An Extraordinary Mix

If i may gush here for a moment…

Piracy Funds Socialism

http://metaph.org/music/03/

This was sent to me several weeks ago by my friend Watson… A pair of mixes that i keep enjoying more and more each time i listen to them. I am reposting the link here for you all to check out. I love a mix with a mission. And this is one of the prettiest and most inspiring concoctions i’ve had the pleasure of devouring this year.

Click on any of the above links to begin your journey… or if you don’t feel like reading (or are as a.d.d. and impatient as i tend to be) then you can use this direct link to the mixes:
http://metaph.org/music/03/transmit.html#music
Enjoy! =)~S

White Xmas Party Update

the 2nd area (outdoor) has been cancelled on account of poor weather.

Therefore i will NOT be playing there this Saturday.

Perhaps i will see you friday night at Chappy’s shindig in the city. =)

Namasté,
~S

Antikythera Decrypted by Museum Curator

Reposted from http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/2000-year-old-a.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world’s first computer.

A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.

The original 81 shards of the Antikythera were recovered from under the sea (near the Greek island of Antikythera) in 1902, rusted and clumped together in a nearly indecipherable mass. Scientists dated it to 150 B.C. Such craftsmanship wouldn’t be seen for another 1,000 years — but its purpose was a mystery for decades.

Many scientists have worked since the 1950s to piece together the story, with the help of some very sophisticated imaging technology in recent years, including X-ray and gamma-ray imaging and 3-D computer modeling.

Now, though, it has been rebuilt. As is almost always the way with these things, it was an amateur who cracked it. Michael Wright, a former curator at the Science Museum in London, has built a replica of the Antikythera, which works perfectly.

In the video from New Scientist below, Wright shows how the machine works.

In short, Antikythera’s user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the movements of planetary bodies and incorporating a series of submechanisms to account for the eccentricities of their rotation.

A dial on the faceplace featured the Greek zodiac and an Egyptian calendar; pointers showed the location of the moon and the five planets known at the time. On the machine’s back, an upper dial shows a 19-year calendar (matching the solunar cycle) and the timing of upcoming Olympic games. A lower dial shows a 76-year cycle (when the Olympic and solunar cycles coincide) and indicates the months in which lunar and solar eclipses can be expected.

According to New Scientist, this is the first working model of the Antikythera computer to include all of the device’s known features. And, like the original machine, it has been built of recycled metal plates. That’s right: The Antikythera mechanism is not only the world’s oldest computer, it’s also the world’s first green computer.

Evil Breaks White Xmas Party THIS SATURDAY!

You don’t want to miss out on this one…

sign up for the special email list at www.evilbreaks.com

E.B.’s 3rd Annual Xmas party & gift exchange:
White X-Mas
Saturday, December 20th
Underground Location (signup required)

$5 with a gift to exchange
$10 without a gift
10pm-7am

Like the last couple “White X-Mas” parties, you’ll get in on the cheap if you bring a wrapped gift valued between $5 & $10 for our little gift exchange. We’ve had terrific fun with this, and I’d have to say that this event has got to be one of the most interactive events of all time. & to really top off this years show, Bam is also going to be celebrating his graduation from “Expression” which is the night before. So if you see him, give him a congrats & a shot….haha.

As always with this party, we will be limiting attendance to keep it smaller, more personal, and comfortable for everyone attending, the last 2 years we had to shut the door down by midnight.

Oh yeah, wear white.

DJ’s for the night:

Aaron Jae (E.B./Space Cowboys)
Bam (E.B./Invibe)
Mozaic (Nexus/Raindance)
Little John (Raindance)
Ben Haus (Acid Totem)
3L3Tronic (Bianca vs. Devo)
Athena vs. Evinrude

2nd room chill DJ’s:

Mr. Projectile
M.O.D. (E.B./Strategik) – special oldskool hip-hop set
Tamo (Angels of Bass)
Swami (Ambient Mafia)
Dirt – Special sunrise set

When Life Hands You Shrimp Ramen… Make Seafood Bisque.

Thanks to budget cuts, our cupboards at work are getting barer by the day. The nuts and raisins bin is empty. The multi-grain bread has been replaced with a sad solitary loaf of generic white bread. And the somehow-mandatory supply of chicken flavored cup-o-noodles has been replenished with the most ridiculous collection of shrimp flavored cup-o-noodles i’ve ever seen. Old Mother Hubbard is having a laugh at me. It’s the same price right? Why shrimp? In case an auditor comes through here and looks in the cupboards? “yup… they’re not splurging… nobody would buy shrimp cup-o-noodles voluntarily.”

Anyway… my coworker and i have been joking about it ever since we found this recipe online… so she says to me “Hey i think you KNOW what this means. The universe is trying to tell you to make that bisque.”

“Dammit” i say. For she is right.

Here’s how it works:
1. go to kitchen and open shrimp cup o noodle package
2. peel back lid.
3. pour milk into cup up to line.
4. shake head in disbelief.
5. covertly stand in front of microwave so nobody sees what you’re doing.
6. clean up milk that has boiled over and reduce power of microwave to 50%
7. add a little water
8. throw away epic failure of a lunch… start over.
9. eat some chips while “bisque” cooks for 2nd time.
10. bring concoction back to desk… realize you have lost your appetite completely… leave steaming hot bowl of japanese crackhead food on coworker’s desk and go on about your day.

Yeah you’re gonna have to try it yourself. I am afraid. Two things i can’t stand man… milk and shrimp-flavored cup-o-noodles. This is what they feed inmates in the phillipines. I’ll have coffee instead.

Flaming Lotus Girls Fundraiser TONIGHT!

Hey All,

If you haven’t heard already, the Ambient Mafia is teaming up with Evil Breaks to help throw a fundraiser for the Flaming Lotus Girls. They’re totally destitute because of their last Burning Man project, Mutopia.

This is TONIGHT (Friday). The party is at an awesome spot in the East Bay. If you get there early, we’re only asking for a donation. By the way, we predict the party will be at capacity by MIDNIGHT. So yeah, get a presale or get there early!

Actual Rafiq and Redstickman will be starting out the night in the gallery room at 7pm.

The Ambient Mafia will be bringing the chill in the outdoor lounge starting at 9pm.

Yours truly will be on from 12:30-1:30 with some crunchy dubsteppy hip-hoppy haw-flakes

Come by early, save some $$ at the door, and enjoy the art. The event WILL sell out, so either get your presales or come early!

Hope you can make it – we’d love to see you!

http://www.flaminglotus.com/party.html

Flaming Lotus Girls and Evil Breaks Presents:

In The Red!

Gallery Show and late night fundraiser.

Friday December 5th 2009, East Bay Location
7pm Gallery Show and Cocktail Party
10pm-6am Party!

$15 door, $10 presales and before 11.pm
Info line for address: 415.963.3555. Presales Tickets here

Line Up:

Fine Cut Bodies- Budapest
(Chi Recordings/Record Records/Moving Target/FineCutBodies.com)

Aaron Jae (Evil Breaks, Space Cowboys) Vs BAM (Evil Breaks) vs MOD (Evil Breaks)
Mozaic (Raindance/Nexus)
Syd Gris (Opel, Opulent Temple)
JD (False Profit)
Robb Green (Shameless)

Ernie Trevino (Space Cowboys)
U9lift (Ben Maybe/House of Lotus/Additech)
Cumulus (Word-of-Mouth/SF)
Lotus Drops (Street Ritual)
Siren (Space Island/SF)

Chillout door area courtesy of Ambient Mafia
MC Boomerang Fidget (Live/Hatfyr)
SeventhSwami (Escape Artists/Want It/Stilldream)
Redstick Man (FNF)
Peek (Below Zero)
Shane (FNF)
Harken vs Hallucid (The lag/Butterzone)
Drop (Butterzone)