INFOGRAPHICS: Tastebuds in Numbers
My latest infographic, done for the company I'm currently rocking with - that would be music-based community site Tastebuds. Check out all my previous infographics-related works here.
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-03-19 (interviews, music and whatthefucks)
Hello. I still don't have time to write here excessively, most of my creative capacity goes into finishing up my ebook (publishing company bailed out on me, leaving me to do DTP, errata checks and distribution), working on my second book (novel, stuck at mid-synopsis limbo and those who've read it can't believe I did it without any mindbending chemistry) and the new issue of The Dose magazine (still working on the x minutes into the future premise) and generally (and mostly) trying not to go mad and keep on going which is an extremely interesting challenge in London this time of the year. Stick with this staccato love I give you for the time being.
INTERVIEWS:
MISC:
BREAKING: Neuromancer still in casting phase!
According to the guys at moviepilot.com the Neuromancer movie is still at the casting phase - or at least this is what director Vincenzo Natali told them. Visit their site for all the details - here's a little bit of what Natali had to say about the movie.
The reason it takes so long is because you must have the right cast, and it takes forever to find the right actors.
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-03-08
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-03-07
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-03-05
PLANETDAMAGE S13E01: How Damage Report Is At The Moment
Radio silence now officially over, I guess. This is Damage Von Rock and that word tapestry of ROCK above is the ebook cover of Damage Report, my debut book (paperback published in 2012 by publisher house Mangafan) - once again produced by my good friend Vera Moiré. The downloadable version will be available in early March, unfortunately for English readers, only in Hungarian. The book itself is similar to an updated version of a Mondo 2000 New Edge Guide, only with more blood-and-cum-spitting gonzo. If you don't speak Hungarian, I can't blame you, it's a tough bitch to learn, apparently. My second book - a novel - is in the works, it's in English and no, it doesn't have a publisher just yet.
Now go and watch Cult and Black Mirror.
Reporting back in when the stars look nice and I have a caffeine overdose.
Always,
The Damage
IMPORTANT: in need of a Mage: The Ascension Tarot deck
This is actually important. Lots of research and extra brainpower is being invested into the new book. Due to numerous reasons (which are mostly attributed to that research processs), I am in dire need of a Mage: The Ascension Tarot deck (depicted above). If you want to sell yours or know someone who would sell theirs, please get in touch at planetdamage[at]gmail[dot]com. Thank you and please pass this message to those who know.
BOOKMARKS FOR 2012-02-20
DIE ANTWOORD: before Die Antwoord there was Max Normal and Max Normal.TV
Amazing to see how Die Antwoord's stage and interview personae differ from those of their previous projects Max Normal and Max Normal.TV. Ninja and Yo-landi talking at length about their fuck-the-corp-hack-the-world attitude and looking like they've just came out of Hackers - this is just amazing, mental, post-cyberpunk insanity from a corner of the world where the future looks very, very different from what we've been fed. The future doesn't get any more interesting than this. (more on wikipedia, weirdestbandintheworld)
IN AMBER: But what happens when the symbols shatter?
Best accompanied by Death in June's Kameradschaft.
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-14
LECTURE: William Burroughs on wishing machines and the occult
Audio recording of a lecture & writing class with Q & A with students at Naropa University. Poet Allen Ginsberg is also in the audience & asks some questions. Burroughs covers topics including paranormal phenomena, magic, synchronicity, precognition, dreams, his cut-ups technique for writing, & he answers many questions from students & from Ginsberg in a Q & A. He reads from some of his fiction & non-fiction writings. The woman who asks many questions near the end & thanks him at the end I believe is Anne Waldman of Naropa U.
This recording comes from Naropa's audio archives available free to stream at archive.org. There the recording is listed as: "William S. Burroughs class on the technology and ethic of wishing - Part 1 (June 25, 1986)", plus Part 2. I've joined both parts together in this YT upload & edited out nothing. The short silent gap somewhere in the middle is found in the original too.
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-12
Shiv-R, May 25, 2013, Slimes!
(via tokyofashion.com)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Damage interviews Zoog Von Rock of Angelspit
Angelspit frontman Zoog Von Rock has been a long-time comrade on the battlegrounds, fighting the war against apathy, boredom, fake revolutions and grey culture. We put the internets on our coffee table of ROCK and gathered around it, Zoog in New York, me in London and talked about social media, music and the future. How do you talk to your fans? What sort of effort do you need to put into communication? What do you need to sacrifice to live your dreams? And more words of wisdom ahead.
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of Angelspit activity on my blog, always have, always will be. This is because I don't just support their music that I love a lot, but also appreciate their know-how and how they decide to share that with all their fans, how they constantly try to renew themselves and how they put all that change into terms and processes that are simple to grasp, yet are powerful to live by. Support them if you like what you see and hear - here's their site at angelspit.net and you can buy their stuff on Black Pill Red Pill.
Always,
Damage
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-06
- Weavesilk: A magical interactive artwork
- In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge: “Why so many physical systems behave like random matrices is still a mystery,” said Horng-Tzer Yau, a mathematician at Harvard University. “But in the past three years, we have made a very important step in our understanding.”
- Beauty and the Reef: How a marine biologist and ambient musician are making art shows from their 3,000 coral colonies
- 3 Neat Web Services To Visualize & Analyze Your Last.fm Profile: Collage Generator, Super-Eclectic Test, Obscurometer
- Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 52 (The Invisibles): "To be honest, for the most part, The Invisibles is a bit of a mess. Individual moments of splendor stick out, but the book is adept at self-sabotage and when it doesn’t take itself out in a spectacular own goal DC Comics/Vertigo are usually right behind it and ready to clean up."
- Surprised Scientists Find Lifeforms Six Miles Above Earth’s Surface: For the first time, scientists have found lifeforms where nobody thought it was possible: floating in the troposphere, the slice of the atmosphere approximately four to six miles (eight to 15 kilometers) above Earth's surface. And not just a tiny few, but lot: 20% of every particle in that atmospheric layer are living organisms.
- Beautiful Cyberpunk Collages Made with Discarded Computer Parts: "The mixed media artist hailing from Warsaw, Poland, uses all kinds of materials, from used computer components to old buttons and even dead moths."
DARE: Hand in Carbon Fiber Film
Pierre says he would most definitely go in for cancer treatment after a party trick like this. I've drank glowstick fluid and I'm still alive and kicking, so I bet I could second his sentiment. YouTube comments usually dare the guy to put his dick in the carbon fiber film. We would rather not comment on that.
CONCERT VIDEO: Death in June (2002, New York)
DEATH IN JUNE has always been a strange, subtle and powerful influence over the years. When I started submerging myself into the underground, the first concert I went to was that of Der Blutharsch, the second included Death in June, NON and Boyd Rice (with Scivias being the support act at both events). When I was writing Death Beat Club, my first collection of writing (that's going to make it into the ebook edition of my first published book Damage Report), it was mostly Zeromancer and Death in June that was on. When there are longer periods in my life that need retreat and silence, it's Death in June. Douglas P. has a lot to do with the sombre little fucker in my heart that I often end up being. Today, in the offices - another day when work needs music, not that the loud and disturbing kind. So I end up listening Douglas P. Again. Enjoy this gig. Truly amazing. According to my friend Pierre a single DIJ track has more power than a whole gabber setlist. His words are not without a seed of truth.
GNOSIS: You Program Reality
“Everything is literally entangled, it can all be communicated with and affected ‘at a distance’ because there is no distance, only a simulation of apparent separation which our limited consciousness feeds us second by second at 11 bits. The ‘telepathy’ which brings people together is no more or less supernatural or unlikely than the ‘telepathy’ which brings two of your fingers together when you think about it. Patience, participation and constant close observation of what’s going on, on the inside and on the outside will soon make you a fine sorcerer, if that’s what you want to be.” (via temple of electric light)
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-02
- Electronic Insects—If William S. Burroughs Did Cyberpunk: If William S. Burroughs had cyberpunk leanings then he might have conjured up these insects made from various electrical components—but they’re not from the mind of the Beat novelist, instead these are the work of photographer Luca di Filippo.
- Is Your Mind for Sale? Inside the Allure of Digital Sweatshops: Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and author of the book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, suggests that "grad students will do this all day long because it's probably the only source of positive feedback in their lives."
- Genetic algorithms become programmers themselves: [Kory] has been experimenting with genetic algorithms. Normally we’d expect his experiments to deal with tuning the variables in a control system or something, but he’s doing something much cooler. [Kory] is using genetic algorithms to write computer programs, and in the process bringing us one step closer to the Singularity.
- Scientists record the first video of thoughts forming in the brain: Japanese researchers have recorded a real-time video of thoughts forming in the brain of a live animal as it stalks its prey.
How to Master Your Time: Say No. Unplug the TV. Kill notifications. Schedule your priorities. First things first. Less volume, more time. Ignore.
LOVE: Hackers
My favourite movie, if I had to pick one. Iain Softley's Hackers from 1995 with Angelina Jolie, Laurence Mason, Matthew Lillard and Jonny Lee Miller.
SCI-FI SHORT: R'Ha
Feast your scifi loving eyes on this jaw-dropping short by Kaleb Lechowski, a 22-year-old German student attending the Mediadesign Hochschule school in Berlin. Yeah, he's already heading to Hollywood. Synopsis: "A member of an alien race is being interrogated and tortured by a machine." Sound is by Hartmut Zeller and voice acting, by Dave Masterson. (more at quietearth.us)
RESEARCH: A Retrospective Editing of Consciousness
A new study has found that conscious experience can be altered retrospectively, so that experience of visual information can be changed almost half a second later by manipulating where our attention is drawn. (more at mindhacks)
MAGAZINE: Matrix Revelations Issue 4
Fourth issue Alfa Matrix magazine featuring interviews with Helalyn Flowers, RECOIL, GLIS, Dunkelwerk, Lovelorn Dolls, Ayria, Junksista, Aesthetische, Implant, Cynical Existence, Freakangel, Technoir, Daniel B. Prothèse, Kant Kino, Krystal System, Mentallo & The Fixer, I:scintilla, Mari Chrome, Diskonnekted, Siva Six, Metroland.
Machete Girl issue 8 is ALMOST out, the new issue of The Dose mag will be launched in May, Auxiliary's pumping hard the new issues and now Alfa Matrix spits out a new mag issue? This promises to be an interesting few months ahead. No rivalry on the table, so feel free to come forward and download this warbaby - the Mentallo interview is PURE ROCK! (read on issuu)