Transformers 3 – Hairmetal-Trailer
X-Posting von den Filmfreunden: Ich weiß nicht, ob das hier ein offizieller Trailer ist, aber manchmal brauch ich das ja auch. Giant Robots kicking the Shit out of each other. Ob ich das aber auf Filmlänge brauche bezweifle ich dann doch.
Markus Kaysers Solar-Powered 3D-Sand-Printer
Sehr schicke Projekte von Markus Kayser: Der Solar Sinter ist ein 3D-Drucker, der mit Solarenergie betrieben wird und Glasobjekte ausdruckt. Das Teil ist der Nachfolger seines Sun Cutters, einem „Laser“-Cutter, der mit fokussiertem Sonnenlicht arbeitet.
Solar Sinter:
(Vimeo Direktsolar, via Fefe)
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.
Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and trigger dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource – the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking.
Sun Cutter:
(Vimeo Direktsun)
The sun cutter project explores the potential of harnessing sunlight directly to produce objects. the machine is a low-tech, low energy version of a laser cutter. it uses pure sunlight, focused by a ball lens, to repeatedly cut programmed shapes in up to 0.4mm thick plywood as well as paper and card. The project also explores the merit of analogue mechanized production that draws on the machine technology found in pre-digital machinery and automaton. it uses a cam system, moving an x & y- board to control the shape of the cut. the cams are set into synchronized motion by a small solar-powered motor driving a timing belt.
Each pair of sunglasses made, even though very similar in shape, is still unique, creating a juxtaposition between the machine-made, repetitive and individual, unique object.
Weekly World News’ Batboy going Mutant
(Youtube Direktbatboy, via WWN)
Ging an mir völlig vorrüber, dass die Weekly World News Ende letzten Jahres ein Buch zu ihrem Batboy rausgebracht hatten, dessen Trailer sie grade eben nochmal gepostet haben, zusammen mit der Andeutung, zum Fledermausmutantenkind könnte es demnächst auch einen Film geben. Wie auch immer, die erste Batboy-Story findet man auf Google Books in der Ausgabe vom 31. 8. 93, hier alle Weeky Wold News-Ausgaben.
The Weekly World News team uncovers the definitive and faux-tastic story of Bat Boy, from his hardscrabble origins in the caves of West Virginia to his global influence in the twenty-first century. Going Mutant reveals how Bat Boy has heeded a call to service that has embarrassed less forthcoming mutants: During the Gulf War, he deployed with the Special Forces. He later earned a special commendation from George W. Bush for his use of sonar, which led troops to the spider hole housing Saddam Hussein. And now Bat Boy joins forces with an unlikely crew of soldiers, scientists, and swamp mamas to battle a global pandemic that threatens to destroy our planet.
This is an intimate look at the half-bat/half-boy, who has until now been shrouded in mystery (despite countless sightings and a megahit musical). Here, Bat Boy’s life is illuminated through a series of public and private documents obtained by the equally mysterious Dr. Barry Leed of the University of Indianapolis and through Weekly World News clippings. All this information comes together in this new Bitingsroman that reveals an archetypal American trickster who has risen from his lowly origins to become America’s favorite freedom fighter.
Going Mutant: The Bat Boy Exposed!
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Weekly World News bei Google Books
Weekly World News – The Comic
Batboy is alive!
Weekly World News declares the Facebookalypse
Bat Boy Actionfigur
What song are you listening to? (Berlin-Edition)
(Youtube Direktberlin, Danke Max!)
Max schreibt mir: „Ein Freund und ich haben in Berlin Leute gefragt, was sie so auf den Ohren haben. Die Idee kommt von Tyler Cullen, der dasselbe als der Erster in New York abgezogen hat.“ Hier die Tracklist:
1. Mike Posner – Falling (Mario M Remix)
2. Seeed – Ding
3. DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto – Paris Luanda
4. Frank Zappa – The Torture Never Stops
5. Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own
6. Popof – Roxy
7. MC Ren – Mr. Fuck Up (ft. The Whole Click)
8. Jack Johnson – Gone
9. Boddika – Warehouse
10. Jimmy Hendrix – Hey Joe
11. Metronomy – The Look
12. Adele – Take It All
13. Ralph Good – Nishtyak (Belocca Dark Dub)
14. Mac Miller – Get Em Up
15. Booka Shade vs. MANDY – Body Language
16. Nirvana – Come as you are
17. Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
18. David Bowie – Quicksand
19. Natalie Weiss – Love me love me not
20. BAP – Halv su wild
21. Deadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon
22. Incubus – Vitamin
23. Golden Silvers – Another Universe
24. Florence & The Machine – You’ve Got The Love (The XX Remix)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Hey You! What Song are you Listening to?
What Song are you Listening to? (London-Edition)
Möwe klaut eine Kamera und dreht damit ‘nen Film
(Youtube Direktseagull, via MeFi)
Das Sounddesign hier ist oscarreif.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Octopus klaut eine Kamera und dreht damit ‘nen Film
Manta klaut eine Kamera und dreht damit ‘nen Film
LulzSec quit the Lulz (and why)
[update] Reddit: „No longer a mystery why Lulzsec retired: huge amounts of personal information (Facebooks, addresses, relatives, etc) released on all the members. Just deserts will be had.“
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Ursprüngliches Posting:
LulzSec haben gestern nacht nach 50 Tagen ihren letzten Release veröffentlicht, wahrscheinlich ist ihnen die Kiste mittlerweile zu heiss geworden. Im Release findet man unter anderem einen Screenshot einer defaceten Navy-Website, einen SQL-Dump von Hackforums.net und nochmal eine Tonne Username/Passwort-Kombinationen aus verschiedenen Gameforen. Aus dem Textfile:
Friends around the globe,
We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It’s what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.
While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn’t that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.
Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we’ve gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don’t stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.
So with those last thoughts, it’s time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind – we hope – inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.
Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.
Let it flow…
Lulz Security – our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe
50 Days of Lulz (via Boing Boing)
Shepard Faireys Revolution-Box Sets
Shepard „Obey Giant“ Fairey hatte von März bis April eine Ausstellung seiner Cover-Artworks laufen und die Arbeiten daraus gibt’s jetzt als Prints in zwei superlimitierten Box-Sets für nur 950$ pro Stück. Und weil sich das keiner leisten kann, hat er alle Artworks in okayer Auflösung online gestellt: Party At The Moontower Box Set, Dance Floor Riot Box Set, hier mehr Infos zu den Sets, Hypebeast hat ein paar Bilder aus der Ausstellung.
Long before I knew about art galleries or even street art, I was excited about album cover art, if only because it was the visual counterpart to the music on the records I loved. Album covers conjured a euphoric association with the listening experience. Most of my earliest home-made tee shirts were stencils based on punk album covers… No matter how much I love art, or try to convince myself of its relevance in society, the fact remains that music is a lot cooler and way more able to reach people’s hearts and minds… but I’m a populist and I look at it this way: I may not play an instrument, but I’m gonna rock it hard as nails anyway. With my art I try to capture the same energy and spirit that makes music so powerful and democratic. REVOLUTIONS is a celebration of all the great music and accompanying art that has inspired me over the years.
Experimental Beer-Archeology
Das Smithsonian Magazine hat einen ziemlich interessanten Artikel über Dogfish Head Brauerei in Delaware, die zusammen mit dem Archäologen Patrick McGovern, einem Experten für antike vergorene Getränke aka Alk, ein antikes Bier-Rezept aus dem alten Ägypten nachbraut, das auf noch älteren Rezepten aufbaut, die teilweise bis zu 18.000 Jahre alt sind.
“Dr. Pat,” as he’s known at Dogfish Head, is the world’s foremost expert on ancient fermented beverages, and he cracks long-forgotten recipes with chemistry, scouring ancient kegs and bottles for residue samples to scrutinize in the lab. He has identified the world’s oldest known barley beer (from Iran’s Zagros Mountains, dating to 3400 B.C.), the oldest grape wine (also from the Zagros, circa 5400 B.C.) and the earliest known booze of any kind, a Neolithic grog from China’s Yellow River Valley brewed some 9,000 years ago. […] “It’s called experimental archaeology,” McGovern explains.
To devise this latest Egyptian drink, the archaeologist and the brewer toured acres of spice stalls at the Khan el-Khalili, Cairo’s oldest and largest market, handpicking ingredients amid the squawks of soon-to-be decapitated chickens and under the surveillance of cameras for “Brew Masters,” a Discovery Channel reality show about Calagione’s business.
The ancients were liable to spike their drinks with all sorts of unpredictable stuff—olive oil, bog myrtle, cheese, meadowsweet, mugwort, carrot, not to mention hallucinogens like hemp and poppy. But Calagione and McGovern based their Egyptian selections on the archaeologist’s work with the tomb of the Pharaoh Scorpion I, where a curious combination of savory, thyme and coriander showed up in the residues of libations interred with the monarch in 3150 B.C. (They decided the za’atar spice medley, which frequently includes all those herbs, plus oregano and several others, was a current-day substitute.) Other guidelines came from the even more ancient Wadi Kubbaniya, an 18,000-year-old site in Upper Egypt where starch-dusted stones, probably used for grinding sorghum or bulrush, were found with the remains of doum-palm fruit and chamomile. It’s difficult to confirm, but “it’s very likely they were making beer there,” McGovern says. […]
As the beer boils during lunch break, McGovern sidles up to the brewery’s well-appointed bar and pours a tall, frosty Midas Touch for himself, spurning the Cokes nursed by the other brewers. He’s fond of citing the role of beer in ancient workplaces. “For the pyramids, each worker got a daily ration of four to five liters,” he says loudly, perhaps for Calagione’s benefit. “It was a source of nutrition, refreshment and reward for all the hard work. It was beer for pay. You would have had a rebellion on your hands if they’d run out. The pyramids might not have been built if there hadn’t been enough beer.”
The Beer Archaeologist – By analyzing ancient pottery, Patrick McGovern is resurrecting the libations that fueled civilization (via io9)
The Rebel Flesh eats Doctor Who in a Tardis-Slime-Toy
The Flesh ist eine lebende Substanz aus den beiden Doctor Who-Folgen „The Rebel Flesh“ und „The Almost People“ aus der aktuellen Staffel und das gibt’s jetzt als Slime-Toy in einer Tardis inklusive des Doktors Körperteilen. Yay!
“The Flesh” Goo Pod, mehr über The Flesh in der Serie im Dr. Who-Wiki (via Comics Alliance)
Today in Hacking News
Der Guardian hat einen IRC-Chatlog von LulzSec vom 31. Mai bis 4. Juni: LulzSec IRC leak: the full record, hier der dazugehörende Artikel: Inside LulzSec: Chatroom logs shine a light on the secretive hackers: „Leaked IRC logs identify LulzSec members and show a disorganised group obsessed with its media coverage and suspicious of other hackers“
Gawker hat ein Interview mit „ Topiary“ von LulzSec: World’s Most-Wanted Hacker Says He’s Never Felt Safer: „Worrying is for fools!“
Das Time-Magazine fasst die letzten Wochen voller Lulz in einem netten Artikel zusammen: Hack Attack „The hacker community that once operated in its dark recesses has broken the surface, embracing social networks and exploiting them to expand in all directions, legal and otherwise. ‘What we are seeing is beyond a technical improvement,’ says Dave Jevans, chairman of the Web-security firm IronKey. ‘They have a social element to bring people together [via the network] to create more sophisticated attacks than we’ve ever seen. That’s what makes it accelerate.’“
(via Boing Boing, The Browser)
Vaginal is the new Awesome
(Youtube Direktvagina, via Laughing Squid)
Nette Viralkampagne eines Herstellers von Hygieneprodukten.
Rats!
(Youtube Direktrats, via Reddit)
The Walking Dead Vol. 14: No Way Out
Gestern habe ich den 14. Sammelband von The Walking Dead bei meinem Comicdealer abgeholt. Der beinhaltet die Heftausgaben 79 bis 84, die ich bereits vor einer Weile gelesen hatte und wo der Vorgänger vom Alltagsleben in der Alexandria Community handelt, in die sich die Gruppe um Rick Grimes geflüchtet hatte (vorher auf NC: The Walking Dead 13: Too Far Gone), kommt hier nun der unausweichliche Überfall durch eine Horde Untoter. Wie ich bereits vermutete, hat sich Robert Kirkman dafür ein paar nette Ideen einfallen lassen, ein einfacher Aufguss des legendären Gemetzels aus dem 8. Band im Gefängnis wäre zu plump gewesen.
Freut mich sehr, dass Kirkman die etwas ausgetrampelten Pfade halbwegs verlässt und versucht, neue Wege zu gehen. Aktuell beim Comicdealer liegt Heft 85, daher weiß ich, dass das alles noch sehr spannend werden dürfte und unter Umständen auch aus dem eher kleinteiligen, gruppenfokusierten Plot ausbrechen und möglicherweise irgendwo bei Romeros „Land of the Dead“ landet, sofern er sein Versprechen einhält, und die Serie zur längsten Zombie-Comicserie ever macht.
Nach dem Klick die Cover der Hefte und Amazon-Links zu allen Sammelbänden.
