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I’ve heard stories of people reading encyclopedias or dictionaries straight through, cover to cover. In everyone’s favorite existential-downer novel, Nausea, the “Self Taught Man” tries to read a whole library alphabetically. The basic spirit here – trying to swallow whole text that was meant to be referenced as needed – I guess I can get [...]
Here is a really succinct summary of the most popular criticisms of capitalism, by G.A. Cohen, who identified as a analytical marxist (“marxism without the bullshit”) and had a really weird sense of humor.
This is a preliminary version of an idea I had about a year and a half ago, which I wrote earlier this year and then forgot about. It’s an automated match cut between an orthogonal projection of a cube and two-dimensional polygons with simulated mass and solidity (thanks to box2d). You can see (occasionally kludgy) [...]
The following problem is considered by Bjorklund, in connection with the operation of certain components (such as high voltage power supplies) of spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators used in nuclear physics.
Construct a binary sequence of n bits with k one’s, such that the k one’s are distributed as evenly as possible among the zero’s. For [...]
Last year I asked Metafilter where I could find more music like Doctor P’s Sweet Shop, a rave nostalgia track that seemed to be mandatory play during the months I’d been going to shows in England. Empath came through with this seemingly canonical but in any case brilliant playlist of early 90’s rave tunes with [...]
A stream of the Los Angeles police scanner feed and dramatic ambient music, via Metafilter Projects.
Reminds me of this KLF track. I’m impressed and confused by how evocative even prosaic spoken word recordings can sound with some music behind them.
Artist Golan Levin maintains “An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research”.
Popular uses of the effect include the stargate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey and (if you’re British) these Dr. Who titles. In many CMOS image sensors, the diachronic polling of pixels is considered a bug, leading smartphone owners to [...]
After two or three years of halfheartedly playing with SuperCollider every now and then, I finally bothered to read the documentation for it’s language-side (as oppose to server-side) sequencing features. This is what most SC users are, for good reason, most enthusiastic about. It’s a very flexible and (as far as I know) unusual approach [...]
Davidope produces animated gifs, often with an op-art feel, and curates pretty sweet examples of the same.