May 29, 2008 11
Pauly Unstoppable from Canada has got the world’s 1st eye tattoo. The process involves forty insertions of a needle to turn a body-art fan’s eye blue. Pauly said that ‘The procedure was extensively researched and done by people who were aware of the risks & possible complications and that it should not be casually attempted.’
Full Story and More Pics: All Techno Blog
(via Mutans)
Jan 10, 2010 2
May 26, 2010 0
The University of Reading Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group‘s Dr. Mark Gasson – the infected man
OK, so the headline is exaggerated, but this is extremely interesting:
A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus.
Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip which was then inserted into his hand.
The device, which enables him to pass through security doors and activate his mobile phone, is a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets.
In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems.
If other implanted chips had then connected to the system they too would have been corrupted, he said.
Dr Gasson admits that the test is a proof of principle but he thinks it has important implications for a future where medical devices such as pacemakers and cochlear implants become more sophisticated, and risk being contaminated by other human implants.
BBC: First human ‘infected with computer virus’
(via The Edge of Tomorrow)
Apr 22, 2010 0
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an musician and artist best known as a founder of Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Thee Majesty. Coum Transmissions controversial installation Prostitution earned them the title “Wreckers of Civilization.” Throbbing Gristle is considered the first industrial band. Psychic TV hold the Guinness Book of World Records record for most albums released in one year.
P-Orridge studied magic under Brion Gysin and later co-founded Thee Temple of Psychic Youth (TOPY), a magical order cum Psychic TV fan club that evolved a life of its own. P-Orridge left TOPY and tried to shut the organization down in 1991, but some members continued on under the TOPY in spite of his protests. This organization is now known as Autonomous Individuals Network.
P-Orridge eventually co-founded a similar project called The Process in the early 90s.
P-Orridge and his second wife Lady Jaye began a series of body modifications with the aim of becoming a third unified being known as Breyer P-Orridge. Lady Jaye died in October of 2007.
The Genesis P-Orridge Online Archive Extensive collection of interviews, articles, show dates, information, and ephemera.
Check the official news page for upcoming appearances, performances, etc.
Thee Psychick Bible: a New Testament is now available.
Short documentary Metropolis TV Can be watched in full.
Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye in post-production
Thee Psychick Bible now available
Selected collages from exhibit in NYC
Caresse P-Orridge sings “Are You Experienced”
Throbbing Gristle “Discipline” live
Genesis P. Orridge on Brion Gysin in the Guardian.
Dangerous Minds interview part 1 video, Jan. 2010
Genesis P. Orridge interview pt. 2 on Dangerous Minds video, Jan. 2010
Boing Boing TV interview with Genesis P. Orridge and Throbbing Gristle May 2010, interview by Richard Metzger
Radar Magazine article and interview July 2008, first (?) interview after Lady Jaye’s death. Recommended.
Genesis P. Orridge on Soft Focus. Incredibly good video interview.
Audio interview from July 2007
Short interview in the Guardian Oct. 2006
Video interview on Throbbing Gristle Date???
21C Magazine interview by Richard Metzger 1998.
Obit for Lady Jaye by Jason Louv
My memories of The Process mailing list
Interview with Alaura O’Dell, of Psychic TV and Genesis P. Orridge’s ex-wife Nov. 2004
Painfully bad Technoccult dossier on Industrial Records. Very first Technoccult article ever.
Apr 19, 2010 1
More and more implantable devices, like pacemakers or defibrillators, are turning to wireless signals as a means to communicate with external devices, but in doing so they open themselves to security breaches. Several solutions are in the works that tackle this problem by upping device defenses, but by piling on security measures, yet another risk emerges: that at a critical time an authorized physician might not be able to access the device.
So Microsoft Research proposes putting a new technological spin on an old, time-tested security protocol: protect every device with a password, then tattoo the password right onto the patient in invisible UV ink.
Popular Science: Tattooing Patients With UV Ink Could Protect Pacemakers From Hackers
(Thanks Wade)
Apr 6, 2010 0
In his 10 years as facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Dayan has had no shortage of patients in his downtown Chicago office. But these days, Dr. Dayan says more and more are looking for an edge in the challenging job market.
“A good 10 to 15 percent of my patients who come in now are requesting treatments in order to make them do better in the workplace,” said Dr. Dayan.
Dr. Dayan says his patients range from CEOs to receptionists to school teachers, and especially sales people. David Wilk, 27, is one of them.
“I didn’t want my nose to be the center of my thoughts during an interview or during a presentation, and with working in sales, I knew that couldn’t be a distraction, so I really wanted to take care of the situation,” said Wilk.
CBS: More Job Seekers Opting For Cosmetic Procedures
(via Cryptogon)
Mar 21, 2010 0
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye – Trailer from Marie Losier on Vimeo.
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a documentary in post-production on the lives of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge.
Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
The filmmaker is raising money on Kickstarter, though it looks like they’ve already met their goal.
(via Esoteric Heritage)
Mar 8, 2010 1
Above: Amal Graafstra‘s self-administered RFID implant.
It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed. [...]
In all, 23 percent of around 1,000 respondents in the survey said they would be prepared to have a chip inserted under their skin “for certain benefits”.
Around one in six (16 percent) said they would wear an implant to allow emergency services to rescue them more quickly in the event of a fire or accident.
And five percent of people said they would be prepared to have an implant to make their shopping go more smoothly.
PhysOrg: One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll
(via Chris S.)
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Feb 22, 2010 0
I’m sort of inured to pain by this point. Anesthetic is illegal for people like me, so we learn to live without it; I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife to carve a cavity into the tip of my index finger. I’m an idiot, but I’m an idiot working in the name of progress: I’m Lepht Anonym, scrapheap transhumanist. I work with what I can get.
Sadly, they don’t do it like that on TV. The art of improving the human is shiny and bright in the media. You see million-euro cryogenics policies and hormonal life-extension regimes that only the elite can afford. You see the hypothesis of an immortal silicon body to house your artificially-enhanced mind. You could buy that too, maybe, if you sold most of your organic body and the home it lives in. But you can do something to bring it down a notch: homebrewing.
Read More – h+: Scrapheap Transhumanism
(via Grinding)
See also: Lepht Anonym‘s blog.
Feb 16, 2010 0
Not much info about this:
This ThinkAnApp augmented reality tattoo looks like a plain black box, but when placed in front of a webcam, a winged dragon emerges.
Video and more pictures as TrendHunter
(via Chris Arkenberg)
Jan 13, 2010 0
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Thee Psychick Bible (Part 2) from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo.
Update: The embedded video isn’t working right now, so try this direct link instead.
Oct 23, 2009 2
Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan put up a post about an extremely brutal hate-crime attack on an openly gay man. The 2-minute news report he embeds is depressing, but there was something to laugh about at the end. The studio interviewed one of the attackers’ friends, who proudly displayed this tattoo.
It’s a tattoo reading “[Thou] shall not lie with a male as one does with a woman. It is an abomination. Leviticus 18:22?. Who else sees the problem here?
Leviticus also forbids tattooing. In the very next chapter.
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:28?
The Friendly Atheist: Why is this anti-gay Leviticus tattoo extra absurd?
(via Paul Bingman)
Oct 7, 2009 1
Jeff Kepner gabbed with his brothers and snoozed in a chair at his mom’s house in Manheim Township over the weekend, ordinary activities for a trip back home to see family.
But the 57-year-old former Lancaster resident also showed off his two new hands, which he received in May in Pittsburgh during the nation’s first double hand transplant.
The former McCaskey High School student and retired noncommissioned Air Force officer visited here before he finally returns to his Augusta, Ga., home at the end of this week, following four months of recovery and rehabilitation in Pittsburgh.
Lancaster Online: Ex-county man ready to go home after double-hand transplant
(via Grinding)
Mar 9, 2009 0
A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society.
Rob Spence, 36, who lost an eye in an accident as a teen-ager, said his so-called Project Eyeborg is to have the camera, a battery and a wireless transmitter mounted on a tiny circuit board. http://www.eyeborgblog.com/
“Originally the whole idea was to do a documentary about surveillance. I thought I would become a sort of super hero … fighting for justice against surveillance,” Spence said.
“In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don’t care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy.”
Spence, in Brussels to appear at a media conference, said no part of the camera would be connected to his nerves or brain.
(via Phase II)
Jul 24, 2008 1
Radar has a great long article Genesis P. Orridge up:
He and Breyer wouldn’t actually get to talk to each other until the next evening, when they accompanied Sellers to a party at the S&M club Paddles, jabbering away like kids while Jackie ground the heel of her motorcycle boot into some guy’s testicles. On the morning in question, though, there wasn’t time. Jackie had to go to work, and Gen was on his way out. He hadn’t really come to Terence’s dungeon for punishment, anyway; he’d already had more than enough of that in his life.
Aaron Gell: Strange Love (PDF)
(via Tomorrow Museum)
Update: I had only read the first 3/4s of this article last night. The last 1/4 is even more amazing. It contains the first public statements I know of by Gen since Lady Jaye’s death.
This is the best piece of writing I’ve read in a long time.
May 22, 2008 0
Will this be able to beat a male birth control pill to market?
A 10-minute operation could give men a birth control alternative to a vasectomy as early as next year.
The method involves making a small incision along the testicle into which doctors place a tiny tube.
The tube functions as a filter that blocks sperm, according to medics at the Family Planning Technology Centre in Guangzhou, China.
To stop the effect doctors simply remove the tube again, in contrast to a vasectomy that can be difficult to reverse.
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