Category Archives: Ignite Talk

Ignite DC Talk – Backmatter

Some things I’ve been checking out while working on my presentation for Ignite DC.

Crowdsourced music video for Choir of Young Believers’ “Action/Reaction.” from Booooooom.

Into Infinity: open source audio/visual interpretations of infinity from DubLab. An amazing variety of styles.

An image of infinity

An image of infinity

Girl Talk creates a mash-up from “Radio, Radio” by Elvis Costello

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Reenactment of the Discovery of the Scratch

Grand Wizard Theodore was said to have accidentally discovered the scratch when his mother yelled at him to stop playing records so loud. He put his hand directly on the record to stop it, heard the sound that resulted, and started playing around. Here’s a decent reenactment of that crucial moment.

How can we “scratch” our objects of thought? Texts, statements, definitions, theories?

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