Youth Inspired Robots

My friend Ry, who is probably longest known friend from College Station, rebuilt the top side of a pinball machine with his buddy Bruce from Austin. Ry never ceases to amaze me with all the different stuff he does. One day he’s rebuilding his Volvo station wagon with his laptop - the next he’s climbing a mountain in Colorado looking for gold.

Meghan Knobel finished up a tattoo recently on one of our dear friends Allan Seija. Awesome guy all around, and from what I understand, a helluva climber. I remember back 9 months ago when Meghan was tattoo’ing pig ears and neighborhoodies for practice. Her dedication and passion for tat-zapping is apparent in her work. Go see her if you are interested… http://www.pokingyou.com

From the Boing Boing: Radiohead to remixer: naw, it’s cool, go ahead. - Boing Boing.

Dave Park says,

Amplive made a remix of Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ and was planning to release it without the band’s permission leading to a cease and desist order on December 18. Today it was announced that both parties had since met and Amplive was now given permission to release the album. Downloadable MP3s are now available.

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Facebook | The Golden Girls

Tell them Blanche sent ya!

 http://www.lumalive.com/

What is the technology behind Lumalive?
Lumalive fabrics feature Philips’ proprietary technology of integrating flexible arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) into the fabric. The integrated control unit makes it possible to change the light patterns and to show full color animations. The control unit is programmable. The system obtains its power from a small battery pack or the mains.

When will Lumalive be available in the market?
The products will be commercially available via selected partners in the promotion & event industry. First distributor, Boost Products, will launch Lumalive light-emitting event gear in the Benelux countries. For further information visit the Boost Products website at www.boostproducts.nl

I don’t know about you, but when I first saw these t-shirts, my jaw hit the keyboard!  Not only is this the most exciting innovation in textiles since Hypercolor, but is also concrete evidence that either the future or the end is upon us.

http://www.lumalive.com/

Two Brooklyn bands I wanted to serve up for your listening pleasure. With all the great danse-punk and electro shit that’s been released on the interwaves it’s nice to hear some good rock once in a while. And it’s a good thing guys like those in these two bands are around making it.

The National

I don’t know how I missed these guys last year… they were big in the blogosphere, but I never got around to listening…

• http://www.americanmary.com/
• YourSpace

Diamond Nights formed in 2003 as a group betrothed to the pursuit of song, not genre. As such, their music oscillates from straightforward to strange, from bombastically heavy to casually reserved. More specifically, it’s the sort of music that seems to embody a band somewhere between its first experimentation with hard drugs and prior to the calamitous meltdown, getting cleaned up and writing mediocre soft rock hits.

• Website
• MySpace

Jaci Hodges is featured on the front page of the Urban Outfitters blog. Sorta cool to see someone on a site like that when you normally see them at 3AM drunk as a skunk. Here’s the photo.

Heartbreaker, you make us proud!

So I found a decent mixtape off Hits In The Car. I’m going to repost it here, since I’m sorta lazy.

 

 Andrew Boland - Bird On The Wire (Leonard Cohen cover): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Entakt - Kunsten At Slippe Taget: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Sunny Summer Day - Colours of Fantasy: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Martin Sörensson - All Right: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I don’t know what my deal is right now with bands from the UK right now, but shit… who cares where they are from!

From wikipedia: Foals is a five-piece dance-punk band from Oxford who play a mix of indie with elements from techno and minimalist music.[1]. The band are signed with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop Records in the USA. A full length album, entitled “Antidotes” is due for release around March 2008; it has been produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio [2]. However, the band discarded Sitek’s final mix, opting to remix the entire record themselves, due to an undesired “spacey” sound as a result of heavy use of reverb. The album leaked onto the internet on 2nd February 2008.

• Wikipedia Link
• Da Hype Masheen
• Actual Real-life, no bones, website

Video Below… Jam!