Tag: Artistic

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (Episode 1)

Now, having seen more Japanese TV than the average American I can tell you that this is just about what normal daytime programming is like in Japan. Just kidding, but this is an amusing and well crafted parody. ‘Talk to the hotdog, he can read your mind’. HA! If anyone ever needed a definition of the word ‘engrish’ this would be it.
As the video discription states:

One part Pee Wee’s Playhouse, one part crazy, unpredictable Japanese talk show, and one part whole milk. Mix and serve chilled. Written by Kim Evey and directed by Greg Benson. .. May not be suitable for children. Or adults.

I hope there are more episodes coming up soon, this is the most entertainment I’m had in weeks! The clip is produced by  Mediocre Films out of LA and looks to be something that I’m going ot have to keep looking out for.

Time-Synchronous Photography

zb1 This grabbed my eye today.

Camera-object designed for time-syncronized double exposures of opposing settings (180°) on one film. 2x agfa box (widely modified), wire, glass, plasic, velvet, double cable release, roll-film (modified/ without halation protection)

Looks like a nice camera mod.

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zeitsynchrone photographie
(machine translated page from original German)

Soundgin Audio Synth On A Chip

Today on Retro Thing I saw that there is a new on chip audio synthesizer on the market.

The Soundgin is a serially controlled Sound Synthesizer in a PIC.
It produces complex sound effects, synthesizer style music and English speech with an unlimited vocabulary.
For use in manufactured electronics and home projects. .
The Soundgin is an 18-Pin Microchip PIC18F1320 that has been programmed to generate complex sounds by incorporating six oscillators which can interact with each other in various ways. The oscillators are configured by sending short serial commands to the Soundgin via the RX pin. These configurations result in the Soundgin’s oscillators continuously generating sound. The Soundgin also contains presets that can be used to configure the oscillators to generate predefined sound such as a Gong, Steam Engine, Etc… The six are spit up into two identical units referred to as Sound Engines.

The sample on the page are quite good. I can see this as an easy to implement addition to a  lot of DIY music projects or a speech synthesizer for robots.

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Soundgin

Prophetic Postcards Back From 1914

Old Russian postcardsThis is good look at a future that might have been.

This is a series of old postcards back from 1914 describing their look in future of Moscow city.
Authors in 1914 tried to figure out how would their city look after 100-200-300 years from then.
We now can see were they successful or not.
The picture above shows how should look one of Moscow highways in 200 years after 1914. It should be totally polished with an ice so that ultramodern air-motored sleighs could glide fast and easy.

English Russia » Prophetic Postcards Back From 1914

Apophysis Fractal Flame Editor

Oh cool, a fractal flame editor for Windows. What’s a fractal flame? Well it’s like a regular fractal except that it the colors can be moderated by the structure and not the density and a few other things that frankly I just don’t have the maths to explain. More info can be had here if your up for some heavy equations and stuff. I just know that they look darn cool and can be animated. They can also be edited and transformed via  a GUI  window.

Apophysis.org
Cosmic Recursive Fractal Flames

Gisele Kerozene


Years and years ago there was this TV show called Night Flight. I’ve written about the show at least once, remembering all the new and cool things that I saw on it. Well one of the things I remember the best was a short film called ‘Gisele Kerozene‘. It stood out from the other shorts that were shown that night because it was a masterful display of  live action stop moion animation. Seeing all those flying  broom stick riding witches racing around a city was something I had never seen before. It’s a technique that is very hard on your actors, they have to keep jumping up and down in order to keep hovering (think yogi levitation) and the camera operator needs to be quick on the shutter to catch everyone at the apex of their jumps. It’s hard, some friends and I messed around with it years ago with my super 8 film camera. If I could find the results I’d post them. I haven’t seen ‘Gisele Kerozene’ in years and when I found it on YouTube Ijust had to tell everyone.