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RT @julianborger: #Netanyahu at #UN: Makes veiled comparison between Palestinians and Nazis. Wow.
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Mediating Mediums - The Digital 3d [Short Version]
contact | gregmtran@gmail.com
Full Version : vimeo.com/gregtran/mediatingmediums
Mediating Mediums - The Digital 3d [Short Version]
{Thesis Prize Winner - Harvard Graduate School of Design 2011}
Greg Tran
architecture | animation | music
Last of the Radiohead remix series
Here is the last set of remixes, with thanks to Jamie XX, Anstam and SBTRKT
That's the lot then.
For those of you who like vinyl, all 7 issues of this 12" ltd edition RMX vinyl will be on sale here until we run out of them.
OR if you prefer, you can buy the double CD/digital download from most music stores when it comes out 10th/11th October.
Via
Friday, 23 September 2011
HA!
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3 lanes north bound on Hoddle St @ Swan St bridge blocked due to excavator fallen off truck. Police at scene not diggin it#vptraffic
3 lanes north bound on Hoddle St @ Swan St bridge blocked due to excavator fallen off truck. Police at scene not diggin it
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Milk tanker rolled on Coradjil Rd near Majestic Rd Simpson. Lactose intolerant & drivers to avoid the area#vptraffic
Milk tanker rolled on Coradjil Rd near Majestic Rd Simpson. Lactose intolerant & drivers to avoid the area
Erik Spiekermann - Putting Back the Face into Typeface
Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades.
Next to founding MetaDesign and FontShop, the latter being the first ever digital distributor of fonts, and designing more instant classic typefaces than any other, he has been recognized as an outstanding expert internationally as a lecturer and professor.
Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture in our latest Gestalten.tv video and you will easily realize why. Before heading to new visionary pastures, the bike enthusiast will make a short stop to receive the German Design Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 in February.
Watch our complete line up of video interviews on gestalten.tv
(Thanx Stan!)
Music From Saharan Cellphones
Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert. And it's coming to vinyl.
In much of West Africa, cellphones are are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, playback songs on tinny built in speakers, and swap files in a very literal peer to peer Bluetooth wireless transfer.
The songs chosen for the compilation were some of the highlights -- music that is immensely popular on the unofficial mp3/cellphone network from Abidjan to Bamako to Algiers, but have limited or no commercial release. They're also songs that tend towards this new world of self production -- Fruityloops, home studios, synthesizers, and Autotune.
In 2010, returning to the states, I released a handful of cassettes. Many of the songs were unlabeled, giving no insight to their mysterious origins. But in the past year I sent out hundreds of emails and calls across six different countries and even returned to West Africa. I've tracked down enough artists and I've got their approval to collaborate on a commercial release.
The cassette was ripped onto the internet and has circulated around the world, featured in the The Guardian, BBC Worldservice, The Fader, Pitchfork, as well as a number of other blogs, but has never had an official release. The vinyl release is a chance for the artists in the compilation to get paid and be properly credited. The record will be accompanied by liner notes with a short bio of each musician and group -- artists from Ivory Coast, Mali, Algeria, and Niger.
The funding makes this release possible -- covering a portion of production costs, mastering, distribution, and payment for the artists.
for more info see:
Music from Saharan Cellphones: Vol 1
Music from Saharan Cellphones: Vol 2Christopher Kirkley @'Kickstarter'
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