From the Proletaricratz website:

"Barcelona based vj's collective born from the union of Proletari Arts & Videocratz.

Our activity starts in an individual way around 2003, and lately we start collaborating as a team with La Maquina de Turing in their musical performances.

We are strongly linked with the cultural association Telenoika (pioneers of vjing in Barcelona), being a part of its audiovisual community, with whom we participated in lots of artistical activities (VAX12, OrquestrAV, audiovisual attacks, Maçart06...).

If you haven't checked this out yet it's a must see, a highly entertaining look at remix culture. You can download the flick here "name your price" style a la Saul Williams, Girl Talk, etc. albums.

Check out www.ripremix.com for more info. For a more frontlines look into the P2P filesharing technology that provides so much source material for remixes and mash-ups, the Pirate Bay, and how those crazy Swedes [edit: changed] the very nature of how media is shared and distributed, try downloading "Steal This Film" from your favorite torrent provider. Though not as flashy as RIP, Steal This Film challenges viewers to question Hollywood and the mass media empires that dictate what you see and what you pay to see it. Highly recommended.

In our 21st century digital world, Auto-Tuned vocals are the perfect musical "embodiment" of increasing human/machine synthesis. Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, writes a wonderful history and analysis of the trend's origins with the Cher hit "Believe" in the late 90s up to it's current use by T-Pain and Moroccan vocalists, touching on perspectives from "vocal purists" and contemporary producers alike in his article "Pitch Perfect" on the Frieze magazine site.

The homie Tim Simons recently posted a fresh new poster design he contributed to the Celebrate People's History poster series curated by Just Seeds. Check it out on his blog, where he outlines in detail the concepts, history, original artwork, and design behind the poster production process (I love a good back story). Be sure to check out his website at www.timsimongraphics.net. Big ups!

A recent Wired magazine blog highlighted the resurgence of ambigrams: typographic designs or artforms that can be read in multiple directions or orientations with the same or different phrasing. I first encountered this unique form of typographic lettering in Douglas R. Hofstadter's incredible "Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern", a hefty book which blew my mind in high school with such ideas as "creativity as variations on a theme", anagrams (the title is an anagram of Mathematical Games), and gridfonts. Hofstadter defines ambigrams as "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings into the selfsame set of curves."

Went to check out the Back to the Berg skate contest at Wallenberg today. Folks were throwing down hard! Bigspins, varial heelflips, switch heelflips, switch frontside kickflips...so gnarly. Here's a couple shots of some landed tricks. Thanks to Christian for rockin' my Flip camera and getting some sweet shots!

THE SCIENCE VIDEO feat. MURS in HD from Erick Peyton on Vimeo.

www.inbflat.net is the brainchild of Darren Solomon of Science for Girls. It is a collaborative music/spoken word project in which multiple Youtube clips of instrumentalists playing their instruments (from Korg Kaoss pads to winds to strings), along with spoken word poetry sessions, are displayed as a tiled grid. Site visitors are encouraged to start and stop the clips and use the volume sliders to create their own audio "mix", all in the key of B flat.

Masanobu Fukuoka is the author of "The One Straw Revolution" and "The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy", both of which are out of print but available as free PDF downloads at the Holistic Agricultural Library. Fukuoka Farming attempts to reproduce natural conditions very closely, and utilizes the ancient technique of seed balls.

Filastine kills it with this video.

For the uninitiated, Grey Filastine was a founding member of the Infernal Noise Brigade, has two amazing albums, Burn It & Dirty Bomb, and is a world-roving nomad. You can check him out at www.filastine.com.

I came across Ross McDermott's awesome photography on his website surfacebelow.com after searching for information on Gunkanjima, an abandoned factory island off the coast of Japan that boasts the world's highest recorded population density. Now, I've always been fascinated with abandoned buildings and forgotten places, from Atlantis and Tical to our modern day industrial wastelands. But to think that this island, now the perfect embodiment of a ghost town, was once bustling with activity and movement (and as recently as fifty years ago was the most densely populated place on Earth) is downright eerie.