January 2011
27 posts
Jordan Eagles: Works in Blood & Resin (Wired)
from: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/31/jordan-eagles-blood-artist “The Krause Gallery in NYC will be exhibiting the works of New York-based blood artist, Jordan Eagles, from 3 March, 2011. Eagles preserves blood, dutifully salvaged from slaughterhouses, within UV resin and acrylic plexiglass. It’s swirled and splattered in distinct, organic patterns, described by...
"Numbers stations have ruined me forever" (YouTube...
YouTube video description:”Every time I hear this commercial’s ice cream truck jingle, this is what I hear in my mind. I’m sorry I did this to your commercial, Kia. Please don’t delete my Youtube account. The audio, also, is freely available from the Conet Project and Irdial Records. Look it up.” Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t...
The Backward Music Station (Enigma : 'XM')
Links: http://www.ominous-valve.com/bms.html http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/page6.html “This recording is from a shortwave transmission on 6752kHz USB on 25th September 2009. Sometimes known as The Backwards Music station and also as Whale Music, it has no discernable schedule, and often disappears for long periods.” Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t...
8375kHz Chinese Numbers Station - designated...
From YouTube channel description: “…numbers stations utilised by the world’s various intelligence agencies and China’s “Firedrake Jammer” which has been devouring many things in shortwave land in an effort to save its citizens from the free-flow of information.Much like the Great Firewall, but for radio, if that makes sense. Firedrake has been dramatically...
Isabelle Hayeur's installation 'Fire With Fire'
“Montreal-based artist Isabelle Hayeur has created ‘fire with fire’, a site-specific video project in vancouver, canada. the piece is a 15 minute video loop that simulates a fire in a four-storey heritage building in the downtown eastside.” Via: http://cluck1000.tumblr.com Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Blue Valentine (Landscaped)
Audio: original + fx + £1 poundshop radio + sound of minidisc recorder recording Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
"Robot Pillow" to counteract the feelings of...
From: http://robotionary.com/robotics/stefan-ulrich-funktionide-the-pillow-robot.php via: http://twitter.com/amy_youngs “Stefan Ulrich designed this pillow in cooperation with FESTO and EMPA. This robot is quite a new idea on robotics and products. This works is trying to see the connection between product and relief of loneliness. On his site Stefan said, Based on an intensive two...
"Negative content filtering" - Algorithms which...
From: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/01/fused-sensor-foils-the-flasher.html “Paul Marks, senior technology correspondent Online video services like Chatroulette that randomly (and anonymously) connect you with another webcam user anywhere in the world can be enormous fun - but lots of people go on looking for a sexual thrill, and they are infamous for being rife...
Odysseus Syndrome - patients believe friends and...
From: http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/19/and-im-telling-you-youre-dead/ “Two delusional patients who believed that friends and relatives had died, despite them being around to prove otherwise, are described in an amazing 2005 journal article from the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Although the Cotard delusion is well studied in psychiatry, where patients believe themselves...
Porn Landscape #505311 + Whisper Feedback
Video: Edited porn - landscaped bed (xhamster video id=505311 - “Amateur Lez”)Audio: Feedback + Edited version of whisper video - “Guided lucid dreaming: moving away from nightmares ” by YouTube user hisfearandloating (http://www.youtube.com/user/hisfearandloathing) Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Mark Leckey 'In the Long Tail' - Talk at the...
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cut w haircut – add void
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Xenakis-Emulator [Kammerbauer + Schnellboegl 1998]
“Motivation Iannis Xenakis was born in Romania in 1922. His family returned to Greece in 1932. He studied architecture and math and became a resistance fighter, fleeing from Greece to France in 1947, where he worked in the office of Le Corbusier. He was a student of Olivier Messiaen, and as first composer within New Music, he used mathematical probability in composition, becoming the...
Oxytocin - a hormone known to promote feelings of...
From: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/oxytocin-social-favoritism/ “Men given a dose of oxytocin, a hormone known to promote feelings of love and trust, have revealed the chemical’s dark side: It made them more ethnocentric. When asked to resolve a moral dilemma, such as choosing to save five lives rom a runaway train by sacrificing one life, oxytocin-sniffing Dutch men more...
Porn Landscape #21294
Video: Porn id=21294 edited as a landscape Audio: £1 radio + feedback + effects Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Oil paintings from cameraphone photos online...
http://gizmodo.com/5729529/our-crappy-cellphone-photos-are-a-muse-to-this-artist “ See and download the full gallery on posterous“> Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Global drop in spam e-mail is 'short lived' (BBC...
From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12154118 “A recently observed global decline in spam e-mail could prove to be short lived, researchers say. A network of infected computers used to produce spam has sprung back to life after a lull of several weeks. The Rustock botnet - as it is known - mysteriously stopped sending spam e-mails in early December, resulting in a massive decline...
The Shining's hauntological score (Electric Sheep...
From: http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2010/12/14/the-shining%E2%80%99s-hauntological-score/ “‘You are the caretaker, you have always been the caretaker.’ Very little of the score Stanley Kubrick commissioned Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind to compose for The Shining made it into the final cut. Instead, Kubrick returned to the Eastern European modern classical music that...
The Obsessive Cleanliness of Marbles
From the playlist - The Secret Life of Marbles: Playlist description:”Footage for a documentary series awaiting narration from Sir David Attenborough. Commissioned by The National Association of Marbles to raise awareness of marble abuse, the stereotyping of marbles - predominantly within “marble runs” - the traumatic exploitation of marbles as sport, as well as bringing to...