The Sect of Rama

Tuesday Nov 23, 2004

Plantage- from the Samorost Guy

Plantage is the latest (non-interactive) music video done by Analogik, the creator of Samorost.

Dunno if I'd want my music video done in this format- the audio sounded fairly washed out- I would hope that's due to the format, and not how the band really sounds. But the video itself was the trippy surreal stuff I've come to expect from Analogik. Glad to see they're still producing stuff...

Posted at 07:13PM Nov 23, 2004 by rama in Music | Comments[0] | Permalink

The Zoom Quilt

Via Tom this morning (text swiped from a random Google hit on the project):

The Zoom Quilt is the collaborative art project of 15 talented artists, all contributing to a final media presentation that is both beautiful and mesmerizing. The piece is available in 3 different media formats: HTML via a series of static jpeg images; AVI compressed video; or the best format, a Shockwave interactive movie. Use the up and down arrows to move forward and backward through the work of art.

Posted at 09:58AM Nov 23, 2004 by rama in Interweb | Comments[1] | Permalink

Monday Nov 22, 2004

Tokyo's Underground Water System

Via BoingBoing, The G-Cans Project is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city... The site is all in Japanese, but if you click around the menus a bit, there are animations and diagrams of how the system works, and other interesting photos of the high-tech control center and turbine facilities. Supposedly the G-Cans project is also meant to be a tourist attraction, and can be visited for free.

Incredible photos. 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Doom (minus the monsters). Even the system diagrams are artful, reminiscent of a Royksopp video.

Posted at 10:54AM Nov 22, 2004 by rama in Photography | Comments[2] | Permalink

Sunday Nov 21, 2004

Firefox Ad Blocker Extension

Via texturizer.net:

Adblock is a content-blocking module for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker.

Once installed it's a snap to filter elements at their source-address. Just right-click: Adblock: done. Filters use either the wildcard character (*) or full Regular Expression syntax. A list pane shows at-a-glance what has or hasn't been blocked. Scripts, backgrounds, even Flash - anything can be caught. Plugin-media sport floating tabs for one-click filtering. A special shortcut quick-hides any element on the page. And, if an ethical urge should overwhelm, just tap the keys and Adblock toggles off -- it's that easy.

Compatible with versions from 0.7+

Install | Visit Homepage

Posted at 10:08PM Nov 21, 2004 by rama in Interweb | Comments[1] | Permalink

Treo 650 FS Problem

It appears the new Treo 650 has a problem with the filesystem that causes many files to swell in size. Although I don't think the problem is as bad as the Slashdot post makes it sound, it is disappointing to hear of such an obvious problem making it into the wild.

Sounds like a case of trying to make it to market in time for Christmas. One more reason for me to hunker down with my Treo 600 and wait for the next generation...

Posted at 10:01PM Nov 21, 2004 by rama in Gadgets | Comments[0] | Permalink

Friday Nov 19, 2004

random fact

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Posted at 11:26AM Nov 19, 2004 by rama in root | Comments[0] | Permalink

Bruno Bozzetto 'Neuro' Movie

Bozzetto's newest short flash movie about the joys of apartment life.

Posted at 11:25AM Nov 19, 2004 by rama in Humor | Comments[0] | Permalink

Thursday Nov 18, 2004

16 Creative Commons Tracks

The November issue of Wired looks to have been released with a CD of 16 tracks all under the Creative Commons license. Sweet stuff.

Beastie Boys / Now Get Busy
David Byrne / My Fair Lady
Zap Mama / Wadidyusay?
My Morning Jacket / One Big Holiday
Spoon / Revenge!
Gilberto Gil / Oslodum
Dan the Automator / Relaxation Spa Treatment
Thievery Corporation / DC 3000
Le Tigre / Fake French
Paul Westerberg / Looking Up in Heaven
Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia / No Meaning No
The Rapture / Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix)
Cornelius / Wataridori 2
Danger Mouse & Jemini / What U Sittin' On?
DJ Dolores / Oslodum 2004
Matmos / Action at a Distance

Is this the beginning of a new marketing technique that will ultimately squish the RIAA?

Posted at 09:13AM Nov 18, 2004 by rama in Music | Comments[0] | Permalink

Wednesday Nov 17, 2004

Oswald Rocks The Mike

Via Roy tonight, hilarious photoshop'ed image of Oswald and gang:

Posted at 10:14PM Nov 17, 2004 by rama in Humor | Comments[4] | Permalink

Gunkanjima: Abandoned Island

Via Tom this afternoon, a collection of photos on the decaying island Hashima, known as Battleship Island. Check out this brief on the history before moving on to the gallery.

Posted at 01:54PM Nov 17, 2004 by rama in Photography | Comments[0] | Permalink

The Grey Video

If you're a fan of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, check out The Grey Video making the rounds this morning. (if you haven't heard the Grey Album yet, go Torrent it or let me know. I...err... might know someone...)

Better do it post-haste, before the video gets pulled by The Man.

Stuff like this belongs under the Creative Commons License. If anything, it will drive record sales for the White Album and Black Album. Sheesh.

Results 1 - 10 of about 654,000 for stupid record industry. (0.25 seconds)

Posted at 10:33AM Nov 17, 2004 by rama in Music | Comments[0] | Permalink

Tuesday Nov 16, 2004

OMGmissiles! ASCII war

Even if you're not a fan of ROLFattack, check out this flash movie inspired by it.

At least its set to Rammstein's Feuer Frei rather than Kenny Loggin's Danger Zone. (OMG, WTF is that about??)

Posted at 07:18PM Nov 16, 2004 by rama in Interweb | Comments[0] | Permalink

USB Copy Box

Funny, just yesterday a friend was talking about his recent exploits in iPod hackery, and said someone should build a box that allows you to dump files back and forth from two iPods in the field, sans computer.

Via the Red Ferret Journal, a USB On-The-Go-Copy Box. Its USB 2.0, powered by 3 AAA batteries and basically lets you transfer stuff from USB device to device without having to use a boring ole PC.

Not having many USB devices other than digicams (oh! woe is me!), I don't get how the devices know *what* to transfer. An iPod for example isn't going to have the logic to say dump these mp3's over the wire to that other device. So it seems this only works in situations when you're dumping all data downstream to something else, like a printer or empty storage device?

Posted at 08:11AM Nov 16, 2004 by rama in Gadgets | Comments[0] | Permalink

Cat Attack

via ggth

Good thing I haven't figured out how to tell Firefox to only animate GIFs once yet, otherwise I would have missed this one. (Anyone know how? I'm thinking its time to go back Mozilla if not, there's enough missing features and lack of discernible speed increase to not bother switching IMO.)

The more I see this, the more it reminds me of the LARP Lightning Bolt! video. Guess its the shakey camera and randomness.

Posted at 07:55AM Nov 16, 2004 by rama in Humor | Comments[3] | Permalink

Monday Nov 15, 2004

Monkey Knife Fight

Gotta love Google:

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,060 for monkey knife fight

Posted at 03:30PM Nov 15, 2004 by rama in Interweb | Comments[1] | Permalink