fuzzion - looking for the east

Another demoscene stuff to make you think about how different life can be - another 4k demo vidcap. Yes, all the animation, the soundtrack and all in between (with quantum states and stuff) are all in 4096 bytes. So glad newbies are also checking this out, I'm so enjoying shocking people with the relative complexities of smaller scener materials. (via dtv)

UPDATE 1: Sceners will so bash me when they read about relative complexities.
UPDATE 2: And I also posted this because since I switched to a white design, every video and pic looks monochrome or midori/aoi. Happy colors are good for your health. And brand design. Cozycomfy visual effort leads to. Okay. Must spend time with Fallout 3 now.


beat dis - just like

Triphop. Hungarian. Screaming steampunkish-TIMish design. Eat their MySpace. Now.


zaha hadid alien opera house interiors


Parts of plans architect Zaha Hadid did for modernizing the Asian side of Istanbul (and also, Opera House desk plans!). Hadid's exhibition will be open 1 November - 13 December at the Sonnabend Gallery and 169 10th Avenue in New York, sez IO9. (via io9 via dezeen)


stanford documentary on mindreading emotiv gadget

One-hour long "documentary" movie, a recording of a Stanford presentation on Emotiv, the mind-reading controller for games - only available in the States only, costing 300 bucks. (via grinding)


new rumour: desolation jones comics receives screen treatment?

IO9 talked to Hollywood producer David Friendly (Soul Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Laws of Attraction) who says he'd be interested in taking comics to the movie screen, specifically, Desolation Jones by none other than Warren Ellis. 

According to the article, Desolation Jones is about a former agent of MI6 who undergoes the Desolation Treatment, which entails a year without sleep. He survives and becomes an all white and gray-colored man who kills without remorse. After the project ends, he lives in LA as a private eye who hallucinates all sorts of wacky stuff and works for the people of LA, which turns out to be chock full of imprisoned ex-agents - slightly misleading at a few points, missing out a year of medical torture, psychological disorders, PTSD, an underground and secretive community of LA spooks that cannot leave the city. With some exceptions, of course. 

Warren sez the following: "All I can tell you is that we've never heard from David Friendly." (via io9)


gatheryn, a casual steampunk mmo

Gatheryn welcomes players into a world where steam powers everything from vehicles to mechanical monkeys, and mystery enshrouds a romantic landscape reminiscent of Charles Dickens’ Victorian London.”

According to the Kotaku guys, the devs at MindFuse plan to let players forgo the usual level grinding in favor of just buying equipment and costumes using game currency earned from playing the casual games or just coughing up with a credit card.

A closed PC beta will be available for sign up in December, with an open beta in the new year.

(link, via kotaku)


hayashi shigeki's ceramic mecha

Hayashi Shigeki, from Tajimi City, draws inspiration for his ceramic figures from images from science fiction, animated film and Japanese comic books known as manga, all of which have attracted him since he was a child. He comes from a region of Japan famous for the production of porcelain domestic ware. (via grinding via highsnobiety)


your heart and still be calm (creative ad)

Just found this on Tina Roth Eisenberg's swissmiss blog: awesome work by Hugo & Marie, a New York-based collaborative creative agency. (link)


the atlas of cyberspace

 


The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other virtual media. Drawing on five years worth of research, and divided into four key sections - infrastructure and traffic, information navigation, community and communication, artistic visions - the best and most interesting maps of cyberspace have been compiled into this unique atlas for the Internet age. (link sent by Dawe, thx!)


ruoska - ei koskaan

I am pissing blood. Writing about the new clip Ei Koskaan by Finnish industrial-metal band Ruoska is in fact one of the hardest things on Earth now, because it's just like they started filming an Avalon copycat but they run out of budget after the first five seconds and ended up with a thrift shop wardrobe, a few airsoft guns and something that looks like a partyplace after King Kong got baptized in it and had its first ritual masturbation. (Oizys, next time send me something that has tits and bleeds when I shoot it.)


daito manabe - electric stimulus to face [test]

Seen this video some six times today on different blogs, but I'll just credit Oizys who sent this to me via Yimmys Yayo. The face you see, that's Daito Manabe, Japanese sound artist and designer, who synchronizes his facial muscles to hifreq glitchcore via microelectroshocks. This is what he says about himself: Redefining the existent media and technologies from unique angles, I have been active in the various fields, such as art, design, and even research and development. I produce the output of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from a various sensors and input devices.

And all our faces are just data now.


nox: hiszed-e még? (értsd a választ, értsd a választ)

Jó három hónapja arról kaptam hírt, hogy a No Thanx öltözött szilikonba, most meg újabb tippet kaptam magát megnevezni nem kívánó olvasómtól, hogy az elektrofolkba áthajló Nox új klippel rukkolt elő. Hazai viszonylatban semmi kellemetlen nincs benne (ez a failbloggal egyenértékű eufemizus), a mai fiatalok szemét meg az sem gyömöszöli ki, hogy kétmásodperces rapidfire-lövetekben köszön vissza az Aeon Flux meg az Ultraviolet, egy kommentár szerint még az Ötödik Elem is, de az első két rip után már nem kell mit magyarázni. Azt viszont nem értem, hogy 2:30-nál hogyan mertek bennehagyni egy ergonómiailag ilyen rosszul megtervezett ajtajú járművet, Péter Szabó Szilvi lábáról viszont enni lehetne, jobb kameraállásnál meg futni rajta öt másodperc alatt százat (ebből legalább az egyik jó). Azt viszont, aki szerint jó ötlet bennehagyni a lövésre kész taktikai kommandó előtt belassított néptáncot, az négerfaszláncért esedezik. És majd egy kommentben ugyan magyarázza már el, hogy ha már nem lett wushu tizensok kitartott fegyver ellen, akkor miért. Na jóéjt.


ghost in the shell cosplay selection, sex object motoko

Mopedronin had this small post on twitter about a Ghost in the Shell: Innocence cosplay. A very bad one. Thank heavens and The Maker That Gives Ladies Firm Boobs to Fondle, here's a selection of eyecandy treatism off cosplay.com, all about Koukaku Kidoutai.


Fairydust (member profile, costume profile, photo by Lucifer), United States. 

Rin. A (member profile, costume profile, photographer unknown), Japan.


tampopo (member profile, costume profile, photo by divideby0.com), United States.


AYAKAN (member profile, costume profile, photographer unknown), Japan. 


Nency (member profile, costume profile, photographer unknown), Russia.


naga sabi. túléltük.


22:10 - alsó ajak out the window, 22:30 - nyállal kimartam ágiék mosogatóját, szép tiszta, valahol itt kezdődnek a tegnap esti emlékek, negyed órára rá a fogaimon éreztem, hogy mar az ínyem, 22:46 percnél pedig egy még mindig azonosítatlan mondat lapul a telefonomban, idézem, szállá húzott angyalkönnyből szőtt vécépapírral ha simogatnák, de szép lenne! Ezt nem feltétlenül akarom érteni.


Két állásból van videónk rögzítve, ha sikerül higgadt állapotban nekifutnom, jövő hét elejére lesz is belőle podcast, amin egy kiskanálnyi Naga Sabi szószon kérődzünk, majd vérmérsékletünk szerint kezeljük a fájdalmat tova.  A képeket csak azért kapjátok, mert proofot akartatok sokan, ami viszont mind a videón van, screenshotot viszont sem e! (Fent a chili con carne, szűz állapotban. Note: egy kisebb lime csodákat tud tenni az ízével.) Siralmasan gyors enumeráció, aztán elhúzok videót vágni üvöltő metállal össze.


Tommy,  amint éppen kérdezzfeleleket játszunk, a devil's cock chilit kell kitalálnom, nem véletlenül kaptok csak fekvő képet álló helyett. Huszonnégy órával a kísérlet után még mindig nem mer a vécére menni, pesti lakos.

Skin, aki videózott nekünk és okos volt, mert csípős (és rívás) nélkül harcolta végig az estét. Különleges képessége a tolerancia és a tökéletes ízű lime beszerzése, valamint delej van az ujjaiban, lásd az illusztrációt.


Balee, a másik kamerafraumann. Legjelentősebb mondata az este folyamán a nenenenene.


Dawe, akinek nemcsak azért dedikáljuk az állóképet, mert ekkora arca van (van), hanem mert ő ette a legtöbb Naga Sabit. Huszonnégy órával a kísérlet után még mindig lángol az arca belülről. Pár perccel a kiskanálnyi szósz után pont olyan színű volt a szeme, mint a zsarátnok, amúgy kedves fiú.


Jelenthetjük: működik a hőhullám (bár egyesek szerint csak klimaxolok) meg az adrenalinroham, belőlem konkrétan a röhögőgörcsöt hozta ki, az alsó ajkaimat nem érzem, a gyomromban egy felrobbanthatatlan kőszikla tart fitness-edzést. A szósz maga nem erős annyira, mint mondjuk a sárga habanero-paprika, ami annyira csípett, hogy felvágás előtt megnyitotta az elmémet, amikor ránéztem és azt mondta, "én nem merném". (Mertem és már megkérdőjelezném, hogy arra ott és akkor miért is volt szükségem.) Hamarosan lesz videó kakaskodással, nyáloszloppal és vigalommal.


this is an emergency broadcast

expect anomalies. redesigning blog.
also, gone to test naga sabi bomb.
it was nice seeing you all. esp you.




UPDATE 1: we survived. we have video proof.


disco boy, vvvv and how i came to love the atomic wireframe

Lok Neville Lee certainly has a few designer tricks up his sleeve (his clock, business card and Björk imitation certainly hit the spot) but the main reason for this post is his DISCO BOY project, what he calls a virtual interactive musical instrument. The definition is misleading, though - if you're expecting something along the lines of, well, anything Maz had to offer, you're on the wrong tracks.

This is a graphically wonderful demonstration for a DirectX-based realtime video synthesis dev environment called VVVV - something VJs and their kin love to use. You basically push qwerty keys to trigger samples and you have some background loops to keep you unbored - whereas the idea is awesome, I'd pretty much love to see this updated. (Did you notice you can unwrap the whole music field from his head?)


mfx - inflorescence

And you will receive so much more xodarap.


rabia sorda - walking on nails

Black, yellow and speedrunning in Mexico. Thanks to Miss A. for the Erktime, really.


schwarzenegger-inspired metal: austrian death machine

Half your brain is melt into killing the flu you've just received after the yearly "we've seriously revamped the devilish concoction now" flu injection, and Gargaj just killed the other half with the one and only, yet terrific vide of Austrian Death Machine entitled Get to the Choppa.

Now mind you, I know you haven't read my trip report on the Nippon Connection 2008 yet (because only one-third is online, I know I have a few things backlagging) but most of my communication was with Marty, guitarist of cyberpunk metal band New Project, who from time to time (hourly) decided to practice his Arnie impersonation on me, one key sentence focused on the fucking chopper we need to get to? Right. The ADM video is entitled Get to the choppa (noticed the ork spelling?) and if this is not enough for you, their album Total Brutal sports tracks like I am a Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton, Come With Me if You Want to Live or If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It. And by the way, it was done by Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying, being "a tribute to the great Arnold movies. It is a band fronted by Ahhnold with music I wrote and recorded in my free time." 

And seeing the tour dates, people just don't get it.