(TrendHunter.com) The Huffington Post revealed a bizarre trend for this Christmas – films with Nazi themes. Citing no less than six films released within the last month that have plot lines related to WWII and specifically…
(TrendHunter.com) Today’s elders aren’t as ready to be docile little old people as elders may have been in the past. They certainly aren’t about to take any guff from would-be attackers, human or beast.
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(TrendHunter.com) In contrast to the morbidity of ‘The Cover’ PSA, MTV goes for cheeky humor in the ‘Rebel Penis,’ which is part of their Staying Alive campaign. Their argument? Use a condom, “because dicks have feelings…
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(TrendHunter.com) This 80 year old fitness fiend is a legend and completely inspirational. He is very fit and can out-run and out-cycle most youngsters, and what’s more – he is a complete sweet heart.
Sydney Wilson is…
(TrendHunter.com) Heavy metal artists celebrate the birth of Christ in an unconventional way and wish listeners a rocking New Year! A Seasonal music CD recently released by Armoury Records (UK) features rock and metal versions…
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(TrendHunter.com) The new January issue of Vogue US brings Superman back with an editorial by Mario Testino.
Top male model David Gandy fills the shoes (and tights) of Superman alongside Carolyn Murphy in a fun photoshoot…
(TrendHunter.com) If you, or your lust interest, object to the the hairy backs, fronts, butts, and brushy hinterlands of the male anatomy, you may share the growing interest in manscaping. Manscaping, simply put, is the…
(TrendHunter.com) The Queen of Pop–and controversy–Madonna has just released some outtakes from her latest album “Hard Candy” which was released back in April.
The pictures show the “Material Girl” in a boxing ring,…
(TrendHunter.com) Rather than waste paper like a traditional calendar, the Napkin Calendar 2009 by Stas Aki provides extra practical functionality as a napkin.
Printed on napkins that can be used in a regular napkin dispenser,…
(TrendHunter.com) Lyndon Wade is a magnificent photographer whose whimsical, idiosyncratic and sometimes controversial themes are hard to decipher.
Based in Kansas City, Wade’s subjects are very diverse and they appear…
LONDON – A national TV campaign for the National Gas Emergency Service breaks today, advising people to call a dedicated hotline if they smell gas.
Alan Dunning, Morley Hollenberg and Paul Woodrow are working since 1996 on the Einstein’s Brain, a project that explores how the brain can act as an interface between bodies and worlds in flux, that examines the idea of the world as a construct sustained through neurological processes. In collaboration with scientists, artists and technologists from around the world the team is investigating ideas about consciousness and embodiment through the realization of virtual environments and the construction of surrogate bodies.
The Canadian collective has a very uncanny and captivating installation on view until mid-January at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. in Gijón (Spain.)
Ghosts in the Machine, uses the ideas inherent in Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) to examine ways in which we construct the world and extends it to the visual. EVP is the recording of errant noises or voices that have no explainable or physical source of origin. For some, the voices are subjective interpretations (similar to some form of anthropomorphisation) of what are actually random patterns of sound. For others, the voices are genuinely mysterious, opening up for example the possibility to communicate with other realms.
The installation Ghosts in the Machine looks simple: two large images are projected onto the walls of a room. One projection shows video static overlaid with text and the outlines of bounding boxes, the other shows b&w images of what appear to be blurry and ghost-like images of human faces. Ambient noise fills the space. Just at the threshold of recognition can be heard what appear to be human speech in different languages. A box, encloses tightly a CCD camera, only letting through the video noise inherent in the system. Audio patterns are scanned by a voice recognition system that looks for words and sentences which are then projected as words and played as voice-like sounds in the exhibition room.
Face tracking algorithms look for any combination of pixels that form the basic characteristics of a human face. When the software finds a combination of pixels akin to eyes, nose and mouth with a sufficient degree of symmetry, it draws a bounding box defining the area and zooms the area to full screen, its contrast and brightness is adjusted, blurred and desaturated to clarify the found images. More often than not the images produced fail to resolve themselves into anything recognizable. But occasionally, images are produced that are strikingly like a face although in actuality containing only the barest possibility of being so.
As the authors of the project explain: It is the very ambiguity and intedeterminacy of the images that allows the brain to reconfigure them as indexical. This work is one of several that examine systems of meaning making that rely on pattern recognition, and the problematized relationship between meaning and the meaningful.
The project examines how we construct worlds, and bodies in worlds, through pareidolia, (when a vague and random stimulus is perceived as significant), apophenia (the seeing of connections where there are none) and the gestalt effect (the recognition of pattern and form).
All images courtesy LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.
Ghosts in the Machine, produced by LABoral’s Projects Office, is on view at LABoral, in Gijón (Spain) through January 12 , 2009.
More ghosts this way ladies and gentlemen: Man Machine 2, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Haunted pixels, (don’t) Show me the Chip, Ghost by Olaf Breuning, and a vacuum cleaner to capture goblins.
Mr. Rampe helped shape the newspaper’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25rampe.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25rampe.html” border=”0″//a
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In a country that was officially atheist about two decades ago, there are again hundreds of newspapers, magazines and newsletters covering the world’s largest Orthodox church.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25glossies.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25glossies.html” border=”0″//a
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FriendFinder, which owns Penthouse magazine, is trying to sell up to $460 million in stock to investors in one of the most challenging markets ever for initial public offerings.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/technology/internet/25ipo.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/technology/internet/25ipo.html” border=”0″//a
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The publisher of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune asked a judge for approval to pay prebankruptcy and future contributions to union pension plans.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25tribune.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25tribune.html” border=”0″//a
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The New York Times Company is trying to sell its stake in the baseball team, seeking to shield its newspaper franchise from falling revenue, a person briefed on the plans said on Wednesday.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25times.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/media/25times.html” border=”0″//a
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(TrendHunter.com) To the Trend Hunter Community:
I’m so glad for our unity.
The way we work together,
Regardless of the weather,
I know for some you’re in the snow,
Others have hot winds that blow,
But no matter where…
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