Vakondok 2: hogyan fér el egy bolygó 4096 betűben?
A Vakondok 2 – Demoscene – Az Algoritmusok Művészete című dokumentumfilm január 13-ától ingyenesen letölthető a film honlapjáról, és megtekinthető Youtube-on is.
A megjelenést követő első héten több mint háromezren töltötték le, vagy nézték meg online a filmet. Ezzel egy időben, a mindössze 150.000 Ft-ból készült dokumentumfilm nemzetközi vetítései is megkezdődtek. A film január 14-én debütált Tokióban, és a következő hónapokban többek között Ausztráliában, Brazíliában, az Egyesült Államokban, Kanadában és Európa szerte, összesen több mint 20 városban kerül bemutatásra. A vetítésekről további információk a www.molemanfilm.com oldalon találhatók. A film a PC World számítógépes magazin februári számának DVD mellékletén is megjelenik, ami egy linket is tartalmazni fog egy, a filmből kimaradt jelenethez.
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♫ Alec Empire goes RAGE at Sensation Black 2005 (DJ Outblast)
Was looking for more sets to look what DJ Outblast is capable of and then then Alec just rages in after the first few seconds. Alec Empire is fuckin everywhere.
COSPLAY: a quite sexy Spider Jerusalem (yes, female)
A very appealing version of Warren Ellis' Spider Jerusalem as truthfully enacted by Lovina Yavari, shot by Digiography, via the Modelmayhem forums.
HOW TO make your infographics CV (tutorial)
(click here for high-resolution version)You need to get the message across. Everybody does. And when the whole platform of getting it through becomes a CV, most of the time you don't go McLuhanesquely the medium is the message, you crank your references into two Europass pages (HR people won't read more than two, CEOs won't read more than one if you have the LUCK OF THE GODS) and that just doesn't cut it. Infographics CVs have been around for some time now and I've just done one. It's the very colourful pic above. What's that, what's the concept behind it and how can you make one? Answers below.
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Shadowing The Prodigy: this is how you remake Voodoo People and Smack My Bitch Up
Videos like these are like Zen. Tutorials on how to make, remake, imitate and simulate household classic party tracks like Smack My Bitch Up and Voodoo People will make you feel motivated and incredibly hyped up. Seeing how Jim Pavloff remakes these tracks is just like watching kung fu movies - if I just imagine doing that, it makes me feel stronger. Or a wannabe musician with even more potential. On the other hand, it reminds you how fast can you make tracks, how easily and how you did something completely different instead of putting manhours into laying down tracks and hunting for old records to sample.
And this makes me go back on the basic question on what the work with - did a whole six years on ScreamTracker and FastTracker 2 and that alone would sort of lead me to go to Renoise or Fruity Loops, but flirting around with Reason or Ableton has always been an option (especially after doing remixes with Acid in the old days).
But all in all - these videos are pure gold and they were brought to you by Coilhouse.
FULL FILM: Sons of Chaos (Mathieu Turi, 2010)
A short movie of initiation and trial. French moviemaker Mathieu Turi has just sent the PDHQ a link to Sons of Chaos, his post-apocalyptic SF movie, shot in RED, done with a nice amount of camerawork and effects. As for the background story: society went up in flames together with a proper ecology, the air is poisonous, survivors are measured in thousands and weird humanoid predators named howlers roam the lands and one of the survivors set to protect the others needs to undergo a trial to prove his worth.
Even though I could justify the clumsiness of the fight scenes (why not finish off the howler with one headshot in the corridor scene? why not make sure it's dead? stab it a couple of times or tear off his gas mask just to be sure) with the fact that the protagonist is actually new to fighting, the ending even with its fair share of symbolism just appears to be too cryptic for me. Hopefully it won't be for you and all in all, a decent piece of short film, mood's decent, props are okay and even though there's quite a bit of cliché in it, it shows a lot of potential. Support Turi when he appears on Kickstarter to fund his new projects! Why not remake Romantically Apocalyptic?
tűrőfa
A ritka magyar posztok egyike. Dawe_ barátom googlewhackelni akarja a magyar interneteket is és valóságtól vörös szemekkel könyörög azért, hogy legyen végre egy darab hit a világban arra, hogy tűrőfa. Ha már ilyen gyorsan teljesítettem a kívánságot, melléteszem a literes kiszerelésű öklözőzsír, a kirfel, telehá, tingal és a ferál fogalmait is. Pépesítem az agyakat a böngészőablakból. Furcsa alkímia ez ma.
bookmarks, linkbox, 2012-01-04
Rule #1: no politics on the blog. Ever.
So, Hungarian readers might remember this as one of the most iconic press photos released about the Budapest Opera house demonstrations, but I'm posting this here as a memento how the Anonymous Egregore planted itself into the riot layer of a city's subconscious. And the shot itself is amazing.
- Blade Runner sketchbook from 2012:
Some twenty years ago there was an issue with the brown tan paper sketchbook look. This is monochrome b&w. Look grateful. - Akira 30th Anniversary SteelBook Blu-ray edition: Goes on sale from 27th of January.
- Portal 2 boots: By master prop builder Harrison Krix. Looks amazing but I'd need to have a few minutes jumping around in it to see whether it breaks my ankles into splinters of shrieking intelligence. (Pic above.)
- Urban Exploring a Russian Rocket Plant: A truly amazing post with even more NUCLEAR ROCK by Lana Saltor, exploring the Energomash Plant. Great HDR overhead! (Pic below.)
- Glow-y Scorpion Exoskeleton: And finally, a dead captainobviousy giveaway.
Thanks to the linkbox contributors: Dawe_, denemigen, Peter Gelencser.
William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor (new book in 2012)
William Gibson's new book is available for pre-order on Amazon. Release date? January 3, 2012. Surprised? Probably as much as I was. According to Amazon,
(...) Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. (...) These essays and articles have never been collected-until now. Some have never appeared in print at all. In addition, Distrust That Particular Flavor includes journalism from small publishers, online sources, and magazines no longer in existence. This volume will be essential reading for any lover of William Gibson's novels. Distrust That Particular Flavor offers readers a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture.
Distrust That Particular Flavor on Amazon, recommended by Kolosthemanwithoutfacebook via newyorktimes.
HAPPY 2012 with a Headhunterz Skyrim hardstyle theme (and more)!
The Planet://Damage institution wishes you a happy new year! Nothing better to close the old one with than a Headhunterz reinterpretation of the Skyrim main theme (and a few other clips that came with it). We're closing the blog for a few days until we manage to spoon our brains together - until then, fornicate well and quite creatively.
TRAILER: Thieves (upcoming cyberpunk short by Zenisphere films)
Above and below, various production materials connected to the upcominig cyberpunk short by J.G. Barnes and Zenisphere Films. Recommended to me by sharp-eyed P://D follower Tobal!
TRAILER: Kill List (2011)
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness. (imdb entry, via @turingcop)
2011: the top 10 most read articles on planetdamage.com
Google Analytics has finally turned into something really accessible! Which makes the December wrap-up even more easier! A brutally short overview on the top 10 posts you guys found the most interesting. Which sort of doesn't really coincide with what you could have found interesting. Anyways. Here's the list.
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CULT: 5 hard edge magazines of the alternative culture
Everybody loves selection and top n posts, so here's one for you at the end of the year about alternative culture and underground magazines you could either download freely or get very, very cheap. Treat yourself because they contain great content, we approve of them and think about them dearly. Others approve of our magazine as well and think about it dearly. But we recommend you the others just as well. Come on now, click away!
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MUSIC VIDEO: access to arasaka - lysithea
Tympanik wonderglitchist Access to Arasaka has released one of the greatest albums this year called Geosynchron (buy it here on bandcamp) and he also had the time to contribute to the Planet://Damage brainstorming about the Neuromancer cast list AND I HAVEN'T SHOWN YOU HIS LATEST MUSIC VIDEO? Such a shame. Here's his Lysithea MV!
Actually, I've instantly posted this to Facebook. Which means you either have to friend or subscribe to me on Facebook. Good luck.
BUY: modulator led goggles. in pink.
I since it was in August I last saw a living human being with goggles (and I'm so NDA'd not to talk about the dead ones) but here's a pink one on Etsy that any of you might fancy enough to the point of actually buying it. Because it's more like purple than pink. And also because Section9gear deserves it.
damage: in the year 2011 (in retrospective)
2011.dmg
The compulsory closure blog post a.k.a. what happened in 2011? A whole lot of good stuff and you've read the public ones in the August diary post. Still, no word about Skyrim? And all the best music finds? (Because you don't read my monthly music rants in Mondo?) How is that even possible? Worry not. This is the time. Friends, fans, stalkers and haters - this was the year 2011!
- Can't push this well enough: start with the August diary to sum stuff up from January till the end of July!
- Earned the name Damage Von Rock from Zoog after assisting Angelspit during their Budapest gig and helping them through hardship and devilry! Meeting Valerie Gentile, Matt James and Amelia Arsenic was amazing and motivating - we've got a coproduction idea to show you in early 2012!
- Which has nothing to do with my cyberpunk tourism mag The Dose (that would be your first bet which is so off the mark) - but I've made the Paris issue free to download near Xmas.
- As for work, my debut gonzo non-fiction book manuscript is gaining more weight and form. I know I've promised to wrap it up this year BUT THIS IS A HYDRA. I'm at around 220 letter pages now (which actually means nothing, it's just to reflect a relative length to think about) and I'm really planning to finish this early January.
- When I wasn't working on the book, I was busy writing for Mondo or doing a load of other freelance jobs like HVG's spec Extra issue on "the future" or two chapters in the Steve Jobs memorial book.
- And one of the weirdest jobs I've done for Mondo (the J-culture magazine I've been affiliated with for years now) is testing Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In a factory plant. (Like a real cyberpunk boss, baby!)
- Another autumn term of social & locative media, tech and future trends for finance/business studies BA students at International Business School Hungary! They might be a bit troubled and paranoid now when they look at their smartphones, but hey, noone said The Damage would make you feel safe.
- Rocking out at my second Giger exhibition in Vienna! Although the 2011 showcase was concentrating on his movie contributions, there was a lot of earlier works - most notably connected to early influences, The Birth Machine and Li. Amazing. (And while I was at it, had to get to Aurin for Public Beta clothes. More neon bikewear!)
- Managed to hack my brain, body and metabolism. Those of you being around me during the last months of the year, you've seen and experienced the proof. You can really recode the fabric and reach the medically improbable!
- With the above mentioned greatness comes an equally great amount of trouble, hassle and shit, that's just how life is. I'd really love to thank my friends and everyone around me for coping with it and helping me whenever. You ROCK!
THE BEST MUSIC TO COME ACROSS IN 2011
Click here to get a dauntingly detailed playlist stat done with Last.fm Extra Stats
2011 was clearly a year of change in musical interest: out went hardstyle (although Budapest shuddered in dread when we went for zoneruns listening to Headhunterz's Hard With Style podcast) and back came deathrock/Goth/pop noir, space ambient and dark ambient/ritual music. And I managed to form a heartfelt devotion to Annie Mac's Friday night shows on BBC Radio 1. Clearly fell in love with the pop noir of The Good Natured, flirted with the likes of King Midas Sound and Shackleton, found out that the most interesting things this year were released on Tympanik Audio and most of the great music I've found I also channeled into the Razor Coated Candies video compilations.
BEST NEW ALBUMS IN 2011
- ATARI TEENAGE RIOT - Is This Hyperreal? (official site)
- NECRO FACILITY - Wintermute (facebook)
- HECQ - Avenger (bandcamp)
- ANGELSPIT - Hello My Name Is (official site)
- EMMON - Nomme (official site)
- ACCESS TO ARASAKA - Geosynchron (official site)
- MICHAEL McCANN - Deus Ex: Human Revolution OST (official site)
- THE GOOD NATURED - Skeleton EP (official site)
- DARKDRIVECLINIC - Noise In My Head (official site)
- PHURPA - The Sound of Dakini Laughter (bandcamp)
RANDOM STATISTICS TO MAKE YOU FEEL I TELL YOU IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT MYSELF (BUT I DON'T)
AND FINALLY...
I'd love to send out extra flying kudos and thankyous to my faithful blog readers who've sent me ideas and links and whatnot to keep this blog alive when attention was elsewhere: Dawe_, Honeymooncroon, Jenny Quantum, Kolosthemanwithoutfacebook, Riplakoidase, Tobal and Miss Toyclouds, the DAKINI OF ROCK.
I'm wishing you all a Happy New Year and whatnot. There will be great and amazing things (all of them black and neon and having wheels!) happening in 2012. And I will be responsible for quite a lot of them.
Always,
P.S.:
NEUROMANCER: Cast list ideas? (Massive cyberpunk collaboration!)
With the promise of Neuromancer closest to the movie screens (and the eyes of vengeful afficionados) since its inception in 1984, we've taken the liberty of doing a little wishful Gedankenexperiment on the actors and actresses likely to find their to the Neuromancer castlist. Technoccult! Machete Girl! Access to Arasaka! Grinding.be! Quiet Earth! And more!
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qlimax 2011: official afterparty video
Qlimax being one of the leading hardstyle events and an amazing parody of MK Ultra brainwashing given to people with a happy note. Or I'm completely mistaken and that is not a brainwashing parody! (Gimme a break, anything you do to more than 1000 people qualifies as generous brainwashing. Get over it. Now go and find yourself a thousand people.) Featuring yet again: Headhunterz. Finally. After his missing set in 2010.
TRAILER: MS ONE Security Maximum (aka Lock-Out)
Mixture of Escape from New York and Luc Besson: hopefully a powerful return of French hard edge SF cinema.
MS ONE Security Maximum Trailer. The Very first trailer of MS ONE Security Maximum, the new sci-fi thriller, starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, previously titled "Lock-Out". A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States is offered his freedom... The Price ? He'll have to rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent prisonners...
industrial girl bike gang
Amelia Arsenic sez: I’m apart of with my best friend and Angelspit band mate Valerie Gentile. We’ll be playing some of the heaviest, nastiest and dirtiest beats in 2012 with our DJ team called ‘The Industrial Girl Bike Gang’.
Photography by the amazing Dangerously Dolly with styling/hair/makeup by me. (more on facebook)
