Archive for October, 2007

Old School Bangers

Around the same time when we jumped off the O(ld)S(chool)R(ap)V(ideo) of the Day on music.mnp, another blog near and dear to some of our hearts, started a similar feature called Old School Banger of the Week.

If you don’t know about WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio and you live in the Boston area you’re missing out.AA It’s a tight mix of good shows by students, sometimes featuring live performances, DJ sets, etc.

In honor of the fall, I present to you a post from Long Crisp White Tees

"…this is how we chill from ’93 til…"


Summer is finally underway. The weather is warm, shorties are wearing the fine summer dresses, and it is time for an Old School Banger to get you in the summer mood. Seeing as the 4th of July festivities are this Wednesday, I thought I’d hit y’all with a classic laid back summer jam to bump at your grillfest or whatever other activities you got going on. Coming straight out of Oakland, and comprising a part of the Oakland supergroup Hieroglyphics, I give you :

Souls of Mischief - " ’93 Til Infinity"

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DJ White Label, who does podcasts for us from time to time, had a few infamous shows over the years on WMFO.AA I guess it’s fair to say that all around 91.5 is pretty much ingrained into the entire mnp family, or at least 2/3.AA Back in the day you used to be able to receive the radio station all the way over the south side of Boston (if you were sitting still) and definitely anywhere in the city.AA Then the signal degraded a bit for some reason, but now I think they have a new tower.AA So tune in people.

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Posted: October 3rd, 2007
at 1:19pm by Black Ock


Categories: youtube,music,web

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Deja War

Incredibly, ita€™s happening again. As if Iraq never happened, as if the innumerable lessons from that national shame and continuing horror never happened. As if the a€06 election slapdown and clear annunciation of the peoplea€™s will never happened.

Incredibly, the same cast of chickenhawk fools and lazy legislators who brought us Iraq are now dragging the country into an even bigger pile of bushit. Incredibly, the media awaits their next sage utterances on the a€oeprogressa€A in Iraq and the need to bomb the hell out of Iran as if they had a shred of credibility remaining.

Read the Rest @ Thinking Peace or read about Bush and the Freepers

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Posted: October 3rd, 2007
at 11:54am by Black Ock


Categories: mnp is for the children,politricks,real life news

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NYC Bike Share Project

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4958308443854557936

Here’s a video from the New York Bike Share Project’s presentation at the Storefront for Art and Architecture [one of the project’s sponsors].

Bikes + public transit - because ninjas need to save the Earth [its where we came from].

relinked from green.mnp

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Posted: October 3rd, 2007
at 9:47am by Black Ock


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50 Soul Warming Ways to Inspire the Next Generation of Offbeat Architects

14. Pixel Blocks

This blog likes us and is liked by us, you might even say we’re ninjas, and I particularly like this post.AA Alls fair in love and links.AA The Season is approaching.

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Posted: October 3rd, 2007
at 7:03am by Black Ock


Categories: web,design

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Symphonic Assault Maneuvers

Despite the general ruggedness of our r0b0tninja.mnp page which we hope to have fixed up and ready for war soon, we somehow are still receiving transmissions from Bertr0n CEO of R0b0t Corp. Here’s what he has to say:

For any ninjas seeking to bone up on their orchestral composing skills, myninjas at Audio Impressions have developed a software/hardware midi orchestra called REALTIME STRINGS that allows you to do just that. While there are many orhcestral sample banks and midi instruments available, never before has such an apex in sound quality (192 khz samples, full dynamic and expressive range, Stradivarius violin recordings, etc.) been reached, nor at such an intuitively correct level. From the site:

Because each stand is sampled separately, you can change the size of your string ensemble, for example, from a solo to a quartet, a chamber group or a 70-piece symphonic string section and anything in between. This ability to select and de-select players on-the-fly without loading new samples is a breakthrough. While it might seem complex to use, in fact controlling a DVZ-RT string section (or any part of the REALTIME INSTRUMENTS libraries) is very simple; each players (or desks) MIDI channeling is handled internally so the end user never has to be concerned with it.

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The R0b0tninja himself does not care for classical ensemble music, which he finds crude and offensive. Nonetheless, he is intrigued by this architecture-rather than allowing users to muddy-up their sound by playing too many instruments at once with too many voices, realtime strings divides the notes between virtual players, simulating what an actual orchestra might sound like. Undoubtedly, most of myninjas will be defeated by the $12,000 price tag and $3,500 deposit. But for any true ninja disciple that is also a robot, the only price you’ll ever really pay is in death. R0b0tninja bless.

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Posted: October 3rd, 2007
at 6:15am by Black Ock


Categories: computers,music,robots

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More Crazy Ninja flickr Skillz

Again, no explanations, just a look-see.

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Posted: October 3rd, 2007
at 4:14am by Koookiecrumbles


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Foto Del Dia 10.3

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Posted: October 2nd, 2007
at 11:33pm by Koookiecrumbles


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Percussa AudioCube and reacTable building block musical interfaces

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percussa via labs.det3

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performances by interactive sonic system team and BjAArk

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Posted: October 2nd, 2007
at 4:02pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: computers,music,art,too good to be true,games,robots,weaponry,gear,design,fo' real?,science

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Reinventing the Shipping Container Part 2

shipping containers are formal pallets of break bulk. break bulk is what shipping containers used to be called back in the day. looking around, design wars are warring between prefab and pre-fab. on one side there are ultra-efficient shipping container-based factory-built homes that are moved in the same containers that built the flats of semi-trucks and on the other there is a corn-based R/V Renaissance brewing from shoreline to parking lot.


as light sets and disguises any routine, it is hard to move that shipping containers do not rule the earth. if one was to attempt to get a glimpse into the world of this whole supply chain world that i keep hearing about, understanding what the shipping container is would hold many a question. i mean global trade is apparently exponential and am4ricans love they boxes. why did rectangles become the norm? stacking ability or concrete bombs?

while the american "residual" ["the measure of our ignorance"] effect rules, we like to think that we are a part of the rest of the world. singapore proofs this destiny as the world’s leading container port due to their consistent need to refine for trade.

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interestingly enough while americans will have to learn to watch the shipping container take over brandom, Rotterdam is shifting policy towards "creative clusters of industry, R&D, and education"; making moves for the brain container as i heard in an ol puffy song. [The world is just a container away]

besides the wine-bottle and label design debates that fester in the rows of most local wineries, how can we convince the public that an already-refined container is better than damn near similar designs that appear to be probably more customized for the consumer? what is the residual definition of having a shipping container on the bill?

well, the military has worked that out for us all by regulating the desired purpose of the shipping container through "specification busting" and prison manufacture.

shipping containers are manufacturing how regional inter-modal depots get formed. Inter-modal warehouse purpose in mass-transportation network can be related to the importance of river networks and the explanation of how people tried to explain the engineering behind the economics. from a pre-historical standpoint it looks like shipping containers have molded around the channels that moved them:

[the discipline of modern finance] "[It] combined the insights of John Law, a Scottish gambler turned French banker [who is ordinarily credited with being the force behind the Mississippi Bubble] with an extraordinary economic system based on dynamic self-organizing networks used by Native Americans in the region, catalyzed by some innovations imported with natives of the Congo River and the Niger River economies. The first person to publish an explanation in mathematical terms was the finance professor and banker Fischer Black…."

yet there is an abundance of containers at all the major, new-traditional ports across the world. so apart from wondering if it makes sense to combine multiple boxes so that a long-haul semi-truck could take two boxes instead of eight and the killuminati question, that because there are boxes, there also needs to be refined goods, how can we make shipping containers the general fabric?
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In other words, how can new housing models not only bring upgraded forms of shelter supply to the effected landscape, but also help play into a larger strategy of establishing more permanent and sustainable resolution to infrastructure in desperate communities, hoping for more significant planning change?

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Posted: October 2nd, 2007
at 4:01pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: hood status,life,green,web,home,business,whips,robots,weaponry,gear,architecture,design,development,entrepreneurship

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