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A game to fight for control of the minds of everyone on earth.
Meet Ingress, a new free mobile app and alternate reality game made by Google launching this week (on Android first, available as soon as it makes it through the Google Play release process).
How does one play?
Users can generate virtual energy needed to play the game by picking up units of “XM,” which are collected by traveling walking paths, like a real-world version of Pac-Man. Then they spend the energy going on missions around the world to “portals,” which are virtually associated with public art, libraries and other widely accessible places.
“The concept is something like World of Warcraft, where everyone in the world is playing the same game,” Hanke said. Players are on one of two teams: “The Enlightened,” who embrace the power, or “The Resistance,” who fight the power. Anyone can play from anywhere in the world, though in more densely played areas there will be more local competition for resources.
The game will be good for Google’s business from the beginning. That’s because of advertising. Ingress incorporates real physical stores and products in the game, and has brokered relationships with Hint Water, Zipcar, Jamba Juice and Chrome apparel and messenger bags.
And eventually, Google plans to make these real-world game tools available as a platform for developers to make their own.
READ MORE and Check it out:
http://allthingsd.com/20121115/google-launches-ingress-a-worldwide-mobile-alternate-reality-game/?mod=tech
Canadian indie rock outfit Metric have spent the better part of the last six months touring the world in support of their latest album, ‘Synthetica,’ and the band’s new video for ’Breathing Underwater,’ the second single off the disc, features footage from their various travels, including their performance this summer in Chicago. Check it out!
http://diffuser.fm/metric-breathing-underwater-video/
Soundgarden’s King Animal marks the group’s return a full 15 years after their initial breakup and, in the video for the album cut “Been Away Too Long,” the alt-rockers rage again with neck-breaking authority. The clip’s story is intriguing, too: a young girl in a straitjacket rises from bones and runs from mysterious men and attack dogs but gets trapped in isolated, snowy buildings. She eludes capture, though she may not be human.
King Animal will be out November 13th. CHECK IT OUT!
READ MORE
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/soundgarden-rise-again-in-been-away-too-long-20121109
New video, released by The Killers! The Vegas rockers debuted the song live back in July in Asheville, N.C., and the footage in this tour video was shot by director Giorgio Testi during recent dates overseas in Europe.
It captures Brandon Flowers and Company performing under some fancy light shows in front of massive festival-sized crowds, hanging out backstage and generally having a good time being on the road. Plenty of smiles to go around here for everybody. The Killers are currently across the pond on a fall 2012 U.K. tour, which runs through a Nov. 16-17 stand at London’s O2 Arena. WATCH
http://diffuser.fm/the-killers-miss-atomic-bomb-video/
I heard the clip from Jack White’s new song “Blues on Two Trees” and promptly hated it. Ten minutes later I couldn’t get the flippin’ tune out of my head.
Jack White busting a rhyme? That’s right, the former White Stripes singer raps on a recording for the first time ever on ‘Blues on Two Trees,’ the B-side to his forthcoming single ‘I’m Shakin’.’ Two Trees’ kicks off as a standard blues-infused garage-rock tune, but before long, it takes a turn for the strange, with White eventually rapping at the mic. “Three trees lying on the side of the road / One tree barks, ‘Where the hell do we go?” he rhymes at one point, offering up a typically eccentric take.
Give it a try, share my joy/misery!
http://diffuser.fm/jack-white-blues-on-two-trees/
Can you identify with this poor dad? Have you “lost your touch”? Thankfully, there’s now help for you. Jimmy Kimmel Live and Travis Barker have recently teamed up to star in a spoof PSA titled “Helping Parents To Rock.”
It’s quite generous for a star of this caliber to donate his valuable time to help educate, promote, and share such a private “problem” with us “little folk”. You see, it doesn’t matter where you are in your journey in life, people are all the same. SEE PSA. Thank you, Jimmy and Travis.
http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/travis_barker_stars_in_spoof_psa_helping_parents_to_rock
YouTube is full of “This is totally real, guys” ghost videos, and if you don’t spend at least one night around Halloween browsing through a bunch of them, you’re not truly getting into the spirit of the holiday. Let’s check some out, shall we?
**Disclaimer: Science has found zero empirical evidence for the existence of ghosts, aliens, demons or any other supernatural creatures, and these videos will surely not fool an expert in video fakery. Unless he or she watches them alone, late at night, in the dark. Then they become very convincing.
Let’s cut to the scariest one out there, the Hand Demon. The terror begins in the bedroom with lighting provided by flashlight. Described like a Tool video, bizarre, pale-grey arms begin growing down from the ceiling. First it’s just a few, but soon it’s a dozen or more:
Several spindly baby arms reach up from under the door and flex against the doorjamb like tiny soot-covered Hulkamaniacs:
This is not how one goes about breaking down a door.
More hands start grasping out of the wall, even coming straight through one of his posters, because phantom chimney-sweep forearms care nothing for personal belongings:
The fact that this is CGI is as obvious. Very well made CGI. Totally totally fake. But…try going to bed tonight without imagining a dozen tiny black baby arms reaching under the gap beneath your closet door. That’s what horror is all about — you watch these at work, during the day and your rational brain writes it off as some film student’s demo reel. Watch it again, at night, alone and you will believe in ceiling hands.
READ MUCH MORE
http://www.cracked.com/article_20089_the-6-most-eerily-convincing-ghost-videos-youtube.html
Meet CHARLI-2, Virginia Tech’s skinny, five-foot tall humanoid robot. His balance is enviable: Jostle him, and he’ll right himself — which is one of the reasons the Navy is using him for research on its firefighting robot of the future. Oh, and he also dances Gangnam Style.
This week, CHARLI-2 will formally meet his flesh-and-blood shipmates at an expo in Virginia thrown by the futurists at the Office of Naval Research. His creator, engineer Dennis Hong of Virginia Tech’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory, has a $3.5 million grant from the Navy to help design CHARLI-2′s son, the Autonomous Shipboard Humanoid, or ASH. CHARLI-2, the current test platform for ASH, will take the stage at the Office of Naval Research’s annual science and technology showcase to demonstrate how robots can interact with humans.
“If a robot can do all the tasks that come with fighting a fire, it can do all these other things on ships, like mopping the deck,” Hong tells Danger Room. “It’s like the Swiss Army knife of robotics.” Or at least the PSY. Watch the smooth moves of CHARLI. He will probably dance better than most of you out there. SEE?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/navy-robot-gangnam-style/
WARNING: Don’t read this late at night. Or alone. Or if you are sensitive to spirits who might be lurking over your shoulder. The Paranormal Activity franchise wants to feel real: the cameras are fuzzy, the houses are messy, and the actors look like people you’ve seen at the mall. But how realistic are the actual hauntings? Movies.com consulted Stephen Robinson, a cameraman who searched for spirits in 26 countries for the reality show Ghost Hunters International. He’s an expert in how to shoot the supernatural—so does he think Paranormal Activity 4 gets it right?
Movies.com: Can cameras really record ghosts?
Stephen Robinson: Yes, cameras can record paranormal activity—it’s hard to say “ghosts”—but paranormal activity for sure. You’ll see faces, outlines of figures. Sometimes they’ll seem well-defined, other times you’ll see reflections and shadows, which is what they call “matrixing.” Then there’s orbs, but a lot of times those turn out to be dust. Full manifestations—moving and clearly defined—are very rare. I don’t know anyone who’s been able to catch a real and true ghost like the kind you’d think of, but they can catch unexplained things for sure.
Movies.com: There’s a cat and a dog in the Paranormal 4 house, and at times they both seem freaked out. Are they susceptible to seeing spirits?
Robinson: Animals are just like children: they’re more sensitive to paranormal activity. We’ve actually used dogs a few times. There’s been situations where animals won’t go into certain rooms—they’ll sit there and bark. Dogs seem to be more sensitive than cats in my experience. Cats just aren’t even tripping. Some lady said her bird just kept saying the name of someone who didn’t live there, but I was like, “Is that really evidence?”
READ MORE of the conversation with cameraman Stephen Robinson here. Real or not, here’s the trailer for Paranormal Activity 4. SEE IT
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/paranormal-activity-truth/9997
While patiently waiting for Billie Joe Armstrong to complete rehab, we can watch the newly released trailer for “¡dos!”, which comes out November 13. We just get a small taste, which leaves us wanting for more. SEE IT!
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