happy halloween
woooo. best holiday of the year.. if you are around, halloween gathering around ten in tower 14a.. and it will magically become my birthday at midnight. costumes required!
WBOR Podcast
This weeks podcast is up. Music from Page France, Sun Kil Moon, Cage, The Castanets, and The Joggers. Have a nice day.
I Love You Baby
Heres an Evan styled link dump:
Some creative folks in Texas take a stab at drawing Barry Manilow:
http://iloveyoubaby.org/mainilow.index.html
Some clever ideas:
http://www.atypyk.com/please/donot.html
These are better than any PDA:
http://www.pocketmod.com
There are a lot of weird iPod accesories out there, but I think these two take the cake:
http://www.numark.com
Mobile DJ setup
http://www.devoted1.com
Turn your iPod Shuffle into a crucifix neclace
futuristic
http://www.trnmag.com/Roundup/2005/TRN_Research_News_Roundup_10-24-05.html
portable augmented reality
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=292488
spray on sensors
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/10/feelspace_tactile_compass_visualization.html
tactile compass.. feel where youre headed
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_quantumdot_led.htm
quantum dots are the new lightbulb
http://www.physorg.com/news7435.html
buckypaper.. stronger than steel, harder than diamonds
http://www.physorg.com/news7409.html
sculpture of the three dimensional shadow of a fourth dimensional solid
collaborative sketching. .. vote on opacity of submitted lines
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007291.php
DataTiles
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007288.php
rotary dial cellphone? fuck yeah
http://interactive.usc.edu/members/naimark/archives/005507.html
the world’s first autonomous vehicle for the transport of aquatic life on land in a gaseous atmosphere. they call the fish the terranaut
http://bengal-ng.missouri.edu/~kvanvigj/certain_doubts/?p=453
a philosophers take on postmodernism:
It stresses the locality, partiality, contingency, instability, uncertainty, ambiguity and essential contestability of any particular account of the world, the self, and the good. Politically, the postmodernist emphasis on revealing the situatedness and contestability of any particular claim or system of thought is supposed to serve both critical and liberatory functions. It delegitimizes ideas that dominate and exclude by undermining their claims to transcendent justification. And it opens up space for imagining alternative possibilities that were obscured by those claims.
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This is why postmodernists celebrate ironic, parodic, and campy renditions of conventional behaviors as politically liberating (Butler 1993). If Marx lamented that history repeats itself twice — first as tragedy, second as farce — postmodernists revel in the same process.
Hi, and New Podcast
Evan invited me to post things here. Evan posts links like fish lay eggs. I’m nowhere near as prolific as him, but I’ll probably put some stuff up here now and then. It might be design related. It might not be.
To kick things off, here are the tracks included on this weeks WBOR podcast (http://feeds.feedburner.com/wbor)
1. Amadou and Mariam - M’bife
2. Silver Jews - Animal Shapes
3. My Barbarian - Morgan Le Fay
4. Black Wire - God of Traffic
5. The American Analog Set - Play Hurt
mongrol tide
mongrol tide is performing next to me as i am making this weeks charts and adds. woot woot. leslie and kate invited them to their show after they saw them last night in portland.
theyre pretty good. two piece: amped acoustic guitar (high gain gives it a great texture) and drums. with singing. they call it folk metal. actually an interesting hybrid that works pretty well. they did a cover of leonard cohen’s hallelujah that was badass..
the lead singer/guitarits busted out this weird twisted horn for the last song. a ram horn. not brass horn. to sing through and play.
UPDATE: i was told that after kate, leslie, and mongrol tide returned to wbor from joshuas to load out their gear, lead singer yonah (who had only had a couple beers) suddenly smashed his acoustic guitar to pieces. his bandmate merely rolled his eyes while leslie fled to the bathroom in terror.. so if you see shards of wood in the carpet at the station. thats why.
October Bush Disapproval Map
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/23/171327/87
Technorati Tags: politics, blue nation, approval, president
dopefulhopefiend.com
dopefulhopefiend.com will now forward you to our future location instead of dopefulhopefiend.blogspot.com
costa of vdov.net rocks and is going to host some new dope hope with new dope features
content will continue to be posted at blogspot until further notice as we work on the new site. we’ll let you know when we know when stuff might be ready. you know? also, please comment about anything you’d hope to see on the new fiend..
are you a hopefiend?
for all the problems with it, flock makes blogging infinitely easier with built in feed aggregators, blogging, and del.icio.us bookmarking globally and locally. i think flock will change dopefulhopefiend. short posts per topic seem to be easiest at this point. so ive been thinking about opening dopefulhopefiend to like-minded web-junkies that might specialize in contributions related to a music genre, art, design, technology, or anything really.. this is not a paragraph based operation. currently just links, a slightly meaningful description, and tags.. do you prefer quoted sections from linked pages or just link and byline? i hope to redesign and move also. so, if you’d like to contribute a couple dopeful-appropriate posts occasionally or more, let me know… i’m also recruiting for help with an art project i hope to begin soon. i found six reels of a film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105099/) this summer in brooklyn and i want to chop it up and make a new movie from the footage. probably do some experimenting with tinting and painting frames.. i think it would also be appropriate to chop up early nineties songs for the soundtrack. i have drafted three folks to help with the film, but could use more. so if you are interested in working with either film or music for this project, let me know. i still havent watched it yet so its wide open
Technorati Tags: dope, hope, blogging, poop, team building exercise, tagging, conquest
nada surfing around the islands
said the gramophone saw islands perform at the pop montreal festival and says theyre mad good. the seven piece has two ex-unicorns
think tank also has a new nada surf b-side and link to the bonus disk (pass: leafhouse.blogspot.com)
willie and ryan
brooklynvegan says that willie nelson with ryan adams and the cardinals will be playing for two nights at beacon theatre this november. hope someone records it..
Books on Tape
L.A.’s Todd Drootin aka Books On Tape’s self described “beat punk”
Books on Tape - Bubblegum
Books on Tape - Bubblegum
Books on Tape - Upon Rock City
from think tank
LCD Made Who Made Who
“Holy mother of all basslines. Hot damn. Take the sweet melodies of the late 70s and fuse them with the cowbell fanaticism of the DFA crew and you’ve got an approximation of what Who Made Who are up to on their debut full length” -music (for robots)
Rose
Rose
speaking of. music (for robots) also has a new lcd soundsystem”s tribulations remix.
…mark slash tribulations_tiga_mix.mp3
sorry for no link. i ammended this post. and now whenever i press the key for a single apostrophe or a backslash the find field appears at the bottom of the window. flocking has its drawbacks