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We on it! Come follow us.. twitter.com/street_writer.

Carousel, directed by Adam Berg (Stink Digital)

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WTF?

Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondes
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Snoop is on it!

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StreetWriter.info

I’m not planning on shelling out 3 grand for a .com name anytime soon, but the hyphen between street and writer was a liability, so you can now find us at streetwriter.info
..take care.

Twitter

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Bike Trixx..

..110 years ago

Thomas Edison - Bicycle Trick Riding No. 2 (1899)

All I Want For Christmas...

..is some new socks, £200 vouchers for Tape Exchange, and a Yamaha Tenori-On

from wiki:

Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group, Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of a sixteen by sixteen grid of LED switches, any of which can be activated in a number of ways to create an evolving musical soundscape. The LED switches are held within a magnesium frame, which has two built-in speakers located on the top of frame, as well as a dial and buttons that control the type of sound and beats per minute produced. There is also an LCD screen on the bottom edge of the frame. Using the connection function, it is possible to play a synchronized session, or to send and receive songs between two of the devices.

BAD

Kirlian Photography

I was Googlin about at some photography earlier, and came across some interesting Kirlian photography using Tesla Coils..

I think a Tesla Coil is kinda like a big version of this:

But without the glass ball around it..


This photo is of the Coil rotating 2 times, with a rod attatched, using an exposure of about 20 seconds.





The SICKEST Anti-Theft Device for your car!

Pieces of 8-bit

We all loved playing video games as kids, hence the name Street Writer.. I have a ps2 but don't play it much, and I've still got my Snes from back in the day but I don't play it at all, mainly because I don't have time to but also I have emualtors for a lot of the old consoles on my mac, so when I do get the time I can play them on here. Not the same though really. I could play Street Fighter, GoldenEye, Mario Kart and Pro Evo all day though, no matter how busy I am. I do still take an interest in video game music.. I played in Manchester earlier this month at a rave called 'Monday Murkage' (hold tight David Lewis, big boy promoter-500 students out on a Monday night areyoudumb?) so the next day I went down to Picadilly Records on Oldham St and found this gem:

It's got a lot of the old intro sounds for game makers like Konami, Acclaim, Capcom etc and a heavy section of GTA San Andreas dialogue which is too jokes.

The first tune I can ever remember is this, this game got completely rinsed! Probably the first game I completed.

SUPER MARIO LAND 3 : WORLD 1



The best tune ever made on 8-bit for a video game has to be the intro theme from Streets Of Rage 2.

STREETS OF RAGE 2 INTRO



My first encounter with this music outside of it's original context was probably the 1999 New York anthem 'Super Brooklyn', which straight samples Super Mario. It was a groundbreaking idea at the time to rap over a computer game sample, it never got officially released because the sample was unable to clear.

COCOA BROVAS - SUPER BROOKLYN



Then a few years later, around 2005 my mate Alex Bok Bok played me a song which got me into a lot of new music, and again it was the 8-bit synth samples that grabbed my attention. It was actually the first Diplo record I bought. I got it on white label prior to it's release, that just has a stamp of a diplodocus on the label and 'DIPLO' written in the tiniest letters in biro on the other side. To me it’s like Miami Bass passed through a mega drive in Brazil then sent to Jamaica to be finished.

DIPLO FT. SANDRA MELODY & VYBZ KARTEL - DIPLO RHYTHM



About a year ago, dub virus infecta Kode 9 put out a real head-turning release on his Hyperdub label from Japanese gameboy musician Quarta 330. it featured an 8-bit remix of Kode 9's classic '9 Samurai' and this crazy dub tune made on Nanoloop. This probably came out around the same time as 50 Cent & Justin Timberlake's 'Ayo Technology' which is a good example of 8-bit filtering into pop music.

QUARTA 330 - SUNSET DUB



More recently RAMP Recordings have put out a sick 12" from Zomby. Side A is 'Liquid Dancehall' but it's really, as usual with a lot of UKG records, all about the B-side.

ZOMBY - STRANGE FRUIT



This style is getting more popular, I'm hearing it a lot in new music, it definately evokes nostalgia, but at the same time sounds good in a new way. All about the 8-bit!

Hydropolis Underwater Hotel...

woah! i saw this in the metro the other day, some woman chilling on a blow up lilo, in a clear flume, with dolphins & co swimming about on the other side. wtf!? it's still under construction...it's mad! i wanna go!

quote... "Currently under construction in Dubai, Hydropolis will be the world's first luxury underwater hotel. It will include three elements: the land station, where guests will be welcomed, the connecting tunnel, which will transport people by train to the main area of the hotel, and the 220 suites within the submarine leisure complex. It is one of the largest contemporary construction projects in the world, covering an area of 260 hectares, about the size of London's Hyde Park".

PAY AS YOU GO

Thats it, I'm back on pay as you go, sod this I-phone frenzy business. Dropping this month is a new phone collaboration between Orange and Bic, also in classic white and green Bic colours. Nothing disposable about this, you can pre-order now at Colette

FRIENDCHIP

First post, so here is a little gem of a website I found today at work, it turns your computer into a bleepy, noisey coloured block animation kinda thing, go check it, fucking cool! FRIENDCHIP