Continuing on the video tip; A big thanks to Irieman for showing this to me the other day. I had no idea about this PSP ad that Coldcut and Chris Cunningham did!!! Apparently, it's been out on the internet for more than a year now.......don't know how this managed to slip past my sieve of a brain....anyways, good music, great graphics and a wonderful multi-media games machine in one uber-slick package.....
Monday, August 13, 2007
Video Mashup
Found this brilliant Video Mashup on the Look Rare!! blog posted by JRT. Quality mix-down using Aphex Twin, Vanilla Ice, Missy Elliot and Britney!!!!!!!!!!
"Sunday Sessions" BMX
Was so inspired by the BMX-vibe that I got my friends Carlos & Dzaeman down to the East-End of London to have a lazy sunday nibble around the neighbourhood. I just kicked back with the camera and let them do all the hard work!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Bubble Fireplace
"The Chimney Anthrax Bubble fireplace by Andrea Crosetta. Hanging from the ceiling with a slim and sleek tube, the Bubble chimney fireplace touts a glossy black and gray color finish, painted with barnizes that is resistant to high temperatures. Its oval shape and ingenious design take advantage of the heat from the flame and smoke in the tube. The decorative unit weighs 90 kg and comes for $6,000 a pop."
Words by Naveen & posted on Born Rich.
DDR Projects: Skumbo Customs
Tristan Eaton's Skumbo has finally had a custom show cultivated by DDR Projects and entitled; "Hijacked: Because Homage is Just Another Word for Stealing" Always wanted to have my own Skumbo and now there are a whole bunch of one-off variants that are availabe to buy online.....what am I gonna do??!
This is the original toy and below are the customs.
Toys Are Us DVD
X-Ray Films have made a documentary all about the vinyl toy scene entitled: "Toys Are Us: A Revolution in Plastic"
Featured artists include Brian Flynn, Erick Scarecrow, Frank Kozik, Kano, J Neth, Jermaine Rogers, Mark Nagata, Mars-1, Patrick Ma, and Tara McPherson. DVD extras include tours of several artists' personal toy collections. The soundtrack features punk and underground music by Mindless Self Indulgence, Longway, Brian McCarty, Stick Shift, and I, Synthesist.
Here's the trailer for his and her pleasure;
Original Post in Plastic & Plush.
Featured artists include Brian Flynn, Erick Scarecrow, Frank Kozik, Kano, J Neth, Jermaine Rogers, Mark Nagata, Mars-1, Patrick Ma, and Tara McPherson. DVD extras include tours of several artists' personal toy collections. The soundtrack features punk and underground music by Mindless Self Indulgence, Longway, Brian McCarty, Stick Shift, and I, Synthesist.
Here's the trailer for his and her pleasure;
Original Post in Plastic & Plush.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
BMX Videos
Realised that I still hadn't posted about one of my passions/hobbies; BMX! At the moment, I am really digging the whole puritan style of guys riding brakeless and am thinking about getting a freecoaster set-up too. (That means you don't have to pedal backwards when going backwards on your bike) Check out the vids of London's flatland geezers at "The Green Mile" and street-riding Karl Poynter opening his freecoaster scene with a backwards manual!
London's Green Mile hosts the cream of UK flatland talent
Karl Poynter rips up the street with his freecoaster/brakeless BMX.
Friday, August 10, 2007
LEGO Mindstorms
They might not be the easiest things to construct, but these LEGO Mindstorm Robots are full of awesome features, which, once you've toiled with the technicalities of it's build are well worth it.
With light, noise, touch and ultrasound sensors letting your creation make sense of its surroundings, precise control is a doddle. You program the bot’s movements on your PC – telling it, for instance, to move forwards until its sensors detect an obstacle. Then you upload your commands to your slave’s cyberebral cortex via USB or Bluetooth.
The Bluetooth also means your mechanised minion can exchange programmes with other automatons. What’s more, Lego promises you’ll soon be able to control your bots with a mobile phone. They've been out about a year now so we can't wait to see the next level of LEGO-BOTICS!!
Ever seen that kiddie-flick "TOY SOLDIERS"?.....It all starts here!
Mu - Ha - HA - HA - HAAAAAA!
Original Post on: www.t3.co.uk
Words: Mixture of Dkoda's and T3's
Ekundayo
I had this guy saved in my Bookmarks for a while now and seeing the post on Vinyl Pulse about his new exhibition at the Thinkspace Gallery, Santa Monica reminded me to post about him. I'm loving his style of drawing characters mixed with a nice colour pallette for both the foregrounds and backgrounds.
This is what the Ekundayo Website had to say for the Bio:
"Ekundayo was born in Honolulu, HI 1983, he began to draw and paint when his father
Passed away in 1994 and hasn’t stopped since. Ekundayo is a Nigerian name that means sorrow becomes joy a title that is befitting of his work as well. He left Hawaii to study illustration at Art Center College of art and design in Los Angeles, Ca where he currently lives and works in freelance illustration as well as participating in galleries throughout the L.A. area."
Post from Ekundayo VIA Vinyl Pulse
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Sharkrunners
Another cool aquatic biology post:
Discovery Channel have developed an online game that lets you track real sharks traveling in real-time.
Sharkrunners allows players to control virtual ships as they track real great whites tagged with GPS units.
Real-world telemetry data provides the position and movement of actual great white sharks in the game, so every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark in the real world.
Because the ships you control move at real world rates, players receive email and/or SMS alerts during the day when their boat targets a shark.
The goal of the game is to collect data on sharks in the area. You earn more "funding" depending on the type of data you collect.
It even shows trails of where the sharks have been, which I found interesting since you can see the distances these big guys go.
You can play Sharkrunners HERE.
Post written by Sonia Zjawinski from Wired.
PHESP Review Books
PHESP.Reviews – literature
Aside from the amazing amount of comics and zines that are read monthly in ESPv (and there is allot) there are a couple intriguing novels bashed out as well (believe it or not).
Personally, when it comes to reading novels etc, I like to vary the selection substantially. For one month (yes it takes me that long, so what?) I’ll read something extremely fictional for that guaranteed escapism factor, and when I’m done I’ll get stuck into something more ‘real’ and actually try and learn something new (with comics and zines in between of course).
Check out what’s reviewed below, maybe you’ve heard of them. Leave any comments of titles your reading at the mo or any recommendations you have for peeps out there.
Are you a fiction/non-fiction fan or simply read what ever is appealing at the time?
Reading now - Star Wars Betrayal – Legacy of the Force
Aaron Allston
Arrow Books, 2007
OK, for all you serious SW fans out there (yes, we’re geeks but its cooler then collecting stamps) you would already know that the first of the latest series in SW novels, The Legacy of the Force, is titled Betrayal. The story takes off years after the very last film Return of the Jedi and focuses mostly on the children (also Jedi Knights) of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, one of whom turns over to the dark side and throws his Jedi life away to become a great Sith Master.
Those of you who are NOT avid SW fans and simply thought the movies were impressive because of the cool sound the lightsaber makes when waved around, will probably not understand that the story you see in the movies is but a micro-fraction of the real entire SW story. For a guy like me, brought up with the SW toys and films in the 1980’s, this is a big deal. Whilst there are currently a total of 6 movies made spanning from The Phantom Menace (I), to Return of the Jedi (VI), the true story line portrayed in the novels (written by a select few authors) covers over 100 books, including the story before the Phantom Menace and years after Return of the Jedi.
I know for a fact that many SW nerds (fans) have asked stuff like – when did the Jedi first form? Where did the force actually come from? Who was Darth Bane? When was Yoda born? How was the Sith created? What was the Jedi civil war? How did Chewbacca die? Where does the story go after the movies and so on… and in the books, all is revealed. Although, I really cant be arsed reading them all, so I often turn to the comics which, help in condensing things a bit.
Some of the largest battle scenes and wars in the whole story line (that would poo on anything you seen in the films) can be found in the novels and although not as exciting to watch visually… if you’re a real fan, it’s way more detailed and precise.
If you pick up a copy of Betrayal like most SW novels, you’ll find a list in the beginning of all titles in order, and can also find this on http://www.starwars.com/.
Just finished - Emergency Sex, and Other Desperate Measures – a true story of Hell on Earth.
Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
Miramax, 2004
A great read.
I am sure many of us from time-to-time have felt like dropping everything, leaving our mental urban lifestyle behind and joining some peace keeping/aid relief group and get paid to help others and travel the world. Well, this is a true story of some of the pioneers for idealistic escapism in the early 1990’s. Emergency Sex is a story of three young Western change-makers that leave their civilized lives behind in pursuit to help people in developing war-torn countries such as Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Rwanda and Liberia.. which, at the time, were knee-deep in shit in a big way.. (and still kinda is).
Fed up after finishing their studies and working mediocre jobs (sound familiar?) the three authors join peace keeping missions through the Red Cross and United Nations.
Andrew is a young doctor who is inspired to work in Cambodia after the genocide as a surgeon and help landmine victims, Heidi is a soon-to-be divorced young woman working with homeless people in NYC and looking to escape her present life, and Kenneth is a post-grad law student bent on a mission to save the world. They bump into each other on their first mission in Cambodia and live the next 10 years working with impossible situations in unbelievable conditions. What you read is basically their personal journal extracts from their experiences in each country.
Although the aim of the book is not to focus on politics, the authors give their personal views on how, why, and what was happening when the shit hit the fan. Why the UN went in, what they tried to achieve, and how effective the peace keeping operations really were. Often frustrated with the pro Western democracy/UN style of trying to ‘save the world’ and just fucking things up instead, the authors give amazingly detailed perceptions of their personal ideals in trying to create a new world order and feel good about themselves in doing so, which seriously back fires at times. As most books, check Amazon.com for more detailed reviews, etc.
Interested in reading – The Gospel According to Judas
Jeffrey Archer & Francis J. Moloney
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Although I am a man of the middle and believe not in one religion alone, I recently picked this book up and after flicking through some pages I can’t wait to read it. Personally, I have always been fascinated with history from Christ’s time and what really happened so long ago, how things developed, how we got to where we are today with religion and faith, etc. Although there are many things I question when reading or hearing certain extracts from the Bible and other religious sources, there are also many things I believe in and find interesting. After reading the Secret Supper not so long ago, a fictional story based around how and why Leonardo painted The Last Supper master piece and the many secrets within it, I became very curious with the character Judas Iscariot as the ‘betrayer’ of Christ. As The Secret Supper illustrates, there is allot most do not realize about this man, and if at all he was truly the real betrayer of Jesus. As I found in both books and research on the subject, allot of the true facts hidden to people over the centuries has purposely been extracted from typical texts and literature and finding evidence of anything contradicting to the bible is difficult today.
The Gospel According to Judas, is co-written by well know Jeffery Archer and an eminent Australian biblical scholar. The result is described as a “story for 21st-century readers” that would be “credible to a 1st- century Christian or Jew”. It is written as though Benjamin Iscariot, son of Judas writes of his own true accounts and experiences of Judas’s real life. If focuses on his beliefs, that his father was a misunderstood man who did not in fact betray Jesus for money. Using real extracts, references and quotes from the bible (don’t ask me which one) the story plods along with some very interesting developments. Archer has also enlisted the support of leading churchmen including Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, to vouch for the book. While the archbishops enjoyed reading it, they do not accept all its theories. All-in-all, I don’t think you need to be overly religious to have a go at this short story. But you do need an interest in questioning the questionable. Which, is what allot of ESPv and this blog is about.
* Have you read any of the above? What did you think? Any other recommendations you may have?
Aside from the amazing amount of comics and zines that are read monthly in ESPv (and there is allot) there are a couple intriguing novels bashed out as well (believe it or not).
Personally, when it comes to reading novels etc, I like to vary the selection substantially. For one month (yes it takes me that long, so what?) I’ll read something extremely fictional for that guaranteed escapism factor, and when I’m done I’ll get stuck into something more ‘real’ and actually try and learn something new (with comics and zines in between of course).
Check out what’s reviewed below, maybe you’ve heard of them. Leave any comments of titles your reading at the mo or any recommendations you have for peeps out there.
Are you a fiction/non-fiction fan or simply read what ever is appealing at the time?
Reading now - Star Wars Betrayal – Legacy of the Force
Aaron Allston
Arrow Books, 2007
OK, for all you serious SW fans out there (yes, we’re geeks but its cooler then collecting stamps) you would already know that the first of the latest series in SW novels, The Legacy of the Force, is titled Betrayal. The story takes off years after the very last film Return of the Jedi and focuses mostly on the children (also Jedi Knights) of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, one of whom turns over to the dark side and throws his Jedi life away to become a great Sith Master.Those of you who are NOT avid SW fans and simply thought the movies were impressive because of the cool sound the lightsaber makes when waved around, will probably not understand that the story you see in the movies is but a micro-fraction of the real entire SW story. For a guy like me, brought up with the SW toys and films in the 1980’s, this is a big deal. Whilst there are currently a total of 6 movies made spanning from The Phantom Menace (I), to Return of the Jedi (VI), the true story line portrayed in the novels (written by a select few authors) covers over 100 books, including the story before the Phantom Menace and years after Return of the Jedi.
I know for a fact that many SW nerds (fans) have asked stuff like – when did the Jedi first form? Where did the force actually come from? Who was Darth Bane? When was Yoda born? How was the Sith created? What was the Jedi civil war? How did Chewbacca die? Where does the story go after the movies and so on… and in the books, all is revealed. Although, I really cant be arsed reading them all, so I often turn to the comics which, help in condensing things a bit.
Some of the largest battle scenes and wars in the whole story line (that would poo on anything you seen in the films) can be found in the novels and although not as exciting to watch visually… if you’re a real fan, it’s way more detailed and precise.
If you pick up a copy of Betrayal like most SW novels, you’ll find a list in the beginning of all titles in order, and can also find this on http://www.starwars.com/.
Just finished - Emergency Sex, and Other Desperate Measures – a true story of Hell on Earth.
Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
Miramax, 2004
A great read.I am sure many of us from time-to-time have felt like dropping everything, leaving our mental urban lifestyle behind and joining some peace keeping/aid relief group and get paid to help others and travel the world. Well, this is a true story of some of the pioneers for idealistic escapism in the early 1990’s. Emergency Sex is a story of three young Western change-makers that leave their civilized lives behind in pursuit to help people in developing war-torn countries such as Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Rwanda and Liberia.. which, at the time, were knee-deep in shit in a big way.. (and still kinda is).
Fed up after finishing their studies and working mediocre jobs (sound familiar?) the three authors join peace keeping missions through the Red Cross and United Nations.
Andrew is a young doctor who is inspired to work in Cambodia after the genocide as a surgeon and help landmine victims, Heidi is a soon-to-be divorced young woman working with homeless people in NYC and looking to escape her present life, and Kenneth is a post-grad law student bent on a mission to save the world. They bump into each other on their first mission in Cambodia and live the next 10 years working with impossible situations in unbelievable conditions. What you read is basically their personal journal extracts from their experiences in each country.
Although the aim of the book is not to focus on politics, the authors give their personal views on how, why, and what was happening when the shit hit the fan. Why the UN went in, what they tried to achieve, and how effective the peace keeping operations really were. Often frustrated with the pro Western democracy/UN style of trying to ‘save the world’ and just fucking things up instead, the authors give amazingly detailed perceptions of their personal ideals in trying to create a new world order and feel good about themselves in doing so, which seriously back fires at times. As most books, check Amazon.com for more detailed reviews, etc.
Interested in reading – The Gospel According to Judas
Jeffrey Archer & Francis J. Moloney
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Although I am a man of the middle and believe not in one religion alone, I recently picked this book up and after flicking through some pages I can’t wait to read it. Personally, I have always been fascinated with history from Christ’s time and what really happened so long ago, how things developed, how we got to where we are today with religion and faith, etc. Although there are many things I question when reading or hearing certain extracts from the Bible and other religious sources, there are also many things I believe in and find interesting. After reading the Secret Supper not so long ago, a fictional story based around how and why Leonardo painted The Last Supper master piece and the many secrets within it, I became very curious with the character Judas Iscariot as the ‘betrayer’ of Christ. As The Secret Supper illustrates, there is allot most do not realize about this man, and if at all he was truly the real betrayer of Jesus. As I found in both books and research on the subject, allot of the true facts hidden to people over the centuries has purposely been extracted from typical texts and literature and finding evidence of anything contradicting to the bible is difficult today. The Gospel According to Judas, is co-written by well know Jeffery Archer and an eminent Australian biblical scholar. The result is described as a “story for 21st-century readers” that would be “credible to a 1st- century Christian or Jew”. It is written as though Benjamin Iscariot, son of Judas writes of his own true accounts and experiences of Judas’s real life. If focuses on his beliefs, that his father was a misunderstood man who did not in fact betray Jesus for money. Using real extracts, references and quotes from the bible (don’t ask me which one) the story plods along with some very interesting developments. Archer has also enlisted the support of leading churchmen including Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, to vouch for the book. While the archbishops enjoyed reading it, they do not accept all its theories. All-in-all, I don’t think you need to be overly religious to have a go at this short story. But you do need an interest in questioning the questionable. Which, is what allot of ESPv and this blog is about.
* Have you read any of the above? What did you think? Any other recommendations you may have?
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Steampunk Laptop
WoW! If only the Victorian's could have figured out the internet, then they would have been able to create this amazing bit of kit!
This working laptop's guts are originally from an NEC computer, it has USB slots, a trackball mouse, apparently good speakers and AC Adapter. Also, just for the cherry on top, when you click on the enter button, an analog bell sounds just like a classic typewriter!
Original Post on Ironwork.
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