Stories

The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED

An all-access, backstage pass to the hottest gathering in the world, (WIRED Magazine) THE FUTURE WE WILL CREATE is an exhilarating behind-the-scenes tour of this stimulating and paradigm-shifting meeting of the minds, an annual conference where theoretical physicists, 11-year-old violin prodigies, and venture capitalists present and exchange bold new ideas that will change everything. A veritable Cirque du Soleil of the psyche, TED (Technology Entertainment Design) brings the talent, energy, and collective spirit of the…

Open Source Hip Hop: Altered Beats

Aaron Campbell aka Proteus has taken the open source approach to creating hip hop, as opposed to the conspicuous consumer / materialistic luxury image of commercial mainstream hip hop. He’s uploaded a bunch of raps to his Altered Beats website. In his own words, “some of them suck but if your a IDM / breakcore human then you should be able to make anything sound good so go fucking nuts.” On a separate page he…

Practice your superhero skills with parkour & freerunning

Should you ever need to run from French gangsters, having a handle on parkour will definitely help you escape intact. Essentially the practice involves moving from point A to point B in the most efficient manner possible, hurling yourself under, over and around obstacles. Here’s the first part of a parkour documentary by a traceur (practitioner. “traceuse” is the feminine.): The rest are here. A more acrobatic version that’s less rigorously martial-arts-like in its approach…

Battlestar Finale!

Flight Attendant's Rap on Southwest Airlines

Revenge of the Nerds: "The Song"

Star Trek: The Next Generation Re-Edited

Awkward! An uneventful day for the Captain Follow-up: Things get a little nutty on the bridge! That Jean-Luc Picard… High-tech hiphop remix action. Conceptual art.

Dave Powers: "Going Deeper"

Here’s a 2 volume mix by Chicago-based Dave Powers, (Volatl, Klektik) “Going Deeper” featuring dub techno, Omar S, Underground Resistance, Carl Craig, Miss Fitz, and more. Dave Powers: “Going Deeper Vol.1” Dave Powers: “Going Deeper Vol.2”

NFG's PHP Arcade Font Tool

Write anything you want in a cool vintage arcade font, like Street Fighter II, Ninja Gaiden, and Afterburner with NFG’s Arcade Font Tool. You can even download the PHP script and run it in your own web app.

Gustavo Bravetti's at it again, this time brandishing Wii-motes in his live PA

Gustavo Bravetti – Alternative Controllers @ Tribaltech 2009 (SC edition) from Gustavo Bravetti on Vimeo. You may remember an interview I did with live controller whiz-kid Gustavo Bravetti where he explained how he’s rigged up alternative controllers to Ableton Live, namely a “powerglove,” electronic drum kit, and LED lights. This time he’s hacked Wii-motes into a Live controller and drives the crowd at Tribaltech 2009 into a fury of nerdery. Friend of the Site Gustavo…

BBS: The Documentary

BBSs–“Bulletin Board Systems” were the precursors to today’s internet. Totally low-tech and restricted by hardware and bandwidth limitations, they were text based and you accessed them over a phone line, but by signing into one or hosting your own you became part of an elite nerdy culture of people communicating with each other and sharing software and information. ASCII art was born to create graphical representations within hardware and display limitations, and considering how our…

4chan Facebook group's innovative group messaging hack

4chan–the anonymously-generated breeding ground for memes–and its off-kilter, surreal, creative and often-juvenile perspective has overflowed on Facebook in the form of a group. In its anarchic spirit, the group organizers have taken it upon themselves to send the group messages by rapid-fire renaming of the group itself, which, if you’re signed up to receive email notifications, results in a series of emails in your inbox with the final message. You can read it if you…