Activitystory: » machines http://activitystory.com/blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:21:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/12/23/727/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/12/23/727/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:02:01 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=727

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Der Mensch als Industriepalast from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.

After Fritz Kahn, via MeFi.

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Bicycling Street Smarts, Chapter 8: Riding in Rain and Darkness.

]]> http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/04/30/the-no-excuse-headlight/feed/ 0 Memorize Now http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/01/21/memorize-now/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/01/21/memorize-now/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:57:03 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=679 This is backwards computing.

]]> http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/01/21/memorize-now/feed/ 0 One of my fondest memories http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/12/22/one-of-my-fondest-memories/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/12/22/one-of-my-fondest-memories/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:47:48 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=638 Is watching this video for the first time.

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Sadly, we left Montreal a couple of days before his Mutek performance.

Good news is though, Syracuse is one of only a handful of stops on the Alva Noto / Bytone Raster-Noton North American tour this week.

]]> http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/06/01/anybody-make-it-to-this/feed/ 1 Rhythmic wires to hypnotize http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/05/07/rhythmic-wires-to-hypnotize/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/05/07/rhythmic-wires-to-hypnotize/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 20:56:13 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=541 A Google Image Search for“core memory” returns page after page of patterny awesomeness. Just sayin.

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The wonderful bookish blog A Journey Round My Skull has a post this week highlighting the fact that Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism is available (at least partially) on Google Books.

I was shocked to see Seliger’s 1944 work Organic Form in my RSS reader, as it’s a piece I’m well familiar with– it was the basis for my kind of project from 2004.

I need a big long project like this one again– I’m already getting excited about the possibilities for all the new basement space we’ll get in our new house (coming Saturday!).

Anyway, in honor of being reminded of this guy, here’s the final phase of my project, a short video, uploaded to youtube and magnificently degraded. Better versions here.

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“Fully working, manual record player made entirely of paper. To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a steady 331/3rpm. The paper conethen acts as a pickup, amplifying the sound enough to make it audible. (Record shown,
The Sound of Music 1965). – Simon Elvins. via KOMPAKT blog.

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