San Francisco-based Moldover created the ultimate tool to fight illegal-downloads. His new album comes with a special circuited-CD case that’s playable basicaly like a theremin.
Pricing and downloadable stuff here.
Tags: electronic, experimental, moldover, san francisco, weird
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Their film is going to be called ODDSAC.
“It’s kinda like a psychedelic film, it’s not like a narrative film or anything”, said Avery Tare from Animal Collective. Lire la suite
Tags: animal collective, electronic, experimental, film, new york, psychedelic
Tissues are not provided in this videogame.
After Artificial Girl, Sexy Beach and Rapelay, Japanese company Illusion based in Yokohama has come up with “Real Kanojo” (“Real Girlfriend” literaly). A perfect 3D-modelized chick paddling in the sea and splashing water at your cyber-face, waiting for you to interact with her via your webcam. Lire la suite
Hardcore DC legends back on stage for X-mas
We all know the common denominator between Nirvana and Foo-Fighters, but few of us remember drummer Dave Grohl’s first band, Scream. Formed in Northern Virginia in 1981, Scream belongs to the 80′s DC hardcore dream team with Minor Threat, the Bad Brains and State of Alert (Henry Rollins 1st band). This band was actualy the first on Dischord records to release a full length album. Lire la suite
Chinese artist goes undercover “Predator Style”
Chinese artist Liu Bolin plays hide n’seek without photo trickery. Some reliable sources claim that Al-Qaeda is already working on this new technology. Lire la suite
Tags: art, china, photography, weird
In mid November, New Zealand internet company Orcon Broadband enlisted punk legend Iggy Pop to make their phones and services look cool. Shot October the 30th in Pop’s studio in Miami, the ad features 9 local contest-winners musicians (out of the 200 who attended the audition) and of course Pop, performing his 77′s hit Passenger which was on the album Lust for Life. All of this being made possible via skype. Lire la suite
Who wants some cheeeeeeese?
It might be just a trend but documentaries about bands seem to be a little too pompous sometimes. I don’t know if this one about Blur will be any good, but the trailer looks like Damon Albarn and his friends were not just a band but some kind of heroes who fought the nazis or discovered the cure for cancer. Lire la suite
Tags: documentary, oldies, uk
Human computer interaction has made a big step forward. The d-touch drum machine is an augmented reality technology that enables with visual markers recognition systems, “the development of low-cost tangible user interfaces and mixed reality applications”. Lire la suite
Tags: augmented reality, computer, electronic, experimental, techology
A mirror-face horse riders in the desert, a tambourin man up the hill, two fighters with aluminium gloves: the new Yeasayer‘s music video “Ambling Alp” from their upcoming album “Odd Blood” reminds a lot the 1973 Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain. Lire la suite
Tags: desert, music video, new york, psychedelic, yeasayer
As usual in a zombie movie (like Zombieland that came out last october), the world is a nest of living deads. But in director Marc Fratto‘s attempt, instead of being run after by thirsty blood-covered retards, the humans become the no-mercy chasers, and the zombies are simply reduced to second zone’s citizens. Lire la suite
If you hate your kids, this might be the perfect christmas gift
Meet Hans, a poorly paid german truck driver, heading back home to spend christmas with his family. Hans didn’t have much time to look for a gift for his young boy named Ralf, 12. So when Hans stops by to the gas station shop in order to buy some cigarettes, what a nice surprise to see that they’re selling some stupid video games too. Ralf loves videos games, he owns a Wii and really wants this Call of Duty thing where you shoot other people. Lire la suite
Tags: animation, germany, netherlands, videogame, weird
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