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Maywa Denki – Dedicated To Whimsy
by Nick Glossop on May 14, 2013
Innumerable species play, and many – certainly many primates – laugh and tease and jest. But are we alone in our ability to grasp, appreciate, and delight in the absurd? How stands the octopus on Dada? (On his head-foot, of course.) As this video of the Maywa Denki group illustrates, true nonsense requires a most subtle and flexible mind, and whimsy takes dedication.
Via Laughing Squid
Originally posted May 24, …
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Paul Root Wolpe – Ethical Boundaries For Bio-Tech
by Nick Glossop on March 29, 2013
Paul Root Wolpe, of Emory University, does not spend much time making an argument for clear ethical boundaries for the conduct of bio-technology, rather he just lists off some of the more startling greatest hits of the field, and the argument more or less makes itself: bio-luminescent monkeys, bug-bots, robo-rats, animals as donor part farms (mouse ears), computer chips comprised of self-aggregated rat neurons, creatures with neural implants that …
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Top 10 Most Powerful Nuclear Bombs In History
by Nick Glossop on March 23, 2013
Via Democratic Underground…
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Answering To The (Rivet) Guns Of Brixton
by Nick Glossop on January 31, 2013
Robots of Brixton
Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of
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Compressorhead ~ Ace Of Spades
by Nick Glossop on January 6, 2013
No Sleep ‘Til… …well, just no sleep
Compressorhead is:
Stickboy (drums) was created to exacting specifications. 4 arms, 2 legs, 1 head, no brain. he plays a Pearl 14 piece kit with double kick. stickboy junior, the bastard child of an unknown mother takes control of the hihat shuffle. inception date 2007
Fingers (guitar) joined stickboy in 2009 and brings 78 purpose built fingers, enough to play the entire fret
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Mars 360 (Through Curiosity Eyes)
by Nick Glossop on September 21, 2012
Click, pan and zoom the martian landscape through the lenses of the Curiosity rover.
Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover in New Mexico
h/t Alex Evstr…
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Dept Of Zilla
by Nick Glossop on August 25, 2012
Recorded live in Boston, 1969 with a mic apparently tucked inside Lou Reed’s amp, this version of What Goes On is frankly awesome. Stick with it, there is a cumulative effect.
Untitled from Django's Ghost on Vimeo.
And if you’ve got time for the drift and a penchant for parties with the likes of Ratzo and Joe Buck, there are also Heroin and Sister Ray paired with some …
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The Curiosity Has Landed
by Nick Glossop on August 6, 2012
Earlier today the nuclear-powered Curiosity Rover successfully completed its 9-month space journey and touched down safely on the Red Planet. Images to be posted here as they become available.
Live screen-capture from NASA TV
What’s so special about the Curiosity?
Well for one thing, it’s the first Mars rover whose tweets you can follow. Make sure you follow the Curiosity avidly and retweet often; it requires regular infusions of trendium …
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Red Ribs
by Nick Glossop on August 6, 2012
A Slice of the Soviet Music Underground
For almost as long as rock and roll has been played in the West, it has been heard in Russia. Soviet youth received its first large infusion of Western styles and sounds during the Seventh International Festival of Youth and Students, which took place in Moscow in 1957: “Thousands of real live young foreigners flooded into virginal Moscow. Among them were Jazz musicians,
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Higgs Boson ~ Parsing The Particle
by Nick Glossop on July 4, 2012
The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.…
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Brass Devolution
by Nick Glossop on July 1, 2012
For more inspired tubal invention, see Wolff’s Youtube Channel.
h/t Vitruvius
Originally posted May 22, 2011, reposted now for D.R. Zenko…
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Art In The Age Of Interface
by Nick Glossop on June 29, 2012
Aaron Koblin has seen the future and it belongs to Art that can be sorted, searched, zoomed, panned, crowd-sourced, personalized, contributed to, distributed, aggregated, granulated, and of course ‘Liked/Unliked’ whole or in part. Such art is Web-delivered and Web-enabled, much of it is also inconceivable outside of the context, capabilities and capacities of the Whole Wired World. It’s abundantly clear from the few examples Koblin describes in his TED talk …
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