Robot Rock du Jour: Daft Punk - Derezzed (2010) (TRON: Legacy)
TRON: Legacy + Daft Punk = Swoon.
End of line...
I am an experience designer and strategist
fostering dialogue between technology and people.
TRON: Legacy + Daft Punk = Swoon.
End of line...
The Maker Faire is like an engineer's craft show on acid. There's dudes riding around in go-carts that look like cupcakes, sixty-year-olds playing Jules Verne in the Steam Punk pavilion and lots of fire. This first video features Mark Galt's intoxicating "Quadruped" kinetic sculpture at the Bay Area Maker Faire in May 2010.
SCHEMATIC: More videos and photos from Maker Faire 2010...
So this fellow bought an Apple IIe for $15 and rigged it up to turn twitter avatars and feeds into 8-bit artwork. Wicked!
Remember that game mousetrap? How about a life-sized version for your backyard?
With a perverse sense of humor and penchant for fun, classmate Purin's Deathwheel 3000dx was a huge hit at Maker Faire.
David Goligorsky, Design's Oscar Wilde, developed this electric tandem as part of his graduate thesis project at Stanford's Design Program. Also shown is a road bike David designed and built, as well as "Hyper-Lincoln" whose red LED eyes signal out The Gettysburg Address in Morse code. This guys is off the chain. Sorry, bad joke.
This video is remarkably awesome.
This track treads a fine line between funky disco and satin-smooth pillow talk. This particular cut is actually experimental composer/saxophonist Peter Gordon's lovely re-arrangement of Battisti Lucio's early Italo track, Ancora Tu, with some lover's chat provided by pioneering NY-based designer/artist Colette.
SCHEMATIC: Battisti Lucio's Ancora Tu video and photos of Colette's work...
Regardless of what on Earth this dude is running from, this video is unmistakably Italian.
I'm HOOKED! Now this is some real Aussie nerdness! Nearly five minutes of minimal synth industrial perfection from legendary Sydney band Severed Heads. Disgustingly rare in its original wax format.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6e7RELnRo
SCHEMATIC: Recording details and a later concert version...
There is some confusion regarding the actual name of this track: Is it Lamborghini or Petrol? My hunch is that Lamborghini is actually an early version of Petrol. The earliest example of Lamborghini is off the 1982 French compilation Entrave et Étouffement, whereas Petrol doesn't show up until 1985 on a 7".
There is a cut of Lamborghini on a compilation CD called Can't Stop It! II (Australian Post-Punk 1979-84) that was published in 2007. This version, with female vocals is sort of a disappointment and the compilation is just OK, although that track from Centerfold is good, too. Might as well pick it up digitally because Severed Heads early recordings will cost you from $50 - $2,000!am (CD Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUpMIaz3XJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OjAnr4dsLs