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David Pescovitz at 10:39 am • 
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Eclectic Method's awesome montage of the future as seen in film. (Thanks, Jason Tester!)
David Pescovitz at 12:24 pm • •
The young, talented Ko Xiny of Singapore covers My Bloody Valentine's "When You Sleep." (Thanks, Steve Oda!)
David Pescovitz at 12:00 pm • •
FM3 has released the fourth (ahem) incarnation of its wonderful Buddha Machine, the classic ambient music generator loaded with loops by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian. Above, listen to the lovely "hao" loop from Buddha Machine 4. I've gifted many previous models of Buddha Machines and they are always happily received. You can get the device in green, red (pink?), yellow, or orange from Forced Exposure.
In other Buddha Machine news, Virant's "Fistful of Buddha" album is now available too! Here's a taste:
David Pescovitz at 10:10 am • •
KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money is a new eBook charting the strange journey of prankster musicians/artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty at the birth of acid house. The KLF (aka The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu aka The Timelords) emerged from a similar countercultural milieu of high weirdness that inspired bOING bOING, from Robert Anton Wilson and Discordianism to Dada, punk, and Alan Moore. Of course, The KLF are best known for either burning one million British pounds for a music video or their 1988 melding of Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll (Part Two)" with the Doctor Who theme. Drummond and Cauty's connections to Doctor Who run much deeper than that though. Over at the Daily Grail, Greg Taylor explores the KLF/Doctor Who synchronicities in his article, "The Regeneration of Doctor Who."
David Pescovitz at 10:17 am • •
Filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker composited four and a half hours of San Diego International Airport traffic into 25 seconds. "With an even blue background it’s fairly easy to key out each airplane and put them together. The bridge in this shot is an added time lapse under the 1st Street bridge in San Diego." Kuckenbaker was inspired by Ho-Yeol Ryu’s incredible composite photo of airplanes at Hannover Airport. "All Landings at San Diego Int Airport Friday Nov 23 from 1030am to 300pm" (via Colossal)
David Pescovitz at 9:23 am • •
Legendary guitarist and songwriter Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü and Sugar has launched a Kickstarter. The project is a film documenting "See A Little Light," last year's epic Los Angeles concert that celebrated Mould's career with performances by Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Britt Daniel (Spoon), Ryan Adams, No Age, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler (The Hold Steady), Margaret Cho with Grant Lee Phillips, and Jessica Dobson (The Shins, Deep Sea Diver). Only 2,275 people experienced this in person, but filmmaker Justin Mitchell and his team captured the event in high-quality audio and video. A trailer is above. Hüsker Dü was the third concert I ever attended (following Styx and The Police) and Mould's music has inspired me ever since -- I hope he hits his goal. Pledge rewards include the likes of t-shirts, signed guitars, and tickets/meet-and-greet with Bob at future concerts. Bob Mould: The Walt Disney Concert Hall Film
David Pescovitz at 10:12 am • •
Pioneering video artist Valie Export's "Space Seeing/Space Hearing" (1973-1974) is edited from a performance piece in which she was recorded by four cameras. Read the rest
David Pescovitz at 9:49 am • •
SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 starts tomorrow in Singapore. The above video teases some of the astounding graphics accomplishments that will be presented at the conference.
David Pescovitz at 9:23 am • •
(Spoken in booming movie trailer voice): If you see only one Red Dawn remake this year, see this one. New York City artist Annamarie Ho, known to regular BB readers for her Betelnut Girls art installation and other daring works, created this filmic provocation titled Dread Spawn (Head Wrong) that asks "how would the fantastical storyline of the Red Dawn remake function if the Chinese People’s Liberation Army were to invade New York City’s Chinatown instead and was met by multicultural, brainy high school students?" Of course, the fact that the current Red Dawn remake's producers, MGM, did a last-minute digital switch of the "villains" from the Chinese to North Koreans only makes Ho's commentary more compelling. Annamarie will be in attendance at three Dread Spawn (Head Wrong) screenings this week and next, and I'm honored that she's asked me to introduce the film in San Francisco on December 6.
Dread Spawn (Head Wrong)NASHVILLE
Wednesday, November 28 at 3pm
Vanderbilt UniversityNEW YORK
Saturday, December 1 at 4pm
Queens Museum of ArtSAN FRANCISCO
Thursday, December 6 at 7pm
Ninth Street Independent Film Center
Cory Doctorow at 3:40 pm • •
Johannes sez,
Unbelievable, but Kiki and Bubu are back! When we created the first couple of episodes for Boing Boing TV in 2008, who would have thought that the two wooly Neo-Marxist fellows would still be around in 2012? Well, they are! Here is their newest and most epic (50 minutes!) puppet extravaganza!
Story? Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down from YouTube. On the long quest for knowledge which follows, Kiki and Bubu learn all about Internet censorship. And love.
monochrom: Kiki and Bubu's "RATED R US" (Thanks, Johannes!)
David Pescovitz at 9:16 am • •
Miles Davis vs. LCD Soundsystem. Uploader Alessandro Grespan says, "No editing or other tricks, just 2 youtube videos played at the same time."
Cory Doctorow at 3:26 pm • •
Privacy International's 16-minute mini-documentary from DEFCON about privacy is a great, compact answer to the question, "Why does privacy matter?"
Privacy International asked lawyers, activists, researchers and hackers at Defcon 2012 about some of the debates that thrive at the intersection between law, technology and privacy. We also wanted to know why privacy matters to them, and what they thought the future of privacy looked like. This video is a result of those conversations.
Featuring Cory Doctorow, Kade Crockford, Jameel Jaffer, Dan Kaminsky, Chris Soghoian, Marcia Hoffman, Moxie Marlinspike, Phil Zimmerman, Hanni Fakhoury and Eli O.
Xeni Jardin at 6:51 am • •
Xeni Jardin at 6:26 am • •
Artist Jason Mecier, whose work we've featured on Boing Boing before, has completed a new art piece made from "25 lbs. of trash, recycling and found objects inspired by Honey Boo Boo," which took over 50 hours to create.
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Cory Doctorow at 6:03 am • •
Mark Pesce writes, "What happens when an LED makes sweet love to a smartphone? You get the Light by MooresCloud, 52 full-color LEDs controlled by an embedded computer running Linux and connected to your tablet, smartphone and the Internet via WiFi. This 'lamp with a LAMP stack' takes the Internet of Things in a new direction: these connected Lights provide 'Illumination-as-a-service", so you can take a photo of a flower and set the Light to match its color, or synchronize streaming media with a light show. An on-board accelerometer allows you to enjoy games and literally play with light. Everything about the project is open - open hardware, open software, and a public commitment to open and transparent business practices (more). In order to sell these smarties for $99, they need to raise $700K on Kickstarter. Have a look. If you like what you see, back them and share the word."
