Behold The Trons, a self-playing robot band! Influences include The Lakitu Braz, Kraftwerk, Moroder, and all those bands that sound like this:
Can't wait for the Behind the Music (btw every Poison band-member & roadie now belongs here. No exceptions).
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Friday, June 20, 2008
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I've seen more than a few cool whips in my day (Doc Brown's Delorian & Urkel's Isetta top the charts), but dzamn, BMW's got 'em beat with the GINA (not pronounced Jh-eye-nuh, unfort). Step into the future:
(via Autoblog) GINA stands for "Geometry and Functions in 'N' Adaptations", which basically means that designers from both BMW and BMW Group DesignworksUSA were allowed to throw out the rulebook. This is most evident in the GINA Light Visionary Model's outer skin, which is made entirely out of textile fabric that's pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires. The skeleton of the car is controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and can actually move and change shape beneath the fabric skin. For instance, the headlights of the concept can be exposed or hidden by the car's skin just like blinking eyes, and the hood opens from the center as the fabric parts to expose the engine. This idea extends to the interior, where BMW designers have made visible only those instruments that are required at a certain time, while the rest of the time the same fabric interior "blinks" them out of view.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Creative Review commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to shoot some pictures of bubbles using the new Alpha digital camera from Sony. Not sure how he captured these globular specimens, but man are they fun to look at. Let's make like Brin and get interplanetary-->
Graduating student James Houston put together a brilliant final project for his Visual Communication course at the Glasgow School of Art that just so happened to dovetail with Radiohead's "Nude" Remix contest:
Listen to Holy Fuck!'s Radiohead Remix entry here.
(via James' Vimeo page) "Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
I missed the contest deadline, so I'm offering it here for you to enjoy.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
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Monday, June 9, 2008
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Zack Morris & Gordon Gekko had dope cell pieces. 8 bit sound is so fly (have you heard the soundtrack to Tecmo Bowl?). Casio Data Banks are nerd chic, tre sweet. To that end, I submit to you a choice Flickr find: the Control Panel, a group "dedicated to the joy of vintage buttons, knobs, dials, switches, toggles, gauges, readouts, and blinky-blinks." Get your Pentium II on.
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