Nick Buzinski

Grand Marais. Oh, ok. #beersbikesboatsbuz

thedailywhat:

Fixed That For You of the day: NSA’s Ugly Slideshow Gets a Makeover

You’d think the National Security Agency could afford a decent designer with their vast resources and classified budget, but as you may have already noticed, the recently leaked slideshow on the PRISM program suggests quite the contrary. So freelance designer Emiland De Cubber took it upon himself to help out the clandestine agency with their horrible design choices by redoing the entire presentation, which is available for public viewing on the presentation site SlideShare. After learning it the hard way that they can’t always keep their top secrets remain top-secret, perhaps the NSA won’t skimp on that part of the budget next time around.

acousmata:

Wire Recorder Piece (1944)
Halim El-Dabh

In 1944, Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh attended a zar ceremony, in which music and chanting are used to cast out evil spirits and heal the sick. Because the zar is typically performed exclusively by women, El-Dabh wore women’s headdress in order to enter unnoticed. He also smuggled in a portable wire recorder (a predecessor to the magnetic tape machine) which he had borrowed from the Middle East Radio Station in Cairo. El-Dabh recorded the ceremony and later processed the sounds, filtering out the lower frequencies and adding reverberation by re-recording in a room with movable wall panels. The result was this brief but haunting piece of sonic art, in which ethnographic field recording merges seamlessly with the transformational editing practices of electronic music.

Source: Crossing into the Electric Magnetic (2000)

Fascinating piece and background. 

darklyeuphoric:

Ajna @ svt Kobra (by iskogenibland)

AJNA is an electromechanical music machine created by Swedish collective I skogen ibland. It reminds me a bit of The Brothers Quay, Jeunet and Caro, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. All good things! [Via my pal Bryan Finoki a.k.a. @subtopes]

More at Composers Circle: http://composerscircle.com/jens-peterson-berger/ and at Music For Maniacs: http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2013/05/ajna-giant-strange-mechanical-music.html

I’ve only seen a few electromechanical instruments, but this is by far the best looking and most sonically intriguing. The materials used to build it lend an organic sound to the instrument, which, to me, belie its computer (midi?) controlled rigidity. I would love to see it played live rather than pre-programmed!

Light Leaks — via @Protein:

“The brainchild of two Danish designers, Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan, Light Leaks uses 50 mirror balls and three projectors to create a fairy-like light show… The installation required a series of five or six structured light scans, 41 pictures each, where McDonald and Jogenjan photographed different light projection patterns. They then analysed the position of every projected pixel and used SketchUp software to build a 3D model that allowed them to translate all the data into a glittering spectacle.”

Great effect, I’m sure it was quite a trick to figure out how to map the reflections and mirror surfaces so they could be activated precisely like that. Also, I was not aware that SketchUp resides in the projection mapper’s toolbox.

Chiaroscuro - an installation by Sougwen Chung

Interesting overlapping of projections, layers of light upon three-dimensional drawings bring them to life.

#chevy #chevrolet #vintage #chrome #truck (at 3rd Street Bar)

Happy DEMF Weekend/Official Techno Week in Detroit, everybody.

Shadow Child - So High (Original Mix)

lprnyc:

Conrad Tao’s “iridescence,” a piece for piano and iPad, will appear on his forthcoming debut album Voyages.

He is performing live at LPR Tonight.

Sam Amidon (@samamidon) - As I Roved Out (by @nonesuchrecords)

Sam Amidon’s voice is really doing it for me today, will be picking up his new album (its quite good, have a listen on Spotify). It is folk done with a bit of a more modern or minimalist style; Something of an abstraction at times, and at others it is sparse with a backbeat not usually found in folk tunes.

The video is also delightfully trippy.

Tis the season. (at Jim’s Frostie Treats)

kopietz:

Guardian Building, National Bank Building, Comerica Building (hey Joe!)
Central Business District, Detroit (2013)

Giro - Stage 7

#himom #nofilter (at Bloomer Park)

This is a tremendous font set from the illustrious Jessica Hische. I especially like that all elements can be used successfully on their own and not just in combination (or any number of combinations). Click through to her site for more examples if you’re enjoying it as much as I am..

!!! HD + fullscreen, do it.

X Games Detroit Bid - Official Video #XG2D @XGamesDetroit

thedetroitfoodie:

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To commemorate Cinco de Mayo, Imperial is hosting its first annual El Dia de la Batalla. Friday will be the kick-off event with custom painted skateboards up for auction,…