whosampled.com

Whosampled is a database of music which keeps track of who sampled whom (at what parts) in a given track. For instance, when you search for The Avalanches and then find their sample-heavy and very popular "Frontier Psychiatrist," you get a pretty detailed, if not totally complete, list of the different tracks they sampled to make it, plus all the linking around the site each new related track provides.

COLLAGE IS FUTURE

It wouldn't be very future if it didn't embed playable versions of the songs into the results page in addition to giving you the time when the samples come in.

Justice - "Newjack" (throughout track) → The Brothers Johnson - "You Make Me Want to Wiggle" (18 seconds in)

Postmodernism is fun.

Bruce LaBruce: The Purple Resistance Army

regarding art:

...the Purple Resistance Army does not in general support or condone artists or, in particular, art discourse, although bullshit artists and their discourses are provisionally accepted. The art world has become a purely reactive and reactionary institution whose trends and tendencies are determined and circumscribed by the broader conservative cultural forces and socio-economic policies of an exploitative capitalist ruling class, having long since foregone its function as a vanguard or avant-garde, or as serving a therapeutic, cathartic, or even critical function, let alone a political or revolutionary one. Devised by a laissez- faire haute bourgeoisie, art discourse, an Emperor dressed in what he believes are the most au current designer clothes, gets lost in the elaborate, solipsistic layers of his own nakedness, lording his self-importance over an unwitting and uncomprehending public whose idea of art is the fruit in a slot machine. Modern trends in art include escapist folk fantasies involving psilocybin unicorns and golden-tressed maidens with dirty feet locked in pornographic carnal embrace, a new twist on a purely decorative seventies throwback that reinvigorates questionable commodity fetishism. More conceptual, “dialogic” art, including the use of readymades or relational art practice, while less commoditizable than traditional art objects, is nonetheless reified and marketed by the same hierarchical economic institutions and international exhibition superstructures that confine it to the amusement of an insider elite. As an alternative to the art orthodoxy, the PRA promotes finger painting, free range graffiti, tattooing (although not on pigs), home movies, ad hoc shrines – or, for conceptualists, practical jokes, pranks, hoaxes, and public nudity not organized and sanctioned by institutionalized art stars.

The Purple Resistance Army

Daylight Hours

I hate that it's getting dark at 4pm.

Reverse Image Search

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds exact or near-exact copies of the image you search down to the pixel. It doesn't find everything.So I thought about using it to see how alike my collages were to the images I sourced them from, all of which I got on the internet somewhere. 

When I searched this image:

I find the image I used for the background:

TinEye also sorts the search results by size so I can find the biggest version of that image on the internet. 

GazoPa uses a looser algorithm. I searched one of my abstract pieces and got back chinese food.

And I got back chinese food:

I like how the images GazoPa comes up with are pretty random, but they're still abstractly related, in whatever concrete way their algorithm decides, to your original image.

Glide

“Pointless, action-free and totally mesmerising”

Graeme Taylor recorded a train station at 210 fps out the window of a moving train and played it back at 30 fps. Slow motion is always awesome, but particularly in this case.

Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.

Lead Pencil Studio

"Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond." 

vintage laboratory photos from LIFE magazine

Ways of Seeing

SolarBeat

A flash music maker that uses the relative length of the year of each planet in the solar system to time the notes. I just love their choices for each note, especially how satisfying it is when, after you've gotten so charmed with it, a new planet makes its first orbit. It's worth waiting for Pluto's year.

Terry Cavanaugh

Terry Cavanaugh is a game creator. He has about ten cross-platform freeware or shareware games on his site.

VVVVVV is based on a single concept/control scheme, in the vein of the best old games: you move left to right and the spacebar moves you from the floor to the ceiling (and vice versa). I love games that reveal their spatial logic to you through your own experimentation (rather than tutorials of their systems), where they introduce one mechanic that you master intuitively, and then increase the complexity incrementally in these abstract ways. I've embedded a flash version of it below. You can download a standalone version of the same two levels below for free at thelettervsixtim.es

Judith, on the other hand, is unlike any other 'game' I've played. This is a piece of art; this man is a video game artist. Essentially you are able to move in a 3D environment and you have to figure out how to make the story progress, which takes about 15 minutes to finish. It's really creepy but not really gory; certainly not survival-horror-action. Free download for Mac and Windows.

Hello, I'm Robot!

Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989).

BUZZ

From Boing Boing:

"In 1990, MTV aired a groundbreaking TV documentary series called Buzz. Created and directed by Mark Pellington (Mothman Prophecies, Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" video), Jon Klein, and Mark Neale in partnership with MTV Europe, Buzz was a fantastic experiment in non-linearity and cut-up that drew heavily from -- and presented -- avant-garde art, underground cinema, early cyberpunk, industrial culture, appropriation/sampling, and postmodern literature." 

A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversible

Tiny, Almost Manageable

One of the best webcomics I've ever seen. They've been on hiatus for years now, which is a fucking travesty. Every piece is like an epic mural with an entire world inside of it. It's written by Dale Beran and drawn by David Hellman. It's not a contiguous story, which I like because it manages to envelop you without episode-to-episode suspense (a technique this comic cheapens by comparison) in every single piece, though some of the characters are recurring, mostly the creators as themselves in the comic. They don't make any references to their own comics or to anything, really—they tell you everything in every comic. It's so good.

Some of my favorites:

No, I'm Sorry
Now We Are Poor Again!
Bluerazz Sourpower Snackattackpacks
At Last, I Am in Heaven!

There's a certain point after the first couple where they hit a stride and EVERY SINGLE comic is pure gold.