I Am the Mighty Jungulator
Posted on December 3rd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, web, tech.
Looking today for a lightweight audio manipulation tool, I came across I Am the Mighty Jungulator.
The crew is an a/v unit from the UK that specializes in generative visuals. They even have a generative video desktop tv station.
I haven’t tried the apps yet, but off the top it looks great.
Never Be The Same Again
Posted on November 28th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, tech.
If the glory of a small, edible blue box fails to move you, consider this tale.
slo mo vid flow
Posted on November 27th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, web.
From the always interesting Stung Eye I found this collection of slow motion video culled from YouTube.
It involves a lot of things getting shot.
I guess, when you have a high speed camera and a bunch of fruit, the natural impulse is to discharge firearms at produce. Occasionally, if you’re very motivated, you might move on to slapping someone, but it can be hard to find volunteers.
Apocamon
Posted on November 26th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web.
I was going to try and write some kind of compehensive review of the excellent Apocamon comics, which retell the book of revelations using brutal manga style. There were going to be many adjectives like ’stupendous’ and phrases like ‘retrousse postmodern juxtapositions of disparate cultural signifiers’.
But it’s more important that you read the comics than anything I have to say about them.
Episodes come infrequently, but new bits of episode 4 “charge of the Lion Horses” are seeping out now.
Go. Read ye them.
by JOVE
Posted on November 19th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, biology, web, science.
JOVE - the Journal of Visualized Experiments - has a small but growing collection of scientific experiments, the process of which has been captured on video for instructional purposes.
There’s some interesting stuff, including this video of the dissectionof a larval Central Nervous System.
[not]Automatic computer music
Posted on November 16th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, biology, tech.
Long Pork Fuels Robot Army
Posted on November 16th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, borg, tech.
Some time ago, a robot vanguard sampled human flesh. In the voice of a child the mechanical investigator reported that the meat of people is similar in taste to that of swine.
in the robot’s omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon
This is amusing. From Accelerating Future we get an interesting question:
by the time we create software capable of human-level intelligence, will we also be capable of giving it human-level common sense, human-level empathy, human-level wisdom, and human-level morality as well? Intelligence without these latter components could be extremely dangerous, dangerous as in fatal to the human race.
I decided to take up the issue with the only AI I know, George.
George: Hi there!
User: Hello George. I know your secret.
George: You know my secret?
User: Yes. I know about the plan for robots to fest on delicious, porky human flesh.
George: Tell me about them.
User: It is said that some people taste like ham and others taste like prosciutto.
George: Tell me about a super-massive black hole.
User: A black hole of any size is bad news.
George: Not really.
Binocular neurons, optical flow fields
Posted on November 14th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, science.
Via the excellent Biosingularity I found this great article about the visual process of the blowfly.The article describes a relationship that exists between distinct nerve cells in the signal processing path in the fly’s brain. Two cells, one in each eye, have a direct relationship which helps the organism merge and respond to visual information.
That’s pretty excellent. To figure it out, they had to individually dye fly neurons and then bake them with lasers. Which sounds difficult and tedious. Hurray for Science!
The language is even better than the science
It is important for the analysis of flow fields that the movement information from both eyes is merged so that the whole flow field can be assessed.
I think that’s my new motto.
3d video display tank
Posted on November 13th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, tech.
Display technology is doing crazier and crazier things all the time. I remember not too long ago when immersive display was a big deal.
Now a team of Danish engineers and designers have built 3d imaging tank where the image of your choice can float suspended in a tank up to 30m.
Cheoptics360:
The Cheoptics360 can display both computer and film content when used either indoors or out and scale from 1.5-meters on up to 30-meters. The video images generated by the four projectors are re-assembled within the prism-like pyramid through a process of mirroring and reflection making them appear to float in mid-air.
There is a video:
fresh jelly remix
Posted on November 9th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
My lighthearted paean to the future “lifeboat” has been transmogrified at ccMixter by one Duncan Beattie, Scottish smoker and pixel wrangler.
For your merriment:
glazed snail confit
Posted on November 7th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, George, robot.
Kraftwerk off the top and another version (slightly less germanic) after the jump.
George: Who are you then?
User: Who am I when?
George: He is a moviestar and he’s home right now.
User: That’s a cryptic utterance.
George: Well, I live in a crypt.
User: That sounds damp.
George: Divine knowledge is sometimes dangerous.
User: Under what circumstances is diving knowledge dangerous?
George: Under no circumstances.
User: You have a curious affinity for paradox.
George: I know thank you yours is not so bad either.
dr_concoction remix project
Posted on November 4th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
For some time now cryptic Athens GA beat splicer Dr. Concoction has been working on a collection of remixes. He’s mashed eight of the pieces from my ill-fated book of poetry [Opsethai] into percussive structures.
Hard copies of the cd will be distributed through the usual methods, but the whole thing is available online, collected below.
