built over 14 years, costing about 5 billion euros, so large that it spans two countries – the is quite a feat of human engineering. i mean, it might even !

the power switch will be turned on in september… but what does it actually DO? and WHY?

naturally, there’s a rap video that explains everything.

the independent has an 23 year old kate macalpine, and while the tune is pretty accurate, she admits the video got one thing wrong:

The dancing and rapping segments were filmed on location at the lab, in the LHC’s tunnels and the cavernous underground halls that contain the detectors, the “eyes” of the machine that look at the fallout of particle collisions.

“We got some strange looks. I mean you get a strange look just walking around CERN in a lab coat,” says McAlpine. “Nobody wears lab coats.”

its goofy, somewhat cliche, but fun and informative.

for those who like to tinker, like to assemble their own gear, and love dance music. gives you 24 knobs, eight buttons and three faders in a kit that is mounted on light-catching plexiglass. designed for ableton live users, the layout lets you map the effects and samples needed for your late night dance party. looks like a lot of fun.

createdigitalmusic.com has a :

The Aurora really is something special; you can tell that it’s not the typical store-bought controller and people do respond very well to it. Also, while there are control surfaces with cross-faders like Novation’s adorable Nocturn, I can’t think of anything (amazingly) with this particular, balanced layout of effects controls and two-channel mixing. And it really is open source: the enclosure specs, schematics, firmware, and computer software are all available for editing.

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one of my faves, , has coming out. here’s a vid from it. sad and fantastic.

support chad .

think you’re a music master? put it to the test with the . match the album cover with the song clip that is playing and you earn points. then brag to your friends, assuming you truly do know your stuff…

after a few weeks of rumors, their newest digital slr camera, the d90. photography and video forums have been buzzing about this camera not because of a new set of photographic features (which are, as usual, very cool) but because of , complete with sound.

. but they are being drowned out by the excitement of many others who welcome a fun (and useful) additional feature.

for someone like myself who regularly carries around a second camera (even if it is just a tiny canon elph) only for the option of shooting short video to accompany my photos, this is a very exciting new tool. first, the image quality will be a marked improvement. 720p at 24fps means you have HD quality video being recorded at a frame rate that is the same as film (giving a warm, soft effect to the video), rather than video (which always seemed to have a cheapish 80s feel, although better for capturing fast action).

add to that the option to use a bag full of great lenses, from fisheyes to zooms to fast lenses with very narrow depth of field, and you can become a proper cinematographer, controlling the viewer’s eye with your creative and stylistic choices.

with companies like pushing the envelope of digital filmmaking, it is not too shocking to see nikon put their toes in the water too. my guess, the next five years will bring some major changes to those who make film.

and finally, after weeks of wondering, you can now to see the variety of videos this camera can generate.

of course, you can also already.

our real good amigos in have a new digital ep called out now on . it’s an odds-and-ends collection featuring a new song; remixes by , (with scratches by ), and (winner of the ); and a cover from (which he made by spiffing up and swapping the original acapella out with his own vocals – cool!). the ep’s kick-ass cover art was designed by hunter mack, who runs gold robot. you can see more of hunter’s work on .

here’s the track list:

1. we wouldn’t want it any other way (débruit remix)
2. throwing away broken electronics (mochipet remix f/ dj lion)
3. you’re right. it’s ballin’.
4. they do (multi-panel remix)
5. they do (roman ruins version)

there were lots of other great “they do” remix contest entries. we’ll do a post soon with some of our favorites.

but right now, let’s check out one of the tracks from we blame you, shall we?

meanest man contest – “throwing away broken electronics” (mochipet remix f/ dj lion)

here at sneakmove, we get a lot of new music sent to us by publicists. most of it is very bland, but once in a while we get a track that can only be described as u-fucking-nique. pr reps: y’all need to keep it interesting and send us more wild shit like this!

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From: ahoora mazda
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:29 AM
Subject: (song of year) the best new rap song of ali tanha(alone) feat tricky-m
To: sneakmove

hi im ziba karson one of the fan of your site
this is the best rap song of rap-trance style’s
ali tanha feat tricky-m this song have 3 part
enlish german and persian so ali tanha sing enlish and persian
and tricky-m sing german rap. this song wanna candid for geramy award
and so may be it be the song of year plz insert it in your site
p.s.
thank alot:ziba karson
the name of song:beauty

ali tanha feat. tricky-m – “beauty”

is great example of unpretentious authentic rock. straight ahead, fun songs. his 1978 lp is solid. check a track.

nick lowe “i love the sound of breaking glass”

is an art and music exhibition i’ve been working on over the past few months with the good people at via my job at . the project is based on the idea of creative reuse and is made up of 12-inch circular artworks and eight-second audio loops. we launched into infinity’s online component a couple of weeks ago and are now planning a number of physical installations.

the exhibition includes pieces by , , , , , , and a bunch of other great artists and musicians. all of the works are published under a creative commons copyright license, which lets people download, share, and remix them for noncommercial purposes. we’ll add new submissions regularly, and we’ll eventually invite the public to submit their remixes of the pieces for possible inclusion in the exhibition.

i’ve currently got two loops in the mix. you can listen to my loops by visiting the and clicking “eriksolo mmc.” the site’s programmed to pair a random audio loop with a random visual piece every time you navigate to the next display. play around with it for a bit and you’ll come up with all sorts of cool combinations.

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abstract rude has not contributed any artwork or loops to into infinity (if you read this, abbey, holler at us and submit something!), but he did do a track with abstract tribe unique several years back called “blast off into infinity,” and it would make a great theme song for the project, so i shall post it here.

abstract tribe unique – blast off into infinity

i ran across the trailer for the 2004 film the other day. i haven’t seen it, but it looks great. it’s based on a story by the great novelist . the music in the trailer moved me the most, so i looked it up and of course it was by one of my faves, ryuichi sakamoto. i had to . it’s pretty darn amazing. somber solo piano pieces.

ryuichi sakamoto “dna intro”

here’s the trailer: