Muddle



[Interviewer]: I think when most people think about synthesizers and computers, the last thing they imagine is something organic or natural. What does it mean for you to use these “artificial” technologies as a mirror to hold up to nature?


King: It’s funny, because a computer is made up of silicon, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, and copper, which is found in abundance in the Earth’s crust, is used for circuit boards. These are natural elements, which we don’t think of as natural because they are encased in plastic, but their ‘essence’ is organic in the beginning. So in a sense, once you know this fact, you dont think of the hardware as artificial. The funny thing is with the mirror idea, you’re essentially showing nature how it looks in a new outfit (plastic).

Interview with King Britt at Create Digital Music on his latest project with Data Garden, “The Bee and The Stamen”, which combines electronic audio with nature …

… also an interesting thought for the day …

(via prostheticknowledge)

Indeed.



Reblogged from prosthetic knowledge.

October 19, 2012, 10:42pm

“10% of all photos ever taken
were shot in 2011.”

Fortune magazine, September 24, 2012, page 166

The times we’re living in.

(Source: randallphenning)



Reblogged from snowce.

October 03, 2012, 8:42am

Normalize (Removes Grungy Filters From Photos)

We need this now?



August 20, 2012, 7:35pm

prostheticknowledge:

Glitching Video With Audacity Tutorial 

QAP has put together a tutorial to process videos with glitch effects by using the freeware sound program Audacity. Using videos from different file formats produce various results:

So here it is ! I’ll tell you how to generate glitching video really simply (no coding, no play in HexEditor, just some clicks and lot’s of encoding and decoding) ! if you are here, then I don’t need to explain you what is a glitch, and I won’t run into technical explanation about U-LAW, A-LAW, video compression and stuffs. if you’re curious about it, there is still that good guy of wikipedia around here.

I’m doing this little tutorial cause I spent lot’s of time working on generating glitching videos, and around 80% of this spent time leaded to unreadable/unusable video files, so there is no need for everybody to do the same mistakes!

Ok so, no more chatting, here come the glitch!

You’ll need your source file that you wanna glitch, obviously a video file, but it needs to be “pre-encoded” using specific codecs, and each of those specific codecs lead to different kind of glitch (see the gallery below to see what kind of glitch you wanna do and so what kind of codecs you’ll use). And just Use your favorite encoding program (like SUPER, AviDemux, VirtualDub, or even After Effects etc…) to encode it.
The smaller the video is, the faster Audacity work on it. But as there tons of different codecs, there are some that are really not powerful for video compression and give you huge files, but for some of them, you’ll get astonishing glitches !! 

There are plenty of video and still examples - I’ve picked my favourite above based on the video file format they have used: .theora, .qt_mpeg4, qt_animation, and .flv.

You can read the tutorial and check out the examples here

Cool.



Reblogged from prosthetic knowledge.

July 06, 2012, 5:09am

A game from 1999’s physics engine continues to draw the attention of gamers. This guy w3sp is essentially a performance artist. Some kind of digital dance. Is it weird to watch a skeleton with a gun shoot himself around an empty course and enjoy it? Who is w3sp, and what’s his story? Who designed DeFRaG, how, and why? What do they do when they’re not at the keyboard?



May 11, 2012, 8:13am

Grace Hopper
On Letterman in 1986

Grace Hopper

On Letterman in 1986



March 07, 2012, 11:28pm

ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ



March 06, 2012, 10:48pm


The symbol on every Apple command key to this day — a stylized castle seen from above — was commonly used in Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseeing destination.

Susan Kare

The symbol on every Apple command key to this day — a stylized castle seen from above — was commonly used in Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseeing destination.

Susan Kare



November 23, 2011, 5:37pm

Moogfest 2011

Moogfest 2011



Reblogged from this isn't happiness..

October 28, 2011, 11:43pm