1.Ibiza Ride Leather Cuff – Black This totally nerdy rock star version of the original Ibiza Ride watch is awesome and trendy. It features a super wide black leather cuff and an innovative buckle system.
2. #000000 Tie (Black Tie)
Black on black only, obviously. This will undoubtedly be the only option best for all black tie affairs–HA! Printed with a large “#000000″ –hexadecimal code for the color black, it’s sure to make all graphic designers and web developers giggle.
3. Floppy Disk Necklace – Ball Chain Here’s a cool way to show off your love of things nerdy and retro. This cool necklace features a pendant made from a floppy disc hub, on an 18″ or 20″ ball chain.
4. Playstation Portable (PsP) Sours If you’ve got a gamer boyfriend who’s attached to his PsP as much as he is to you, here’s a thoughtful way to give him the gift of candy this Valentine’s day. Each Sony’s Playstation Portable-shaped tin contains sour candy–the red version features sour cherry and the blue features sour raspberry.
Microcontroller Cufflinks
Now available in a larger size than before, these swank cufflinks are made from two matching black microcontrollers–microchips, basically. They’re classy and subtly nerdy at the same time.
These cool necklaces made from the hub of a floppy disk will surprise the geek on your gift list. There is the version shown as well as another with a ball chain instead.
The bubble in the level moves around as much as you do! This is a favorite piece of jewelry even for those “non-jewelry” people. $66.00
Floppy Disc Necklaces
Here’s a cool way to show off your love of things nerdy and retro. This cool necklace features a pendant made from a floppy disc hub. There are two versions, one with a regular chain and clasp, and another with ball chain.
One of the premiere Game Boy-wielding 8Bit electronic musicians in the world is Josh Davis aka Bit Shifter, and subVariant and Front 312 are excited to have him perform at Ai Lounge on Halloween. Having played over 100 live shows armed with only two Nintendo Game Boys, and two home-brew aftermarket music programs, he has a dedicated following and has been known to ignite dance floors with his high energy live performances.
Tom Loftus of MSNBC.com says of Bit Shifter’s performance,“[B]y the time Davis jumped to his rave-up ‘Parapersona Crash,’ the walls started to shake and what little hesitation the audience may have had over dancing to a kiddy toy’s ‘bleeps’ and ‘bloops’ vanished.”
“We booked him …and I still think it’s the most people that have been in the Tank at one time–hundreds and hundreds of people…” says Mike Rosenthal, Artistic Director of The Tank in NYC. “ Bitshifter just rocked the place–just blew us all away.”
Josh Davis says of the 8bit sound, “This is a really distinctive sound-set that anyone of our generation will have most likely been exposed to during childhood and as a consequence of that it became hardwired into our aesthetic sensibilities….but it was always off-limits creatively. So, people who grew up with 8bit and 16bit video game consoles–if they were musicians, they were able to dabble in just about *anything* else….”
Liz Revision of subVariant will open by digitally spinning minimal tech-house, glitch, and IDM; Mr. Automatic from Front 312 brings electro, new wave, and acid house; and Onefiftyone from Chicago Workgroup plays nudisco.
Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive sound-set, executed on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possibly by two home-brew Game Boy music-making programs, Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, Bit Shifter’s music adopts and subverts the playfulness inherent in the familiar Game Boy sound-set, repurposing it into the service of novel idioms. Based in New York City, Bit Shifter has performed over one hundred shows worldwide, having recently circumnavigated the planet in a 20-date world tour with fellow chiptune compatriot Nullsleep.
subVariant is a Chicago-based record label and events production company known for its both its innovative electronic music releases and creative packaging, as well as its edgy and boundary-pushing live events and music showcases. Front 312 has been promoting an eclectic night in Chicago for over a year featuring house, electro, new wave and industrial at Liar’s Club, although individually its members have been churning away in various underground electronic realms, and have collected a diverse group of dedicated followers. Together subV and 312 bring their diverse crowds together to experience Halloween in a cool downtown location with an excellent, creative and diverse lineup unique in Chicago for Halloween.
Check out these cool new ties from Cyberoptix. Impress the bio teacher, neurologist, psychiatrist or chemically enhanced lovely person in your life with the Neuron Tie. The electric pole has come alive and it’s root-like, cord plugs are about to grab anything is it’s path in the Transformer Tie. The Black Plague causing bacterium, Yersinia Pestis has begun to invade the Land of Traditional Paisley, thus forming the mutant strain, Plaguesley.
If you send us a cool photo of you wearing or otherwise engaging with something you got at Fractalspin and we post it, we’ll send you a coupon for 30% off. Email submissions to fractalspin1337@gmail.com along with any relevant info you want to share.
Here is Bethany Shorb of Cyberopix wearing a Diode Necklace by Zelle. I love her dramatic “languidly pondering which glassware to use for my next top-secret experiment” pose. Bethany designs super neat silkscreened ties that don’t suck. Go check her out.
1. “Less than three” Heart Necklace – Sterling Silver Nerd love at its absolute finest. Your girl will likely screech a combination of “woot!” “OMG” “THX” and will definitely proclaim that she “less than three”s you. All you have to say is “NP.”
3. Smiley Necklaces – Sterling Silver – Kissing
OK, so maybe you already scored your girl the “Less Than Three” Necklace for her birthday early in January. What to do? Fear not, you have another option for nerdy jewelry that screams “we have a higher-than-normal level of oxytocin in our systems and for this I am grateful.” This is the emoticon for the kiss: :-* which your sweetie can now wear around her neck proudly.
4. Purple Waterfall Resistor Earrings LTD We’ve only got a few of these limited edition, complex resistor-and-chain earrings created exclusively for us by Zelle. Hurry and get yours now before they’re all gone!
5. His and Hers Lightmare Watches This chunky watch with a rubber band has a novel way for displaying the time. You know how you’re expected to recall the position of numbers on a watch with a blank face? Well this watch operates on the same principle, but substitute a large inner dot for the hour hand position and a small outer dot for the minute hand position. Cool huh? NEW for ‘09: There’s a nerdy girl’s version (the white one).
EPROMs are erasable, programmable read-only memory chips in a ceramic DIP package with a window that alllows a UV light to shine through to the the innards and erase the memory to gear it up for its next usage. It also has the advantage of being awfully pretty in a cool, modern, brown casing, perfect for girls who are fans of the minimal designs showcased in Dwell and Wallpaper magazines.
Catch us in the Village [cool stuff to buy n' experience] at Minitek. If you place an order between September 9 and 15 we’ll send it out on the 16th. Woot!
About the fest:
new york’s electronic music + innovation festival! minitek is going to be slightly different from other festivals you know, even very different at times.
first of all because the festival combines two aspects: electronic music and innovation. while it seems pretty straight forward at first, you’ll see soon that we’re going to explore innovation not only in respect to music but also to other forms of art, science and technology.
for the first minitek, we’ve been lucky to get support from some of the most exciting electronic music talents from around the world. alongside the most sought-after artists who have a solid following in the US, you will hear top acts from abroad whose US debuts have been eagerly awaited for years and you’ll discover young emerging artists that are currently gaining tremendous momentum, some of which are home-grown new york locals.
we know that the genre of “electronic music†covers many other facets that you won’t find on minitek’s lineup, like progressive or drum’n’bass for instance. we chose the term because most artists can’t possibly be reduced to one single genre, and it leaves room for interpretation and development.
as for the innovation aspect of minitek, we wanted to bring some of the most ingenious projects and inventions from all around the world off the internet and right to your doorstep. we selected a range of experimental art and technology installations that you can discover and try out in the innovation pavillion during the day. and during the night, visual artists will fill the walls with their most unconventional projections.
also, we will introduce new consumer technologies that have never been applied in a festival context – such as RFID wristbands, which will make your festival experience so much more convenient, with a smidgen of surprise around each corner.
an integral part of minitek is the village, which will serve as an exhibition area for a range of creative industry players. we invited music technology companies to demonstrate their novelty products and softwares that will change the way music is created, and local as well as international record labels will let you come across their newest releases and freshly signed artists.
all in all, we wanted minitek to be an experience; present sounds you haven’t heard and ideas you didn’t even know existed. a playground of sorts, in a city we love.
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1.Ibiza Ride Leather Cuff – Black
2. #000000 Tie (Black Tie)
3. Floppy Disk Necklace – Ball Chain
4. Playstation Portable (PsP) Sours
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