“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

The footage in this little film was captured by the hardworking men and women at NASA with the Cassini Imaging Science System. If you’re interested in learning more about Cassini and the on-going Cassini Solstice Mission, check it out at NASA’s website: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/​science/​index.cfm

Track: 2 Ghosts I, Ghosts I – IV by Nine Inch Nails

Feast your eyes on this new Mars-1 painting. Sci-fi-meets-visionary-art at its finest.

Here’s a great live version of one of the many fine tunes Shulman is responsible for. Most “live” performances from electronic musicians sound exactly like they are just playing their CD and pretending to twist really stiff knobs, so I give Shulman extra points for changing it up on stage. I really wish this was the norm, but sadly for most psy musicians it’s not….

Feast your eyes on the mind-bending video work of Taras Hrabowsky:

Presenting the most hauntingly beautiful thing you’ll hear all day….

Voice: Bill Hicks (16 December 1961 – 26 February 1994)

“Life is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, “Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever. Because this is just a ride….But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between FEAR and LOVE.”

Spotted at Paradise Engineering.

Here’s a perfect unofficial video, by the sharp-eyed Neil Krug, to my favorite Boards of Canada song, “In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country“. Mr. Krug’s sun-drenched ’70s vibe perfectly pairs with BoC’s nostalgic sound. Go spend some time exploring his portfolio and enjoy.

Spotted at Abduzeedo.

Rotary Signal Emitter – Side A from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

Rotary Signal Emitter – Side B from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

Sculpture present a flattened zoetrope on the surface of a vinyl record. The Victorian zoetrope, invented in 1834, was a three-dimensional object that consisted of a spinning cylinder with vertical slits through which still images appeared to move.

Sculpture’s animation requires the use of a video camera to convey its magic, but as can be seen from their videos the effort is well worth it. Just the knowledge of the latent potential contained within the vinyl surface serves to enhance the experience of the music and the spinning disc, even to the naked eye, is a hypnotic spectacle.>

What a spectacular idea and execution! Full details can be found at Hardformat.

This peek into the love affair between Oneohtrix Point Never and his Juno 106 really speaks to me. It perfectly captures the mood I enter when I sit down with my X-station and just jam and tweak the hours away. Every musician should be so lucky to have 1 instrument that they know inside and out, regardless of the perceived quality or value of that instrument.

Spotted at Synthtopia.