front 242 - 'Take One'
Throbbing Gristle - '20 Jazz Funk Greats'
DAF - 'Greif nach den Sternen'
ClockDVA - 'Final Program'
4/27/10
Zombie Castle
Based upon video evidence, I declare this to be the greatest dark ride in America:
Clearly there have been some revisions, but this ride dates back to the 30's! Read all about it at the always-superb laffinthedark.com.
As you might expect, you can experience this at the Jersey shore. Specifically at Rye Playland, where I haven't been. But I've visited the boardwalk at nearby Wildwood, which has several operating dark rides as well. I swear, I have to take a vacation out to Jersey this summer to check them out. What else should I do, wait until our prospective kid is old enough? They'll all be torn down by then!
UPDATE
I've been corrected by a commenter: Rye Playland is in upstate New York, nearly 200 miles north of the Jersey Shore.
Clearly there have been some revisions, but this ride dates back to the 30's! Read all about it at the always-superb laffinthedark.com.
As you might expect, you can experience this at the Jersey shore. Specifically at Rye Playland, where I haven't been. But I've visited the boardwalk at nearby Wildwood, which has several operating dark rides as well. I swear, I have to take a vacation out to Jersey this summer to check them out. What else should I do, wait until our prospective kid is old enough? They'll all be torn down by then!
UPDATE
I've been corrected by a commenter: Rye Playland is in upstate New York, nearly 200 miles north of the Jersey Shore.
4/25/10
4/24/10
And now, a scene from 'Stunt Rock'
I'm on a hectic schedule at work, and in my spare time I'm packing all my juvenalia to prepare for moving into our new house in a few days. I'm too preoccupied to provide the quality you expect from futurechimp.com on a daily basis.
So, uh... here's a scene from Stunt Rock.
So, uh... here's a scene from Stunt Rock.
4/21/10
4/20/10
Teenage Plague
Referred by boingboing.net, check out this series of photographs based on the endpaper illustrations from Charles Burns' Black Hole, my favorite graphic novel of all time. These were all created with prosthetics, not photoshop. Visit HERE.
4/17/10
Weekend Project: Dreamachine
from wikipedia:
A dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides. The cylinder is placed on a record turntable and rotated at 78 revolutions per minute. A light bulb is suspended in the center of the cylinder and the rotation speed allows the light to come out from the holes at a constant frequency of between 8 and 13 pulses per second. This frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations normally present in the human brain while relaxing.
A dreamachine is "viewed" with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brain's electrical oscillations. The "viewer" experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed eyelids. The patterns become shapes and symbols, swirling around, until the "viewer" feels surrounded by colors. It is claimed that viewing a dreamachine allows one to enter a hypnagogic state. This experience may sometimes be quite intense, but to escape from it, one needs only to open one's eyes.
A feature documentary on the dreamachine is on netflix.
Ready to build your own? You will need:
a hanging lightbulb
a 78 rpm turntable
a large piece of cardboard
Get started here.
If you don't own an old phonograph, or you're just too lazy to make something, then you can watch a youtube approximation. They say it works. Be sure to read the instructional / disclaimer video here first, then take the plunge here.
4/14/10
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