I produced a drum and bass track today. It’s called LickWid. I made a short video to accompany it, entitled Laptop Lives. It’s supposed to represent the idea that our lives can no longer be independent from technology and that… Or some other pretentious bullshit.
Here it is.
Friends, I have moved to a broader stage. Thanks to my associates at The Little Movement Productions, The MindBox of Mark Brewer is no longer shackled within the confines of the WordPress.com boundaries! I have secured my own hosting and my own domain name. THEY SHALL NEVER TAKE IT FROM ME…. You know… Until the account expires and shit.
All that is left for me to do is shout this cryptic message, “HAIL SKITLER!”
I decided to experiment with some tapping on the guitar. I wanted to play some chords and then tap a melody over the top of it. Woop!
Yesterday afternoon, when I sat down upon my sofa-chair to learn the six-stringed guitar, little did I know what a pleasurable experience it would be. My steep learning curve has not only impressed me, but also God who informs me that it took him roughly six days to reach this level and he had to have a little sit down for the seventh. Slackers, eh?
I seem to have found that slipping between stonking tech metal and hybrid jazz a piece of proverbial piss.
Since leading world powers seem to find the idea that we might need to spend a little money on the desalination of water repugnant to their very rectum, I’ve decided to direct you to an article that might help you do it yourself.
Desalination is the process by which you can extract excess salt from sea water and use it for drinking. I think that it’s more than obvious that this might be a requirement at some point within the next fifteen to twenty years, what with all of the environmental problems we seem to have a penchant and overall autoerotic tendency for causing. Even if you don’t feel that it’s necessary to solve the world’s quickly increasing fresh-water crisis, it’s still a fun and easy experiment to whet your hydro-oxygenated dreams with.
THIS LINK here will direct you to an excellent instructional guide on how to extract salt from sea water for both scientifically experimental and survival purposes. Have fun now.
For more information on the advantages of water desalination over more conventional sourcing methods, please view this PDF document that was put together by some official, sack scratching source: CLICK
As Michio Ka
ku eloquently states, even the most sophisticated computational systems on Earth possess the actual intelligence of a, “…retarded cockroach.”
Research into artificial intelligence has, thus far, yielded poor results. There has been some progress in the field in the last twenty or so years, but no technological leaps that have allowed physicists to predict a time when robots will be as intelligent as humans. This is mainly due to the computer’s inabillity to learn and function in the same way that the human brain does. There is no CPU in the human brain.
However, a new discovery by the lab at Hewlett-Packard HQ could change all of that.
Allow me to redirect you to the NewScientist website for more information:
Not “we” personally, of course. I use the term in the plural sense. Although would it not just tickle your fancy if, forty years ago, you’d been removed from your unwitting slumber, tied to a rocket and dumped onto the moon. You would be, as the internet-linguists like to paraphrase, “fUx0rD”.
Moving on…
On this day, forty years ago, the rest of humanity watched as Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins blasted off from Cape Canaveral on their three day mission to the lunar surface. The rest, as they say, is history.
We’ve gone and done it haven’t we? I am delighted to announce the latest member of the band. Well, not quite. We decided it would be a great idea to buy a synth to help beef up the live sound. I’m quite excited about having it in the band. Hopefully it should add another dynamic and be really fun to write music with.
I’m not sure yet as to what sort of function it will have yet, but as I understand it the three outfield players of the band (Sean, Rob and I) will probably all have a bash at it.
Woohoo!
Sadly Spud has broken his wrist, so he’s not drumming for a while. That means no live shows for at least six weeks 
. Never mind! There will be a lot of writing on the cards.
In other news, Cables has reached well over a thousand plays on MySpace which I’m happy about considering we have a modest 400 friends.
TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design which initally began in the 80′s as a conference to bring the fields together. Since then it has grown into a kind of forum for leading thinkers to project their ideas and achievements to the world.
Intellects like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett have both given TED talks over the years (to name but two of the hundreds), along with perpetrators of more art and design based fields.
I would like to point you in the direction of the website, where you can view most of the talks for free and generally peruse the themes at your leisure. They really are incredibly interesting and will help you keep you up to date with the frontiers of human development, including those of future technology, design, science and philosophy.
They will also allow you to bypass the vast majority of hefty reading involved in appearing intelligent… Or else direct you to further reading if you genuinely are.
Click here for the TED website!
Alongside this I would like to post links to a few of my personal favourite talks, because… well it’s my blog so screw you:
Daniel C Dennett’s Talk on being sexy
Daniel C Dennett’s Talk on Consciousness
Johnny Lee on Wii Remote Hacks
My brother Mathew, an artist, favours these TED Talks:
Scott McCloud on Understanding Comics
Don Norman on how Design Makes You Happy
We both agreed that this TED talk was particularly powerful:
