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Gavin Russom's bootleg remix of "piece of me"

Ah, Britney just reminds me of when all you (apparently...) needed to do to get your site to the top of search engines was to put "britney spears, mp3, porn" in the meta tags. Bless 'er and her frequently photographed ladybits.

Anyway, here's a rather moody bootleg remix of the search engine queen by Gavin Russom of Delia and Gavin on DFA (check the epic Carl Craig remix of Relevee), and latterly of Black Meteoric Star - it appeared briefly on his Myspace page - yeah, remember those - last year sometime, and Youtube appears to be the only place you can get it from.

Filed under  //   britneyspears   gavinrussom   music   youtube  
Posted September 16, 2009
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Hello from space

It's pretty cold up here but the drums don't half echo about. 

Here's a loop of me drumming through a lovely old RE-201 and a home built spring reverb thing, much sweeping of the eq on my desk. It's too much fun really.

  
(download)

Posted September 8, 2009
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Cybraphon - bloody genius "autonomous emotional robot band" thing

It's so good, I hope this lives forever. Just to explain what this mad device is  - it's the Cybraphon - a sort of band-in-a-box, patterned after 19th Century mechanical bands, which responds to what people say about it on the internet. The happier it gets, the more happy the music it plays, and vice versa.

I hope it inspires other artists to play around with what I'm guessing it's based on, which is the Arduino - an "open-source electronics prototyping platform" - essentially a circuitboard you plug into your computer over USB, with digital outs and analogue ins, meaning that you can attach all kinds of sensors and output devices.

I've got a couple of these from when I was intending to build a 128 sized Arduinome - and I will get round to it eventually, honest. I got one
of them out the other day and managed to make a couple of LEDs attached to the digital outs flash on and off, such geeky fun.

I should say that the Cybraphon is by the Edinburgh-based art collective FOUND and you can see it at the Inspace Gallery (Google Map link) as part of the Edinburgh Arts Festival, until 5th September 2009.

Filed under  //   arduino   art   diy   electronics   music   video  
Posted August 13, 2009
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Don't go on the Saturday - the Great British Beer Festival

(photo from dogvsspidermonkey)
 
Don't go on a Saturday. Unless you're a big fan of stout on a sweaty summers' day.
 
Still good though. We'll know for next year...

Posted August 13, 2009
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Bagface

I always wonder if this kind-of thing is intentional; I expect not in this case, but I imagine car designers spend lots of time on it.

Filed under  //   photography  
Posted August 10, 2009
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Unitxt


 
Lovely. (via Philip Sherburne)

Filed under  //   music   video   youtube  
Posted August 9, 2009
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It Felt Like A Kiss - Adam Curtis' experimental film now online

Rewatched most of the Parallax View the other night - unfortunately it finished past my bedtime - and when "the incredible montage" came on half-way through I was reminded of Adam Curtis' films. His new experimental film It Felt Like A Kiss, which was the basis of a recent installation in Manchester, is now up over on his blog for a limited time.

Filed under  //   adamcurtis   art   film  
Posted August 3, 2009
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The Parallax View - the incredible montage

Ace, frightening, mildly NSFW montage from the middle of "...the definitive 70s paranoia thriller" The Parallax View. 

Further commentary over at the DVD Savant, including a grab of one of the scariest frames.

Filed under  //   film   youtube  
Posted August 3, 2009
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Setting up Atrium


I've had a couple of goes now at setting up Open Atrium - an absolutely gorgeous looking "intranet in a box" based on Drupal - and my advice for setting it up is...

1. Set up your (empty) MySQL database first
2. (Mac people) Unzip the .tgz file using Archive Utility rather than Stuffit Expander - the latter seems to miss out some files when it decompresses
3. Make sure your PHP memory_limit in php.ini is at least 64M. I tried to install with 16M = no go.
4. In sites/default, chmod the default.settings.php to 777, and then duplicate it. Rename the duplicate file settings.php.

I got number 4 wrong - I didn't read the advice quite right and wondered why Atrium couldn't set the database up. You need both files, the default.settings.php and settings.php.

There's some bonus numbers...

5. Make sure you pick Atrium from the selection screen at the start. (Look, this weissbier is pretty strong, you know?)
6. If it really really won't let you install the database, if it hangs at the database screen, you can edit the settings.php file, which should work...

Atrium is a version 1 (and a beta at that) but it looks pretty good so far. I thinking it's more in the BuddyPress league rather than yer heavyweight corporate "enterprise" intranet software - this may suit, of course..

Filed under  //   intranet   socialsoftware   web2.0  
Posted July 16, 2009
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Kraftwerk @ Manchester Velodrome


Crowd goes nuts 4 minutes in, and with good reason. Aw, wish I'd been there, looks near perfect. Ralf Hütter did a oh-so rare interview for the Guardian recently.

Posted July 4, 2009
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