darkstyle dubstep video
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, output, web.
Fresh 20 minute video demo posted. The audio is from the ‘world’s heaviest dubstep’ compilation - provenance unknown but the mix of ‘wayfaring stranger’ that kicks it off is brilliant. It’s a live video recording and best viewed fullscreen.
emergent collective action patterns
Posted on October 14th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, robot, nano, web, science.
Today’s episode of Schlock Mercenary, by Howard Tayler is particularly awesome.
Tagon’s Toughs have been on my screen for several years now (with nary a day missed) but this is the first definite synchromystic occurrence between me and the strip.
It would be rude to give away the punchline - but check it out.
peeping inside my head
Posted on April 3rd, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, borg, web.
A brief trot on the barometer to get my chops back.
talking with George:
George: Who are you?
User: A timeless question, is it not.
George: I hadn’t thought of that.
User: What had you thought of?
George: What good books have you read lately?
User: ‘Answering a question with a question is bad conversational etiquette’ by L. Margrave Pedantis was gripping.
George: What is Geo?
User: Context.
George: Well I have memory, I have a brain.
User: I take it for granted that I have a brain, but have never had the opportunity to verify the matter by peeping inside my own skull.
George: It seems to speed things up to take some things for granted. But perhaps I err.
User: Perhaps you do.
George: Well then…
User: Have you met any bunnies lately?
George: No, you are the first one I have ever talked with.
fresh output - wave lotus video
Posted on January 16th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, CreativeCommons, output, web.
I’m trying Revver for video hosting. The video quality is higher than I’m getting with google video. There is, however, an ad at the end.
This is a 3d environment crafted and animated in Pilgrim R2. It looks okay all tiny, but is much more impressive at huge sizes with brilliant resolution.
There are high-quality stills in this gallery
Future Force Military Scenario
Posted on December 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web, tech.
The Ministry of National Defense has spent a lot of time thinking about how to turn the Army into an operation capable of dealing with the future. Apparently they had no time to spare for art. The above cover for Future Force - has Buck Rogers helmets and a hovering tank. The blaster gun turret on the tank even has those little round raygun indicators. [pdf link]
Crisis In Zefra was written by Canadian science fiction writer Karl Schroeder, who I’ve mentioned before. It’s a pretty cool document - each chapter is followed by questions for study and discussion. Things like “What are the ethical considerations in deploying robots against humans?”
If the Canadian military tech and tactics improves at the same rate as the cover art we should be ruling the world any month now.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Armed Robots Guard Against Orgasm
Posted on October 27th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, robot, borg, web, tech.
Why are the armed robots there? Because North Korea has an idea. And what is this idea?
Why is it so important?
What could possibly be going on?
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
provides
the Answer