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 Check out the Wider Angle Tumblog for more photos, links, and other interesting short form stuff. Labels: Links  The very cool Bazooka Joe had me (teh Royal Sapien) on his Small World podcast a few days ago and has posted the interview in the Music Monday spot. He interviewed me for about an hour and posted most of our conversation in the show, as well as a few exclusive tracks from me. Check out the Small World podcast, and thanks to Bazooka Joe! Labels: Music, Royal Sapien  Free music from the Wider Angle™ ministry of culture and IODA, the excellent distributor of Olaris Records.  Download "Things We Do" (mp3)  More On This Album Download "Gridlike" (mp3)
More On This Album  Download "A Thousand Years" (mp3) More On This Album Download "My Ancient Vihmaana" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Heaven" (mp3)
More On This AlbumLabels: Music  While I won't post the file myself, it's rumored that you can find my mix from John Digweed's show some places online if you look hard enough. The Olaris Records site has seen a redesign. AT&T's Blue Room (is it me or are a lot of people using that name?) will be webcasting much of the Bonnaroo festival, and select archives from Coachella will be posted soon. As is to be expected, banner ads work in the peripheral vision to reinforce brand identity. I've always suspected the visual impact of a banner is far more important than its click-thru rate. Madame Tutli-Putli has some of the finest puppetry I've ever seen. Screenings are scarce. If Google buys Feedburner, it would just make sense.  Donate your spare CPU cycles to medical research with Folding@Home. Even better, join the Olaris Records team! The application runs in the background and uses CPU cycles you're not using to fold proteins, linking your machine to a massive distributed supercomputer. I've had one of these dreams where there's an extra room in my apartment. I also had a dream when I was 8 that I had a five-disc carousel CD changer instead of a tape deck, something I really really wanted. [via kottke] The Pirate Bay will be launching a video streaming site. That should be very interesting. This Worth1000 1337 photoshopping contest is one of my favorites. Especially 7h3 (0ns717u710n and st0n3h3ng3.  Al Gore in his office. NPR will release recordings of their Presidential debates into the public domain. Robots talking to each other breeds some unnerving results. Discover Magazine reports on the state of robot thinking and conversing. Thomas Raschke has created some immaculate wireframe sculptures. [thanks Allyson] Meg Hourihan's "A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie," in which many recipes are scientifically averaged to create the perfect cookie. Amazon has confirmed they're launching a DRM-FREE mp3 music store including music from EMI and over 12,000 other labels including Olaris Records. It seems that Iraq is "losing" between $5 million and $15 million of oil a day. "The report does not give a final conclusion on what happened to the missing fraction of the roughly two million barrels pumped by Iraq each day, but the findings are sure to reinforce longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the country’s oil industry." [thanks Fatimah] Whitney Houston visits Weekend Update. [YouTube] Labels: Links  Royal Sapien will be the guest DJ on John Digweed's Transitions show this Saturday night into Sunday Morning. I'm playing a 1 hour mix in the usual slot following John's mix. You can listen live in the UK on Kiss 100, 101, and 105-108 from 3am-5am GMT. Kiss also streams online, so you can catch it there if you're not in the UK. On the East Coast U.S. the program airs 10pm-12am. Transitions is syndicated in countries all over the world (Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Romania, Greece, France, etc.) and you can find the station nearest you at JohnDigweed.com. The show is heard by over 2 million people, the same audience size as Pete Tong's Essential Selection on BBC Radio 1. To find more of my music, you can download free DJ sets at royalsapien.com, free albums on Last.fm, my podcast is available on iTunes, and if you feel like buying something, head to my page on Beatport or iTunes to snag some songs. UPDATE It seems Kiss will only stream to listeners in the UK. A lot of good that does. I'll post a list of other stations that stream and when they're broadcasting Transitions this week. UPDATE 2 Through the magic of internets, listen to the mix at newmixes.com. Labels: Music  Free music from the Wider Angle™ ministry of culture and IODA, the excellent distributor of Olaris Records. Mostly electronic, all fresh.  Download "Everything Is OK" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "The Fences" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Let's Make a Record" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "Love And Mathematics" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "The Sound of the City" (mp3)
More On This AlbumLabels: Music  Roaming around the world on Google Earth, I stumbled across my favorite building in Cincinnati, Union Terminal. It might be the only building in the city I like, but it's still nothing less than stunning. Totally out of place in southwest Ohio, and built too late to enjoy a full life.  Very good museums are in the space now, with an Omnimax theater, a cool gift shop, and a few Cincinnati-based chain restaurants. Everything has been restored and takes your breath away.  Should you ever find yourself in the unfortunate position of being in Cincinnati, try to make the trip to Union Terminal. It was culture and sophistication to me for many years.  The beautiful art of Mars-1 was on display at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Manhattan and almost every piece sold. [via Design Is Kinky] "May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act." They're in ur internets, stealing ur emails. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have introduced a bill called the Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007 to help save Internet radio from the Copyright Board's decision to kill it with impossibly high royalty payments. "If passed, the bill would overturn the decision of the Copyright Royalty Board and replace it with a rate mandated by Congress—7.5 percent of total revenues. This is the rate currently paid by satellite broadcasters like XM and Sirius, but the CRB's decision meant that small webcasters could actually owe more in fees than they earn in revenue, and some of the fees would be retroactive to 2006." Someone send those men some cake and ice cream. Shiny Toy Guns will be at the new Highline Ballroom in NYC on June 25. This is the video for their tune "You Are The One." From the mind of House of Cosbys comes Kosbees on Acceptable.tv. A long article about the incredible amount of plastic in the ocean and what it's doing to animals, humans, and the planet. "A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain." I first read about this in Harper's a few months ago and now it's made its way to a mag published by Men's Health. Hopefully the information will continue on its trajectory and becomes common knowledge within the year. This may come as a shock, but some U.S. Senators who made the new prescription drug bill more friendly to industry and less friendly to consumers were paid millions of dollars by drug companies. "The 49 senators who voted against drug importation received about $5 million from industry executives and political action committees since 2001 — nearly three quarters of the industry donations to current members of the Senate..." In one of the funniest recorded pot brownie experiences ever baked, a police officer believes himself to be dying from the marijuana. "'I think we're dying,' he said. 'We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do.'" [via fark] I wonder if the military engineers building arpanet ever imagined transmitting videos of choreographed group ottoman humping. One of those timeless questions. [via kottke] Fewer and fewer New York City cabaret licenses are being issued to venues, and more are closing down than opening, thus ensuring the imminent death of NYC nightlife. (For those not from here, you need a cabaret license to allow people to dance in your venue - no license, no dancing. Period.) Grassroots movements like the free spirited New York Dance Parade (this Saturday, May 19) are aiming to bring dancing back to the people! They can take my freedom, but they'll never take my robot. You love Helvetica. It's OK. We all do. But sometimes we need a change. [via digg] The Design Blogfest is this Friday at The Apartment in NYC. Starts at 7pm, with Cool Hunting, Curbed, Treehugger, Crib Candy, and others attending. What Last.fm has done for music, they also want to do for videos. The personalized radio service aims to build a library of every music video ever created to make custom channels for users. If you have stuff you like and a clever roommate, don't sleep with your roommate's girlfriend. The ceiling height in a room greatly impacts the sorts of ideas one develops. "When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom. In a low-ceilinged room, they activate more constrained, confined concepts." If you're studying logos, check out Logo Lounge's article on the hot trends in logo design for 2006. The cost of widening Britain's M1 has ballooned to more than £21m per mile, raising the total cost of the project to £5.1bn, making it the most expensive motorway in the Britain's history. Regina Lynn explores the politics, emotions, and legalities surrounding virtual rape. "If it is a criminal offense to sexually abuse a child on the internet, how can we say it is not possible to rape an adult online? But I have a hard time calling it 'rape,' or believing it's a matter for the police. No matter how disturbed you are by a brutal sexual attack online, you cannot equate it to shivering in a hospital with an assailant's sweat or other excretions still damp on your body." In an unexpected move from Radar, they've published a beautiful photo series documenting restricted places from Taryn Simon's new book. Sound Revolt gave my new mix compilation a rather good review, giving it 5.5 out of 6. "I don’t know if it’s my sentiment to everything that smells of Fortier, or maybe the incredible technical skills of Mautner, but I go along with this album extraordinarily well." Sometimes you need a stupid Family Feud moment. If that time is not now, save this clip for later. Labels: Links  I'm pretty sure this is the best chart I've ever seen. (I'm only pretty sure because I'm only pretty sure it's a chart, because it's not a graph, so it has to be a chart, right?) The image is from Demetri Martin, who I am tangentially friends with in an oblique way, on The Daily Show on Wednesday, explaining the power of the video resume.
One of the stories that made the front page of Digg today was this compilation of the 20 "greatest" Nike commercials, by which I think they mean "neatest" or "celebritiest." Either way, incomplete without my favorite Nike commercial ever. And I'm not exactly the biggest Nike fan. I have never owned a pair. But the 90 second spot aired during the 2002 Winter Olympics simply floored me.
Directed by Jake Scott and featuring music by Jonathan Elias, "Move" is stunning. Labels: videos  Excellent music approved by the Wider Angle™ ministry of culture. Free.  Download "Trite" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "Party Time (a womyn's luv)" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "Inhuma broca" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "Best Friends Song" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Do It Now" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "Dumb Luck" (mp3)
More On This AlbumLabels: Music  Found this video of Imogen Heap on Digg, using some of the live looping tricks she picked up from Zoe Keating to do a solo, breathtaking performance of "Just For Now."  The copyright board is killing Internet radio, so the Wider Angle Podcast has stopped before it began... again. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy free music. Enjoy these free downloads from Wider Angle and the best independent distributor, IODA. Labels: Music Monday  Ryan sent these videos to me last night -- shot by MacAddict in 2002, BT describes the process he uses when remixing a song. Split into three parts... Labels: Music  Xeni Jardin posted some great Coachella roundup reports at BoingBoing. Photo by eecue. In case you missed it, Slate has put out a special issue on the brain. I've been too busy to even read one of these articles, but it's been on my to-read list for days. Paul Rieckhoff explains that the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is Traumatic Brain Injury, which occurs when violent physical shifts knock the brain against the skull, and mostly goes undiagnosed. "We're calling for mandatory screenings for all troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Every single one of them. But we need your help. To learn more about TBI, and to join the fight for universal screening, visit www.iava.org." According to a recent survey, kids download media illegally because they don't trust it to be good enough to pay for it, and if they like it, the rights-restricted copy they could buy would afford them, as the name implies, fewer rights to do what they like. China is making huge efforts on the global stage (they are the number one exporter of fruits and vegetables in the world), including a burgeoning automotive industry. The one thing missing from Chinese cars, however, is a unique style. John McCain took a beating on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The new 2nd Ave subway in NYC just may get air conditioning, a luxury the other lines do not afford gross, sweaty, dripping commuters in the summer. Of course, this A/C will probably be installed around 2072. In American society, and indeed, many other countries, it seems that freedoms must be outlined to be enjoyed. A truly free society requires defining limitations, leaving all else free. The design group DOMA has just released their new 15-piece Acid Sweeties vinyl toy collection. Vibrant, grotesque, technicolor sass.  Solo Mobile hooked up a few bus stops wirelessly and encouraged people to start up conversations on the giant phones. I put the Polar Clock on when I'm working and only using one monitor. It's soothing and beautiful, and would make a great screensaver if my desktop were ever inactive. [via Josh Spear] Hedge fund managers, who essentially do nothing to contribute to society or business development, are making shitloads of cash. Millions and billions. What some people forget is that the money has to come from somewhere. Stumbled across the Futurama movie page on Amazon. Video of Richard Dawkins discussing atheism on Bill O'Reilly, mindchecking the King of Spin until he's bruised and bleeding. Rumor has it that Amazon is readying a DRM-free music store. I can neither confirm nor deny as I'm under NDA. Learned about this abandoned platform at the Grand Central Station on a great show from NYC TV that aired on Thirteen. The platform was built specifically for President Roosevelt to load his Pierce Arrow onto a train car, ride into the station, and out into a custom-fitted elevator that went straight up to a private floor in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel so no one would see that he was ill. Even CEO Can't Figure Out How Radio Shack Still In Business. Tori Amos will say whatever she wants on Dutch TV because she can. Topics include the impropriety of displaying one's vagina for the press to the acquisition of a 12-inch cock. Let's watch, shall we? [YouTube via Stereogum] Labels: Links |
   
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