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Everything done to WikiLeaks is now being done to US reporters - Tue, 21 May 2013

Robotic Earthworm, Soft Autonomous Robot Moves Like An Earthworm (VIDEO) - Tue, 21 May 2013

Creepiest. Diary. EVER!!! - Tue, 21 May 2013

Foil impressioning defeats security locks - Tue, 21 May 2013

A Picture - Tue, 21 May 2013

Amazing 9 year old Asean Johnson brings the crowd to their feet at Chicago school closings rally - Tue, 21 May 2013

Spotlight Kenya: tales of trauma and recovery for Amboseli elephants - Tue, 21 May 2013

First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem - Mon, 20 May 2013

Eric Haacht - Mon, 20 May 2013

Chemistry Dubstep - Mon, 20 May 2013

Erika - Hexagon Cloud - Mon, 20 May 2013

Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt - Sun, 19 May 2013

Technology - Technology - Sun, 19 May 2013

Dear Teacher, 3 Reasons I Don't Want You Labeling My Kid with ADD » - Sun, 19 May 2013

Humor Image » My dog.:the paradox - Sun, 19 May 2013

Read The Controversial Lyrics To Kanye West's 'New Slaves' - Sat, 18 May 2013

Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video] - Sat, 18 May 2013

And it occurred to me that these must be holographic viral... - Sat, 18 May 2013

‘Buycott' Koch Brothers, Monsanto and Other Industries' Products Lining Supermarket Shelves - Sat, 18 May 2013

Activist Post: Activists Help Farmer Who Owes Over $80K After Losing Monsanto Patent Case - Sat, 18 May 2013

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Noise Picnic!! http://swezlex.com/0/noise-picnic/ http://swezlex.com/0/noise-picnic/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:56:34 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=335 It’s summer. I’ve had a lot of fun getting stuff together for this new Episode of Zeek Sheck. I’ve been recording the last Zeek Sheck album all summer and really want to focus on that but it’s been more entertaining than I expected trying to incorporate the recordings into this live show coming up on Sunday. I probably overdid it, again. Invited a bunch of people to play too, can’t wait for that! Jake Rodriguez, Carrie Barclay, Danishta Riviera, Theresa Currie, and Julia Bernstein will all take part.

Come bring a blanket and picnic food and hear the noise.

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Joshua Kit Clayton favorites http://swezlex.com/0/joshua-kit-clayton/ http://swezlex.com/0/joshua-kit-clayton/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:32:13 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=320 Question: What are your favorite creations?
Answer: “Taking pleasure in one’s own creations is a funny process. It can be like staring into a mirror, popping zits, finding the treasures that your body has created and you are compelled to expunge, left with a sore puffy wound. Looking back at my life, I suppose the creations I’m interested in most would have to be the memories and experiences that I’ve cultivated as myth and continued to share as I’ve grown older. Most of the artistic, technical, or material creations I’ve made, I could probably take or leave, and I find myself wanting to talk little about them, even if I indulge myself in the privacy of my own bathroom. I won’t elaborate on these personal myths here, but instead will provide a very succinct list, and leave it to the reader to create their own myths for me.”
-Joshua Kit Clayton

1. Booger Man.

2. Giant Woven Vagina.

3. Hammer Throwing Incident.

4. Drug-Addled Rave Days.

5. Amateur Participant/Observer “Research”

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Gregory Jacobsen Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/gregory-jacobsen-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/gregory-jacobsen-favorites/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:23:20 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=313 in no order:

This album:
Ritualistic School of Errors – Sweat Stained Fancy Heaps for First-Rate Ladies

This Lovely Little Girls Performance:

Yellow Pile:

Bountiful Merkin Bag Corsage:

Muffins! OH! Crumpets! OH! Fresh Today!
http://gregoryjacobsen.com/images/2006/muffins.jpg

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Eric Landmark Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/eric-landmark-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/eric-landmark-favorites/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:21:08 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=310 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”

Eric Landmark:

1. The Buzzerk
An instrument using metal apartment buzzers – specifically the pitch adjust screw on the back.

2. The Fuck You Garage
A slide show examining some graffiti.

3. The Hidden Realities of Asteroids
A short video trying to determine what is really going on in the game Asteroids.

4. I Can’t Wait To Die
An old timey upbeat sacred song

5. Rat Tar flyers
Xerox flyers combining a found image with a phrase I used to post around Madison.

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Spore http://swezlex.com/0/spore-2/ http://swezlex.com/0/spore-2/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:53:21 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=258 Macro world Spore

Check out pictures of spore grown in a single month on pumpkin, onion, tomato sauce and mixed vegetable.

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Our Sun the musician http://swezlex.com/0/our-sun-the-musician/ http://swezlex.com/0/our-sun-the-musician/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:35:43 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=285 Solar wind at 20 Hz causing a geo-magnetic storm in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

I haven’t seen a lot of this footage. It’s GREAT!!!

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

for anyone who enjoys monitoring the sun, also check this out: Soho’s screensaver of daily sun

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0th Asteroid Capes http://swezlex.com/0/asteroid-capes/ http://swezlex.com/0/asteroid-capes/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 21:10:46 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=260

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Liz Albee Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/liz-albee-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/liz-albee-favorites/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:13:49 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=231 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
Liz Albee Favorites:

1.) that song jason and i wrote in 1996. gotta find a copy.
2.) my bulbous maroon head made of spray-foam.
3.) my early obsession with words and strings and rooms.
4.) that neanderthal mask and hair construction, the one that still had sheep shit in the wool.
5.) the fake tupperware and latex electronic trigger tits.

Liz Albee

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William Bennett Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/william-bennett-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/william-bennett-favorites/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:35:59 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=221 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”

William Bennett Favorites: I really don’t know how to answer that, I kind of fond of it all (not presuming it’s good, just that it’s hard to compare)

WB Blog

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George Chen Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/george-chen-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/george-chen-favorites/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:26:37 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=218 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
George Chen Favorites

1. Beth Louise Chen, my daughter. Nothing so perfect has ever issued from my loins.
2. 7 Year Rabbit Cycle – Ache Hornes
3. KIT – Invocation
4. Everything on my record label (http://zumonline.com)
5. My Twitter account

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Kelly Kuvo Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/kelly-kuvo-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/kelly-kuvo-favorites/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:21:56 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=212 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
Kelly Kuvo Favorites:

1. Miss Artificial Spring cable access tv show. (Chicago)
2. Strawberry Shortcake records review article in Roctober Magazine (New York/Chicago)
3. Sweet Thunder Talent Expo at Astor Place Starbucks. (New York City)
4. Bubblegum Queen for the Bubblegum Music Achievement Awards Ceremony at the Magic Castle. (Los Angeles)
5. Tour Guide for the John Fante & Raymond Chandler literary bus tours. (Los Angeles)

Kelly Kuvo!

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Julia Bernstein Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/julia-bernstein-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/julia-bernstein-favorites/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:13:51 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=181 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
Julia Bernstein:

The truth of the matter is that I think my top 5 creations are yet to be made. I also kind of didn’t make much work while I was working my job in public policy research. That said, I’m still really happy about a 4-part photo series I did for a show in the jury assembly room at the alameda county courthouse. It’s the story of a trial in which I play judge, defendant, jury and prosecutor. It’s on the wall there still if you want to go some time and see. I also felt really good about the baboon costume I made for a number with my dance troupe. I’m also still really fond of the photos I took while I was in Antarctica. The other two would probably just be any drawings i’ve made in the last couple years that friends felt compelled to save. A few co-workers kept my goofy drawings above their desks for years. That is incredibly flattering to me.

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Mark Porest Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/mark-porest-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/mark-porest-favorites/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:07:18 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=178 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
Mark Porest:

Porest – “Tourrorists” (album)
I Remember Syria (double album)
Cambodian Cassette Archives (compilation)
Sumatran Folk Cinema (film)
“Bad Day” A claymation film about a clay man brushing his teeth with clay-eating poison (super-8 film)

http://www.porestsound.net/

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EMA Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/ema-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/ema-favorites/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:48:21 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=168 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
Erika Anderson:

1. Email to my Grandfather telling him how much I appreciate the sacrifices he went through as a soldier in WWII

2. 5 great years of substitute teaching including many collaborative performance art pieces

3. Version of “Midnite Rider” recorded on 4 track when I was a teenager

4. Red State album / Kind Heart track

5. pumpkin pie made from scratch with my high school best friend (and lots of love and fun)

http://cameouttanowhere.com/

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Hans Grusel Favorites http://swezlex.com/0/hans-grusel-favorites/ http://swezlex.com/0/hans-grusel-favorites/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:43:19 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=165 “What are the top 5 creations you’ve made?”
Thomas of Hans Grusel:

1. First Experiments with Modular Synthases. Prior to this I was focusing solely on acoustic based composition. These early experiments opened my eyes to the fact that I did not need an orchestra of humans to realize a work, instead I could have a unique pallet of electronic sounds under my fingers; so I traded my pen + paper for some patch cables.

2. My orchestral work “Objecy”. Largest acoustic basted work I’ve created to date. Revised later to include electronics.

3. Earliest wood grain costumes, scenery and props including the Amplified Mushroom. As a child I always marveled at woodgrain. Depending on how I look at it, I see every detail of humanity in the grain: life, death, beauty, horror, psychosis, serenity, and the ultimate beyond.

4. “Blooded Milkmaid” a yet unrealized work. A spookhouse /darkride type attraction. Basically a series of rooms each with a specific design of sound and visuals. The piece exists for what I call a “drag-through attraction,” where participants are hooked to a pulley system and drug through a series of rooms. The attraction follows a somewhat standard storyline: a young milkmaid is brutally tortured and executed, and after a series of ritual events, her specter is resurrected and seeks revenge on the murderers. Uplifting stuff. I plan to release it as a CD-storybook, but I doubt the attraction will ever see the light of day for obvious safety reasons.

5. The reversible Vampire/Angel costume I made when I way 5. I was obsessed with Barnabis Collins as a youngster, probably because my mother had Dark Shadows on in the background while she was vacuuming. In any event I took piece of black cloth and sewed a draped vampire covering. Sunday school or Christmas probably taunted me to reverse the garment and sew a white cloth in the underside to make an Angle in reverse. Silly Stuff!

http://www.hansgrusel.com/

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Nuclear Alarm http://swezlex.com/0/nuclear-alarm/ http://swezlex.com/0/nuclear-alarm/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:12:23 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=203 Nuclear War movies:

The day after (1983)
On the beach(1959)
The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Them! (1954)
Testament (1983)
Jericho (TV Series)
Idaho Transfer(1973)
wargames (1983)
the war game(1967)
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Kin-Dza-Dza(1986)
Def-Con 4
Night of the Comet
Return of the Living Dead
When the Wind Blows
Repo Man
Dr. Strangelove
BattleStar Galactica (TV Series)

Nuclear Bomb books:

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
On the Beach by Nevil Shute 1957
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Warday by Whitley Strieber
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
The Compound by S. A. Bodeen
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
Fail Safe by Eugene Burdick
The Hundredth Monkey by Ken Keyes
The Medical Effects of Nuclear War: Report (A Wiley Medical… by British Medical Association
London After the Bomb: What a Nuclear Attack Really Means… by Owen Greene
War Plan UK by Duncan Campbell
Arc light by Eric L. Harry
Nuclear Nightmares: An Investigation into Possible Wars by Calder Nigel
The cold and the dark : the world after nuclear war : the… by Paul R. Ehrlich
Nuclear War: What’s In It For You? by Ground Zero
Long Voyage Back by Luke Rhinehart
Brother in the Land (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Robert Swindells
Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie
Children of the dust by Louise Lawrence (1985)
Warday and the journey onward by Strieber Whitley and Kunetka (1984)
The parable of the sower by Octavia Butler
Sentries by Gary Paulsen (1986)
The Last Children of Schevenborn by Gudrun Pausewang (1988)
The wall around Eden by Joan Slonczewski (1989)
After the bomb by Gloria Miklowitz (1985)
Brother in the landvRobert Swindells (1984)
A gift upon the shore by MK Wren (1990)
Hiroshima by Laurence Yep (1995)
The postman by David Brin (1985)
Dawn : xenogenesis vol 1 by Octavia Butler (1987)
Engine summer by John Crowley (1979)
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson (1985)
I feel like the Morning Star by Gregory Maguire (1989)
Vanishing point by Michaela Roessner (1993)
The shore of women by New Pamela Sargent (1986)
The fifth sacred thing by Starhawk (1993)
“By the waters of Babylon” by Stephen VincentBenet (1969)
The gate to women’s country by Sheri Tepper (1988)
Children of the light by Susan Weston (1985)
Phoenix rising by Karen Hesse (1994)
The bomb Theodore Taylor (1995)
Tomorrow When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1) by John Marsden (Paperback – Jun 1 2006)
After the bomb by Gloria Miklowitz (1985)
Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen the Day After; a cartoon story of Hiroshima) by Keiji Nakazawa (1988)

Thanks for the book contributions, crowbold!
Please let me know if there are more!


Biggest bombs ever:

#5 Hiroshima Little Boy 13-18 kilotons


Little Boy was the codename of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945 by the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets in the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb ever used as a weapon, and was dropped three days before the “Fat Man” bomb was used against Nagasaki.
The weapon was developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II. It derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium 235. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history (the first was the “Trinity” test), and it was the first uranium-based detonation. Approximately 600 milligrams of mass were converted into energy. It exploded with a destructive power equivalent to between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT (estimates vary) and killed approximately 140,000 people. It was also never tested at the Trinity test site (unlike Fat Man), due to the fact that enriched uranium was very rare at the time, and the United States wanted to conserve its uranium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

#4 Trinity 20 kilotons


Trinity was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo. Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb. The Fat Man bomb, using the same conceptual design, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9th. The Trinity detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around 20 kilotons of TNT and is usually considered the beginning of the Atomic Age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_test

#3 Ivy Mike 10 Megatons


Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first US test of a fusion device where a major part of the explosive yield came from fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States at 11°40′15″N 162°11′53″E / 11.6709, 162.198 on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy. The device was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design, a staged fusion bomb, and is generally considered the first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. Due to its physical size (82 tons) and fusion fuel type (cryogenic liquid deuterium–tritium) the Mike device was not suitable for use as a thermonuclear weapon; it was intended as an extremely conservative experiment to validate the concepts used for multi-megaton detonations. A simplified and lightened bomb version (the EC-16) was prepared, and scheduled to be tested in operation Castle Yankee, as a backup in case the non-cryogenic “Shrimp” fusion device (tested in Castle Bravo) failed to work; that test was cancelled when the Bravo device was tested successfully, making the cryogenic designs obsolete.
text taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike

#2 Castle Bravo 15 Megatons


Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a so-called dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb device, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, by the United States, as the first test of Operation Castle (a longer series of tests of various devices). Fallout from the detonation—intended to be a secret test—poisoned the islanders who inhabited the test site, as well as the crew of Daigo Fukuryū Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5″), a Japanese fishing boat, and created international concern about atmospheric thermonuclear testing.
Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States, with a yield of 15 Megatons. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors leading to the most significant radiological contamination ever caused by the United States.
In terms of TNT tonnage equivalence, Castle Bravo was about 1,200 times more powerful than the atomic bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

#1 Big Ivan, The Tsar Bomba (“King of Bombs”) 100 Megatons



Despite the very substantial burst height of 4,000 m (13,000 ft) the vast fireball reached down to the Earth, and swelled upward to nearly the height of the release plane. The blast pressure below the burst point was 300 PSI, six times the peak pressure experienced at Hiroshima. The flash of light was so bright that it was visible at a distance of 1,000 kilometers, despite cloudy skies. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 km. One cameraman recalled:

The clouds beneath the aircraft and in the distance were lit up by the powerful flash. The sea of light spread under the hatch and even clouds began to glow and became transparent. At that moment, our aircraft emerged from between two cloud layers and down below in the gap a huge bright orange ball was emerging. The ball was powerful and arrogant like Jupiter. Slowly and silently it crept upwards…. Having broken through the thick layer of clouds it kept growing. It seemed to suck the whole earth into it. The spectacle was fantastic, unreal, supernatural.

Another observer, farther away, described what he witnessed as:

… a powerful white flash over the horizon and after a long period of time he heard a remote, indistinct and heavy blow, as if the earth has been killed!

A shock wave in air was observed at Dickson settlement at 700 km; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km. All buildings in Severny (both wooden and brick), at a distance of 55 km, were completely destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, and stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors; and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. The atmospheric disturbance generated by the explosion orbited the earth three times. A gigantic mushroom cloud rose as high as 64 kilometers (210,000 ft).

Despite being exploded in the atmosphere, it generated substantial seismic signals. According to a bulletin of the U.S. Geological Survey it had seismic magnitude mb = 5.0 to 5.25. The blast wave was detected circling the world.
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

Strange Water tests:

A nuclear weapons detonated underwater to test effacts on ships

How to Survive

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Zeek Sheck – Bulbs – Anti-Ear – All Talk : Live in Oakland http://swezlex.com/0/zeek-sheck-bulbs-anti-ear-all-talk-live-in-oakland/ http://swezlex.com/0/zeek-sheck-bulbs-anti-ear-all-talk-live-in-oakland/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:38:47 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=149

Zeek Sheck: In a massive rescue attempt that included years of tunneling, the Revolutionaries drilled into the Care Company with a giant hole boring machine in order to free the Shecks. The Revolutionaries discovered the Sheck’s cutoff heads attached to Rebrainwashing machines. Much to everyone’s surprise, the Sheck heads did not wish to be rescued, they had become content. The disheartened Revolutionaries rode their giant hole boring machine out onto the great planes until it broke down, then they wandered aimlessly about the country side. Meanwhile the Care Company Attendants maintained the Sheck heads and the rebrainwashing machines in pristine condition so that the town’s people could come in for continual rebrainwashing.
Music played by Carrie Barclay on bassoon, Matt Ingalls on clarinet and bass clarinet, Canner MEFE on clarinet and computer, Tyler Harwood, Moe Staiano, Jacob Heule, and Sarah Lockhart on drums.

Bulbs: a power duo with guitar, drums and electronics. Put on your tin foil hats so THEY can’t hear your brain prancing around in delight. A rare and special treat, you really don’t want to miss these two. Yes, they have soul.

Anti-Ear: Alway evolving and expanding, a brand new sound and experience can always be expected with this hilarious one. Just when you are feeling all bored and uninterested like you have heard and seen it all, up comes Anti-Ear to jostle your system.

Small Talk: So new that I have no idea what is going to happen!

January 15, 2011 Saturday 9:00PM
Life Changing Ministries
1629 8th Street. Oakland, CA

http://cannermefe.com
http://www.sfsound.org/matt/
http://www.stin-g.com/
http://heule.us/
http://www.myspace.com/moestaianomoekestra
http://www.aphidtrip.com

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Stay out of Prison http://swezlex.com/0/stay-out-of-prison/ http://swezlex.com/0/stay-out-of-prison/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:33:49 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=144 I have been reading this thread by this guy who went to prison for a few years. It’s pretty interesting.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=136858

“So anyway, this has all been pretty grim shit. So since I started with a list of the worst things about prison, I thought I’d leave [sic] with a list of the best things about freedom. Not sappy bullshit about your parents and sunshine – but things you probably take for granted because you’ve never had them taken away.

Laughter

No one laughs inside. You might occassionally fake a laugh when someone does something stupid, or gets what they deserve. But inside you laugh at straight up irony. Nothing is really funny when you’re locked in a concrete bunker with seemingly no hope of getting out.

When I went inside, my favourite things were horror movies and violent video games. But now I can’t stand the thought of them. I’ve seen too much real violence for one life time.

Instead I’ve burned through three seasons of 30 Rock. I haven’t laughed so hard in my entire life. I find myself laughing at shit that a couple of years ago I would have been too jaded and cynical to laugh at, or thought that it wasn’t cool to laugh at. Now I find myself cruising through Metacritic for the funniest films of the last two years. I liked to think that I used to be funny, but now, I realise I’m not. That I look in the mirror and there is this kind of grimness there.

So don’t take laughter for granted. It can actually be taken away quite easily.”

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harmless predatory ground beetle http://swezlex.com/0/harmless-predatory-ground-beetle/ http://swezlex.com/0/harmless-predatory-ground-beetle/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:40:30 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=131 I found this bug in my studio and got totally distracted with my microscope, after which I researched z-brackets. I thought maybe the bug was a termite but Daniel Marlos from http://whatisthisbug.com said it’s a harmless predatory ground beetle. Apparently termites have no waists and they don’t wear girdles.

Ground_Beetle_10x Ground_Beetle_Head_60x Ground_Beetle_Leg_60x Ground Beetle Leg at 200x Ground_Beetle_Leg_200x

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Science Fiction Movie List http://swezlex.com/0/good-science-fiction-movie-list/ http://swezlex.com/0/good-science-fiction-movie-list/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:51:21 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=86

12 Monkeys
1984
2001, A Space Odyssey
2010
2012
2046
5th Element
a snake of june
A Boy and his dog
Abre los Ojos
Abyss
A Clockwork Orange
Aeilita, Queen of Mars
After the Apocalypse
akira
Aliens
Alphaville
Altered States
AI
Another Earth (2011)
Amenebar’s AGORA
Antichrist
Apocalypse
Atomik Circus
avalon
Avatar
Back to the Future
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson!)
Barberella
battle royale
being john malkovich
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Big Man Japan
Blade Runner
Black Hole
blindness
blue sunshine
Brainstorm
Brazil
Buckaroo Bonzai
Buck Rodgers
Children of Men
Christmas on Mars
Chronicles of Riddick
Close Encounter of the Third Kind
cloverfield
code 46
Collosus The Forbin Project
Contact
Cube
Damnation Alley
Dark City
Dark Star
Death Watch (1980)
Delicatessen
Demon Seed (1977)
District 9
Donnie Darko
Drag me to hell
Dreamscape
Dune
Eden Log
Equilibrium
ET
Event Horizon
Fahrenheit 451
fantastic planet
fantastic voyage
Flash Gordon (Soundtrack= Queen)
Firestarter
Forbidden Planet
Freejack
frequently asked questions about time travel
gattaca
Happiness of the katakuries
Hellstrom Chronicle
host
Hu-Man (1975)
Ice Pirates
I, Robot
Independence Day
Immortel
inception
ink
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
John Carter (2012)
Kin-Dza-Dza (Georgi Daneliya -Russia 1986)
Killer Clowns from Outer Space (!!!)
La Jetee
Laserblast
Lifeforce
Limitless
Logans Run
Lost Horizon
Lucas n
Mac and Me
Mad Max
Man from Earth
Man who fell to earth
Marooned
Men in Black
Metal Storm
Metropolous
Minority Report
Mission to Mars
Moon (Duncan Jones (Bowie’s Son) 2009)
mr nobody
never let me go
Night of the Comet
Nightmare Detective Bullet Ballet
One Point Zero
On the Beach (1959)
Opollo 18
Oshii’s Angel’s Egg
pandorum
paprika
peter pan (1923)
Peter Jackson’s KING KONG
Phase 4
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Pi
Pitch black
Planet of the Apes
pontypool
Primer
Privilege
Pulse (Kurosawa)
Push
Quarantine (2008)
Red Planet
Repo Man (!!)
Riget / kingdom
Robocop (!!)
Roller Ball
Roly Poly (Marek Piestrak – Poland, 1979)
Running Man
Saturn 3
Scanners
Screamers
Serenity
Signs
Silent Running
silent star
Six String Samauri
Slaughterhouse Five
sleep dealer
Sleeper
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
southland Tales
Soylent Green
Space is the Place
Space Hunter
Species
splice
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Star Crash
Star Trek
Star Wars Series
Starship troopers
Sunshine (2007, Boyle)
Swamp Thing
Sweet movie
symbol
Terminator
Test Pilot Pirx (Marek Pistrak -Poland 1979)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The American Astronaut
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
The Angry Red Planet
The Book of Eli
The Brood
The Clone Returns Home
The Day After
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Happening
the fly
The Fourth Kind
The Island
The Lathe of Heaven (1979)
The Good German
The great yokai war
The Last Starfighter
The Ice Pirates
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Matrix
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
The Omega Man (1971)
The Toxic Avenger
the prestige
The Road
The sky crawlers
the sky has fallen
The Thaw
The Thing
The Wild Blue Yonder (Herzog)
Them
They Live
THX1138
Time After Time
Time Bandits
time of the wolf
timecrimes
Tokyo Fist
Total Recall
Tron
Tropic Thunder
Tsukamoto
Tsukamoto’s NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE
vanilla sky
Videodrome
Village of the Damned (1960)
vital
Wall-E
War of the Worlds
Watchmen
Wesley snipes Blade movies
Westworld
White Wall
Wrath of Khan
Zero Population Growth
Zardoz

Theresa Curry, James Decker, David Lim, Sharon Cheslow, Gina Basso, Josh Thomas, André Williams, Jonnie Fellman, John McComb, Jonathan Leidecker, Franz Skinner, Christine Meyers and myself contributed to this science movie fiction list. Sometimes we disagreed whether a movie was any good or not but if one person liked it, it ended up on the list.

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0th FLUTTERFINGERS http://swezlex.com/0/0th-flutterfingers/ http://swezlex.com/0/0th-flutterfingers/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 04:22:24 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=81

0th FLUTTERFINGERS (Tammy)
w/
– Gumtri Crawler
– Jon Otto naked
– Tess the Maze Gold Medalist RoboGames 2010
– Tesseraktes and Tesseract Seizure of Power
– Torus Built from Squares, Spinning in 4-Space
– Dynamic Self Organization of Ferrofluid
– Human Development on a 800X Microscopic Level
– Led Tube and Graphic EQ Wall Part 10
– Hypercube
– Packing Process
– Prueba

– 2010 Resipiscent
– Editted by all 0th, Canner MEFE, DLim
0th.cc
Get CD at Resipiscent
Download on iTunes
Download on Amazon

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0th – When Queens Muscle Aced Infinity http://swezlex.com/0/0th-when-queens-muscle-aced-infinity/ http://swezlex.com/0/0th-when-queens-muscle-aced-infinity/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:07:14 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=50
February 5th – 26th, 2010

Opening February 5
0th performance
Images from the opening

Closing February 26th
Laetitia Sonami
Matt Ingalls/Ava Mendoza/Jordan Glenn- trio
Erika M. Anderson

21 Grand Gallery
416 25th Street
Oakland, CA 94612-2409
(510) 444-7263
21Grand.com

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Small Packages #2: Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto http://swezlex.com/0/small-packages-2-ligetis-chamber-concerto/ http://swezlex.com/0/small-packages-2-ligetis-chamber-concerto/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:56:37 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=48 Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010
Location: San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Description:
sfSound performs György Ligeti’s stunning “Chamber Concerto” for 13 instruments alongside new short works written for sfSound by ten local composers. Coming from the many diverse bay area scenes, these musicians were commissioned to create new pieces for this concert inspired by and/or contrasting with Ligeti’s monumental disquisition on sound and texture.

In case you missed it
or would like to hear it again,
sfSound’s “small packages” concert from last week is up on sfSoundRadio.

to listen:
http://200.35.148.107:8000/listen.pls

to download program (pdf):
http://sfsound.org/series/sfSound_SmallPackages2010_Program.pdf

ENJOY!
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small packages
Saturday, January 23, 2010
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall

György Ligeti’s “Chamber Concerto” (1969-70) Fliessend mp3, Sostenuto mp3, Moviemento Preciso Emeccanico mp3, Concerto 4 Presto mp3
Nick Bacchetto – String Trio (2009)
Dan Becker – Gobble (2009)
David Coll – Untitled II (2009)
Tom Dambly – Chamber Concerto, op.3 (second movement) (2009)
Heather Frasch – to disassemble and reconstruct (2009)
Canner MEFE (Zeek Sheck) – Pen and Pencil Drawer mp3 (2009)
Maggi Payne – Shh (2009)
Mauricio Rodriguez – fluere (2009)
Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) – Secret Mobilization (2009)
Theresa Wong – Castings (2009)

with performances by:
Stacey Pelinka – flutes
Kyle Bruckmann – oboe/english horn
ma++ ingalls – clarinets
Peter Josheff – clarinet
John Ingle – saxophones
Monika Warchol – horn
Colby Wiley – trombone
Christopher Jones – piano, conductor
Hadley McCarroll – harpsichord, organ
Ann Yi – piano, celeste
Graeme Jennings – violin, conductor
Erik Ulman – violin
Alexa Beattie – viola
Monica Scott – cello
Richard Worn – bass

http://sfSound.org

Reviews:
http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/02/fits-and-starts-sfsoundseries/
http://aarongervais.com/blog/review-sfsounds-small-packages-ligetis-chamber-concerto-and-lots-and-lots-of-shorter-works/

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Infinity Fixed http://swezlex.com/0/infinity-fixed/ http://swezlex.com/0/infinity-fixed/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:08 +0000 mfv http://swezlex.com/0/?p=46 Yes it is true, Infinity has been fixed, sort of!
http://swezlex.com/infinity
The new server doesn’t work the same as netsourcehosting, the Texas web host which disappeared without a trace one day taking all my data with it. But I rewrote the infinity script with php instead of cgi, now it works similarly but not really as good as before when it was trawling all the pages. I had path problems with php and images, only absolute path images would show, so I got lazy and wrote different way. I still need to mess with the audio so its continuous. As a whole, I don’t like it as much as before but it still fits the premise of INFINITY!!!

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