The Autumn of the Multitaskers

I’ve been waiting to read this article for quite a while…
www.theatlantic.com/doc/2007…titasking

come on, read it with me.

Pecha Kucha Tonight

Going to Pecha Kucha tonight!
www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/san-francisco
more: pechakucha-sf.com/
(voted “BEST HYPERINTELLECTUAL SHOW-AND-TELL” in the bay area by the San Francisco Guardian!!)

Sounds like an interesting event… kinda like ADAC but on more of a sharing level. I’m going to be interested to hear what some of these people have to show. Maybe someday i’ll show some work there.

Also… THIS: sdo.seoul.go.kr/english/index.html seems like a good enough reason to go back to Seoul for a visit! I like how there is a picture of the olympic stadium they built in 1988 (the last time i was there) and right next to it it says that it’s going to to be held in the Jamsil Sports Complex Main Stadium… conference hall. =(

Direct Note Access

Ho Lee Sheeeit….

My jaw is on the floor right now… this is seriously going to change everything about the way we make music.
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/04/miraculous_dire.php

easily the coolest thing i’ve seen all year…

Musiks and Contact Improv @ Sera Phi Tonight!!!

I’m gonna try to get there before so i can check out the contact improv workshoppy… i have always wanted to try that…

Come for the dance.. stay for teh swami. =)

Connectivate

Friday, April 18th, 9pm – 5am (at least)
Entry $15 – $25 Sliding Scale
2829 California Street

Word of Mouth is proud to announce Connectivate, a collaborative benefit to aid Jamie Luv’s community building and reproductive health project for orphans in Ghana, Africa.

Connectivate will be located at Sera Phi, a fascinating new venue in the San Francisco underground community. Sera Phi is a multi disciplinary experiment aimed at redefining the synergy, between self- healing culture and the creative arts.

www.seraphi.org/

The evening will be divided between 3 rooms of gathering and celebration, plus an outside area featuring live fire performance.

Room 1 – Hosted by Sera Studious –
www.sera-studios.com/services.html
An original and innovate dance floor composed of 14 subwoofers and 4 raised speakers in each corner of the ceiling. A unique dance experience you need to feel, to believe.

Room 1 Schedule:

10pm – Eye gazing workshop: Experimentation in the exhilarating and subtle art of connection to the other.
11pm- Contact Improvisation: Experimentation in playful, partnered dance.

Performers
11:30pm- Syd Gris (Opel Productions)
www.opelproductions.com/archiv…064.php
1am – Seventh Swami – (Ambient Mafia)
www.myspace.com/seventhswami
2am – Genji – (WoM, LAB) profile.myspace.com/index.cfm <profile.myspace.com/index.cfm
3am – Cumulus – (WoM, LAB) people.tribe.net/samiam805
4am – Mino – (MK2 Systems) mk2systems.com/memekast/mk021

Room 2 – Hosted by Sera Lounge www.seralounge.com/
Enjoy super food libations and the company of others over delicious conversation and energizing elixirs.

Room 3 – Hosted by Word of Mouth – www.womsound.com <www.womsound.com/>
Bay Area talent brought to you in a black light den of dance.

Room 3 Schedule

9pm – DJ Faith
10pm – Niles (MK2 Systems) mk2systems.com/memekast/mk017
11pm – DJ Free
12pm – The Spit Brothers www.myspace.com/thespitbrothers
1am – Outersect www.outersect.net/
2am – Space Invader (MK2 Systems) mk2systems.com/memekast/mk022
3am – Unagi (WoM) profile.myspace.com/index.cfm <profile.myspace.com/index.cfm
4am – Eugene Steele (WoM) people.tribe.net/djeeno

Seraphi Center
2829 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Entry $15 – $25 Sliding Scale

Things that are important to me and things that are not

I used to be a real stickler about using title case text in my blog title line.

Now it doesn’t keep me up at night.

I used to try to promote green awareness.

Now i tire of promoting the “green bubble”

I used to really want my opinion heard too.

Now i gauge whether or not it’s worth the effort it takes to actually open my mouth and use my lungs.

I used to care to archive every single last thing that i thought i might want to see/use later.

Now the internet (and the forthcoming “grid”) are changing the way i think about “ownership” and challenging some of my most fundamental instincts.

Information overload. My ways of thinking are going to have to change if i am to survive this transition without running myself completely insane.

Time for a vin diesel break…
http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=vin

Did you know if you reaarange the letters in “Vin Diesel” it spells “I End Lives”??? Holy crap i thought MY anagram-name was cool! I certainly can’t top that.

Yuri’s Night 2008

Calling all cosmonauts, inventors, dreamers, and explorers…
tickets for Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008
are now on sale!

2PM–2AM SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2008
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER, MOFFETT FIELD, CA

www.ynba.org

$40 online, $50 at the door
VIP tickets $200
Tickets are available at www.ynba.org

Once a year in over a hundred places all over the world, Yuri’s Night commemorates the anniversary of the launch of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

This year the San Francisco Bay Area will be home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever. At the NASA Ames Research Center over 8,000 people will join scientists, musicians, and artists to learn, celebrate, and pay tribute to our global space heritage; and to celebrate the anniversaries of the first human spaceflight and the first space shuttle mission. Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008 is a one-of-a-kind local community event: a perfect fusion of celebration and tribute, technology expo, Maker Faire, art exhibition, and music festival; all rolled into one.

Yuri’s Night Speakers
Come and be inspired by amazing talks by NASA scientists and other pioneers in space exploration and radical technology, and keep your minds moving through the event with our brand-new Festival of Ideas!

Here are some of this year’s speakers to whet your appetite:
World-renowned video game designer Will Wright, creator of SimCity, SimEarth, The Sims, and many other games, including his exciting upcoming game of life, evolution, and exploration, Spore

NASA astrobiologist Jonathan Trent, leader of the new NASA G.R.E.E.N. team for green technology research
Saul Griffith, an MIT-trained mad scientist and founder of one of the most innovative green power companies today, Makani Power
Remarks by Stewart Brand, a founder of The Long Now Foundation and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog
… and many more!

Yuri’s Night Music
This year we are expanding our musical offerings to include TWO FULL STAGES, which means more performers and more variety. Artists from a wide array of musical traditions will be playing all day long. Check the schedule for details.

Electronic music by:
Amon Tobin (Ninja Tune, Montreal)
A special twilight downtempo set by Tipper (HI)
John Tejada (LA/palette recordings): live set
Lusine (Ghostly Intl., Seattle): live set
Scuba (Hotflush Recordings, UK)
Digitonal vs. Posthuman (UK): with live violin
… and many more!
Live vocal and instrumental music by:
Telstar (Featuring: Phil Lesh, Steve Molitz, & John Molo)
Freezepop (Rykodisc, Boston): indie synthpop / new wave
Particle (LA): free-wheelin’ space grooves
BLVD w/ Souleye (LA): hip-hop flavored jam shred
Zoë Keating: avant garde looping cello
… and many more!

Other Highlights
A technology showcase featuring leading Bay Area alternative energy companies including SolFocus, Wrightspeed, The California Cars Initiative, and Tesla Motors.

Dozens of art and science installations spanning everything from NASA Lunar Research Robots to the unveiling of the newest sculptures by Michael Christian the Flaming Lotus Girls.

Live performances of all kinds, from dance and acrobatics by Capacitor (San Francisco’s ground-breaking interdisciplinary dance company) to aerial demonstrations featuring Yuri-Gagarin-era Aerobatic Aircraft.
…and much, much more!

Check out www.ynba.org for all of the details.

2008 VIP Information
The VIP area will feature a quiet indoor lounge overlooking the hangar, in addition to a heated tent providing easy access to the rest of the event; both will be excellent for small business meetings and networking. The VIPs will also have private demonstrations from several of the technology exposition participants about current and future technologies and projects.

The VIP package is fully catered and includes food and drinks throughout the day in addition to a dinnertime meal. Discounted hotel accommodations may be available for out-of-town VIPs. VIP tickets are onsale now for $200.

Equity, TONIGHT! — Yuri’s Night, THIS SATURDAY!

Just a quick heads up… I will be performing at two different events this week, and unveiling two new tracks to the public ear… If you have nothing else going on, swing on by!

***TONIGHT***
EQUITY @ IL PIRATA
2007 16th St, SF.
5:30pm-9:30pm
– Swami from 7:30-9:30pm –
www.false-profit.com/2008/04/09/equity/

***SATURDAY (4-12-08)***
YURI’S NIGHT @ NASA-AMES RESEARCH CENTER
Moffett Field, CA.
2:00pm-2:00am
– Swami from 6-7pm –
www.ynba.org/2008/

Amazon Fucking RULES

THING THAT RULES #1:
www.amazon.com/Uranium-Or…pd_sbs_misc

This was funny enough… but look down a little further at “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought:”…. Yes I’d like some forbidden legos and a futurama dvd with my radioactive isotope please.

But wait! Look right above that at “Better Together”… you can buy Uranium Ore WITH Forbidden Legos (the Models Your Parents Warned You Against) for only $46.42!

Actually that Forbidden Legos book looks awesome! So far, from what i can tell, it’s all automatic projectile weapons… but that does raise the interesting question… “Who buys this together with Uranium Ore?”… kinda scary.

THING THAT RULES #2
www.amazon.com/JL421-Bado…pd_sbs_misc

Found it futher down on the same page under “Customer who viewed this item also viewed:” right next to Dr John’s Famous Pee Pee and Duncan Hines Classic Yellow Cake.

A brief read reveals that this thing runs on an air-cooled gasoline engine… NOT the uranium, thank god…

I would TOTALLY own this device. I would TOTARRY mob the fuck out of this thing on the playa… not for $20K or anything… but for cheaper. It looks like Jabba the Hutt’s Mini-Me’s Sand Barge. Not only that, if you look down a little you’ll notice that customers who bought items like this tank also bought mad crotchless panties which totally makes sense. I mean it has to get hot inside that thing right? When you kidnap your mini Princess Leia you have to have the right gear to dress her up in for when she sits at the foot of your slab.

So the plan for burning man this year is as follows…

1. Pick up giant bag of legos from mom’s house.
2. Build Badokadonk Land Cruiser replica out of legos
3. Buy uranium ore and crotchless panties
4. Kidnap midget Carrie Fisher
5. Sit on concrete slab and eat frogs while demanding Solo and the wookie.

Killer Motion Graphics

I saw “The Kingdom” a few weeks back… and even though the movie was kind of “ho hum” sensationalism, the intro blew me the fuck away. It is an amazing blend of info graphics, motion graphics and video footage… seamless and powerful.

luckily, the design group has it online for us to view =)
www.picagency.com/kingdom_movie.html

I am especially impressed with how there is 2D type floating in 3D space… and when the camera moves it creates differing text sizes that align in typographically sound ways on the horizon line. Also the 3D oil consumption bar-graph for the United States turning into the WTC was pretty clever.

Bar Codes Can Be Beautiful Too

With a little TLC, even the most mundane corners of your life can be beautiful.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/japanese-creative-barcodes.html