the one reason i would have gone to coachella

Aphex Twin - apparently he gave a pretty intense history lesson of dance music before he aurally beat people down and ripped their faces off:

Here is his intro...who else would end a beautiful ambient intro with flavor flav samples!



full on rave



this is a nice 7 minute montage where he progressed into drum and bass...towards the end it becomes pure madness

AND THE ENDING: FULL ON MADNESS....richard james rules

sceam bloody water

think geek is selling these led lights that light up your water to let you know if the water is hot or cold. it doesn't change the color of the water just illuminates it. i imagine letting your girlfriend discover the "bloody water" in the middle of the night for the first time would be good times!

get out and play.......does stop motion ever get old?

Nokia has put together an awesome site to promote a new video game feature NGage via a website called get out and play. While the site loads you play an analog looking version of the classic game breakout or arkanoid.
It then leads to an amazing stop motion video that pays homage to the classic nokia game snake and features a cardboard robot villain as well as a really awesome couple of frames dedicated to people running into a wall.

The most innovative part of the site is the interactive video game which is basically a modern version of breakout or arkanoid but instead of dots, lines and a ball you get to control a "human bar" and knock a human into a wall of humans via stop motion animation. It's not the most high tech game ever by any means but it's a cool concept. NOTE... the game happens halfway through the entire video where 1,000 people make the worlds longest snake using stop motion. Pretty awesome.


CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT GET OUT AND PLAY

the verve ...whatever

so i scanned youtube for footage of the verve's triumphant return to america. granted it must have been nice for them to be so well received after years of playing small clubs etc... but they took one of the biggest nose dives of any band in history... looks like they are no better than when they left... compare this weekends performance of bitter sweet symphony (this is me rolling my eyes) to Verve in their prime at the metro in chicago in 1993.

OLD VERVE
The Sun, The Sea...Live at Metro, Chicago 1993
NOTE: classic richard ashcroft moment at about the 4:26 marker

OLD VERVE WAS TOO GOOD NOT TO POST ANOTHER ONE
Gravity Grave...Live at Metro, Chicago 1993

FINE.. HAVE IT YOUR WAY.... ONE MORE
Blue...Live at Metro, Chicago 1993

THE NEW VERVE.... UGGGHGHGHGHGH
it really is a bittersweet symphony

looking at those people get so excited for one of the worst songs of their career, is... well... it is what it is!

upright citizens brigade... in bed...the proof is in the cookie

with amy poehler finally in a big screen movie, i figure it a perfect time to pay tribute to this wonderful gal. this sketch is a personal favorite of mine from the days of the upright citizens brigade tv show. the actual sketch actually starts at about 40 seconds into it and actually is a shining moment for ian roberts. enjoy !


i love how this has 30K hits, yet jerks like this get 20MILLION hits... wtf

fav quote 1 "that doesn't even make sense, someone new"

the future you've been waiting for that you still can't live in.

with main stream auto design being as stale as it is, it's about time these objects finally come to life. most of us grew up being clobbered over the head with images of what the future will look like. thanks to places like MIT and people like renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, car's like this are being designed.
i was led to this car while browsing the smart cities site where they have posted the bit car. this is stackable electric car which will be placed near train and bus stops and places of high pedestrian traffic and you rent the car like a luggage cart at the airport. The best part is that the car re-charges once it is returned to a station. take that zip car
this led me to looking at other concept cars etc... with so much media attention to going green, it's nice to see design and earth preservation merging into interesting new products. now if they would only make and mass produce these things already...
here is a link to a cool pdf presentation of some of the concept cars and some running prototypes.
here are some more pics of other amazing cars. more details can be see at the ARCHiNODE STUDIO

blogger play

a cool new toy offered up by google via their blogger site. it's called blogger play and it pulls images from blogger sites (like this one) and lets you view some random images. what's cool though is that you can click on any image and it takes you to the blog the image is from. who know's what you will find.

the idea of image driven curiosity is pretty awesome.

a similar idea is done on a really amazing website called we feel fine where they explore human emotions in six movements: madness, murmurs, montage, mobs, metrics and mounds. The site pulls sample sentences from various blogs all over the world. And also allows you get to the blog the quote originated from. Not to mention the interface is really awesome as well. Check it.