• Listen to articles on the go – Audiofy.it
  "Audiofy.it reads out articles of your choice whenever you have some time to kill."
  (tags:apps audiio )
• dOCUMENTA (13)’s 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts // Alejandro Jodorowsky
  "The contents being a reproduction of a notebook that, despite the impeccably lettered cover, has nothing to do with the aborted Dune film project. Instead its pages are full of Jodorowsky’s obsession with the Tarot de Marseille. This obsession lasted decades and may offer you at least a partial answer to the question “what has he been doing for the last 30 years?”. In fact Jodorowsky maintained an interest in this centuries old Tarot deck, finally releasing an edition based on his research in 1998 with Philippe Camion."
  (tags:writing notebooks )
• With 4M users, Hipstamatic unveils Oggl, a standalone iOS social networking app for your best photos
  "Available only for iPhones right now, Oggl offers two key features that separates itself from the other apps: capture and curation."
  (tags:apps photography iphone )

I love that this even exists.  Funny as all hell.  Even funnier, to me, is that I really like the design.  Available from Inquisition.

I just upgraded the hosting plan for my SPEKTRMODULE podcast, which will allow me to bring the frequency closer to weekly. 

(The new hosting plan also gives me the option of designing standalone Android and iOS apps for the podcast, but I really don’t have that kind of time, and I really don’t want to charge people yet for that kind of access, which the system seems to want me to do.)

The great joy of SPEKTRMODULE, for me, is locating new music, and rooting through my digital collection, to find things I like that go well together.  It’s me little hobby.

But, since I want to increase the frequency, I’m going to do this: if you make music that fits the general tone of SPEKTRMODULE, could you maybe send me a link at warrenellis@gmail.com ?  I do love to discover new stuff.

The SPEKTRMODULE podcasts all live here.  The most recent one has been listened to by some 25,000 people, which I frankly find baffling.

Haunted, resonating piano sounds.  I like this as a sound to go to sleep with.  G’night.

• 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
  (tags:ifttt vimeo video )
• 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

  (tags:apps )

• Create Photo Zines on Your Smartphone

  (tags:magazines )

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.