Category Archives: Nostalgia for Misspent Youth

Another article on the demise of the old EBOM Warehouse @ 144 Cleveland St (Lanfranchi's)

Posted on July 30, 2007 by James McParlane

“One of the Keating! musicians lived in in a warehouse in Sydney’s Cleveland Street known as Lanfranchi’s – so called because the laneway behind it was where, in March 1981, Roger Rogerson shot Warren Lanfranchi in that memorable scene from … Continue reading →

RIP 144 Cleveland Street – The Old EBOM Warehouse

Posted on June 23, 2007 by James McParlane

Sadly the space where I and five other like minded people established the electronic arts space “The Evil Brotherhood Of Mutants”, is being redeveloped. This ends what must be close to 20 years of continuous artspace use. The Evil Brotherhood Of Mutants (EBOM) was … Continue reading →

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Found Some More Old Nanotech Music

Posted on November 12, 2006 by James McParlane

Managed to hunt down some old techno tracks I made in the early 90’s. A.T.O.T.M.O.G (1993).mp3 Go! (Very Silly)_Smurfs On Horse Tranquilisers (1992).mp3

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Real DJs Code Live

Posted on July 6, 2006 by James McParlane

Interesting and cool wired article. How times have changed. I was doing this in the 80’s and 90’s using Amigas and later with PCs. Creating VJ demos and tweaking mod-tracker code between sets while in state of ‘inspiration’ 🙂 Most people … Continue reading →

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"I've Seen The Future, And It's Not Fax-Rock"

Posted on July 6, 2006 by James McParlane

I think this was the best review we ever got. In 1994 – before the internet broke as a story, before the media had made the link between the internet and music, Clan Analogue performed at the Big Day Out in a small … Continue reading →

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The Internet Background Radiation – A Billion Little Virus Tipped Arrows Snuffling For Unarmoured Flesh

Posted on May 23, 2006 by James McParlane

Ever since the mid 90’s when I first started getting unwanted packets arriving on my networks, I’ve been keeping an eye on what has been named the “Internet Background Radiation” (IBR). Analogous to the real world background radiation that constantly zaps through … Continue reading →

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SGI Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – Hopes to Trade Out Of It In 6 Months

Posted on May 12, 2006 by James McParlane

Sad news for the ex-poster-child of everything that was cool about computers and the internet in the 90s. SGI Invented the OpenGL standard, which drove the development of the graphic card industry. That same industry made SGI’s expensive technology obsolete. … Continue reading →

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Old MetaWrap Demo

Posted on January 29, 2006 by James McParlane

Found an an early draft of some concept materials for the original MetaWrap Project “Fish” (1998-2001) that could turn any existing HTML website into an XML data-source by the application of the MetaWrap pattern language. This single XML file recursively defined … Continue reading →

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More Blasts From The Past

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Names wrong on the one below.

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There Is No Problem That Can't Be Solved With Large Enough Hash Table

Posted on December 27, 2005 by James McParlane

I first used this quote when referring to the z-buffering used in ID first person shooter Castle Wolfenstein. While not strictly a hash table, its a philosophy of “the audacity of scale” that I have maintained since my demo coding days. Q: How … Continue reading →

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