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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
9:35 am	Neurofinancer In the grip of a recurring dream, Jayce saw the neon unfolding origami trick reveals it's coming shape, creasing and folding, a paper airplane. Smoke billowing from two towers, parachutes the color of Visa cards, woven of strands of fine print, and tricks more subtle still. From the black hearts of square pyramids, giant squid burst forth, escape the raging mob in a cloud of shadow economics and apocalypse babble. Squid whose tentacles strangle his mother, tear her from the IV in her hospital bed, rip her worthless home off its worthless foundation. They eat her alive as he stands there, doing nothing. Willing his feet to move, his hands to reach out, his vocal chords to scream 'no', her name, something, anything. But his body remains silent. "Eat me, you fuckers!" Ignoring even his attempts to cry. A neon city on fire, a world shut off from the world. Snake Pilskin manifests, crawling out of Lady Liberty's empty eye socket. "This is your boom stick, Jayce." "What do I do with it?" "One of them tries to eat you? You stick it in their mouth, pull the trigger."( there's more... ) (Comment on this)
Friday, September 26th, 2008
7:12 pm	Cyber Community Organizing In the first episode of All Tomorrow's Neuromancers, Twi does some cyber community organizing. All Tomorrow's Neuromancer's site Make your voice heard on the Forum Or at the William Gibson Board (Comment on this)
Friday, September 19th, 2008
11:20 pm	Zombies and Paper Airplanes In light of the worst economic crisis paranoia since 911, my friend from the WGB, Trogdor, takes a stand against the zombie Democrats in Bush's army. I Will Fight You -- Zombies Oh no teh scary money stocks thingies! It's like 911 but with paper airplanes! Wee! (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
12:46 am	Fuck'em With Pineapples It makes perfect sense now. Why does it seem like John McCain and Sarah Palin don't 'get it' as they offer less jobs, health care, education, and more war and trillions more debt to the future? Because they hope the future never comes at all. They're stuck. Iraq is a mega-fail. The Middle East has the stranglehold. Their mortgage heists are going up in smoke. China is grinning, waiting to pull the plug on their 20th century. They can see the future coming home to roost like a fleet of Rebel Starships made of solar panels, windmill thrusters, and a people united, focused, and determined. So what are they going to do? They're going to borrow China, India, Eurupe, the rest of the world into fiscal non-existence, then vanish the United States of America and all its supergiant-debt down a Large Hadron Singularity before it goes supernova. There will be no Black America, no White America, no Red America, no Blue America. No America. Not even a Spook Country. Just The Brotherhood of The Nameless Men of Many Houses. Fuck'em with pineapples. *** Lipstick storms cloud the spotlight, inevitable as the Coriolis effect, wash warm waves of cynicism over us. More of the same. Or not? Weather patterns are inevitable. Technological innovation is inevitable. Karl Rove bullshit is inevitable. However. I think there's a chance here. I believe the future may not begin with a capital "F", but with intelligence, creativity, community, and the right uses of technology, the future can begin with a lower-case "c". Some cyber community organizing. Here comes everyone! To start, I've donated what small amounts I can afford and am going to try using the Obama neighbor-to-neighbor thing. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 12th, 2008
1:14 pm	Lipstick Country "Tonight on Larry King live: Obama puts lipstick on his health care policy. Stephanie Miller and Ariana Huffington join us to discuss this bold move, and whether Obama's policy is kissable or just unhealthy..." --- "What do you make of this clip, Bill?" "Well, I think the American people will see that Obama's choice of a gay, black, female, paraplegic, Iraqi, North Korean, extra-terrestrial tax policy is clearly a political move, a cynical attempt to sway the celestial base. Which, I might add, are largely illegal immigrants..." --- (Cover of Time Magazine): Weapons of Mass Distraction? Obama accuses Palin's women's pay policy of wearing a push up bra and making up false bust-waist-hip ratios when the CIA in a report clearly stated she was a B cup. Is this a sexist remark? We explore Palin's policy in depth in this issue... --- "Our next guest is co-starring with Brad Pitt in 'Legally Blonde 3: Pregger President' the most anticipated movie this summer. Please welcome to the show Obama's education policy." *applause* "Thanks for coming on." "Thanks for having me on, it's great to be here, Dave." "So tell me about yourself." "Well, I started out as an early head-start plan, quadrupling the funding there to help kids starting school get the edge. I've ever since had a real passion for math and science, where I make sure America's children are equipped to compete in the economies of the future." "You know I've never told anyone this but I failed algebra in high school." *Laughter* "I'm sorry, go ahead." "When I met my husband, Clinton's education policy, he was really a big influence on me. I decided to go into hiring and retaining higher quality teachers by paying them higher salaries, giving them the support they need, and in exchange holding them accountable." "He didn't try that cigar thing with you too did he? No I'm kidding. So how's Brad?" "Oh he's amazing, so down to earth, I love hanging out. I'm actually helping Brad and Angie educate a small town of their 'god children' in Thailand with my policies." --- "Well, Wolf, I'm just disgusted, honestly. Although I know I couldn't have expected anything else from the the Democratic Campaign. It's just more of the same. Issue after issue, policy after policy, distracting the American people from the things that are most important to them. Such as whether criticisms of Sarah Palin's hot-librarian hairstyle are sexist, and whether her daughter's pregnancy is good or bad for the Obama campaign. The American people will not stand for this. This is not the America I know. This is the time when we come together as one nation and say in one voice, 'Enough! We are more entertaining than this.'" (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
9:20 am	No Convention For Old Men The music and visuals at the Democratic Convention make the Republican look like a junior high pageant in Nampa, Idaho. (Which it very well may be) You've got All Tomorrow's Miss Americas and Richie Rich The Eighth's with Popsicle sticks up their asses, flouncing about to social studies textbook CD ROM soundtracks, cut from red white and blue construction paper. Generous sprinklings of young, Black, Hispanic tokens, like cheap semiotic fertilizer they picked up at the Karl Rove Walmart, next to the viagra, Rogaine, and economy-size Miracle Grow, "Perfect for men with more lawns than they can keep track of." Red dots of Blackwater rifles painting the backs of their skulls as they read the teleprompter for dear life. Cut to the audience and you see an almost unilateral sea of old, pinkish-white faces and thin white hair. The Old Guard coughing up dust like they've just been dragged out of their glass cases in the Smithsonian, polished, put on display. The shaking hands of their PTSD sons saluting as they relive their "patriotic" past. Lockheed-Martin and Haliburton lining the front seats, discussing new "policies" to "help get America's economy back on its feet", grabbing each others' wives' tight young Stepford asses. Then, as a memoir of Katrina ravages Louisiana, a hot night of pink boas, hookers and blow, partying like it's 1984. Yeah, go fuck yourselves silly. (Comment on this)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
3:28 pm	Twilite On Green~Robotland Since the Vancouver meat, the Minobot forged in BC hailstorm, Green Robot and I have been counting down to the second launch of the Pineapple Express to the further recesses of Fraser Valley, British Colombia. We saw the mystical misty Lothlorien forests of Abbotsford (smoke machine consists of emissions of Vancouver's coastal industry, funneled by the Westerlies into the narrowing 'V' of the valley). The Trans-Canada Highway, where Magneto turned an eighteen-wheeler into scrap metal in (formerly?) cost-effective glory. On toward Hope, just on the US-Canadian border and the final "hope" before the equally barren hellhole of the Fraser Canyon to the east. It's a charming little secluded mountain glen of scenic Rambo "First Blood" sets and refuge for actual military survivors of assorted failed attempts of American imperialism. Every cliff leaped from, every log grenaded, every helicopter crash is documented in loving locative detail. Then there was Sasquatch Provincial Park, where I could say hi to my fellow mythical beast, trade tips on making "sighting" and "faking your caracass" Youtube videos for maximum hits. ( read more... ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
1:55 am	All Tomorrow's Neuromancers Getting back in the groove with this Neuromancer revis thing, re-green-lighting it. (Re-green-screening several bits as well.) I decided we're doing an "All Tomorrow's Neuromancers - starring the WGB" video, or frying a dual-core processor trying. I'm thinking that the reduced "80's" color palette and animating the static character images in After Effects will give the whole thing a cool anime-esque feel, like something churned out by a tweaked AI instantiation of Shirow Masamune and Mamoru Oshii. Not sure yet how jacked in and involved I'm going to get into this, but I'm liking what I'm vizzing. My Twilight Maze webseries thing I have pretty much left sealed away in its own convoluted timestream to collect entropy for the past seven months, and I may just start this ATN thing into its own series, with it's own set of episodes, depending on how many people cast their retinas upon it. Also, the amount of time, talent with After Effects, Photoshop, actors, and other help I can pull out of somewheres. But either way, I like to keep as many sides of God's quantum computing dice available, as many alternate futures open, as possible. Here's some reference on the Neuromancer Revis I posted a while back "Calling all neuromancers, cyber-iKids, myspace idorus, razormoms, mirrorshaded tech support wizzes, interzonal neverwintermutes, guitar anti-heroes, starving locative Youtube artists, and professional Azeroth expatriots. Photo-actors for spooky Chatsubo reconstruction wanted! The next episode(s) of the Twilight Maze web series will be centered (territorially and thematically) in a sort of... "collective hallucination" of the Chatsubo; the bar that Case shoulders his way into beneath the dead-channel sky at the beginning of Gibson's Neuromancer. The core idea is: Imagine all the characters that inhabited the "cyberpunk" (in it's loosest possible semantic) worlds in all the books, movies, anime, and minds of the 80's and early 90's tore away into a closed "Dark Net" of sorts. Then imagine that all of these characters were jacked into reality circa 2005 and had to deal with the "alternate future" shock up to present day (2008). How would they adapt? Would Tally Isham start a Youtube cam? Would all those chromed-out hipster cyberpunks pick up iPhones and get strung out on WoW? Would all those AIs be running WoW farming / international WoW cyber-crime operations? Would all those cybernetic limbs be converted into super-enhanced Guitar Hero and Rock Band playing devices? Keep in mind all of this is metaphorical and the tone of the series is highly surreal, so we don't need a literal, completely realistic scenario. Creativity highly encouraged." Another way to think of it is as an APPF - Alternate Present of a Previous Future*. That is, an alternate reality of the collectively imagined cyberpunk future of the 80's. A 21st century that is neither and both our 21st century and the 21st century of vintage cyberpunk. The present (and near-future to an extent) as seen from the vantage point of the ghosts of an elder, imagined cyberspace. Hopefully resulting in much comedy, illuminations of the present, edification, pleasure, and other such good things. (*Because no self-respecting part-time futurist can get through a Gibson Board or blog post without punting at least one two-second flash-wizz neologism!) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
2:36 pm	Living On The Edge Guitar Hero Aerosmith Bonus Footage "Mr. Tyler, sir, I'm sorry but you've already snorted all the blow." "What kind of blow is this anyway, it tastes like... Pixie Stick." "Sir, it is Pixie Stick. It's a prop for your Guitar Hero rockumentary. Harmonix is paying you eight million to endorse the new inhalable candy that comes with the game, so save some for the fans next time. You're opening for Dragonforce in five." "Aerosmith is opening? For, what the hell is Dragonforce? Sounds like a bunch of those DnD freaks we used to swirlie in high school getting together with some Moogs and playing Nintendo theme songs." "They're Extreme Power Metal, actually, and WoW all-stars. Reminds me, we've got to fly you in to San Diego after this show for mo-cap for your WoW virtual concert with Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftan. How are you with wearing hooves?" "Hooves? What the fuck is this, Animal Planet? We're the hardest rockin-" "Nevermind, we'll figure it out later. Alright, you're on! Remember the lines, 'What's up Guitar Heros and Heroin-" "I got it." "Fucks sake, what is it now, Steve?" "I just, I don't know if I can do this, you know? I don't know if I can scream 'Walk This Way' into a piece of pink plastic. Is there even a fucking mic in there somewhere?" "Stevie, Stevie. Remember back in that trashed hotel room in 97' in Cali, when it was just you, me, and Joe and the Touch- "Joe was in detox at the time." "Just you and me, and the Touchstone people came to the door with the proposal, and Michael Bay was totally into it-" "Bay was playing demolition in the corner with monster trucks, a Mothra action figure, and a bunch of Jengas." "Right, well remember how you hesitated when they asked you to do the music?" "Yeah." "But after you stood staring out into all that smog for a minute, then you turned and pointed to the Hollywood sign." "Yeah." "Well this here, this is bigger than Armageddon. This is The Future. This is bigger than The Beatles." "All right, all right. You had me at hello. No fucking hooves though." "Steve, I don't know about these plastic guitars, they smash all funny. I miss the sound the pickups make and the feeling when the strings snap loose." "I know what you mean, Joe. I think now we're really living on the edge." (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
1:59 am	Independence Day At Twilite's Independence Day at Twi's I think the 2012 super ETs / post singular humans are trying to communicate through the firework audio compression artifacts! The Ion Storm-esque sound of the recorded whistler seriously spooked me the first time I played it back. Kind of sounds like, "Peace? No peace!" (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
5:07 pm	Interspecies Breeding My cock is famous! #1 video in the animals section this week. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
10:50 pm	Celebritate Editing this this morning: As a bit of WGB interstitial Cornell box, Minobot interviews itself on Skype. TwiliteMinotaur and Green~Robot dissect the complex issue of self mutilation and discover that everything works out in the end, with the right lighting. Minobot episode 1 TwiliteMinotaur and Green~Robot dissect the complex issue of self mutilation and discover that everything works out in the end, with the right lighting. Minobot episode 2 Twilite and GR give an edifying slice of life of Celtic culture, past and present, then discuss Twi's summer hit "Armageddon Hero" where he plays Aerosmith songs from an earth-bound comet. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
1:57 pm	Self/Social Hacking Been working on this last night after I stopped being drunk with the Junk Magic guys: Spooky New Romantics - by Twilite V2.XX So here's my AI self which I programmed to make music, videos, and write and recite poetry for me while I'm off haxxing intertubes and such. :) I'm planning on using this or something like it in a music video so I'm working on the effects, trying different things. The face animation was done with a technique similar to Chris Cunningham's in the All Is Full Of Love video with the Bjork robots- the "locked-in head" deal. (Also, please Digg/Stumble/Delicious and share this video if you can) Also, been madly spinning webs of viral buzzery about the most relevant and populated branches of the internets, setting up flow diversions and siphoning off traffic here and there like city-grid electricity into the patchwork particleboard of a favela trying to get off the ground. Learning the lingos and socio-psychology of the many cyber subcultures, the cultural parameters, the protocol, practicing becoming belonging kind. The moronic gamer kid. The hardcore gamer. The "e-socialite" (superclass of "Second Lifer"). All those wedding rings you accidentally flushed down the toilet? They wound up in the sewers, on every finger of these blingtards with fake tans like the waste of North Korean nuclear experiments (which many may well be). The cybergreen. Radiohead fans. Bjork fans (my favorite community actually, outside of here and the NGB). Gondry fans. The Livejournal emo poet. The "intelligent" ancient-hat geek, never to be caught without a Stephenson in hand and a "300" parody video in clipboard, phasers set to "boredom". The key, always, is obtaining the mark of approval from the tribal leader of the forum, and/or a positive first response. Once that is achieved, the rest will offer undying praise regardless of their own opinion, for the most part. And failing, you will receive the scarlet letter and eternal bashing. In which case, the options are exit and reverse-promotion (hate channeling). It's a hell of a lot of work right now so it's good to see things start paying off. (Special thanks to GR for helping!) Almost 2000 views daily now but I need to multiply that by a factor of ten or fifteen, then I'll be at escape velocity. It's a slow and trying take off. Houston's been having technical difficulties and it's been tough getting powerful enough rocket fuel, but the ship is starting to lurch upward I think. I've already got some fan art/spoof thingies. 'The image below was an image apparently inspired by the Flute Hero series. "Technically the greatest Guitar hero player alive." I'm also working on a new music video, trying to figure out how to get that "AI pirate Twi" image to come alive and talk in super-modulated freaky Deus Ex voices. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
7:58 pm	Virtuosis Morphosis (Acoustic) Virtuosis Morphosis This song can be found at the Twilite Minotaur band site. This was the first song I made on the Twilite Minotaur alias. I think I was listening and watching the All Is Full Of Love video and listening to other Bjork when I was writing it. As I beam my soul to you across a billion years of evolution a love of pure light electric blue ir's illuminating the resolution sifting for you in the static listening for your frequency in this cellular connection that I need feel the real me not the obsolete reality please read between the power lines of our virtual lives a knight in shining mirror shades in a universe of myth pervades cyber emotions emerginf from vicariousis metamorphosis sifting for you in the static listening for your frequency in this cellular connection that I need feel the real me not the obsolete reality please read between the power lines of our virtual lives processor world spinning ever faster till cell phones hold for beautiful disaster engines searching dead gods in the net film the past fading in analog sunset sifting for you in the static listening for your frequency in this cellular connection that I need feel the me of my dreams see our pattern in this virtuality in our machines can love survive through our virtual lives (Comment on this)
Friday, June 20th, 2008
4:08 am	"Flute Hero" on the Wii Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The Series Plus, The Happening review repost, incase you got the wrong vid last time. (Comment on this)
4:02 am	(Fixed) The Happening: The Terrible Sound of One Hand Clapping My bad! If you saw a weird blue face thing here before, you weren't supposed to see that yet! You will die in se7en days! No jk. site (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
12:16 am	Bill Murray Beats His Wife (At Guitar Hero) Exclusive leaked footage of Bill Murray playing Guitar Hero on the set of his latest film. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
11:30 am	The Dark Side Of Virtual Rockstardom In Twilite's second Guitar Hero lesson video, he teaches how to play with a variety of bottles and shows a darker side of virtual rockstardom. Lesson 2 - Playing With A Bottle Playing With Bottle Part 2 Finished two more videos, uploaded, sent in an IDM track mix to the Junk Magic masterer, jammed, had a White Russian in Chinatown. (In that order.) Discovered more of the worthless and wondrously tight-assed depths of the piece of epic fail that is Windows Vista. This is beyond closed source; this is like, the equivalent of being stuck in a preschool, with everything remotely useful closed and off limits to you. You can't even record the audio coming out of the stereo mix. But other than that, good day. www.twiliteminotaur.com (Comment on this)
Monday, June 9th, 2008
9:11 pm	Play Guitar Hero With A Powerdrill The original 'ttfatf w/controller, teeth, dick, drill' video Twilite's Lessons Intro Part 1 - Playing With The Powerdrill (Comment on this)
Friday, June 6th, 2008
4:04 am	test My girlfriend and I met on the William Gibson board, which is the forum for fans of that science fiction writer, about two years ago. We knew each other glancingly on the board up until about January this year when started getting more serious when we discovered we really clicked. We just met in Vancouver (She's from BC Canada, I'm from Hawaii) this March, which was fantastic, even though it was a little cold for me, and I'm going to be flying up again in August. I'm a musician, so I sing to her almost every night on Skype before we go to sleep. The music binds us in our dreams together, in a way. I wrote this song for her, but I think that anyone in similar situations can probably relate. Long Distance for Holly ( Read more ) (Comment on this)