Links for 25-09-2007
3D graphical drawing interface, definitions of transhumanism, more music reviews …
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1 – Artists ‘draw on air’ to create 3D illustrations
“By putting on a virtual reality mask, holding a stylus in one hand and a tracking device in the other, an artist can draw 3D objects in the air with unprecedented precision.”
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2 – Seven Definitions of Transhumanism
“4. Transhumanism is the doctrine that we can and should become more than human. — Mitch Porter”
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3 – Album review: Oceansize – Frames
“Oceansize’s music covers as much space as their name implies; listening to Frames is like swimming out into a storm-lashed sea until you’re so far from land you can’t see the shore. And like the sea, its moods are changeable, mercurial, capricious.”
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4 – Album review: iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies to Lessons Learnt
“If you consider an intellectual and involved approach to music to be a sign of pretension, pick up your coat and leave now; Elegies for Lessons Learnt is not going to flick your switches. Still reading? Good. You’ll not regret it.”
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5 – Album review: Idlewild – Scottish Fiction – Best Of 1997-2007
“Time really does fly; it’s hard to believe Idlewild have been around for a decade, but here’s a neatly packaged collection of the best tunes from their career to prove it.” A fine introduction to one of the past decade’s best Brit bands.
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6 – Album review: The Blackout – We Are The Dynamite!
“Direct comparisons are a reviewer’s short-cut that I tend to avoid as much as possible, but here there’s no other option – The Blackout are playing exactly the style of music that Lostprophets blasted their way to international success with.”
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7 – Album review: Electric Eel Shock – Transworld Ultra Rock
“… you’d have to have a heart of stone not to enjoy it. Only the most po-faced of metal purists could find anything to object to about the pure good-time fun of Transworld Ultra Rock …” Very very funny indeed.
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8 – Album review: Victory Pill – Victory Pill
“Hard-edged hyper-catchy industrial punk from ex-Prodigy and Pitchshifter guitarist.” Damn fine album, too.
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9 – Album revierw: Teenager – Thirteen
“Low-budget, slightly camp, seedy, sleazy and drug-addled – Teenager are the band most likely to pick your pocket while sucking you off in a side-street …”
