My favorite purveyors of artistically stimulating t-shirts, The Imaginary Foundation, are setting up an art installation and pop-up store next week in San Francisco. The photos of the place and works look jaw-droppingly amazing. If you are in the area, go go go and check this thing out.

OPENING NIGHT
Friday, November 19, 2010
7:30pm–12am
FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents
248 Fillmore Street
San Francisco CA 94117

The artist and scientist may at first seem strange bedfellows. Of the many human disciplines, there are few that could seem more divergent. The artist employs image and metaphor; the scientist uses number and equation. Art creates illusions meant to evoke emotion, while science engages in the pursuit of empirical verification. There is, to some degree, a physiological cause for this apparent divergence: the two halves, or hemispheres, of the brain.

The right side of the brain is responsible for emotions and intuition, the left for logic and reason. Yet the notion of two brains gives rise to the function of one mind. Perhaps it is this one “undivided mind” that presents a way forward through the monumental cultural changes we now face, enabling us to surf this dynamic moment in history from a platform of balance and symmetry.

This installation endeavors to fuse the aesthetic beauty of art and science in order to create a synthesis of mind, one which is as much rational as it is fantastic. Think of this undivided mind as a prototype of human possibility—an evolutionary signal of convergence, harmony, and accelerated progress. The rest is up to us.

POP-UP STORE/GALLERY HOURS
Sat, Nov 20–Sun, Nov 28
Mon–Sat 12pm–6pm, Sun 12pm–5pm

Vintage suitcases turned into badass boom boxes? Yes please! Check out more at Mr. Simo’s blog or Esty shop.

Fantastic motion and sound design and epic galactic events? Yes please!

Spotted at Imaginary Foundation.

I’ve often thought that the iPhone and related devices would be fun mediums for persistance-of-vision experiments and applications. Looks like the folks at Dentsu London & Berg have one-upped that idea by making stop-motion films with this stunning and creative implementation of the technique.

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

Read more at the Dentsu London blog:
dentsulondon.com/​blog/​2010/​09/​14/​light-painting/​
and at the BERG blog:
berglondon.com/​blog/​2010/​09/​14/​magic-ipad-light-painting/​

via Phidelity Blog

via wire to the ear

Dopese’s Fluffy Chill Out Corner kindly pointed out that Dubmission Records have put their fantastic catalog of dubby electronica up on Bandcamp and at very reasonable prices. You’ll find all their releases by Pitch Black, Doof, Stress Assassin, International Observer, and others. If this is all new to you, grab the either the On A Mission From Dub or On A Dubmission comps, which present a generous sampling of their material for an easily swallowed ₤1.50 GBP (~$2.30).

The Dubmission catalog is seriously some of the best dubtronica out there, and paired with cheap prices and Bandcamps variety of format options, this is a total win for us fans. Enjoy!

Good news! Gel-Sol’s follow-up to “IZ” will be released on September 6. Here’s what he has to say about it:

You ready to Rock?!?!? Yeah, neither am I. I mean I am, but I got this new ambient album coming out. YOU READY TO CHILL?!?!?! Good.

So yeah, new album. It’s called K8EMA and was written for my second niece, Katelyn Mae. She’s a cutie. And what better way is there to mold and shape a young child’s mind than some extremely tripped-out psychedelic music from yer pal, Gel-Sol? Cuz I don’t know.

Check out the cover:

I made that shit! The music sounds like that too, which is of course BADASS. Ok, it might not be badass, but it’s pretty cool. I’m trying to promote here!

Here’s the tracklisting:

01. Abyssinia
02. K8EMA
03. Spirit Guide
04. Glade
05. Halo of Stars
06. Peacetime Fortress
07. The Mechanical Garden
08. Panta Rhei
09. Gel’s Hole
10. Energy Pools
11. Last

K8EMA drops on September 6th, 2010 through Keith Downey and the fine people of Psychonavigation Records in Dublin. They have a hell of roster, so you should check them out!

http://www.psychonavigation.com

K8EMA is also available for pre-order through Darla Records:
http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=38248

and Ear/Rational (currently the month’s top seller!)
http://www.ear-rational.com/detail.php?id=64603

You can also check out the K8EMA album sampler via Soundcloud!
K8EMA album sampler by Gel-Sol

So yeah, buy K8EMA today and be the first on yer block to brag to all yer friends, family and neighbors that you have some ambient cd that nobody really listens to! K8EMA will also be available digitally through iTunes, Beatport, Bleep.com (Warp Records) and a few other online shops…

And I’ll try to blog more in the future. I totally forgot to post the new Kids For Tomorrow album (Nequa) that we finished up in the spring. It’s a crazy ambient album too!

Yer Pal,
Gel-Sol

Here’s a new release from Chillography favorite, and previous guest, Kalpataru Tree. Curtis fuses lush, organic textures, with dreamy dubscapes to create a unique blend that is sure to please all psydub or chillout fans.

Preview the 7-track album with the player below, and buy it in your format of choice for only $5. At that price, by this artist, this album is a must own.

Woah. Remember that one time you did that thing and everything was all like asldkfjIojjkj$#3245(*&hjlkasjdf? This video for Blockhead’s “The Music Scene” is a lot like that….

Official music video for Blockhead’s ‘The Music Scene’.

An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead’s ‘The Music Scene.’

Directimated by A.F.Schepperd
Commissioned by Ninjatune Records
Music by Blockhead

spotted at Flyer Design Goodness