of cow eyes, Cthulhu sex toys, girls twisted into Gundam mecha, various methods for brain hacking and whatnot. Note: I am still looking for a tool/app that would synchronize all my Google Bookmarks, Google Reader Bookmarks, Chrome bookmarks and Twitter favourites. As a welcoming gift, there's an Atari Teenage Riot - Iggy Pop - Nine Inch Nails mashup for a quick appetizer. The rest doesn't swallow easy.
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MUSIC: the Mid-May random jukebox
Every four to six weeks I realize I have way too many bookmarks, filter out the music videos and make a random jukebox post of them. This is one of those posts. Until the interwebs finally give birth to a PROPER video playlist service, I'm posting you a linklist. Inside: DJ Mad Dog, Dolphins Into the Future, Electro Cypher, Electrosoniks, Florrie, Genki Rockets, Hecq, Kaskade, Moby, Modestep, Omega Lithium, Phantogram, Quelle Chris, Snog, Suicide Inside, The Ghosts of 3.13, The Glamour Manifesto, The Nasty Boyz, Tonikom, We Plants Are Happy Plants.
BREAKING: Neuromancer a Hungarian co-production, ready by autumn 2013
Renowned US producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura (Transformers, Constantine) is to partner with Seven Arts Entertainment Inc and Prodigy Pictures on William Gibson adaptation Neuromancer, it was confirmed this weekend.
Di Bonaventura and his producing partner Mark Vahradian along with Prodigy’s Jay Firestone and Steve Hoban will produce the long gestating film, to be directed by Vincenzo Natali (Splice, Cube.)
Neuromancer will be produced as a UK-Canadian-Hungarian co-production by Neuromancer Productions UK Limited (an affiliate of Peter Hoffman’s Seven Arts and GFM Films LLP) in the UK, Pioneer Pictures KFT in Hungary and an affiliate of Prodigy in Canada. Shooting on the $60m budget feature is planned for later this year, with anticipated distribution ready for the autumn of 2013. GFM has been instrumental in setting up an EIS structure for the film. (more at screendaily.com)
HELP NEEDED: robotgyártót, robotépítőt, robot keresünk
»Az Encyclopaedia Galactica szerint a robot olyan mechanikai berendezés, melyet az ember munkájának elvégzésére terveztek. A Szíriusz Kibernetikai Társaság piackutató részlege szerint a robot "A Te Műanyag Haverod, Akivel Pompásan Érzed Magad". A GALAXIS Útikalauz szerint a Szíriusz Kibernetikai Társaság piackutató részlege "eszetlen semmirekellők csürhéje, akiket elsőként állít majd falhoz a forradalom".«
Egyik kedves ismerősöm fejében felmerült egy konferenciaelőadásokat tartó, filigrán, koktélpartiképes robot megépítésének gondolata. Semmi bonyolult mesterséges intelligencia, csak egy lánctalpakon gördülő 150 centis játékszer, ami távolról irányítható (mobilnet + webcam), kiállítható prezentálni (fut rajta a Powerpoint vagy ekvivalense), és készségszinten futtatja a Skype-ot kétirányú audiokommunikáció céljából.
Amivel az ötletgazda rendelkezik, az maga az ötlet, IT projektmenedzsment-tapasztalat, és ha komolyra fordul a dolog, akkor belepakolható tőke (épeszű keretek között). Nem rendelkezik azonban semmilyen tapasztalattal robotok építésében, még egy nyomorult Arduinot sem pakolt össze soha egyedül. Sadface.
Ha van kedve valakinek segíteni, esetleg levezényelni az építést (a befektethető tőke értelmében természetesen nem ingyen), dobjon egy mailt a szabolcs.sandor@karmamedia.eu címre.
SHORT FILM: Mute - The Matrix meets The Artist
MUTE was directed by The Brothers Strause of Skyline fame and AVP: Requiem infamy a few years back and at the height of cyberpunk mania. It's about a world where people can't hear and there is no music.
Now, before you cry foul, yes, "Mute" was created by Alpine Electronics. It was created as part of Alpine's long-term, global marketing strategy to subtly promote the 25 year-old brand in a fresh and relevant way to younger consumers. Having said that, Mute contains no blatant product information or corporate messaging other than visuals of the sound system. (via quietearth)
TEASER: True Skin
recommended by comrade razz0r. more info about this project unveiled at their vimeo page, also at production group page (group called n1on, director: stephan zlotescu, director of photography: h1 with clients like kanye west, busta rhymes, kraze, lil wayne, m.i.a. or coldplay, producer: chris sewall, music: j-punch, makeup artist: MK). emphasis on skin surrogates and extra layers of infosphere.
2012 április: életjel, könyv, ld50 meg a többi
Ez a gibsonian fényelt szürke a Mitoék egyik bútordarabja, a könyv rajta az, amin az elmúlt majdnem másfél évben dolgoztam, a rajta látható szimbólum pedig Papa Legbához, a haiti voodoo panteonjának egyik kulcsfigurájához tartozik, ha pedig ezt a mondatot olvassátok, akkor az azt jelenti, hogy a fekete csontkoponyákkal kockázó, habanerorumot vedelő istenek nem nyitottak portált a gyomromban és nem szülök skorpiókat éppen kétes féléletre egy szabadkőműves páholy közepén üvöltve. Lefordítom. Minden terv szerint halad.
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MOVIE: The first five minutes of Luc Besson's new sci-fi LOCKOUT
Coming from our friends at quietearth.us - read their review as well. Promises to be one of the funkiest, easily consumeable pieces of ROCK this year. (via quietearth.us)
DAILYKAWAII: Heather Joy
Here’s Heather Joy and her tits posing in a Collective Chaos collar last year. I still need to get this one blown up for my home gallery. (via chad michael ward's tumblr)
GAME TRAILER: Dishonored
Dishonored casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. You are the once-trusted bodyguard of the beloved Empress. Framed for her murder, you become an infamous assassin, known only by the disturbing mask that has become your calling card. In a time of uncertainty, when the city is being besieged by plague and ruled by an oppressive government armed with strange technologies, dark forces conspire to bestow upon you abilities beyond those of any common man.
In Dishonored, creatively eliminate your targets with the flexible combat system as you combine the numerous supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal. Pursue your enemies under the cover of darkness or ruthlessly attack them head on with weapons drawn. The outcome of each mission plays out based on the choices you make. (more at dishonored.com or on facebook, thx to Ripla for the link)