MUSIC VIDEO: Punks Jump Up X Dubka - Feels Good feat. Saint Saviour
Indie/thrash 80s pop meets werewolves in this brand new music video by Punk Jumps Up and it was quite fun to realize it is really @blippchen as lead WEREWOLF ROCK GODDESS! Go Babsi go!
TRAILER: Now You See Me (con artists, magic, reality hacking)
Intelligence and reality hacking is a turn-on and I have a boner the size of Burj Khalifa, all glittered with Death Swarovski and Acid Bukkake for NOW YOU SEE ME. Four-man con artist/illusionist troupe The Four Horsemen pull off a Robinhoodesque wealth redistribution trick that instantly gets down under surveillance, leading both characters and audience to the question of
MOVIE ANNOUNCEMENT: Deus Ex Human Revolution
CBS Films announced today that Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) will direct the screen adaptation of the iconic Square Enix video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Derrickson will also write the screenplay for the film with C. Robert Cargill (Sinister). Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh are attached to produce the film with John P. Middleton serving as Executive Producer. (via comingsoon.net)
DAMAGE'S DAILY DIGEST - 2012-11-08 bookmarks: Seed, Ethno Tekh and more!
Going against the tide with putting great content I see on fastmedia (FB and Twitter) here. Got stuff you want featured, seen or heard of? Post it to info at planetdamage.com.
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Ethno Tekh | ethnotekh.com | is a collaboration between Brad Hammond and Chris Vik, in a motion-controlled, A/V act. Our performances are totally live, using the Kinect, Ableton Live and a number of custom tools built in Unity3D and Max/MSP/M4L. (More tech specs on the show on this vimeo page, don't forget to check ethnotekh.com and their Facebook page.)
Click more for Tyson Wade Johnston's Seed, Twitter prediction algorithms, the new book of Doug Rushkoff and more unorthodox music making solutions!
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BREAKING: First official poster for Neuromancer!
Apparently the first official poster for Vincenzo Natali's adaptation for seminal cyberpunk novel NEUROMANCER. No further information on release date or cast members. It's good to see that many of the 80's tropes come back roaring with the plugs, the concept of jacking in or the definitely retrofuturistic typeface - but is it just me who thinks that the pattern behind the jack plug is actually a fingerprint? And if so, how would the whole concept of hacking change if you didn't jack in via headplugs but fingerplugs? Natali already expressed his concerns previously about the clichés of cyberspace and dropped new ideas to the table about how cyberspace could be represented in a fundamentally new way (read more about that in my previous post) - is this a new way of tweaking the golden age of gridline hacking?
EROTICA: Clayton Cubitt's Hysterical Literature
1:40am. London has a tendency to make me feel like she has one foot in the door, using the door to skillfully plant the other foot in my brainstem. Job interview after job interview, mails by the dozens and endless sheets of ideas and contact lists piled up against the windowpanes and the coffeemugs, each with its own name and radiant black personality. Instead of sleeping, I am stuck with five episodes of Clayton Cubitt's Hysterical Literature: gorgeous women reading excerpts from books they've selected only to explode in graceful climax something like a minute before the video's end. This is all done newsreader style, given away the instantly recognizable vibrator whirr and the tempo of the reading stumbling into an erratic silky staccato. The trembling fight against the inevitable.. makes me smile every single time.
The three episodes I've posted feature Teresa Nasty (reading from Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson), Stormy Leather (reading from American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis) and Stoya (reading from Necrophilia Variations by Supervert). For more Cubittery, head for his Tumblr.
LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN: 2012 October's bookmarked music finds
With tracks by Nina Hagen & Adamski, Atari Teenage Riot feat. Iggy Pop, Hurts, Cylob, Teddy Sambuki, Kúra, Bahlzack, Manicanparty, Swedish House Mafia, Telepheriq Chamberlain, Coconaut, Charli XCX, Autonervous, MS MR, KAS Product, Cruel Machine, New Years Day, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Port-Royal, Geomatic, Sabbath Assembly, 156.
VIDEO: Neuromancer director to dish out 2-minute zombie CPR short
So apparently dead humans can't be turned into zombies - but zombies are well-trained in the art of CPR - more resuscitation - more zombies = PROFIT! The Undeading, by Vincenzo Natali.
TRUE SKIN: cyberpunk viral short gets Warner treatment
Warner Bros. Pictures and producer David Heyman's Heyday Films have scored the feature film rights to Stephan Zlotescu's sci-fi short film turned viral sensation "True Skin" says Heat Vision. Zlotescu was an FX genius who has worked on countless music videos and pulled together this near-future set short about a time when people are augmenting their bodies. (more at darkhorizons.com)
Haven't seen TRUE SKIN yet? Watch the Bangkok amok run here!
TRON: UPRISING lightcycle designs
Daniel Simon, lead vehicle designer on TRON: Uprising, created many versions of Beck's hero Light Cycle before the show started. (via tron/facebook)
BLADERUNNERESQUE BIOPUNK SHORT: Loom [4K, RED]
Luke Scott in cooperation with RED Camera presents "LOOM". A film shot completely in 4K format in the tone and style of Ridley Scott's dystopian Blade Runner. The film was originally intended to help showcase the prototype REDray 3D laser player. The film was constructed for 3D, the film needed to push the limits of the cameras exposure sensitivity and colour range and 4K projection. Visually the film is unmatched to date in it's use of RED's new technology.
MOVIE: ridley scott on blade runner 2
It's not a rumour – it's happening. With Harrison Ford? I don't know yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don't know how long he can live [laughs]. And that's all I'm going to say at this stage. (via io9)
CG: realtime separable subsurface scattering (and some human skin with acne)
This movie represents hours and hours of research, desperation, excitement, happiness, pride, sadness and extreme dedication. Hope you like it.
IMPORTANT: designed to be viewed in HD at fullscreen with scaling off on a 1080p device. Be patient and wait for the movie to load before playing, it's a 1080p movie. Some subtleties are lost in the online version, so I encourage to download the original blu-ray quality version (or the original demo) below, to better appreciate the skin and fine scale render details (but be aware that you will need a powerful computer to play it).
It shows our latest and final advances on real-time skin rendering (Separable Subsurface Scattering), which enables to quickly render skin in just two post-processing passes. Everything is written from scratch using DirectX 10 and rendered in real-time, from the skin to the film grain; if you have a powerful GPU you can download the original demo here... (read more on vimeo)
CYBERPUNK: Blade Runneresque short TRUE SKIN released, heavy on implants
I posted the teaser to an orgy of biopunk promises in early May. Yep, it was True Skin, something the internets hailed as biopunk, nodding to the cyberprosthetics-heavy high concept of nineties' cyberpunk science fiction. It was in Shoreditch, post-job interview, when I saw that True Skin is finally OUT in all its six-minute entirety. And don't get me wrong, it is both amazing and an answer to my question about the memory uploading spam the other day.
Bangkok Market, left in the rain after a neon streak facial. Blade Runner gave us the wet Babel claustrophobia of urban labyrinths and it's been with us ever since from Neuromancer to Ghost in the Shell and all the short films that try real hard to stay with us with their thick eyecandy, staying one of the key motifs that still elude us. Or who knows. The future might be unevenly distributed but it's still a network of stolen iPhones on which suburban kids sketch up plans of mayhem, distribution, violence and getting properly shitfaced. Maybe it's the umbrellas with the glowing shafts and the augmented reality shopping wizards for new hands that keep the future at a relatively safe distance.
True Skin brings all that first-generation gangster romance back - I stole I am on the run I am hiding - and its clichés remind me all the more of the uncomprehensible floorplan Kurzweil gave us about the humanity doing everything it can imagine and then all the things it cannot. Downloading my memories before I get killed so that I could revive myself in a vat a couple hundred miles away doesn't really cut it anymore. For anyone who hasn't read Count Zero or the Richard K. Morgan novels, it's a wonderful treat. For us who've read them already, it's a wonderful visual treat and a great production. It's just the ever-repeating high concept that makes us wonder: just how much did the Mirrorshades Group writers hardwire and solidify our ideas about possible futures?
Whatever readings, pills or brainhacks we need to come up with new ideas about man-machine fusion - I believe we want them now. Now, like the techno kids of Berlin, hellbent on the everpresent alternative: very fucking bad or very fucking good, we don't care. But whichever it is, we want it now.
(True Skin is a wonderful piece of first-generation cyberpunk short film with lots of implants, augmented reality and Hajime Sorayama-inspired robot prostitutes. Get the full credits here.)
SPAM: human memory storage
Getting a tad bit Takeshi Kovacs here at Muswell Hill - there is a caffeine drip going straight into my right eye and the left one is looking at the mail I've just gotten with the subject MARIUSZ, HAVE YOU UPLOADED YOUR MEMORIES TODAY? which reminds me of all the great (...not) spam waves of the early double-zeroes. Landing page (above) is somewhere between Battle Royale and Max Headroom and is at revolution-memory-insurance.com. No idea which game, service, opt-in mailing list or future employer with a plan did that to me but I find this perversely entertaining. And the 20-second loop on the site has been on for more than half an hour. Hypnotic at the very least, but then again we took the hobbits to Isengard and only stopped at the seven hour mark because Windows died a terminal crash. Keeping you updated on this as more details come up.
MUSIC MAKING: AudioGL Beta - creating music in the 80s cyberspace
Here in flatland, ideas for musical interfaces may have become largely well-trodden. Not so in the third dimension. And so, one of the most unusual audiovisual interfaces has now hit beta, ready for you to explore. And that does mean “explore”: think navigation through spinning, animated galaxies of musical objects in this spatial modular sound environment. With the beta available, you can determine whether that´s a bold, new final frontier, or just the wheel, reinvented.
The work of Toronto-based artist and engineer Jonathan Heppner, AudioGL is a stunning vision of music creation in 3D space, with modular synths, advanced user-editable modulation, and a freely-navigable, open-ended spatial workspace. (via createdigitalmusic.com, sent by @dismay22, thx!)
ROBOTS: Bina48 (interview with creator Bruce Duncan)
The entire last week I was living next door to one of the world’s famous avatars: Bina48. A true celebrity. And I have to admit, it was very quiet. I know about Bina48 for a few years now, I’ve made many interviews with one of Bina48′s creators so to say, Martine Rothblatt, but I never met her in “person”. Yesterday was the day.
(read more here, via @presleysylwia)
PHOTO: the prospect of immortality (murray ballard)
“The Prospect of Immortality” is a fascinating photo series about cryonics, a method for preserving deceased humans and animals in the hope that they can be revived by future medical technologies. British photographer Murray Ballard worked on the series between 2006 and 2012, traveling around the world to visit members of the small but dedicated cryonics community and the handful of cryonics facilities that currently exist. The series is named after a 1962 book of the same name by Robert Ettinger—the “father of cryonics.” Ballard’s series will be turned into a book in the spring of 2013. (photo gallery at murrayballard.com, via laughingsquid.com, sent by cloudjunky, thx!)
hyper matrix shape shifting wall by jonpasang
Check out this cool shape shifting wall called Hyper-Matrix. The 180 degree installation by Korean media artist group Jonpasang will make you look twice as thousands of motorized cubes continuously change positions creating new and impressive patterns.
Jonpasang collaborated with Hyundai to create Hyper-Matrix at the auto manufacturers Pavilion in Seoul, South Korea. (via enpundit, sent by a LOT OF YOU)
shannan click goes anime in 2012 september issue of dazed and confused
Model Shannan Click (Women) goes wild for photographer Gregory Harris in this crazy editorial from the pages of Dazed & Confused September. Stylist Tony Irvine references pop culture, assembling looks that combine anime, comic book and cyber goth aesthetic with menacing results, while hair and make-up by Anthony Turner and Yadim is colorful and wide eyed. / Casting Director: Anita Bitton @ The Establishment (more images at fashiongonerogue, sent by Miss Vividfluxury)
first look at the robocop remake
ComingSoon.net has your first look at Joel Kinnaman ("The Killing") in the new RoboCop suit! Filming started today in Toronto and you can see the updated design below.
Directed by Jose Padilha, the August 9, 2013 release co-stars Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Columbia Pictures, the film was written by Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk, based on the 1987 motion picture written by Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner. The film is produced by Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, with Bill Carraro serving as executive producer. (via comingsoon.net, sent by Ripla!)
eladó bringa (UPDATE: eladva)
Költözök, úgyhogy eladom a bringám, furcsa érzés persze, de ez most muszáj. 54es váz (170cm vagyok), Shimano fékek meg Shimano négyfokozatú agyváltó (örök darab, sohaelnemromlós, mondja Sinred barátom, aki amúgy összeszerelte nekem ezt az egészcsodát), dt küllős, fűzött kerekek vannak benne, adok hozzá pumpa meg ABUS lánc+lock, összesen 60.
UPDATE: Eladva. Köszi a shareket meg jelentkezéseket mindenkinek.
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