What if Wes Anderson directed X-Men? from Patrick Willems on Vimeo.
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Année : 2015
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Soundfighter (alpha 3)
Ou comment redéfinir une battle musicale :
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Cultures et Subcultures
La culture « mainstream » s’est toujours inspirée des genres et sous-genres. Mais auparavant ceux-ci étaient dilués lentement et par touches.
Quelle place reste t’il aux sous-genres quand la culture les absorbe de plus en plus vite, totalement et brièvement.
Quelle trace en restera t’il dans la culture générale quand ces éléments sont aussitôt remplacés par d’autres, plus « tendances ».
Où va notre culture pop quand elle n’est définie que par des trends spotters travaillant à rendre des marques ou des artistes (quelle diférence?) cools?
In recent years, we’ve seen Katy Perry go seapunk, Harry Styles go Dalston, Calum Best go deep house, Little Mix do dip-dyes, Joey Essex do Supreme, Britney do dubstep, Taylor do dubstep, Ellie do dubstep, America go EDM and OFWGKTA go ASOS. Picture a youth culture that you think is cool right now – or, if you don’t think anything’s cool, picture any scene that the mainstream currently seems less conscious of than Nando’s and Clean Bandit. Picture that, then think about what’s going to happen to it as soon as somebody your nan’s heard of comes along, skins it and starts parading around in its flayed hide on Saturday night TV like some kind of youth culture assassin bug. And then perhaps reconsider your position on Venus X’s hissy-fit.
Obviously the mainstream has always done this; the process just used to take a little longer. It used to be that a scene, look or sound would have the time to grow into a movement. By the time brands and celebrities cottoned on, everyone would be laughing about how over it already was, and how the mainstream would never be able to pick up on such things quickly enough, because the mainstream is inherently lame.
But now the mainstream is quick enough, which sucks, because it’s still inherently lame. Scenes, sounds and subcultures are barely out of the embryo stage before they’re being appropriated and corrupted by the big money boys. This is partly due to the burgeoning industry of those mercenary cultural poachers and collaborators: the trend forecasters, brand advisors, hype-spotters. The consiglieres of cool, whispering « Angel Haze so hot right now » into the ears of their moneyed overlords.
Stop Fucking with Our Youth Subcultures | VICE | United Kingdom.
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Lumière trop lente
Une longue vidéo pour illustrer la lenteur de la vitesse de la lumière à l’échelle de l’univers : à 300 000 km/s il nous faut déjà 45 minutes pour seulement atteindre Jupiter.
Le tout sur une musique de Steve Reich rend le voyage assez trippant.
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.
I’ve taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually « sees » or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall I’ve kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible. I also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter as I wanted to keep the running length below an hour.
Riding Light from Alphonse Swinehart on Vimeo.
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Hydrophobe
Pour une fois qu’un « phobe » est une bonne chose :
via https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZRLVZGCUZWYUEj2XQlFPyQ
Celle-ci est drôle là ou beaucoup d’autres sont pédantes…
▶ Star Wars: Modern Lightsaber Battle – YouTube.
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This Girl Can
Ok c’est de la pub mais pour une fois que la pub présente des femmes comme des personnes et pas comme des objets formatés ça fait du bien.
Sport England célèbre les femmes actives et signe une campagne affirmée, déterminée et sans clichés. Ça sue, ça remue mais c’est beau.
Meet The Girls – This Girl Can.
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Voyage dans le temps et technologie
Plutôt qu’une comparaison stérile entre le 2015 de Retour vers le futur et la réalité, Tim Carmody analyse comment la technologie influe sur la pensée (et inversement) avec une analogie étonnante entre la cassette audio et le voyage dans le temps.
Il conclue aussi sur une note un peu nostalgique sur le côté fermé, physiquement et juridiquement, de la technologie actuelle.
(putain de smartphone)
I sometimes call this “the cassette era,” and sure enough, cassettes are everywhere. Marty has a Walkman, a camcorder, and an audition tape for his band; the Pinheads have recorded a demo even though they’ve never played in front of an audience.
As a material support for a medium, the cassette has certain advantages and disadvantages. It’s more portable and sturdy than reels or records, and it requires less user interaction or expertise. It requires very fine interactions of miniaturized technology, both mechanical and electronic, in the form of transistors, reading heads, and so forth. Magnetic tape can actually record information as digital or analog, so it’s curiously agnostic in that respect.
Cassettes can also be easily rewound or fast forward. It’s easy to synchronize and dub the contents of one cassette onto another. And users can easily erase or rerecord information over the same tape.
This has clear implications for how we think — and especially, how our predecessors thirty years ago thought—about time travel. It is no accident that many important time travel films, including the Terminator franchise, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and yes, the Back to the Future movies, appear at this time. In all three cases, time travel is accomplished with a technological mechanism that allows its users precise control of where they arrive in the timestream. (In earlier time travel stories, travellers slide down a river or awake from a dream, but in the 1980s, the H.G. Wells/Doctor Who conception of time travel through a technological device pretty definitively wins out.) And in all three cases, the goal of time travel is to save and/or rewrite events within a specific person’s lifetime, without which a future timeline will cease to exist.
Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s — The Message — Medium.