Steadily growing a reputation in the softsynth (software based synthesiser) world is Absynth by Native Instruments, now available for mac and PC. Famous for his other-worldy compositions and claiming to be from outer space, Sun Ra was the greatest jazz … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, June 5, 2003 1 Comment
X-ray specs have been enlisted in the fight against the smuggling of exotic animals. Alongside super-intelligent beagles, X-rays represent formidable barriers to wanna-be smugglers. For example, take Jessica Dean & Marc Eiden of TukTuk Productions. While they’d struggle to smuggle … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, May 19, 2003 0 comments
Sometimes when you get very, very close to someone elses’ eye, and focus on the reflections gliding on the surface, you can reach a certain hovering point where the eye-life gets all slithery and magnified. As though you’ve become privy … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, May 19, 2003 0 comments
Understandably most hairdressers are psychic. Hair is your cosmic antennae after all, only one head-click away from the information supergooey. Yet monks are bald, so one has to wonder about the benefits of separation, of cutting connections with the rest … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, May 5, 2003 0 comments
Scientist’s have found the part of our brain that responds when someone else’s similar sounding mobile phone rings. Turns out the test-subject even had a memory structure that mimicked an automated answering ‘service’. The kind that says ‘Press 1’ – … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, May 4, 2003 0 comments