At 2:15 you can see how well it balances itself against a push. freaky.

I realized there are some stipulations about reposting remix work from the Real World Remixed project, so I’ve pulled down my original post of my remix of Shock The Monkey. You can still hear the stream though.

Cribbed from .Wired, via Boing Boing:

…flourishing in a perfect combination of liberal copyright rules, broad access to British and US source material, and a culture of music.

“There’s never really been any stigma associated with sharing or using the works of others,” says British musician, journalist and Trojan producer Laurence Cane-Honeysett. “If anything, to most it’s regarded as a compliment.”

This sharing-friendly approach was carried further by visionary Jamaican producers like King Tubby and Prince Jammy, who, in the early 1970s, started releasing versions of the day’s most popular songs with the vocals removed. Using primitive, sometimes handmade equipment, they would drench the instrumental backing track in reverb and echo, then add sound effects to build a throbbing, psychedelic stew.

It was here the remix was born — the Jamaicans simply call it “dub.”

Commercial buildings use a tremendous amount of materials, both in their construction and in their ongoing operation. Traditionally, the latter impact was only realized once construction was complete and the building occupied. If you saw your cooling bills are sky-high because of inappropriate materials or orientation, you pretty much have to suck up the financial impact to your bottom line and accept the environmental impact of your error.

Now advances in AEC software and GPU hardware are enabling the realization of pre-visualization and simulation with Building Information Models. This software allows full tracking and analysis of materials, construction, design, and operation, with the benefit of being able to modify any of these properties during design and see the resultant affect in simulation.

From Wikipedia:

BIM can be used to demonstrate the entire building lifecycle including the processes of construction and facility operation. Quantities and shared properties of materials can easily be extracted. Scopes of work can be isolated and defined. Systems, assemblies, and sequences are able to be shown in a relative scale with the entire facility or group of facilities.

More interesting and pertinent to the steady-but-staggering evolution towards a sustainable 1st world culture, BIM analysis can be used to predict the energy usage and environmental impact (and, hence, the overall cost of operation) of a building well before construction.

From CAD User Online:

It means optimising buildings to reduce consumption and energy use (in fabrication and operation). The use of locally-sourced renewable materials, improved insulation and energy-optimised buildings are all part of this effort. It means reducing reliance on fossil fuel for heating, cooling and lighting by optimising the choice of site, building orientation and design in order to maximise solar gains and daylight factors.

It means reducing the impact of storm-water discharges on the watershed by reducing rainfall runoff with green roof and water recycling methods. It means promoting the clustering of industrial parks, the use of public transportation and car pooling. With this in mind, designers can achieve better designs through managing change more effectively.

The take-home point and the thing that makes this actually quite interesting to more than just engineers and businesscritters, is that it’s easier for developers to understand and control for the environmental impact of construction before the ground is even broken. The best way to affect ecological sustainability is to make it easy and cost-effective.

I’ve posted a new remix of Shock The Monkey by Peter Gabriel [74.3bpm, 5.5MB mp3 file]. This was done as part of the Real World Remixed project.

Thanks to Peter Gabriel and Real World for posting the stems. It was a huge honor to be able to work with the source!

Ape Dynamics remix

Also check this out: Love Is New remix