@TheHolyAtheist should a being like that exist at all, I'd imagine it would exercise something akin to the Prime Directive. 2 days ago
RT @angermuller: Probably some of the most amazing photos of unfathomable and real shit: realityhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ Via @ ... 2 days ago
Cannes to Toulons My early-morning train out of Cannes en route to Paris was oddly euphoric under the lavender skies of the Cote d'Azur. Raw upload.
Heading to Paris on a TGV Alright: totally shameless foreigner moment here.
Only one thing would get me to videotape mildly-bland French countryside. And that thing is going 5,000 km/h in a fuckin rocket train. Awesome.
The fact that we don't have these in America is a testament to the ball-grip the auto industry has had us by for so many years. And a mere scratch at the surface of why we need to outlaw lobbying.
Enjoy the footage of traveling warp 1.5 on rail, and prepare to experience it in the USA in ... oh, maybe fifteen years? Unless the fence-sitters elect a Republican again in the coming elections ... then we'll probably keep making shitty cars to drive on shitty gas. And start another Jesus/oil war.
I did a post like this a while back – I think. But it’s worth revisiting as I have some updates. As you may or may not know, I have designed a sort of mystery instrument component myself last year, which I’m planning on actually presenting this year. Ideally NAMM, but I’m not sure that’ll have a prototype ready… ANNYYYYWAYS: this has me looking around for similar devices – of which there is none – but nevertheless I’ve founded some really nice instruments in my travels. on the internet.
Daxophone
here’s Mark Stewart doing an off the cuff improvisation on the wonderful instrument, the daxophone. filmed in February, 2005. get in touch if you want to talk about the daxophone.
Waterphone
By Dr. Todd Barton. Waterphone made by Richard Waters… (Demo.)
Megabass Waterphone
Richard Waters, inventor of the waterphone demonstrates various techniques of playing the megabass waterphone.
Glass Harmonica
Invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Music by Wolfgang A. Mozart. Played by French artist Thomas Bloch, exhibiting the glass harmonica in the Paris Music Museum, Nov. 29, 2007.
Hang Drum
This is a solo acoustic version of “Fanfare” performed on the PANArt Hang. D minor penta on my lap, F major on my right. Please excuse the low-fi sound quality. This song is on my CD – available now at http://cdbaby.com/dantebucci !
(2007) Mark Deutsch playing the Bazantar. bazantar.com
Fey Adelstein : Director, Editor, Sound and 2nd Camera.
Zhihao Ren : 1st Camera and Assistant Editor.
Mohan Veena
Musician/composer Abbas Premjee demonstrates an instrument from India called the Mohan Veena.
Harpejji
The harpejji is a new musical instrument by Marcodi Musical Products (www.marcodi.com). Jim Daneker (recording artist and keyboardist for Michael W. Smith) of the Whine Cellar studio has been experimenting with the harpejji as an instrument for film scoring. In this example, he demonstrates the harpejji as both a solo instrument (beginning of piece, eith Ebow) and a bass instrument (ending of piece). Video production and copyright permission courtesy of Jim Daneker. For more information on the harpejji, visit www.marcodi.com
Saw one of these in action the other day. REAL NICE. Amazingly responsive. Or so I’m told – was far too intimidated to demonstrate my lackluster artistic skills in front of a master.
I would like to incorporate a touch screen monitor in my production work. Eventually. Get my piano roll, event list & hyper editor at my fingertips. Not to mention all those soft synthy bits. Real nice.
Finally imported my wordpress blog ever har on ye old homesite. Bear with me as I see some formatting has been lost. No harm though, I find the previous postings to be somewhat inconsistent w/ my intentions here anyways….
Alright. Now to fix this thing up a bit…
Update: OK>>> I like this one. Now, how to lose the stock graphics…
There’s my silly new avatar. Gravatar, rather? Yay. Weird.I have too many social networking commitments out there. But they’re finding their place. Sadly, this particular little armpit of my interests isn’t really getting much attention, but I never really intended it to be that way anyway.
Let’s see: Here I randomly post things, that have little to do with me or what I do, but sometimes happen to be. There are known knowns, and unknown unknown knowns… etc. Then there’s my Tumblr. Which seems like an unnecessary blog meets twitter thing, but I like it because I just have to click an applet to post things. No copy + paste for Twitter. That works.
Next, my Kontainer. This is mostly semi-personal, in-motion type of content that I’ll just post randomly. Pictures/videos from places. Jesus could I be any more nondescript about it? Yea it’s a cool idea though, and I hope to do more of it. It’ll basically be all the video stuff I don’t want to dirty my precious YouTube channel with, since it’s so goddamned cherished.
Of course: my Twitter. Even more random. But connecting the world through opinions, articles and redundant posts from the other sites you already follow me on. THAT YOU ALREADY FOLLOW ME ON.
YouTube. The Play Zappa YouTube Project (still a zygote) My ever present Facebook page. This you need to ‘liiiike’, as I’m pretty consistent over there. I haven’t really made an effort to funnel people there yet, but… it exists. And it’s basically the hairy drain that aggregates all the rest of this. OK, not really. Just my music/creative mutation stuff. But don’t friend my personal FB page, I hate ignoring requests and feel a touch douchey but I keep that to just people I know now within a personal or professional capacity. “It’s not you, it’s me…”
Reverb nation: here. I will keep this updated. Along with SoundCloud… which is not updated at present. I, of course, have an atrophied Myspace page, but you know what? I’m not ready to let go. It’s just not updated.Whew. Feels good to get that off my chest.
In other news, the good sir Mr. Chris Stambaugh has informed me that my bridge has came in:Very good. Progress is earned through painfully persistant patience.What else… yes. I haven’t done an 8-Bit remix in a while. I fear that I’ll begin to start bleeding subscribers soon. No, not yet. I have ATTN #5 about 67% there. Along with a few others. They’ll start dropping once I begin uploading bass videos again. Or not. We’ll see.Oh sweet Netflix. What wondrously depressing documentary on how the US is fucking the world do you have for my viewing pleasure this evening? The Age of Stupid? Very good.Bye.
Wow. This is bizarre. Who'd have thought an array of old hard drives serving as a speaker could so closely imitate the unique sound of Thom Yorke's voice? And personally i've never quite understood people who find the sound of a dot matrix printer grating, i t … Read More
NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec.
2 WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website at http://www.nasa.gov.
Participants are: -
Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe
Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.
I cannot fucking stand what news media has become. Infotainment is too kind of a word. It’s an absolute joke; a paltry, watered-down, sweetened mix of daily excrement that pulls for ratings and advertisers. I mean – don’t get me wrong – this is how it’s been for.. EVER.. but it just seems like it’s getting worse with the constant availability of media online.Entertainment news should NEVER appear with real news. And by real, I mean the ‘lite’ version of real news. Things like death tolls and economic reports should NEVER grace the same headlines with fucking Miley Cyrus. Or Miley fucking Cyrus. Miley Cyrus. A fucking teeny bopper who happens to be fucking other people now that her vagina has seen some road time. And this is news-worthy? CNN [and others] print this along with a ‘mass grave of tourists in Mexico’? How disgusting. Absolutely laughable. Why the fuck do we need to know about Portia de Rossi? Who the fuck is that? CNN should just invert what’s left of their journalistic scrotum and feature the Situation as a correspondent. You can only go down from here.I hate what mainstream journalism has become. It’s a grotesque stump of the principles it’s supposed to embody. The best I’ve seen among the heap of shit is Rachel Maddow. Within the mainstream, but outside of ‘straight news’, is of course – the Daily Show. How sad is it that a “comedy show” produces the best presidential interview this side of Cronkite?Outside of ‘mainstream’, there is then the Young Turks. Cenk Uygur is the most reasonable man in America, and it shows. This motherfucker keeps it real, tells you like it is and acknowledges any and all bias he has towards a story. But he sticks to the facts, whichever way they lean and – goddamn – it’s refreshing. No wonder he’s potentially looking at his own show on MSNBC.Finally, there’s Wikileaks. This is the final bastion for real journalism. Raw, untempered, ugly fuckin information on some shit the blissful would rather stay ignorant of. Bullet holes in an Iraqi 7-year olds head? No, those were drill holes from a torture session. This and thousands of other instances of atrocities and war crimes. Yet we have to stomach the disgusting inclusion of Miley fucking Cyrus in “real” news. Fuck you, mainstream media. I know all the cool kids like Palin & Co. talk a storm of smack on ‘the media’, but holy goddamn if it isn’t for all the wrong reasons.But Wikileaks – you can tell they’re doing something right when they’re under such scrutiny and intimidation. I get it – it’s an ugly fucking truth, and it’s no wonder that the military doesn’t gleefully release the daily reports of the murder of innocent civilians, and the systematic torture of Iraqi’s by their corrupt police force. But we deserve to know the truth, as long as we’re footing the bill. Where are the fiscal and ‘moral’ conservatives in light of this quagmire to the tune of how many hundreds of billions of dollars and American lives lost (nevermind the hundreds of thousands of civilians – but that number holds a fraction of the value to them)? Oh right, they’re waving their fucking flags and wallowing in their childish nationalism.Rant is coming to an end. We need Wikileaks to keep these motherfucker’s feet to the fire. This is the last stand for journalism, and I’m absolutely terrified to see what potential truths they unleash next. After reading through some of the horrific details from our current war, and seeing some excellent documentaries on the hidden atrocities – I don’t know how much longer I can stomach paying taxes in this country. I’m paying for this shit – and so are you. We’re contributing to the machine, and while I don’t think it helps to just abandon this great American experiment – we sure as hell are not obligated to keep paying for this war.
(ffs, why does WordPress have such a shit html embed disability?! –> here’s the link http://www.vbs.tv/watch/from-poland-with-love/from-poland-with-love-full-length )”“From Poland With Love” follows two characters, Ivar and Julita as they search Poland to find the most fascinating, exciting and underexposed aspects of the country. Over seven episodes, our protagonists travel the country on a mission to track down the best bands, artists, directors, places, people, parties and of course the best bars Poland has to offer. Along the way, they learn about everything from the Polish solidarity movement that hastened the fall of the USSR to goth raves, Polish punk, real wodka and Julita’s gran’s secret recipe for pickled herring.See the rest at VBS.TV: From Poland with Love – Full Length – From Poland With Love | VBS.TV “
I’m writing as I’m watching… thoughts in motion…Hmm… yet another “user-friendly” instrument farted out by NI. OK, so it’s a sort of a vocoder…? Yet another vocoder… sounds mildly functional. You could use this in the Reaktor player, but the real bonus would be in looking under the hood in Reaktor itself…I dig vocoders, but there are so many out there… to really make it sound good, you (read: I) need a lot of knob-twiddling to make it sound good. You want something done right, yea?lI’m guessing they’re pricing this around $79 – $99.OK – the arpeggiator could add some interesting parallel processing. Always nice to get some audio –> synth action going on after the fact. But it sounds about as reliable is the tracking is capable of …Man. They’re really dragging their heels with respect to Reaktor development… Procrastinators!
I’m trying to maintain my YouTube channel, Facebook, this blog, my Kontain page and .. my relatively normal life behind the scenes. So far I’ve neglected this corner of the interweb a bit. Here are the last few 8-Bit remixes I’ve done recently:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SS_nd5NFM][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G2hn00fdi0]
1. When asked if serious illness had changed his view of the afterlife, Hitchens replied: “I would say it fractionally increases my contempt for the false consolation element of religion and my dislike for the dictatorial and totalitarian part of it.
“It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.”
2. Hitchens once branded Mother Teresa “a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf” and said: “She was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.
“She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
3. Hitchens’ verdict on George W Bush: “He is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.”
4. “Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.” – his description of American filmmaker Michael Moore.
5. Christopher was invited to join a debated on the “war on Christmas” on NBC news, where he was eventually thrown off for arguing.
He said: “There has been a festival… since the winter solstice was thought of long before any mythical event in the Middle East, a birth date that even the Bible cannot get right and repeatedly gets wrong.”
He also branded religion “junk science” and claimed Christianity is “leaving us as the mockery of the world by pretending that we did not evolve.”
6. “[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god.
“Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
7. ”The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
8. The author’s thoughts on the war against terrorism: “Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.”
9. When Hitchens read a premature announcement of his own death in an art gallery catalogue he quipped: “Nothing concentrates the mind more than reading about oneself in the past tense.”
10. “The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.” Enough said.
