January 2009
10 posts
"Eccentricities of the Animal Creation" by John... →
author of “Things not Generally Known”
with eight engravings
Moonlight towers: light pollution in the 1800s →
Planet Harddrive →
[…] A harddrive, though, would be a geological object as much as a technical one; it is a content-rich, heavily processed re-configuration of the earth’s surface. This reminds me of another ongoing fantasy of mine, which is that perhaps someday we won’t actually need harddrives at all: we’ll simply use geology itself. In other words, what if we could manipulate the...
“If I were president I would have fun, because I could run fast.”
– Dear Sir Obama - Presidential Advice - NYTimes.com
Far Too Much Information about Matmos' Supreme... →
We told Jay Lesser that he should go for a heavily swung rhythmic feeling in homage to the tap dance rhythms of McLaren’s score for “Mosaic” and he obliged with some ridiculous programming in Ableton Live; Drew used the Tassman software program that allows the user to model virtual acoustic objects, making percussive sounds intended to emulate steel and glass objects colliding in...
The return of Elektro, the first celebrity robot →
