Clément aka Pikilipita wrote me a mail about his new VJ software. Last time we had a feature about Pikilipita VJ for the DS, now he finished PS24VJ (read: Playstation 2 for Video Jockey). He took somehow an inspiration of the Digital Tools header-graphic to illustrate some of his characters. Call it remix, call it sampling or call it homage, but I am pleased, that Clement used some screenie of the Digital Tools header to make and support his own work of art. And just because he is like me into colors, homebrew and stuff like that, I feel very comfortable about this. Check out his work!

PS24VJ is a VJ software running on the Sony Playstation 2 video game system which features most classic VJ softwares options. Leave your laptop home and just take your PS2 with you when going to perform a gig! Invite a VJ to join you on for a jam: PS24VJ can be controlled by two VJ simultaneously!

You will need a Playstation 2, a PC with some recent Windows OS and Quicktime 7.5, Swap Magic 2.6 and DVD, as well as a USB memory stick. Your graphic and video files will then be converted into a format with the funny name “Kouky video format“, he developed himself.

He also setup an interesting kind of “business model” for his homebrewed application. You can get a copy of the software if you donate any amount of money. It can be less, but it can also be more – you choose! He told me, that donations so far were between 30 and 100 Euros so far. This is a somehow pleasing way, transforming the good old idea of shareware into the present. Why not spending Clément some bucks for his coffee and the effort he made, while you are adding some aesthetic value to your VJ sets and most of all your hanging around at home for pleasure?

A demonstration video of PS24VJ is available here.

I just discovered the beautiful colorful worlds from Utada Hikaru on YouTube. The music is lovely and hard at the same time, very different and mixes various style of pop-music together. But the incredibly best feature are the videoclips. They are so unique, fantastic and real / unreal that this is almost a “must seen” for everyone.

Utada Hikaru – Keep Tryin’

Utada Hikaru – Travelling

The best demoscene party at summerdays and my personal highlight of the year is the Evoke in Cologne. Finally they finished the invitation-demo / video for 2008. As always feel free to come around, be part of the party and celebrate in lovely Cologne – Ehrenfeld. The dancefloor event Evoke Tracks this year has also a very interesting lineup.

via Phlow, thx!

Please note, that Tetrisconcept.com opened up a Tetris-wiki, that is totally devoted to everything related to Tetris. Their mission is quite cool they say: “Our goal is to compile every Tetris detail known to mankind.”

This project is a must for everyone who wants to go into puzzle-arcade games in general or the mystical world of Tetris in special. There are many interesting details, for example the rotation system of the different game systems or different hints for gaming techniques at certain problems of the game. To get an idea, sneak into the page of the I-Spin problem.

The rotation system from the most famous version of Tetris.

They collect also wisdom and curiosities about Tetris, so why not add your project, if it is worth to mention? In that sense, have fun with that video from YMCK:

Some pixels of goto80’s website, 16. July 2008

Goto80 computer geek loves the machines and switched his website to machine-readable. It’s pretty enjoyable to read this website in the RSS-reader, while using the browser, well…. Just to look at the website. Many people tell, that it’s totally irrelevant how a website look like, and this time Goto80 proofs them right. The website still rocks! Oh, I also found an enjoyable, human and machine listenable musicfile. Goto80 – Sysygy.

No audioplayer showing up? Download the mp3: http://ia311313.us.archive.org/2/items/grimeton_calling/sysygy.mp3

There are lots of media and technology-festivals. On my radar just recently three new festivals popped up, hopefully making this a beautiful summer with people, nature and technology.

Robot250

The first one is the Robot 250, sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University, that will take place around the City of Pittsburgh. The festival is currently running until the 27 July. To get an idea of the festival, check out the website of the Robot 250 or look at the video below. It’s an excellent piece of art, that is out there somewhere. It seems really inspired by Philip K. Dick‘s famous short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. It the work Mower from Osman Khan, currently working at the Carnegie Mellon. (via BotJunkie).

Gossip08

The Gossip08 is a fresh festival for free culture. It’s located on green grassland in the deepest south of Germany we call Allgäu. It will be held in the mid of August, from the 15.-17., so enough time left to order tickets and get everything ready to join the ride. This festival is not limited to a special “genre” of culture, but anything that comes free and relaxed will be welcome. Check out the website: Gossip08. They also got an extended program of music, workshops etc… (via Gulli)

Demoscene-Party at Metalab

The metalab in Vienna is having its first demoscene party. It will be from the 18.- 20. July 2008 at the place of the metalab. They expect about 100 visitors and a panel with the topic “oldschool coding” on vintage machines vs. recent technology hacking should be also a part of the party. (via Futurezone)

Demos by Synesthetics

Demoscene.tv is the “TV-channel” for the web, that show products from the demoscene as web-video. Not long ago they made a somehow decent redesign of their webpage and enabled a great feature, where you can put together your own playlist-channel.

Today they announced their latest feature. Now you can embed the most popular playlists into your blog or website, well just like I did. Unfortunately they did it not for every playlist, like the one I made some weeks ago. This feature also lacks on free scalability of the player window. I scaled it by hand, that’s why the video looks a little strange. Maybe they will add this in the future?

I embedded the playlist from the group Synesthetics. The works of them are always on the edge with pushing acid-music and *yes* colors. Did I mentioned already? I loooove colors.