The Reignforest Collective presents: Exile
Friday June 18 | 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
Dusty Brown releases new EP | This City is Killing Me.
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Quadron | San Jose | FRI JUN11
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and to get your body movin’ throughout the evening:
XARIUSOUND (REIGNFOREST COLLECTIVE)
GRAMMER (NEWSENSE)
CHATOS 1013 (UNGRAMMAR)
+Live Art (TBA)21+ | 9PM – LATE | ONLY $5 B4 11PM w/ RSVP
Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail
The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan.
According toJAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place. It’s a big step in its attempt to travel driven only by sunlight.
“This is the first sail ever deployed in space, and if they succeed in using it for solar-sail flight — it’ll still be a few weeks before we know that — it’ll be a milestone,” said Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society, an organization dedicated to promoting space exploration, which is readying its own solar-sailing mission.
A solar sail uses the pressure from photons striking its surface to push the spacecraft through space. Materially, the 650 square-foot sail is made of incredibly thin, aluminized plastic that’s only 0.0003 inches thick, a little thicker than spider silk, or about the diameter of a red blood cell. When a photon strikes its surface, it bounces off, imparting its momentum to the sail. Each photon might not deliver much thrust, but over time, all that light adds up.
“The actual force might be just a few millionths of a g, but because it acts continuously, it allows you to build up large velocity changes over time,” Friedman said. “That’s where a sail really does its work is long missions.”
The Japanese sail also has thin-film solar cells built into it. They could be used to generate electricity to drive an engine that would work alongside the sail.
The key difficulty with such a thin and large object is that it’s hard to deploy. “The things we’re watching for are all their dynamical behaviors that you ultimately can’t model and that might cause undue stress on the material,” Friedman said.
In the IKAROS design, the sail was unfurled by using centrifugal force generated by spinning the craft.
Space-travel proponents are particularly interested in the technology because it doesn’t require fuel, which makes it the leading (and basically) only candidate for very long-distance travel.
“It’s the only way we know — that anybody knows — to ultimately do practical interstellar flight because you don’t have to carry your propellant along with you,” Friedman said. “Anything else you do, whether it’s nuclear or advanced engines, you’re always carrying propellant and the mass becomes too great.”
Ode to Illmatic
Fans will have to wait a couple more days for Fashawn’s Ode to Illmatic mixtape. The project, initially set to come out today (June 9) for free download, will now be released this Friday
Listening Lounge f. Fashawn
The Reignforest Collective presents: Fashawn
Friday June 18 | 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
Listening Lounge f. 6Fingers
The Reignforest Collective presents: 6Fingers
Friday June 18 | 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
Listening Lounge f. Topkat
The Reignforest Collective presents: Topkat
Friday June 18 | 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
The Antidote | compiled & produced by The Alchemist
The Antidote – Fashawn
compiled and produced The Alchemist
Download here: Fashawn
Baby I’m Yours
Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (feat. Irfane)
you need someone you can believe in
this i do declare
trust me i’ll be there
the road that leads to heaven can be so steep
i will help you climb
change your state of mind
The Truth | f. One Be Lo of Binary Star + LIVE BAND
Reignforest Collective + TRUE presents:
The Truth
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f. One Be Lo with LIVE BAND at Rock-It Room
Live performances by: Jern Eye, Davinci, Broken Halos, Mandeep Sethi
Turntable Selectors: Boogie Brown, XARIUSOUND, Cedication.Crimes
Hosted by: Ronostalgia, GetLiveRo
Made You Look
GETLIVE.SF presents MADE YOU LOOK PT. 2 ” THE SUNGLASSES PARTY”
Saturday, May 29th, 2010 GETLIVE.SF turns 2 yrs old and we want everyone to rage with us!!!
Once again we are back to our crazy ways. So one night only its ok to rock your SUNGLASSES in the club! Don’t be afraid to think that other people will make fun of you. Put your sunglasses on and rage with us one time. If you have your own sunglasses wear them! If not we will provide some for you.
Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications Initiative
In modern Indian languages it can be equivalent simply to religion, depending on context. The word dharma translates as that which upholds or supports, and is generally translated into English as law.
8 Singles, 8 Weeks
Adult Swim is prepping their own online singles series. Starting this Monday, May 17, the Adult Swim Singles Program will host a brand new track from eight different artists on the network’s website.
The lineup includes: Madvillain, Superwolf (Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney), Washed Out featuring Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek, Black Lips, Freddie Gibbs, Killer Mike, High on Fire, Cults, and the previously released Holy Ghost! remix of LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls”. Brand new music videos for the LCD redo and Cults will also premiere on the site
AM | Freddie Joachim
Mellow Orange (SF) & Organology (LA/SD) present the second installment of instrumental downloads, ‘A.M.’ produced and arranged by Freddie Joachim (Organology).
All Right Reserved
Mellow Orange | Organology 2010
for promotional use only.
Freddie Joachim – ‘Midway’ – full-length album coming Summer 2010 on Mellow Orange (U.S.) and Introducing! (Japan)
Quadron LIVE in San Jose
NewSense in collabo with the good folks @ Mochilla, Reignforest Collective, and Ungrammar present a special and rare performance by…
QUADRON (PLUG RESEARCH LABEL | DENMARK)
w/ special sets by:
THAT GIRL (GROOVE SUITE | PEACHES)
XARIUSOUND (REIGNFOREST COLLECTIVE)
GRAMMER (NEWSENSE)
21+ | 10-LATE | $5 B4 11PM w/ RSVP (grammer.newsense@gmail.com)
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There are some artists and bands that you know are going to make it far in the music world, and Quadron is one group that will do just that….
QUADRON (http://myspace.com/quadron) hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark was born when Robin encountered Coco at the suggestion of a friend. Already a name within Owusu & Hannibal and Boom Clap Bachelors, Robin was ready to continue his collaborations with some new adventures. In the ingénue of Coco he saw a female muse, influenced by Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill, and the group was born.
Robin creates melodies with lush orchestration and deep beats, intellectual and crisp. Coco layers these with her voluptuous timbre, together completing the sound of Quadron. Five years have passed and Coco’s sweet soulful voice now perfectly accents Robin’s instrumental skylines. They are lush, lyrical and sophisticated. Quadron reminds us of the future, creating classics we’ve never heard before, but remember like our hearts knew them yesterday.
After the duo, who are also members of the soul collective Boom Clap Bachelors, enjoyed the accolades of the collective s debut Kort Før Dine Læber (2008); Robin and Coco began work on their own debut recording for Quadron. This lead to the release of their debut, Quadron in Denmark (August 2009). The record found it s way into the hands of Anthony Valdez, a DJ at the influential radio station KCRW. He immediately began playing the record and the rest of the DJ s followed. Since the end of 2009, Quadron has been a constant fixture in KCRW s Top 10 and this led to the duo signing to the Los Angeles label, Plug Research, whose roster includes Bilal, Dntel, Flying Lotus, Daedelus and more.
Robin has already enjoyed a long list of collaborations with the likes of Aloe Blacc, Om mas Keith, Buraka Som Sistema, Wally Badarou (Talking Heads, Level 42), Erick Sermon and others as well as being able to site such notable fans as Pharrell Williams (N.E.R.D.) and James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem). Now, along with Coco, Quadron becomes his next spectacular story!
Reignforest Collective at Good Foot
Conjure up creative communion every Thursday night when music, food, dance and art align in perfect symmetry at SOM. We are proud to offer fresh DJs, delicious food carts and community creativity for FREE! This event is a way to reciprocate the inspiration and support we receive on the daily. The groove is certified and the love is genuine. This week welcome the Reignforest Collective, as they bless us with their creative contributions through art and music in celebration of Rose and A-Rons birthday!
CS5 | Ai, Ps :: HDR
For photographers, Photoshop CS5 now offers next-generation high dynamic range (HDR) capabilities. When combining multiple exposures into a single HDR image, Photoshop CS5 preserves the full tonal range of a scene with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The new HDR Pro offers exceptional ghost artifact removal and greater tone mapping and adjustment control. With HDR toning, users can emulate the striking look of an HDR image with any single-exposure image.
Photoshop CS5 provides revolutionary tools that maximize users’ creative impact. Breakthrough painting capabilities include a Mixer Brush that blends an infinite combination of colors onto a single paintbrush tip, and Bristle Tips that offer lifelike brush strokes. Puppet Warp gives users the power to precisely reposition or warp any image element, such as straightening a bent arm in a photo or manipulating the landscape to generate a new perspective.
“Since its inception, Adobe Photoshop has been a key tool for pre-and post-production work in the motion picture industry,” said Jon Landau, Academy Award winning producer of Avatar and Titanic. “With Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe gives filmmakers new painting, HDR and 3-D tools that will help them push the limits of creativity. Faster performance with cross-platform 64-bit support and tight integration with other Adobe Creative Suite 5 software makes Photoshop CS5 an even more powerful tool in a filmmaker’s arsenal. Photoshop empowers filmmakers and creative professionals in virtually every other industry to turn their imagined ideas into onscreen reality.”
Caviar Black
So far so good. Key benefits of this model over older WD Black drives (except 1TB FAEX) are that this has 500GB platters and dual actuator technology. Larger and multiple platters result in higher read/write speeds due to higher areal density, dual actuator means the drive heads can read data with greater precision and granularity.
Full Line Up for Listening Lounge [series] : FRI JUN 18th
Friday June 18th, catch Fashawn + Exile, Topkat & 6Fingers LIVE ON STAGE @ the Minna Gallery. Also performing will be Keno + DJ Jun performing tracks from new release “Sleeping Giant.” Spinning Truth music all night are Xariusound and Cedication.Crimes.
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