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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:53:00 -0500

Track selection from 020712 on @cyberpunkradio: Tomohiko Sagae – Assembly Line Tomohiko Sagae –...

Night bumper cam speeding Stockholm highways and tunnelsA...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:36:59 -0400

Night bumper cam speeding Stockholm highways and tunnels
A favorite track but bumper angles fit perfectly

Basic Channel - Phylyps Rmx (Lyot) [BC-03]

Photo

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:03:00 -0400

“These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric,...

Fri, 27 May 2011 12:28:00 -0400

“These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric,...

190th Street Subway Station (IND), New York. Listed on the...

Fri, 27 May 2011 12:15:45 -0400

190th Street Subway Station (IND), New York. Listed on the National Register for Historic Places in 2005.

Josh Nimoy writes: “In addition to visual effects, I was...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:57:00 -0400

Josh Nimoy writes:

“In addition to visual effects, I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. I took extra care in babysitting the elements through to final composite to ensure that the content would not be artistically altered beyond that feasibility. I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble. I cringed during the part in Hackers (1995) when a screen saver with extruded “equations” is used to signify that the hacker has reached some sort of neural flow or ambiguous destination. I cringed for Swordfish and Jurassic Park as well. I cheered when Trinity in The Matrix used nmap and ssh (and so did you). Then I cringed again when I saw that inevitably, Hollywood had decided that nmap was the thing to use for all its hacker scenes (see Bourne Ultimatum, Die Hard 4, Girl with Dragon Tattoo, The Listening, 13: Game of Death, Battle Royale, Broken Saints, and on and on). In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance — splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie. I actually do use emacs irl, and although I do not subscribe to alt.religion.emacs, I think that’s all incredibly relevant to the world of Tron.”

He details work behind the special effects in Tron Legacy with an explanation of the process along with further images at (source).

Blink.

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:19:17 -0400

Blink.

"Where is the mass medium? Is it the newspaper advertisement, is it the TV broadcast, is it the polo..."

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:18:23 -0500

“Where is the mass medium? Is it the newspaper advertisement, is it the TV broadcast, is it...

The Vision - Spectral Nomad - B1 Detroit: One Circle I prefer...

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:34:00 -0500

The Vision - Spectral Nomad - B1 Detroit: One Circle

I prefer the darker A-side cut Explain the Style but this version is better suited to diving into the sound off the top. Explain the Style grabbed me recently as the untitled track 12 on Robert Hood’s Deep Concentration: The Grey Area Mix.

Brief review from another terminal, so it seems:

This music is painting pictures: Dusk has settled over the city around the Renaissance Center whose contours raise prominently to the sky. Elsewhere, a lonesome sad figure is dragging a grocery cart on cracked concrete that once was called a street, but now screams of decay. The city in the twilight. But then, you catch a suggestive and encouraging phrase Detroit, Detroit, put on spiraling rhythms.

It’s difficult to find a match to “Detroit: One Circle”, to capture as precisely the soul and passion of Motor City techno. This track gleams like chromed bumper of a 1977 Chevrolet, but also bears indefinite sorrow you encounter in the eyes of a veteran who lost his leg in Vietnam.The medium-paced track starts with underwater signals and flows in a convincingly minimal way to the last grooves. “Explain The Style” is like a twin sharing the same hypnotizing rhythm and the rule of machine.

Did not catch that the word “Detroit” was being repeated at first but I’d easily chalk that lapse, after all, to the deep concentration.

Unexpected but speculatively apt prologue to come across while reading papers. From Das, S. News...

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:26:00 -0500

Unexpected but speculatively apt prologue to come across while reading papers. From Das, S. News...

POUR COMPTE Dans l’Arabie des trois midis Des tours aux fronts...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:08:21 -0500

POUR COMPTE

Dans l’Arabie des trois midis
Des tours aux fronts de caïmans
Dans l’Arabie de ta peau neuve
Et des turbans de rêve noir

Le feu tinte dans les cloches
Douce est la parole de l’eau
Sous la clé des nuits légères
Enchaînées au coeur des filles

Le feu lèche les miroirs
Les museaux des endormies
Brûlent sous le regard fendu
Dans l’orange du matin

C’est pour ces pays d’un sou
Que se vide la mémoire
Pour la neige et la flamme
Dont se parlent les étoiles

Sous la crinière aveugle
Court le feu inassouvi
Le cristal vivant des sources
Dans les eaux de l’avenir

Va mon enfant, dors mon cheval
Il n’y a pas assez de paix
Dans les justes mains des cimes
Pour couvrir la voix des villes.

— Tristan Tzara. PHASES. 1949.

"The original project was not to “reveal” preferences; the original project was to..."

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:32:00 -0500

“The original project was not to “reveal” preferences; the original project was to...

squidsexlex: Toyo Ito/ Ryoji Ikeda

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:15:11 -0500

squidsexlex:

Toyo Ito/ Ryoji Ikeda

Award for the weakest argument of the day goes to…

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:54:00 -0500

Award for the weakest argument of the day goes to…

Iterative Discourse and The Formation of New Subcultures

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:00:26 -0500

Iterative Discourse and The Formation of New Subcultures

"McLuhan himself, the spectacle’s first apologist, who had seemed to be the most convinced..."

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:01:56 -0500

“McLuhan himself, the spectacle’s first apologist, who had seemed to be the most...

"But to speak more seriously, I need not tell you that the world situation is very serious. That must..."

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:33:10 -0500

“But to speak more seriously, I need not tell you that the world situation is very serious....

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,..."

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:16:02 -0500

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a...

lolAlthusser. (source)

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:57:00 -0500

lolAlthusser. (source)

A facet of reading that one might be ill-advised to follow.

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:49:00 -0400

Mind you this is very partial and does not include many journal articles despite several of the...