{"id":325,"date":"2015-04-06T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:43:42","slug":"culture-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Culture Crunch: 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generative Software and download by i am the mighty jungulator<\/p>\n<p>A global zeitgeist engine, a crystal ball with a cassandra complex, munching content from multiple channels and pooting out a sickly broth of &#8216;where we&#8217;re at&#8217;. The bastard son of the the online jungulator project &#8211; inspired by the science fiction motif of extra-terrestrial, and super-intelligent beings &#8216;understanding&#8217; humanity through simultaneous viewing of multiple telematic transmissions<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a class=\"fw_link_website\" href=\"http:\/\/hbw.watershed.co.uk\/iatmj\/streaming\/software\/culture_crunch_online_v1mac.zip\">download it here for a mac<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a class=\"fw_link_website\" href=\"http:\/\/hbw.watershed.co.uk\/iatmj\/streaming\/software\/culture_crunch_online_v1pc.zip\">download it here for a\u00a0 pc<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"culture crunch 1\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXVSQ6_tRMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere are the release notes from the time&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>This is something we&#8217;ve been trying to organise since 1999, we almost nailed it in 2003, but in 2006 we had\u00a0the technology and the ideology in place to actually pull it off . . . previously we were held back by bandwidth, modem speed, feet of clay, etc . . .<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, Culture Crunch Online is a little downloadable virtual television set, which sits on your desktop and plays a random stream of found sound, snippets of video, endlessly evolving, but never repeating . . .we were inspired by the recurring sci-fi motif of alien beings learning about earth by watching our TV broadcasts, usually on many screens at once, or as a cumulative montage (like David Bowie&#8217;s character in &#8216;The Man Who Fell to Earth&#8217;, or the aliens in &#8216;Explorers&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>so . . . what you are watching is the world&#8217;s first live generative streaming TV channel . . .\u00a0 whereas our previous attempts at getting this beast online foundered on the rocks of &#8216;not enough money&#8217; this time everything is in place . . . the aim is to give you the user the definitive monged-out post-everything tv channel experience . . . broadcasting from a disturbed near-future a mixture of infotainment, blipverts, beauty and bullshit . . . all juxtaposed accidental comedy, pathos and new meaning.<\/p>\n<p>The first Culture Crunch worked by mashing four randomly chosen bits of footage together like a big omelette, whereas the newer one (below)\u00a0splits the screen into four, and randomly cycles through a folder containing around six thousand snippets of video&#8230;the way we hope to go with this as the site gets fully operational is to throw it open to the public, where anyone if so inclined can upload a bit of sound or video, which is then added to the ongoing generative mix&#8230;kind of like a global zeitgeist jukebox, or if you&#8217;re feeling pretentious, a &#8220;juxtaposition engine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"culture crunch 2\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IId51Ojwg0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative Software and download by i am the mighty jungulator A global zeitgeist engine, a crystal ball with a cassandra complex, munching content from multiple channels and pooting out a sickly broth of &#8216;where we&#8217;re at&#8217;. 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