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David OReilly is the Glitchwizard of Oooo: Datamoshing Adventure-Time

Habt Ihr Adventure Time S05E15 A Glitch Is a Glitch gesehen? Die Folge wurde von David OReilly animiert, einem der derzeit spannendsten Animationskünstler weltweit. Der Mann hat mit seinem Kurzfilm Please Say Something den goldenen Bären bei der Berlinale gewonnen, mit The External World war er bei den Filmfestspielen von Venedig und mit beiden hat er drölftausendhundertzweiundvierzig Awards abgeräumt. David OReilly ist 28 Jahre jung.

Ich kenne mich bei Adventure Time nicht besonders aus – ich weiß, dass ich da etwas verpasst habe, aber ich kann nicht alles und mein Tag hat leider auch nur 24 Stunden –, und ich weiß nicht, wie strange Adventure Time normalerweise ist, aber ich bin Fan von David OReilly und Jeez – diese Folge war definitiv strange. Jede Menge Glitches, ein Handkuss (mit zwei sich küssenden Händen), jede Menge Low Poly-Grafik – exakt mein Dings. Nicht zu vergessen der Soundtrack von Flying Lotus, den gibt’s auf Soundcloud:

Die Folge findet man leider nirgends in diesem Internetz, aber es gibt ja alternative Quellen. Unbedingte Anschauempfehlung. Rhizome hat jetzt ein Interview mit OReilly: Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: A Conversation with David OReilly.

DR: How much of the “stylistic” glitching came directly from “real” glitches? In other words, what processes did you use to introduce random, glitchy elements into the design process? Did you have to cheat to get the “stylistic” results you wanted?

DO: It was all generated from “real” glitches—but since everything is run through compositing software and sort of controlled you could also say it was all fake. The glitches needed to begin locally—inside objects—then spread out until they became part of the scene itself. The local stuff was done by generating a ton of sprites that had random pixels move outwardly to create the colorful flourishes we associate with video compression. These had a decent amount of control—a blob of glitchy stuff could move around a scene, for example. Once the scenes were fully animated and rendered the global full-frame glitches were done. There was some jpeg corruption added on top of the battle scene at the end.

Nach dem Klick nochmal seine beiden Kurzfilme The External World und Please Say Something sowie sein Animations-Bit für Tim & Eric Professor Genki’s Super Ethical Reality Climax einen Timelapse-Clip seiner Arbeit am Cover zum Mindsploitation-Magazin, mehr von OReillys Arbeiten findet man in seinem Vimeo-Channel: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…

Vaticans favorite transsexual Pornstar:

„I really like that my work is reaching out so far that even people in the Vatican are enjoying my work.“ Ein Interview mit Tiffany Starr, „Vatican’s favorite transsexual porn star“.

Daft Punks „Random Access Memories“ – The Collaborators: Giorgio Moroder

 Youtube Direktmoroder

Von Creators Project: „In a new series, with direction from Ed Lachman, we take a look at the collaborators behind Random Access Memories, the new album from Daft Punk. In episode 1 we speak with legendary Italian producer Giorgio Moroder.“

Quentin Tarantino about Food in Films

 Youtube Direktfood, via 3Pew

Superinteressanter Ausschnitt aus einem Interview von KCRW mit Quentin Tarantino, in dem er über die Speisen in seinen Filmen redet.

Bill Gates AMA on Reddit

Das spannendste an Bill Gates’ AMA (Ask Me Anything) auf Reddit gestern abend war wahrscheinlich das 80″-Touchscreen-Tablet mit Windows 8, ansonsten muss man das Ding natürlich als Promo-Aktion für das gestern gelaunchte Windows Surface Pro bewerten, vor allem angesichts der insgesamt doch eher banalen Antworten („Cheap Cheeseburgers, Kids“). Well played, Mr. Gates.

Wie auch immer: Ich hätte gerne so ein 80″-Tablet. Und das Reddit-AMA mit Bill Gates gibt’s hier in komprimierter Form.

Vintage Interview with Lovecraft, handwritten in tiny Letters on a single Postcard sent back and forth

Der Mann mit dem grandiosen Namen Arthur H. Goodenough hat 1927 ein Interview mit H. P. Lovecraft geführt – auf einer Postkarte. Auf einer einzigen Postkarte, die die beiden hin- und hergeschickt und in winziger Handschrift vollgeschrieben haben. Whoa! Nick Mamatas hat die Karte in einem Buchladen in Brat­tle­boro, Ver­mont, gekauft, die Story aufgeschrieben und das Interview transkribiert.

One day [Sher­wood, the owner of the Bas­kets Bookstore/Paperback Palace] handed me a post­card sent between H.P. Love­craft and Arthur H. Good­e­nough, an ama­teur press enthu­si­ast liv­ing near Brat­tle­boro. Good­e­nough isn’t talked about much today, but Brat­tle­boro is still full of Good­e­nough — there’s a road named for the fam­ily (or was the fam­ily named for the road?), a trash removal firm, you name it.

Love­craft was acquainted with Good­e­nough, and Lovecraft’s vis­its to Good­e­nough in Ver­mont in 1927 and 1928 are the basis of his won­der­ful nov­el­ette “The Whis­perer in Dark­ness.” After the story was pub­lished in Weird Tales, Good­e­nough sent Love­craft a con­grat­u­la­tory card, and also asked the author a cou­ple of ques­tions. Rather than respond­ing with a card or let­ter of his own, Love­craft wrote the answers in a tiny hand and then appar­ently gave the card to Vrest Orton — a book­man and even­tual founder of The Ver­mont County Store — who returned the card to Good­e­nough per­son­ally dur­ing a trip to the Green Moun­tain State. Then Good­e­nough sent the card back to Love­craft again, with follow-up ques­tions writ­ten in a nearly micro­scopic hand. I sup­pose he knew the local post­mas­ter, and was able to get the card back into the mail sys­tem with­out a prob­lem. Amaz­ingly, Love­craft man­aged to fit the answers to the ques­tions on the post­card in an even smaller hand. Sher­wood told me that he’d guessed that Love­craft used a mag­ni­fy­ing glass and a sewing nee­dle dipped in ink.

Brattleboro Days, Yuggoth Nights – An Inter­view with Howard P. Love­craft (as uncov­ered by Nick Mamatas) (via Daniel)

Zork-Creators Interview via Textadventure

Wired hat ein Interview mit Dave Lebling, Gründer von Infocom und Entwickler von Zork und dem Hitchhikers Guide-Adventure. Das Interview ist ein Text-Adventure. Großartig!

Wired spoke to Dave Lebling […] for this story. But in honor of their achievements and their medium of choice, we’ve decided to present the results of our interviews in a text adventure of our own, below. You’ll have to play to find out more. […]

>open mailbox
You open the mailbox, revealing a parcel and a letter.

>open parcel
You open the parcel, revealing a trophy.

>read letter
It is a letter on WIRED letterhead, and it seems to be addressed to you. It begins…

Text Adventure: Zork Creators Honored With Pioneer Award

Louis CK has some Fun, sorta…

Vanity Fair hat Louis CK ein paar Fragen gestellt und der hatte daran sichtlich seinen Spaß:

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Not ever having to fill out this questionnaire. […]

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I have an absolutely beautiful penis. It’s stunning in every way. God I hate my perfect penis. […]

Which talent would you most like to have?
I wish I could draw. I can’t make a thing in my mind go on paper. I draw like a child. Like a heavily beaten and molested child. Who can’t draw.

What is your current state of mind?
I’m sort of depressed, actually. I wish you hadn’t asked. […]

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
There’s this one girl in Oklahoma City. We had sex on New Year’s Eve. She was 19. I was about 23. She was way out of my league. Still can’t believe that one. I hope she’s O.K. now.

Louis CK (via Jason Kottke)

50 Shades of Sasha Grey: How She Got into Porn & More

 Youtube Direktsasha, via Publique

Blümchensexikone und Geschmusi Sasha Grey im ausführlichen Interview mit der Vice über neue Projekte, ihre alte Arbeit und ihre Plattensammlung zeigt sie auch.

Pussy Riot: The Jail Interview

GQ hat über den Anwalt von Pussy Riot ein paar Fragen in den Knast geschmuggelt und die Antworten nun veröffentlich. „Katya’s answers got confiscated. Nadya’s and Masha’s follow.“

GQ: What is your average day like now? How do you get the news from the outside?

Masha: They have small, medium, and large cells here. We’re in three different small ones. Only the large cells have in-room showers; we get showers once a week. After 6 a.m., you’re not allowed to sleep under a blanket. Theoretically, until lights-out at 10 p.m., you’re not allowed to sleep at all, but in practice you can lie on top of the blanket and cover yourself with your coat. Nobody can explain why; the only answer you hear to any question is “That’s the rule” and “We keep to a regimen here.” Every day there’s an hour-long walk in a “yard,” which is a concrete box with two benches and a sliver of sky between a cement wall and a plastic roof. It’s all “Hug the wall” this and “Hands behind your back” that. They search our cells regularly and confiscate our drawings and notes. Why? “The rules.” Pretty much the only news we get is from federal TV channels. Only now do I realize the sheer amount of lies and censorship there. When you have the Internet, you don’t feel it as sharply. But once a week our lawyers bring us different news, words of support, and that helps a lot.

Pussy Riot: The Jailhouse Interview (via The Browser)

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Pussy Riot, Professionals at work
Musicvideo: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Up the Fires
The Bored Ones of the Pussy Riot Trial
Femen cut a Cross with a Chainsaw to support Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot Liveblogs (UPDATE): 2 Jahre Knast
Global Free Pussy Riot Day
Peaches Free Pussy Riot-Video
Pussy Riot Statements von Slavoj Žižek und ihrem Anwalt
Interview with Pussy Riot
How Faith No More and Pussy Riot may have fucked up my Server
Free Pussy Riot-Protest by Amnesty International

Dan Spitz: Anthrax-Guitarist, Maker of Watches

Ich hab’ mir tatsächlich vor ein paar Tagen erst mal wieder Anthrax’ „Among the Living“ (I am the Law!) auf Spotisfy angehört, da lese ich, dass Ex-Gitarrist Dan Spitz jetzt Uhren baut und da richtig gut ist. Awesome!

“When it comes to a watch’s quality, the truth is that the movement sucks ass or the movement kicks ass. With me, you are going to get the heavy metal answer from the heavy metal dude.”

Dan Spitz, former lead guitarist for thrash metal band Anthrax, has sold more than 15 million albums, been nominated for 3 Grammy’s, created over 10 studio albums – and now he is recognized as one of the best watchmakers in the world. After leading one of the greatest metal bands of all time, he abruptly departed Anthrax and pursued numerous courses of study to master the art of watchmaking.

Interview: Meet Dan Spitz, Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (via Boing Boing)

Oliver Sacks on Drugs and Hallucinations

Oliver SacksMein Lieblingsneurologe Oliver Sacks („Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte“) spricht mit den New Yorker in ihrem Out Loud Podcast über seine Drogenerfahrungen, die Hallus, die er hatte und wie das sein Interesse an Neurologie und dem Schreiben weckte. „I was heavily into Amphetamines.“ Der Podcast nervt erstmal fünf Minuten lang mit etwas anderem, dann kommt Olli: „Here Sacks talks with John Bennet and Sasha Weiss about some of his drug-induced hallucinations, how his interest in neurology connects to his experimentation with drugs, and how one drug experience led to his writing career.“

Auf dem Interview basiert ein aktueller Artikel im New Yorker, den gibt’s allerdings nur für Abonnenten, sollte der online auftauchen, sag ich Bescheid. Und: Das ganze ist natürlich Promo für sein im November erscheinendes Buch über Halluzinationen. Im Grunde macht Sacks hier sowas wie auf einen neurobiologischen Timothy Leary und das Buch ist für mich absolutes Pflichtprogramm.

Oliver SacksHave you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of animals and people. People with failing eyesight, paradoxically, may become immersed in a hallucinatory visual world. Hallucinations can be brought on by a simple fever or even the act of waking or falling asleep, when people have visions ranging from luminous blobs of color to beautifully detailed faces or terrifying ogres. Those who are bereaved may receive comforting “visits” from the departed. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one’s own body.

Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. As a young doctor in California in the 1960s, Oliver Sacks had both a personal and a professional interest in psychedelics. These, along with his early migraine experiences, launched a lifelong investigation into the varieties of hallucinatory experience.

Amazon-Partnerlink: Hallucinations (via MeFi)

Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Oliver Sacks @ Google and other Podcasts
Oliver Sacks über Augenkrebs
Oliver Sacks TED-Talk über Halluzinationen
Das neue Buch von Oliver Sacks: So funktioniert Musik

Making Of Napster: Interview mit Shawn Fanning

BBCs Geschichts-Podcast Witness hat ein kurzes, aber schönes Interview mit Shawn Fanning, dem Gründer von Napster und Erfinder von P2P:

Rob Walker speaks to Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster, the file sharing website that enabled music lovers to download songs from other people’s computers. Its success was meteoric but shortlived.

Founding Napster (MP3)

(Disclaimer: Ich hab vor einer ganzen Weile drei Jahre als Webdesigner und Art-Director für Napster gearbeitet.)

The Story of Richie Hawtin

Toller Podcast von BBCs Radio 1 mit einem einstündigen Portrait von Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman. Moderiert von Heidi van den Amstel, die wie Hawtin in Ontario aufgewachsen ist, mit jeder Menge Mucke von Kraftwerk bis Fischerspooner (und natürlich Plastikman) und jede Menge Interviews mit unter anderem Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins und Carl Craig (und natürlich Plastikman). Großartig! Das MP3 lädt nur mit ‘nem UK-Proxy, seltsamerweise läuft bei die Sendung bei mir über den BBC-Player problemlos.

Radio 1′s Heidi looks at the career and influence of long term friend Richie Hawtin. Heidi is ideally placed to tell the story of Richie as they both grew up in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from the birthplace of techno, Detroit.

Just before the start of a hectic Ibiza season, Heidi caught up with Richie at his flat in Berlin to talk in detail about his life to date. Hear her discover more about his early success as Plastikman, his label Plus 8 and his legendary warehouse parties in Detroit. They then move on to talk about his move first to New York and then on to Berlin. And the founding of M_nus, a record label and family of artists that went on to define the sound of minimal techno. Aside from the music, Rich and Heidi discuss his technical innovation and the live shows with M_nus and Plastikman that have helped define DJ culture itself.

Also featuring Seth Troxler and Ryan Crosson from Visionquest, Detroit legends Juan Atkins, Carl Craig and Jeff Mills, Richie’s brother Matthew and dad Mick, former M_nus members Magda, Marc Houle and Troy Pierce and long term friends Josh Wink and Loco Dice.

THE STORY OF RICHIE HAWTIN (via Swen)

Somehow related: Noch nicht reingehört, aber wahrscheinlich auch super: Human Beatboxing – Eine Lange Nacht der Stimmexperimente.

Tom Waits is The Joker

 Youtube Direktwaits, via Jason Kottke

Ein altes Interview mit Tom Waits in der australischen Don Lane Show von 1979 und sehr wahrscheinlich Heath Ledgers Vorlage für seine Joker-Performance in The Dark Knight.