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Die Antwoord sign to Interscope

Benjamin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:06:25 +0000

“When we did the big meeting with Interscope, Jimmy Iovine was telling me all about how badly their business has been harmed by the internet,” Ninja says, sipping black coffee. ” I can understand that but I said, ‘Jimmy, I want to give you a piece of samurai advice: Become the enemy.”

BNE Stickers

Benjamin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:27:27 +0000

Frank Schaeffer on Rachel Maddow

Benjamin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:34:49 +0000

Rick Klotz – Freshjive – Interview

Benjamin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:59:08 +0000

Freshjive is taking their logo and name off all products, website, and promotional materials starting in 2010. This will certainly be interesting to see as one of my biggest problems with street brands is that while much of their clothing may be very good, there is inevitably some huge logo slapped all over it ruining the whole thing.

I don’t doubt that the move will be a successful one however I wonder if it represents the first in an industry wide sea change or will it be only successful for the early bird (a la Radiohead’s donation system of In Rainbows)

The company is still Freshjive. It’s just that none of our product will have any of our logos or even our name AT ALL. Not even in the labels. And after the turn of the year, no promotional material, nor our website will have any logos. It’s really invigorating to approach designing a line WITHOUT the constrictions of how the logo is gonna be placed or used on the garments.

via the Strange Attractor

Auto-Tune the News #2: pirates. drugs. gay marriage.

Benjamin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:42:17 +0000

Click here for the first one. Some NSFW language. Thanks to Neal for the heads up.

Bill Hicks on Letterman

Benjamin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:33:56 +0000

Just a few nights ago on the 30th of January, David Letterman had Mary Hicks, Bill hicks’ mother, on his show to discuss why Letterman cut Bill’s last appearance from his show. You can watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview on youtube, and part 3, the actual performance which was cut, is below.
You can also read about the whole thing here, including Bill’s reaction: the Konformist

Justin Quinnell – Pinhole camera, six month exposure

Benjamin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:41:44 +0000

via Every Day I’m Tumblin’

Mind Reading

Benjamin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:37:41 +0000

A while ago I linked to a report about Japanese Scientists who had made a break-through in understanding brain activity to the point where they were able to correctly reconstruct the images inside a persons brain, effectively reading their mind. This is the accompanying video.

Solar Whiz Kid

Benjamin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:06:17 +0000

I love the beginning of this story:

“It all started with Lego”

via Fresh Creation

Scientists extract images directly from brain

Benjamin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:16:21 +0000

This is interesting:

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.

“These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity,” says Dr. Cheng. “In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of research may make it possible to read a person’s thoughts with some degree of accuracy.”

Pink Tentacle has more, or you can go directly to the results of the experiment published in the December issue of the science journal Neuron. Unfortunately to read the article online costs $35, so maybe try your local University.