asian fetish, to collect a horde of spambots
A few pics to share until I get back online. I'll just kill the possibility to comment, because this would actually invite spambots by the number of LEGION and I wouldn't want that, so send me directmail, mail address at gmail or comment me on Twitter.
a note of departure, naga jolokia infusion, japanese lessons
Hello, filthy, filthy readers, stalkers, spies, the Traning Office Block (and Dawe and the Scourge of Doom @ McCann ) and Miss Saltwhite and also that guy (or hopefully, girl) who's xs'ing my blog from New Caledonia, apparently via a PS3. Dear guy (or hopefully, girl), please send me a weird photo of yourself that's possibly incriminating. It would be a proof of yet unprecendented friendship.
New Caledonia must be a nice place, that's what Wikipedia tells me, it was basically used as a cum and leprosy depository back in the sixteenth, then they had penal colonies, now it has irreversible devolution and it has the French flag. And we all know since Crécy that the French make sausage out of horses' assholes. And they have *exactly* 401 Seventh-Day Adventist Membership people. But I digress, it surely is a nice place. But I won't really need that photograph.
By the way, please bear with me, check back on the archives if you haven't done so to keep yourself motivated, because in the upcoming days I'll be blogging out mostly personal stuff (if at all), then we're back to cyberpunk and chicks with guns and habanero blowjobs and it will be time for a bit of a showdown and a press release. Really.
mentallo & the fixer - and angels tread the lands again
It's been twelve years, a grey-and-red BASF tape I've been handed, through a chain of people, back at high school, allegedly having the kick-ass cyberpunk sound that's gonna make me into a Japanese mecha so that I could destroy the world a bit more. Obviously, as you all know with a bit of background knowledge or common sense, it wasn't really the case. Paul van Dyk and Zen Paradox were not even close to spiral arms or Molly's fletchette: they were more like windows onto pop culture, your standard last.fm/youtube run, cast into plastic for ninety minutes in times of an ISP meltdown.
But the tape had minutes of wonders. It had Leaether Strip, orchestral dark EBM, pure adrenaline ricocheting off stomping boots, waves of segregation and seething anger against the world, and no small wonder, Claus Larsen, mastermind behind the Danish EBM project has practically single-handedly forged two of the best-quality EBM albums of the nineties, Solitary Confinement and Underneath the Laughter, both on the now defunct Zoth Ommog label. It had Front Line Assembly, two albums again - Caustic Grip and Tactical Neural Implant, straight from Canada and the underground elite intelligentsia of righteously self-proclaimed cyberpunk, melting pot of every piece of cultural meme Bill Leeb could lay his hands on.
And it had Mentallo & The Fixer. And God, did I have several hundreds of kilobytes of text files, secret recipes into the world of industrial music (remember, this is still high school, 1996, only chosen ones had modems back then) and yet I had no intel on them. I knew there was an album entitled Revelations 23 and it had tracks with emotions as huge as the universe, it had love, desperation, anguish, hunger, all the size of the Cosmos and their tracks were movie canvasses that displayed movies even when noone was listening at them. So I fell in love. Twelve years.
And now it turns out that the Mentallo guys (with the help of Ras Dva label head Ric Laciak) release all their older stuff for free, in mp3 downloads, with artworks. You can download Revelations 23 (an interstellar voyage of crying and hysteria with freckles of cosmic dust and beats to cling on to) and Where Angels Fear to Tread (an album much refined in sound, cooler in emotions and more subtle in everything) and then some more, like two Benestrophe albums, way back in time, when doing synth-electro-pop surely looked like a good idea for them (and Sensory Deprivation is one hell of a radio-friendly ride, trust me.)
Mainesthai, their side project is massive. It's a blind god, lobotomized, behind a Nordlead and two CD decks. Seriously, the Mainesthai track Y (and its two remixes) are serious forces of rebellious narrative ambient electro (and their take on Mentallo's tracks are even better). It's splatter electro from the nineties and it's very much not like Velvet Acid Christ or anything from that era. If you opened the door labeled VAC, the room behind that smelled from all the drugs the local pharmacists could cook up for you. If you opened the Mentallo room, it was all crystal clockwork, cosmic bandwidth and catastrophes.
And it's all free for the taking now. It's very much like being a child, again, looking up at the sky with the funny little light in your eye, because the sky's looking back at you. And it's singing. (mentallo.net)
eye jewellery for kabuki lens
Happy Monday, everyone, keep yourself on the edge with first dose of anything you can inhale off the table after the weekend clean-up AND Eric Klarenbeek's Eye Jewellery Project, a new kind of lens including a medical wire with a few crystals on it. From a good angle it almost looks like teardrops, but after going through all what Sisen & co. wears at the Tokyo parties, this is definitely not as extreme as electro^plankton or luxurylaunches puts it.
sexy hacking
Sexy Hacking is creating a series of online videos where sexy girls teach hacking techniques, tips, how-to's, tools, social engineering, security industry news and spoofs. Why read some boring news article or lame documentation when you can get the goods demonstrated by a sexy hacker girl? This is real information security - just sexier.
multiwinia / king of the hill
During the past few months I've been quite lazy checking up on what Introversion's doing. After the genre-creating hacker simulator Uplink, the retro-neon RTS-lookalike Darwinia and the dramatic noone-wins-the-game kind of global nuclear war simulator Defcon, here's the multiplayer version of Darwinia untitled Multiwinia and a quick, very British teaser trailer of its King of the Hill gameplay mode via Kotaku.
yock ichiriduka: disturbing to some, bait to others
Merry Sunday, all of you. If you've been on the darkweb for long, you might know stuff similar to what Yock Ichiriduka's been doing since 2003: kegadoru, power games and fatal injuries along coordinate systems. Recommended via Whitechapel.
jeremy mayer's typewriter figure gallery
Jeremy Mayer collects antique typewriters, but he doesn't display them in a curio cabinet. Instead, he tears them apart, then turns the components into sleek, sci-fi-inspired bugs, skeletons and anatomically correct human figures. Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing. (full gallery at wired)
photovoltaic charger bonsai
A gorgeous piece of thewant - a photovoltaic charger bonsai with 54 leaves, designed by Vivian Muller. The leaves channel electricity into a battery that charges your zonerun gear, from mp3players to iPhones Androids. (via tuvie)
the golden age of sprinkler bukkake
Modern Mechanix on a German firefighter suit from Feb, 1931: The outfit, which looks like a deep sea diver’s uniform is equipped with a sprinkler helmet which operates off a connection attached to the nozzle of the hose. The fireman can control the spray by a simple movement of a hand lever. (via)
repo! the genetic opera: mark it up
Repo!: the Genetic Opera scene Mark It Up is finally back on YouTube, thanks to Eftelsander.
lara croft: revamped
Never been a fan of Lara Croft, haven't played Tomb Raider and the only archaeologist mystic adventurers I dig are the Planetary crew. But you really did see this coming, didn't you? Alison Carroll (23) from Croydon is the new LC. And I'm not posting the insanely bad NSFW crotch shot here. (via daily mail)
buildings with user interfaces
In this design project, called Signterior, architect Nobuhiro Nakamura uses a computer-like interface to help people to navigate a large Shanghai office and shopping structure. (link, via io9 via dezeen)
virii and pests can and will be copyrighted. srsly.
Last time I had this Hungarian blogpost with a question, like, would RIAA copyright The Black Plague, if they could? Well, I didn't exactly approach the press guys with that, but I didn't really need to, as the next day Open the Future wrote a thought-provoking post about viropiracy or viral sovereignty in connection with the Indonesian H5N1-case, namely, quote, the Indonesian argument -- now set to be ratified by the Non-Aligned Movement general gathering in November -- is that the information derived from viruses found in a particular country should be the property of that country to control as it sees fit, unquote. Although that's because the Jakarta government believes the WHO-affiliated US Medical Naval Research unit is the metaphorical equivalent of a devilish electric urethra catheter in the Islamic land, this basically means, pandemic info is not fed in the infostream directly. (link)
cthulhu lego, predator bust lego, alien lego
Being a child was immensely fun, building post-apocalyptic landscapes out of chunks of lego blocks you could instanly kill a weightlifter or alternatively, a bull, with, but the most creative thing (apart from a very bad hair crashlanding day in NYC) I ever came up with was a tidy little moon base in the corner of the room. Antennas, chemlabs and all that shit, very Parisien, but not really creative.
So all these weird-ass lego creations on Playlandstation (really selected from the lego orgasm galore of Brickshelf) just give me the love bumps and I will so buy everything to build an Alien soldier (by the Arvo brothers), shiny black, oh my god. (My friends have recently made potentially lethal efforts to move me away from a shelf of Technics. Rovers, mecha and everything that we could build REAL mechas from. Beware!)
neuromancer news: coilhouse crowd thinks movie "could be good"
If you've been checking up on the Neuromancer movie news, you'll probably be aware that Case has been renamed to Cage in the official press material, the teaser poster looks like a Bauhaus/steampunk wet dream on mescaline and a tint of artstyness and Hayden Christensen is not listed on the movie's IMDB page at the moment.
You might not know, though, that there's a longer and quite creative thread about Neuromancer on Coilhouse (who have actually released their first print version that doesn't get into wide circulation so order them like fuck, I've already done so) and there you have a YouTube embed of Kahn's version of the George Michael track Freeek and it looks very slick to be cyberpunkish, if anything. If Kahn can keep a steady hand on the visuals, Neuromancer's going to be a decent slap on the face. (via coilhouse)
I'll ask the same question here, though: tell me about your ideas, who'd you cast as the main characters?
nomadic spacecraft art museum @ yokohama triennale 2k8
The high art trend of launching mobile museums into the wild is gaining steam with the latest "artcraft" coming in the form of the H Box. The structure was produced by fashion brand Hermès and designed by architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, who calls his work "a nomadic object informed 1970s space landing crafts." Inside the H Box films by international creators such as Su-Mei Tse, Yael Bartana, Dora García, Judit Kúrtag, Valérie Mréjen, and Shahryar Nashat are shown. The next stop for the artcraft is Yokohama, Japan from September 13 to November 30. (link, via dvice)
you know we fake tonight
Rájöttem, mire jó John Coltrane.
John Coltrane ingyen tartja az ívfényt az ágyatoknál. John Coltrane ingyen szaxofonozik nektek (fáklya híján az is megteszi, bár hangosabb, elnyomja a záróizmok kéjes recsegését). John Coltrane elkísér a boltba melegítõben tejért, ha már nincs jobb dolga. John Coltrane nevének kezdõbetűi egybejátszanak Jesus Christéval, élhetünk a gyanúperrel tehát, hogy Jézus él és megvállasodott annyira, hogy tudja cipelni a batár rézkürtöket. Is. Ahogy elnézem, John Coltrane áramvonalasra szarja a mogyorót. John Coltrane koffeinízt kölcsönöz a sonkászsemlének, olykor kutyát eszik. John Coltrane ma elegáns pályán lép be a légkörbe.
Mondok jobbat, fogjuk fel az AIDSet adathalmaznak, hiszen ha harapdálja a DNSt, van benne adat, amivel le is tudja azt harcolni. Ha adat, lejátszható. Bármi lejátszható zeneként, csak egy kellôképpen szabadelvû player meg egy kellôképpen nemsajnált-nemóvott hangfal kell hozzá, a tesztszignált csak kb. egy óráig bírják a középkategóriás hangfalak, talán Isten hangja szól majd a HIVbôl, talán nem. A kérdés, a kérdés csak az, a RIAA levédené a pestist, ha megtehetné? (dbc, öt éve így)
red. angelspit just doesn't stop, really.
Australian cyberpunk duo Angelspit is busy posting the production diaries of their new album and slowly, if they keep their pace of posting and I keep my pace of neglecting posting here in favor of glorious work and keeping my nervous system intact (which is far funnier than it sounds, trust me), [planetdamage] will become nothing more than their foothold. Blimey.
everyday shooter out on steam, also released on psp
Jonathan Mak's Everyday Shooter ended up as something of a concept album for the abstract shooter hardcore afficionados. Eight completely different levels, in theory, forty-something minutes of an all-guitar soundtrack for your geometric senses. Check the yt above for complete demonstration of the first three levels and embrace godly love - although it was originally released on the PlayStation platform, it's now available on Steam (been for a while) and according to what Kotaku writes, the game will be available for the PSP around November. (via wired)