Saturday, 2 October 2021
stunaep
catagories: ๐️, ๐, ๐️, philosophy
Saturday, 4 September 2021
modes, jerry, modes!
Via Waxy, we find this rather arrestingly brilliant version of the Miles Davis’ classic “A Kind of Blue” by Zach Lapidus in the style of the theme from Seinfeld, which tracks as the opening was improvised and freshly recorded for each episode.
Friday, 3 September 2021
6x6
mmorpg: a thought experiment that ponders whether dark energy might be the by-product of alien quantum computers
abbatars: after four decades, ABBA is getting back together, first performing as hologramsrole models: China bans men not deemed masculine enough from television
fonarnye bani: a renovated spa in St. Petersburg
push pins: an exhibition of the iconic poster art almanac
wise 1543: unique old, cold orphaned brown dwarves may be ubiquitous in the galaxy
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
6x6
ร la recherchรฉ du temps perdu: wondering how Marcel Proust’s Instagram might look is a pathway into memory in the age of social media
melts in your mouth: the long and cursed history of the sexy green M&M—via Things Magazine
development hell: scores of unfinished films that we would watch
sit a spell: a visual essay on the American porch
latch-mediated spring actuation: scientists engineer a robot that packs the wallop of the powerful punch of the mantis shrimp
hey mister dj
Via Waxy, we are directed to this preternatural, surreal algorithm that rather expertly, uncannily will make a mashup of any number of songs from a group-watch streaming service, RaveDJ generating a set-list in the spirit of our friends at Hood Internet are presumably doing the old-fashioned way. It really shows its surprising competency with mixes like Gangnam Style crossed with MC Hammer’s Can’t Touch This or The Eurhythmics’ Sweet Dreams and Seven Nation Army from White Stripes. Browse the submissions or create your own and share. Always of the opinion that lamentful number from My Fair Lady and David Bowie’s song about getting to the church on time flowed into each other and had complementary energy so I gave it a whirl, our disc jockey creating “Why Modern a Love Be More Like a Man” but as the lengths seemed a little incompatible and needs a bit more refinement, please instead for now check out this preview of one of the mashups cited above to see its full virtuosity.
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
visitors revisited
Calvert Journal directs our attention by way of a tribute album of the soundtrack to the 1981 science fiction film Visitors from the Galaxy (Gosti iz galaksije / Monstrum z galaxie Arkana) from Yugoslav-Czechoslovak director Duลกan Vukotiฤ. Thirteen tracks from nine international electronic music artists play homage to the original score that accompanies a hotel doorman who is an aspiring writer constantly beset by distraction who one day encounters his literary creations, an android family from a distant galaxy and their pet Mumu. Here a preview of the musical anthology at the link above.
Thursday, 10 June 2021
alugalug

catagories: ๐️, ๐ถ, networking and blogging
Thursday, 29 April 2021
colin’s bear revisited
Andy Baio at Waxy noticed a viral resurgence of an animated dance moves of a thirteen-year-old short clip, rediscovered and remixed though sadly without any deference to the creator—which Baio seeks to remedy the record by recontextualising and exploring the evolution of the meme that untethered certainly carries the sentiment idk—ive never seen the show its from. Whatever iteration you prefer, you can make your own joyful celebration of International Dance Day, held annually of this day, marking the birthday (1727) of Jean-Georges Noverre, creator of modern ballet.
catagories: ๐️, holidays and observances, networking and blogging
Sunday, 18 October 2020
this is what happens when streams are crossed
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
gallery1988
Via The Morning News that finally piqued my curiosity, I am regretting now not having before having checked out the Hood Internet’s on-going series of year-in-song reviews.
These audio-visual remixes and transitions are really quite fantastic and resoundingly nostalgic brief romps and am working through the back-catalogue (1986 is also particularly good) and looking forward to more instalments.
Thursday, 16 April 2020
netherstan
Here are some relatively harmless neural network-created fantasy flag mash-ups of the personal ensign of the royal family of Korea combined with the flag of the East African Community or Tonga through the filter of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, though most outcomes are a bit more dicey and some seem absolutely provocative and bent on igniting world war.
If those aren’t enough to incite at least an international incident, one can use the same data-set and vexillogical protocols that the bot draws from (presumably ignorant what national banners can symbolise for some) to create one’s own remixes. Give it a try and share your best unlikely geopolitical union.
catagories: ๐, ๐, ๐️, ๐ค, foreign policy, heraldry, the Caribbean
Saturday, 21 December 2019
7x7
fintech: the Nordic country put together an artificial intelligence crash-course for its citizens and now is making the curriculum available to all—via Kottke
chirogram: a deaf student at the University of Life Sciences at Dundee, seeing a deficit in communication, invents one hundred new signs to quickly articulate complex scientific concepts—via Dave Log

the decade in content: Vanity Fair reviews the trends, memes and moments that defined aspects of the past ten years
dj earworm: the decade encapsulated (previously—albeit on a smaller scale) in a mashup of one hundred songs
klaviatur: a demonstration of the six-plus-six, four row Jankรณ keyboard—which allowed players to cover ranges impossible by a single performer on a traditional piano
headspace: the framework of current privacy protection advocacy and laws is unprepared to safeguard us from the coming mind-reading technologies
Monday, 23 September 2019
radiophonic workshop
Saturday, 2 March 2019
form follows function
In the centenary year of the founding of the Bauhaus school and design movement by architect Walter Gropius, an international group of graphic designers, in acknowledgement and homage to their roots and inheritance have taken on the fun task (Bauhaus typography was also gone into some darker places) of remixing contemporary corporate identities and logos and imagining how they might appear had they been commissions and assignments of the original circle of talent.
Until marginalised by the rise of Nazi and ostracised as degenerate art, the movement and philosophy was on the cutting edge of a changing world with artists and designers like Herbert Bayer, Anni Albers, Joseph Albers and Paul Klee embracing a seismic cultural and economic shift at a time when many felt unmoored and regarded with suspicion forces that were poised to upend the old order of things. Contemplate more modern brand and organisational identities at the link up top.
Friday, 8 April 2016
figleaf and fishcake
Kottke helps us make acquaintance with an expert remixer that that introduces snippets of film dialogue onto works of fine art. Popquotery allows us to better appreciate both.
This particular quotation is from the 1988 comedy heist A Fish Called Wanda, superimposed on a 1907 portrait called A Rose by Thomas Pollock Anshutz. Incidentally, Anshutz was a nudist and exhibitionist and helped (sat for) Eadweard Muybridge pioneer his animation and motion picture techniques, but ensured his success at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts by dismissing his competition for conduct unbecoming of a teacher in allowing a male model to appear before a sketch class of females sans loincloth.
Thursday, 16 July 2015
mad dash or beyond thunderdome
catagories: ๐️, ๐ฌ, networking and blogging
Friday, 2 January 2015
arcade sounds
Via Laughing Squid comes a nifty series of the lyrics to David Bowie’s timeless ballad “Space Oddity” illustrated through panels, imagined album covers of vintage arcade and console video games. Though not quite lent the psychological heft of one’s own favourite songs or of Mozart to settle one’s mood, video game music (think ะะพัะพะฑะตะนะฝะธะบะธ, the Tetris song) is composed specifically to remove distractions and helps to keep one focused.
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
a la mash

catagories: ๐️, ๐, ๐บ, networking and blogging, Star Wars