Bookmarks for 2013-05-23

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Bookmarks for 2013-05-14

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Bookmarks for 2013-05-14

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Bookmarks for 2013-05-13

May 13th, 2013 | brainjuice

  • Xenis Emputae Travelling Band – "Arc of Difference" – YouTube

    (tags:music video xenis xetb )

  • How Inspire Magazine Motivates Acts of Terrorism | Analysis Intelligence
    "The Boston bombing investigation continues to reveal new information on the two primary suspects, but quietly reported last Friday was the discovery of jihadi propaganda Inspire Magazine - produced by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - on a computer belonging to the elder Tsarnaev brother’s widow. The publication, particularly its first issue containing instructions for building a pressure cooker bomb, was spotlighted as a possible resource immediately after the bombings."
    (tags:crime pol war magazines )
  • Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: kindleframe
    "One of the things I talked about at UX London (which I will write up soon) was a thing called Kindleframe. I realised that every morning I checked on a few apps that did a few things – the weather for the day, how the tubes were running, and my two calendars, work and home. Well, if I remembered I checked. And when I didn’t, I was always caught out by a tube line being out of action or that it would be raining heavily later."
    (tags:dataviz )

Bookmarks for 2013-05-11

May 12th, 2013 | brainjuice

  • soundcloud.com
    The Ghost of Mrs Payne (Field Recording 13.03.1975) The mayor has decided that it's time to hear more from Scarfolk's audio archive. This post refers to a previous one about the disappearance of primary school music teacher Mrs. Payne whose body was found encased inside an ancient standing stone (go here for more detail) Forensic examination of the stone revealed that it had originated more than 300 miles away and historians could not ascertain how prehistoric man had transported it to Scarfolk, much less how Mrs Payne had found her way into a 300 million year old rock. The police reported it as a chance accident. When the stone was broken into chunks and sold as 'Payne's Pain' souvenirs in the Scarfolk gift shop, purchasers began hearing ghostly music in their homes. Additionally, the music was heard at the stone circle where Mrs. Payne's body was found, as well as at the geological site of the stone's origin. The souvenirs were recalled and buried at the centre of the stone circle in Scarfolk fields, now the only location where the music can still be heard, but only on the anniversary of the death of Payne's husband who found himself unexpectedly dismembered during a pagan ritual competition for the under 10s. This is a field recording made from the stone circle. field, recording, scarfolk
    (tags:music ifttt soundcloud )

Bookmarks for 2013-05-08

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Bookmarks for 2013-05-07

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Bookmarks for 2013-05-05

May 5th, 2013 | brainjuice

  • 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 )

Bookmarks for 2013-05-04

May 4th, 2013 | brainjuice


Bookmarks for 2013-05-02

May 2nd, 2013 | brainjuice

  • 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 )

Bookmarks for 2013-04-30

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Bookmarks for 2013-04-27

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Bookmarks for 2013-04-26

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Bookmarks for 2013-04-24

April 24th, 2013 | brainjuice

  • Path’s Dave Morin on Circa, Mailbox, and the Secret App He Invented to Talk to His Assistant | Vanity Fair
    “I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.” Bigend-Packerism. Some even more awful quotes therein. He should have been prevented from giving the interview.
    (tags:tech )
  • The Quietus | Features | Berberian At The Gate: Broadcast & The Death Knell Of Hauntology
    “…’hauntology”s champions end up pulping their subject matter to feed their theory. Like the similarly détourned ‘psychogeography’, it deadens the senses to the qualities (you’d hope) it was intended to reveal. Both are cases of theory slipping into ersatz theology – fated attempts to capture elusive, unspeakable experiences in yards of self-referential explication guaranteed to stamp out their pleasures. There’s nothing wrong with men in their forties enjoying shared tastes and nostalgic triggers, but do they have to be so po-faced about it?”
    (tags:hauntology )
  • IntiMate
    “IntiMate is here to make you PLAY MORE with sex tapes by creating a SAFE SPACE to store and share them: 1.  Shoot tapes and pictures DIRECTLY from our app 2.  The app stores & protects tapes for you 3.  Share & COMPETE with COMPLETE STRANGERS”  (good grief. this can only end well)
    (tags:app sex social )
  • Here & There back on sale! – Blog – BERG
    Schulze’s wonderful weird projection map poster of NYC is back on sale.
    (tags:art maps )
  • Original Australians numbered 1,000-3,000, study finds
    “Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people around five centuries ago, a study said on Wednesday.”
    (tags:history )

Bookmarks for 2013-04-22

April 23rd, 2013 | brainjuice

  • The latest Jonathan Keats emanation | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
    "The dozen canvases at Team Titanic are all painted with pheromones instead of pigments. The pheromones are produced by the artist in his studio, collected from his pores while he watches the news on TV, and labeled for their emotional content based on how the news makes him feel. Suspended in linseed oil, they’re mixed on his palette to make a blend of feelings such as anxiety and elation. He then trowels these olfactory paints onto his canvases so thickly that they might take centuries to dry: an aromatic impasto from which the pheromones gradually disperse."
    (tags:art )
  • the hauntological society;: The Films of Patrick Keiller
    "The visual material consists of static camera shots: images of urban decay and other socio-economic signifiers, road sign clutter, glowering skies – a landscape sharing some territory with the poetic realism of Humphrey Jennings and the Free Cinema film-makers, but framed and cut with a sharper, more avant-garde edge."
    (tags:film )
  • Rhizome | Xul Solar’s Possible Futures
    "Only collective inventions have any real value, Xul Solar once told his close friend and fellow Porteño Jorge Luis Borges, trying to convince him (unsuccessfully) to write in Neo-Criollo, one of the two languages he had invented and the one he himself preferred to use for writing and conversation.  Such was the importance to Solar of friendship, sodalities esoteric and otherwise, and cooperation.  These days the artist, who died 50 years ago this month and whose close friendship with Borges is at the heart of an ongoing exhibition at the Americas Society in New York, is remembered less for his hermetic, often illegibly coded mystical watercolor paintings than for the collective séance that he made of his particular corner of Buenos Aires' cosmopolitan avant-garde of the 1920s and the decades that followed."
    (tags:witers writing weird )
  • Open the Future: Bots, Bacteria, and Carbon: My Talk at ENSIA
    Jamais Cascio: "The talk I gave earlier this month at the University of Minnesota is now viewable at the Ensia website, on YouTube, and embedded below. It runs about 36 minutes, and covers three different scenarios of a sustainable future."
    (tags:future )
  • Albion Dreaming | Larkfall
    "Among the wide range of articles, I found the one on The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui most interesting, since it contains a number of notes and sources on how our environment may potentially incline people to experience the sensation of a ‘presence’ in their midst…"
    (tags:hauntology )
  • soundcloud.com
    FACT mix 379 – Grouper (Apr '13)
    (tags:music ifttt soundcloud )

Bookmarks for 2013-03-20

March 20th, 2013 | brainjuice