Centripetal Notion: archive

Check out the animations of Joel Trussel, especially the music video for War Photographer by Jason Forrest (AKA Donna Summer). Vikings, rock-and-roll, robot battleships and marching bands — how much more does any one person need?

There is a lot of interesting work right now in the way of music interface design — with focus on creating ways for multiple people to collaborate in mixing and composing in real time.

“Imagine if you knew a calm-front was moving through Kuala Lumpur? Or there were scattered stress storms in Kansas City? Imagine if they knew how people were feeling in your neck of the woods?”

“Inspired by the television reality show, Czech public radio and television broadcasters have announced that on November 7, they will begin airing a new show that will follow the lives of four gorillas living together at the Prague Zoo.

The show, to be called Odhaleni (Discovery), will see the primates — one male, two females and one baby — battle it out for a grand prize of 12 melons, a delicacy for gorillas.

‘What the gorillas do is up to them,’ said Prague Zoo gorilla trainer Marek Zdansky.”

Cargo cults believe that manufactured goods are created by ancestral spirits, and although intended for themselves, have somehow fallen into the hands of Westerners. They have been known to conduct rituals similar to observed Western behavior — such as building airstrips, airports, and radios made from coconuts and straw — in the belief that planes would land with cargo.

“One of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world, Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer. The majority of its citizens live in flats in high-rise buildings. In Architecture of Density, Wolf investigates these vibrant city blocks, finding a mesmerizing abstraction in the buildings’ facades.”

“The whole experience is supposed to last 8 minutes, which he times using a stop watch around his neck.”

The Gorillaz performed live last night at the European MTV Music Awards, in the form of holograms depicting their recently acquired cartoon likenesses.

A mandolin virtuoso and songwriter since the age of 5 — at 12 he won the prestigious national mandolin championship in Winfield, Kansas. That year he began recording his first solo album, with songs mostly of his own composition, which was later named the #1 bluegrass album of 1994 by The Chicago Tribue. Today, alongside his solo work, he is a founding member of the Grammy award-winning nugrass band Nickel Creek, which is mentored and produced by one of the most well-known names in Nashville, Alison Krauss.

Specifically, chou Romanesco.