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because yes it’s already happening

saintneko — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:42:19 +0000

The robots already know where our heads are. We either become friends with them or, well. Look at how well that crowd of people is tracked. It seems super sinister, but at the same time liberating. Because now we know for sure these issues are going to come up, so might as well start climbing up those hills now.

Please forgive me, ancestors whom I’ve recycled or thrown into landfills.

BLANK THE SUSAN G. KOMEN FOUNDATION

saintneko — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:05:05 +0000

And if you don’t like my opinion, sue me.

Update: they reversed course on their planned parenthood thing – but what really disturbs me is their litigation and take-down pursuit (a.k.a.) of anything critical of them, like those memes travelling around facebook that disappeared after you shared them (go check your timeline).

dendritic nucleation in levitated laser (melted? annealed?) rare earth oxides

saintneko — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:15:34 +0000

dendritic nucleation in levitated laser (melted? annealed?) rare earth oxides, originally uploaded by robot makes music.

to be honest, I just like saying ‘dendritic nucleation’ because it makes me sound all smart and shit

whachoo fink?

saintneko — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:46:51 +0000

cuz die antwoord fink u freeky, thusly:

iPad circa 1996

saintneko — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:00:14 +0000

iPad circa 1996, originally uploaded by robot makes music.

from the archives

BANKS

saintneko — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:09:19 +0000

[...]questions such as “What is the meaning of life?” are themselves meaningless….In summary, we make our own meanings, whether we like it or not. – Ian M. Banks

Even more than that, meaning wasn’t made in these words, it was made in your head.

Which just had its shape altered, if by reading this you are thinking something new.

On the Road Again

saintneko — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:51:33 +0000

At 00:00 we go dark to protest SOPA. Have a little Willie and a think [about the proposed felony we're committing by participating in this cultural transaction].

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mckg0

Tomorrow, I will abstain from the internet-at-large [and scratch my skin to bits like a junkie with the wirewant]. Music making, listening and book reading [kindle, hence the 'at-large'] will be the order of the day. It’s not that I have a lot of traffic [I don't] and it’s not that my site will have any impact in the wake of Wikipedia and whoever else is unplugging, it’s the principle of the matter.

What I do here is considered worse than murder [at least from the punitive standpoint] by the entertainment industries.

I remind these industries that they are made of people and are riding the crest of hundreds of thousands of years of human cultural evolution.

It is not theirs to dictate how our culture will evolve just because they figured out a way to suck blood from in this past century.

So join me, tomorrow, and create some culture. And share it on the 19th.

SOPA BLACKOUT

saintneko — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:16:59 +0000

This coming Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

I have helpfully crafted a SOPA-blackout wordpress theme (based on the excellent blankSlate 3.0 theme by Shawn Cope.) to help you black out your wordpress website, should you care to join the movement. Or if you’re an admin, freak the fuck out of your clients.

Share this as much as you want (I would be grateful if you could download and re-upload so my server doesn’t get melted down).

Image used for the SOPA blackout theme gleefully stolen from this flickr.

How to Appreciate Avicii

saintneko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:51:13 +0000

Just add Skrillex. (Avicii was better before SiriusXM/BPM played him or his remixes every other track. Seriously, I’ve heard Levels [original] twice in the same hour on my way home.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MITA4FhVjDc

2everee1

saintneko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:27 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o

I like the chainmail hijab.

The next one seems like it’s out of a William Gibson early or middle period fever dream.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihi_kJJj_8A

Also, spaceships, with neverending slides. awesome. [update - fixed the videos so they're actually the ones I meant to post in the order I meant to post them. sorry 'bout dat]

FliccilF

saintneko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:11:20 +0000

FliccilF, originally uploaded by robot makes music.

seems sorta new aestheticky or maybe overdone

Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICPMS)

saintneko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:57:40 +0000

Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICPMS), originally uploaded by robot makes music.

now that’s hawt (8000k hawt)

This is ironic, right?

saintneko — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:21:36 +0000

This is ironic, right?, originally uploaded by robot makes music.

depending on your choice of definitions

dope beats poets

saintneko — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:11:54 +0000

or poetronica as it’s been dubbed, poetry going dubstep.

Jodi Ann Bickley describes her Skream collaboration as incorporating a “classic minimal dubstep beat” to aid her narrative. “A beat has to do whatever suits the poet. I aim towards proper storytelling with a beginning, middle and end, so it has to be minimal. Dubstep beats give me a blank canvas; they aren’t too overpowering and can be calm if I need them to be. Dubstep can create a sense of place just like poetry can.”

Brian Eno -- glitch (taken from Drums Between The Bells) by Warp Records

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7c3wRzUUjs