Speechless. Via Mashable via Kottke via who knows. YouTube link.

Pretty much the coolest thing ever today.

Every once and a while, you see something that so exactly represents the current state of artistic expression in its given genre, it almost renders itself obsolete. That’s kinda how I feel about this.

A bubbly, glitchy state of the motion/infographics union by Japanese group Bonsajo.

Vanishing Point on Vimeo

Some sick scratching skills by Marley Caroll of Mr. Invisible, et al.

VIDEO video on YouTube (watch in HD)
LINK Mr. Invisible’s website
LINK Marley Carroll’s website

VIDEO

Starts getting really nutty around 1:58. This is such a simple effect, but so effective.

VIDEO thanks Kazunori!

Seriously some of the best, most inventive and virtuosic music I’ve heard in a while. Via Nico Muhly.

VIDEO/AUDIO [good performance, whole set on YouTube]
ARTICLE [interesting NYT bio]
ARTICLE [Wikipedia article for Owen Pallett]
LINK/MEDIA [official website]

See also: The State of Centripetal Notion.

Thanks to everyone who is subscribed to Centripetal Notion. Traffic and activity has been higher in the last several months than ever before, yet at the same time I have never posted less often.

That’s not going to change for now. When I started this blog, it was my single channel for sharing ideas with friends and stumbling visitors. But now I do this on other sites as well, including the various social networks.

I won’t stop posting here though, not anytime soon. But what ends up here nowadays are only the things I feel really passionate about sharing. Before I’d often post 2 or 3 times a day, now it’s generally 2 or 3 times a month.

I hope you’ll welcome this in an age of information overload, and appreciate that I’m only sending stuff your way I either think is genuinely important, and/or you won’t find anywhere else.

For a higher volume of miscellaneous artsy/sciencey/techy/sexy stuff like what used to come through here, feel free follow me on Twitter:

FOLLOW ME [@jruckman on Twitter]

Also, you might be interested in my personal blog, where I post about what I’m up to of a more professional nature: web/info design, citizen journalism, etc.:

LINK [my blog and portfolio]

I’m working on a redesign of this site. Nothing major, and it’s not finished, but already I like the change.

Hope this finds all of you well. I leave you with a kickass space picture and some badass music, as is only fair. If nothing else, this site will always have space pictures and music.

IMAGE [1920x1200 version]

AUDIO [Squarepusher - Planet Gear]
AUDIO [Why? - Song of the Sad Assasin]
AUDIO [Hot Chip - And I Was a Boy From School]
AUDIO [Apes & Androids - Imaginary Friends]
AUDIO [Kelley Polar - A Feeling of the All-Thing]
AUDIO [David Fiuczynski & Rufus Cappadocia - Prayer for my Father]

VIDEO

Wait for a minute in, dang.

VIDEO (YouTube via zefrank)

Lior’s new album, Corner of an Endless Road, came out over the weekend. “Heal Me”, one of my favorites from the album, is linked below.

AUDIO [Lior - "Heal Me"]

LINK/MEDIA [Lior's website]
VIDEOS [Lior's YouTube profile]