Gus Gus
by Vinay Gupta • March 10, 2007 • Iceland, Personal • 0 Comments
New album, opening concert thingee in a couple of weeks, and this long interview in the Reykjavik Grapevine The iconography and the ideas… very familiar.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Snowing in Reykjavik
by Vinay Gupta • March 10, 2007 • Iceland • 0 Comments
(above, a short movie, below, a still.) This is why the Pentax Optio WPI was a good idea. Showerproof cameras make a lot of sense.
Read more →Libertarian politics and Burning Man
by Vinay Gupta • March 9, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
As you may know, I look on Libertarianism like I look at bleach: nasty, but necessary in some cases. Give Me Liberty or Give Me X is an article on Libertarianism and Burning Man. It’s a pretty good read.
Read more →“The Last Mimzy” – What is that symbol? It’s the Sri Yantra, symbol of the Goddess Lalita in Hinduism
by Vinay Gupta • March 9, 2007 • Personal • 0 Comments
“The Last Mimzy” (official site, quick links to the trailers) is a new science fiction movie for children based on a short story by Lewis Padgett. All the way through the trailers we see a symbol flashed over and over again whenever things enter and leave reality. You can just see the outline of the [...]
Read more →No Limits 90s additional bits and pieces
by Vinay Gupta • March 5, 2007 • Iceland • 0 Comments
Set up. Lights. Camera Action! MP4 video of… well… they did say 90s. I had a good time anyway!
Read more →Emilie Simon & Thor @ Sirkus
by Vinay Gupta • March 5, 2007 • Iceland • 1 Comment
Well, one things leads to another, and some new friends (Thor and Unnur of Cocktail Vomit and Smari McCarthy) went to see one Emilie Simon. It was an odd show – lots of extremely random midi gear and a fellow who looked a lot like Willy Wonka set around an impish french girl with a [...]
Read more →Perversely, I want a typewriter
by Vinay Gupta • March 4, 2007 • Personal • 1 Comment
This Worth 1000 thread just hits the spot. I’ve got these tools: new version of WP, a digital camera (first one I’ve owned), the mac, the broadband – an idea can go from my head to the other side of the world in moments, in days turn into a product. And I find myself wanting [...]
Read more →No F**KING limits?
by Vinay Gupta • March 4, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
No Limits? I’m just sayin… more tomorrow. ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz Oh yeah, and nice people? Nice people roll off the high end on the graphic equalizer on the sound board, because extremely high volumes of distorted high frequencies cause permanent hearing damage really really quickly (like, over the course of a few parties), unlike crippling bass which [...]
Read more →ANARCHY IN… well…. Kaffi Hljomalind
by Vinay Gupta • March 3, 2007 • Iceland • 2 Comments
Went down to the opening of the bookstore below the cafe today. Quite a fun event. Shot a lot of video of but, duh! I had the camera in portrait rather than landscape orientation. OOps. If I can’t rotate it, you’re going to get the video wrong side up. (Ah! Quicktime Pro can do this, [...]
Read more →Gus Gus video
by Vinay Gupta • March 3, 2007 • Iceland • 0 Comments
Gus Gus video showing – well, see the club at the end with the semi-circular bar? That’s where I saw Bloodgroup last night. One way of conceptualizing this place is that it’s 170,000 people. Subtract those who’ve left the scene, and you’re left with a musically / artistically active population around that of Burning Man [...]
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