korean designers release solar powered shades
Called Infinite Energy: SIG, the sunglasses are designed to turn the rays that it blocks out into electrical energy, providing protection and power all at the same time. The sunglasses have a wire sticking out of them that you can plug into your gadgets (get ready to carry around a million adapters with you if these things are ever real) and juice them up. (via dvice)
2008 extreme porn star champion of the year: stoya
The Q3+Q4 evaluation of [pd] is coming up in a few hours and this new post on Fleshbot about Stoya might just give you an idea about what interested my readers and what the hottest topics were. If I'm taking all your hits very seriously, I might just turn into an adult blog. With Tesla dongs. Happy Xmas by the way for all of you with this pink if you can't wait for the perfect dec24 Xmas image I found a coupla days ago.
coilhouse issue 02 is out in a few days
Issue 02 of the Coilhouse mag is out in a few days - on the inside cover you can see above, Margaret Cho. (via coilhouse)
something against the pouring rain, flashback
Just something against the pouring rain while updating simultaneously for four sites - French techno god Laurent Garnier's Flashback is one of the funniest nineties techno videos I've seen and trust me, this brief creativity hiatus will pass like fuck as soon as I manage to sleep 24 hours in a row. Or at least 12. Or something.
(via grinding.be)
analogue sequencing tutorial: new blipvert by angelspit
If you're interested in more in-depth stuff about analogue sequencing and modulars, read the lengthy article Zoog of Angelspit wrote for The Dose. Which is making a comeback by the way. Only in a better way. (via analogue perversion)
angelspit amelia ends up on a tattoo, gets twittered
Amelia "Angelspit" Arsenic's tweets out her manifestation on someone - apparently either DJ Von Ernst or someone related. (via amelia's twitterfeed)
[DD~1211] daily drums
Dose 2 of the weekly best office psy tracks comes from two separate streams - the latter one comes from last week's Philosomatika stream (this one has the album names as well), while the former's from Digitally Imported (without any info on the albums). The visu environment was still a bunch of Milkdrop agents: Aderrasi's Airhandler (Last Breath - Calm), Eo.S.' starburst 01, fiShbRaiN's the machine that conquered the world (domination remix), Flexi + Geiss' Bipolar vs. reaction diffusion, ORB's Fire and Fumes 2, Rovastar's Tripmaker (Space Trip mix) and Vovan + Geiss' Bass With Flower (Feedback mix). (Pics come from fractal-recursions.com)
Benza - Square Pyramid
Altoem - Groove Control
Blowfish - Liquid Eyes
Dimitry Zara vs Synthogen - Escom
Deviant Electronics - Viral Spiral
Gene Joke - Aphrodite
Central Processing Unit - Crapule Continuum
Electric Universe - Equilibrio
Brainiac - System Overdrive (VA - E-Dentificatons v1)
Space Buddha - Legendary Lighting (No Shields)
Ovnimoon - Open the Third Eye (VA - Psydance)
VirtualLight - Dear Human (Goa Psy Dance mix) (VA - Goa Trance Missions Vol 1)
Principles Of Flight - Inferno (VA - Ministry of Chaos)
Bio Genesis - Hemisphere (VA - The Dark Side of the Groove)
Xenzodiak - Sargent Groove Supra (VA - Try Before Buy)
Digicult - Star Travel (Out of This World)
Zen Mechanics - Industry Of Love (Holy Cities)
Ephedrix - Frontiers (Far Away)
Painkiller vs Bliss - Show Time (VA - Trance Red Zone - Secret Runner)
M-Theory - Why Here (VA - Echo)
Metaphase - Oksygen (VA - Ticket To Goa Vol. 5)
Space Vision Vs Sensitive - Game Over (VA - Bad Company)
Headroom - I Don˙t Tech No for an Answer (VA - Map of Goa Vol 4)
Gora Chandra - Rabu (VA - Little Worlds)
i love katamari on iphone
Just when I thought I could put an end to the gaming needs (and not even the otherwise brilliant Left 4 Dead could keep me down), Offworld posts the news that the cultic Katamari franchise brings a new wildfire chaos baby that's now available through ITunes. Disastrously fantastic. I am now doomed. (via bb offworld)
dj mayhem & mc mouthmaster murf's robocop rap
And the number of sources is legion. Because all you embraced all the sanity loss that I'm going to live with with the twisted little sinister fuck kind of caring.
max headroom: classic 80s cyberpunk pilot episode on google video
Max Headroom is intense, harsh and somewhat obscure - the first almost British cyberpunk TV series that ever surfaced (and one that had a pretty huge impact on the European hoodies-and-mirrorshades subculture) apparently still doesn't deserve a decent DVD release. (I previously said Max Headroom's a British series and I'm almost right about that, the original movie, 20 Minutes into the Future the US series was based upon was actually coming out of Britain's trippy mind.) Last week I had this article on finding full-length feature movies and TV series on videosharing sites and that's the first droplet of many (actually, if we consider good SF and cyberpunk, not that many) - Google Video has the first US (sort of pilot) episode of Max Headroom. If you're not living in the technically and accesswise pretty much buttfucked .hu area, Joost also has the Blipverts episode. Eat funky trivia on maxheadroom.com.
tranzitblog: maróy on the decks
Ahogy látom, pont elcsúsztam egy komplett héttel az értesítéssel, de legalább egyben elolvashatjátok Maróy Ákos kamarád anyagait a tranzitblogon: arról gondolkodik, hogy a művészeti projektekben miért olyan nagy a titkolózás, a féltékenység, az eredmények nempublikálása, a tudásmegosztás hiánya (Tudásmegosztás hiánya a művészeti életben), miért kényelmetlenek és gyakorlatiatlanok a sci-fikben, például a fent is megnézhető Minority Report egyik részletében látható interfészek (Az interface felületessége), illetve miért nem működnek az emberek hozzánemértése és kvázi hübrisze miatt a projektek (Kritikátlanság).
For more info on Maróy: blogja mellett van (egyétek meg a biot is) egy kormánybeszerzésekkel foglalkozó infoblog is, illetve a HVG Onlineon cikkeztük még le augusztusban a Corpora projektet, amit a doubleNegatives Architecture csapattal alkotott meg a Velencei Építészeti Biennáléra.
agrippa: self-destruction now on google video
Ismerős, ne? Gibson monstrózusan hosszú életrajzi költeményét, az Agrippa: A Book of the Dead-et keresztülrágták már a kérődző, patás akadémikusnövendékek, csodájára jártak, hogy a verset tartalmazó Mac-diskette csak egyszerolvasható, a képernyőn nemcsak scrollozik a vers, hanem egy szubrutin ezt menet közben kódolja is (mindezt 1992-ben), született belőle rengeteg esszé (egyetem óta megfogadtam, hogy nagyon kevés ilyet fogok olvasni, Marilouise Krokernél mindig megbánom, hogy), videóra is vették mindezt, fent ez látszik, teljes hosszban, természetesen a szövegből semmi sem olvasható a kisfelbontás miatt, de a szöveget fentebb úgyis linkeltem, a The Agrippa Files archívból meg mindenki kimazsolázza magának így vasárnap késő délelőtt a szükségességet, én most nem. (the agrippa files)
processing: more visuculture, more wants
Elszaladt velem a csatakos vizuálkultúrális ló - a demoscene.tv instant gratification, a napi munkát úgy végzem két képernyő előtt, hogy az egyiken nyolc órából legalább hatban visuk futnak, hogy jobban tudjak fókuszálni a legsúlyosabb poénokat felhozó office quadrantban (meg mert nyilván jól néz ki, a főnökségnek a fraktálalagutak tetszenek a legjobban), aztán ahogy a tranzitblogos cikkem óta kicsivel jobban ránéztem a Processingre, azóta nem hagy nyugodni, instantwant lett az Advanced Beauty DVD (ez egy hosszabb Pingmag-anyag videókkal, a lenti videó, Jelle Feringa munkája is innen jön), a Spotworks meg az olyan könyvek, mint a VJ: Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture meg a vE-jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video.
Az első fekvőrendőr nyilván ott jön, hogy kell beszerezhető resource, nézed az Amazont egy darabig, hogy most megrendeld-e a hardcovert vagy ne rendeld meg, több könyv is van, még rosszabb, megjön-e Karácsonyig vagy majd ünnepek között kell becaplatnod hegynek fel a csomagodért, Eno szóljon-e közben, hogy fel bírj menni vagy Noisia, aztán jön az ötlet, hogy miért nem nézed meg a Scribden inkább, könyveket ott is érdemes mostanában keresni és voilá: a Processing-guru Reas és Fry könyvéből fent van egy nagyobb excerpt, Ira Greenberg Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art című darabja pedig teljes hosszban terpeszkedik, úgyhogy lehet nézni és tölteni a bölcsességet, bekötöm mindkét embedet, hogy többet köhögjön a gépetek, kommentezni nem képes, savanyú banda!
UPDATE 1: Greenberg könyvét mégsem embeddelem, itt a link, ahol meg tudjátok nézni, irgalmatlanul belassítana egyébként.
愛着, the definition
You might remember this post from a month ago, partly because whoever tried to translate this got it all jumbled up and wrong. And seriously, Webster online is nowhere near the exact subtle truth - mostly because it doesn't have the vocab for aesthetic and design principles. John Maeda has them - and the kanjis come from his book "The Laws of Simplicity" I managed to grab in a Soho bookstore back in September with Tommy Mesmer (and currently we're working on a very funky project, but more about that next year). So here's what Maeda has to say about the kanjis:
愛着
aichaku is the Japanese term for the sense of attachment one can feel for an artifact. When written by its two kanji characters, you can see that the first character means "love" and the second one means "fit". "Love-fit" describes a deeper kind of emotional attachment that a person can feel for an object. It is a kind of symbiotic love for an object that deserves affection not for what it does, but for what it is. (Laws of Simplicity, get it on Amazon)
As it happens, I'm doing nothing by the book. Artifact is right, object is wrong.
rihanna umbrella cover by hungarian dark/electro girlband black nail cabaret
Végül minden dolog visszatalál a saját medrébe. Hiába vált a kezdeti Kollektívák után egyre lomhábbá a felvegyült Art Macabre tehetsége, a mindig stabil minőséget hozó alapítótag Emke és Soffy saját projektekkel fut tovább: Emke saját könyvvel jelentkezett (a Csak a madarak című könyvet mellette Barok "Louise" Eszter jegyzi), Soffy fejdísz-bizniszben mozog, az LD50es idők alatt pedig időről időre felröppent, hogy a lányok közösen akarnak bandát, ez forog a fejemben, amikor a Black Nail Cabaret dolgait hallgatom (amiről meg Emke blogjából értesültem, hey there). Rihanna Umbrellája már több hónapja úgyis azzal a felhanggal lüktet a bázison, hogy mekkora dnb remixet lehetne belőle gyártani, vagy mást, csak legyen átforgatva teljesen, ez most sikerült, furcsán is, feketén is. Lentebb egy régi monokróm monogatari egy hatsávos autópálya mellől, eredetileg a Kollektíva 2 szórólapjáról.
mescaline's view: a steampunk machinima through bogon flux
Wagner James Au of New World Notes sez, this machinima is... a travelogue exploration through the Bogon Flux, a wonderfully strange, self-assembling, self-destructing, steampunky city comprised of rusty pipes and metal chambers... On first viewing (recommended to me by Geuis Teses), I thought the video with its smoky and grainy sepia visuals were heavily processed in post-production. (via boingboing via nwn)
tron 2 renamed to trz, receives 3D treatment
Tron is not only the first mainstream cyberpunk franchise (by none other than Disney - followed by a quite okayish FPS entitled Tron 2.0), it's also flashing its way back to the movie screens in 2011. The San Diego Comic Con trailer - re-posted above, featuring a subtle mouthwatering lightcycle action sequence and Jeff Bridges - promised us the title TR2N, that's recently been, for unknown reasons, renamed to TRZ.
The script's being worked on by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz of the Lost fame and is directed by Joseph Kosinski, straight into stereoscopic 3D (similar to the SDCC trailer). Ain't It Cool News also adds that the movie's going to be a twenty-four months movie project, so TRZ might be finished up completely by late 2010. Michael Wilkinson from the Watchmen production crew is responsible for the costumes and Steven Lisberger, the creator of the original TRON movie is hired as a consultant. Slashfilm writes that "external riders seen in the Comic Con preview were actually part of his original design, but deemed too technologically challenged for the original 1982 film". Slashfilm also has a Production Weekly synopsis and an insight on that:
“After being transported into the surreal landscape of a mainframe computer to destroy an intruder, a programmer finds himself allied with the leader of a rebellion against a corrupt cyber-entity.” The early test footage/trailer shown at comic con featured Jeff Bridges, reprising his role as a programmer named Flynn from the first film, but possibly with a turn to the dark side. If the new plot synopsis is true, this would mean that Flynn is teaming with a new programmer to defend the system from his former friend Tron.
And eat the classic Tron production stills while you're at it.
zoetrope: lustmord, kafka, metaphysics. and clockporn.
Adobe might have invented an intriguing analytical system (still in a youtube demo phase), but this is more like the real deal, a 18-minutes long monochrome monogatari based on Kafka's In the Penal Colony (did you actually know there was an EBM-ish band in the nineties called Penal Colony? Check their Freemasons of Enochian Magick here) and uses a soundtrack by none other than the noise lover community's god of grandeur, Lustmord. Charlie Deaux's movie Zoetrope is thankfully available on Amazon.
saturday sizzle, one point zero
DeBeers HQ, Japan. Behind the link, according to Mike, "funky Japanese architecture" (via mikesblender)
Dutch artist Desiree Palmen's series "Camouflage" and "Surveillance Camera Project", presented by IO9 - the subjects have gone to the extremes to hide themselves. Chameleons, prototypical users of cloaking technology, so they say. (via io9)
Okay. Why this ends up here is because I'm watching the Windscreen from a very fucked up angle, so I'm not exactly seeing this Bless S/S eyewear as it is, it's more like "plz tone it down to mid-black and then it's like you can't see shit with these on, so it's either linked in via a direct neural interface into your brains or I wouldn't love to imagine". Or this could be just a wireframe with the beads serving as the screen itself. (via electroplankton)