Molecular Micromachines

Medical illustrator David Bolinsky and XVIVO translate cellular mechanics to visible metaphor… very cool…

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Temes

Susan Blackmore’s Ted Talk proposes the emergence and evolution of the technological replicator, neither gene nor meme, the techno-meme, she coins the TEME … “language is a parasite, it coevolves, and we end up with a symbiotic relationship… we’ll think we’re choosing these things, but the temes are making us do it … i propose […]

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Derek Brunen

Longtime ‘friend of the show’, interdisciplinary artist, thinker and fine-art technician Derek Brunen is selling off his beautiful collection of limit-based artworks in a fundraiser to get him to grad school in THE NETHERLANDS. Preview the collection on his new website, and if you’re in Vancouver come by his studio sale next Thursday thru […]

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Gallery Atsui

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Next Saturday, September 6 2008, myself Steve Calvert, Kim Kennedy Austin, and Aaron Carpenter will be showing drawings in “Thick Hot” - the opening exhibition for Strathcona’s newest Gallery Atsui - Located at 602 E.Hastings at Princess, Vancouver BC. Please join us Saturday night for the Downtown Eastside evening of the annual Swarm festival and artists-run-center gallery crawl. I’ll be showing five pieces each priced at $800. Many thanks to the gallery and to the artists.  More information at www.galleryatsui.com

SteveCalvert @ September 2, 2008

Colby Sparks

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I need to say it - whoah - Always one to share the enthusiasm of my own miniature eurekas, please accept this winded recommendation to take glee in the wizardly breakcore compositions of Colby Sparks — I’ve been seeing this kid around town all year, and just this past week I’m listening to his myspace page and it’s the most compelling and challenging mix of algorhythmic idm and non-metric breakcore I’ve heard since the magic years… a decade later, I’m stoked to know there are still more olympian rhythm scientists to be discovered rising in the ranks - Electronic percussion exploration has offered so much promise, and I’ve been watching all scanners for life-form readings… Colby’s music describes that contemporary event horizon…

When that exhilarating ten minutes of myspace is up, go back and listen to the Square Root of Evil to continue to pacify the chattering squirrels now delightfully burrowing in your brainstem. Should curiosity and pleasurable impulse persist, cue up Spark, Taal Mala and Vincent Parker to deliver more fastidious shizzle in the scholarly field of beat breaking. Bring your pulse down and let the pleasure centers grind on and on with Sub Osc, Self Evident and Max Ulis laying joyous vibrations across the tech-dub terrain. So much TALENT!!!

Vancouver and galaxies beyond, take note..

SteveCalvert @ September 2, 2008