In a week where the new GTA V trailer was released, we pondered what those one and a half minutes of footage could mean for the game itself. We spoke with visual artist Robert Seidel about the place where science plus art equals the abstract. We also looked at Aphex Twin’s new toy: a live orchestra, welcomed a datamoshed cat video, and found out how to accessorize the apocalypse.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the web:
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· If you’re a technophobic arachnophobe, this is your nightmare: 3D printed spider-bots (above) are here to freak the crap out of us.
· Billed as “Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes,” Skinemax is an hour long video montage of visuals from the ’80s and ’90s featuring Robocop, transformers, gremlins, and Kurt Russell, set to electronic music.
· 3D maps take a step closer to reality with C3 Technology’s “Google Maps on steroids” which “provides photo-realistic 3D city visualization solutions” using previously classified military tech. The company was recently bought by Apple.
· Mr. Cyber Punk, William Gibson, is interviewed in the Paris Review.
· And if you’ve ever wondered what a skydiving car looks like, it looks just like this.