ADVICE FOR BANDS: from Jeremy Dawson of Shiny Toy Guns
I have a huge interest in video tutorials/advice videos on self-promotion, self-branding and creative processes. Long-time readers might remember my fits of posting Zoog/Angelspit's blipverts on how to work on lyrics, drop the bass or form band cohesion - now it's time for someone new! Keyboardist/bassist Jeremy Dawson of one my favourite bands, Shiny Toy Guns, posted a three-part interview for bands: pieces of advice, tips on using social media and should you listen to your own music. At all. Whatever that guy says really resonates with what I do and how I do it. Go check his words of wisdom NOW!
Jeremy Dawson of Shiny Toy Guns recalls how being a "Yes" band has helped seize opportunities to play in the biggest shows. His advise to new and existing bands comes from his personal experience from touring the world with Carah Faye, Chad Petree, Mikey Martin, Daniel Johansson, Sisely Treasure, and Ursula Vari. He stresses the importance of having a work-sleep balance and having personal time. According to Jeremy, "You will self destruct" if you do not make this a priority.
Shiny Toy Guns pioneered the use of social media during their formative years. In this video, Jeremy discusses how successful bands are currently using social media and also strategies for effectively engaging with their fan base. If you're in a band, you don't want to miss this.
Jeremy Dawson explains his take on how to make music for everybody. He discusses the pros and cons of listening to your own previous material for inspiration or focus on current musical trends instead. Do you focus on making music for you or music for everybody to enjoy?
SUPPORT & WATCH: Taryn Barker Demon Hunter - prequel episode & indiegogo campaign
The pilot episode is a prequel to the main series. When Taryn Barker's sister is abducted she takes it upon herself to journey into the darkest corners of the city to save her.
The main series is a gritty crime thriller. It follows Detective Beckett trying to solve the brutal murder of a middle aged man, who was decapitated. Called into the police station, his prime suspect is a young woman named Taryn Barker, who admits to killing the man she believes to be a demon. As Taryn is being interrogated, more murders take place and Detective Beckett's daughter is kidnapped by a demonic force, he'll need Taryn's help and trust if he wants to make it out of the game alive.
Definitely promising. Claustrophobic, gritty and filthy, this looks like the angsty Goth teen sister of Grimm. I say, shoot the big brother and let her roam the lands. Yes, you can pinpoint mistakes in acting and settings and there are a thousand ways you can make this more kickass, but the potential is very, very much there. Go and support the series in any way you can - they so deserve it.
SUPPORT HERE:
fundit.ie
indiegogo.com
makemyseries.com
facebook.com
PHURPA: live in Paris
Cannot get enough of Bon ritual overtone chanting. This is an exceptional (audio and video both amazing) recording of Phurpa in Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet.
DAMAGE CAPTURE FILE 02: trained death midgets [cyberpunk, glitch and counterculture]
Hello. Etape 2 for Capture File: a coffeebreakful voyeurism into cultural products of cyberpunk, futurepresent, glitch culture and whatnot, every Thursday in the eurozone. This week: more Soundcloud finds, augmented reality solutions and various other random finds of silicone. Above: a great collage of Tokyo night streets mashed together with the Vangelis Blade Runner soundtrack (sent by ákosmaróy). If you have anything to add, share or comment, do so here or find me anywhere on the interwebs with the planetdamage handle. And, yeah, have a great weekend.
BALLISTIC AUDIO LOOT:
This week's audio loot inadvertently begins with MORE AMBIENT GLITCH. One of the nicest finds of last week was Enig'matik Records and their latest compilation Painting Pictures on Silence, more electronica for work, zoneruns and anything else you could think of. Similarly laidback but even more experimental is Infinite Rounds, the first album of Hecq that he released under his own name, BEN LUKAS BOYSEN, free to download with similarly glitchy-experimental stuff from the Grundruck archives. Glitch and minimal electro are also abundant EVERYWHERE, especially on Soundcloud - giving you NEWK and JENNIFER TOUCH this time, both of them from the upcoming artists section. If you're more for non-vocal experimentica, Newk will be your companion for the evening, if you're more like into analog bass, a minimal sound and some female vox on top of that in the vein of Farah or Chicks on Speed - then Jennifer Touch is definitely for the taking. Also: my friends at ANGELSPIT are doing a new business model for their releases so far with a package called Spitpill - a 4 GB package that's filled with not only albums but lots of extras from particular album eras, definitely worth trying! (I'd recommend Krankhaus or Blood Death Ivory for Angelspit noobs.)
(Check out samples for each album behind the thumbs. You have to trust me on that one.)
And Hedflux's Rhythm Prism, a find via Enig'matik was a huge psybreak jump-up two-hours session, so I need to give you this, too!
AUGMENTED REALITY:
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.
This week was quite a read into augmented reality and its practical applications, mostly advertising and resumes. Keiichi Matsuda's videos were easily the BEST find into AR, showcasing a potentially bloodcurdling density of ads, you'll find these blow with his comments - read more about his take on the future on keiichimatsuda.com. I was also wondering a lot about how to make a good AR CV - and then I came across this augmented reality CV campaign from 2010 - not the kind of solution that would be an instant win for the masses, though. This was also something we talked about with a number of people - and our sadness felt on how low-grade you have to go to give cheap or overused technology to the masses. QR codes huge in the UK AGAIN? Yeah, new waves of iPhone releases, the ever-raising iPhone penetration and then a new wave of Android platform penetration does provide further waves of possibilities for agencies - until we can smash our faces against the new waves of active lens and AR headwear.
The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology defined by its ability to overlay physical space with information. It is part of a paradigm shift that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation of virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic whole. It may lead to a world where media is indistinguishable from 'reality'. The spatial organisation of data has important implications for architecture, as we re-evaluate the city as an immersive human-computer interface.
STUFF TO READ:
KEIICHI MATSUDA: Cities for Cyborgs - 10 Rules
DONA M. WONG: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
AHA!-MOMENT NEWS OF THE WEEK:
New Theory: Universe Didn't Start with a Big Bang but with a Big Freeze
Hackers Backdoor the Human Brain, SuccessFully Extract Sensitive Data
Warren Ellis' documentary CAPTURED GHOSTS is finally out and available for orders
More stuff next Thursday. News chips and weirdness all week at planetdamage.com. Stay tuned.
DAMAGE CAPTURE FILE 01: murmur of a glass sky [cyberpunk, glitch and counterculture]
Hello. This is Damage von Rock and this is your coffeebreak into cultural products of cyberpunk, futurepresent, glitch culture or however we prefer to call this these days. This is a weekly edition of recommendations into music, books, weird reads, youtube podcasts, counterculture movements and whatnot. Share and retweet this and send me love, hate or more links to spread to planetdamage/gmail. As for the weekliness: expect Thursdays and I'll keep this regular. I'm receiving so much content these days, it would be dozens of different kinds of sins not sharing the fun with you all. Above: one of the greatest tech advertisements I've ever seen, all orchestrated to the amazing music of Hecq.
BALLISTIC AUDIO LOOT:
That moment when you realize that you're working with headphones on so much that most of the music you listen to is just ambient or sentient glitch. NEW MIND's Fractured is the odd-one-out: if you liked Skinny Puppy, Yeht Mae, Pouppée Fabrikk, Numb and all the harsh and dissonant industrial of the nineties, this will be right up your alley. Lots of great buys and long-forgotten favourites in the cart this week, too. Cyberpunk's musical underdog Eric Chamberlain might have been a bit too obscure with his projects Index and Index AI (his album Sky Laced Silver from 1995 IS A BLAST, one of the best cy electro pop albums I've EVER heard) but with great catchy tunes HE IS GOD. Two of his latest side project releases (TELEPHERIQ and COCONAUT) are evident proofs of this - nothing too harsh but a lot of catchy electro with a nineties sound. Perfect. The biggest surprises this time come from Tympanik Audio as always: STENDECK's Scintilla and brand-new label release Lights by TINEIDAE are gorgeous ambient/glitch releases, great to work to, except for the moments, when you like tracks so much that you need to taskswitch just to look at Winamp. Terrible, I know. (And yet, you simply cannot go wrong with their stuff. Ever.) BEN LUKAS BOYSEN - better known for a few of us as HECQ - also released a new jewel, a more traditional sounding, brooding dark ambient movie soundtrack for Restive, this time on Hymen. And last - something you really need to spend your 5 pounds on - comes the Electronic Explorations compilation. Oh. My. God. All money goes to keep the Electronic Explorations podcast alive, and for that, 61 artists donated exclusive tracks to the cause, which in itself is just enough to donate, and the list of artists will appeal to you very much if you've been in this scene for at least a spell - Access to Arasaka, Milanese, Enduser, Bong Ra, Neil Landstrumm, Ital Tek or The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble... GET THIS COMPILATION!
(Check out samples for each album behind the thumbs. Except for New Mind. You have to trust me on that one.)
And Stendeck's been haunting me, so here's their latest video.
A NEW SHOW TO KEEP YOU HATING
H+: The Series has been something of a stir during the past week. Transhumanism has been on our tits since Sterling, Kurzweil has been all over the news with turning ourselves into methuselahs, then basically making a Lego Mindstorm bot out of the galaxy, R.U. Sirius published H+ Magazine and now he's running Acceler8or for us grinders - and now this. What happens if A Company fits us with implants and a worldwide virus wipes the trendsetters and their eager followers? Or basically this is how it looks from here - very short episodes keep us from getting the bigger picture which is both a great mechanism to keep us all waiting and a goddamn bother at the same time. Great production quality, though! (And six "episodes" are already out!)
READING THESE AT THE MOMENT
Mattin & Anthony Iles (ed.): NOISE & CAPITALISM
Rosa Menkman: THE GLITCH MOMENT(UM)
Karen McCarthy Brown: THE VEVE OF HAITIAN VODOU: A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL IMAGERY
I am playing Jenga with the stuff I need to feed on - books on infographics, traditional Chinese medicine and lots of Japanese grammar. That one completely because of Miss Toyclouds.
STUFF TO BE HAPPY ABOUT
Yes, this is also partly personal.
Cannot thank Grant Morrison enough to pull me back into the weirder segments of the counterculture and his influence on my past two years is immense. The 2DVD version of the documentary Talking With Gods from H8LA will not only give you a long look at his work process on the non-magickal comics industry work and an interesting panopticon on how other comics artists see him, but also his take on fighting writers' block, magick apart from sigilwork and a longer introduction into his friendship with Frank Quitely. If you're a fan, this is a must. If you're not yet a fan, this is a must, too! (If you need introduction, get his life-changing comics masterwork The Invisibles, read his primer into chaos magick Pop Magic!, check out the wee bit chaotic and weird 45-minutes talk he had at Disinfo Con or check out his Alternity performance.)
My first gonzo non-fiction book on cyberpunk, possible futures and alt/pop culture entitled DAMAGE REPORT was published this April by long-time work partner company MangaFan - and apparently the feedback flow hasn't finished yet! Top pic: two interviews in paper mags: one on social books and more generic stuff in the 2012 July issue of PC World and one on my take on future gaming in the 2012 June issue of Gamestar. Bottom pic: Hungarian creative/socmedia professional mag Kreatív wrote quite appreciatively of the mad brainstorm and claimed it's on the best track to go for a cult status. Hope this is not a kind way of saying But we need to kill you first. Or maybe it is. I should have trained death midgets nailed to my front door.
FINALLY! A collaboration with the acknowledged Australian cyberpunk magazine MACHETE GIRL (they're really working hard to keep cyberpunk afficionados and newbies ROCKING)! This should be out late August - early September if I remember everything right and this issue will also feature a piece I wrote on how technology, bodymods, superhero branding and magick all run side by side.
YOU GUYS SENT THIS:
Gameplay trailer for cyberpunk third-person crime/shooter/immersion package REMEMBER ME. This IP is developed by Capcom, takes place in Paris in 2084 and the protagonist Nilin sounds a lot like.. Yvonne Strahovski? (This one was sent by Ripla - thx! - together with the game trailer which was also sent to me by CoSMo!) And, oh yeah, another one by him below, which is a Live Action "Sleeping Dogs" fight film - taking a bit after Ong Bak and an excessive use of smashing doors at heads. Apparently, any kind of door. Even the one that looks like a table.
AR SHORT: Sight
A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. This is our graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts. (more on vimeo)
Interesting take on why you don't need visual décor in private/public spaces anymore, if augmented reality can do that for you instead. Whole new niche market/job possibilities - you'll still need the elements of visual comfort, such as beds or bathtubs, wondering about the next generic step that will eliminate the need, something along the line of a sensory layer of reality. Resonates with Warren Ellis' idea on an AR contact lens system called Clatter. (Link sent by @dismay22 and also @moiré - this page features a comment that actually recommends my book Damage Report to see what happens after we get embedded into a future like this, the one seen in Sight? ROCK!)
INFOGRAPHICS HOW-TO: markets, tablets and whatnot (Tablet2Cases)
Remarks on a new piece of infographics I finished a couple of days ago for Tablet2Cases - a company not only focusing on selling cases for a great variety of tablets but also keeping a tablet wiki with relevant data running. Inside - pics on drafts and notes on how this infographics ended up the way it is. (Note: there are a few more infographics posts coming up like this on my related projects and a much bigger one on visual resumes, stay tuned!)
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Need more infographics how-tos? Check out part 1 and part 2 of my ongoing series on how to make a visual resume.
foundation falls apart
(Comes from SLC Punk!, a great movie more relevant now than ever featuring all-time favourite Matthew Lillard (if you grew up on Hackers, Cereal Killer's a fave for sure), kindly recommended by Moiré.)
BOOKMARKS for 2012-07-29 (death on every corner)
- A house that changes shape to survive earthquakes: Architect Fernando Herrera has a solution to the problem of how to build houses that can survive California earthquakes. He's proposing that we make houses out of flexible strands of material that can bend like muscles. When a quake hits, the house will move with the Earth and remain intact.
- Mad scientists create artificial jellyfish from rat hearts: Oh, and the scientists also want to release their zombie rat jelly out into the wild to see if it's capable of gathering food on its own. They didn't specify what kind of food, but based on absolutely nothing, these things will probably latch onto your eyeballs and suck them out of your skull next time you go swimming.
- Man makes $9, working bicycle out of cardbard: There are a number of interesting bike designs made from a variety of materials, but one factor always held true: they're not generally made of cardboard. Well, designer Giora Kariv wasn't having that, so he went ahead and built a bike out of cardboard for $9.
- Brutal Battle Royale TV show could be coming to the CW: The LA Times reports that the CW is in talks to acquire the rights to Takami's novel, about a junior high class forced to battle to the death, which was famously adapted as the bloody 2000 film of the same name. The Hunger Games effectively killed the chances of a US Battle Royale film, but a television series would be a different, and potentially very popular, animal.
- Real-Time Language Translation With UK Developer’s Own Google-esque Augmented Reality Glasses: A UK developer who has been hacking together his own Project Glass has now expanded its functionality to make a real-time speech translator. Will Powell, a 2010 graduate of the University of Oxford, has spent his spare time coupling Vuzix video eyewear with a few Raspberry Pis and an iPhone and iPad to allow for one person speaking one language to talk to someone speaking a different language with tolerable delays between translations. provided by Microsoft’s Bing.
BOOKMARKS for 2012-07-27
- The Orb reimagine ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: The Orb have produced a new version of the 1990 classic, featuring fresh vocals from the inimitable Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. The reworking replaces the analogue burble of old with acoustic guitars and languid dub-chamber percussion. The Upsetter contributes some freewheeling toasting, most of which sounds like a weatherman having a breakdown.
- AWAKENINGS: AN ANDROID DESIGN PROCESS: doubleTwist Alarm has been an overwhelmingly successful project. It has received universal acclaim, from Google executives to design publications and many Android and gadget websites. Yet, the first question on anyone’s lips was always the same: “Why an alarm clock? Why would you take a swing at something so trivial and small, something so elementary to any cellphone made since the 1980s?”
- Human urine causes high levels of caffeine in Pacific coastal waters: A new study from Portland State University has found elevated levels of caffeine at several sites in Pacific waters, off the coast of Oregon. The researchers speculate that, while wastewater treatment plants are effective at removing caffeine, sewer overflows are still flushing the contaminants out to sea. IS THAT EVEN NEWSWORTHY? COME TO THE SEWERS UNDER MY PLACE BEFORE WE HAVE A DEADLINE AND YOU COULD STAY AWAKE OFF ME FOR A MONTH
- Things You Didn't Know About the Internet (Deep Web): No comment. The Deep Web has always been a fascination and this just came at the right time for a good story brainstorming.
REVIEW: burnt like brilliant trash (J. G. Barnes - Thieves)
Thieves is exemplary. And problematic. A cyberpunk short film focusing on an interrogation gone completely amok, it's both great for its writing/background story and how J.G. Barnes and his crew tries to deliver the best out of a $300 budget and a crew of amateurs. At the same time - its obvious shortcomings are needlessly emphasized by its promo campaign and its unintelligible intensity. Still, as I said, good writing. Verdict? 4/10.
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REVIEW: god's zoo gone punk (Ebbëto - Analog)
God twitches. Facial muscles and hand-eye coordination goes out the window. The first woman really was created from the first man. Behavioural conditioning probably inspired by Aphex Twin, a grin never completely primordial, nor balancing on the edge of cocaine-induced grit teeth mania. Sleeping. Perchance to dream. God might have been an intergalactic surgeon with faulty implants. If his hands went faulty, what of his brain? Welcome to Ebbëto's Analog, an arthouse experimental sci-fi short coming from Brazil. Verdict? 10/10.
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BOOKMARKS for 2012-07-18 (jones' addiction)
- The Top Thirteen Occult Detectives in Comics:See, Agnes was an occult detective. In service to the Queen and, really, anyone else with the right connections. It’s an honorable, if thankless, occupation. It’s also one of my favorite topics to read about. Luckily, there’s a great deal of crossover in comics. Let’s do up a list, shall we?
- Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music: This isn't a new Dorkbot or Maker Faire oddity. It's a nearly forgotten Russian synthesizer designed by Evgeny Murzin in 1938. The synth was named after and dedicated to the Russian experimental composer and occultist Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872–1915). The name might not mean much to you, but it illuminates a long running connection between electronic music and the occult.
- A TRIBUTE TO ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI' CD: A tribute to one of the darkest painters of the 20th Century, released on the 2 year anniversary of his death in 2005. As his paintings were never titled, all tracks are unnamed as well. Special, exclusive, Dark Ambient tracks, inspired by the Polish artist from: Asmorod, Contemplatron, Desiderii Marginis, Gustaf Hildebrand, His Divine Grace, Hybryds, Inade, Job Karma, Kratong, Necrophorus, Svartsinn and Zenial.
- What may be the world’s first cybernetic hate crime unfolds in French McDonald’s: Steve Mann, the "father of wearable computing," has been physically assaulted while visiting a McDonalds in Paris, France. The Canadian university professor was at the restaurant with his family when three different McDonalds employees took exception to his "Digital Eye Glass" device and attempted to forcibly remove it from his head. Mann was then physically removed from the store by the employees, along with having his support documentation destroyed.
SFW SUPPORT THE CAUSE: black is not the new black, japanese sexpunk is the new black
Above, that's the work of controversional hentai artist and Urotsukidōji creator Toshio Maeda and this, this is planetdamage.com telling you to go support adult indie literary sexpunk zine FULL METAL ORGASM.
Sexpunk is the geometrical focus point in the triangle of cyberpunk futurismo, gonzo brainspit and adult filth. Carrier waves and viral vehicles are mostly Japanese (glowjob-infested Tron porn remakes do not even come close, although Bizarro literature does have a strong flavour in how current sexpunk really is) and most of the stuff I find in this scene come via Brent Millis, editor of the fanzine Full Metal Orgasm and writer of actually intriguing and great materials like BUKKAKE BRAWL (find more on him at junkdna.tumblr.com and also at amazon.com) and also an editor behind Kizuna, a a mixed-genre anthology of short fiction created to help orphans in the disaster-devastated areas of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.
So, Brent has already launched his first issue of FMO and he's now campaigning for funds for the second issue - the IndieGoGo campaign site is here, at least go and read what he has to say about it before deciding to spill some well-earned new yens his way. ROCK!
BOOKMARKS for 2012-07-08
- Alan Moore hates films based on his comics so he's making his own: Moore is working on a new, indie short film series dubbed Show Pieces, and he's teamed up with photographer Mitch Jenkins to make it happen. Considering how vehemently he has opposed films based on his comics, it's definitely interesting to see him branching out into the medium.
- Gateway of the Mind: In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. The scientists had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of God.
- What Happened to Cyberpunk?: Cyberpunk, in the popular consciousness, conjures a glut of dissociated images: Blade Runner’s slummy urban landscape, hackers in sunglasses, Japanese cyborgs, grubby tech, digital intoxication, Keanu Reeves as Johnny Mnemonic. But it began as an insanely niche subculture within science fiction, one which articulated young writerly distaste for the historically utopian optimism of the medium and, in turn, provided an aesthetic reference point for burgeoning hacker culture, before metastasizing into a full-on cultural trend.
- Bike cross country in your basement with Google Streetview: Biking cross-country is a worthwhile pursuit, but then you’ll have to deal with terrible drivers, rain, bugs, and heat. [Jeff Adkins] over at lowendmac has a neat solution to exploring the country via bicycle without ever leaving the safety and air conditioning of your basement.
(Links sent by @sajtoshu and @honeymooncroon - dunno the source for the goggled monochrome crow lady of ROCK)
FRIDAY FILMS: Analog and Seed
Back in the business from the world's second hottest capital. Look grateful. I'm writing this post during the 2-hour time window when my brainmeat actually delivers production. What I have for you now is films - full-length and trailer-phase -, sent to me by readers of ROCK!
ANALOG tells the tale of a machine traveling in deep-space which has as a primary function the preservation of a living organism: a man. Strange events with biblical analogies begin to occur, disturbing the machine and making it rethink it’s priorities. (more on analog's vimeo page)
I wrote about Analog last March when its trailer was released on QuietEarth - now Ebbeto, mastermind behind Analog dropped me a mail and sent me the link to this wonderful monochrome monogatari - expect longer review when the brain is not overheated - YOU ROCK!
SEED (2012) Teaser Trailer from Tyson Wade Johnston on Vimeo.
Set in the year 2071, where technology has brought mankind to the brink of colonization on a planet named Gaia, one man takes on an isolated mission and discovers unearthly horrors that could bring an end to life on this planet. (more on seed's vimeo page)
This was one sent over by Jeremy Stanz - short's by the same Tyson Wade Johnston who did Exist last year. Looks intriguing and there's certainly a chance of any spacefaring colonizer meeting him/herself in any hostile environment, hope it doesn't come to that point. Or I hope it does! (Thx, Jeremy!)
the damage diary: 2012 so far
Six months passed since the last retrospective post and I'm doing my best to avoid the red alert heatwaves of Hungarian summer in innumerable kinds of shadows both in- and outside the country borders - sort of an ideal time to claw up the brief list of 2012 so far. Includes Scoville attacks, more coffee, more pictures and lots about... frequencies.
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BOOKMARKS for 2012-06-27
- Google Scientists find Evidence of Machine Learning: A neural network created by connecting 16,000 computer processors appears to support biologists' theories on how the human brain identifies objects. Hint: It's all about the cats.
- Russia wants its own DARPA: RIA Novosti reports on Putin’s plan for the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry, a Russian equivalent to DARPA.
- How to Give People the Feeling of Deja Vu: You've probably experienced the sensation of déjà vu — that eerie sense that you get when you know you have seen or done something before, even if you couldn't have. It's the closest we can come to experiencing a real-life time loop.
planetdamagedotcom: five years of glittery hydra timezero ROCK
今全部が始まります.
And so it begins.(First post of planetdamage.com, 2007 Jun 19)
Budapest DEATH HEAT melt my bike mid-route and force-choked my brainmeat, so it's a considerably harder task to write anything about how PDcom grew to be five years old. It did! (Realized this two days later, though. Sentient hypertextual sigil child is understandably frustrated now.)
Stats and posts after the break.
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BOOKMARKS for 2012-06-20
- ‘Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish Lands ‘Snow Crash’ At Paramount: Joe Cornish, who has been offered a ton of projects since his alien invasion breakthrough film Attack The Block, has been set to write and direct the Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash.
- Meditate On Bass Weight: Why Sunn O))) Are A Dance Act: The mighty Sunn O))) returned to London this week for a scorching show at Koko. Angus Finlayson was there, and felt striking parallels with the physically overwhelming rituals of dance music and sound system culture.
- It Evolved Into Birds: Ten Science-Fictional Thinkers On the Past and Future of Cyberpunk: "Yesterday I asked myself about the fate of cyberpunk; for today, I put the question to ten science-fictional thinkers, including a coterie of the genre’s parents: What happened to cyberpunk?" Replies: William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Charlie Stross, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Pat Cadigan, John Shirley, Douglas Rushkoff, Neal Stephenson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Bethke, Jack Womack.
- John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset, $500 kits available soon, video interview inside: Part one shows the first glimpse of the duct-tape-and-belt prototype, covers the latency of the human brain, and how making “an 8 year old PC game is still demanding on consoles”.
SUNDAY SUMMARY: week 24
Gestalt terrorism - my week in one image.
Week 24! Completely unexpected death prognosis combined with low-grade Mattel psychology! Putting my head around glitch electronica and weird glitchery VST plugins to rehash old electro tracks! Finding Budapest's most scovillery food outside the Indian HELL CURRY culinary jurisdiction! Random book signings! Tune in next week for more half-sensical summaries! And now, off to the Xiu Xiu Larsen gig!
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