JuneJun 8 Sunday 08
Following my yesterday's post on Screenshots from The Computer Chronicles (resized and cropped), I was thinking how much I like that "vhs aesthetic", as much as compression artifacts and JPG/MPG glitch.
I've been digitalizing VHS lately, and there are a lot of guides …
A speech synthesis powered talking fish ! Totally exploitable !
Gogogogo !
JuneJun 7 Saturday 08
Remember when I was rambling on retrofuturism from the 80s/90s, and that there was something fascinating about it, because it's so close and yet so far, and that there was something to do with it ?
Well someone did something !
so I feel that I was right, I'm not alone, …
But if you want to experience this to the max, view it on NicoNico
- which started as a mix between Youtube & 2chan
- and is now a carzynnovative video hosting website that has become a subject of interest in the western web
- the idea is to display timed comments ON the …
MayMay 23 Friday 08
Today on the bottom of the newspaper's front page, there was an ad saying something like "Nothing interesting on tv tonight ? We've got the solution on page xx".
And there, an ad for a digital TV service. Not sure that more channels in "digital quality" would solve my tv …
MayMay 20 Tuesday 08
Eurovision,
because the 90s will never die.
(and that there is most definitely a before and after Lordi :p)
MayMay 19 Monday 08
So this is where AFX gets his samples from
It's pretty obvious, of course, in Humanoid Must Not Escape, but you can also hear samples in 54 Cymru Beats and uh.. I'm sure there's at least another one :p
The amazing thing is that the game sometimes almost sound like a …
MayMay 17 Saturday 08
Ne dites pas "Il fait beau, c'est la saison des barbecues", mais bien
"Comme la m
MayMay 16 Friday 08
It's amazing how Facebook + a good visualisation tool can highlight relevant friends clusters.
- blue people on the left are related to art/secondlife
- the big red cluster is mostly made of French LJ friends + some old contacts from Deviant Art (the left "leg")
- the …
MayMay 15 Thursday 08
I love it !
The Day There Was No News
Originally uploaded by Pixelsurgeon
and i wish there was no news instead that irrelevant sport anecdote that will fill our Belgian medias for the rest of the week
MayMay 8 Thursday 08
Zombie movies always (or, say, often) take place in an alternate reality where zombie movies don't exist.
Corollary: since we have zombie movies, we're not in a zombie movie ?
MayMay 5 Monday 08
Two weeks ago I went to Brussels' Contemporary Art Fair, and the alarming high number of blingified objects (golden skate board, hand grenade encrusted with Swarovski crystals, golden steel shed, etc) brought Damien Hirst back to my mind. Not that I had really forgotten …
AprilApr 6 Sunday 08
It's the year 2008 and we keep getting closer to that future.
Here's the cute Nexi :
And the creepy, helpless, black tighted Big Dog (that looks more like a huge insect to me)