Author: eightprime

Saint mutton

Saint mutton

Seen on a transformer in the neighbourhood.

 

moving pictures

moving pictures

It’s been a while since I put up any kind of fresh video. Here’s a sequence put together with the Kush Arora/Juakali track By The …

 

watching and listening

watching and listening

I like it when people take the time to communicate with their neighbours. Apparently a graphics and computer animation instructor in Queensland Australia has been using …

 

All seeing eye.

All seeing eye.

Neighbourhood sigil find on the back of a penned dumpster.

 

low indigo – astoria – dec 05 2009

low indigo – astoria – dec 05 2009

Speakerbruiser and Math Rosen were both very, very good at the Astoria last night. There was a dude who played between their sets who was …

 

unmanned marine combat robots

unmanned marine combat robots

With piracy these days being such a problem for people on big boats filled with valuable cargo, it’s only natural that somebody has built remote …

 

Sugar

Sugar

Shiny in the sunlight.

 

face

face

* The face is a transponder – the outward reaching organs of the head take in readings from ambient local and the feedback process is …

 

walking with large animals

walking with large animals

For the past several weeks SWARM has been conducting a series of experimental sessions with an unusual collection of objects. Unusual even by our standards …

 

ephemera

ephemera

The growing phenomenon of Internet is filled with things that shift and fade away. Some recent desiderata: What happens when you take a cutting-edge medical diagnostic and …

 

place as mechanism

place as mechanism

* From my window I can watch port traffic moving goods around when container ships are in. Six enormous orange cranes hoist and load the …

 

formiculture

formiculture

As the researchers reported Oct. 15 in the online journal Biotechnology for Biofuels, they’ve begun to identify which of these genes encode for enzymes that …