Jun 25
By year’s end Dongbu Robot plans to launch robots that impersonate K-Pop Stars Girl’s Generation and Super Junior. Sadly, not into outer space where they could act as ambassadors to the dance loving aliens of other planets but on Earth, where they will just annoy people. According to Dongbu, the robot ‘will be able to fully …
Mar 09
These Wire Windups aren’t for sale but they’re still awesome. If only there was a collection of bath-soaps based on The Shield. Via Dangerous Minds
Jul 06
Japan has always been on the forefront of cutting edge robotics. Its roots can be traced back 200-300 years during the Edo period when skilled craftsmen created automata (self-operating machines). Using nothing more than pulleys and weights they were able to make the Karakuri (Japanese automata) perform amazing tasks. Japan’s modern day robots can be …
Sep 12
I remember mother sitting at my bedside, telling me stories about animals who needed rescuing and the brave little boy who rescued them. I remember the jungle print wall paper, some poster on my door that had pictures of lions and tigers and elephants. The tagline: “It’s a jungle out there.” I remember the very …
Jul 03
the art of alex varanese – alt/1977: we are not time travelers. Alex Varanese looks at modern products through a 1977 lens.
Jul 02
I have some pretty clever comrades. One of these, an incomparable chap who probably doesn’t want his name used, has long collected my empty pipe tobacco tins in order to repurpose them into various electronic devices – most of which have something to do with music. A while ago, he hosted a little workshop where he taught …
Jun 16
It looks like my desktop is on its last legs. This, of course, has happened a few times. In the past, I’ve replaced it with another desktop but this time I just couldn’t see the point. I’m not some sort of professional graphics guy and laptops are plenty powerful for the sort of text-based shit …
Mar 24
“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and underdeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all [men] have.” –Henry …
"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."
