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Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.
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Class 1: Avatars and Simulacrum 1
I felt that this might be an important study to read because it looks directly at the way technology is able to substitute for a first impressions via social media. ... While the material in the article doesn’t teach anything directly related to media studies I think it shows how other disciplines are taking note of the importance of these imaginary “cyber-social-spaces.”Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Lady Gaga Monster Ball
Read more . . . →On the Nov. 27 stop in Montreal of her Monster Ball tour, Lady GaGa was joined onstage by opener Kid Cudi. It's somewhat obvious that this collaborative stage performance would occur -- Cudi's "Make Her Say" samples Gaga's piano version of "Poker Face." And it's kind of funny to hear people in the crowd scream, "I knew it! I knew it!" when Gaga jokingly asks "who the fuck is on my stage?" as Cudi's drawl is heard over the speakers.
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Laser Synth!
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Paradigm Parlance: Breached Boundries and Twisted Metaphors
She uses this heart-wrenching and emotional moment as a springboard to explore greater questions such as the role of motherhood in a technologically mediated infancy and the relationship between mother-daughter once technology takes the role of mother for medical, or other purposes. ... I only need to point to the definition of cyborg on the post a little bit below to reiterate that a cyborg is one who has their "physical abilities extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body."Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Cyborgs
I always like to set up definitions at the beginning of my argument so I will begin with the OED definition of a cyborg: cyborg |ˈsʌɪbɔːg| noun a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body. ... While the Oxford definition posits a "hypothetical" status on cyborgs, discussions in Film 4002 have opened this up to include pacemakers, insulin pumps and even choclear implants, as these devices all extend certain human's physical abilities.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Post Ideas, Post-human
The idea that natural bodies are fallible, with technology as the solution to its limitations. "Technology seems to serve fundamentally as prosthesis to improve and perfect the frail and failing human body and enable it to multiply its strength and increase its capacities to extend itself over time."Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Ableton Live Webcam Music Generator
This is a demo of some of the powerful stuff you can do with Max 4 Live, the new Max API for Ableton Live 8. ... The video demonstrates a webcam plugin that turns on-camera movements, quantizes them to pre-defined notes, and then further adjusts them to a preset musical scale. the result is an instant midi note generator that is controlled by your movement in front of a camera.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Ableton Live by 11 year old
Read more . . . →Having some problems hooking up your Ableton Live rig together? Take a lesson from this 11 year old who picked up his brothers Ableton rig and taught himself to do this in 30 minutes: This video just speaks to the easy concept within Ableton. It is not necessary to be a computer scientist to operate this software (although if you are . . Max for Live offers some wicked coding opportunities!). You can be a musician, and in fact the session view speaks to this side of the brain very intuitively. This kid was able to pick up his brothers...
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Cyberspace and essentialism
Out there, bodies, and identities alike may lose their connection to terrestrial limits, extending through a new range of possibilities, and in the process may reflect back upon the supposed naturalness, givenness, reification or territorialization of real life bodies and identities." ... Reading a book is a tremendous way to activate many parts of our neurology and we often feel the same as the character in a good book.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Prespective Configures the Topography
The Oxford English Dictionary defines technology as follows: tech nol o gy |tɛkˈnɒlədʒi| noun ( pl. - gies ) the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry : advances in computer technology | recycling technologies. • machinery and equipment developed from such scientific knowledge . • the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences. ... The difference between my paramedic example and interacting with a different space, such as cyberspace, is that the paramedic interacts seamlessly with his environment. (although arguably the same feelings happen in virtual reality) The virtual experiences as perceived by the characters in the words of Surrogates (2009) or Caprica (2009) is indistinguishable by its users from real existence.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.