Cool Hunting
| 28 January 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
The Pramulator
by Josh Rubin
Bent Fabrication to make me one of these. The Pramulator is an art piece made from hand shaped aluminum panels and an antique stroller-- a 50s style vision of the future.
Visual Thesaurus v3
by Josh Rubin
Visual Thesaurus was released this week. The update adds audio pronunciations, a more complete dictionary and spell checking to the nearly 5 year old application. What is it, exactly? You enter a word and then see a 3d branching visualization of all its related words. You can click on each word to bring it in to focus and see the new relationships it creates. Of course, definitions and examples are provided as well. I've used Visual Thesaurus many times in the past and have to say that it's just as entertaining as it is intellectual; it has always been elegant, but this new version is even more so.
House Music All Night Long
by Ari Bendersky
Loveslap Recordings just put out “Heartbeat” volume I featuring the inimitable DJ skills of David Harness and and will release volume 2 with the equally tantalizing Julius Papp on March 8.
Harness, resident DJ at the incomparable San Francisco club the End Up owns the first set, mixing in mellow house grooves that create an ambient, albeit sexy, atmosphere. On the second, Papp, who was nominated last year in the first-ever House Music Awards in the Most Innovative Producer category, stirs things up, making you want to dance wherever you are (in my case, I was in the kitchen grilling chicken).
The Heartbeat series seems to be quickly gaining momentum and may become to House music what the Global Underground series does for Trance. So far, Heartbeat appears to be 100 percent studio session mixes while GU showcases live sets.
And if you ever find yourself in the beautiful City by the Bay on a Thursday night, swing by Pink to catch David and Julius spinning together in that cozy, intimate space in the heart of the Mission District.
