Grooves Magazine, dedicated to experimental electronic music and music tech, wasn’t exactly a formula for massive mainstream newsstand appeal. (I don’t think I ever spotted a copy in a truck stop. For a better example of how to make a magazine succeed, at truck stops and elsewhere, look at Easyriders: scantily-clad and topless women + […]

To our American readers, Happy Independence Day! And to everyone else in the world, well, really, you’re not fond of taxation without representation, either, are you? Mostly what this means is I’m taking the day off right in the middle of the week. But I’m not leaving you empty-handed. Here’s a little CDM on 18th […]

What are you going to do when the revolution comes and power goes out? You won’t be able to fire up your small form factor visuals bomb and knock out storyboard cells for that zombie/nature documentary that’s been orbiting your head all day. Don’t worry though, the GTD nerds have visualists covered too. D*I*Y Planner […]

Over the course of a conversation with Peter I became aware that he was oblivious to the existence of video baluns. This made me wonder, how many other VJs are going through life as he is: Anxious and empty, unsure whether the venue he’s playing at will be able to do justice to the imagery […]

Artist Jonathan Schipper has built some fantastic sculptural creations, including this enormous sphere of television monitors. The scale is impressive: 800 pounds, 215 monitors, and 215 cameras, making the displays into fragmented electronic mirrors. The result is, of course, far from invisible as this gothic-looking technology rolls around a gallery floor. (Don’t miss the video […]

Artist Jonathan Schipper has built some fantastic sculptural creations, including this enormous sphere of television monitors. The scale is impressive: 800 pounds, 215 monitors, and 215 cameras, making the displays into fragmented electronic mirrors. The result is, of course, far from invisible as this gothic-looking technology rolls around a gallery floor. (Don’t miss the video […]

Artist Jonathan Schipper has built some fantastic sculptural creations, including this enormous sphere of television monitors. The scale is impressive: 800 pounds, 215 monitors, and 215 cameras, making the displays into fragmented electronic mirrors. The result is, of course, far from invisible as this gothic-looking technology rolls around a gallery floor. (Don’t miss the video […]

Illustrator and director Dave McKean did the impossible to produce MirrorMask, his film collaboration with Neil Gaiman. He built his own animation studio, and did a lot of the work generating texture maps, designs, and even compositing on his own. I’d love to track down Mr. McKean myself on this, but in the meantime, there […]

Loopers and phrase samplers can be fun tools, but odds are you’ve wished a hardware or software looper would work more musically. Aaron Leese has designed a prototype system, combining a piece of USB hardware, wireless USB pedals, and Windows software, that intends to do just that: Imagine seeing a musician who could play a […]