MUSIC VIDEO: access to arasaka - lysithea
Tympanik wonderglitchist Access to Arasaka has released one of the greatest albums this year called Geosynchron (buy it here on bandcamp) and he also had the time to contribute to the Planet://Damage brainstorming about the Neuromancer cast list AND I HAVEN'T SHOWN YOU HIS LATEST MUSIC VIDEO? Such a shame. Here's his Lysithea MV!
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qlimax 2011: official afterparty video
Qlimax being one of the leading hardstyle events and an amazing parody of MK Ultra brainwashing given to people with a happy note. Or I'm completely mistaken and that is not a brainwashing parody! (Gimme a break, anything you do to more than 1000 people qualifies as generous brainwashing. Get over it. Now go and find yourself a thousand people.) Featuring yet again: Headhunterz. Finally. After his missing set in 2010.
TRAILER: MS ONE Security Maximum (aka Lock-Out)
Mixture of Escape from New York and Luc Besson: hopefully a powerful return of French hard edge SF cinema.
MS ONE Security Maximum Trailer. The Very first trailer of MS ONE Security Maximum, the new sci-fi thriller, starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, previously titled "Lock-Out". A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States is offered his freedom... The Price ? He'll have to rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent prisonners...
industrial girl bike gang

Amelia Arsenic sez: I’m apart of with my best friend and Angelspit band mate Valerie Gentile. We’ll be playing some of the heaviest, nastiest and dirtiest beats in 2012 with our DJ team called ‘The Industrial Girl Bike Gang’.
Photography by the amazing Dangerously Dolly with styling/hair/makeup by me. (more on facebook)
Vakondok 2: film undergroundról, tehetségről és a lehetetlenről
Tettünk fel neked a gépre... szünet, dolgokat. Szerintünk tetszeni fog. A komplett Elendernek eláll a pólója húsz fokban a ventillátortól, én meg megilletődött, apró gyermekként (kemény, sose gondoltam vissza arra, hogy valaha voltam gyerek is, persze mások szerint sosem voltam más) állok a pult mögött, értem, hogy dolgokat, de balról jobbra akarok menni a Golden Axeban a törpével, annak bárdja van. Nagy bárdja. Adjátok ide a nehéz szürke műanyag dobozt. Pár óra elteltével újra meg újra megnézem a Second Realityt, végre olyan videoklip, amiben jó a zene, absztrakt a látvány, szinkronizálva van a kettő, ritmusos. Nagyon jó. Elindítom még egyszer. (Három nap múlva phongot meg raytraced tiefightereket vakarok ki a zsemléből, mit nekem elesdé.)
Aztán eltelnek évek. A demoscene fejlődik, én is vele együtt, zenét írni tanulok, mert a demosceneből ezt tanultam, lemezújságnak írok tartalmat meg gyártok borítót (floppyrólváltás óta nincs meg a Morphosis 1 óta semmi, ha valakinek megvannak az eddigi számok, könyörgöm!), mert ezt láttam, az absztrakt és a szerves látványvilág keveredésére esküszöm, mert az a legizgalmasabb, de ha az absztrakt mozog és hangot ad, már az is jó, táblázatban látom a zenét, miközben hallgatom és valahol nagyon régen felesküdtem arra, hogy hatvannégy kilobyteból is lehet díjnyertes "videoklipet" csinálni. Nehéz beszélni az underground alkotóművészet igazi kincsesbányájáról, ebben nőttem fel, a magyarázkodás, magyarázat, a sávváltás lefelé mindig lendületet tör.
Hála az égnek, másoknak nem. Idén ijesztően sok dokufilmet néztem, egy magyar vitte el a csúcsot közülük, a Vakondok 2, a Cserepesház kellős közepén (fenét, jobb hátul) ülök és remeg a lelkem, ahogy az első három perc introja darabokra szedi a retinámat (megint) meg a fülemet (megint) meg ami közte van (többször) és vigyorogva tudom üzenni a készítőknek, hogy ezzel finoman letarolták a mezőnyt (megint), azoknak pedig, akiknek fogalmuk sincs arról, hogy miről beszélek még mindig, itt az idei fakkje dokumentumfilm oldala, fent a trailer, itt egy magyarázócikk, ez a magyar bázis, innen meg elkezdheted leszedni a produktumokat (sose jössz ki belőle, ha egyszer elkezded). Alul meg az introzene, Echolith. Apró, háromszöglapokból összetett loveletter sokunk lelkének.
Köszönjük. (Januártól tölthető a film. Türelemmel addig.)

team 2x: jedi ninjas
'Jedi Ninjas' a Team2X production. Directed by James Mark and Justin Lovell. Concept & produced by James Mark and Yung Lee (GakAttack). Action Designed by and Featuring Team2x. Visual FX by Yung Lee (GakAttack)
Jedi Ninjas was developed as a passion project to recreate the current style of Star Wars action seen in video games into live action. This style often combines elements of Force powers with the use lightsaber combat. As there are no upcoming live action Star Wars movies to this date, this was a project to make many of the fans' dreams into a reality.
Team 2X is a professional martial arts performance consisting of members with experience in Hollywood films and television. With their unique talent in creating mind blowing fight sequences and GakAttack's passion for combining Visual FX with Martial Arts action. Jedi Ninjas became the result of this collaboration. (via kotaku)
TRAILER: zenith: pkdickian milgram experiments and neurosurgery
In the post-apocalyptic year 2044, the population has been genetically altered to live in a constant state of happiness, but without sorrow, happiness dissipates, leaving only a feeling of never-ending paresthesia. Only pain can make people feel alive.
Jack (Peter Scanavino), a young man and former neurosurgeon, is a peddler of substances that induce pain. A stranger knocks on Jack’s door and hands him a single video tape that Jack’s long lost father, Ed Alexander Crowley (Jason Robards III), left behind. It is the first in a series of 10 tapes in which Ed has documented his life and his pursuit of what he calls the “Grand Conspiracy,” a conspiracy that quite possibly could be the answer to what happened to Jack’s world. (zeniththefilm.com, more about it via wikipedia or surla films on vimeo)
AR: this is how you fill your room with Tron (and a PS3 and some projection)
We were funded by the Video Store of PlayStation® Store (http://www.greatfilmsfillrooms.com) to make a series of movie related videos using 'Immersive Imaging' which takes 3D projection mapping as its starting point, but gives the viewer a supercharged experience with the help of the PlayStation Move controller.
In the past, projection mapping worked only from a single, static view point, and thus was very limited. By attaching the PlayStation Move to the camera, we can track projections to screens in real time, enhancing the effect of spatial deformation and false perspective on the projections and allowing viewers to look round (virtual) corners, bend walls, create a hole in the wall, or remove the walls altogether to reveal vast expanses of virtual worlds. (via the verge)
TEENCULT: korean taekwondo shuffle
2NE1/LMFAO first few seconds of real taekwondo shuffling keeping it real tight, the rest is nonshuffle muscle hammering of a decent kind (yet we'd hammer it out differently, yes).
ART & FURNITURE: octopus table (isaac krauss)

Then, while taking his first bronze sculpting course, Krauss unearthed the idea and set to work. He admits to having had very little experience working with bronze, but felt that stretching beyond his limits would push him as an artist. The most difficult aspect of this project, according to Krauss, was the detailed suction cups and applying them to the octopuses eight arms. (more via boingboing)
ART & ANIMATION: exos
This is was an animation I directed and designed as part of the Psst! Pass It On festival. To see the full film check out Psstpassiton.com. (more on vimeo, via Miss Toyclouds)
LIVE: outblast & korsakoff @ syndicate 2011
Korsakoff always counts as dailykawaii, Outblast a powerpunch, Day-már's gone to pack schranz instead and the stuff that's on is the brilliant track Nothing to Lose by Neophyte & The Viper. Happy Monday.
COSPLAY: diablo (the world according to joshua smith)
Diablo 3 Diablo Costume
Built by Joshua SmithThe entire upper half of the costume's body was constructed, assembled, and painted in the time frame of 8 days, each day working approximately 4 hours. About $145 has went into the materials, all of them being purchased from Walmart except for the black gloves (marching gloves) that were bought from a local music store.
I do intend on going to BlizzCon this coming year. Hope to see you guys there! (diablo iii costume, via kotaku)

ART: Vinicius Quesada, Blood Piss Blues

Vinicius Quesada is a collage/street artist from São Paulo, Brazil. In 2010, he created a series of dystopian images titled Blood Piss Blues, “with real blood.”
The images suggest a world in which the peak oil crisis has occurred, where children play in dismantled subway cars and where dense, polluted cities house homeless refugees, sword-wielding geisha and… psychedelic cats. At least that’s one interpretation. (via coilhouse)
Reminds me every single time that I should actually buy a TV so that I could meditate on the noise and the steganography that the gridline loa resonate throughout the interwebs.
PROMO: GHST RDR

For a limited time only, our readers will receive 20% off the GHST RDR collection when purchasing the jacket and skirt together, or a 10% discount when buying individual pieces. (...) Offer ends December 1, so straggle not! (via the ever amazing zoetica and also hautemacabre)
VIDEO: Gruyères, the H.R. Giger bar
Coming straight from DVICE is a 27-seconds vid from Gruyères, the H.R. Giger bar (and I'm not sure about the photo/video policy so check this out as long as you can, not much but still a great teaser of what's there, nighttime lighting would suit it better, though) that seems to be the only one left on this globe after the Yakuza took over the Tokyo building (and there's no metamovie about the Jap occult yakuza turning it into a carnal temple and then facehuggers released at an orgy and...)... and yeah I know, guy on the vid looks almost like Beardyman!

sonic horticulture (ritual music)

Plants’ roots must be buried in order to live while humans are only buried when they are dead or meant to die. We bury our fears and traumas deep inside ourselves hoping they will slowly disintegrate, but we end up rotting out from the inside. Physically routed to their own system of interactive video, sound, and light, dev01ded, embodying their fears, will be slowly buried within an hourglass of dirt and technology, and he who buries them further entrenching himself in fear. (via xorzyzt)
storyboard from the joseph kahn neuromancer movie

Six months ago I reposted the article I wrote into The Dose mag about how the Neuromancer movie hasn't been done yet and who the intended directors were. Apparently the project's still helmed by Vincenzo "The Cube" Natali with the blessing of Gibson himself but I've seen no other news in fellow sites or googlealerts. Still, a cherished reader, Riplakoidase has just sent us a link of great interest - pages of the graphic storyboard done for the Joseph Kahn verison and it's all on the blog of the related storyboard artist Dan Fraga - and that's the Istanbul sequence, something I remember quite differently from the book, in fact. Still, if you're a cyberpunk afficionado and you're hungry for some Neuromancer news, that's way better than nothing for a Sunday night. (check out all ten storyboard images on fragaboom.blogspot.com)
FEST VIDEO: Black Magick Vol. II.
BLACK MAGICK VOL II ∞ DROP DEAD FESTIVAL
feat. King Dude // Modern Witch // Gemeine Gesteine // Death of Abel // reliqimage: dielamb + xorzyzt
sound: jonny teardrop + xorzyzt (reliq) + grayl (reliq)
actors: helga wretman + jannis birsner + jonathan katz
styling: kyle callanan + larissa bechtold
POST-APOCALYPTIC SHORT FILM: ROSA
ROSA is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind’s last attempt to restore the earth’s ecosystem. Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.
The short-film was created entirely by young comic-artist Jesús Orellana with no budget during a single year. Since it's world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival, ROSA has been an official selection at film festivals around the world such as Screamfest, Toronto After Dark, Anima Mundi or Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival. In October ROSA was screened at the opening night of the Sitges International Film Festival, considered the world's best festival specialized in genre films. Following the succesful festival run, the short film has attracted the attention of the major talent-agencies and Hollywood producers. Currently ROSA is in development to be a live-action motion picture. (via vimeo, recommended by Matt of Machetegirl, more on rosamovie.com)
CYBERPUNK SHORT FILM: XXIT
Micro-budget 12 minute cyberpunk short by Stargate Studios, channelling a whole lot of Blade Runner, centered around a time-traveling replicant who's out to save her "donor" in the past in San Francisco. Confusing? Yes. Storywise? Cliché. Firstgen? Very. Atmosphere? Perfect. Get someone on board who can get between the niche cracks of the genre and you'll come up with something even more groundbreaking. I need a whole series of that, the quality is so there. (As recommended by ToBal!)
The film, embedded above, was shot digitally on a Canon EOS C300 camera by Stargate Studios, which earlier designed visual effects for The Walking Dead and Heroes. (...) The crew shot the production on the streets of San Francisco using six handheld cameras that cost $20,000 apiece. (via wired)

vakondok 2: demoscene dokumentumfilm, decemberi vetítés
Azt mondja nekem a Gargaj (aki eddigi ismeretségünk során vagy mérhetetlenül stresszes volt vagy díjnyertes dolgokat pakolt le az asztalra, nem láttam tőle köztes állapotot, szerinte ugyanaz a kettő), hogy könnyezni fognak a buddhák, ha nem nézem meg a Vakondok 2 dokufilmet, megnéztem a fenti trailert, kezdem sajnálni, hogy nem mentünk el a november 17-i Düreres vetítésre. Ami viszont jó: december 10-én van másodpremier (persze nem így hívják, de értsd, amíg nem lehet letölteni, addig igazából minden nézés premier) az Experience 11-en, lehet készülni. Mutatok mást is, csak hogy értsétek, hogy miért kell lelkesedni, ez is Gargajküldelem. (Amúgy van előzménye underground street culture vonalon, a tavalyi New York International Independent Film Festivalon legjobb nemzetközi kult dokufilm díjat nyert, they fucking ROCK, amúgy.)
Az új rész a Demoscene digitális művészeti szubkultúra mélyére ássa le magát, egy olyan alkotóközösséget bemutatva, ami lassan 30 éve létezik világszinten elismert magyar alkotókkal, mégsem tud róluk szinte senki semmit. A történet akkor kezdődött, amikor a számítástechnika terjedésével a már jól megszokott művészeti platformok mellé újabbak nőttek, melyek részben a régi ágazatokat digitalizálták, részben pedig teljesen új művészeti formákat hoztak létre. Régen a kép-, és hangalapú művészetek a szellemi alkotóképesség mellett általában fizikális, főleg kézi ügyességet is megköveteltek. Mára a számítógépes programozás és a matematika lehetővé tette, hogy pusztán szellemi alkotófolyamat útján, a fizikális képességeket kizárva hozhassunk létre egészen újfajta művészeti alkotásokat. A számítástechnika világunk leggyorsabban fejlődő ága, mely egyre újabb lehetőségeket teremt a művészet terén is. A Vakondok most egy olyan közösséget mutat be, ahol a legmodernebb technika mellett néha kifejezetten a számítástechnika hőskorából származó megoldásokból próbálják meg kihozni a legjobbat.

DOCUMENTARY: Battlefield 3 FPS gaming simulator
(...) we showed you an amazing PC gaming setup that involved five HD projectors, an omni-directional treadmill, wireless gun peripheral, ambient lighting and paintball gun. (...) this clip shows how the thing was built, and goes into greater detail explaining how it actually works (...) You'll also, if this is your thing, get extended views at a British man howling in pain as he's peppered with paintballs while his motion control system breaks down. (via kotaku)