On January 18th, LateNights.ca and Mat Ste-Marie Dot Com will join forces to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) which aim to allow the US government to censor the internet.
If you want to join us and participate in the blackout, you can use the Simple Stop SOPA WordPress plugin.
Virtually all the DJs I love and respect have quoted Larry Levan as being their earliest example of dance floor wizzardry, one that would later allow them to pass on the experience to the masses. While I was not fortunate enough to ever experience Larry Levan for myself, I did however get to experience many of his disciples’ craft, which are themselves nothing short of legendary: Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez to name only these two.
Music blogger Michaelangelo Matos recently spoke with NYC DJ Danny Tenaglia and UK nightclub Ministry Of Sound founder Justin Berkmann about their memories of the late Levan, his music and the profound impact his legacy has had on the world of Dance Music.
Click here for the full interview
Links:
Larry Levan Wikipedia Page | Larry Levan Disco-Disco.com Tribute | Danny Tenaglia | Ministry Of Sound
In a historic experiment, UC Berkley scientists successfully collected visual memory in subjects’ brains and converted the images to digital video. As Gizmodo reports, “Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.” Pretty crazy stuff, right?
As you can see in the above video, which shows a side by side representation of the footage originally shown to test subjects against the digital footage produced from the memories recorded from their brains, it may not exactly HD material yet, but a door has definitely been opened on a whole new set of possibilities. Who knows, maybe one day artificial footage in movies will be imagined rather than generated by computers. We also me have just taken the first step towards the machines’ domination over the human race.
I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords!
