VJ FALK: Berlin VJBlogger

vjblogboyVJs are necessarily tech-literate folk, and unsurprisingly online VJ communities thrive across a range of bulletinboards, mailing lists and websites. VJ Falk probably pops up on most of them from time to time, ever the provocative pixel enthusiast. Fresh from the AVIT UK global gathering of VJs, he emailed about his recent VJ Blog development – ‘The world in VJ vision’ at http://vjblog.prototypen.com.

>What lead you to start VJ-Blogging? Continue Reading →

by Sean Healy, August 24, 2005 1 Comment

Network Game Engine Mechanics

It takes different strokes to rule the world, yes it does, it takes different strokes to rule the world. And if game culture is to be believed, theirs is an empire already larger than Hollywoods. However, the networked creation of games is also steadily infiltrating the worlds of art, design, music and film. Snapshots 1-5: Fijuu, Augmented Reality, Video Blogs, VJ Blogs & You Are Beautiful >> Continue Reading →

by Sean Healy, August 24, 2005 0 comments

Porn Rangers

tim-burr-r-r((*article pitched to Remix magazine (glossy, saturated with half-naked models & innuendo ). The editor loved it, and the finished article, but the producer baulked at last minute, claiming “ethically I can’t promote porn”. Saga lasted 6 months, printed up later in 3D World instead. ))

Half of our once standing forests have already been lost. And they continue to tumble, compounding the actual terrors of climate change and accelerating species extinction. Media-savvy eco-activists have been telling us this for decades, but we get easily distracted. However, not many environmentalists have public relations strategies like Tommy Hol Ellingsen and Leona Johansson of fuckforforest.com. Continue Reading →

by Sean Healy, August 18, 2005 0 comments

Polyphonic Pattern Recognition

‘Rearview thinking’ has been described as the way humans sometimes try to grasp the road ahead by looking through the rearview mirror rather than the windscreen at the actual road in front of them. Put another way, we are always filtering our understanding of the new, through what we expect from the old. Add statistical analysis and you get Polyphonic HMI ( www.polyphonichmi.com ), a company dedicated to the science of hit predictions, who claim they can accurately recommend which music will appeal to an individual or entire market. Record companies and artists are already hiring them to improve their chances of a hit. CEO Mike McCready explains your taste in music: Continue Reading →

by Sean Healy, August 18, 2005 0 comments

Smooth Operators : Telephonics, globalisation & outsourcing

sms fleshAnother notch along the dizzying climb of human evolution – calling the local multinational pizza parlour can now divert us to someone from another country, happy to recite a menu and take our delivery order. There’s a stoner sci-fi novel in there somewhere.

Call Centre Chaos
“..Call me any anytime…
…Call me, call me for some overtime”
– Blondie, back in the days before mobile phones.

As well as the large number of impoverished people India holds, it’s population of 1 billion people also carries an educated middle class larger than that of the United States, and a booming IT industry. The combination of IT saturation and cheap labour is fast gathering India a reputation as the call centre capital of the world Continue Reading →

by Sean Healy, August 18, 2005 0 comments