Fun-e
February 26th, 2007
Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT)
February 15th, 2007
“In January 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began regulating medicinal maggots…”
“Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing.”
The link above contains a wealth of information, FAQ, and links to further resources, should you need them.
And you can get yerself some maggots here. I’m not sure how well they travel though.
This is very funny – pure genius!
February 13th, 2007
Good source for discovering new music
February 12th, 2007
House Groovez @SSB, Brixton
February 4th, 2007
Hangover Cure…
February 3rd, 2007
“Reactable”
February 2nd, 2007
The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
According to a friend at work:
“That’s a nasty digital simulation of analogue synthesis! (Easy to do with an overhead tracking and a MAXMSP or SuperCollider patch )”
And he gives us these links to prove his point:
“Here’s Carsten Nicolai of Raster Noton keepin’ it real:”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdUIqx60vRY
“”His live shows are a wonder of analogue visuals:”