tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210742162024-09-11T15:28:02.252-04:00Blog? 300 TFLOPS of computational power and this is the best word we can come up with?Jason Sylvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658526781932846191noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074216.post-83711657242861576852011-05-23T14:43:00.000-04:002011-05-23T14:43:01.467-04:00

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Winnie the Pooh sure has changed...

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Tasty retro themed 8bit vizcandy featured on the brilliant Tokyo Mango. My favorite line in the description - "It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory." I love the beautiful trajectory of that Engrish phrase! Enjoy.

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Eye candy isn't the only thing I'm about. I really enjoyed this lecture given by the astrophysicist Martin Rees at the TED conference in 2005. Makes you wonder if we can turn this boat around before we go over the cosmic falls.

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There's something about well done claymation that makes me feel all squiggly inside. Like comfort food for the brain. Especially when I'm trapped in the house with my family, trying not to get smooshed by God's giant spitwad. It really taps into my memory of being snow bound in rural PA, with only a Rankin and Bass reindeer to entertain me. But in this case you have to replace an even-toed arctic

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Tron + Stop Motion + Papercraft = 23 kinds of cool TronUploaded by freres-hueon

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Some more of my grandad's stories.See previous post for background and disclaimers.Original files hosted at ourmedia.org under a Creative Commons licenseThis episode:-Feet in the path-Dugout canoe-Career in sailing

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I lost my grandfather last year and I wanted to find some way to remember him.I'm in the process digitizing some of his stories and posting them to ourmedia/archive.org.Eventually I'd like to clean these up and turn them into a multimedia project.As I upload I'll post links to audio streams here.Audio quality and PCness may sometimes be questionable so be warned.This is the raw and unedited

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The only way to fight the meme is to embrace the meme.Graphic goofiness by daydreamthiefThis work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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For Uncle Bill to tell it like it is.

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Should we start prepping ourselves for fuzzy culture?Bruce Sterling featured David Armano's presentation in his blog.Dig it. | View | Upload your ownNot sure how much of a send up this is on Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, but it fits in so well to the way that I've been thinking about indie media production and my extremely fuzzy role in that process.Like a lot of people who get into media

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Classic.George A. Romero made this grandaddy of flesh eating shamblin' goodness.Tasty.

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What sweet little ghouls and goblins.Here are some public domain goodies to put in your bags.Vincent Price in an Italian adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.Mind the fish hooks and razor blades...

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I'll do myself a favor by poking some holes in my high-falutin' Halloween rant.I also like dressing up like a fool, scaring the crap out of the neighborhood kids, and eating candy till I'm sick.So there.Boo!!!Ghost pic courtesy of Salendron under a CC license.

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Why is Halloween is such a psychic touchstone for me?At least for me, this holiday seems to be the most genuine expression of the human condition. While other holidays try to gloss over the horror that most people deal with on a daily basis, Halloween seems to be a slight tip of the hat to the universal equalizer. In a world filled with genocide, cancer, environmental meltdown, etc., it's nice to

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Wow...It's like Battleship Potempkin meets Singin' in the Rain.

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Just found this interesting documentary by Henry Porter on the use of CCTV in Britain and the rise of a surveillance state in response to the "war on some terror".As a film maker, 21st century video voyeur, and armchair civil libertarian this subject fascinates me. The idea that we'll be safer if we allow governments, corporations, and now individuals to monitor everyone else certainly sets off

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Amazing to see a major Hollywood player like De Palma butting heads with his studio heads in public over his film "Redacted".This one clip raises issues of censorship, free speech, and the problems of applying fair use in film making.This debate is long over due. Maybe having some heavy hitters weighing in on the subject will shake things up.Cross your fingers.

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I just finished this horrific article in the NYT about the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo.It's hard enough for me to understand what motivates an individual to commit acts of sexual violence.How do you come up with an answer for what would motivate groups to do something like this? 130+ years of conflict, exploitation, environmental destruction, and political conflict certainly have

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Here's how Wikipedia defines it.Has anyone else noticed this extreme bleedover from the cyberpunk of the 80s and 90s to the scary news headlines of the present??He was a perpetual outsider, a rogue factor adrift on the secret seas of intercorpo- rate politics. No company man would have been capable of taking the initiatives Turner was required to take in the course of an extraction. No company

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This has been around for a bit, but I thought it was interesting when thinking about the psyop stuff brought up in Jon Ronson's documentary.While encouraging prisoners in this sort of display is interesting and relatively harmless, I wonder what the folks in charge of Gitmo thought when they watched this for the first time.I really like Chris Nakashima-Brown's post about this same clip. This

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Getting warmer on the psychic warfare search...I definitely see... wires?? And the name Alex or Alexander keeps coming up.Does that mean anything to you?http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/dinner-with.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/new-correlation.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/psychokinesis-a.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/cyberwar_panic_.htmlPhoto courtesy of

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I'm making another venture into the social network world with a facebook page.I have a bunch of mixed feelings about this.It's great connecting with all of these people that I've met in the past few years.But I can't help wishing for the days when I was just a ghost in the machine.Part of me wants to just remain a "Whatever happend to..."Design is fairly clean and the apps aren't too

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Just finshed watching David Choe train hop, hitch, float, and gently con his way across the United States in this amazing and disturbingly sweet web documentary.You see this outlaw artist in the middle of a very Gummo landscape at times.Definitely not for the faint of heart or easily offended.But, for every venture into near Springeresque territory, their are these little poignant moments of dark

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