looking for an app that merges different google link containers
Working on the book (close to wrapping it all up now) has led me with a beartrapful of links and they're stored in one of three different containers that were produced by the very same Google, yet they're intraversable, immovable and unmergeable. I've got a bunch of links in my Google Bookmarks list, another in my Chrome bookmark list and yet another amongst the starred items in my Google Reader. Do you know about any apps that do merge these three linkgrabbers into one?
schwarzenegger dvd commentary for total recall (o'rly)
And this man is the Governor of California, honorary Captain Obvious, Cimmerian destroyer of children and women. Reminds me of all the Mad TV Arnie impersonation scenes, all at the same time. Quietly frothing at the mouth. (via io9)
sonic horticulture (ritual music)
Plants’ roots must be buried in order to live while humans are only buried when they are dead or meant to die. We bury our fears and traumas deep inside ourselves hoping they will slowly disintegrate, but we end up rotting out from the inside. Physically routed to their own system of interactive video, sound, and light, dev01ded, embodying their fears, will be slowly buried within an hourglass of dirt and technology, and he who buries them further entrenching himself in fear. (via xorzyzt)
storyboard from the joseph kahn neuromancer movie
Six months ago I reposted the article I wrote into The Dose mag about how the Neuromancer movie hasn't been done yet and who the intended directors were. Apparently the project's still helmed by Vincenzo "The Cube" Natali with the blessing of Gibson himself but I've seen no other news in fellow sites or googlealerts. Still, a cherished reader, Riplakoidase has just sent us a link of great interest - pages of the graphic storyboard done for the Joseph Kahn verison and it's all on the blog of the related storyboard artist Dan Fraga - and that's the Istanbul sequence, something I remember quite differently from the book, in fact. Still, if you're a cyberpunk afficionado and you're hungry for some Neuromancer news, that's way better than nothing for a Sunday night. (check out all ten storyboard images on fragaboom.blogspot.com)
cthulhu cosplay (with real snakes)
And the weekly WTF video comes from not /b/ or any of the fetish boards but popculture hitmen IO9 themselves. What you're about to see is 1, quite disturbing for the faint-hearted 2, quite WTF for us raised on gore sites 3, a wonderful dedication of human flesh to the Lovecraftian gods 4, a weirdingly apt Cthulhu cosplay (we could imagine more snakes woven into a human body but then again, who couldn't). And we raise an eyebrow over the fact that this came from Sichuan serpent master Lui Fei (and yes, those snakes are venomous), not anyone from Japan. We've seen mutating cosplay acts from Thailand, this from mainland China, a shroud of secrecy from Vietnam.. Japanese WTF, you gotta get your weirdness straight and upfucked once again. Even Coffee Bukkake Man is boring after a few days of uncontrollable giggling. (via io9)
FEST VIDEO: Black Magick Vol. II.
BLACK MAGICK VOL II ∞ DROP DEAD FESTIVAL
feat. King Dude // Modern Witch // Gemeine Gesteine // Death of Abel // reliqimage: dielamb + xorzyzt
sound: jonny teardrop + xorzyzt (reliq) + grayl (reliq)
actors: helga wretman + jannis birsner + jonathan katz
styling: kyle callanan + larissa bechtold
POST-APOCALYPTIC SHORT FILM: ROSA
ROSA is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind’s last attempt to restore the earth’s ecosystem. Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.
The short-film was created entirely by young comic-artist Jesús Orellana with no budget during a single year. Since it's world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival, ROSA has been an official selection at film festivals around the world such as Screamfest, Toronto After Dark, Anima Mundi or Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival. In October ROSA was screened at the opening night of the Sitges International Film Festival, considered the world's best festival specialized in genre films. Following the succesful festival run, the short film has attracted the attention of the major talent-agencies and Hollywood producers. Currently ROSA is in development to be a live-action motion picture. (via vimeo, recommended by Matt of Machetegirl, more on rosamovie.com)
CYBERPUNK SHORT FILM: XXIT
Micro-budget 12 minute cyberpunk short by Stargate Studios, channelling a whole lot of Blade Runner, centered around a time-traveling replicant who's out to save her "donor" in the past in San Francisco. Confusing? Yes. Storywise? Cliché. Firstgen? Very. Atmosphere? Perfect. Get someone on board who can get between the niche cracks of the genre and you'll come up with something even more groundbreaking. I need a whole series of that, the quality is so there. (As recommended by ToBal!)
The film, embedded above, was shot digitally on a Canon EOS C300 camera by Stargate Studios, which earlier designed visual effects for The Walking Dead and Heroes. (...) The crew shot the production on the streets of San Francisco using six handheld cameras that cost $20,000 apiece. (via wired)
new Will Wright game transforms your data into a game
Will Wright’s next game, titled HiveMind, will harvest players’ personal information and turn that data into customized gameplay situations, the Sims creator revealed in a VentureBeat interview on Wednesday. (...) Wright’s plan is to have HiveMind use this data in order to lead players into a gameplay situation based on their real-life hobbies and interests. Wright used a real-life example in which he stumbled upon a gathering of car enthusiasts — a hobby he himself shared. If HiveMind knew about Wright’s passion for cars, it could direct him to an identical situation in the game. (via wired)
vakondok 2: demoscene dokumentumfilm, decemberi vetítés
Azt mondja nekem a Gargaj (aki eddigi ismeretségünk során vagy mérhetetlenül stresszes volt vagy díjnyertes dolgokat pakolt le az asztalra, nem láttam tőle köztes állapotot, szerinte ugyanaz a kettő), hogy könnyezni fognak a buddhák, ha nem nézem meg a Vakondok 2 dokufilmet, megnéztem a fenti trailert, kezdem sajnálni, hogy nem mentünk el a november 17-i Düreres vetítésre. Ami viszont jó: december 10-én van másodpremier (persze nem így hívják, de értsd, amíg nem lehet letölteni, addig igazából minden nézés premier) az Experience 11-en, lehet készülni. Mutatok mást is, csak hogy értsétek, hogy miért kell lelkesedni, ez is Gargajküldelem. (Amúgy van előzménye underground street culture vonalon, a tavalyi New York International Independent Film Festivalon legjobb nemzetközi kult dokufilm díjat nyert, they fucking ROCK, amúgy.)
Az új rész a Demoscene digitális művészeti szubkultúra mélyére ássa le magát, egy olyan alkotóközösséget bemutatva, ami lassan 30 éve létezik világszinten elismert magyar alkotókkal, mégsem tud róluk szinte senki semmit. A történet akkor kezdődött, amikor a számítástechnika terjedésével a már jól megszokott művészeti platformok mellé újabbak nőttek, melyek részben a régi ágazatokat digitalizálták, részben pedig teljesen új művészeti formákat hoztak létre. Régen a kép-, és hangalapú művészetek a szellemi alkotóképesség mellett általában fizikális, főleg kézi ügyességet is megköveteltek. Mára a számítógépes programozás és a matematika lehetővé tette, hogy pusztán szellemi alkotófolyamat útján, a fizikális képességeket kizárva hozhassunk létre egészen újfajta művészeti alkotásokat. A számítástechnika világunk leggyorsabban fejlődő ága, mely egyre újabb lehetőségeket teremt a művészet terén is. A Vakondok most egy olyan közösséget mutat be, ahol a legmodernebb technika mellett néha kifejezetten a számítástechnika hőskorából származó megoldásokból próbálják meg kihozni a legjobbat.
DOCUMENTARY: Battlefield 3 FPS gaming simulator
(...) we showed you an amazing PC gaming setup that involved five HD projectors, an omni-directional treadmill, wireless gun peripheral, ambient lighting and paintball gun. (...) this clip shows how the thing was built, and goes into greater detail explaining how it actually works (...) You'll also, if this is your thing, get extended views at a British man howling in pain as he's peppered with paintballs while his motion control system breaks down. (via kotaku)
KICKSTARTER: support The Tide (Limbo-inspired short film)
Limbo, a true monochrome monogatari of perfection in the indie game industry (and a game that we also score as 10/10 and consider it one of the greatest releases in 2011) is now something of an inspiring jewel for The Samsquanch Team who set out to release a short film very much in its vein. Although the original $3000 budget is already met, check out their Kickstarter page and donate a few bucks until Nov 26 - I'm definitely sold for their project. (via Riplakoidase)
razor coated candies: number 10, a november edition
Razor Coated Candies was a video collection of weird little jewels you can make strange friends with back in the days when I was working for the video startup Dragontape. This is the tenth and most possibly the last-but-one etape of the series, leaving the last 3-hours long one being an endless chain of the best tracks I've found this year (their recent changes in the editor makes it near impossible to do a proper crossfade without volume glitches and that's just one of the numerous frustrating mixmaking problems). Still, expect a kick-ass mix mid-December and have fun listening to this melancholic throatstab.
Always,
The Damage
1. CELLDWELLER - Own Little World (Klayton's We Will Never Die mix)
2. SKRILLEX - First of the Year (Equinox)
3. PHAELEH - Afterglow (feat. Soundmouse)
4. ICONA POP - Manners
5. WOLF GANG - The King and All of His Men
6. THE HELLFREAKS - Boogie Man
7. ZOLA JESUS - Vessel
8. COLLIDE - Mind Games
9. FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - Shake it Out
10. THE OPIATES - Anatomy of a Plastic Girl
11. ANGELSPIT - Channel Hell
12. THE GOOD NATURED - Skeleton
13. EMMON - Rock d'Amour
14. THE CREEPSHOW - The Garden
15. THE GOOD NATURED - Your Body is a Machine
16. NIKI & THE DOVE - Mother Protect (Swedish House Mafia bootleg feat. Afrojack)
17. ESKMO - Cloudlight
corning's future of glass
Yet another concept video revoking the almost pornographic love for glass or glass simile touchscreens and most of this tech has been out there in the Microsoft Future vision videos. Reminds me of the same stuff that gives me headaches during finishing up the last few dozen pages of the book I'm working on: we've seen this so many times it's already a cliché and those three compulsory paragraphs of The Enthusiastic Blogger's simply not coming out. Not enthusiastic about that kind of glossy wanking. Not saying I wouldn't be the first one to get subdermal circuitry implanted to get online inside my own brain without cables but that is so much flashy consumer technology that I'm only interested whether it can be hacked, gotten off the surveillance grid and used for porn. (corning.com)
mondo 2011 november: újságosoknál az új szám
Van új Mondo az újságosoknál, vigyétek, tartalmi dumpot dobom: Kilari 2. évad, vámpíros animék és sorozatok, Kai Doh Maru, Twilight képregény, Arc, a kölyök, Transzcendentális gyilkolás, Harry Potter, a túlélő, Xenoblade Chronicles, The Sims 3, Dark Souls, Okkultizmus a mangában, Yuujoo Toshi, Gilgamesh, Bible Black, Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin, Nabari No Oo, Ghost Hunt, Kamikaze Kaitoo Jeanne, Devil Beside You, MondoCon 2011, An Cafe, Versailles, mflo, Rage meg pár oldalnyi én, összesen ebben a számban tíz oldal, ha jól számolom, eddig pénzben számoltam árat, de most lehet a sarki black-ops coffeemérő extrakondenz áraiban is hét kávéval mérni és legalább annyira egészségtelen. There, I said it. (more at mondoweb.hu)
NEW LOOT: the SVK comic (by ellis, d'israeli & berg)
SVK reinvented comics, nice first sentence, quite dramatic, though. Take a step back, reiterate.
SVK is a healthy transfusion of Cherenkov light and battery acid blood into the heart of the comics industry turned a tad uncogged and shambling. Warren Ellis, misanthropic PCP godhead of the hard-edge counterculture, Matt D'Israeli Brooker (with art and inkery dipped into Judge Dredd, Future Shocks, Sandman or Kill Your Boyfriend) and London-based design agency BERG stands behind this shoulder-mounted package of sheer ROCK and a whole lot of Easter Eggs, turned into something of a cheeky prodigal bastard child.
Ellis calls SVK a Kafkaesque Bourne Identity and he has truth, revealing emerging issues of data clouds, information leakage, surveillance and active lens technology through an object called SVK (quite similar to the prototype in Gibson's Virtual Light) and the eyes and actions of Thomas Woodwind, an Ellisesque protagonist of a troubled professional background, a blood-spangled mercenary mindset and a hacker sidekick to make a contemporary spy story look straight enough.
The greatness? The issues breathing down on your neck and those same cards played out in the narrative to get the creative cells going. The idea of multiple layers of narrative -reading the comic is one thing, then reading it again with the SVK (strategic vigilance key) object - a branded one-shot blacklight - will reveal extra facets of visual and contextual elements to combine back into the big picture. The foreword praise by William Gibson. The extra know-how ramblings by Jamais Cascio and Paul Gravett. The hilariously brilliant ads from breeding pygmy elephants to DNA-altering trousers, 4D printers and cerebellum plugins that will teach you Japanese in just 30 years? This is just like reading your first mind- and brain-altering comics under the blanket with a flashlight. Only this is the futurepast and only blacklights will do.
Get your copy of SVK and its designated weird little reader card before it's too late.
the transfinite
cannot unlove the glitch of ryoji ikeda gone completely satori this time, now it's a bit too much fucked up about the bratislava trip, still hoping to get there, muchly (more at the park avenue armory about the transfinite installation, his datamatics lastfm event is here)
megint írtam két fejezetet (jobs: a digitális kor látnoka)
Reggelt. Megint megjelenik egy könyv, amibe írtam fejezetet, a Szalay Könyveknél holnap polcrólhúzható Steve Jobs: a digitális kor látnoka címűbe rögtön kettőt is, holnap még bemutató is lesz hozzá, ahol kóválygunk egy sort és zavaros szemekkel nézzük egymást a bemutatókra-sajtótájékoztatókra kötelező érvénnyel bal hátsó vagy jobb első sarokba belőtt terüljterüljasztalkámon keresztül, a könyvbe szintén bedolgozó @dawe_ dorsetnaga-injekciókat szúr majd a tér véletlenszerű pontjaira, akár van ott ember, akár nincs, aztán ti megveszitek és fikázni fogjátok vagy a konyhakövön csúszva-karmolászva zokogtok azért, hogy elhunyt Steve, akit annyira közel éreztetek magatokhoz, hogy már majdnem egy osztályba jártatok vele, de aztán persze mégsem. Mi meg asszimiláljuk az összes elfogyasztható kávét, aztán még aznap elhúzunk Pozsonyba Ryoji Ikeda livera a biopunk hazai helytartójával. Majd kaptok belőle sorvezetős-japános videót. Kellemes hetet előre.
11/11/11: what will you bring us? (nitronic rush, skyrim, haujobb - new world march)
Just reading on TIGSource that 11/11/11 will not only bring us SKYRIM, the latest fantasy sandbox extravaganza in the Elder Scrolls series (scroll below for a wonderful teaser about their sound/orchestral background work) but also a wonderful piece of neon threesome including Tron Legacy, Rez and the Wipeout series and what was born out of the cherenkov fucklock was nothing less than Nitronic Rush, an amazing piece of high-style-all-action racing game that'll be released as freeware by the Digipen guys - more info at nitronic-rush.com (or their Facebook page) and yes, the trailer music is a part of the game soundtrack.
Musicwise: more bitchslapping treats. This time last month Angelspit's released their new album Hello My Name Is, featuring some kick-ass renegade industrial, pretty much unlike their previous stuff: more guitars, more punk, more raw, less decency! (Their Soundcloud is full of new stuff to check out.) If that ain't right, tune in this month, same eleventh: sample Haujobb's New World March and all their schizoid-technoid pumping IDM beats will scorch the planet through Tympanik, one of the most promising record labels this year.
lollipop chainsaw
Lollipop Chainsaw focuses on zombie hunter and cheerleader Juliet Starling (voiced by Tara Strong) who, along with members of her family and her boyfriend, a disembodied head, fight hordes of zombies in San Romero High School, where Starling formerly cheered. The enemy zombies are led by "a group of zombie rock and roll lords". (via wikipedia, more at the official lc site)
