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The new week drags a revamped classic in its paws! Harrogate cyberpunk/techno rockers Utah Saints rocked the charts with their first self-titled album in 1992, their highest-ranking song being “Something Good“, featuring a sample from Kate Bush’s Cloudbursting, now the remix is currently #8 on the UK charts. The video is hilarious, tongue-in-cheek and unashamedly harks back to the electro/techno naissance (no spoilers on video ending), there’s also a Garbutt/Willis interview on ilikemusic. (via darkenedsector)

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Suzuki’s Biplane, one of the prototype motorcycles on display, was designed to capture the feelings shared between airplane and motorcycle. (via stars and stripes, thx PinkTsunamii)

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fritsl’s 120$ self-propelled autonomous drumming robot on letsmakerobots is not only yellow, it has immense attractor written all over it. really. while finding its way to the nearest wide surface or single object it can drum on, it does a serious business of turning its sensors in a very paranoid fashion - by using three drumsticks, a microphone and a loudspeaker, it records patterns of its own (randomly invented) drumplaying he uses as a basis to drum to, though it can also synchronize to music or to your feet tapping. i’m on my way to find someone who jury-rigs one for me. (via wired)

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Uninitiated in the lore of G.I.Joe? Me too. But that doesn’t mean we couldn’t  appreciate a ninja in a pyric gear, emblazoned with 既濟. Yes, that’s an I Ching hexagram there (63), meaning “after completion” or “already completed”.

If you’re not into Hellgate or I Ching, don’t worry. Meditate on this: that’s Ray Park there, better known as The Toad or Darth Maul, posing for the first promo pictures for G.I.Joe as Snake-Eyes. (via io9)

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you know
easter monday is really bukkake day
yes
get over it

life according to breslin.

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Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s REZ is usually regarded as one of the key points of cyberpunk gamemaking with its fusion of vivid colors, wireframe graphics, use of synaesthesia (or so they say) and the rhythm-based gameplay - not to forget the use of a nineties’ techno soundtrack (by Adam Freeland, Tsuyoshi Suzuki’s very own Joujouka, Ken Ishii and Coldcut, among others).Lost Levels (and also Kotaku and Siliconera) dug up a classic version of REZ on its original Dreamcast platform where it was called K-Project and youtubed it. Different VMU animations, different sound effects, different boss behaviour patterns and also - different music! Stage One (Earth) features Underworld’s Cow Girl and Born Slippy.

Now pretty much defunct DailyRadar had these videos on the alpha versions of K-Project (did you know that previously it was also running on names like Project Eden and Vibes?). If you have never been into the game business or unaware of how games look, feel and play like when they’ve just been pulled out from the developer’s assholes, you might want to take a peek. (Segment 1 above, segment 2 and segment 3 are located here.)

Synaesthete, the brainchild of four DigiPen students has often brought on par with Rez recently and that’s no small wonder - this new PC indie game is also a quasi-philosophical and hallucinogenic quest for existence in an abstract environment, synchronized to techno music. You control a creature named a Zaikman, controlling him with your left hand’s WASD while following portions of the soundtrack’s grooves (low, mid and high beats, they call it) with your right hand’s JKL. Your only weapon is your accuracy and reflexes, as the Zaikman automatically shoots when you try to hit a beat, the efficiency depends on how accurately did you follow the beat, it’s that easy. Tigsource writes more about the game, check that out.
(I’d opt for slicker graphics, more little details (like the trees that change their shapes to the beat) that would completely transform the game into a classic X-MIX techno movie and music from licensed artists. )

Watch this space for more Rez-related games in the near future.

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Tokyo Fashion Week, here I come! (link, via tokyomango)

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Thai deviantartist hoyhoykung has a habit of making amazing sci-fi airbrush paintings, mixing retro pop/art with cyber kitsch, giving a brief look-see into the minds of the Thai cyberpunk teen generation: all about megalove, motors, pit stops, runways, vivid colors and by the looks of it, hallucinogenes. Lots of them. (Titles from top to bottom: Wandaburger and peppercola, MIKA megalove, Suki circuit)

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Girls Entertainment Network’s all-female staff blogs the way they think about games and technology and at the same time what they think would get a few thousand extra male visitors for their site. Their version of celeb boobs takes a new twist: Halo’s Cortana and Ghost in the Shell’s Motoko Kusanagi cosplayed with bare skin, some body paint and guns. If you jerk off or spend more time watching the galleries, that’s fine. Melodie Gore would need to pull off at least a three-combo chain of plastic surgeries to start looking like Motoko, though. (via girlsentertainmentnetwork)

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Hello, dolls and datapunks.
I am speaking to you all from the wombs of the Easter chamber with an erection the size of Fuji-san, an annoyingly detailed list of android sex services in Southern Hanoi (those including lube are marked with chili signs), my new iPhone that does not use batteries (it uses saliva or perspiration) and my coder has bought me a “sexy cat suit” as a very attentive addition to my already overcomplicated and troubled life.
As you might already have guessed, I am slightly aggravated and also at my wit’s end.
Which is not too far away.
今全部が始まります. - This was 19th of June, 2007. I am also posting this now. This signifies that from now on I will never, ever trip while doing mind parkour, scaling desires, jumping across rooftops, never arrive unbalanced into stances. If you think you understand this, you don’t. I also managed to booby-trap this sentence so by the time you have finished reading it, you are infected with at least two different strands of very, very. Heh heh.

I also need all of you to listen.
Because I also have my ears open.
And I’m very impatient.

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