Thx to Zerobot!

Labels: frantic mantis, insect, per stålberg

Until further notice, this blog is on vacation... it deemed to be a good documentation for a certain time period in FM/post-Decahedron musical activities and technological/random musings. The domain name will expire soon... we very well may not renew it unless someone really thinks we should. If you have concerns or questions, you may write us at themindcontrol at gmail dot com. Thank you.

It is also to be noted that any continuation of Frantic Mantis and the previously unreleased recordings of 2006 will be addressed in the band: Man And Wasp. Visit and become a "friend".

/The management

GIANT MANTIS sighting in Atlanta, Georgia by TheFuzzySlug... photo © TheFuzzySlug.

Labels: atlanta, dragon con, frantic mantis

Dream (Mantis Religiousa) 1935 (detail), MC Escher

"These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye." - Rosemarie Fiore


Reblogged from centripetalnotion.com

Labels: video game photography art 8bit

[Pictured, "the band": Axiom MIDI controller, Ableton LIVE (registered copy!), Machinedrum (borrowed from Per)]

Believe it or not, FRANTIC MANTIS, as a musical projects still sort of exists! We (I) were(was) convinced to do a cover song for a LUJO RECORDS compilation where LUJO BANDS cover each-others songs. Well, this is our result... soon for sale on iTunes and stuff like that, but you can enjoy a version on our mYspace page if you'd like. If this continues... then our 80s/90s industrial feathers shall be exposed.

[ FM MYSPACE ]

Labels: ambient music, avant garde krautrock data punk origins, industrial, mp3, nin

Apple spoof site... love the napkin with silly reflection on slick black surface.

[ VISIT iDEA ]

Labels: apple, idea, iphone, spoofs

The tourny was held today in Tokyo, and kids like these put numbers on their favorite beetles, put them in a miniature fighting ring, and made them battle until one prevailed as the ultimate beetle champion of the world.

[ DOWNLOAD FOR IPOD/ITUNES ]

[ DOWNLOAD FOR IPOD/ITUNES ]

By sculptor and animator Stephane Halleux