Blue Suits, Blow Jobs, And Business

America's Empire: Howard Zinn Style

What Men Really Mean By All Night Long

I Like To Read, So Zoomii

Welcome to Zoomii.com, a pretty enchanting interface to search for books and whatnot. Imagine Google Maps for a bookstore. It's powered by the Amazon.com search engine and are all Amazon books. Here's Zoomii.com and here's a little explanatory on how it works:

1 Man, 17 Dominoes, And A Lot Of Time

How to Balance 17 Dominoes on One Dominoe

Listen To The Song

Some stuff from Dizzy Rascal from across the pond. He's not my favorite, but this piece makes me dislike him less.

Radiohead 'Nude' Goes BetaMax

So this dude, recreated the Radiohead song using "A Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8-bit PC was used for rhythm and lead guitars, an HP Scanjet 3c was used for bass guitar, an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer was used for drums, and an array of hard drives were used as bad speakers to distort and reproduce vocals and effects." -The Gizmodo article.

I don't like Radiohead, but that's pretty awesome. Much respect. Bringin it back 80s style.

Watch Out Timmy!

glumbert - Remember Timmy... Be Careful!

Turntable Drumming

Weezer On YouTube

Robot Conducts Human Orchestra

This is the Honda ASIMO robot tha everyone is all excited about because of its human-like physical capabilities (Granted it could probably crush a rock into sand). It conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a kids music fund.

The only irony I find in this is that it's a Honda robot conducting in Detroit. Hmm.......

Real Tech, Faux Turn Table

From across the pond, our buddy Scott Hobbs and the ATTIGO TT have integrated the touch screen into a DJ/mixing set up. The visuals are cool, the interface appears to be easy to use, and mixing is based on sensors. Here's a video that helps to demonstrate it's potential:

Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.

My problem with this stuff is that it's cool, it's mixing things that I love (tech and music). However, aren't you getting away from the art of the scratch DJ? If you got skills, you can just get a cut that has the same beats you would find on an mp3 file. You just look cooler too when you use tables.

People have their preferences on how they execute their art, so I can't knock this, but I just don't want to see the demise of an art because of technology.

And Then There Was This Thing In The Sky....

http://view.break.com/505142 - Watch more free videos

This clip is from a speech by chess champion Gary Kasparov. I guess the guy who flew it got his point across.

Where Creative Meets Truth

Mark Pesce On Twitter

Not A Foul

Best Buy or Soul Train?

He Came, He Saw, He Danced

Sea Dragon, Meet Your PhotoSynth

So this is a synthesis of Microsoft Sea Dragon and Photosynth. It combines technologies and makes the limits, simply put, disappear when it comes to image creation. Honestly, the only way to explain it is to watch the video



To further explain this, here is Photosynth.

Get acquainted with this stuff. We'll be using it some time soon.

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