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Sunday, March 20, 2005

this kid is so not bored by thekidsarebored



yesterday, lisa slodki wised me to thekidsarebored, an amazingly aweSum applat for electronic musics. today i created sum profiles, incl'ing the following:

"jonCates is a newMedia artist who plays various forms of hystorically motivated live experimental audio-visual art such as those occupied by the leaky categories + subgenres of: 8-bit, ascii punk, brokenglitchtfuzzcore, electro punk, error, expanded cinema, gameboy, glitch, laptop, lo-bit, lo-fi, lower case snd, machinima, mash-up, .microsound, no-fi, null-n-void, pink is not red, praxis, realtime, remix, rmx, singspiel, sonic art, texturalism, etc, etc, etc..."

utilizing categories i have been identifying, naming + creating while also adding to the usr determined + modifiable database of genres + subgenres. here are sum of the 01 i have added to the database so far:

ascii punk
electro punk
error
expanded cinema
lo-bit
lo-fi
lower case snd
machinima
singspiel
no-fi
null-n-void
realtime
pink is not red
praxis
rmx

i totally lessthanthree usr determined + modifiable databases of tags + metadata. criticalartware's former {version|installation} of liken had a similar approach to tagging, allowing usrs to infinitely add new metadata.

Saturday, March 19, 2005

newMedia mind(C)ontrol @ CALTECH



bensyverson just wised me to sum newMedia mind(C)ontrol sys under advanced dev + now public promo @ CALTECH: "Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking". sys such as these for the cybernetic21Century are increasingly in play w/other forms of surveillance, experimental nonlethal weapons + refined newMedia mind(C)ontrol sys. like "they" say "you're only paranoid IF..." THEN... statements.

A:L:E:X:I: OMFG





after posting about the retrofuturist cyberpunk LED watch for rebels Colin wised me to this amazing project. A:L:E:X:I: is a truly amazing [cyberpunk/{mobile|tactical} media] project. 01 of the most amazing aspects of the A:L:E:X:I: project is the functionality of the weaponry. A:L:E:X:I: reminds me of less hostile mobile newMedia projects such as the Fobile Muck Truck by Dean + Dudley Evenson that was positioned as peopleware in Radical Software in VOL 1 NO 2. of course,Dean + Dudley Evenson's Fobile Muck Truck project from the early 1970's was not intended to attack ppl w/blowtorches but quite conversely was intended to dismantle hegemonic pwr structures thru "a talk back approach" to culturalFeedback using the newMedia of video.

Friday, March 18, 2005

"Because you are a rebel!" you love LED lites!





YES: this cyberpunk watch is k-rad ++
NO: i didn't photoshop those imgs, they are straight from the TS100 by Cyber Punk product page where this import from .jp is available.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

iNO in the mirror



i found a mirror of the much aweSum + now disappeared iNO project by geektechnique. get your hands on this hot new iNO Apple [hardware hack/mod/parody/cultural critique] while you still can. DL + mirror the priceless iNO while supplies or servers last!
mini mini thnx to the dodgeybastards for the mirror.

now playing on my iNo: NOTHING



has the much blogged + wonderful iNo hosted by geektechnique become a victim to Apple's inability to appreciate timely parody or insightful critique? geektechnique seems to be currently unavailable or down + it leads me to wonder if Apple has played a role in the entire domain going offLine...

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

digital book as newMedia.retroFuturist.Container



this digital book is a Hard Disk Player w/MPEG4 (AVI) + MPG/DAT/VOB/MP3/WMA/WAV/JPG playback + Component/VGA/S-video; Stereo/Photolink
output. of course, this is only a superficial RE:shape shift, but the idea of such containers holds retrofuturistic promises reminiscent of the Neo-Victorian devices in The Diamond Age: A Young Girl's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson or the streamlined chrome shells that thinly seperate recent futures from nearby pasts in William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum.

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