Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

What you’re seeing above is a musical installation composed (pun intended) out of electric guitars rigged to distortion effects and birds flying around them and plucking the guitar wires. The author of the installation is Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at it could have been seen in action at Barbican Centre, London.

Now I believe in a theory that Neil Young used a similar technique to make the soundtrack for the seminal Jim Jarmusch acid western movie “Dead man”. Sorry for the abundance of links. If you understand the context, you’ll understand why it’s important. ;-)

[via BarbicanLondon and ideasareawesome]

The second part of the Blue-ray presenattion at JavaOne 2008 featuring the one and only rock’n’roll legend Neil Young.

You need to watch him… check out the teaser picture with the first 5 out of 40+ years of experience. No one else with such a long resume can so cool.

If you haven’t already, check out the first part. 

[via YouTube]

Do you know that you can use Java to enrich Blue-ray discs to create a rich, almost game-like experience?

Here’s a presentation from JavaOne 2008 where Sun Microsystems’ CEO Jonathan Schwartz (Space Balls anyone?) living rock’n’roll legend Neil Young and two other guys present what Blue-ray and Java an achieve.

Part one of two [via YouTube]