Lemme pique your interest…

I’ve squatted on a number of interesting links for a good long while now, so let me blow your mind with this freakishly long list that I hope you have the patience to go through…seriously incredible stuff

lol, the last time I had a big list of links like this I had made for Sander Kleinenberg, he just got overwhelmed and never really had the time to go through em – give me a lil more credit than he did ok? Haha I know some of you “Digg”, or use reddit, or plenty of other aggregates, but well I’m being honest, some of these will stun you:

Geeky Shit:

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad

LilyPad Arduino

Buy it

^^I just bought a set of LilyPad Arduino gizmos and I’m gonna get started on building a MIDI glove over break!

Previously I had wanted to put a piezo in my shoe with regular Arduino on my ankle with a Bluetooth module: then I’d have wireless toe-tapping to MIDI

Somebody else had a similar foot focus…

Automatic Projector Calibration – To think what this means for holograms and androids =D

Johnny Lee is a badass, here’s another two of his vids:

Make a virtual whiteboard out of ANY surface!

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote –SOOOO COOL!

Beautiful projected art from a group of French artists

VVVV

vvvv is the visual programming framework that is blowing my mind right now…I really would love a career working with it and music. I’m dead serious.

Creators of vvvv

http://tonfilm.blogspot.com/2007/02/hd-video-rendering-with-realtime-fft.html

Gustavo Bravetti

http://tonfilm.blogspot.com/2007/02/hd-video-rendering-with-realtime-fft.html

http://www.looksgood.de/log/2007/02/03/seelenlose-automaten/

^^represents some of my ideas towards music/video synthesis…I find this example to be boring and rather ugly, but they show the link between music and video through MIDI. I plan on researching many many different methods of synthesis before I really pursue production so that I can better design the simultaneous generation

V-Scratch

VIP Club in St Tropez uses Arkaos Visual Synthesis and removed conventional lighting

Fishbowl Music!

With the rise in high-fidelity sampling and badass controllers…things are getting quite interesting

Some info behind the developments in Intel CPU technology

Monome is a very cool midi interface, but check out this kit towards saving a few hundred bucks
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7835

DriveImage XML –lets you backup a drive partition progressively

http://www.instructables.com is a site that’s been around a while but not enough people know about! I love how random all the stuff is, one of my cousins wanted that “Dangerous Book for Boys” but he should just logon to instructables…

http://www.instructables.com/id/MintyBoost!—Small-battery-powered-USB-charger/

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Fool-a-Fingerprint-Security-System-As-Easy-/

http://www.instructables.com/id/Torches-and-Firebreathing/

See what I mean? Everything from grandma’s recipes to apartment fixes to mischief…

Wave power market being developed in Cali

Translucent Concrete

Electricity over glass

I’m glad I don’t have so much free time on my hands that I scan vinyls to listen to them…but none the less…its pretty cool to read about

Astronomy pictures of the year

A quick fix for all you PS3 owners to improve picture quality –gah I wish I had some disposable income to have this problem hehe
Using Yahoo Pipes to search websites:
http://www.witigonen.com/2007/10/29/how-actually-search-craigslist/

Artsy and random:

Amazing Light Artists – Make sure to watch their videos, Star Trek vs Star Wars is dope

Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures, they are stunning!!!

Intense macro photography of different insects

http://weburbanist.com/2007/06/11/urban-street-art-installation-projects-satirical-sophisticated-silly-sublime/

Absinthe is legal now…too bad it will prolly still taste like licorice shit I wasn’t a huge fan of our import last year…

one of the reasons why my wait for TimeWarner to install cable isn’t so bad:
http://www.alluc.org

and finally a cool surrealist my gf showed me a few months ago that i just found a link on my cluttered desktop for

Politics:

I don’t mean to push personals…my opinion is that if you just expose yourself to as many different sources of biased information or better yet, factual reporting, then hopefully you can stand in the middle of the polarized madness and reach some kind of awareness…don’t let me offend you guys, but I just wanted to share the following:

Scary but true

This seems to coincide with the FBI news…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102544_pf.html

If we’re starting to laud the lawyers…sheesh

Bush is a liar. Call it like it is.

Wow…did you honestly get through all that? Well then, peep this:

www.charlie.la/sander

Thanks for puttin up with all my ranting, I’m just excited and love to share ideas. Please, please send me stuff that intrigues you! whatever it may be!

Take care,

Charlie