Image: Marius WatzAs everyone knows, it was sad times this week as Steve Jobs went to the great docking station in the sky. He will be missed, his products will live on…On the blog we spoke with Scott Draves about software art, Ishac Bertran hacked up old vinyl for new music, The Matrix borrowed some ideas from other films, and we spoke with a man who burns pianos. And don’t forget our New York event is imminent. Go register, right now.And out there, out there on the web, all this was going on…· techno. Techno. TECHNO. TECHNO!: Remember when it used to be about the music? The good old days when we were knee-high to a grasshopper and all this was fields? Yeah. Relive those times with this 1990s mini-doc, Detroit The Blueprint Of Techno, featuring Ritchie Hawtin with a shaved head, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig and plenty more from that seminal period in electronic music. [via]· “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold…” The Daily's Zach Baron staggers along in the footsteps of Hunter S. Thompson 40 years on, retracing Thompson’s time in Las Vegas witnessing the death of the hippy dream in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.· Title Scream is an online museum of animated 16 and 8-bit title screens. Woo.· Marius Watz lays down the state of computational aesthetics in a comprehensive fifty minute lecture. Take some time out to watch it, that report can wait till Monday.· Dumb but fun: Jamie Liddell performs “A Little Bit More” using iMaschine. Breakitdown.· Is the internet killing the “creative class”? Or should everyone just shut up? Discuss.
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