• CULT OF THE SUN GOD on Vimeo
  CULT OF THE SUN GOD music_ PATRICK SHIROISHI / BLACK SUN SUTRA (2013) (www.patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com) visual_ ARIS KINDT FILMS (www.ariskindtfilms.com) Nancy J Kwon
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• Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world’s first 3-D printed gun
  "Yes, it's undetectable, but more importantly it's unobservable by institutions and countries and sovereigns…. This might be a politically important object."
  (tags:crime war fabbing pol )
• Write for Dropbox lands on iPad, bringing remote keyboard and clipboard features to its note-taking apps

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• Create Photo Zines on Your Smartphone

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In association with Diesel Sweeties Store, we made, for one week only, a new t-shirt.  Rich Stevens says of it:

If the internet was honest about itself, Baconcoin would be the new hotness in crypto currencies. Decode its delicious code if you dare.

View it here.

Lots of really interesting imagery at her portfolio site.

As you can see.  Pull it over your head and wear the visage of Scroobius Pip as a mask.  Insane.  Also, frankly, a bit disturbing when they’re the first thing you see on Instagram in the morning.

Buy them here.  Scroobius notes that, although they’re a men’s cut, “The girls in the shoot were liking the small and mediums.”

You all know Scroobius Pip, right?

A new album by the purveyors of fine ambient salve for the mind.  Good night.

I missed this earlier, due to being out of the house and nobody emailing to tell me it was going live today.  I’m looking at you, Greg. 

LADY SABRE is a very entertaining webcomic by Greg Rucka & Rick Burchett.  Sky-sailing 19th Century spy-privateers from Cascadia?  Read a bunch of it for yourself, for free.  The team are Kickstarting the collection, digital and physical versions.  Please take a look at their Kickstarter campaign.  Greg’s a writer I have great admiration for.

Because I swear it looks to me like she’s breathing out a word in water.  Exhaling liquid language.  The shot is by Francesca Woodman, an artist who died in 1981 according to this collection of her work at Fluid Radio.  Click through for some more fascinating images.

The day I can do without a keyboard case for the iPad, I’m getting one of Miranda’s Moodycases.  These things just look gorgeous.

Nice video, too.

Sun Glitters – It takes me from Victor Ferreira / Sun Glitters on Vimeo.

• Future Perfect » A Sense of Ownership
  "Facial recognition will be a growing source of friction because the companies that are building businesses around connecting the physical you to some form of online identity will, over time connect people to the online you that makes them the most revenue, rather than the online you that makes the most sense to you. A lot of this will happen in the background, but there it will have sufficient visibility to be annoying e.g. a picture of your face as a search parameter triggering an advertisement for a particular kind of product."
  (tags:tech social money comms )
• America Elect — Minimally Minimal
  "I am a Canadian that studied industrial design. It’s not surprising that I often got strange looks when I told people about my thesis project to redesign America’s voting system. The reason is simple though – I find America to be an amazing and fascinating nation and also like exploring the diverse applications of industrial design thinking. The 2012 election was the first time I experienced an American election first hand. I found it to be absolutely exciting and intriguing. I loved it." This is, as all his posts are, beautiful and interesting. It is also full-on Bigend-Draperism — control through the emotional leverage of nostalgia. Quite brilliant.
  (tags:design )
• Status Flight and the Gendering of Google Glass » Cyborgology
  "I thought about titling this post, “Google Glass: The Beginning of White Flight from Smartphones,” but instead I’m going to propose a new term, status flight, to describe what happens when elites abandon a status symbol that’s lost its signifying power after becoming too quotidian and ubiquitous."
  (tags:culture social phones comms )

The network is the drone’s native environment. So, we must – like our colleagues in biology – see them as part of this wider ecology, if we want to better understand their use and their meaning.

A great “state of play” talk by Honor Harger, who ran the IMPROVING REALITY thing I spoke at last year.

Anab Jain gave an updated version of her barnstorming “Design For The New Normal” talk at NEXT13 that was heavily buzzed about.  Shamefully, NEXT13 hasn’t gotten a video of it up, but Anab has put up the text and slides of the talk.  It’s an upgraded download of the present strangeness, and very much worth your time.

Because, if you’re a regular reader, you know I’m shit at keeping track of things.  So this is one of those posts that’s mostly for my own benefit.  That I’m burying on a Saturday night.

I have Skype and WhatsApp.  Hilariously, almost nobody has my Skype and WhatsApp IDs.

The first two screens of my phone are always the most-used apps, and the apps I kind of feel like I should be using more.  If I’d shot this yesterday, Days would have been on there, but I tried that app today, and it didn’t seem to be in the mood to let me use it, so. 

Downcast is a pretty good podcast app.  A damn sight better than having to manage them through iTunes or Apple’s appalling Podcast app that I’ve railed about before.

You may, if you haven’t passed out already, have noticed there’s not a writing app in the first two screens.  There are a couple in the back screens.  But I don’t want a writing app staring at me on the phone, demanding I write something in it.  (The WordPress app, on the other hand, is there specifically to taunt me.  I am way out of practise with this blogging shit.)  The phone is, first and foremost, a thing that gathers information.  And I live on this goddamn phone.  I can and have written on it, using a foldaway Bluetooth keyboard, and it works fine.  But I find – and here is the proof, horribly, now I look at it –- that, as much as I talk about devices needing to be equipped as communication and creation tools, it’s become a consumption device.

Which is kind of an interesting thing that I didn’t realise until I put this up here.

• The Prefuture of Synthetic Biology « NextNature.net
  "Somewhere between a vat of expensive face cream and a baby Neanderthal lies a probable future for synthetic biology."
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• soundcloud.com
  D Towards K toronto, field, recording, ambient
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• Booke
  "Booke is a smartphone companion, which will help you capture,
  keep and share all the important moments of your 'real-book' reading experience."
  (tags:apps books )

• BLDGBLOG: Forest Tone
  "Lorenzo Pellegrini, who "gardens" the Risoud Forest in Switzerland to assist the future resonant acoustics of the wood currently growing there. It's a violin garden for the 24th century."
  (tags:eco art )