Found this photo set online of pictures of S.T.R.E.E.T.S. (an acronym spelled out in the title of this post). The now defunct vancouver shredders made a lasting impression on us a few years back by skating over the top of Steve’s rental car, and dropping in off of the back. You should find their music, it sounds how it looks. Below is a link to pictures of some of the best dudes ever, with the best band name ever, enjoying what looks like the best summer ever.
Ted talk with Robert Lang about *recent* mathematical advancements in the art of Origami and its applications for various things including space exploration and heart surgery. Click this link or the picture to learn something this Thanksgiving.
After you’ve watched the talk, you can download his program Treemaker and virtually create plans for your own designs. Send pics or it didn’t happen.
It’s getting cold out and it’s about time to pull out the camo and tims. Have you ever thought, “I wonder who came up with the idea of the camouflage thats printed all over my Wu-Wear hoody?”
In 1896 the American artist Abbott H Thayer (1849-1921) published an article entitled “The Law Which Underlies Protective Coloration”, in which he explored how animals protected themselves by the use of graduated colours and tones on their feathers, scales or fur, allowing them to be camouflaged by their surroundings. Using a language that mixed art and optics, he said “the spectator seems to see right through the space really occupied by an opaque animal”. While Thayer was not the first to observe how animals used this defensive colouration, he believed nature was acting as an artist, using colour and light for optical effect, and thought that this study “belongs to the realm of pictorial art and can be only interpreted by painters”.
Our next Badbeat.la free mp3 is a remix by none other than Cabin Bwoy (1/3 of Colossal heavyweights from ‘cross-the-pond Patchwork Pirates). To be perfectly honest, I’m trying to keep this dude’s heat under wraps so I can afford his tracks for an upcoming project, but it seems the cat might be getting pretty well out of the bag. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
Ableton debuts Max for Live, the first time a music making software lets you actually get inside the program, and redesign it, or use it to create your own plugins, sounds, and instruments. It looks awesome, and awesomely confusing. So if you’re one of those dudes in Berlin with the small framed glasses, this is for you. Oh you can also use it do stuff like turn your pen tablet into a Theremin:
