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Hyped: The Week In Links 2/17

On the blog this week we found out that print isn’t dead, it’s alive and well and grassroots. We also deconstructed the beat of “El Salvador” with producer Spills, met the granddaddies of VJing, Joshua Light Show, and spoke with Stephen Malinowski who created the Biophilia app animations. In other Björk news, we heard from her ballache friend, Leila Arab about 20 years of collaborations, had a look back at Björk’s career via a mixtape and had a tech Q&A with Biophilia producer Damian Taylor. We also learned how you paint with sound, found a Jazz master who swapped his drum kit for drum pads, saw the current state of Confucian ideas, played Molleindustria’s new drone pilot game about a disgruntled and found out what you can do with old, broken CDs.

And here’s a few things taking place elsewhere online…

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· In a New York Times article, Evgeny Morozov mourned the death of the cyberflâneur. Morozov claims nobody surfs the web any more, it’s just become a place to get things done. Step up from the red corner, artist Jesse Darling, in a riposte to Morozov’s article, basically telling him to stop moaning and get on with it.

· I’ll be backless: Russian singer Sasha Gradiva paired her red carpet frock at the Grammys with a not-so-subtle Terminator-style cyborg arm (above). #doingitwrong

· Rock and LOL: The White Stripes’ track “Seven Nation Army” as performed on science equipment in “Science Nation Army” at The Blast Lab, Imperial College, London.

· TIL: British author Martin Amis once wrote a non-fiction book on video games called Invasion of the Space Invaders which he’s since disowned and is now out of print.

· Finger lickin’ horror of the week: student André Ford has come up with the idea of a brainless chicken farm, where headless chickens would be cultivated without their cerebral cortex so they don’t experience the horror of mass production.

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