the ultimate underground home
What many people fail to realize when they see something like a run-down nuclear missile base is that (beneath the grime, water and other signs of age) the underlying materials are often of the best quality and likely to last at least a few lifetimes after being outwardly restored – from top-notch concrete to high-grade steel. Peden became so enamored with his own unique living space that he switched from a life of teaching to a profession of selling missile silos around the United States. (via dornob via @dawe_)
faith & the muse, ankoku butoh
After last night's terrific performance of Faith & The Muse (touring with the Ankoku Butoh release), I'm once again thankful to Zero of NegativeArt for getting the band to Budapest and keeping that very special spirit alive.
assassin's creed 2 live action movie, full version
When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy's most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As Giovanni draws closer to the truth, he becomes hunted himself. He must expose the conspirators before he joins their ever growing list of victims. Lineage is the prequel to the Assassin's Creed II story, revealing the machinations of 15th century Italy through the actions of Ezio's father, Giovanni.
medical armor: healing stages of human trauma
Our next and final feature on Late-to-the-Party Sunday is this collection of prosthetics-inspired, insectlike body armor created by recent University of the Arts London graduate Úna Burke, blogged everywhere and recently rediscovered by Haute Macabre. (via coilhouse)
the berlin shards: teched 2009 and all the rest
A több ezernyi geeket egy fedél alá hozó konferenciák töretlen, megalomán pszichológiával működnek, ez pedig az első nap délutánjára rakott keynote-on látszik meg igazán. A megnyitóról nem maradhatnak el a Microsoft evangelistáiból porondmesterré avanzsált ön- és közhergelő showmanek, akik tízről - pontosabban hétről - számoltatják vissza a tömeget. A Messe Süd huszonötös számú hangárjában összegyűlt több ezer szakmabeliből hármat a színpadon elhelyezett masszázsszékekbe invitálnak, valamint sört és pálmalevélutánzattal integető lányokat ajánlanak fel nekik, hogy jobban átérezzék az új Windows-termékek adta professzionális könnyedséget - amilyen nagy csinnadrattával hívják fel a rendszergazdák új generációját, ugyanannyira megunt színpadelemként tolják ki őket egy óvatlan pillanatban.
A hiba ott válik igazán szembeötlővé, amikor a főként fejlesztőkből álló, kódban gondolkodó hallgatóságnak Stephen Elop, a Microsoft üzleti divíziójának elnöke nekiszögezi a gazdasági válságból is előnyt építő, mindent betonba döngölő újhatékonyság koncepciót, a the new efficiency-t. Mindezt humorosnak szánt reklámfilmekkel is alátámasztja, amelyekből megtudhatjuk: a túlsúlyosnak, kopaszodónak és szemüvegesnek beállított rendszergazdák arról álmodoznak, hogy kollégáik igazából szeretik őket, az irodai meglepetésbuli csúcsa az, amikor a tortát saját arcukon kenik végig, hétvégén meghibásodott szerverek javítása helyett embernagyságú rókákkal szeretnének labdázni és fagylaltozni egy réten, a biztonságtechnika örök ellensége pedig egy epilepsziás nindzsa, aki oda rúg, ahol éppen van levegő. A meghökkent közönség itt kezd el kivándorolni a teremből, tucathosszú fürtökben, amit még az sem fékez meg, hogy megtudhatjuk, mitől lesz jó az új Exchange Server. (right here) Bentebb meg képek and then some more pictures inside.
cityengine, future city generation
The CityEngine software provides professional users in entertainment, architecture, urban planning and general 3D content creation with a unique early design and modeling solution for the efficient visualization of 3D urban environments. The capabilities of the CityEngine include: Procedural Street Network Construction, Import of Street Networks or Lots, Scripting 3D Buildings, Parametric Modeling of 3D Buildings and 3D Streets, Map-Controlled City Modeling, Batch Export of 3D Models. via procedural.com
pitchshifter - shutdown
If I gave you the tool could I tamper my freedom? / If I suffered the fools would you let me succeed in / constructing my soul, should I give you the reason? / Stand up straight when I walk, you can't see me / Kick all the dust that you want you know you're never gonna / Shut us down – we'll just get back up again.
coilhouse is two years old
Thank you for all the subtle pieces of elegant artistry, the steampunk masquerade and the Neuromancer news, for the relentless pursuit of quality, all the paper issues I instantly ordered, the designer vaginas and the goggles, the cabaret nails and the A-bomb feature, the unanswered emails, the ideas you guys warped into my head and also, Zoetica Ebb. Happy Birthday, ladies, the fun just never stops. (via coilhouse)
the halloween linkbox
You might know this already from the badsignal feed of @warrenellis, Fleslight's very own vampire-inspired sex toy called Succu Dry Sex in a Can. Not that plastic fangs or teeth implants couldn't do the trick but from the point where I stand, the whole world is Tokyo now - you could get anything if you could really name it. (Basically that's what the whole notion of naming things is based upon. I envision beings of ultimate vision and intelligence cracking up on hilarious amounts of cosmic hallucinogens about how life will turn out when the ant people will really freak out and put their cocks in plastic fang tubs and the tub name will spread shrill and joy throughout the universe. (via gizmodo))
@dawe_, my faithful partner in the #artikulz sect sends you this as his act of devotion to PD. For Halloween.
Not to be outdone by Nerdcore's horror-themed calendar, the folks behind My Zombie Pin-Up are offering 12 months undead beauties. Sure, the girls show less skin, but they more than make up for it in blood and guts. (myzombiepinup.com, via io9)
trent reznor does fringe
According to Entertainment Weekly, Reznor will be mixing William Bell's on screen dialogue with his 07 track "Zero-Sum," voiced by Leonard Nimoy, naturally. Reznor became involved when Fringe used a clip of his song in a previous promo, and was reached out to, to see if he would be interested in collaborating even more. (via io9)
more news on the ghost in the shell live-action adaptation
DreamWorks has tapped scribe Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Japanese manga property "Ghost in the Shell." (...) Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and originally brought the project to DreamWorks. (...) Jamie Moss was the original writer hired when DreamWorks bought the property last year. (via variety)
Kalogridis, according to IMDB, worked as a screenplay writer for Ночной дозор (Night Watch) and two episodes of the exquisitely sad series called Bionic Woman done pretty much as if we still lived 25 years earlier but we had gorgeous women like Michelle Ryan.
cosplay rounds: bayonetta
Dante has a female counterpart to look out for. Bayonetta, an apparently 190cm+ double-akimbo battle witch with a slight fuckslutty officelady taint is out on a battle romp. I am not completely sure about the 10/10 score Famitsu gave to Bayonetta but it's always nice to see someone putting effort into topping Lara Croft. Quite a few pics after the jump. By the way, post some more decent cosplay stuff on Bayonetta, if you manage to find them. Most of what I came through were, you know, not delicate.
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marie honda, absolut gothic lolita
Absolut Metropolis: the spirit of self-expression on the streets of Tokyo. Shot by Nadav Kander, a world reknown photographer, the Metropolis project is a collage of 11 unique personalities
[1-11:] Nogi Sumiko. Lolita. Keijiro Matsumoto. Pop. Kazuhiro Hazuki. Bosozoku. D [di]. Romantic Gothic. Pira Pira. Cyber. Aki. Techno. Marie Honda. Classic Romantic. Go from Tokyo. Americano/Rockabilly. Yu-suke Kawakami. Punk. Pyuupiru. Japanese Eccentric. Moyan. Japanese Neo Traditional. Manamu. Gothic.
マリー 本田 (25), kindly recommended by @honeymooncroon, is one of the loudest and most prominent examples of the Metropolis, shadowing the likes of D [di:] and Manamu, but you obviously know our interest in the EGL is huge. We will now embed you in a webzen of Japanese women in boxes on shinkansen towards the infinity. And I just think Angel Meat Pie belongs to the same D [di:] you will see on the Metropolis site. (Thx, @komavary!)
the first assassin's creed short, that is, fifteen minutes
Ubisoft's first short film series from Hybride, set in the world of Assassins Creed. Stay tuned for more info on the Network broadcast Premier of the whole series.
When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, Giovanni Auditore - an Assassin - is dispatched to investigate the crime. His mission: determine who is responsible and why. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy's most powerful families, reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As Giovanni draws closer to the truth, he becomes hunted himself. He must expose the conspirators before he joins their ever-growing list of victims.
the best company photo
Originally appearing as "And The Best Japanese Game Company Photo is" on Kotaku and it was so obvious that it's going to be Kojima Productions.
the nested doll principle
The possible uses of such an immense computational resource tax the imagination. One idea suggested by Charles Stross, in his novel Accelerando, would be to use it to run perfect simulations or "uploads" of human minds into virtual reality spaces supported by the Matrioshka brain. Stross even went so far as to suggest that a sufficiently godlike species utilizing enough raw processing power could launch attacks upon, and manipulate, the structure of the universe itself.[4][5]
In Godplayers (2005), Damien Broderick surmises that a matrioshka brain would allow simulating entire alternate universes.[6]
The futurist and transhumanist author Anders Sandberg wrote an essay speculating on implications of computing on the massive scale of machines such as the Matrioshka brain, published by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.[7] (The Matrioshka Brain, link sent by @honeymooncroon, thx!)
male or female
This Front 242 side project - Male or Female (MorF) is an electronica DVD that features 26 tracks, over 3 hours of 5.1 surround sound music in 16:9 widescreen. Includes bonus CD. Actually, Male or Female was the best thing that could have happened after Front 242 has gone softer and quieter in the new millennium.
bio.digital by diamante murru
If this isn't eyecandy, nothing is. Cagliari-based digital manipulator Diamante Murru is working on a lovely set of a Diami girl halfway morphed into something we wish our riot grrls would have looked like, jackplugs along the spine and in every orifice possible, a mike forged into her phone, a volume slider by the ears. All is very bright and blue, this brings us the new black. Enjoy her Bio.Digital series at Behance.net. (Link sent by @vividfluxury, thx!)
fallout with a nuclear edith piaf: paul doucet's bunker
The world has been nuked. Under Paris, a woman waits months alone in a bunker with only canned food for company. She's about to commit suicide when a voice comes over the radio. - IO9's brief post also mentions that Paul Doucet filmed this baby with a RED ONE, the same camera that was used with District 9 and our very own 14sec.
rest in peace, irving penn (1917-2009)
An honest piece about the life and death of Irving Penn, a huge loss of the fashion photography scene by Coilhouse, Mourning a Master of Photography.
nerdcore 2009: poltergeists, sex and more horror
A couple of months ago I tumblred out a Nerdcore pic. Now their new horror-themed calendar is out, IO9 just reported on them, listing a handful of links on both censored and uncensored versions. (via io9)
