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.