TECHNO: Zoltan - Pluton EP (GHM-002, Granholme)
Hypnotic beats, hypnotic visuals and a hypnotic promo video, chemically certified minimal tech. Reminds me of all the X-MIX acid/minimal beats from the nineties. Interested in more of this guy's work? There's a bit of an interview and a complete mix at Sonic Router!
TOKYO: Holger Mette - Tokyo in Timelapse
Tokyo is my second main city stop for the year. My aim this year is to shoot 12 cities in timelapse. This clip was shot in a period of about 3 weeks durring February 2012, and entirely with a Canon 5D mk2. (more on vimeo, via kotaku)
COSPLAY: Sephiroth. With boobs.
Coming from the Kotaku feed. This cosplayer beauty above is Crystal Graziano, more info about her via her DeviantArt.
PARTY VIDEO ORGASM: Space Inhalerz & WPAHP
A few of us literally drooled on this for two days straight. Love goes to Space Inhalerz & MONO8 and if you need the original track "Sell Your Soul" in full length, here's the official video. Video work by Lacidelson.
2012 March: 20 tracks you’ve missed
From female fronted etheric rock to minimal EBM, from wicked dubstep to power riot, 20 tracks that stuck in my head for too long in February & March. Share, rehash, remix and spread these, they are all ROCK CERTIFIED. You gotta do your own clicking and research for these, my super favourites are highlighted, the rest are for you to mine out.
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angelspit destructo: how to turn yourself into a cartoon superhero general
Just gotten war-brother Zoog's package in the mail (Hungarian postal service's feeble attempts to pilfer it in front of my own eyes turned to quantum ashes) with a fantastic gift of THE GENERAL Destructo T-shirt and a package of signed zines of ROCK (Pleasure Species #5, 6, 8, 10 & 11) - THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now I am totally equipped to disperse wrath on anything that moves and more importantly, unmoves!
You like this? Get your own Destructo tee here at Zoog's Angelspit emporium!
SHORT FILM: Archetype, futuristic viral video goes feature film
Sometimes dreams do come true, just ask special effects guru and burgeoning director Aaron Sims. His short film, Archetype, looks like a blockbuster Hollywood movie, and now it has a chance to become one. Weeks after Archetype went viral on YouTube (spawning many mirrored copies in several different languages), producer John Davis has bought the rights to turn it into a full length film. Davis, who produced the Will Smith Asimov-esque I, Robot (2004), had recent success with the found-footage sci-fi hit Chronicle. With decades of experience in movies as a special effects designer in major motion pictures (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I am Legend, The Incredible Hulk, etc) Sims will now get a chance to direct the adaptation to his own work. (via singularityhub)
FASHION: Nange Magro, mind-controlled dress
The mind-controlled dress, created by designer Nange Magro, is utterly captivating. It lights up and changes shape according to the level of concentration in your brain — and in particular, its skirt pulls back, like a spooky insect's wings, to reveal a shiny latex undergarment. Which might make it difficult for others to concentrate. (via io9, more on vimeo)
VISUAL: kinect graffiti
Kinect Graffiti is a digital graffiti tool using "Microsoft Kinect" camera. Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, Understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc... Kinect Graffiti is a tool built in processing & openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI and primeSense libraries. (more at vimeo, sent by Miss Toyclouds)
VISUAL: neon tribal shamans (xperia docomo)
Miss Toyclouds just sent this Japanese ad of the new Xperia line - the guys are better known as Team iLuminate and they're promoting the guesswhat a wearable wireless lighting system called iLuminate. ROCK!
Sweet Chemical Boy (FREE ANGELSPIT REMIX COMPO DOWNLOAD)
ANGELSPIT'S DEFIBRILLATOR REMIX COMPETITION - REMIXES OF NOTABLE MENTION
Angelspit’s Defibrillator Remix Competition received almost 100 entries. The quality of the entries were so high, Angelspit decided to release the notable entries in the SWEET CHEMICAL BOY download.
This FREE release contains eleven remixes and discount coupons from several webstores. Featuring remixes from: Witness the Apotheosis, (mirror), Haru Yasumi, Discoid, Emptyset, Flesh Eating Foundation, Exit 39 Productions, Little Black Rain Clouds, True Fallacy (Special guest En Esch), Circuit 23.FIND OUT MORE AT
angelspit.net/scb
2012 március: életjel, könyv, előadás, vérhab
Januárban megírtam az első könyvem, hátradőltem és azt mondtam, fasza, akkor most foglalkozzunk mással, keressünk valami melót addig, amíg még Magyarországon élek, aztán lepattanok Albionba, a könyv meg halad a maga útján és minden rendben lesz. Aki ismer (vagy akinek van élettapasztalata), az már várja a sztorit, hogy hogy lett öttel bonyolultabb az egész. Azóta beleötleteltem a borítódesignba is, most éppen szügyig matatok a tördelővel a korrektúrában, a Karmamediával a könyv mellé kapcsolt social media megoldásokban és bömbölő, szívárványszínű hányásgejzír tör fel belőlem, amikor valaki megkérdezi, hogy na és szerinted milyen érzés híres lenni (és még nem hívtak fel a nyomdából, hogy muszáj-e UV-lakkos extra réteget vasalniuk a borítóra). A loák mindeközben csendesen mosolyognak és a látszat szerint soha-el-nem-sötétülő glowstickekből összerakott áldozati füzéreken keresztül figyelik a ROCK napi épülését.
(Ergo, időm nem nagyon volt másra, de, megszületett ez az infografika meg két további könyvön dolgozunk, ezekről majd mesélek, ha már nem csak ötletek lesznek, a babonásság tartja magát. Ha jól emlékszem, írtam-designoltam négy oldalt egy cyberpunk fanzinba, webshopba kerülés után rakom azt is. És ha megkérdezed, hogy sok munka van-e egy könyv gondozásával, igen, istelenül sok.)
A fenti designt Kaszás Vera Moiré gyártotta le egy precíziós atomtámadás erejével és ha érdekel, hogy miért lett fehér alapon ilyen szövegmozaik a borító és nem fekete alapon fekete alapon fekete, akkor figyeld a könyvre felhúzott blogot a damagereport.hu-n, mert oda pakolunk ezerféle tartalmat, feedbacket, DJ-mixet, tiküldtéteket meg nyereményjátékot.
Szerda este még mesélek is a könyvről a Geek Nyelvtan MeetOFFon, ami egész ijesztően hangzik, de amúgy az lesz, hogy ti eljöttök, riasztóan olcsó a szesz, én tíz percben elmondom, hogy milyen nyelvészeti fogalmakat merít ki az, hogy az ipari kaviár anyád tüdejében végzi (provokatív a jó válasz, a k betű alá meg beszorult egy nemtudommi, de fel-felsír ott hogy oponya amat ísértet)
meg elmondom, hogy a szőr meg a bizarr ötletek hogyan függnek össze, én lendülettel, ti bólogattok, iszunk, Kolosthemanwithoutfacebook hangot öklendezik és dubstepre integet (erre a Dohány 22 felé száll le az összes utasszállító a lisztferi helyett, mert a Kolos nagyon tud), Bazsi elikszfaktorolja a Cobain-életművet B-trackestül, aztán elkülditek nekem Facebookon a legjobb fotókat, betageltek, befriendeltek, aztán jöttök áprilisban a könyvbemutatóra és eltörjük a magyar apátiát.
Szevasztok.
An Alan Moore lecture (October Gallery, 26th October 2010)
Alan Moore from Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness on Vimeo.
Our much beloved Great Wizard of Albion, Mr Alan Moore, gave a talk as part of a series of events held on the last Tuesday of the month at the October Gallery back in 2010 and there’s now a good, long video of Alan’s talk online. (forbiddenplanet.co.uk, via @Komavary)
MONDAY GIGER: Prometheus trailers and Alien heels
This is the International/UK trailer for Ridley Scott's almost-Alien-prequel new blockbuster PROMETHEUS. Below is the generic trailer with a few press release story markers and a set of extra Alien/Giger heels for the ladies' pleasure (via boingboing).
Ridley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. (...) In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system's natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers. (...) Cast: Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace
Release Date: June 8, 2012
MENTALLO & THE FIXER is back!
MENTALLO & THE FIXER ARE PSYCHEDELIC INDUSTRIAL MAMMOTHS! One of the bands that really defined my whole musical likescape and interest was the splatter-industrial work of Dwayne & Gary Dassing and now they're releasing new stuff in 2012 - one is the 4CD compilation that's pimped by this morning's Alfa Matrix newsletter (released April 27th) and the other's the new LP entitled Music from the Eather, coming sometime this summer. If you want to know more, why don't you check the interview I made with Gary into The DOSE mag?
Brainchild of the two Texan brothers Gary and Dwayne Dassing, MENTALLO & THE FIXER is definitely one of the most influential American electro/industrial bands of the last 20 years. Highly emotional and complex, their music is characterized by snarling distorted vocals, hard cutting sequencer rhythms and a thunderous beat. Always projecting himself into the future, Gary Dassing has throughout his career, constantly been reinventing his sound, offering an impressive list of avant-garde electronic music releases on renown labels like Zoth Ommog, Metropolis Records and Alfa Matrix.
After a catharsis of another 5 years of silent isolation, MENTALLO & THE FIXER is now ready to delivery to their faithful "old-school" fanbase a massive special 4-disc box set collection gathering over 50 tracks: mostly exclusive and previously unreleased material spanning throughout the years back to 1987 until 1996. There is much from the Zoth Ommog era of MENTALLO & THE FIXER and even prior to that, the set also includes several projects the Dassing brothers had along the way: from POLYHEDRON through MAINESTHAI or yet the first full length BENESTROPHE demo tapes, much of which has never been released or even heard. "I like the demos much better, they sound more raw.", Gary Dassing says. (for more info and tracklist, go alfa-matrix.com)
TRON: how to recreate the lightcycle trail
My old day job used to involve cycling in Cambridge and I would cycle everywhere, when it got dark my bike would light up too, but since watching TRON: Legacy I wanted to recreate the light ribbons effect. Apart from cycling incrediby fast I'm not going to be able to generate those beams, but with a suitable light and good photographer I've managed to recreate them (more at instructables, via @sajtoshu)
HOW TO make your infographics CV (part 2)
Hello. This is Damage Von Rock and whenever you're reading this, I'm just about to drink another triple ristretto boiled with Red Bulls. And boy, do I see noises. And when that's not happening, this happens ALL THE TIME, I'm doing other fun stuff, like getting my book released on future research/pop culture or designing an infographics CV for my long-time friend Sylwia. Check out her massive social portfolio and click more to see how her CV came to life.
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