Eric Adams » Inspiration http://ericadams.net Creator of Lackluster World, Comicker, Writer, Designer, Artist Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:44:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 I’M HERE – A short film by Spike Jonze http://ericadams.net/2010/05/12/im-here-a-short-film-by-spike-jonze/ http://ericadams.net/2010/05/12/im-here-a-short-film-by-spike-jonze/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 01:24:12 +0000 EricAdams http://ericadams.net/?p=409 I’m an admitted sucker for a robots-with-feelings story, but… damn.

Trailer below, but you can watch the whole thirty minute film at http://www.imheremovie.com/

]]> http://ericadams.net/2010/05/12/im-here-a-short-film-by-spike-jonze/feed/ 0 Why isn’t anyone hacking television? http://ericadams.net/2007/01/30/why-isnt-anyone-hacking-television/ http://ericadams.net/2007/01/30/why-isnt-anyone-hacking-television/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:11:54 +0000 EricAdams http://ericadams.net/2007/01/30/why-isnt-anyone-hacking-television/ boingboing.net recently posted about a pirate TV signal hijacking an episode of Dr. Who airing in Chicago in 1987. Here’s the vid:

(YouTube link)

Fascinating. Hollywood had tricked me into believing that this wasn’t all that rare of an incident, but lo and behold this pirate transmission happened 20 YEARS AGO and was the last of its kind. In fact it was really only the second of its kind. Max Headroom, by the way, was never caught.

The other was a more simplistic hijacking by some guy under the moniker of Captain Midnight a year earlier. He basically hijacked HBO only to complain about their prices:

Wikipedia mentions a few other non-detailed accounts. One of which also occurred in 1987 when the CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK paid a man to hijack the PLAYBOY CHANNEL.

This kind of thing needs to happen more often today. I might actually turn on my television once in a while if I thought there was a chance that the lackadaisical local news or an idiotic sitcom rerun could be interrupted by a pantomime Jesus Christ corn-holing Big Bird. There are tens of thousands of people hacking the Internet left and right all for the sake of fun, yet no one is attacking terrestrial signals.

Come on, nerds. Show us some magic.

Methinks I feel a story idea coming on.

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Four years ago I discovered the band Antarctica and thier album 81:03. I distinctly remember first hearing the song Absence it on the Live365 station, the London Undergound (now defunct).

I bought the CD and it has remained one of my favorite albums ever since. It has never left my “inspiration” playlist. Anyway, I desperately sought out more of their music but only found one EP they released before 81:03 and 81:03 was released in 2001. What happened to them?

Well, I just found out. They broke up and reformed into Ova Looven. Their album 58:34 (released 2 years ago!) is a little more synthy, but it still feels like Antarctica to me – maybe better.

Hear some:
http://www.artikalrecords.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ovalooven

]]> http://ericadams.net/2006/05/15/ova-looven/feed/ 0 They Are Made Out of Meat http://ericadams.net/2006/05/07/they-are-made-out-of-meat/ http://ericadams.net/2006/05/07/they-are-made-out-of-meat/#comments Mon, 08 May 2006 01:10:06 +0000 EricAdams http://ericadams.net/?p=30 “That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”

]]> http://ericadams.net/2006/05/07/they-are-made-out-of-meat/feed/ 0 The Five Fists of Science http://ericadams.net/2006/03/26/the-five-fists-of-science/ http://ericadams.net/2006/03/26/the-five-fists-of-science/#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:34:09 +0000 EricAdams http://ericadams.net/?p=22 Matt Fraction has posted a 22-page black and white PDF Preview to his upcoming graphic novel, The Five Fists of Science.

It’s Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain vs. JP Morgan and Thomas Edison. Sounds Brilliant.

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It’s called GUTS.

Thanks to Jenny for pointing this out to me.

]]> http://ericadams.net/2006/03/02/guts/feed/ 0 Amazing multi-touch screen demo http://ericadams.net/2006/02/20/amazing-multi-touch-screen-demo/ http://ericadams.net/2006/02/20/amazing-multi-touch-screen-demo/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:44:10 +0000 EricAdams http://ericadams.net/?p=12 This has been all over the net for days, but in case you haven’t seen it:

Watch it

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