Sandia Labs have developed a self-guided bullet that can hit laser-designated targets a mile away. Then they took pictures.
"Sandia researchers have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile (about 2,000 meters). The four-inch-long bullet has actuators that steer tiny fins that guide it to its target.
A tiny light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a bullet shows a bright path during a nighttime (sic) field test that proved the battery and electronics could survive the bullet's launch."
The result is an RL James Roper painting.
Via Berg
]]>The altitude of my excitement right now. Don't even.
From the upcoming Exercises EP (Paper Bag Records).
]]>]]>"It strikes me that the current fetishization of analog technology has less to do with nostalgia than it does with an urge to slow down the transfer of data from the internal to the external, from the individual to the collective, and to make it all less instant, less ephemeral, less interchangeable, and more tangible, more linear and more contextual."
The Amen Break began as a drum solo.
Then, the skeleton of electronic music.
Thanks to Andrew Salomone, it's also a scarf.
"...I took an image of the waveform of the amen break and converted it into a knitting pattern, which I uploaded onto a hacked knitting machine. The knitting pattern repeats over and over the same way that the amen break sample gets looped in so many musical compositions."
Think about this: an abstracted visualization (the waveform) of an emotional activity (G.C. Coleman's drumming) is captured as a wearable artifact (that jaunty scarf).
By purchasing it, the loop closes — emotion is commodified in an entirely new, but subtle, way. Clever.
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