Don't Go to this Website

Yemiipic.com - you'll be stuck there for hours.

Original Cyberpunks

Yo Fitz! I was thinking of documenting some of the best cyberpunk music, video and art from back in the day. I know that you had a mean collection of Foetus, Skinny Puppy and Psychic TV....just for starters. So I found this site http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/definition.html it has a lot of overall cyberculture info, but I think we could dig up some stuff that people have slept on for a bit. Check out this site too, not so punk but very thorough catalog of cyber punk movies.

The Phenomenauts Zombie Party 2008

Sassy!

Hey I took all the pictures for this cd for my good friends Trixie Delicious and
Kitty Largewood. The cd turned out great. Check out Sassy on myspace and you can pick up a copy on interpunk.
Sassy on Myspace
Sassy on Interpunk

Stunt Double at the Lemon Tree

HELP! Does anybody know electronics

I need a gristleizer.
Chris Carter's Original Gristleizer
The Gristleizer Schematics and Video

The Carlos Confusion

Many sellers on eBay list similar artists in the title of their listings to expand their search range as sort of a...if you like this artist you will like this artist.

I listed this item on eBay.

180290559691 - Wendy Walter Carlos Beauty in the Beast LP 1986 VG++

Vero removed the item because it is in violation of intellectual property rights according to Serendip, LLC. eBay told me to contact Serendip to find out why it was removed from eBay.

Serendip's response was simply, "The artist's name is Wendy Carlos, as clearly shown on the LP."

Now not only is Walter Carlos a similar artist to Wendy Carlos but they are the same person but I guess different enough artists according to California Civil Code Section 3344 so you are not allowed to sell any Wendy Carlos merchandise under the name Walter Carlos.  Someone could have been polite enough to contact me and I would have changed the listing but instead the listing was removed from eBay via Vero and now my compliance to eBay Powerseller Regulations are failing.

I did a little bit of my own research and according to Wikipedia, "In 1998, Carlos sued the songwriter/artist Momus for $22 million for his satirical song "Walter Carlos" (which appeared on the album The Little Red Songbook), which suggested that if Wendy could go back in time she could marry Walter. The case was settled out of court, with Momus agreeing to remove it from the CD and owing $30,000 in legal fees."

So in honor of Serendip, LLC removing my listing from eBay for reasons I am not quite sure I can entirely wrap my head around, I am now proud to present to you for your listening pleasure, Momus: Walter Carlos!

You know it

Creating a new store on cafepress (which I still haven't sold anything on) I came across this gem.  You know it!

Click on the shirt to check it out.

While I'm at it I guess I should promote my own cafepress stores.
check out:
This Link
This Link
This Link
...And This Link

Blue

Pretty much every author on the history of punk rock writes books that chronologically go from like MC5 to Black Flag then from Nirvana to, I don't know anymore, the present, My Chemical Romance? Fall Out Boy? Skipping most of the nineties as if nothing happened. Arguably, that is when a lot of punk went metal and punk rock (which was always dead) broke up into a million different genres. There were a bunch of labels with great bands like Amphetamine Reptile, Touch and Go, Wax Trax.

I went to college in Philadelphia so a lot of great bands like The Jesus Lizard, The Cows, Butthole Surfers, The God Bullies, etc. would come through town and there were a lot of great Philly bands during the nineties. I didn't realize until I left Philly the only bands anybody has ever heard of from that time period are the Dead Milkmen and G. Love and Special Sauce. I don't know how this happened but I sat at the bar and cringed with my PBR at the Khyber Pass every time I saw G. Love open.

Here are a couple of songs from Blue. Two from the Angels on Hogs / Evil Snake 7" and their "hit" song, Big Black Boots which is not on this seven inch. Blue never played Big Black Boots live. I think it was because they always played everything different and either they could never play that song live the same way they recorded it or they weren't very good musicians and they forgot what notes were in the song.

Sharpie, the lead singer / guitarist would never use a pick so by the end of the second song everybody in the front would be covered with spatters of blood from his fingers because he would be flicking it all over people as he played. They played at the Khyber Pass this one time and (all of this information may be wrong because this was like three life times ago but...) somehow somebody in the band started knocking the acoustic tiles out of the drop ceiling which were being stacked up and stuck on the sink in the back by the door. My friend Andrea was dressed in some kind of Goldie Hawn / Laugh-In Ghett-outfit throwing raw fish at the audience which prompted fish fights and everyone in the bar is covered in raw fish. The lead singer decides after his set to take a bath in the sink so the acoustic tiles get stacked up blocking the back door. Someone calls the cops, probably because it was too loud in there after all the acoustic ceiling tiles get knocked out. The cops show up. The rear exit is blocked which is a fire hazard. The bar gets shut down by the police for a couple weeks.

The raw fish clogs the drains at the bar. My friend Mike is hired to replace the pipes and gets dysentery.



Angels with Hogs


Evil Snake


Big Black Boots

Jimmy Carter as Robotoid

Everything I am about to write is heavily documented on the internet. Do an internet search for any of these facts and you will get plenty of hits if you don’t believe me. This is pretty much the funniest story I’ve heard in a while.

In October 1969, Jimmy Carter saw a UFO while he was the Governor of Atlanta and reported it to the International UFO Bureau. He was 44 years old. He said, “It was the darndest thing I've ever seen…If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.”

That’s when it started. After that encounter, Jimmy Carter didn’t last too much longer. During his presidency, Jimmy Carter was replaced with a humanoid that was made of cow parts. The technology was not too good and the FBI had to use a lot of cows to maintain the humanoid. That is the reason for the increase of cattle mutilations during the Carter years.

The media started to catch on so the technology had to be upgraded. In 1979, Jimmy Carter the humanoid was replaced by a robotoid. The robotoid was much easier to maintain.

It sounds like it is a pretty intense process building the robotoid, according to Audio Letter No. 46. By Dr. Peter David Beter, “Robotoids are "manufactured" first by copying the memory of an entire brain. A holographic image is made of the host’s brain and that is transferred into the biological matter functioning as a brain of the robotoid, but adjustments have to be taught and programmed into the mind of the robotoid since the body and brain of the robotoid are not identical to the original person being copied.”

Still the greatest opening sequence to any film ever

How Do These Stories Go Under The Radar?

Invisibility cloak one step closer, scientists say.

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Sun Aug 10, 6:55 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have created two new types of materials that can bend light the wrong way, creating the first step toward an invisibility cloaking device.

One approach uses a type of fishnet of metal layers to reverse the direction of light, while another uses tiny silver wires, both at the nanoscale level.

Both are so-called metamaterials -- artificially engineered structures that have properties not seen in nature, such as negative refractive index.

The two teams were working separately under the direction of Xiang Zhang of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of California, Berkeley with U.S. government funding. One team reported its findings in the journal Science and the other in the journal Nature.

Each new material works to reverse light in limited wavelengths, so no one will be using them to hide buildings from satellites, said Jason Valentine, who worked on one of the projects.

"We are not actually cloaking anything," Valentine said in a telephone interview. "I don't think we have to worry about invisible people walking around any time soon. To be honest, we are just at the beginning of doing anything like that."

Valentine's team made a material that affects light near the visible spectrum, in a region used in fiber optics.

"In naturally occurring material, the index of refraction, a measure of how light bends in a medium, is positive," he said.

"When you see a fish in the water, the fish will appear to be in front of the position it really is. Or if you put a stick in the water, the stick seems to bend away from you."

These are illusions caused by the light bending when it moves between water and air.

NEGATIVE REFRACTION

The negative refraction achieved by the teams at Berkeley would be different.

"Instead of the fish appearing to be slightly ahead of where it is in the water, it would actually appear to be above the water's surface," Valentine said. "It's kind of weird."

For a metamaterial to produce negative refraction, it must have a structural array smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation being used. This was done using microwaves in 2006 by David Smith of Duke University in North Carolina and John Pendry of Imperial College London.

Visible light is harder. Some groups managed it with very thin layers, virtually only one atom thick, but these materials were not practical to work with and absorbed a great deal of the light directed at it.

"What we have done is taken that material and made it much thicker," Valentine said.

His team, whose work is reported in Nature, used stacked silver and metal dielectric layers stacked on top of each other and then punched through with holes. "We call it a fishnet," Valentine said.

The other team, reporting in Science, used an oxide template and grew silver nanowires inside porous aluminum oxide at tiny distances apart, smaller than the wavelength of visible light. This material refracts visible light.

Immediate applications might be superior optical devices, Valentine said -- perhaps a microscope that could see a living virus.

"However, cloaking may be something that this material could be used for in the future," he said. "You'd have to wrap whatever you wanted to cloak in the material. It would just send light around. By sending light around the object that is to be cloaked, you don't see it."

Hang 'em High in the TV Sky - Part II

thanks to the anonymous comment from Part I.
The answer to Hey, where did everybody go? has been received.


....and of course, don't forget where the prices are always insane.


I don't think I have ever been to an ideal in my life but this jingle from gets stuck in my head a couple times a year especially while taking a shower.
The Ideal Jingle

Garage Sale Find Of The Week! 7/19/08

Phyllis Diller's I Was Born To Sing LP!

Hilarious! Have a listen to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.
Price: 10¢

i dont know whats going on

but i am totally having a yummy fur cant seem to stop kind of day.

Tanzen!

Spiesekammer, a local German restaurant in Alameda is holding their annual Oktoberfest in...whatever, i know i'm real early for this one but there IS a reason.  They are having a contest to create a poster for the shindig.  One of the words they want on the poster is tanzen.  i didn't know what that was.  I was assuming it was beer but now with a little research i realize that it is the german word for dancing.  Before i figured that out, i googled tanzen.  here's the first hit.  Now I know this is a total "fitz" video but just wait until they put on the red and green glasses.

Tom Jones Dancing Lesson

I don't know what these moves are called but it goes a little something like shake it to the left and while you're over there shake it a couple more times.

WANTED: 50,000,000 Fitztastic Fans Can't Be Wrong.

High Voltage Gold Vinyl Tuxedo from Lip Service.

Some Favorite Album Titles Off the Top of my Head

5: Einsturzende Neubauten: Strategen Gegen Architekturen


Favorite Song Title from this album: Schmerzen Mit Hören

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4: Pink Floyd: Ummagumma


Favorite Song Title from this album: Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict

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3: Butthole Surfers: Hairway to Steven


Favorite Song Title from this album: I Saw An X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas (doodled)

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2: Didjits: Full Nelson Reilly

Favorite Song Title From This Album: Who's Ready To Get High

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1: Killdozer: Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proleteriat

Favorite Song Title from this album: Knuckles The Dog

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Honorable Mention: Test Dept. A Good Night Out

Favorite Song Title from this album: Long Live British Democracy (Which Has Flourished And Is Constantly Perfected Under The Immaculate Guidance Of The Great, Honerable, Generous And Correct Margaret Hilda Thatcher. She Is The Blue Sky In The Hearts Of All Nations. Our People Pay Homage And Bow In Deep Respect And Gratitude To Her, The Milk Of Human Kindness)

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Flickr Pick of the Week!

Zorses, Zonkies and Zebroids

More images from the not-so-cryptozoological front anymore!

ZORSE!


ZONKEY!



ZEBROIDS!

For those of you freaked out by...

creepy Austrian 73 Year old men who lock their daughters in the basement for 24 years and father seven children by them DO NOT READ THIS STORY!!! link I am not sure if I should have read it myself.

The Solway Firth Spaceman

I love this photo. 1964. Read The Story Here

homunculus and zombie research

i've seen a couple television shows recently about the philosopher's stone, turning lead into gold and the golden section. Screw all that stuff about stem cell research and DNA cloning. What I would like to know is what is the white powder that turns people into zombies and has anybody tried to create a homunculus recently?

Here's a great story about a supposedly real zombie in New Orleans. Read it Here. Link.

What is it?!?

Fitz here...Your liger eye in the sky tracking down demented creatures on the internet. Here's the latest news from China's Yichun Jiangxi zoo where apparently a villager (who was not performing DNA restructuring in the basement) captured this seven year old (how do they know how old the creature is?) animal with a pig nose, rabbit eyes and a fox body.

Read more here:
Link

hang em high in the tv sky

being a transplant from philly on the west coast, nobody understands some of the jungles that run through (haunt) my brain at certain opportunistic moments. just found a couple of classics i wanted to share.

when sending pictures to someone


celebrities outfits


Driving to the store? Click here.

I was looking for the betson's discount furniture store commercial so I could explain why i say everybody must have gone to betson's when i enter an empty room but i can't find it. Instead, this match-up would clear an auditorium, Don Rickles and Nina Hagen.

Eyeball Tattoo

Not a tattoo of an eyeball but a tattoo on an actual eyeball. Apparently this technique has been used on blind eyeballs to correct some type of visual imperfection so a blind persons eyeball doesn't look weird but this guy just did it to see if it could be done.
Go Josh! Click on him for the full story.

Favorite Superbowl XLII Commentary

I swear I heard Joe Buck say somewhere in the second quarter,

"This team anticipated getting the ball and moving that ball to the other side of the field but they over-anticipated."

Isn't that what happens for 99% of all football plays ever played? i guess i have just never heard it put so simply yet so eloquent before.

60's Gi-JOE Astronaut Suit

I posted this on ebay. I thought it was funny.



At one time this was top-secret classified information but as a result of public concerns and requests, documents have recently been released to the public concerning speculations that GI-JOE was performing government tests known as Project Redbook. These tests consisted of attempts to launch an action figure into outer space without the use of a protective space suit. This suit available for auction was the suit that was used for the initial tests - Project Redbook Phase One, which according to newly released information, these tests were successful. According to previous speculations, we had reason to believe that GI-Joe burned up upon reentry during the initial phases of Project Redbook Phase Two but according to new evidence, previously unreleased by authorities, it is confirmed that GI-Joe met his demise by the hands of a couple of ten year olds armed with firecrackers in an undisclosed backyard in Sacramento, California in his birthday suit in the seventies after a brief laizzes-faire with Wonder Woman.

Create your own Damn Ringtone

I just made a ringtone with itunes and sent it to my phone!
Tired of paying astronomical prices for ringtones that suck?
MAKE YOUR OWN!

Here's how to do it with itunes:
CLICK HERE

How to get it to your phone:
CLICK HERE

SUCCESS!!!

Help! Does anybody know how to knit?

I need these. Seriously.
I'm going to have to teach myself how to knit.


Stitchy McYarnpants


Knitty.com

sweet

The picture pretty much says it all. click on it for more info.