Awesome Tag

Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis →

Andy Baio is using Kickstarter — “a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers…” that he is on the board of — to raise money for an 8-bit reinvention and 50th anniversary commemoration of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” album.

What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.

To satisfy my curiosity — and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” — I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent the entire album in the 8-bit sound.

He’s also blogged about the project here.

(Tagged awesome by Delicious user cameron.hartofelis)

Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist →

Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).

(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user sushimustwrite)

Awesome Outtakes

Not quite substantial enough for a full post, but awesome in their own right, I present the first edition of #awesome outtakes.

• I have no idea how to describe this animated gif, but it would be a mistake not to click it. Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user teanau.

• This Twitter search illustrates what happened when inky tweeted “I am awesome. #awesome”. Unsurprisingly, a lot of Twitterers think they are awesome.

• Also via inky on Twitter is this strange video of what appears to be a robot making Japanoise music. Robots = instant awesome.

• This remote controlled truck combines Lego, remote control, and wheelies for an undefinable amount of awesome. Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user _aasch

• This is the trailer for The Hurt Locker, a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit in Iraq. Tagged “awesome” by numerous Twitter users, but first by orangearrows.

• In this video we see over 1,500 zombies descend on Melbourne in the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle ‘09. Tagged “awesome by Vimeo user MinistryOfAwesum.

Sir Critter T-shirts →

Isn’t it about time nature got with the program and started showing a little refinement, maybe even a hint of elegance? For some reason animals just can’t seem to get their act together, so let us provide nature an example to live by with these fine t-shirts emblazoned with classy critters.

(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user captainfez)

The Philosopher and the Wolf →

A spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a wolf cub changed Mark Rowlands’s life. From that moment on he found human company never quite matched up

(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user jarmer)

The Volvo Ocean Race on The Big Picture.

The 2008-2009 Volvo Ocean Race has arrived in Boston Harbor. Boston is the 6th port city for the eight teams which will race around the globe for nine months over 37,000 nautical miles split into 10 legs. The ships they sail are Volvo Open 70 class racing yachts, 21.5 meters (70.5 feet) long, manned by a crew of 11. While the ships are in port, they hold in-port races as well as hosting events and entertainment for local residents.

(via Delicious user jpwp)

Pop Up Guide to the Personal Computer →

Corrin and I dropped some stuff off at Goodwill the other day, and when we were looking around inside I made an amazing find. For only two dollars, I purchased a pop-up book describing the internals of a 1980’s PC!

(via Delicious user diskursdisko)

Listen →

A handy interface for listening to audio posts by the people you follow on Tumblr.

(via Delicious user fantasticness)

Ever wonder what the path of a Roomba looks like as it cleans your house? It’s an amazing combination of randomness and precision, as shown by this long-exposure shot.

(Long-Exposure Shot of a Roomba’s Path Shows Beautifully Organized Chaos — Gizmodo)

The Echo Nest Remix API →

The Echo Nest Remix API lets you manipulate music and video from the web.

We’ve done the following: rearranged the syllables of a vocal line, walkenized and cowbellized hundreds of thousands of songs in a week, mixed up the hits of a drum beat and synced it to another loop, beat matched two songs, split apart DJ mixes by their individual tracks, made new kinds of music, synced a video to a song, transitioned between two covers of the same song, made a cat play piano.

We’re making this available as an open source SDK for Python that can currently be easily installed for Mac OS X and Linux