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Five Albums to stream for Free this week by Flavorwire

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:48:41 +0200

Five Albums to stream for Free this week by Flavorwire

tinyUNI is the world’s tiniest University that provides...

Wed, 30 May 2012 09:29:00 +0200

tinyUNI is the world’s tiniest University that provides digestible shortcuts for lazy entrepreneurs, to start & grow their business. (Instead of watching hours of expensive online courses, we give you the actionable summaries that you can implement in minutes!)

ZeroN can remember how it has been moved. Physical motions of...

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:57:19 +0200

ZeroN can remember how it has been moved. Physical motions of people can be collected in this medium to preserve and play them back indefinitely. When the users move release the ZeroN, it continues to float and starts to move along the same path. This allows a unique, tangible record of a user’s physical presence and motion which will continue to exist even after the death of the person.

BRING THE LIGHT —- JUNE 2012 —-...

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:55:08 +0200

BRING THE LIGHT —- JUNE 2012 —- http://www.lucifer.fm

What would be the World without Mark Zuckerberg? Instead of...

Sun, 27 May 2012 16:18:50 +0200

What would be the World without Mark Zuckerberg?

Instead of looking at their contributions, Forbes Brazil has adopted an unconventional view on the business leaders of the world—the impact of their absence from society today. For example, in a world without Mark Zuckerberg we wouldn’t have had to sit through the film Social Network. Also check out a world without Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Richard Branson and others.

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Every city is filled with different neighborhoods, but often,...

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:38:18 +0200

Every city is filled with different neighborhoods, but often, you won’t find these places on any map. They’re word-of-mouth zoning distinctions known only to locals. The boundaries are vague and arbitrary, based as much upon the way people eat and dress as real estate prices and income per capita.

Yet if these areas are distinctive to city culture, is there a way that we could measure them and analyze them—map them—scientifically? A team of students (Justin Cranshaw, Raz Schwartz) and professors (Jason I. Hong and Norman Sadeh) from Carnegie Mellon’s Mobile Commerce Lab has done just that. Their research project is called Livehoods, which analyzed 18 million Foursquare check-ins to spot algorithmic relationships between the spots people frequent. “Livehoods looks at the geographic distance between venues, but also a form of ‘social distance’ that measures the degree of overlap in the people that check-in to them,” the team tells Co.Design. “For example, if the algorithm notices that the people that visit a local bar are the same people that visit a nearby restaurant, these two places will be more likely to be grouped together.” As more and more people and places are analyzed, Livehoods clusters this data into what becomes a collection distinctive neighborhoods—places filled with people who enjoy going to the same restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues. And as calculating as the approach could seem, Livehoods’ scientific basis makes it extremely valuable as a social artifact: It defines local culture without the inherent judgement that comes along with human stereotyping.

In this video from PSFK CONFERENCE NYC 2012, new media artists...

Sat, 26 May 2012 16:09:35 +0200

In this video from PSFK CONFERENCE NYC 2012, new media artists Jonathan Harris talks to the audience about how he walked away from success and notoriety and was inspired to counter current online trends to build Cowbird.com

Here We Go Magic - “How Do I Know”

Sat, 26 May 2012 13:28:39 +0200

Here We Go Magic - “How Do I Know”

Beautiful pencil drawings by Christina Empedocles.

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:20:54 +0200

Beautiful pencil drawings by Christina Empedocles.

INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 ambient musicians created original sonic...

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:40:00 +0200

INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 ambient musicians created original sonic postcards in response to one another’s evocative Instagram photos.

Get a free PDF booklet to accompany the album at archive.org.

Download all 25 MP3s for free at http://www.archive.org/details/Instagrambient.

More on the project at Disquiet.com.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO INSTAGR/AM/BIENT

Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question: if a given image were the cover to a record album, what would the album’s music sound like?

Instagr/am/bient is a response to that question. The project involves 25 musicians with ambient inclinations. Each of the musicians contributed an Instagram photo, and in turn each of the musicians recorded an original track in response to one of the photos contributed by another of the project’s participants. The tracks are sonic postcards. They are pieces of music whose relative brevity—all are between one and three minutes in length—is designed to correlate with the economical, ephemeral nature of an Instagram photo.

The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians?

In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.
A Disquiet.com Project
Commissioned by Marc Weidenbaum

Design/Boondesign.com
Cover Photo/Brian Scott

If you have to watch one documentary this months it’s...

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:04:21 +0200

If you have to watch one documentary this months it’s certainly this one.

“Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.”

Directed by Kevin MacDonald
In theatres and on demand 4.20.2012

XXYYXX | XXYYXX

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:41:52 +0200

XXYYXX | XXYYXX:

Immediate download of 13-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

XXYYXX is the name of Orlando, FL’s 16 year old producer, Marcel Everett. Marcel works out of his bedroom creating harmonious music that provokes emotion and transmits vivid images of peace and still sadness. His music has been featured on XLR8R, The Needle Drop, Earmilk, Indie Shuffle, BIRP and many more.

One vanishing art that can still be studied in the interstices...

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:12:44 +0200

One vanishing art that can still be studied in the interstices of the assault of global retail is vernacular typography. All over the world, there are cities and towns that retain their rich traditions of vernacular signage. Unfortunately, the fate of these typographic havens is being threatened by the uniformity of corporate advertising, which ignores and subverts local history and tradition.

Created by Molly Woodward the Vernacular Topography website seeks to collect and document examples of these vanishing symbols of art and culture.

A$AP Rocky - Goldie (Explicit) (by LIVELOVEASAPVEVO)

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:40:42 +0200

A$AP Rocky - Goldie (Explicit) (by LIVELOVEASAPVEVO)

Forget Farmville, Cityville and other virtual Facebook cities,...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:01:14 +0200

Forget Farmville, Cityville and other virtual Facebook cities, for all music and hip hop fans Jay-Z has announced his plans for a Facebook game titled Empire. According to the synopsis of the beta game, “Empire takes you on a journey from the streets of Marcy Housing in Brooklyn to the hotspots of the rich and famous: from hustler, to entrepreneur, to business mogul. But, don’t forget friends and family, or your karma will suffer. Make the right choices and you can have it all: cash, bling, fame, street cred and good karma.”

Enjoy

17 year old Brooklyn native Joey BadA$$ debuts his video for...

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:41:18 +0200

17 year old Brooklyn native Joey BadA$$ debuts his video for “Survival Tactics” the first release off his solo Project “1999” slated to drop late march 2012. The song features fellow Brooklyn based artist Capital STEEZ .

XXYYXX & Giraffe - Even Though

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:45:06 +0200

XXYYXX & Giraffe - Even Though

- OONI

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:03:59 +0200

- OONI:

OONI is the Open Observatory for Network Interference and its aim is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) to share observations and data about the kind, methods and amount of surveillance and censorship in the world This is a human rights observation project for the Internet. OONI seeks to observe levels of surviellance, censorship, and networked discrimination by networked authoritarian power structures. The end goal of the OONI project is to collect data which shows an accurate representation of network interference on the Filternet we call the internet.

Magpile

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:34:48 +0200

Magpile:

Finally the social network for all Magazine Lovers!

Download The New Chicago Vol. 1 Mixtape « The FADER

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:06:07 +0200

Download The New Chicago Vol. 1 Mixtape « The FADER:

Chicago mixtape DJs Victoriouz and Twin have been joined by Power 92′s DJ Pharris and party host Moe Bey for a mixtape to celebrate the new Chicago scene. It isn’t a comprehensive mix, if such a thing is even possible—for example, west side rapper Bo Deal doesn’t make an appearance—but it is a focused and powerful introduction. The mix includes tracks, a bulk of them previously-unreleased, from King Louie, Chief Keef, LEP Bogus Boys, Chance the Rapper, Lil Reese, Lil Durk, Freddie Gibbs and many more.

Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/14/download-the-new-chicago-vol-1-mixtape/#ixzz1uvrCaP7a