samparkour and the "exploit yourself" runner

Problems offer opportunities. There is nothing more true about the l'art du déplacement, better known as parkour, the art of passing where other people merely see peril. If you've been following up on PD, you will know about the respect I pay for traceurs - and trust me, when you see Yamakasi and Banlieue 13, it is merely the Paris eyecandy - so it's a great joy seeing not one but two short parkour movies coming out during the past week.

Samparkour shows how Zico Corrêa traces the danger edge in São Paulo. Video was shot in HD with a 35mm lens adapter by Wiland Pinsdorf (co-directed by Arthur GW Guttilla, produced by Canvas 24p Films) and if you've ever seen some elaborate traceur moves done elegantly with style (and some decent camerawork as well), that's just it. (via renegade futurist)

Exploit Yourself is more like a NIKE ad, not really a short movie in its entirety of 50 seconds. What's so great about it is that it's been done by Big Lazy Robot VFX without any motion capture work at all, that it's accompanied by The Prodigy's The Big Gun Down which fits quite nicely to the oooomph-ahh tempo and it's all been directed by Carl Erik Rinsch who's actually directing a prequel to Ridley Scott's Alien. Exploit Yourself talks about pushing your limits just for the sake of it. Neatly said. (Thanks heaps to all of you who sent this in in the rush hours!)


planetdamage webstat 2009 q1 & q2: from hello kitty gas masks to dental porn

It is a day of Hecq, Scanner and Murcof and the statistics of the past six months leaves me musing and mortified. Those of you that didn't go for love doll, gas mask fetish, Russian blowjob, mother daughter threesome, bukkake day or Hello Kitty gas mask ended up with hazmat fetish, fl0w source code or dental porn. Or non-Euclidean sweaters. Or, for that matter, post apocalyptic movies with furry characters. And a Hungarian guy who wanted flashing equalizer tees and if you've ever seen desperate, this man goes straight to dictionary illustration fame, never seen that many variations for anything, Hokusai's 36 is just rookie scrabble. Seriously.

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Francesca Dani, she is. You were all looking for her like a sailor that caught a whiff of snatch.

(A magyar kulcsszavak listáját messziről uralja a 2 faszu ember, továbbá várom azon olvasóm levelét, aki szerint nem merem de akarom, illetve nem vállalom. Ugyanitt lelki tanácsadást vállalok. Elismerő pillantást érdemelt még ki a gép fegyveres játékok, a remekbeszabott a pina belseje, valamint a kurvák öltöztetése is. A bukkake party szervezés és az ázsiai leányok még hagyján, de hogy a keresztény filmek, illetve az üléshuzat göd is mágnest jelentett ide, az már kicsit sok.)

As for site traffic, 2009 brought 22328 unique visitors (a solid upward slope from 17317 as stated in the last webstat) - readers haven't changed much, though. 53.6% English, 20.1% Hungarian, 4.8% German, 3.7% Spanish and 2.3% French is telling me that I'm losing a bit of a native readership (which is okay, as long as they read the Hungarian excerpts I'm uploading from my book in progress).

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Top content on PlanetDamage (2009.01.01-06.30)

14sec - too short to live, too long to suffer:: if you were curious about what I've done after LD50, that's one part of it, writing a script for a cyberpunk short film. The film was shot on HD, so currently it's on Vimeo (the YouTube upload options are just not enticing enough), it features music by BAAL and First Aid 4 Souls and we're actually planning a sort of a sequel in the same vein, different setting.

Japanese love doll hotel, a new business for the upcoming years:: you love weird stuff, don't you. A weird mixture of love doll fuckpuppies and the sorry, abandoned rent-a-rooms, this is the new shame magnet for sararimen and all the new scum we came to love and live with.

Weirding Wednesday: the Lego BDSM scene:: not much to comment on that. Fantastic how much you are enthralled by kink. I really should move on to posting almost-NSFW material and then get hired by Fleshbot.

Cyberpunk bodypaint girls with guns (G.E.N.):: Motoko Kusanagi really had it coming. Funny that the post I was working on for like three hours didn't make it into the top 10, that was some scrutiny into how the more kawaii girls tend to cosplay Motoko. Oh wait. I wrote almost that word by word the last time!

The sensoring manifesto::


árnyvilág, spook country, árnyvilág

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Árnyvilág. Spook Country. Árnyilág. Összehúzott szemekkel nézni a könyveket egymás mellett, visszaemlékezni az esti beszélgetésekre Ajkay Armitage Örkénnyel, aki végtelen mennyiségű tippet dobott fel, mielőtt maradt volna ennél a címnél, én meg annál a meggyőződésnél, hogy vagy angolból vagyok túl jó, vagy magyarból vagyok túl gyenge, de az egyik legalább. A lényeg, magyarul is kapható az új Gibson, amit elolvasok, mert Örkény jól fordít, bármennyire is mondja a posztmodernben fuldokló Bán Zsófia, hogy pontatlan és amatőr (két percet túlélést tippelek neki egy középkategóriás Sprawlban, aztán már vagy jó tizenöt csecse szervtankban folytatná az utat Mianmar és Bukarest felé), a Galaktika szerkesztőség tagjai közül pedig aki amellett kardoskodik, hogy a cyberpunkot kiberpunknak kell fordítani (lásd 2008 február, Bruce "A cyberpunk Milli Vanillije vagyok" Bethke Cyberpunk című novellája sem úszta meg), azt rozsdás faszlánc szögezze pontonhídra.

Amúgy Gibson köszöni, jól van, az új könyve Zero History munkacím alatt fut, az Árnyvilágot pedig a Galaktikaboltból, ha már. (Van Árnyvilág blog is, tizenöt éve nem láttam olyan őszinte underconstructiont, mint ott, majd töröljük ki ezt a bejegyzést.)


Hollis Henry, az egykori Curfew rockbanda újságíróvá avanzsált ex-énekesnője munkalehetőséget kap egy indulás előtt álló, trendinek ígérkező életmódmagazintól. Első feladata Los Angelesbe szólítja, ahol a virtuális valóságot és a műholdas helymeghatározó technikát ötvöző, újfajta képzőművészetről kell anyagot gyűjtenie. Hollis azonban hamarosan egy sokkal veszedelmesebb történet kellős közepén találja magát.
Eközben az Államok másik felén, Manhattan mélyén Tito, egy patinás kínai–kubai bűnözőklán csempészetben, városi akadályfutásban és a misztikus afro-karibi santeríakultuszban egyaránt jártas, fiatal tagja családi utasításra iPodokat kézbesít egy titokzatos öregembernek. A furcsa megbízás azonban nem csak benne kelt megválaszolatlan kérdéseket. Tevékenysége és főként kapcsolatai nyomát egy ködös szervezet jól kiképzett ügynöke követi, az igazi célpont azonban valószínűleg nem Tito, hanem valaki más…
A világ szállítmányozási útvonalain ezalatt hol felbukkan, hol eltűnik egy teherkonténer, sehol nem állapodva meg elegendő ideig ahhoz, hogy valaki rátehesse a kezét..


aquatica: jenova chen's fl0w on iPhone

Aquatica. It immerses you into a beautiful, minimalist and serene underwater world, where you play as one of three different creatures, interact with and eat other creates around you, and evolve and grow your creature in the process. As you complete more and more levels, your creature becomes more and more complex and beautiful. It grows and evolves randomly, so that every time you play the game your creature will look different.


Please note: Aquatica is an iPhone from-the-ground-up re-make of the famous flOw game created by Jenova Chen of the ThatGameCompany fame.

Please also note that we deeply apologize for this. We simply (naively) did not think it necessary, since we did indeed write absolute *ALL* the code ourselves. We can easily prove it by releasing any part of the code anyone requests.

We have corrected this by posting proper credits everyone (they will show up in iTunes in several hours, as all changes do).

We have also contacted Jenova Chen to apologize.

Please note: Large portions of our source code are now available at http://ketara.ca/aqua.html near the bottom of the page, so anyone who believes that we've copied the code can look at it for themselves to see that it's original.


skye sweetnam goes post-apocalyptic tank girl (no, not really)

it's in the air you breathe, it's hidden up their sleeves
they're even marketing what i say right now, watch out


Canadian pop diva Skye Sweetnam did this. Apart from the apparent bubblegum factor, this will remind you of Tank Girl (Mad Max designed by Vivianne Westwood!) VERY MUCH. As for the comic style animation sequence at the very end, it's been done by Cameron Stewart, whose work appears in the Transmetropolitan trade paperback Tales Of Human Waste.


polynomial: fractal beauty in 3d

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I have weirdness in my brain and when it doesn't spit out raw comic (or porn) scripts, hundred thousand dollar project ideas or drum'n'bass tracks, it vomits game ideas and they smell like grass after rainfall. I had one idea like this for like, five years? Without telling all the details, it was 3D, it looked like it came out of a beautiful trip and it looked like rainbow and fractals and it was all action. And then I checked out Indiegames and it turns out someone has partially did what I had in mind. It's called Polynomial and it is BEAUTIFUL.

This is the game I'm currently working on. It is a 3D space shooter with mathematically generated fractal scenery and models. It is easy to get started - you fly around, shoot some stuff, collect some other stuff, and dodge enemy bullets, all while admiring the trippy scenery and self-repairing by flying close to stars. However, to get really high score, you must be good at the shooting and dodging and collecting parts.

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final fantasy xiii: this time with lesbian motorcycle twin sisters

Let me rephrase this, this time with lesbian twin sisters who are motorcycles. According to the newsflash,

When triggered, her gestalt transformation involves Shiva and another Shiva (her "friend"? "college roommate"?) dancing around each other, before gently holding hands, continuing their dance, then...spreading their legs and bolting together at the hips, Voltron-style, to form a supernatural motorcycle. (via kotaku)

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memory, a short film by Junichi Yamamoto

Mix post-nuclear debris landscape a la Fallout with armor design similar to the pure genius snarly-gnarly-tongue-in-cheek web comics Gone with the Blastwave, add two pinches of human memories to be devoured and voilá, you have Memory, a 7-minutes long animation by Junichi Yamamoto, as reported by Bouncing Red Ball. While you're at it, also check Yamamoto's other anime entitled Melody (字幕版), trippy and dreamlike, completely different from Memory, very much in the vein of Russian animation in the seventies.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area.
The humanoid appeared to be household robot, reminiscent of Asimo, and when the soldiers booted it up, they were able to see what was left of videos recorded inside its memory as seen by the robot throughout the years.
(via bouncing red ball)


steph rajalingam interviews zoog of angelspit

Ever noticed why Zoog of Angelspit is such a great interviewee? (Questions: What is art? What is music? How did you get into industrial music?) Hint: No, it's not the jacket.


HINA: szervómotoros robotlány kétcopfantennával

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雛, ヒナ, HINA, instafordításban kiscsirke, szervómotoros, copfként duálantennázott, három hónap alatt sufniban összeszerelhető robotlány. A Popular Science éppen HINA kávéfőző képességeit ecsetelné háromsorban, arra még rá kell jönnünk fordítás közben, hogy képes-e bármi másra. Ami a japán eredeti leírás fordítását illeti: 36 centi, 1.1 kiló, 21 szabadságfok adja az alapot, aki pedig le akarja gyártani, fusson neki, rengeteg gyanta, műanyag, elektronika meg műszer kell hozzá, a képekből meg a blog fordításából rá lehet jönni a lényegre. (És ha még azt is elolvasod, hogy Sega Saturn Twin Stickkel irányítható, még jobb. Kell egy ilyen a lassú, sanyarú reggelekre.) (mujaki's clockwork blog)


did you click miss x today?

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Ladies and boiz (and then some more ladies), time to visit Amelia Arsenic again! She's right in the middle of launching Miss X Aesthetic Laboratories - which promises to be a collection of makeup tutorials and a webstore for her product line and you can read much more about that on destroyx.com. For more about the makeups above, check Miss X vs Freyagushi and Madame Bones.


erwin olaf, le dernier cri


Erwin Olaf's video 'Le Dernier Cri' makes use of a kind of hyperrealism that is characteristic of much of his work. Here the slick realism of Hollywood films is being driven to its limits, giving the whole work an absurd character. The camera moves in one long, continuous movement through a house; it almost seems to be floating. 'Paris, printemps 2019', reads a subtitle. The atmosphere in the house is suffocating - despite the spatiality and the fragile early-spring sounds that can momentarily be heard at the start. Everything is reminiscent of the 'homely' variation of modernism that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. (catalogue.nimk.nl)

Erwin Olaf, as you will see, is someone Paco would approach one day, commissioning him to create a doll comprising magnificient tools, the tainted lust of a housewife, the uncertainty of encountering a new civilization, grafted fuck muscles and a skinjob not entirely unknown to subterranean cults who still remember why curves were formed as curves in the first place. (via grinding.be, pic below comes from photography-now)

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violent coffee commercials, guillotines and full-on headshots

From 1957 to 1961, Henson made 179 commercials for Wilkins Coffee and other Wilkins products, including Community Coffee and Wilkins Tea. The ads were so successful and well-liked that they sparked a series of remakes for companies in other local markets throughout the 1960s.

(via superpunch via boingboing)


14sec: too short to live, too long to suffer

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A Marble Arch pakisztáni negyedében egy currytől bűzlő ágyon, késelő londoni lánybandákról szóló tévéműsort nézve, a kínai negyed egyik vietnami éttermében béka felé hajolva, aztán pár héttel és egy fél kontinenssel arrébb a Sunny Corner kékkel és sötétrózsaszínnel erezett ablakai között születik meg a 14sec. A cyberpunkot úgyis szereted, dolgozd át a forgatókönyvet úgy, hogy üljön, mondja Mesmer Tomi rendező, kell bele természetfeletti elem is. Én mindenestül kihoudiniznék bármit, ami nem szilikon, vagy államadósságnyi méretű robbanás, aztán mégis máshogy alakul a történet: 2009 februárjában két napig egy csepeli gyárban, Budapest szélén forgatjuk le a valamikoratávolijövőben rövidfilmet klasszikus elemekből: elhagyatott gyártelepre menekül egy katonai vírust lopott dezertőr, az utána küldött katona pedig nem azzal szembesül, mint amire számított. A film soundtrackjét a magyar First Aid 4 Souls és a japán, cyberpunk körökben jól ismert ipari csapat, a BAAL követte el, a film konceptmunkáit a H.R. Gigerhez gyakran hasonlított Joachim Luetkének köszönhetjük, a továbbiakban Twitter-beszámolók és helyszíni fotók mellett jön a film is, teljesen tizenhatpercestül.

14sec was born in the Pakistani district of Marble Arch on a bed reeking of curry with a hacked up telly showing what looked like a documentary of stab-happy London girlie gangs, in a Viet restaurant somewhere in Chinatown with some real decent frog dish to devour and some weeks (and half a continent) later, in our face place Sunny Corner, windows tainted with blue and dark pink. I know you love cyberpunk, rework the script and make it really happen, says director Tomi Mesmer, but we'll need some supernatural to add there as well. I would honestly Houdini everything out except for silicone or explosions eating up yearly GDPs, then it all goes in a slightly different way. In February 2009 we're stranded for two days on the outskirts of Budapest, shielded by a factory rented for two days, working on classic clichés: soldier steals military virus, runs for an abandoned factory, zaibatsu sends a gun for hire after him and then things don't exactly go according to plan. Soundtrack was done by up-and-coming Hungarian electro project First Aid 4 Souls and Japanese cyberpunk massif BAAL, concept art is by none other than Joachim Luetke - and you're just about to see the movier with some past tweets, behind-the-scenes photos and the sixteen-minutes long movie itself.
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Really, that's just because of the incoming traffic.


bulletpornó és buta hangszerek: újabb iPhone-ajánló

A kevesebb több, a neon fényesebb, az elektronikus szervesebb, a halványpasztell szívmelengetőbb, a fehér-szürke-kék pedig az új fekete. Rácshálóval és illatanyagokkal írni zenét, rosszul hajlongani dotmátrixxal, mint a T.A.T.U. laposjapánmellbe hajlott elektro-epigonjai, játéktermi, arcot bevilágító vörös robbanásokra hajazó, érthetetlenre varázsolt akciókkal generátorokba robbanni, irodai kockaasztaloknál üres órákban tervezett bulletpornót legyőzni hüvelykujjal a reggeli gyorsban, közben feszített fűrészfogtechnot hallgatni, hátha felébredsz, aztán azt mondod, mégsem kell drogoznod, hogy folyamatosan élénkszínnel meg ívfénnyel festett hullámokat meg poligonokat láss, mert egyébként is mindig, mindenhol azokat látod, így spórolunk meg súlyos napi ezreket-tízezreket. iPhone-válogatásunk következik, fent meg Нас не догонят, mert megérdemlem..Read more


reese, gyalupadra és vidiára írt szonáta

1613, délutáni iroda. @dawe_ szerint, lásd cím, gyalupadra és vidiára írt szonátát visz a szél, az egyik legprominensebb (PR-ostól tanult szó ez) holland DnB-producer, Panda munkája pedig (youtube: Quebec a.k.a. Massacre). Fél szemmel azokat az oktatóvideókat nézem, amiből végre teljesen tiszta, hogy hogyan lehet dühödt, kövekkel telepakolt kávéautomata-basszust csinálni, a Reese basszust előszeretettel használja átcsavargatott változatban a Black Sun Empire meg a Noisia is, ami meg az ütemeket illeti, ott a lenti Fruity Loops oktató, érezzétek jól magatokat, én elvesztem, megint elkezdek zenét írni. Minden más mellett.

UPDATE 1: Dobhegyezés Reasonre, most.


mfx - cognoscere

Ranked 20th at Breakpoint 2009 - steganography-based demo with tuned-down powernoise, somewhere between In Slaughter Natives, Con-Dom and Grey Wolves. Twisted.


the chosen/virtual diva: blue and smoky cyberpunk reggaetón

IO9 had a compilation a few days ago entitled The Best And Worst Of Virtual Music Video Worlds, ranging from classic eighties filledvector Dire Straits to lightcycle ripoff Infernal. Here's an addition I managed to dig up on Slate - Puerto Rican reggaetón superstar Don Omar's music video The Chosen/Virtual Diva, according to the post, " features lots of icy-blue light, plumes of smoke, guys in lab coats, jackbooted women in leather, and Omar alternately strapped to a gurney and bellowing through a bullhorn." In fact, just what the doctor ordered. (In fact, if Don Omar's world is a virtual one, I'm being very poetic about it.)

Don Omar - The Chosen & Virtual Diva [ IDON : System Upgrade ]


nerdcore 2009, whatever it really means

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new, very corrosive searchword: nerdcore