Been meaning to mention this for a while: technoccultist electronic music group Psychic TV has reformed (with Douglas Rushkoff as keyboardist). They played their first show last night, here’s Rushkoff’s blog entry about the show.
It’s also worth noting that P Orridge is sort-of blogging at his own site, and Rushkoff has a lot of other interesting projects in the works.
A Guardian article about Gysin by P Orridge
To me, Gysin was the source of the energy we associate with the most radical experiments of the Beats. He was the real source of the ideas; other people just applied them. That was a really important shift in my appreciation of the Beatnik phenomenon. From that moment I was hooked, fascinated and impressed by each layer of Gysin I discovered. As I peeled things away over the years, I was never disappointed. There was never an end to it. He was the only person I’ve met whom I would unquestioningly call a genius.
(via Disinfo)
Jason Louv is editing a new book at Disinfo, and is seeking submissions from magicians under the age of 33:
Think back to whatever it was that set off that first bomb in your head that led you to where you are now. Think of all the nagging questions and doubts you had and the confusion, and the moment when you said ‘It MUST exist’-and recreate that experience. Don’t patronize or talk down, just set an example. Make yourself a larger-than-life personality if you want, make outlandish claims-people love that-but show how you got there and show that it can be done.
Trendcentral says teens who have to wear school uniforms are painting brand names on their backpacks and such.
Generally I don’t put much stock in what Trendcentral says, though they do often point to interesting things in their newsletters. As Abe points out, there’s no information about sample size or polling methods but it’s still interesting. Fits nicely with what Adam and Anne said about branding during Grid::Blogging. See also: Taste Tribes
I was incredibly sick Monday during Grid::Blogging, so I didn’t write anything, but I was gonna try to come up with something about parents naming their kids after brands.
How do I find this stuff??? I’m taking this as a sign that I need to go the fuck to bed. Good night.
(for the record I found it on Things Magazine)
Just got home from Dorkbot, and realized I never posted anything about last month’s Dorkbot. A couple very cool things I may write some more about… tonight featured Steve Safarik talking about his very cool Space Wars project, and Jeremy Winters of the Madness Machine talked about Max/MSP and showed some of the stuff he’s done with it.
A related Wired story by Erik Davis, for personal reference.
Interview with mp3.com founder Michael Robertson
As a side note, it looks like CNET will be offering mp3.com refugees a new home, but they will still be deleting the archives.
Via Boing Boing: Mobile Whack, a blog about tools and resources for mobile devices. Cool things I’ve found so far: an app for using your Treo as a wireless modem and mobileRSS
Simple Text is a “mobile phone enabled performance” that’s very similar to my idea for an audblog based music project and not far off my game-as-musical interface idea.
SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from their mobile phones. The project focuses on connecting people in shared spaces by attempting to merge distributed devices with creative and collaborative experience. SimpleTEXT focuses on dynamic input from participants as essential to the overall output. The result is a public, shared performance where audience members interact by sending SMS, text, or voice to a central server from their input devices. These messages are then dynamically mixed, cut, parsed, and spliced to influence and change the visual and audio output. These communications are also run through a speech synthesizer and a picture synthesizer. The incoming images and text are dynamically mixed according to specified rule sets such as pixel values, length of text, specified keywords, and inherent meanings.
Via Cool Hunting
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