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Spy Radio

Well, I´m not sure what to think about The Conet Project, but at least the idea of shortwave radio being used for espionage purposes during Cold War sound interesting. And intriguing!

Ö3 podcast

Ö3 zum Mitnehmen: radio station Ö3 now also offers podcast. I didn´t manage to download it with FeedDemon, but iPodder worked! Ok, I´m late into the podcasting phenomenon.

Just when is actually the Ö3 Wecker (= the morning show) podcast published? When you go to the office in the morning (to listen to it on the way)? I guess not - probably it´s published after the end of the show at 9 am. So it´s would be cool to download the postcast to your mobile phone - do you know any application for a mobile phone that would offer this feature??? - or stream it to your phone.

Update: FeederReader is available for Windows Mobile phones.

Bored?

Let´s draw!

musicbox

The folks from tokyoplastic have a new animation called musicbox. Only viewable with flash, stereophonic sound and a broadband connection. Enjoy!

Vorsprung durch Technik

A good presentation & great music: The new Audi A6.

Up to the skies

The Museum of Modern Art has a great online exhibition on tall buildings, which surprisingly includes the Porr Towers which are currently being built in Vienna. There´s even a book available (via das-netzbuch).

However, my favorite unbuilt skyscraper project is missing: the 600m high, 150 story, US$ 1.5 billion Nagoya Expo 2005 Tower featured in the book Building a New Millenium, a great architecture book. Love it!

Weekend special

Ryan Snelson is looking for a job. Buy now for $54,999! Short but effective CV.

Endless youth

Yesterday I found a program to generate fractal images. It´s not so interesting anymore than 20 years ago on a Commodore C64 because it´s way to fast on present computers. I remember rendering fractals or with another program a coastline - it took forever and thus it was exciting (to wait and see what it will bring).

Life is also exciting and takes even more time. I can´t believe it´s 20 years since the C64 days. Much has happened in between, some things unfortunately or fortunately did not happen or a still to come, though I still feel like that I and some friends haven´t really changed. We still meet, have fun, do sports, travel and do stuff we have done 10 years ago - but somehow time has passed. The fractals, on the other hand, always remain young - no matter how much you zoom inside, they look alike.

Rent or Buy?

The NYT has an article on whether you should buy DVD´s or rent them - and on those folks that collect lots of them.

The most collected movies? LOTR 1&2, The Matrix and Fight Club.

Japanese influence

While surfing the web I keep stumbling over interesting japanese stuff - such as the Witch Hunter Robin anime - a live-action sci-fi series with amazing graphics (found via Zy.ca). Then of course Kill Bill Vol. 2 is coming out in a week.

Also the new Pet Shop Boys hit single Flamboyant (click here for Amazon Germany) includes a music video with footage from a famous japanese game show. According to the PSB press release, the video (WMP) is based on the eccentric Japanese tv show Kaso Taisho. The video is directed by Nico Beyer, a German commercials director based on Paris. Show contestants have to come up with a "flamboyant" creative idea to make themselves famous - hence the title of the single.

The video juxtaposes Pet Shop Boys in commercials endorsing a variety of incredible invented products with real footage taken from the game show (one of the most popular in Japan) and narrative footage of a prospective contestant on the show. In typical Japanese game show style, our hero goes through a variety of situations in preparation for his becoming a game of billiards (it all makes sense when you see the video).

The Kaso Taisho game show features stuff such as the japanese matrix-style ping pong game and other stuff.

Oh, Japan looks so great!

Update 12/04/2004: The video is available in various flavours: Real (large 320x240, small 240x180), Window Media Player (large 320x240, small 240x180). While you can always zoom to a full screen version, it´s get heavy pixelated. With the Real version, it´s possible to change to theater mode and then only watch a 2x version. Does anyone know what size is included on the single CD?

the economist

daidala is reporting on the design of ´the economist´ from the past to the present.

Digitally abstract

Found some good desktops from prmthn.net (a site by 18 year old Canadian Digital Artist Humza Ijaz): the winning piece for the Digital Abstracts Desktop Competition (1024x768 or 1600x1200) and a piece created for the Media Inspiration Desktop Competition (1024x768 or 1600x1200)

There´s also a great video using pictures from the artist - Joost Korngold´s video "Deep" using FatboySlim´s track "Song for Shelter" (Quicktime, 69 MB; found via Stefan Freimark) - and some work for Virgo Magazine, which you should check out as well. The Renascent website (of Joost Korngold) is also very good and shows some commercial and not-commercial projects - the videos Fuse Voodoo and Parallax are especially good.

Vivaldi in the car

The flash site pivotdesign is cool - especially Vivaldi with a few motor car sounds in the background :-) (via ultrashock)

Surfing Flash Websites

Robert Reich has a cool portfolio website (thx to enlargeyourpen) and Vodafone has a great presentation (really impressed!) on the mobile future (thx to ultrashock). CISHollywood has some good video sequences, though you´ll definitely need a broadband connection for that.

tokyoplastic

tokyoplastic is great. Turn the volume up!! (found via enlargeyourpen)

Real and yet unreal

View some beautiful digital life forms at { Digiquaria } (thx das-netbuch.de).

For more great multimedia check netdiver, where you can find lot´s of interesting sites such as Independence, which has a nice video player.

How to present a new phone

Actually the Flash presentation (9 MB!) from Nokia for the new Nokia 6230 phone is a bit too good - after all it´s just a phone.

Digital not real!

It´s not a real baby, but it´s still cute. The Pleix net Site has also some other good films, especially "Beauty kit" and "Plaid itsu". Pleix is a virtual community of digital artists based in Paris.

Naked? Not really !

Digital artist Jason Salavan has produced composite portraits of Playboy magazine centerfolds throughout the last decades - you can imagine that this photos show barenaked ladies, but not more. Actually, it could be any kind of meat, or whatever.

GABOCORP is back!

GABOCORP is back!