2012-08-15
Once Upon a Trickle Down - The Rise and Fall of Supply Side Economics - Mark Fiore
Move over "Trickle Down," there's a new game in town. It's an economy that begins
with the middle class.
Produced by the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org/)
and Mark Fiore (http://www.markfiore.com).
After thirty years of an economy geared toward the wealthy, the rest of us are
waking up to the fact that a strong middle class is critical for robust economic
growth.
2012-08-11
Mark Applebaum Aphasia
Composer creates a metaphor for expressive paralysis with "Aphasia."
Stanford music professor Mark Applebaum performs his piece "Aphasia,"
a composition for hand gestures synchronized to prerecorded sound.
Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way
Reggie Watts’ beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.
Reggie Watts creates unpredictably brilliant performances on the spot using his voice, looping pedals and his giant brain.
A sense of humor about Afghanistan? Artist Aman Mojadidi shows how
Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi calls himself “Afghan by blood, redneck by the grace of god.” Playing off his two identities, the TED Fellow's bold, funny, thought-provoking artwork explores jihad, gangsterism, consumers and corruption in modern Afghanistan.
2012-08-05
Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth
A NASA-sponsored researcher at the University of Iowa has developed a way for spacecraft to hunt down hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth. These gateways link the magnetic field of our planet to that of the sun, setting the stage for stormy space weather.
EPA-traktor från 1947
Bröderna Elofssons farfar byggde EPA-traktorn på en Ford Model A med Hupmobileframvagn, växellåda och bakaxel från en Fordlastbil, bakhjul från en Dodge Weapon Carrier och bogserad hästplog. Detta var år 1947, och hela bygget, inklusive arbetstid, kostade 402 kronor.
2012-08-04
Mark Applebaum: The mad scientist of music
Mark Applebaum (born 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and professor teaching at Stanford University.[1] He received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego where he studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa, Rand Steiger, andRoger Reynolds. He received his bachelors degree from Carleton College where he studied composition with Phillip Rhodes and completed a senior thesis where he interviewed Conlon Nancarrow in Mexico City.[2]
[edit]Discography
- 1996 "Mousetrap Music" [Innova]
- 1999 The Janus ReMixes [Innova]
- 1999 "Sonic Circuits VII" [Innova]
- 2002 "The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree" [Innova]
- 2003 "Cornucopia" [Capstone]
- 2003 "Mark Applebaum: Intellectual Property" [Innova]
- 2003 "Catfish" [Tzadik]
- 2004 "Oni Buchanan: Solo Piano" [Velvet Ear Records]
- 2004 "Martian Anthropology" [Innova]
- 2004 "Disciplines" [Innova]
- 2005 "56 1/2 ft." [Innova]
- 2005 "The Bible Without God" [Innova]
- 2006 "Asylum" [Innova]
- 2006 "[re]" [Everglade]
- 2008 "Sock Monkey" [Innova]
- 2008 "Escapement" [Everglade]
- 2010 "The Metaphysics of Notation" [Innova]
SOURCE - WIKIPEDIA
2012-07-30
2012-07-29
2012-07-26
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
At the MIT Media Lab's new Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.
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Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
Photography is about creating images by recording light. Ramesh Raskar has invented a camera that can photograph light itself as it moves at, well, the speed of light.
2012-07-24
Festo Sound Machines 2.0
Extreme technological precision meets artistic freedom: Sound Machines 2.0 is an intelligent, robot-controlled sound installation comprising five self-playing musical instruments. Further information: http://www.festo.com/en/soundmachines2 CPX inside, information here: http://www.10sek.de/festo/index_gb.html
2012-07-19
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