Art or Porn? Posted on January 9, 2007 by Robin Reply This is a question that seemed to come up in the 70s a lot more than it does nowadays, but I guess what with people putting great white sharks in formaldehyde and chopping up cows and putting them in formaldehyde, the art world has other things to think about when it comes down to what is art or not. Anyway, I was looking though a comprehensive gallery of “erotic art” when a few things took my attention: The subjects of the drawings displayed were almost all women. There is a certain cartoony air to the works, and most of the bodies represent a perfection even supermodels can barely attain – large breasts, or at any rate sagless breasts, flat stomachs, and tight asses. Hardly any fat, hardly any humanity to the pictures. I could be wrong, as some were obviously modelled by real people, but is this stuff really art? There are 52 x 16 pictures on this site to view, but I chose a few which kind of represent both sides of the arugment IMHO.
XLR to USB Posted on January 9, 2007 by Robin Reply XLR is something used by audio devices – microphones, keyboards, drum machines (and maybe even electric gituars… dunno, didn’t research it). Lightsnake has developed a little kit to just plug these machines into your PC without the need for drivers. The hardware is bundled with waveform and karaoke software, which is nice but not necessary. Neat.
Razer desktop speakers Posted on January 9, 2007 by Robin Reply Razer has released the first set of desktop speakers to feature THX. The speakers are specially built to rest on tables and other surfaces, ensuring sound quality isn’t lost when the sound waves hit the surface to give you awesome THX sound. There’s a headphone slot in the system for when you need to tone the volume all the way down and they’ve released a superb quality soundcard to go with it. If it compares to the 32 channel Gravis Ultrasound I don’t know (probably not – damnit Gravis, why did you stop supporting that?!), but it’s about time that real sound output came back on the agenda – all the emphasis has been on graphics improvements in the past few years.
Linx Audio Clear Harmony Posted on January 9, 2007 by Robin Reply If you’re hearing impaired, this may be the thing for you – wireless stylish earbuds with award winning quality and noise cancelling technology so that voices come out crisp. clear and loudly without having to up the volume too much. You can switch between mono and stereo sound depending on the environment you’re in and what you want to hear of it. Excellent technology for the (slightly) deaf.
