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Straight from their website: "Transform your ordinary bicycle into a hybrid E-BIKE that also provides feedback on pollution, traffic congestion and road conditions in real-time!"

 

I'm hoping to get my hands on one of these. If you feel the same and/or you own a bike shop and you'd like to carry the Copenhagen Wheel be sure to share your interest with them through the form on the Contact Us page. I'd love to see San Jose continue to become more bike friendly (especially downtown).

http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/

Check out the latest wall animation by one of our favorite street artists, Blu. Nuart describes it as "10 minutes of insane creativity!" Check it out and you're more than likely to agree. Great stuff!

Blu is one of the many amazing artists participating in Nuart 2010 coming up this September in Norway. If you can, book your flight now... everything we hear about this festival, the participants and the folks that put it on makes us wish we could get out there ourselves.

http://nuart09.blogspot.com/
 

Tarr & Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III -- U.S. Tour

DATE: Tuesday, July 6th
TIME: 8 PM
ADMISSION: Free and Open to the Public


Tarr: (Chicago)

An all encompassing dynamic range of sound, from minimal haunting dirge drone to maximalist harsh noise wall, created with all hand built modular synth units and tape manipulation.

Tarr is the moniker of Philip Kruse (Chicago). Using field recordings and crude electronics to create environments through audio. Along with recording and live performance, Philip also works with installations using audio along with objects and altered surroundings. In the past he has collaborated with Maureen Gubia, Patrizia Oliva, Naofumi Ishimaru (Yximalloo), Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle), Arnau Sala, and Patrick Murch.

http://virb.com/philipkruse

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Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III: (Los Angeles/North Carolina)


Vast sculpted noise, organic drone, or deep orchestral groans on a sinking ship, would be descriptions that would get you in the right mind set of the sounds you might expect to hear. All created with reel to reel tape machines, a harmonium, tibetan singing bowls, amongst an array of other sound experiments and hand built instruments.

By Phillafil Gregorious - The Trunk Space - Phoenix AZ "Stop what you're doing. Hear that? That's music, man. At the very least, whatever is within earshot right now (and at all times) is sound. Whether it's the ringing in your ears or the fabric on your body that sings every time you move, there are heaps of fugitive noises awaiting capture. One can also look at it like this: think of sounds as feelings that need to be paid attention to or else they hibernate and eventually die. That's why the sound art of folks such as Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III is so crucial to healthy living on this planet. The sound cultivator showcases found-sound audio that's slowed down, percussion that listens like a kitchen-utensil percussion ensemble, and haunted house-like piano interspersed with skin-crawling bowed cymbals. There are also plenty of meditative drone and feedback arias that sound like chirping crickets. Or are they real crickets? We're not sure. That's the beauty of it.

http://www.myspace.com/corneliusfvanstafrinthe3rd

Released in the iPhone App Store on JAN 5th!!!

A pocket sized digital graffiti blackbook designed for recording more than just ink.

DustTag is an iPhone application designed for graffiti writers that visualizes the motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share 3-D animated representations of their hand styles. All tags created in DustTag are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. DustTag is fully compatible with the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 software suite, which is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com and can be used to playback DustTag creations from the iPhone on your OSX, Windows or Linux desktop systems.

DustTag was created by artist and Graffiti Research Lab co-founder Evan Roth, and artist and openFrameworks guru Chris Sugrue. Graffiti Analysis is an open source initiative built in openFrameworks and is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com

http://eyewriter.org

The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

Here's the latest from artist Evan Roth. Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (Digital Blackbook) from his recent exhibition at the BLK River Festival in Vienna. Keep your eyes peeled for the open data base of motion capture graffiti data he's been developing from writers all over the world. It should be released publicly within the next few weeks.

Originally published on http://www.blog.ni9e.com

I know the last thing anyone wants to hear are artists whining about money (trust me I am one of them). But with all the hype surrounding SXSW I thought I would chime in with why I won't be in Austin this week amongst all of the web 2.0 illuminati twittering and drinking Mexican beers.

A couple of months ago I had a conversation with SXSW that went something like this:

SXSW: Hi, we'd like to invite Graffiti Research Lab to keynote at SXSW!
Me: Great. Thanks for the invitation. Our standard fee is $X.
SXSW: Oh, we only pay for flights and hotel.
Me: Really? Even for a keynote? Giving talks is in part how we pay for rent and food. How about $X/2
SXSW: Nope. Airfare and hotel.
Me: How about you just pay for meals while we're in Austin so we aren't losing money?
SXSW: Nope. Airfare and hotel.
Me: Thanks, but no thanks

Zoë Keating
Wednesday, March 11th at 7:15pm
Location: Imperial Ballroom in the Fairmont Hotel
170 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 (map)

Using a 17th Century Instrument to Create the Music of the 21st Century

Armed with her cello and a computer, Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She records layer upon layer of cello, her feet dancing over an array of pedals to transform her solo performances into multipart works. Classically trained from the age of eight, Zoë spent her post-graduate years working in computer software and moonlighting as a cellist. Inevitably, she combined the two, and developed her signature style while improvising for late night crowds in San Francisco warehouse spaces.

Zoë's self-produced album, "One Cello x 16: Natoma", was #1 on the iTunes Classical charts and #2 in iTunes Electronica. She has performed on NPR, written music for film and played with Imogen Heap, Mark Isham, DJ Shadow, The Dresden Dolls, Paolo Nutini and Rasputina.

She is the recipient of a 2005 Belle Foundation grant and a 2009 Creative Capital performing arts grant.

• Zoë performing her composition, "Tetrishead"
• Zoë performing her composition, "Sun Will Set"

www.zoekeating.com

James Powderly (above) of GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB talking about GRL's installation at Anno Domini gallery. "The U.S. Department of Homeland Graffiti Liquidation Sale" was the debut gallery exhibition for GRL. This exhibition was timed to coincide with the 2008 01SJ biennial in San Jose, CA. Visit http://galleryad.com/past_exhibits/grl08/ to read the artist's statement and view pics from their installation. Video produced by Carleton College Cinema & Media Studies.

G.R.L. R.I.P 9/2/06 - 12/12/08.