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[Sat. 5.28.16] Intelligent Dance Party 007 ft. NEYBUU, BLEIE, Leon Bison, Amplituhedron & Liz Revision at Underground SF

The seventh event in the San Francisco-based Intelligent Dance Party features a mix of live experimental and IDM performances progressing later into more dancefloor-oriented sets. On Saturday, May 28, 2016 NEYBUU, BLEIE, Leon Bison, Amplituhedron and Liz Revision perform at Underground SF, 424 Haight St, San Francisco, California 94117, 9:30pm – 2:00am. $5 21+ NEYBUU BLEIE Leon Bison Amplituhedron Liz Revision NEYBUU LIVE [Portland] 🔊 Footwork, ghettotech, Indian instrumentation BLEIE (Unheard Records, 3AM Devices) LIVE [East Bay] 🔊…

[Sat. 01.08.16] Intelligent Dance Party 004 ft. Glenn Jackson, KnobGoblin, Tony Manfre & Liz Revision at the Basement

The fourth event in the San Francisco-based Intelligent Dance Party series kicks off 2016 featuring a mix of live experimental and IDM performances progressing later into more dancefloor-oriented sets. On Friday, January 8, 2016 Glenn Jackson, KnobGoblin, Tony Manfre & Liz Revision perform at The Basement, 222 Hyde St, San Francisco, CA 94102, a multi-leveled 21+ venue from 9:30 PM – 2:00 AM. #IDP | #SFIDP

Simon Stalenhag’s retro-revisionist future distopian world

Here’s an artist I found on Tumblr who creates completely digital illustrations that he sells on Redbubble. Some of my favorites: Recently he’s printed a book containing his images with a narrative attached: In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop. These are its strange…

DJ Mix from Chiditarod 2015 @ Emporium

Chiditarod X 2015 at Emporium with the Secret Gentlemen’s Club by Liz Revision on Mixcloud Here’s a mix I did for the Secret Gentlemen’s Chiditarod X checkpoint at Emporium Arcade Bar in Wicker Park. It’s mostly tech-house with quite a few video game references and 8-Bit / chiptune stuff scattered about. And, well, people in costume swarming the place in droves. Quite fun.

[Sa. 3.7.15] Liz Revision, BenmeR @ Emporium for Chiditarod 1pm-5pm #rodx

Fight hunger this Saturday and partake in the spectacle of “probably the world’s largest mobile food drive.” Chiditarod is an Epic Urban shopping cart race based on dog sled racing, a charity food drive, costumed beauty pageant, talent show, fundraiser and chaos generator all in one. All proceeds benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the CHIditarod Foundation. Donate at least $10 now to help SGC move up the leaderboard (currently 6th place). This is…

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters: An insanely sustainable LEED Platinum building

I found this documentary on one of the most sustainable office buildings I’ve ever seen and (of course) it’s in San Francisco: 535 Golden Gate. It only makes sense that it houses the city’s water, sewer and power department, and has a Living Machine bioremediation / on-site water reclamation system. Here are some of its specs: GREEN BUILDING FEATURES: 525 Golden Gate consumes 32% less energy than similarly-sized office buildings. An integrated, hybrid solar array and…

I’ll be at BlueBazaar this Saturday in Pilsen with some nerdy plushies and geeky gifties

Pop-up retail events are super trendy these days, and I’ll be part of one in Pilsen (through Fractalspin) on Saturday just to maintain my credentials. I kid! It’s actually a craft fair called Blue Bazaar, a fundraiser for a neat entrepreneurial technology-slinging non-profit called Blue 1647. It’s a year-old nonprofit technology innovation center focused on “education, workforce development, business acceleration, and economic development in technology”-related things. What that means is they have classes, office space…

Intercouple domestic nerd-hiliarity, with some Post-It Notes and a Slow Cooker

I gotta say, it’s probably taking title to Soul-Mate Land when one can write a request in PHP for the slow cooker procedure and have it executed flawlessly by the significant other. ^Translation = “If it’s 8:00 am or later AND the onions are caramelized, please turn this thing off. If that’s not true but it’s 9:00 am or later, please turn it off.” Proof =

Some fashion clarification for Spring

Longboards + asphalt + giant blue tarp = TarpSurfing

Yes.

Northern Soul: An influential British musical moment in electronic music culture

“The northern soul scene, to me, was like an eighth wonder of the world. You’re looking at the depressed north of England, where there wasn’t a great deal there apart from steelworks and coalmines. You had people doing this boring repetitive work during the week; and hard work, too. And when they went out on a weekend, they really wanted to go out. Going out until 11 o’clock to the local pub just wasn’t going to be…

“The Secret Gentleman’s Spontaneously Innocuous Assembly Soundtrack” Electroswing Mix

Here’s an electroswing mix I did a couple of weeks ago for the Club Foot Speakeasy-themed checkpoint during Chiditarod. The racing part of the team won for Best Art Cart with two giant hotrods drag-racing, one of the cars driven by drag queens. Pretty great. The Secret Gentleman’s Spontaneously Innocuous Assembly Soundtrack by Liz Revision on Mixcloud 1. The Hang Track Pt. II (Rupert Mennert Imploded Remix) byTimo Garcia Manu Delago 2. Ginger Vibes (Short…