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Feed Your Gear Lust
Following a link from DJ Spooky to his remix of Saul Williams’ “Not in My Name”, I came across a nice little set of desktop images and screensavers for electronic music types at the Ninjatune downloads page, including my new favourite photo in the whole world, at left.
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headmap: world-aware technologies
I can’t believe I haven’t noticed headmap on my travels before. They do cool things there. Manifesto/blurb: headmap: the space, the social network, thinking tools and the network interface in the same field of view. The boundaries between what is interior and what is exterior intersecting tangibly in front of your eyes. …there are notes […]
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Urban Rebranding: Creative Cities for the Creative Class
In Junk for Code, Gary Sauer-Thompson reflects on the Weekend Australian’s latest article in its Australian cities series, in which Adelaide is characterised as the “thinking person’s city”: a city of ideas, education (the grandmother of all sandstone universities is there), but more importantly of cosmopolitanism. As a Brisbane native, not only can I only […]
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loopaaa online drum sequencer
Check out this toy.
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plug: adhocarts.org
adhocarts.org- Mission: “Adhocarts.org was inspired by the need to create support and opportunity for independent artists, culture producers and creative workers across disciplines. […] Adhocarts.org works to promote the design of alternative culture that counters mainstream modes of living and concepts manufactured and promoted by large corporate entities and governments. Adhocarts.org accomplishes this by exploring […]
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Social Capital and Micro-Networks
In The Network is the Market, Ross Mayfield introduces us to the social theory behind Tribe.Net, a friendster-type social network-builder that is just coming out of beta. Like friendster, (but without that whole icky high-school-esque vibe) the idea is to build interconnected nodes of common interests. But unlike friendster, tribe.net is about information flow (classifieds, […]
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BYO Brain
It looks as though someone has been reading my mind (or more honestly, all my good ideas are already taken). The REGEN Juice Bar in Toronto are putting on a gig called Regenerative Brainwave Music: ElectroBrainFunk. blurb follows: What happens when a building reads your thoughts? What if music responded to your mind? REGEN3 will […]
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17th Century Blog
This deserves a plug: Samuel Pepys’ Diary encoded as a blog, hyperlinked to the bejeezus, and updated daily (i.e. today’s entry – 29 Aug 1660) – proof that there is nothing new under the sun.
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Somethin’ for Nothin’
Signal vs. Noise has generated a goodly amount of debate with several reader comments on their piece about iTunes: go here to read them.
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Small Black Box
This weekend, those in BrisVegas should spend $7 to check out Small Black Box, “a performance and listening space dedicated to experimental music and sound art, held at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia”. In the box this month: Toy Satellite’s Andrew Garton & Justina Curtis present “D3 – From Drift to Dérive”, […]