Here’s an interesting look at the state of digital and traditional media from CBC and pop culture guru Jian Ghomeshi: The End. There are three segments, one for radio, TV and print, each 22 minutes long.
Sharing their name w/ the first mass-produced gramophone, Orion and Jadis, North Carolina natives, merge celestial vocals and tripping rhythms to create beautiful downtempo and DnB melodies.
“each of the 48 dots moves in a circle on a 3 minute cycle. at the end of 3 minutes, the outermost dot will have moved around the circle once (this dot represents the 1st harmonic or fundamental). the next dot will have moved around the circle twice (representing the 2nd harmonic), & so on. each dot triggers a note when it passes the zero degree line, so that the pattern causes chords, ascending & descending runs & melodies to be heard.”
V-scratch measures the audio spectrum, volume, and speed variations in a record to visualize the various elements of scratch composition. I need this technology.
“It’s weird stuff,” says Boyd. “We sent a pulse through an optical fiber, and before its peak even entered the fiber, it was exiting the other end. Through experiments we were able to see that the pulse inside the fiber was actually moving backward, linking the input and output pulses.”
Or Greta oto, their habitat extends throughout Central America into Mexico. They prefer to lay their eggs on plants from the nocturnal and toxic Cestrum genus, which in addition to feeding the young caterpillars, contribute alkaloids which stay stored in their tissues through adulthood, making them distasteful to birds and other predators.
From Michael Hart’s book, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, here are the religions they subscribed to, organized, ranked, and explained.
Stephen O’Regan’s short film adaptation of “They’re Made Out of Meat”, a science fiction short story by Terry Bisson starring Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey. The piece took Grand Prize in this year’s Science Fiction Short Film Festival in Seattle.
At the beginning of the month Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” hit the top of the UK charts, its success due exclusively to legal downloads. I think the music video, derivative of the Rorschach inkblot test, does a good job in setting the tone, check it out.
Cool! Check out Google’s new English-Arabic (and vice-versa) translator, which uses statistical analysis of billions of words of text and previous human translations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s evaluation of its accuracy looks pretty good.
… translated “Our Anthem”, is a Spanish version of the US national anthem getting a lot of attention (and air-time) in light of the recent movement in immigration reform, featuring Wycleff Jean and several prominent Spanish artists.
