Sweet Cucumber

Awesome stuff in Dan Paluska’s and Jeff Lieberman’s ping pong ball hurling, robotic Absolut Quartet orchestral machine.
Stunning.

More musical goodness came to me…
Just acquired - by means of a jolly good 2nd-hand trade - two of my favourite soft-synths: GForce’s MiniMonsta, and Native-Instruments Reaktor 5.
Both instruments couldn’t be further apart, philosophy-wise. The MiniMonsta is a great Moog Minimoog clone on steroids (read: keyboard-oriented), and Reaktor is the mother-of-all-modulars in software form (read: […]

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Been busy and all that.
As compensation here’s a few images grabbed from fffound.com, one of my regular stakeouts.
And sorry for the bandwidth-limited visitors. That I am.

 
Update to myself: Just noticed that three out of the five images have a main subject with antlers or tentacles coming out of […]

Mac OS 10.5.2 has just been released.
A whopping 430MB download.
Don’t forget to run Software Update immediately again after the OS update, cuz there’s already a Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 in the pipeline as well.
Say cheers.

I just installed (*) the new build of WebKit, which will be incorporated in the new Safari 3.1, due out any time soon.
Amazing.
Running WebKit r30123 next to Safari 3.04, most sites load 2 times, perhaps 2.5 or even 3 times faster. Page loading - even for graphics-intensive sites - is so blindingly fast that you […]

From the specs:
    Minimum object distance: 120 meters (400ft)
Click the above image for more…

Wish I had this, so I could learn a bit more about electronic DIY.

Paradigm for the kind of work I do.

Well, ehm, uh.

When kitsch transcends tackiness.

I just like the simplicity of this. And the colors.

Old, but classic one.

All Apple mice were/are bad.

A collaboration with Manolis Kelaidis of IDE at the Royal College of Art.

Every object and surface in our environment has a whisper; subtle tremors and vibrations that are usually undetectable to the human ear, produced by the activity and movement of daily life.
What if these sounds were audible? How would that change our aural awareness, […]

Best riff ever. Now also in Japanese.
Just brilliant.

I have three wonderful cousins. Dimitri, the oldest one, Silas, the middle one, and Didah.
Didah - son of caucasian mother (my sis, duh!) and Egyptian father - barely 18, is my favorite person in the world. He’s clever, street smart, shy, funny, witty, and one of The Good Peoples.
Apparently he’s also quite attractive to the […]