#musicfriday - scott brown (3 by 1, against the rain and all)
Producer from Glasgow, Scotland. Considered to be one of the most important figures in the Scottish music scene. His unique Bouncy Techno sound helped put many other artists on the world scene. As well as producing various material from Gabber to Trance, Scott has also hit the charts with his band Q-Tex and had numerous other recordings released all over the world. (via discogs, scott brown myspace)
mondo fotózás: behind the scenes, 2010 október
Ugyan csak tegnap került ki a standokra a szeptemberi Mondo, de kaptok némi behind-the-scenes előzetest az októberi számból, hogyan fotózzunk macskával, indiai fűszerekkel egy olyan lakásban, ahol a Foursquare egyetlen venuet dob ki, annak is az a neve, hogy anyád, utána az év legvállalhatatlanabb, de annál jószívűbb gyorshajtása úgy, hogy egyúttal unlockoljuk is a GTA it out in Budapest achievementet, Twitter alá (flutter!) összefoglalva: imádtuk. A modell Juhász Adrienn, a smink Fehérvári Orsi, a fotók Kassai Balázs, ezeket meg nem annyira titokban én. Sikerült végre írnom egy mondatot, amiben nincs igei állítmány, korona van a mai napon. Négy érzéstelenítővel.
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new tron evolution gameplay trailer
Tron: Evolution is an upcoming action-adventure tie-in video game currently in development by Propaganda Games, to be published by Disney Interactive. It was officially announced at the Spike Video Game Awards and will be released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS platforms on 7 December 2010.
Olivia Wilde will be reprising her role as "Quorra" from the upcoming film, Tron: Legacy. (via wikipedia)
Mirror's Edge parkour in Machine City, really. With lightcycles. Obviously. Oh, the sheer horror of obviousness, the lack of inexplicable, mysterious gameplay elements. Go play Braid instead.
zero history looted
Thanks for this first-minute copy of Zero History to the Pendragon Bookstore where the guys just happened to have one spare copy left. Extra thanks for the rain making the bookstore trip real memorable.
blade runner revisited >3.6 gigapixels
An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott's legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982). This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels). It was made with 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner'. (via dangerousminds.net)
mondo: rácsókoltunk a globális popkultra, tizenkét oldal, maradhat
Megszűnt az anime/manga vonalon mozgó Mondo Magazinban a kétoldalas Damage Report (az előző hat cikket olvashatjátok textben meg Scribden), helyette kaptam egy tizenkét oldalas rovatot, ha a lapker is úgy akarja, a héten már vehetitek/olvashatjátok is az újságosstandoknál, pagedumpokat azért kaptok: főzési tippek a koreai konyháról, zeneajánlók gótlánygitárokra feszítve, Starcraft 2, a filléres vámpírirodalom beindulása, Grant Morrison "The Invisibles" képregénysorozata (mint a Mátrix igazi ötletforrása), Alan Moore és Warren Ellis kevéssé ismert képregényei, női hackerek, valamint kettőezertízre komponált lánymotiváció Vadbarack kolleginától. (Igen, a főszerkesztő közölte, hogy fogalmazzak tíz évvel fiatalabbaknak, azt hiszem, minden mondat hosszát lefeleztem meg kivettem az utalásokat bármire, ez maradt. EAT IT.)
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the shadow broker reveals itself in the new mass effect 2 dlc, available today
Liara T'Soni is tracking down the mysterious Shadow Broker, and no one is safe. She'll do anything to recover the man the Broker kidnapped... and the Shadow Broker's agents will do anything to stop her. Team up with Liara and chase clues from the luxurious heights of Illium to the Shadow Broker's own secret lair. Adds the Shadow Broker intel center, new research, and five new achievements – and the chance to continue a relationship with Liara.
After some eight months of feeling all hyped up about the next most amazing space epic, it's time to actually buy a DLC, spank The Shadow Broker and bounce everyone out the airlock just once. It is 800 MS points, it is on and time for me to get offline and actually disappear for a few days to complete those missions as well. Among other things. Yes. Lair of the Shadow Broker will keep us fresh and sober.
zero history, the new william gibson novel is up for grabs from today
When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn't pay the rent, and right now she's a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing; but there's no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention.
Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the first time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all that. Milgrim's idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck.
The culture of the military has trickled down to the street—Bigend knows that, and he'll find a way to take a cut. What surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he's just not used to it staring back.
And the latest book of cyberpunk / atemporality social commentator, mastermind and grand patriarch William Gibson entitled Zero History is available now, so our minds are filled with sorrow and despair about just how much we have to wait until the postal service finally gets it to our doorstep. But we order it anyway with the boldest of clicks. (order it from amazon)
angelspit meets twist magazine
The Duke of ROCK, Karl Zoog Learmont of Angelspit is back with another septuplet (yes) of interview videos with Twist magazine, nice ideas about how interview is conducted, lighted, cut and gapped with all the gorgeous filth noise going haywire. I've linked the second part of the interview above, but you can start out with the first one here or check this playlist link for all seven parts.
And while we're at it, pre-order their new remix CD Larva Pupa Tank Coffin from their webstore Black Pill Red Pill 'cause it totally ROCKS.
dj palotai @ burning man festival 2010
Yes. One of Hungary's best and most prominent DJs, DJ Palotai rocking out in Nevada in the heat of the counterculture's shiniest fest, Burning Man. Curious to hear his set he played there, anyone care to share? (via @_moire)
in the dark: the birthday massacre releases new music video
The Birthday Massacre releases their new music video In the Dark off their forthcoming album Pins and Needles, due 17th of September with a slight touch of The Ringu and The Cure's Lullaby. Enjoyable and Chibi & Co. has grown only better with their bittersweet violet-striped-and-polkadotted fairy goth pop.
superfast fitness with dylan moran, blood axis and les joyaux de la princesse
Hello. I am The Damage and this is already September, autumn time, Earth. I am six coffees into the day and the creative process has decided to whore itself out on the streets, stoning ideas to death in the cold and bringing them to me, de-furring them, then placing them raw on my plate for idea sushi time. I am obviously threatened by forces of authority to keep deadines sacred and idea sushi time doesn't look like it's gonna come soon. The creative process is giving blowjobs somewhere in Latvia, according to the Google Latitude I use in these dreary times. Until it comes back, I am playing albums I didn't realize I will ever need, but such is life. It is a time of weird interference when I mix one of the greatest modern Irish stand-up comedians, Dylan Moran and one of the most perfect martial industrial/dark ambient album I've ever heard, Absinthe: La Folie Verte by Blood Axis & Les Joyaux de la Princesse. The original video is below but I dare you to click this link to get to the weird YouTube Doubler. It has irony, sadness and lots of eggs.
zola jesus
Zola Jesus is Nika Roza Danilova, an opera-trained caterwauler from Madison, Wisconsin who makes noise music that scrapes and glistens in equal measure. She loves Ian Curtis and Lydia Lunch, and their uncompromising tendencies can be heard throughout her bruising, beautiful recent album, The Spoils. (...) (She's also a member of Former Ghosts, the latest project from This Song Is a Mess But So Am I's Freddy Ruppert, which also involves Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart.) (zola jesus myspace, via pitchfork, image via hplusson)
machete girl: cyberpunk zine from australia
Australian cyberpunk in the spotlight again! A PDF zine with two free issues to download, MACHETE GIRL is a good up-and-coming project with a good eye for urban girl eyecandy and fashion and all the first/second generation cyberpunk themes - this second issue (above) is taking a dive into transhumanism, for example - and even if they barely scratch the surface, they surely offer articles that will make interested readers dig deeper. Being a zine editor myself, I can only congratulate them for the stuff they do - making a countercultural zine is always very fun and very hard at the same time. But the effort is there. Appreciate the effort and download Machete Girl. Did I mention they have nice dailykawaii ladies? (machetegirl.com)
dose energy drink: look what the kat dragged in
Look what the kat dragged in: our newest find in the shop, [big dose] energy drink, colorharmonizing with the latest cover. And by the way, buy our latest issue for 4 euros and get lots of hints about Parisian (and French) alternative and counterculture, all in gonzo. (www.thedosemag.com)
atari teenage riot activate budapest
Hétfőtizenhárom, újra szívcsúcson csap a berlini/globális anarchialöket, újra összeáll a leghangosabb, legzajosabb, legdühösebb és legstroboszkópfényesebb lázadóexpressz, az ATARI TEENAGE RIOT. A frontember Alec Empiret már sikerült párszor mikrofon mögé szorítani, a legutóbbi pesti etapnál mintha már jóval visszafogottabb és pozitívabb lett volna. Régen még azt vettük le sokan a zenéből, hogy le kell rombolni mindent, hogy újra lehessen építeni, aztán inkább az lett belőle, hogy meg kell változtatni a dolgokat a gyökereiknél, de elvtestvére, Zan Lyons londoni film- és zeneművész összerakta tíz év után az első ATR-videoklipet és egyértelműen látszik belőle, hogy a nemdestroy változtatáshoz is kell az, hogy a mélyládák előtt ketten csapjanak tüdőn könyökkel félfordulatból. Gyönyörű, vegytiszta tisztítótűz lesz a Trafóban. Mi megyünk. (via trafo.hu)
hús: nem tudtuk feloldani
Legőszintébb reményeink ellenére sem tudta feloldani a BSZ2FY teljes csapata a nyers csirkehúst: vagy a cola light nem oldja a húst, vagy éjszaka valaki bravúrral köpött a szekrény tetejére bújtatott pohárba egy adag nyállal és hínárral kevert pálinkát, a végeredmény mindenesetre gusztustalan és penetráns lett, ezt pedig meg kell osztanunk. Ütőképes homegrown biológiai fegyver gyártására viszont egészen jó technika. (Mielőtt kisüthettem volna, hogy ízre is annyira rossz-e, mint szagra, tucatnyi lány kérte sírva, hogy húzzam le kétszer a Balaton mélyén, a síró fehérnép meg olyan, mint a kibiztosított Glock, engedelmeskedsz neki.) Beljebb a before és az after, nagyobb felbontásban.
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planetdamage: the 22 most important albums of my life
This is a 22/31 and yet without any Tarot references, a slightly unprepared, yet a mundanely complete take on the current "what are your fifteen favourite albums" on Facebook. A bitch of a task, if you ask me. I had a hell of a lot more important albums and even a lot more significant ones, apparently these quizzes are not for those who consume music. But these are the first to come to mind. The next similar post will have Tarot references. Inside: a list and video embeds.
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cosplay: subject zero jack from mass effect 2
Jack, resident whackjob of the SSV Normandy, portrayed wonderfully by Jia Crens. There's a level of dedication here that borders on the fanatical. In a good way. See, Jia not only models in the shots here, but also made the costume (it's a flesh-coloured bodysuit, not ink-on-flesh) and, most amazingly, even submitted herself to the barber's clippers, going so far as to have Jack's hair "design" shaved into her scalp. (jiajem.com via kotaku)
aphex twin does interactive augmented reality
At this weekend London Electronic Festival (LED) Aphex Twin used live facial recognition to map the audience and overlay images of his own, trademark distorted face. Mesmerising and disturbing in equal measure! (at nerdcore via dangerous minds)
caprica season 1.5 preview
Caprica will resume the second half of its first season in January 2011, alongside the return of Stargate Universe. The exact premiere dates are to be announced. Following long-established practice, however, a new trailer for Caprica's season 1.5 is already out. It made its debut at Comic-Con to much excitement. (via scifi.about.com)
café allongé (complete short film)
And this, I believe is part of paying a tribute to the late master of Japanese animation, Satoshi Kon, who passed away two days ago, 24th of August, 2010. What Kawanimation (check their Vimeo pool) did with their almost seven minutes is an hommage to Satoshi Kon's anime itself - watch and enjoy. It has bits of juvenile drama in it and how Yannick, the young protagonist tries to initiate a score on a young lady. With devastating results. The image comes from the blog of creator Maxime Paccalet. And while you're at it, check user elchoupi on YouTube, he has amazing pieces of French animation among his uploads.
more cosplay from blame! and mass effect 2
Küldöm ezt az egész (kétdarabos) válogatást a BSZ2 fuckyeah summer 2010 résztvevőinek, mert ha már kelős-kávézós-kertitörpénlovagolós human vuvuzela cosplay, human centipede cosplay és repülő emberi sívóhomok-magzat cosplay is volt (ezek azért háromnapos nemvalós kiképzés során könnyebben mennek, mint akkor, amikor még működik a rosszabbik fajta írói én, na ezt kell megtörni még idén), akkor gyorscheck arra, hogy mások hogyan csinálják, amikor ők komolyan, na ők így komolyan. Megyek is félig kész kimcsinek öltözni, addig kattintgassatok szorgalmasan, mert különben szaktanári.
Sure, she's no Yvonne Strahovski, the actual actress behind Mass Effect 2's Miranda Lawson, but Polish model Jessika F is doing a pretty good job nonetheless in this cosplay photo shoot. Put together by Dark Stars Photography, this is a great shoot. And I'm not talking about the lady clad in spandex. I'm talking about the effort that's gone into the role-play, the photoshopped combat and even the fact they found a location that looks like somewhere Miranda and Commander Shepard could actually share a quiet lunch. (Miranda Cosplay, via kotaku)
My costume from Anime North last month. Ivy from Blame! the manga. This was a difficult costume to create, and I'm damn proud of myself for doing it. The photo taken by Solartempest. You can see the entire set under the cosplay section. (This comes from hexreedfly.deviantart.com and is recommended by The One Who Always Has Zillion Links Of Rock, >@honeymooncroon)