Twilite Minotaur Updates

All Tomorrow's Neuromancers 1: Cyber Community Organizing

2008-09-26T16:34:00.000-07:00

In the first episode of All Tomorrow's Neuromancers, Twi does some cyber community organizing.

All Tomorrow's Neuromancer's site

Make your voice heard on the Forum

Or at the William Gibson Board

All Tomorrow's Neuromancers Intro

Guitar Hero Update

2008-07-18T03:31:00.001-07:00

Guitar Hero Section updated!

Living On The Edge

2008-07-08T17:36:00.001-07:00

Guitar Hero Aerosmith Bonus Footage

"Mr. Tyler, sir, I'm sorry but you've already snorted all the blow."

"What kind of blow is this anyway, it tastes like... Pixie Stick."

"Sir, it is Pixie Stick. It's a prop for your Guitar Hero rockumentary. Harmonix is paying you eight million to endorse the new inhalable candy that comes with the game, so save some for the fans next time. You're opening for Dragonforce in five."

"Aerosmith is opening? For, what the hell is Dragonforce? Sounds like a bunch of those DnD freaks we used to swirlie in high school getting together with some Moogs and playing Nintendo theme songs."

"They're Extreme Power Metal, actually, and WoW all-stars. Reminds me, we've got to fly you in to San Diego after this show for mo-cap for your WoW virtual concert with Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftan. How are you with wearing hooves?"

"Hooves? What the fuck is this, Animal Planet? We're the hardest rockin-"

"Nevermind, we'll figure it out later. Alright, you're on! Remember the lines, 'What's up Guitar Heros and Heroin-"

"I got it."

"Fucks sake, what is it now, Steve?"

"I just, I don't know if I can do this, you know? I don't know if I can scream 'Walk This Way' into a piece of pink plastic. Is there even a fucking mic in there somewhere?"

"Stevie, Stevie. Remember back in that trashed hotel room in 97' in Cali, when it was just you, me, and Joe and the Touch-

"Joe was in detox at the time."

"Just you and me, and the Touchstone people came to the door with the proposal, and Michael Bay was totally into it-"

"Bay was playing demolition in the corner with monster trucks, a Mothra action figure, and a bunch of Jengas."

"Right, well remember how you hesitated when they asked you to do the music?"

"Yeah."

"But after you stood staring out into all that smog for a minute, then you turned and pointed to the Hollywood sign."

"Yeah."

"Well this here, this is bigger than Armageddon. This is The Future. This is bigger than The Beatles."

"All right, all right. You had me at hello. No fucking hooves though."

"Steve, I don't know about these plastic guitars, they smash all funny. I miss the sound the pickups make and the feeling when the strings snap loose."

"I know what you mean, Joe. I think now we're really living on the edge."

Independence Day At Twilite's

2008-07-05T04:59:00.001-07:00

Independence Day at Twi's

I think the 2012 super ETs / post singular humans are trying to communicate through the firework audio compression artifacts!

The Ion Storm-esque sound of the recorded whistler seriously spooked me the first time I played it back. Kind of sounds like, "Peace? No peace!"

Self/Social Hacking

2008-06-24T16:52:00.001-07:00

Been working on this last night after I stopped being drunk with the Junk Magic guys:

Spooky New Romantics - by Twilite V2.XX

So here's my AI self which I programmed to make music, videos, and
write and recite poetry for me while I'm off haxxing intertubes and such. :)

I'm planning on using this or something like it in a music video so I'm working on

the effects, trying different things. The face animation was done with
a technique similar to Chris Cunningham's in the All Is Full Of Love
video with the Bjork robots- the "locked-in head" deal.

Also, been madly spinning webs of viral buzzery about the most relevant and
populated branches of the internets, setting up flow diversions and
siphoning off traffic here and there like city-grid electricity into
the patchwork particleboard of a favela trying to get off the ground.
Learning the lingos and socio-psychology of the many cyber subcultures,
the cultural parameters, the protocol, practicing becoming belonging
kind. The moronic gamer kid. The hardcore gamer. The "e-socialite"
(superclass of "Second Lifer"). All those wedding rings you
accidentally flushed down the toilet? They wound up in the sewers, on
every finger of these blingtards with fake tans like the waste of North
Korean nuclear experiments (which many may well be). The cybergreen.
Radiohead fans. Bjork fans (my favorite community actually, outside of
here and the NGB). Gondry fans. The Livejournal emo poet. The
"intelligent" ancient-hat geek, never to be caught without a Stephenson
in hand and a "300" parody video in clipboard, phasers set to
"boredom". The key, always, is obtaining the mark of approval from the
tribal leader of the forum, and/or a positive first response. Once that
is achieved, the rest will offer undying praise regardless of their own
opinion, for the most part. And failing, you will receive the scarlet
letter and eternal bashing. In which case, the options are exit and
reverse-promotion (hate channeling).

It's a hell of a lot of
work right now so it's good to see things start paying off. (Special
thanks to GR for helping!) Almost 2000 views daily now but I need to
multiply that by a factor of ten or fifteen, then I'll be at escape
velocity. It's a slow and trying take off. Houston's been having
technical difficulties and it's been tough getting powerful enough
rocket fuel, but the ship is starting to lurch upward I think.

I've already got some fan art/spoof thingies. 'The image below was an image apparently inspired by the Flute Hero series.

"Technically the greatest Guitar hero player alive."

I'm
also working on a new music video, trying to figure out how to get that
"AI pirate Twi" image to come alive and talk in super-modulated freaky
Deus Ex voices.

Virtuosis Morphosis (Acoustic)

2008-06-22T19:39:00.001-07:00

Virtuosis Morphosis

This song can be found at the Twilite Minotaur band site.

As I beam my soul to you
across a billion years of evolution
a love of pure light electric blue
ir's illuminating the resolution
sifting for you in the static
listening for your frequency
in this cellular connection that I need

feel the real me
not the obsolete reality
please read between
the power lines
of our virtual lives

a knight in shining mirror shades
in a universe of myth pervades
cyber emotions emerginf from
vicariousis metamorphosis

sifting for you in the static
listening for your frequency
in this cellular connection that I need

feel the real me
not the obsolete reality
please read between
the power lines
of our virtual lives

processor world spinning ever faster
till cell phones hold for beautiful disaster
engines searching dead gods in the net
film the past fading in analog sunset

sifting for you in the static
listening for your frequency
in this cellular connection that I need

feel the me of my dreams
see our pattern in this virtuality
in our machines
can love survive
through our virtual lives

"Flute Hero" on the Wii

2008-06-20T07:19:00.001-07:00

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Plus, The Happening review repost, incase you got the wrong vid last time.

The Happening: The Sound Of One Hand Clapping

2008-06-18T23:55:00.001-07:00

Bill Murray Beats His Wife (At Guitar Hero)

2008-06-17T03:16:00.001-07:00

Exclusive leaked footage of Bill Murray playing Guitar Hero on the set of his latest film.

The Dark Side Of Virtual Rockstardom

2008-06-15T14:29:00.001-07:00

In Twilite's second Guitar Hero lesson video, he teaches how to play with a variety of bottles and shows a darker side of virtual rockstardom.

Lesson 2 - Playing With A Bottle

Playing With Bottle Part 2

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The Nebulomicon Cycle

2008-06-11T05:02:00.001-07:00

Nebulomicon 1 - Dimensia The Travelers evaporate into an interstice of consciousness beyond their reckoning.

Nebulomicon 2 - Fourier's Limit They enter the ultimate state/non-state as time manifests its infinity.

Nebulomicon 3 - Cyclo Memories of youth relive themselves, teeming with nascent future.

Nebulomicon 4 - From the ashes of the travelers' minds are born alien consciousness of the present.

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Twilite's Guitar Hero Lessons

2008-06-09T20:32:00.001-07:00

Play Guitar Hero With A Drill

In Twilite Minotaur's first Guitar Hero Lesson, he shows you how to make your own Drill Hero (tm)
drill to play Guitar Hero with. Lesson 1 - The Powerdrill