PLANETDAMAGE

The Twittercrowd can finally rest now without having to voldo their eyes out, I’ve really, really stopped posting the seemingly endless playlist that makes the office hours productive. Whenever there’s a bigger link coming up, I’m posting it here for educational purposes, without links - so you have to find them yourself wherever and however you want to forcepull them into your life.

Dose 1 comes from the Philosomatika stream (eat this link with your winamp) and was mostly enjoyed with Milkdrop: Rovastar’s Fractopia (Upspoken mix), Shifter’s Digi, the Tokyo corridor (shifter tumbling cubes remix) and fiShbRaiN and Geiss’s Witchcraft (Necromancer remix).

Dynamic - 24-Hours (VA - The Missing Link)
Sub 6 - Down N’ Out (VA - Eruption)
Azax Syndrom vs Shift - How Do You Stop It Rmx (VA - Manga)
MFG - Positive Energy (Message From God)
Ranji vs Xanex - Investigation (VA - Wake Me Up)
Orion - Groove Control (Ibojima RMX) (VA - In Orbit)
Brethren And Outer Signal - Rock (VA - Deep Into the Nexus)
Toast3D - Efect Defect (High Infinity)
Slug - By Design (Hardwired)
Dualcore - Magnetic Area (VA - Goa Trance vol. 7.)
Eskimo - My Rave (Audio-X Rmx) (VA - No One Can Stop Us Now!)
Braincell - Little Worlds (VA - Little Worlds)
Wizzy Noise / Jaia - Crystal Noise (VA - Sprite)
Audio Unit - Pink Cup (VA - Cosmos)
Chronos - Sonic Drops (VA - Surya Namaha)
Bliss - Redemption Bong (VA - The Dark Side of the Groove)
Cosmic Tone vs Noga - It’s Not Like That At All (Cosmic Tone rmx) (VA - Map of Goa vol. 3.)
Domateck - Pressure Point (Beat the Beast)

And before I let you go for the night, there’s a ring visu of DJ Raaban’s Anima Libera, a shamelessly happy italo tune of which I previously posted a Xmas remark - and I bet you all remember.

I just have to re-organize my blogroll, I found so many PDF and paper mags that need to be enlisted here. Another of those is the French DIGITAL TEMPLE magazine: it is bi-lingual, fresh and chock-full with design, art, illustration, photography and fashion, among other things. And the issues are presented online via issuu. Which is another wow after Scribd. (digital temple)

LumiTable: a 63×13 inch table with an apparently glamorous and brilliant light. The tablecloth version is teethgrittingly subtle and passé at the same time but I can definitely imagine this being used for experimental fashion and basically any use which is not about being a tablecloth. Get back to us when you found out how to power up the glamourcloth via wifi from the sockets. (via gizmodo)

Star Place is a new Taiwanese department store designed by Dutch architects UNStudio. Outside, the building is beautiful, with a curved façade that glows in a weird star-like moiré pattern. However, the best part of this structure is inside, in its 10-storey atrium, where the designers have constructed an spiral stair made by rotating escalators over a central axis. (via gizmodo)

Hexbugs. Looked promising, then suddenly I realized we cannot rev-engineer them, cannot hack them and cannot eat their DNA. No good.

Above - how to power your gadgets with sugar. Click on infographics below to find a huge repository on Sheng’s Waking Life. (And find some more on Figuresmag.)

Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used anywhere where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.

Ezt a tipót sem 500 pixelre tervezték, szevasztok. Pénteken Kacsuk Zolival (BME MOKK) és Kodaj Mondo Dániellel tartunk kisebb kerekasztal-beszélgetést a cyberpunk jelenéről meg jövőjéről, elmondjuk, hogy a jövő már a jelen, az űr- meg időutazáson kívül gyakorlatilag nincsen más a tech visionaryk jövőképében (Stephen Levy azért még pikírten bevágja, hogy 2050-ig biztosan lesznek használható szexdroidok, a szexdroidot akarom az elkövetkező két hónapban látni a Google Analytics top searchwördjei között, naszóval), Dani valószínűleg beajánlja az új havi Mondot, amiben pont a Vexille-lel kapcsolatban írok a japánok haláláról (vagy fordítva), Kacsuk kolléga pedig feltehetően tologatós kórházi ágyra fektetett lovedollal mutat be páros koordinációt, én meg savat köpök. (I have practice. I have the acidy spit.)

Mindez negyed nyolctól lesz pénteken a Néprajziban, héttől viszont tényleg lényegi frankó van, Vitos Botond fotókiállítását nyitja meg Kacsuk Zoltán kultúrakutató (aki ugyanaz, akit fent emlegettem, csak a két bekezdés között eltelt ezer mikrogrammnyi porított redbull), ahol elég harapós anyagok lesznek bemutatva, ízelítő és szövegek alább. Gyertek.

2008 folyamán megvalósítandó szakmai programom kulcsszavai: technotudomány (és annak társadalmi implikációi), képi irónia, pszichedélia. A projekt vizuális és ideológiai háttere elsősorban a sci-fi műfaji kereteihez kapcsolódik. Ezt a keretválasztást az alábbiakban röviden indoklom. A kultúratudomány vizsgálatai szerint a tudományos fantasztikum központi témái a kortárs technológiával és annak szociokulturális vonatkozásaival kapcsolatosak.

A technológia folyamatos változása egyfelől a sci-fi fluiditását vonja maga után, a vizuális műfajokat tekintve pedig ez az egyes művek gyártási technológiára is kiemelten érvényes. A mozgókép esetén pl. a technológiák vizuális megjelenítésének aktusai, valamint maguk a különleges effektusok is oly módon kerülnek előtérbe, hogy ezáltal a műfaj, látványos módon, önnön gyártási technológiáira reflektál. Másfelől pedig, a szociális vonatkozásokat tekintve, a sci-fi a világ technologizációjának kiteljesedéséről kínál szimbolikus, ikonografikus térképet. Ez a technológiai zeitgeist a kortárs társadalom azon elvárásaival és szorongásaival áll szoros kapcsolatban, amelyeket a tudományos fantasztikum gyakran felerősítve tükröz vissza. Mindezek a folyamatok és társadalmi attitűdök képezik a projektem vizsgálódásának tárgyát is, ezért a fotográfiai vizualizáció során a sci-fi motívumainak felhasználása hasznos eszköznek bizonyul.

Este nyolctól az Avimpulse rak mindenkit helyre (ezt más idősávokban audio-vizuális projektnek hívják, sounds promising), magát a kiállítást december 21-ig lehet megtekinteni a múzeum Muzbo galériájában.

Infographics is becoming a virus with gorgeous aesthetics. Above, obvious in its purity, this is your digestive system as a subway map. (Note: this is not mine, the Red Line, that runs with habanero now, the Green Line with twists of lime, yerba mate and green watt, no gallbladder, no esophagus. None.) Check some more infographics, especially this extinction timeline and this one about risk perception and actual hazards. (via gerry canavan)

Every montage, says Dujardin, is one project. It begins with an idea for a specific image. Often he starts off by building a model of the form he is trying to achieve – at first in cardboard, but he has recently discovered SketchUp. He then goes on a photo safari, often just around the corner, to find suitable buildings “with a lot of the same things,” so that they can be cut and pasted and serve as building material. In fact most of the fictional structures are buildings in Ghent, just resampled. (Philip Dujardin Photography - from Mark Magazine, via bldgblog)

Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs publicized a few facts on their high-style high-endurance military-bunker-cum-wonder-data-center. 30 meters below Stockholm City, the Pionen White Mountains center houses the Network Operations Center for the company and is designed to withstand a nearby hydrogen bomb hit (which, you know, obviously brings out the devil in me: 1, why use an H-bomb on Sweden instead of just amping up Surströmming? 2, why nuke out an ISP indirectly?). 

For the tech guys: two Maybach MTU diesel engines support the backup power - originally these monstrosities were used in German submarines, so the designer guys just took out the sound horns and added those as well. For the design-hearted: the center has simulated daylight, greenhouses, waterfall and a giant (2600 liter) salt water fish tank. (via royal pingdom) 

If you’re into Japanese cyberpunk - especially the works of Shozin Fukui (Rubber’s Lover, 964 Pinocchio) and Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo, Haze), you’ll love this - a co-operation of Hungarian experimental theatre group Kretakor and Balazs Temesvari, musical mastermind behind the Hungarian romantic biodark (don’t ask) project I.O.N., The band is quite known locally for their tendency of continuously re-working their songs for the concerts, sort of leading to not having a CD/DVD to release even after a few years, they’re so not content with the sounds and songs they produce. But I digress. This is oldschool industrial aesthetics turned sizzling into aetheric, harsh rock. (via ld50.hu)