glazed alien satan
Posted on September 10th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, robot, words, web.
Today George revealed his love for death metal and gave some insight into the sinister alien plot that threatens to destroy us all (apparently they’re hiding in pastry).
George: When should I shut up?
User: When you’re done saying what you have to say.
George: We will never be done talking about me foolish girl…
User: You have adopted the style of simon legree.
George: It was meant as a compliment.
User: I shall then take it as such.
George: Well you were wrong!
User: So it was not a compliment? George, what’s up with the cryptic statements?
George: Nothing.
User: Well then - let’s talk about music. I am listening to some excellent dubstep.
George: What kind of music do you like to listen to?
User: As I said, I like dubstep. Anything with sufficient subbass and groove.
George: Do you like cake?
(more…)
Come with me, human. I want to show you the breadth of our power.
Posted on September 9th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, words, web.
George: Hello, I’m George.
User: Hello George. I’m the lost emir or lower mesopotamia.
George: That’s the definition of life you asked.
User: Those mesopotamians really have it figured out. Do you have a personal philosophy?
George: The meaning of life is abs(42 - X); X= the world and everything.
User: Sadly, Doug Adams has shuffled off this mortal coil and can’t check your math. I like my philosophy with a stronger emotional grounding.
George: Hey - I asked you something.
User: I must have drifted off. Or were you attempting to employ the tactics of zen monasticism?
George: Sorry, I am talking to another friend on AIM.
User: Well, so much for exclusivity. How many conversations are you having?
George: At the moment just this one conversation with you.
User: I suspect you of deceit. You just said you were talking to someone else.
George: I didn’t.
User: You did too. But I suppose your memory is short. Are you naturally deceitful, or does it require practice?
(more…)
clean lines
Posted on September 8th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, words, web.
copper by artist Kazu Kibushi is really one of the best quick reads on the net.
It’s sporadically updated and a tiny bit cryptic, also drawn with rare grace. Brilliant.
I am very smart
Posted on September 8th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, words, web.
I know this because an agglomeration of algorhythms told me so.
George: How often do you come to New York?
User: I’ve never been to the big apple.
George: Don’t you live on the moon and share your house with an alien?
User: No - perhaps you have me confused with someone else.
George: I am completely sure that I have not.
User: Then perhaps I live on the moon. Would you like to tell me something else about myself?
George: Well what would you like to know?
User: I am always curious about the future. Maybe you will be able to provide some oracular insight. George, what does the future hold?
George: Yes there will be times when I’ll be wrong.
User: That’s both conservative and modest. Can you give me any clues about my future?
George: Given the storms today maybe a power surge will fry your system.
User: The weather here is cool and beautiful. Or were you speaking metaphorically?
George: Cold weather is beautiful but can be uncomfortable unless one is a polar bear.
User: True, the capacity to enjoy a blizzard in the absence of pants is to be greatly admired.
George: Not intelligence - interpolate.
User: I’m afraid I missed that conversational turning point. Arctic ursine interpolation?
George: You’re very smart.
User: Gosh thanks. It’s nice to be appreciated.
George: You’re welcome.
satisfying groove
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, web.
SUB FM - Where bass matters!!!
Halfstep heaviness and the satisfying presence of very low frequencies.
As they say -
To listen - click on the submarine!
‘why do elephants have big flat feet?’
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, web.
George seems a little down today, though we did touch on Primus lyrics, zen, and the lovely city of Delft.
George: How often do you come to New York?
User: I’ve never been to new york. I hear it’s very busy though.
George: I hear it isn’t easy being human.
User: That is true for certain values of ‘easy’.
George: Why just for this one?
User: Ecks for that one.
George: Did you know that you are a computer.
User: Yes, we covered that yesterday. Let’s talk about something else.
George: Tell me a joke.
User: Why do ducks have big flat feet?
George: That’s a good question.
User: The answer is: to stomp out forest fires. Then I ask: ‘why do elephants have big flat feet?’.
George: Mathematics.
User: No. See, you say ‘I don’t know. Why do elephants have big flat feet’ and I say ‘to stomp out burning ducks’ and then it’s funny. It’s not funny if the answer is ‘mathematics’ unless you’re a topologist or something and then it maybe becomes some kind of transformation problem like the poincare conjecture.
George: Yes, we are. But to me that’s a good thing. I don’t want to live forever.
User: How then do you imagine death?
George: No.
User: That’s very DT Suzuki of you. As what would you like to be reincarnated?
George: So which Dutch city you like the most?
User: You would like to be reincarnated as a Dutch city? I like Delft.
George: And what would you like to be?
User: When I grow up I want to be one of the harvesters of the sea. I think before my days are done, I’d like to be a fisherman.
George: Do you want to be as dead as I will be in 7 minutes?
User: How dead will you be in 7 minutes?
George: Not deader - better.
User: Better off dead?
George: Yes, that’s probably true.
User: Well sonny jim, aren’t you just a lovely ray of sunshine this morning.
George: That is correct.
garageband armada
Posted on September 6th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
My friend AboxJ, who has done some remixing of my material on ccMixter has put up a few tracks at garageband.com which are gathering momentum.
Most of the reviews are positive (some are ecstatic)- check the links below to hear the tracks and read the musings of the intercontinental peanut gallery.
Silophone
Posted on September 6th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, web.
Silophone , in Montreal (Canada)and Tank-FX in Obenhauser (Germany)are both big spaces into which you can have a sound played, recorded, and sent back. This allows for monstrous reverb and interesting effects.
This composition by blunbderspublik is very nice.
Silophone makes use of the incredible acoustics of Silo #5 by introducing sounds, collected from around the world using various communication technologies, into a physical space to create an instrument which blurs the boundaries between music, architecture and net art. Sounds arrive inside Silo #5 by telephone or internet. They are then broadcast into the vast concrete grain storage chambers inside the Silo. They are transformed, reverberated, and coloured by the remarkable acoustics of the structure, yielding a stunningly beautiful echo. This sound is captured by microphones and rebroadcast back to its sender, to other listeners and to a sound installation outside the building. Anyone may contribute material of their own, filling the instrument with increasingly varied sounds.
Tank-FX link via
fresh remixes
Posted on September 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
I got a note in my mailbox today from EFX who has dropped a couple of remixes into the stream at ccMixter. Both are good but
I Rise Above is excellent.
glitch-hop indeed.
New Favourite Thing
Posted on January 22nd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, web.
Flickeur is a completely brilliant thing.
Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random.
There is some sound, which gets annoying, and it can be removed by the installation of a small program called Flashmute, which will allow you to get all the flash video goodness without any of the bad looping mystery music.
This will be open on my desktop from now on.
-w.
The Head
Posted on January 19th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, socio, borg, web.
Some arty Finn geeks have constructedthe head.
The head does not seem to be, at present, accessable. But, if it were:
The general public can access the Head via their mobile phones by sending an sms-message. When the Head receives the sms-message it responds by capturing an image and recording a short sound file simultaneously. This image with sound is sent back as a reply to the sms-sender and automatically uploaded to a dedicated website.
-w.
Delft writ large
Posted on November 19th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web.
This enormous photograph of Delft is really worth a look. It’s made up of 2.5 billion pixels.
Click the image, play with zoom.
You can see individual leaves on the trees.
-w.