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@dawe_ sent this video a couple of days ago calling it a mixture of fishermen and parkour. Which is, in a way, quite right, doing acrobatic flip-swoop-jumps with your stool if you're bored or feel the need to impress the fair sex. Or, if you need to express yourself through the art of hopefully landing in a camera-friendly way. This, @dawe_, is definitely not parkour. But ffs, is this mighty fun. (via sporthocker.com)


► sisters of mercy - this corrosion

In glorious rememberance of last Saturday's Sisters of Mercy gig that sounded as powerful as it gets and obviously you couldn't see ANYTHING on stage. Because it's a bloody Sisters of Mercy gig. Get over it.


thedosemag.com meets dragontape - visual mixtape

Reminds me of how we all could reconstruct the MTV 120 Minutes video jukeboxes of yore when Bill Leeb looked more like a disenfranchised teenager than a bored shaman, guitar rave was still a hip thing and people making electronic music that made us all jump were considered to be magicians. Does anyone still remember 120 Minutes? UPDATE: Playlists are here!?
While you're thinking about this, I'm sharing you this dragontape from my time with The Dose magazine so far, including music videos from bands we've interviewed in the Budapest, Tokyo, London and Paris issues. Weird and enjoyable party music for you people who haven't been properly grabbed by any subculture and if you have, please enjoy. You can download all previous Dose issues for free, except for the Paris issue which is 4 euros and still available as a digital download via PayPal. Check the teaser and then buy it as a weekend read, it'll be fun!

PLAYLIST
1. Juno Reactor - Inca Steppa
2. Headscan - Sentinel
3. Neo - Absolution (live)
4. Tankt - Bush on Fire
5. Ayria - Red Shift (live)
6. Celldweller - Switchback
7. D'espairs Ray - Forbidden (live)
8. Punish Yourself - CNN War
9. Angelspit - Vena Cava
10. Day-Már - Embrace the Night
11. Nohno feat. Toshinori Kondo - Wound
12. Shiv-R - The End
13. Foretaste - Dying for the First Time of My Life
14. Miss Kittin - Kittin is High
15. Black Nail Cabaret - Tell Me It's Not Over (Starsailor cover)
16. Aural Vampire - Freeeze!
17. The Birthday Massacre - Video Kid (live)
18. Pitchshifter - Genius
19. BAAL - Dead Rock Enemy (live)
20. New Project - Coma
21. Mentallo & The Fixer - Opening the Bandwidth (live)
22. Juno Reactor - Masters of the Universe (live)


ilyenek voltunk, nippon shoxx: visual mixtape

Éppen a DragonTape visual mixtapegyártójával szórakozok és próbálom hat szomorúan kiürült és fillmeért lüktető kávésbögre mellett rekonstruálni azt az érzetet, amikor valaki fontosnak gyártasz egy szalagot, hogy "ez mind ez mind én vagyok, edd meg, legyenek közös pillanataink", aztán egy negyedórával később már az első visual kei/jrock bulijaink playlistjeit túrom a legütősebb pillanatokért, amikor közel kétszáz lány vonatozik körbe-körbe egy tánctéren és visítják a dalszövegeket, aztán ujjonganak minden szám elején, egyesek végén még egyszer, a fal mellé lapulva meg fiúk merednek hihetetlenül a nőuralomra és legjobb barátaikat hívják remegő ujjakkal, hogy "ide gyere bazmeg, te ILYET még nem láttál, nőt így még nem láttunk viselkedni", aztán valahogy sikerül pont egy CDnyit összetúrni, 18 szám, 75 perc, a kettőezres buliévek legjobb pillanatai ívfényre kondenzálva, osszátok meg és uralkodjatok és gyártsatok ti is ilyen mixtapeket, aztán finoman toljátok be ide, hogy "a mi bulijaink meg ilyenek voltak, na? ki szórakozott jobban?", aztán elkezdünk kakaskodni, összegyűlünk újcsapatostul és szaporodunk. Ez a titkos szabadkőműves terv.

PLAYLIST
1. Luna Sea - Tonight
2. Transtic Nerve - Into Yourself
3. Pierrot - Yuuyami Suicide
4. Gackt - Vanilla
5. Oblivion Dust - Designer Fetus
6. Siam Shade - Black
7. Maschera - Still I Love You
8. Buck-Tick - Glamorous
9. Guniw Tools - Dada
10. Soft Ballet - White Shaman
11. Malice Mizer - Beast of Blood
12. Kagerou - XII Dizzy
13. Merry - Japanese Modernist
14. Dué le Quartz - Rodeo
15. Miyavi - Girls, Be Ambitious
16. Dir en Grey - Yokan
17. Janne da Arc - Mysterious
18. Sugizo - No More Machineguns Play the Guitar


this minecraft documentary needs your help

2 Player Productions, the world's finest purveyors of video game documentaries, are in a bind. Having filmed a short documentary on Minecraft, they now want to make a much longer one. But they need your help. Making professional films isn't cheap or easy, and the team need money to get the project off the ground. How much? Well, $150,000 should cover it, so they've launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at helping them get the cash together. (here's the campaign, story originally via kotaku)


rebirth for ipad

ReBirth faithfully emulates dance music's three backbone devices: The Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. Combine these with FX units, fully featured pattern sequencers and a gorgeous-looking interface and you're ready to make killer tracks on your iPad. Share your music with friends on Facebook, Twitter and more using the built in sharing features. (find out more on rebirthapp.com)


muto: graffiti stop motion by blu

A short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche) (enjoy more blu videos on blublu.org), rockingly recommended by @toyclouds)


how to bake properly with death metal


Our recent love towards Epic Mealtime and Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time leads us to uncharted territory - every now and then we manage to bring back something, such as this offal gem of... well, something edible and decent grunt grind vocal marmelade. Enjoy. We sort of did.


detroit gets a robocop statue

We’ve reached the $50,000 goal with the help of many many supporters and a very generous contribution from Pete Hottelet at www.omniconsumerproductscorporation.com, but you can still contribute, so please keep backing the project. All the reward levels still stand, and we’re currently discussing how to branch this project and fundraising into bigger and bigger things with a better and better impact on Detroit. Thank you, everybody! Wow. (via slashfilm)


necro facility talks about their new album wintermute

It´s been over four years since they unleashed their last album "The Room" which was praised in the media all over the world. With their new album "Wintermute" their classic North American/Canadian sound really has evolved into something own and unique. Last Saturday we premiered the album to selected media in their studio in Stockholm/Sweden and we dare to say EVERYONE was stunned and amazed by the result. It´s for sure one of the best ever produced albums ever made in this scene. No so weird maybe since member Oscar Holter is now considered one of the finest producers at Lionheart and recently even had a number 1 chart hit in Japan. Together with Henrik Bäckström behind the microphone which also has evolved in an amazing way. We dare to say people will be stunned in the beginning of May when "Wintermute" will be released. (yes, this is the press release, get over it, band on facebook)


8-bit tarot

The illustrations are based on the classic Rider-Waite tarot, generally considered the de facto standard among modern tarot decks. These cards are being designed at a resolution of 88x152 pixels, using the standard MacOS palette. (...) 8-Bit Tarot Decks are now available in the Lunarbistro.com store! For $30 plus postage you'll receive the full 78-card 8-Bit Tarot deck in a keepsake box, and a free All-Seeing Eye button! Perfect size for travel, the 3.5x2.5 inch cards are UV-coated and feature all the bright pixelly art you see here. (via lunarbistro)


♫ doda - bad girls


No, it's just for the looks.


locked in a vegas hotel room

I was working a gig in Vegas with a brand new Phantom Flex high speed digital cinema camera. I had to try it out. In fact, I never did go to bed that night. I opened up a wormhole shooting at 2,564 frames per second. (via vimeo)


hogyan főzzünk erőszakosan (vagy részegen): a legjobb youtube gasztroműsorok #1

A tepsit a legszerencsétlenebb haverod arcával kell kivajazni, a szalonnazsír karmája az, hogy üdítőitalt gyártsanak belőle disznószemű meszkalinideges kanadaiak, az univerzum leggyakoribb alkotóeleme nem a sötét energia és nem is a hidrogén, hanem a fodrozott szélű lapszalonna, amit kosaras mozdulatokkal kell a bevásárlókosárba félpályáról, a krumplit nem késsel kell hámozni, hanem foggal vagy ötnapos borostával, a svéd hagyma pedig annyira chucknorris, hogy nem felvágni kell, hanem ráugrik magától a pengére. a.k.a. Hogyan főzzünk erőszakosan vagy nagyon, nagyon részegen?

Majestic 12-szintű nemzetközi titkot gyártottunk abból a főzővideóból, amiben bemutatjuk A Másik Sráccal, Akinek Nincsen Emésztőrendszere, hogy hogyan kell kanálnyi Naga Sabi Bombbal nyáloszlopszobrot ondolálni az univerzumba, de már érezzük az ihletet arra, hogy mi is főzőshowt csináljunk YouTubera, ha már sikerült olyan gyöngyszemekre ráakadnunk, mint a Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time vagy az Epic Mealtime - mindkettőhöz kell egy Bob, akinek a súlypontja a torkában van, alatta meg egy csak egy szőrös, vaskos, eres dührengeteg két kézzel és kontinenstől függően egy kés (ezek a svédek) vagy egy üveg Jack Daniels (ők meg Kanada).

REGULAR ORDINARY SWEDISH MEAL TIME (youtube/swedishmealtime)


Őket csak azért engedjük előre, mert így még nem láttunk embert főzni, pedig egy ideig azt hittük, hogy a gasztrohisztérikus nevetést Bede Róbertnél tökéletesítettük, aki már attól meg tudna maga áldani egy komplett papi kongregációt, hogy harminc forinttal drágább sertészsírt vehet a műsporban, amit jókedvből főz, mert más képessége már nincs hozzá. A Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time csoportja nem jókedvből főz, hanem igazi berzerker dühből, úgyhogy ott nem csak foggal hámoznak krumplit, hanem ököllel puhítják a keverendőt, lendületből fejelik a húsgombócot és víz helyett havat tesznek fel a tűzhelyre. És ez csak, no pun intended, a jéghegy csúcsa.

EPIC MEALTIME (youtube/epicmealtime)



Hozzájuk képest az Epic Mealtime klinikai precizitással, brutalitással és mesteri vágóképekkel játszik: a kanadai sokasfogat minden nagyban és felszorzott kalóriákkal tervez és valósít meg: a meatballhoz való húst láncfűrésszel szeletelik, a karácsonyi töltött pulyka helyett bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig van, szusit gyártanak fast foodból és szerintük minden étel egyetlen igazi alkotóeleme a bacon, a másik meg az alkohol, de olyannyira, hogy Jack Danielses-sörös palacsintától kell csodálatraméltóan erőszakosra bekúrni korareggel. (És ivókupát is csak szalonnából szabad gyártani, másból BLASZFÉMIA.)

Ez most nagyon folytköv.


♫ shapeshifter, the #mondaymusic experience

Shapeshifter (sometimes referred to as New Zealand Shapeshifter) are a live Drum & Bass[1] act from New Zealand. They have been heralded as a musical phenomenon for their ground breaking live shows and unique blend of heavy soul with drum and bass. Their reputation as pioneers of modern music was built by a unique approach to electronic music which had previously been restricted to computer-based studio musicians and has earned them widespread critical and commercial acclaim. (via wikipedia)




planetdamage.com: newsflash, february 2011 - gong hei fat choi!

Hello, new readers and residents. I am Damage, gonzo journalist, catalyst and an explorer of weird and futurologistic. The looming year of the Metal Rabbit finds me in a night debatable in more than one way: taking a break from reviewing Made in DNA's Twitter-bred sexpunk novel BUKKAKE BRAWL, I am wading knee deep in Icelandic sadness caused by Fennesz, an apparent demi-god in postmodern drone noise, surrounded by a fourhundredful of the most eyebrow-raising indietronic artsy hipster crowd in the bowels of A38 and I'm only leaving for a tactical break to return to my crew to tell them I have brought back suburban chöd bullet in a sudden flash of inspiration only caused by vat-grown drug monkeys, kitchen work based in anguish or a heartfelt tactical break in the loo. It makes them scatter along seven axes of misery and a rush of disintellect.

For you who have only strayed in from the rain: I come from another planet where boredom is unheard of and fuckery is plentiful. I'm behind Hungary's greatest alternative community portal (then let it sink), worked on the script of the multiple-award winning and New York Times-acclaimed comedy Nyócker (which was let sink by others), spearheaded the alternative touristic magazine The Dose (it is still floating) and I've just finished correcting all the midterm exams of my students at the International Business School where I taught them social media and some advanced skills in how to ROCK more. Hopefully these students are drowning themselves in vodka or anything else that's not vodka but behaves a LOT like it. Now I'm working on a book on the general weirdness of pop culture fueled by the quest for the real truth, how reality can be hacked and what's the greatest ROCK ever done on stage or in the studio. If you have anything or anyone to share to make this book finish faster (including yourself or your soul), don't hesitate to put your hands up. The rush is necessary, the book will need to be finished in the year of the Metal Rabbit. And there's an AR game in the pipeline. On a different note: I literally had a zeitgeist breakdown 48 hours ago. I know now what happens to you when it turns out that whatever you believed to be true and real breaks down. The feeling of a veve physically twisting your brain is one of the strangest things that can happen to you in your life. Apart from.. well, a few other things.

On a much kinder note: this newsflash is kindly supported by 109Jewellery whose gift to us in the first days of 2011 gave the Wheel of Fortune a very definite spin. Go buy their stuff. And while we're at it: the clenching of throats and shitstorm is finally over. Breathe now. This year will be better. Do what Dylan Moran suggested: stuff your mouth with chocolate and then go and masturbate with both hands. Or find someone to do it for you. Anyway. Gong Hei Fat Choi! (Below, a Jessica Rabbit impersonation by none other than the beautiful Bianca Beauchamp.)


deus ex: meet adam jensen


I still don't know what to say about the new Deus Ex: the possibility of acting out a sentient and walking implant inventory is certainly a treat. The outdoor scenes look amazing. When it comes to the small details is the moment when Deus Ex crumbles back to the previous decade with all its surfaces, textures and animations. I certainly do understand how games are made, I worked in the game industry as well - it's just.. cyberpunk - whatever it is now or whatever it becomes - needs to be more grittier, detail-filled and alive to make an impact. This is too sterile. Anyway - take a look at this, as kindly recommended by Riplakoidase, from the vast fields of Kotaku.


♫ echo lake - young silence (yes, the music video done with kinect)

This video was shot on the Microsoft Kinect by me and Dom Jones on December 14th 2010. I then spent the next seven weeks (mostly after work) making it look like that ^

The video was captured and processed using custom applications developed in Cinder. The software was based on the work that Flight 404 did with his early Kinect libraries. (eat echo lake here)


symmetry online workshop (no maths needed)

The KNK101 workshop introduces the elementary study of symmetry ( known as ‘group theory’) to an audience with no background in mathematics. This field of mathematics has very little to do with numbers, instead – it studies transformation and movement of abstract structures. The applications of group theory range from simple permutation puzzles and military or monetary cryptography to particle physics and general relativity, making it the central conceptual framework of our age.

The workshop is spread over 6 weeks ( or three fortnights ) and the details for registration are here. [ tldr: just drop me a mail at fadebox/gmail. The fee is $50 (international) and the equivalent Rs 2400 for India. Please hurry!] (fadereu.posterous.com, via technoccult)