Massonix aka Graham Massey of 808 State. I enjoyed the aquatic-themed album on Skam.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 2:00 AM on August 8, 2008

New Order named some songs after movies: In a Lonely Place, Cries and Whispers, Thieves Like Us.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 1:24 AM on August 8, 2008

Warren Sack was at my old lab + has done some work in this vein. I lack sleep, so I don't recall well. But text analysis + text vis brought him to mind.

http://people.ucsc.edu/~wsack/ (WARNING: evil window resizing)
http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab/projects.htm (no window resizing)
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 6:23 AM on June 21, 2008

Thanks. NJ.com isn't returning anything with his name. I did find:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/accident/

And I've now realized I've asked a slightly wrong question. He passed away on 5/11, but I've no idea if the accident happened on the same day. I had just assumed - without basis.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 5:01 PM on May 23, 2008

NJ.com seems to aggregate a bunch of papers.

I don't know which city he was at, only that he was in NJ at the time. I'll check out the 411 services. Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 5:13 PM on May 23, 2008

dhartung - This was just one of several ways that I was trying to get more info. I had sent out email queries, and I was having to wait to call people overseas at a non-crazy hour for them. Searching obits didn't return anything + I guessed that his parents might not use the obits page anyway for cultural reasons. Then I thought that perhaps an accident report on the news or in a police blotter might tell me what city it was in or what hospital he was taken to, and I could try to follow the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 6:57 AM on May 24, 2008

I forgot to ask: if you have ideas on where I might find a hi-res version of the poster, that'd be great too. Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 10:10 PM on May 7, 2008

I used to spend a lot of time on the wongkarwai.net forums, and I vaguely remember the tattoo being considered a reference to WKW's 2046. You might register on the forums there + ask, if you're really curious. Some hardcore fans on there could help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 6:44 PM on May 7, 2008

Adding to the manga/anime list: Noritaka. Japanese kid learns kickboxing then fights his way thru a laundry list of other martial arts in various matches.

Maybe too indirect, but Fist of North Star? It's not about a tournament per se, but one plot point over the long term is about proving your supremacy using mystical martial arts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 6:39 PM on May 7, 2008

mek - Plaid is an old favorite of mine as well. There is a remix CD of the soundtrack too, involving Derrick May, Prefuse 73, Shinichi Osawa, and others.

The DVD of TK that I rented had an interview with Ed + Andy plus the filmmaker about the soundtrack. I found it amusing. The two guys are laid-back and sincere thruout the interview, but they're not used to being interviewed on camera and didn't seem comfy talking about their process.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 6:41 AM on March 19, 2008

Has anyone actually been accepted by Apple into the beta program, after the SDK was released and they let people sign up on their site + apply to get in? I've seen posts and comments from people who downloaded the SDK and tried but failed to move apps onto their iPhones because they're missing the certificate. But none from someone who was accepted into the beta + paid $99 + got a certificate. Apple did say they are only allowing a "limited" number of developers to do this, but I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 2:07 PM on March 7, 2008

Clear Records

Starting in '95, during a mini electro revival, Clear released electro-tinged IDM music from several old + new artists. Among them: Plaid, u-Ziq, Reload / Global Communication, Autechre / Gescom, Herbert, As One.

FWIW, Plaid's Android EP was voted EP of the year on the IDM mailing list. Good times.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 3:16 PM on January 23, 2008

One more:

Golden Shower - Video Computer System

Great (if dated by now) bit at 1:51.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 8:22 PM on January 22, 2008

filmgeek - Closing Time by Semisonic? More of a "guy goes to meet girl but misses her".
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 7:53 AM on December 12, 2007

I enjoyed Ajit's Indian Giver music video before. Very nice split-screen piece. Charming indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 8:50 AM on May 25, 2007

Wasn't there even a asian movie about ping pong shaolin soccer-style?

Yep, from Japan, 2002, featuring Japanese ping-pong prodigies and a Chinese import player:

Ping Pong trailer

Fun movie with some Matrix-y effects and a gently sweet story. Plus good trancey soundtrack.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 8:31 AM on May 21, 2007

Ive known many Korean nationals who serve in their late 20s after college. In some cases, depending on their job/skills, they can forgo military service entirely in exchange for working in a Korean company, eg. Samsung, Hyundai, etc. for a period of time. Also, if he became a US citizen, he would not have to serve in the Korean military. I would bet that with relative ease, he could've been a US citizen (given his family's 15 years in the US).

All... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 1:05 PM on April 17, 2007

Korean newspaper Chosun-Ilbo interviewed Cho's aunt in Korea. Says she had little contact with the family in the US since they moved. She remembers her nephew as a kid who got good grades but who was not talkative and was introverted, with a sad/depressed personality (wooeulhan sungkyuk).
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 3:20 PM on April 18, 2007

MSNBC site has photos up, including ones not shown on NBC. Very disturbing.

Makes me wonder how long before some other nutty person does a Justin.tv thing and tapes / broadcasts his POV as he commits the killings.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 3:47 PM on April 18, 2007

Well, at least he used QuickTime, not WMV or Real.

ericb - Thanks for the updates.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 3:56 PM on April 18, 2007

The decades of Korea under Japanese Rule heavily influenced Korea and its media, and continues to do so, especially after that Japanese culture ban was lifted nine years ago. Korean violence in the media is more inspired by Japanese violence than it is by American.

Curious - do you think it really "continues to do so"? I thought this was less true nowadays, certainly with movies. Influence will continue to flow one way or another, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 4:55 PM on April 19, 2007

I hope the game has a stage featuring a footrace between Barkley and a boss named Bavetta (YouTube). (Full event; for context, you can watch more of the related clips.)
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 6:41 PM on February 21, 2007

At the lab where I worked as an undergrad, Dave, a labmate who was a religious 120 Minutes viewer, had a great setup where he had a TV and VCR right next to his Mac and thus could hit the record button quickly as soon as a desirable video was announced. Good times.

Screw 120 Minutes, where's my damn Amp archive? One of the best shows MTV ever had, style and great videos and even a little ACTUAL video mixing.

Ah I miss AMP too,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 6:35 PM on February 3, 2007

John Underkoffler who put together the Minority Report hands-in-the-air-driven user interface (complete with full fictional-but-realistic manual of each gesture and resulting operation which I believe Tom Cruise had to learn) is now part of a company trying to bring it to reality. I forget the name of the company. Not sure if this qualifies as an answer since it is not a finished and released product, but just wanted to throw in the fact that someone is working hard at it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 5:08 PM on February 2, 2007

Game of Death, with Bruce Lee in yellow tracksuit and Pumas. Superficial visual link to KB, but probably the most obvious of references to past movies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 7:35 AM on January 30, 2007

Nice, thanks for this. Between the Autechre show and this, I have plenty of music to start off the new year. Wish it was easier to browse.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 12:39 PM on December 31, 2006

Ack, the set has been pulled for now, will be back later.

Earlier:

"OK, I now have the set split up into 30 parts. Total runtime
is 27 hours. All silence and bufferings issues have been
removed.

I will make 5 zip files which will contain 6 parts each and
add them to the torrent page within a few minutes."

27 hours?!?
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 1:28 PM on December 30, 2006

Yeah I saw that. Go Ae go!

Downloading these sets is gonna make for a nice belated Xmas gift.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 3:48 PM on December 30, 2006

It is really nice stuff... The kind of music they + Plaid + others have talked about growing up on (but have stopped making largely). I have to do some work for a project due January 1, and this is keeping me awake+kicking.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 5:01 PM on December 30, 2006

The torrents are online.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 10:34 AM on December 31, 2006

An API would be cool. I'd like to make a tag/post browser based on my design for the MeFi compilation CD cover. There was a discussion at some point and I think Matt said there was a possibility of a data dump he could produce in lieu of a full open API... Matt, is there any chance of a file like that?
posted to MetaTalk by shortfuse at 8:04 AM on December 30, 2006

Oops, I found the thread on opening up MeFi and it was cortext who suggested a data dump and not Matt mentioning it. My bad.
posted to MetaTalk by shortfuse at 8:08 AM on December 30, 2006

cortex
posted to MetaTalk by shortfuse at 8:09 AM on December 30, 2006

gwint - Alex Gopher's The Child?
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 8:23 PM on December 29, 2006

I finished reading The Kings Depart by Richard M. Watt. A good read. I was surprised that he seemed to go through the Versailles Treaty quite fast (first four breathless chapters plus numerous later references), but later I realized it was because his real interest was what was happening in Germany between the end of fighting and the signing of the treaty. If my focus was just the Treaty, then I might have chosen another book, but this one gave me a good idea of German events + POV during that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 9:29 AM on October 3, 2006

Another update: I finished Richard Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich and Piers Brendon's The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s.

I had started with the Evans and AJP Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War, but the Taylor one was difficult to understand without generally knowing how the nations marched onto WW2 (it is more of a re-examination than an examination), so I put that aside.

Both the Evans and the Brendon books were terrific.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 10:01 PM on December 19, 2006

Google's sync tool ate some of my bookmarks when I tried it last month. It seems to be confused by dividers; it turned a whole folder of bookmarks into a divider, while refusing to delete some dividers that I had manually removed.

Foxmarks is working well for me now.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 1:05 PM on December 19, 2006

I second suggestions for looking at Information Aesthetics and Visual Complexity. Lots of examples for you to browse.

You didn't mention what kind of data you were seeking to visualize. People could suggest specific techniques or tools here if you posted more details. Or you might email the webmasters of the above 2 blogs with the details about your data. Since they have seen many types of works, they might be able to point you quickly to several good ideas.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 1:42 PM on December 13, 2006

Also, try contacting a certain Mr. Ben Fry. He's 1/2 of Processing, did his PhD on innovative infoviz, and made cool stuff like zipdecode which I believe was linked on MeFi at some point. Nice guy. He might point you in a suitable direction.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 1:50 PM on December 13, 2006

b33j - Ah I just saw your reply. Forgot to preview.

So 2 sets of keywords (1 for before and 1 for after), and each keyword has a positive/negative connotation value?

First thing coming to mind is to have a tag cloud for each set.

Within each tag cloud:
- Size of tag represents frequency of occurrence. More frequent = larger.
- Color of tag represents positive/negative value. More positive = bluer;... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 2:04 PM on December 13, 2006

I recommend picking hotels that are walkable from/to the festival grounds. I stayed at a hotel that was close but still a cab ride away, and while it wasn't so difficult to find a cab at diff times of day/night, it still would have been easier overall to stay closer.

Not sure if they have changed venues for the big nighttime events, but if they still do it at the big hangar-like space a trainride away from the main festival, be sure to get there early enough. It'll... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 12:59 PM on December 13, 2006 marked best answer

Ha, all my life I've aspired to nothing else but being linked on MeFi, and now I get *two* whole links out of... being left off the liner notes!

No biggie, errors will happen. Just teaches me to volunteer to be art director for volume 2, so I can make sure my name gets on there. ;)

Cheers everyone.

About that link to my profile... Geez, I see I've only made 1 proper post to MetaFilter in 4 years... Ahem.
posted to MetaTalk by shortfuse at 10:13 PM on November 30, 2006

Looks like my site might be down? Ugh.

BTW, MetaFilter Music Video Compilation Project, anyone? We have some songs on our hands now, after all...
posted to MetaTalk by shortfuse at 10:26 PM on November 30, 2006

Comparison charts would indeed be good for experts/newbies who are looking into finding the right toolset. For more in-depth comparisons, charts would be too concise.

So how about interviews with artists who have done stuff with the tools you mentioned like Processing or vvvv? Not so much "tell us about your art and works" per se; sites like we make money not art do this sort of thing well already. Rather, questions should be focused on their relationship to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 9:36 PM on November 27, 2006 marked best answer

Chinese whispers also known as the telephone game. Person A works on something, passes it onto person B who builds on what person A has done, passes it back to person A or onto another person C, and so on.

Coudal has done things like this with Photoshop users, where an image is passed back and forth and stuff gets added, removed, and otherwise remixed. They called it Photoshop tennis.

So you could try to set up something where a Processing user... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 10:13 AM on November 28, 2006

This was at SIGGRAPH at Boston this year. I asked the demoer about Audiopad since it struck me as being similar as well. He seemed annoyed and didn't really give me an explanation of how it was different, just told me that there were lots of projects like Audiopad.

From the few minutes I watched him, it looked less fun than Audiopad for simple playing around with loops and sounds, but gave you more components and control over more parameters if you know what you're doing.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 10:05 AM on November 6, 2006

Thanks zixyer.

To clarify, it's ok for the drop to occur in a designated part of the window. I don't have to catch every drop that happens anywhere in the window.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 12:54 PM on October 14, 2006

dacafe by Mori Yuji?

He has people photos, but way back when I last checked it out, he had beautiful shots of empty building rooftops, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shortfuse at 1:10 PM on October 5, 2006

More BBC Four Idents, all four clips using split screens.
posted to MetaFilter by shortfuse at 11:12 AM on September 27, 2006

I second cortex. It'd be fun to have MeFi data to play with.
posted to MetaTalk by shortfuse at 8:18 AM on September 23, 2006