Create Digital Music » Indie Bands: Taco Bell Wants to Feed You Burritos, Promote You on Hot Sauce (2)
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Indie Bands: Taco Bell Wants to Feed You Burritos, Promote You on Hot Sauce By Peter Kirn Related: Bands, food, indie, marketing, oddities, publicity, touring, trends, Web & more Photo: Morgan Tepsic. Does that mean South Korea has Taco Bells?I usually try to steer clear of the marketing crud, but this is too bizarre to pass up. Taco Bell, anxious to jump on this whole “indie music” bandwagon, is using the only currency it has: ...
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DJ Chima said:
Taco Bell is just another major brand aligning themselves with music artists as a new way to market themselves; and it ain't too bad for the bands either!
It’s Still Who We Know (2)
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If you’re single, I doubt that most people’s advice to you on finding a mate would be to sit home alone. Instead, they’ll say you need to get out and meet people. If you are led to be a doctor, I doubt that most people would suggest you avoid college. Instead, they’ll advise you to get the proper education. I suspect that few people would argue against that advice. I doubt that few Christians would, ...
CPU vs. GPU Mythbusters Demo Reveals a Lot (1)
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If you haven’t seen it yet, Jamie and Adam did what may be the greatest illustration of a computing concept onstage ever, using an 1100-barrel paintball gun: Updated: We’ve seen the basic idea before — one of the Max/MSP + Atmel-powered Printball notes his own, similar project, as featured on Pixelsumo way back in 2005. But it’s the first time I’ve seen this used to illustrate this point. The basic idea: GPUs, by using parallel ...
Oh Hollywood, What Did You Do To Dragonball?! [Oddities] (2)
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Manga Dragonball has been adapted into anime and countless video games no problem. Turning it into a Hollywood movie seems to pose more of a problem, though. It's not easy! Early images of the movie, which stars Justin Chatwin from War of the Worlds and Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat, didn't exactly set the world afire. While the filmed-in-Mexico Hollywood flick has been repeatedly delayed, there have already been talks about doing a sequel. Anyway, ...
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Chad said:
I hate Dragonball, but I could maybe watch this.
"Remarkable Monster" (1)
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On Dec. 7, 1905, British naturalists J. Nicoll and E.G.B. Meade-Waldo spotted "a creature of most extraordinary form and proportions" during a research cruise off the coast of Brazil. Nicoll described a head "shaped somewhat like that of a turtle" above a 6-foot "eel-like" neck that "lashed up the water with a curious wriggling movement." Below the water "we could indistinctly see a very large brownish-black patch, but could not make out the shape of ...
iPhone/Touch Roundup: Control, Art, Snow Patrol, Visualizers, Recording, One for India (10)
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What could a pocket-sized computer be? It could be a new kind of album extra (yawn), a new kind of generative musical format that samples and responds to the world around it (whoo). It could be a more effective controller (fun), or an Indian drone (really). The Apple iPod touch / iPhone, as always, brings both wonder (potential as an art platform or recording device) and trouble (respectively, restrictions on who can see your art ...
PS4VJ: Homebrew VJ Software on PlayStation 2 Game Systems (1)
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London-based, French-born VJ and artist Pikilipita doesn’t touch laptops. He shows up at live visual gigs toting game systems. Having built mobile projects for the Game Boy Advanced and Linux-based GamePark GP2X, he’s now got a new machine: a Barbie-pink PlayStation 2. Novelty this may be, but don’t think that PS24VJ can’t hack it as a real VJ app, allowing you to leave the laptop at home: Plays footages compressed with the Kouky video codec ...
Brett Ratner's Guitar Hero Movie Idea Sounds Crappy [Activision] (1)
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Hollywood director Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand, other tripe) has a dream. He wants to make a Guitar Hero movie. Listen to what Ratner has to say: I love Guitar Hero and I think it’s a part of pop culture. I would love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not ...
Brett Ratner's Guitar Hero Movie Idea Sounds Crappy [Activision] (2)
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Hollywood director Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand, other tripe) has a dream. He wants to make a Guitar Hero movie. Listen to what Ratner has to say: I love Guitar Hero and I think it’s a part of pop culture. I would love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not ...
A Geological Puzzle (2)
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Being at my seat near the village of Meudon, and overlooking a quarry-man, whom I had set to break some very large and hard stones, in the middle of one we found a huge live toad, though there was no visible aperture by which it could have got there. I could not help expressing my wonder how it had been generated, had grown, and lived; but the labourer told me, it was not the first ...
Good Boy (2)
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This one is preposterous, but I have two sources, so here goes. In the 1870s, visitors to a remote New Mexico sheep ranch discovered the solitary rancher dead in his hut. His records showed that he had been dead two years, but his flocks had actually increased since his death. How was this possible? His dog had been tending the flocks in his absence. The rancher had trained him to drive the flocks to their ...
Hacked-Together Frankenstein DIY VJ/DJ Controller: Def-Con + Resolume (1)
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Yes, sometimes the greatest DIY projects are built not from scratch but from the cannibalized bits of other, less-brilliant controllers. Together, these pieces become greater as a whole, from bland and boring to bizarre and fantastic. Case in point: Devin aka “mzo” writes us with his Cyrillic-emblazoned custom controller creation for VJ control. The controller is built from modifying 3 off the shelf controllers (M-Audio Trigger Finger, Belkin Nostromo n52 gamepad and the old Mixman ...
To My Brother, MIA (1)
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When I was a kid, they built this suburban church near I-275 that rivaled the Colosseum in Rome. It looked like you could fit four of my church inside it. Every time we drove past, my folks would comment on how big it was. In my mind, it was as close as you could get for the 1970s to a genuine megachurch. Imagine a sea of cars on Sunday nights. Heck, we’d even watch them ...
Art for Small Screens: iHologram on iPhone (2)
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iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo. Speaking of iPhones, here’s some really brilliant work by David O’Reilly. You may have seen it already, as it looks like it’s made the rounds, but I love the technique. By doing anamorphic perspective warping of the 3D scene on the device, this app simulates a holographic 3D on the screen of the iPhone, courtesy the device’s motion sensors. Correction: Okay, it’s not actually possible to ...
Cleansing the Charismatic Crackup, Final Thoughts (1)
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Over the last few days, thousands of people have come to Cerulean Sanctum looking for answers concerning the meltdown in the charismatic movement in light of what happened at Lakeland. People are searching. They want answers and reassurance. Here is the word that I have for them. It comes from a prophet who did no miracles but was called the greatest by the One who truly matters: “He must increase, but I must decrease.” —John ...
Heavy-Hearted (1)
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In the Medical Times & Gazette, May 21, 1853, George Budd recounts the case of 94-year-old Henry Hall, who was fighting a fire at the Eddystone lighthouse near Plymouth in the winter of 1755 when a quantity of molten lead fell from the roof and struck him in the head and face. "From that moment he had a violent internal sensation, and imagined that a quantity of the lead had passed down his throat into ...
Most Samples Ever: German Art Makes Song with 70,200 Samples, Using Pd (5)
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Reason number 3,174 why I love Germany: it’s the one nation that has both arcane governmental procedures and the avant-garde musicians to turn them into protest art — with the chops in Pure Data (Max’s open source cousin) to squeeze 70,000+ samples into a tiny space. Song registration requires citing each sample? No problem — unless you’re an overzealous Pd user. Meet Johannes Kreidler and his work “Product Placement” product placements (2008) music piece / ...
