As the news get's grimmer and grimmer coming out of Japan. We watch the news each hour hoping to catch a glimpse of a super-robot (you know) they have, to come and save the day. But, until then an American company is trying to compete in the "make everybody a cyborg", race. Very similar to the Hal exoskeleton that we told you about back in 2009! Equipois (don't ask me how to pronounce that), a California based company hopes to have factory workers and other people who do repetative heavy lifting, using these in the very near future.
For around 2 to 3 grand anyone rich enough to consider that cheap can own one of these things and become a superhuman. Their website says officially that it will not make you a superhuman though. They claim it's more for people who spend long hours extending their arms, like surgeons, and jewelers or dentist. Equipois CEO Eric Golden (great name-can't be real), has hinted that a brain controlled interface could be easily attached to the X-Ar, but claims "they're a little bit away from kicking that off". The company states that it plans to further develop this technology to assist the disabled, such as veterans and people who are paralyzed. The company already makes a mechanical appendage that is kind of like a crude Dr. Octopus tentacle. Hopefully if this is successful they'll work on the aesthetic design as we inch closer to a full Iron Man suit!
Po(o)p Stars are all fake from Mr. Clean cut Nat King Cole being a secret heroin addict, to Elvis, Micheal Jackson, Madonna, Britney Spears and all the rest. Just mass marketed images for the mindless chattel to swill down on their way to work in their meaningless lives. One thing all of these beast have in common is their self-destructive, drug-fueled demise and decent into mediocrity. To be Pop Star you must be a hollow shell of a human being that others project their own fantasies into. You are an irrelevant piece of history that record companies use to help keep others groveling in their own mediocrity. Their imperfection is that they are unsustainable, frail, human beings (Lady Ga-Ga will find this out soon enough). Leave it up to Japan to perfect the perfect disposable Pop Star! No longer must we endure the rise and fall of the next great Pop legend (although that is half the intrigue). Introducing the worlds first virtual Pop sensation; Hatsune Miku. A three-dimensional holographic singer! Who has not only topped the Japanese Pop charts, but has sold out concerts around Japan and (more importantly) entered the world of Cosplay (thus making all of our fantasies a little better). Created by Crypton (no not Krpton Super man's home planet) Future Media in 2007 and according to their website has been used in over 100,000 songs and movies! How inflated that number is and how much is songs or music is anybodies guess. I'm sure one of her legions of Japanese fans could easily tell you or you could check one of the countless fan-sites lurking on the inter-webs. The amazing thing about htis creation is that it's available to the public. You can purchase the software and write your own lyrics even sing the songs yourself and run them through the software known as Vocaloid and have your very own private Pop Star! Many people share their work with the world and many more spend countless hours remixing and rearranging others work. The phenomenon is huge and and the devoted are many. Hatsune Miko (who's name essentially means Future First (or First Future I can't tell). There are countless products with her image that can be found at places like J-List and Play Asia.com, she also has numerous fan made porn both animated and Cosplay.
Crypton has started it's own record label due to the success of Hatsune, with other characters that can be used with the software. None of them are as popular as little First Future Pop Princess, but they're dong a lot better than many flesh and blood stars. The public has long clamored to control the lives of media figures. That's why the paparazzi exist, as an extension of the general populations lust for every aspect of the stars it helped create. Now with an innovative version of the Creative Commons license called "Piapro Character License (PCL)" they can! This is how singularity seeps into our lives (if you believe in that sort of thing). In Japan the Future is here! How long before it washes up on the shores of America and Europe and the rest of the world. The West has already embraced The Gorrillaz which is a 2-D version of the same concept. Although rest assured Damon Albarn's ego won't hide behind that screen much longer. Over the summer Crypton to their creation on a stadium concert tour that sold out every where it went. And the DVDs of the shows sold out even quicker. Begging the question; could a world tour be far behind? Welcome to the future!
Remember the Tampa Bay Monkey,
running wild in Florida entrancing the nation awhile back? Well Japan
has gotten there own version-The Shibuya Monkey! It's running wild in a
busy section of Tokyo terrorizing subway riders and entrancing a nation!
According to LetsJapan;A monkey that has been romping around parts of Tokyo since Aug. 6 could be the monkey that ran through Tokyo's Shibuya station on Aug. 20, 2008. On the morning of August 20, 2008,
a macaque monkey scampered into Shibuya train station in Tokyo.
Police armed with several meters of green netting and carrying hooped
nets surrounded the macaque while it rested on an overhead timetable
display. The monkey eluded capture and darted among commuters before
escaping into the city. News video of the 2008 Shibuya monkey-chase
was broadcast on TV worldwide and posted on TV and newspaper websites.
The first summer of 2010 monkey sightings occurred about 5:50 PM Aug.
4. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department says the monkey was discovered on the roof of a home next to a rice paddy in Nerima Ward.
The same day, the monkey was seen in the same area jumping along
electric power lines, scaling the walls of homes, eating some grapes in
the garden of a house, and loitering in front of an elementary school.
The ape brushed a taxi that was driving down a road in Ikebukuro the
morning of the Aug. 5. There were no injuries.Also on Aug. 5, the
macaque was seen in the vicinity of Ikebukuro station in the morning, and it was watched scampering on a road in Shinmachi, Itabashi Ward in the afternoon. There is speculation this Japanese macaque is a wild macaque that lived in Chichibu and might have followed a river into the urban area.On July 23, the Shibuya monkey posted a message
on twitter: "so sweetly! atsui! matted fur dripping pocari sweat 8:]
see you my go out august! anniversary! this !!! keyboard ! Stinky!!!"
In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey, the monkey will spank us!!
Moving through space and time, revisiting my past, it feels like old times in Atlanta. A far cry from how grown up North Carolina had become. Their still keeping it crunk down in the A at least! When we were kids we believed in a lot of things we have since grown out of. The tides of change have moved us in to a new age. The second decade in the 21st century will be marked with even greater change, even more scientific and technological advances; we are living in the future, our future. We are laying the foundation for future generations as the path was laid for us, it is up to us to decide if we will continue down the dark path of greed and excess or move to a more enlightened self aware state. Are we monsters, or are we more than that? Only time will tell. I have moved across the country and in a few short days I will move back across it. Making this trek twice within a 12 month period is eye opening to say the least.There is an energy a foot two currents that seek to suppress each other, but cannot. They feed off of one another; they push each of us to make decisions each day. Do we hide in fear, and become worse for it, or do we become inspired to strive for a better world.
The Armada exists because humanity has reached a dead-end. Humans are weak and inefficient. Monkees are far superior to humans. Our racism is not against one group or color, we do not hate creed or nationality, and we hate all humans, each and every one. They are the alien usurpers of the earth we fight in defense of. They have mutilated themselves and the planet, trying to chop down our kingdom in the trees. These are but some of the thoughts that populate our minds how are we to overcome, and succeed? How do we face this new epoch with reason and just actions? It is a struggle and conflict which begins internally.We the Armada must be vigilant, our cause is not to propagate failed institutions or continue traditions that no longer serve a purpose. There must be new rites and rituals and new traditions that are more malleable and true to nature.Mankind has long looked to the skies for answer,, but they stared past the trees to the clouds which cannot answer back. Yet the screech of the Howler Monkey can pierce even the deafest ear and bend the will of man to help him understand the price he will pay for defiling the mother earth. It is not our desire to reverse time, one cannot reverse time. We have all ready begun to dance with the machines that man built and forge a Monkee/Robot alliance that will march us in more forward into the future. Soon Russia will send one of us to Mars where we will begin colonization. In Japan we’ve begun to brush our teeth and floss even. One of us recently took a piss on a pathetic faux-lebrity. Our time is now!
