Celebritate

Editing this this morning:

As a bit of WGB interstitial Cornell box, Minobot interviews itself on Skype. TwiliteMinotaur and Green~Robot dissect the complex issue of self mutilation and discover that everything works out in the end, with the right lighting.

Minobot episode 1

TwiliteMinotaur and Green~Robot dissect the complex issue of self mutilation and discover that everything works out in the end, with the right lighting.

Minobot episode 2

Twilite and GR give an edifying slice of life of Celtic culture, past and present, then discuss Twi's summer hit "Armageddon Hero" where he plays Aerosmith songs from an earth-bound comet.

Self/Social Hacking

Been working on this last night after I stopped being drunk with the Junk Magic guys:

Spooky New Romantics - by Twilite V2.XX


So here's my AI self which I programmed to make music, videos, and
write and recite poetry for me while I'm off haxxing intertubes and such. :)

I'm planning on using this or something like it in a music video so I'm working on.

(Also, please Digg/Stumble/Delicious and share this video if you can)

the effects, trying different things. The face animation was done with
a technique similar to Chris Cunningham's in the All Is Full Of Love
video with the Bjork robots- the "locked-in head" deal.


Also, been madly spinning webs of viral buzzery about the most relevant and
populated branches of the internets, setting up flow diversions and
siphoning off traffic here and there like city-grid electricity into
the patchwork particleboard of a favela trying to get off the ground.
Learning the lingos and socio-psychology of the many cyber subcultures,
the cultural parameters, the protocol, practicing becoming belonging
kind. The moronic gamer kid. The hardcore gamer. The "e-socialite"
(superclass of "Second Lifer"). All those wedding rings you
accidentally flushed down the toilet? They wound up in the sewers, on
every finger of these blingtards with fake tans like the waste of North
Korean nuclear experiments (which many may well be). The cybergreen.
Radiohead fans. Bjork fans (my favorite community actually, outside of
here and the NGB). Gondry fans. The Livejournal emo poet. The
"intelligent" ancient-hat geek, never to be caught without a Stephenson
in hand and a "300" parody video in clipboard, phasers set to
"boredom". The key, always, is obtaining the mark of approval from the
tribal leader of the forum, and/or a positive first response. Once that
is achieved, the rest will offer undying praise regardless of their own
opinion, for the most part. And failing, you will receive the scarlet
letter and eternal bashing. In which case, the options are exit and
reverse-promotion (hate channeling).

It's a hell of a lot of
work right now so it's good to see things start paying off. (Special
thanks to GR for helping!) Almost 2000 views daily now but I need to
multiply that by a factor of ten or fifteen, then I'll be at escape
velocity. It's a slow and trying take off. Houston's been having
technical difficulties and it's been tough getting powerful enough
rocket fuel, but the ship is starting to lurch upward I think.

I've already got some fan art/spoof thingies. 'The image below was an image apparently inspired by the Flute Hero series.



"Technically the greatest Guitar hero player alive."

Virtuosis Morphosis (Acoustic)

Virtuosis Morphosis


This song can be found at the Twilite Minotaur band site.



As I beam my soul to you
across a billion years of evolution
a love of pure light electric blue
ir's illuminating the resolution
sifting for you in the static
listening for your frequency
in this cellular connection that I need

feel the real me
not the obsolete reality
please read between
the power lines
of our virtual lives

a knight in shining mirror shades
in a universe of myth pervades
cyber emotions emerginf from
vicariousis metamorphosis

sifting for you in the static
listening for your frequency
in this cellular connection that I need

feel the real me
not the obsolete reality
please read between
the power lines
of our virtual lives

processor world spinning ever faster
till cell phones hold for beautiful disaster
engines searching dead gods in the net
film the past fading in analog sunset

sifting for you in the static
listening for your frequency
in this cellular connection that I need

feel the me of my dreams
see our pattern in this virtuality
in our machines
can love survive
through our virtual lives

"Flute Hero" on the Wii

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

The Series

Plus, The Happening review repost, incase you got the wrong vid last time.

The Happening: The Sound Of One Hand Clapping

Bill Murray Beats His Wife (At Guitar Hero)

Exclusive leaked footage of Bill Murray playing Guitar Hero on the set of his latest film.

The Dark Side Of Virtual Rockstardom

In Twilite's second Guitar Hero lesson video, he teaches how to play with a variety of bottles and shows a darker side of virtual rockstardom.

Lesson 2 - Playing With A Bottle

Playing With Bottle Part 2

Finished two more videos, uploaded, sent in an IDM track mix to the Junk Magic masterer, jammed, had a White Russian in Chinatown. (In that order.)

Discovered more of the worthless and wondrously tight-assed depths of the piece of epic fail that is Windows Vista. This is beyond closed source; this is like, the equivalent of being stuck in a preschool, with everything remotely useful closed and off limits to you. You can't even record the audio coming out of the stereo mix. But other than that, good day.

The Nebulomicon Cycle

Nebulomicon 1 - Dimensia The Travelers evaporate into an interstice of consciousness beyond their reckoning.

Nebulomicon 2 - Fourier's Limit They enter the ultimate state/non-state as time manifests its infinity.

Nebulomicon 3 - Cyclo Memories of youth relive themselves, teeming with nascent future.

Nebulomicon 4 - From the ashes of the travelers' minds are born alien consciousness of the present.

www.twiliteminotaur.com

Twilite's Guitar Hero Lessons

Play Guitar Hero With A Drill


In Twilite Minotaur's first Guitar Hero Lesson, he shows you how to make your own Drill Hero (tm)
drill to play Guitar Hero with. Lesson 1 - The Powerdrill

MyWebsite 2.0!

Spent most of the day tossing my frontal lobes into the meatgrinder of web design crash courseness. The site was becoming scandalously Web 1.0, but with the flip of a couple font tags, tweak of the color knobs, and the addition of shitloads of sexy content and Web 2.0 functionality, I'm feeling about ready to spike my hair, slap on some square glasses and a Sigur Ros shirt and give crypto-Power Point presentations!

Share your personal Twilite Minotaur stories with friends and make Twilite Minotaur YourTwiliteMinotaur!

Long Distance

Long Distance




a transmission in the night
a face written in light
more beautiful than silver screen
fantastic signs of life
of a belonging kind

counting down to launch
no maps for these places we're lost within

where are we now?
are you freaking out, now?
hand in hand through the hail
boldly going somewhere, going somewhere

through neon oceans and silver skies
an odyssey through space and time close encounters of just watching the moments flutter by
exotic creatures face to face
lost in translation in your eyes
of a belonging kind

counting down to launch
no maps for these places we're lost within

where are we now?
are you freaking out, now? freaking out, now?
hand in hand through the hail
boldly going somewhere, going somewhere

together on a golden thread in a neon sea
we're just children in time machines
trying to find a place to be

counting down to launch
no maps for these places we're lost within

where are we now?
are you freaking out, now? freaking out, now?
hand in hand through the hail
boldly going somewhere, going somewhere


Also, set up a Myspace store where you can buy this and other tracks more easily.

Vancouver meat veterans and Vancouver meat thread watchers should recognize a few bits.

In The Arms Of Sleep

For Holly, together in dream.

Getting Real (ity-Based Imaginative)

I've spent the majority of my waking brain cycles of the past 192 hours or so attempting to shift my internal executive committee away from the "I love it and it's awesome so let's do this," meta paradigm to, "What's something people will be interested in, what can I do to get them interested in it, and how exactly am I going to get from point A to B of people buying this in le real world." At first push it's like the green party shoving Sisyphean against a juggernaut of a society/politics terminally entrenched in its own reward-feedback systems.

"What? Who cares what the audience thinks. They're a lot of braindead, uncultured bathwater if they don't appreciate my Art. No, it's not 'just noise', it's polyrhythmic, Jakartan 43 tone variations over quantum-formant wave shifted late Romantic modalities with... Whatever, I'm not about to compromise my auteur genius for these iKids." Like sixth century Irish monks held up in the monastery as chaos breaks lose just beyond the walls, tossing bits of culture out at the barbarians for any poor soul out there who may care to listen.

But eventually, you graduate from airy-fairy college land or the price of gas hits $4.05 pg (went up four cents yesterday) or you have a heart attack or your precious superpower collapses and suddenly you feel the gears slipping. Nobody actually gives a shit about your Quixotic tour de force. Or your talent, or, even, your Great Ideas -- the only salient item is "How is this no-name going to make me money?" and/or "What can you give me that is worth parting me with my money?" And then you're scrambling. Grabbing friends by the collar crying for help as they walk away with internship acceptance letters, trillions of your debt, or the greening edge in future power. They frown a moment's regret, then turn away, on to bigger futures. Tiny, Balkan countries whose names, let alone capitals, you never bothered to learn in history class are pointing and laughing at you on this Skype thing while you're still trying to figure out how to use an internet forum. You're stumbling frantically, with bloodshot, twitching eyes, through all corners of the internet, trying to figure out how things came to this, and what the hell has been going on out there in the real world since whatever point in the worldline you departed to Neverland.

But the first rule in business is, as veteran home-builder and Brain State Technologyies entrepreneur from Arizona, Jim, told me at an interview for the neuro-technician position: Think positive. Think in terms of solutions to problems, not the problems of solutions. Not the ways something "can't" be done but the ways it "can", and then see which one is the optimum. Not lamenting how cosmically fucked we are but creatively and proactively working to discover and implement the path to the best possible world. You know, for ten dollars extra, you can make your plane trip one with neutral carbon impact?

So, with that in mind, I've been voyaging all throughout the physical and neon ocean to see what I can do here. I've been doing a lot of research and learning about Web 2.0, SEO (search engine optimization), and everything else. I've been checking out other videos and music, just trying to figure out what sort of content and delivery methods work, trying different approaches I started an account with Revver, a video sharing site similar to but infinitely better than Youtube. Revver "connects makers, sharers, and sponsors of internet video in a free and open marketplace that rewards them for doing what they do best." Revver essentially does "Adsense" for videos and also gives the sharers of the "Revverized" videos a percentage as a win-win incentive to help grow the network. I've been learning SEO, sharing and promoting like mad myself, I think I've checked out about a hundred different social networking and sharing sites over the past week, trying to find possible avenues. The Water Music video went over surprisingly well with environmental/green groups, and I got a lot of positive feedback there. With online communities like forums it's really all about getting the approval of the village elder or the first poster to say something positive, then everyone just jumps in line to praise you and virus your video around (or flame you into nonexistence if you fail).

I 'm also working on my Twilite Minotaur as well as Junk Magic's music site; setting up online stores so listeners can buy the tracks right there, promoting around MySpace and elsewhere. I'm planning to work on videos for the other Junk Magic songs we've got thus far.

I'm also helping my friend Nick with an awesome flash game he started in a narrative game design class (one I incidentally took before as well) centered around the idea of a game you actually need to listen to and use your ear to beat, unlike these meteorically popular "music games" which just boil down to button-press timing. We're hoping that if we can get a good solid set of levels fleshed out with the help of a good artist, we might try and get this into the Wii store.

At any rate, I, like the people I've shown Revver and the game to thus far, think there's some real potential.