Swamptech pioneer Mr. Quintron has developed a website for his famous “Drum Buddy”—an analogue, oscillating  synthesizer. I first saw that quirky machine at the Howling Wolf when Quintron opened for the Chicks on Speed. When Quintron plays that thing it’s like wow.

Quintron and his first lady Miss Pussycat run the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans. I fondly remember seeing Magas play with Blechdom from Blechdom at the lodge and basically ripping the place to shreds. The drum buddy was there too.

Check out the Drum Buddy Site
Check out this demo video (skip to the halfway mark if you want to see the real action)
Listen to this sample

Also just found out that Kanye blogged about the Drum Buddy…I love the webz.

Artist/very rich guy Richard Prince just sold a movie:

The American painter and photographer Richard Prince has just sold the rights to a film pitch. The story - which falls somewhere between Lord of the Flies and Lost - follows a group of people who are the last surviving humans on earth. According to Prince, who will be the subject of an exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery this summer, inspiration came from his regular holidays on the Caribbean island of St Barts. “I liked the idea that privilege is turned on its head,” he says. “And when it comes to the fight for survival, clean water becomes more precious than money.”

I guess Prince is just making art about what he knows, and what he knows now is St. Barts, home of the $24 champagne cocktail.

Last week, DG, along with basically every blog in the world, posted about this creepy robot called Big Dog. Here’s the parody. Via Laughing Squid.

Worth suing over?

Two men…think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe.

Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure.

The world’s physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.

But Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.” Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Sounds dumb, but think about it this way: the losses, though they have a small chance of occurring, are infinite. How do you even make a decision involving those variables?

Image via Ffffound.

Here’s the testing mechanism for parachutes designed to land rovers on Mars. It’s that Y chromosome that makes me love this stuff! Via Ffffound.

DG’s number one art-show priority for this Spring is the Eliasson retrospective at MoMA next month. So here’s a teaser: A spiral staircase installed in Munich. (Via someplace I forgot! Sorry). More works to whet your appetite:

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There’s a Mexican town chockablock with witches and warlocks, which is drawing tourists (DG field trip?!):

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This American Life is an institution—if you haven’t listened, get into those archives and go nuts. (Fave episodes “Kid Logic” and “You Are So Beautiful…To Me”. But “Our Favorites” is a good place to start.) Here’s a great story illustrated by Chris Ware for the Showtime version. Via The Strange Attractor.

For you to wear with your bullet necklace while you sit on your Fully Loaded chair waiting for your Chanel guillotine.

Via Agenda.

Knut, the polar bear that drove people nuts a year ago when he was a cub, has become  a “publicity-addled pyscho”:

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