April 2008
36 posts
“It’s better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute...”
– Clay Shirky - Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
Kitbuilders - Dark Angels. From the Space Marines...
And you don't stop...
headlessness: All those other muxtapes are suckas. I made you a hip-hop muxtape, And you don’t stop…. It has an A-side and B-side of sorts. Here’s the tracklist: A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin’ Out Cannibal Ox - Ox Out the Cage Gang Starr - Dwyck The Herbaliser - 8pt Agenda Talib Kweli - Move Somethin’ Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers Viktor Vaughn - Let Me Watch J-Live - All of the Above The...
Brussels Meets Brighton : The MetaHub →
“Between 30th April and the 3rd of May London’s exciting Shunt Lounge will host a massive exhibition involving Arts Collectives from Brighton, Brussels and London. The event will incoporate a feast of fascinating performance including: live music, puppetry, dance and physical theatre, video and sound installations, photography, slam poetry, scientists, robotics and more.”
McFilter: A Taste of TED on DVD →
TED Torrents! There are six talks on the DVD. I picked ones that I enjoyed watching and that seem to be well thought of on the web: Dan Gilbert asks “Why are we happy?” Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce Sir Ken Robinson say schools kill creativity Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice Gever Tulley on five dangerous...
Gablé - Purée Hip Hop. Daft, brilliant. From the...
Boredoms in the Bathroom - Dresses (from the...
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to... →
“From an anonymous source close to the company, I’ve found myself in possession of the “Infocom Drive” — a complete backup of Infocom’s shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I’ve ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company.”
“If the breathless advocates of “the free distribution of ideas” are serious,...”
– Steven Poole: Free your mind
Dogtags! Dogtags! Dogtags! Cassetteboy vs. Stan...
GroupTweet →
“GroupTweet is constantly listening for direct texts sent to your group’s Twitter account. When a direct text is received, GroupTweet instantly publishes it as a tweet from the group account.”
jessandnick: in the land of cutting out people in photoshop, the bald man is king
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Surfing... →
“Even though print continues to cash in significantly more ad revenue than digital media, printed news will - from a purely economical point of view - undoubtedly fail.”
Lyric Hammersmith | Contains Violence →
“Part mystery and part peepshow, Contains Violence is a surreal snapshot connecting the secret lives of others […] using breakthrough audio-technology, and buildings on the West London skyline.”
posthuman.muxtape.com →
That’s the post-rock, post-electronica Posthuman, not the hypothetical future being Posthuman.
Tweet Clouds →
“Make a word cloud from a public Twitter stream”
Twubble →
“…can help expand your Twitter bubble - it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.”
Cursor Miner's Orphan Tracks
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to take some time here to raise a serious issue, that of homeless and abandoned tunes. Many pieces of music never get the chance in life that their rich western counterparts do. Here at the home for orphaned tracks we look after these unfortunates and look for loving homes for them. Funnily enough most of these tracks are abandoned and left out on...
Vote Match →
“Designed to help Londoners decide how to vote in the London elections on 1 May”. My results were exactly as expected.
Headlessness podcast 01: Eat Tokyo
James is podcasting again. Grand. Updates will be intermittent and will follow no format whatsoever. The first podcast is a short music mix I’m calling Eat Tokyo.
anglepoised.muxtape.com →
Finally got round to making one. What fun! Mine has The Teenagers, Deerhoof, Beck (against my better judgement, but remixed by The Chap which evens things out a little), Black Devil Disco Club, Bastards of Love (remixed by LJ Kruzer), Fisk Industries, ¡Forward, Russia!, Death From Above 1979 (remixed by Justice), GusGus, Buraka Som Sistema, Huoratron and Von Südenfed. Much noisier than I was...
The Mystery of Black Devil - eMusic Spotlight →
A few years ago, the Rephlex label released a record called Disco Club that had black-crack collectors all atwitter over its white-hot machine drumming, chunky percussion loops and garbled synthesizers, sounding like an impish (and possibly evil) cousin to Giorgio Moroder. The artist, one Black Devil, was so little known that many listeners assumed it must be the work of one of Rephlex’s own...
“Would you miss your current project if you were doing something else instead?...”
– On Being Missed | Next Update
