EsoZone PDX 2009 is over, and I’m still recovering. Here’s some of the stuff people have posted so far:
Jillian’s EsoZone round-up wherein she shares her own experiences at EsoZone 2009.
She’s shared her outline from her “Radical Therapy for Radical Minds” workshop
Garret Daun has shared a PDF of his “Create Deconstruction” workshop.
Above: a short video from Soup Purse’s workshop on audio processing as invocation and divination.
ArcAttack, previously covered here use Tesla Coils to make music. Gizmodo interviews them about their work:
Gizmodo: What does your setup consist of?
Joe: It would be two DRSSTC (Dual Resident Solid State Tesla Coil) units which are MIDI controlled. There’s a fiber optic cable running to some digital logic boards that are in the Tesla coils.
John: The Open Labs MiKO MIDI console hosts the PC Software (Fruity Loops) that we use to actually sequence the music.
The MiKO is just a Windows machine with a bunch of nice MIDI interfaces, cased in metal—which is nice because we have a lot of EMF emitted from the coils. I actually used to run it off my laptop, but it would crash all the time.
Patrick: The drum machine has a solenoid for every drum, and they’re MIDI controlled also…from the MiKO.
Gizmodo: ArcAttack: Lightning-Proof Musicians Share Their Tesla Coil Secrets
Via What a Wonderful Place to Be, who has a nice round-up of videos.
Hakim Bey interviewed in his home, May 2009.
Above is a trailer for a new documentary about William S. Burroughs, Burroughs: A Man Within.
Update: You can now buy it on DVD or watch it on Netflix.
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass, a 1970 documentary about the Church of Satan, is now on YouTube. Unfortunately, it’s a censored copy. I saw the DVD release of this and it’s great.
(Thanks Bill!)
SAMPARKOUR from Wiland Pinsdorf on Vimeo.
Commercial/music video director Wiland Pinsdorf’s SAMPARKOUR is “a short that reveals the city of São Paulo (Brazil) under the look of Parkour. Where people see obstacles, Zico Corrêa visualizes new possibilities.”
Shot in HD with a 35mm lens adapter, the short is simultaneously dizzying and becalming, presenting Corrêa’s death-defying feats in a breathtaking rush of carefully framed shots and well-paced edits. Today –perhaps more than most days– it is deeply satisfying to witness a collaboration (between filmmaker and athlete, city and gravity) so vital, immediate, and perfectly alive.
(via Coilhouse)
This is a little known documentary based on the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. This documentary came out in 1972 and features Orson Welles as the narrator. […]
As far as I can tell, this documentary is in the public domain. I took the liberty of uploading my videotape transfer to YouTube. It is in 5 parts, and you can view them below.
Oddculture: Alvin Toffler, Orson Welles, and Future Shock
(via OVO)
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