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Monday, January 28, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Time Elapse Painting
some pretty creative art. you have to watch the whole video to really get the full effect because it gets more interesting as it goes.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Aaron Spears
just wanted you guys to check this cat Aaron Spears out, he won modern drummers up and coming award in 2006, and trust me he is more than up and coming now, this guy is one of my favorite drummers right now. He plays for usher, so he has some hip hop influences, but this guy really combines it all, he has amazing grooves, rediculous fills, and more than enough style and soul. watching this guy really inspires me to stick with drumming. i dont need to say any more about, this guy just watch.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Art is Cool
you may have already caught this on high snobiety, but in case you didnt artist chuck anderson released a new set of prints, some available in t-shirt form. i chose two of my favorites but there are a few others i really liked. i wouldn't mind having of of those in my dorm room at school. you can see the rest here: chuck anderson
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
invisible
basically the article says its possible to make an acoustic invisibility cloak that when worn would keep you from being detected on radar.
But another race is underway - to make an acoustic invisibility cloak. Sounds waves behave enough like light waves to be manipulated in similar ways, if you can make the 'metamaterials' that make cloaks possible. Metamaterials can bend - refract - waves in the opposite direction to natural materials, allowing physicists to play new tricks with them.
No one has yet made an acoustic metamaterial, but simulations points to possible ways of doing it. Chinese researchers last year suggested embedding rubber-coated gold spheres and water-filled pockets containing air bubbles in an epoxy resin. And this week a team in the UK showed that carefully sculpted silica and a few carbon nanotubes could make acoustic metamaterials for perfect sound proofing or even protection against earthquakes.
Today a group at Duke University in North Carolina, US, went one better. They have worked out that it should be possible to make a 3D acoustic invisibility cloak - something that had still been in doubt.
Such cloaks could make submarine's invisible to sonar, or improve acoustics by letting sound travel through, say, pillars at a concert hall. What the Duke team has to say about the materials that could achieve that is unknown for now, as the new results will appear in the journal Physical Review Letters on January 11.
While I'm sure there is plenty more theoretical work to be done, the next step is clear. Who is going to physically build an acoustic metamaterial first?
But another race is underway - to make an acoustic invisibility cloak. Sounds waves behave enough like light waves to be manipulated in similar ways, if you can make the 'metamaterials' that make cloaks possible. Metamaterials can bend - refract - waves in the opposite direction to natural materials, allowing physicists to play new tricks with them.
No one has yet made an acoustic metamaterial, but simulations points to possible ways of doing it. Chinese researchers last year suggested embedding rubber-coated gold spheres and water-filled pockets containing air bubbles in an epoxy resin. And this week a team in the UK showed that carefully sculpted silica and a few carbon nanotubes could make acoustic metamaterials for perfect sound proofing or even protection against earthquakes.
Today a group at Duke University in North Carolina, US, went one better. They have worked out that it should be possible to make a 3D acoustic invisibility cloak - something that had still been in doubt.
Such cloaks could make submarine's invisible to sonar, or improve acoustics by letting sound travel through, say, pillars at a concert hall. What the Duke team has to say about the materials that could achieve that is unknown for now, as the new results will appear in the journal Physical Review Letters on January 11.
While I'm sure there is plenty more theoretical work to be done, the next step is clear. Who is going to physically build an acoustic metamaterial first?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Mars Volta
just when you thought the mars volta couldn't be any weirder, they stoop to a new level of mind boggling inspiration for their newest album "Bedlam in Goliath". they first full length album "deloused in a commatorium" is based on their friend's dreams during a drug induced comma. Their follow up album "frances the mute" was inspired by the death of the bands sound technician, jeremy ward, after a heroin overdose. The band then wrote the album based on the characters from a diary ward had found in a car while he was a repo car salesman.
Their latest album however is based on their communications with an ancient Ouija board the band purchased in jerusalem. Lead singer Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Rodriguez-Lopez appearantly communicated with the board they named "soothsayer" and used its words directly as the basis for the lyrics to their songs. They also found poetry inside the board, which they had translated, and this too was used as insight for the albums lyrics. The band suggests their communications with the soothsayer were very spiritual, and they claim its energy almost lead to the break-up of their band collectively and individually. Omar Rodrigues-Lopez was quoted saying " it felt like i was fighting for my life, if that makes any sense, for my sanity". the band eventually destroyed the board, to end their struggle.
I find this inspiration for the album very interesting, and at first it almost made me a lil worried about listening to the album, but the band claims the album has a positive outlook on the the experience, a statement of triumph, not a statement of the evil the ouija board carried. The band even released an online game based on the soothsayer that can be played here soothsayer game
Im pretty pumped for the albums release on january 29th, hopefully its a little better than their last album amphutechture.
the song goliath can be heard below.
Their latest album however is based on their communications with an ancient Ouija board the band purchased in jerusalem. Lead singer Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Rodriguez-Lopez appearantly communicated with the board they named "soothsayer" and used its words directly as the basis for the lyrics to their songs. They also found poetry inside the board, which they had translated, and this too was used as insight for the albums lyrics. The band suggests their communications with the soothsayer were very spiritual, and they claim its energy almost lead to the break-up of their band collectively and individually. Omar Rodrigues-Lopez was quoted saying " it felt like i was fighting for my life, if that makes any sense, for my sanity". the band eventually destroyed the board, to end their struggle.
I find this inspiration for the album very interesting, and at first it almost made me a lil worried about listening to the album, but the band claims the album has a positive outlook on the the experience, a statement of triumph, not a statement of the evil the ouija board carried. The band even released an online game based on the soothsayer that can be played here soothsayer game
Im pretty pumped for the albums release on january 29th, hopefully its a little better than their last album amphutechture.
the song goliath can be heard below.
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