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While Matrix still gaining traction and is somewhat in flux, Slack slowly dies in a fire (hopefully!), Discord seem to be the most popular IRC of the day, especially in any kind of gaming and non-technical communities.
So it's only fitting to use same familiar IRC clients for the new thing, even though it doesn't officially support it.
Started using it initially via bitlbee and bitlbee-discord, but these don't seem to work well for that - you can't just /list or /join channels, multiple discord guilds aren't handled too well, some useful features like chat history aren't easily available, (surprisingly common) channel renames are constant pain, hard to debug, etc - and worst of all, it just kept loosing my messages, making some conversations very confusing.
Which seem to address all things that annoyed me in bitlbee-discord nicely, as obviously that was the point of implementing whole thing too.
Being a single dependency-light (only aiohttp for discord websockets) python3 script, should be much easier to tweak and test to one's liking.
Quite proud of all debug and logging stuff there in particular, where you can easily get full debug logs from code and full protocol logs of irc, websocket and http traffic at the moment of any issue and understand, find and fix is easily.
Hopefully Matrix will eventually get to be more common, as it - being more open and dev-friendly - seem to have plenty of nice GUI clients, which are probably better fit for all the new features that it has over good old IRC.
There's probably something similar built into any decent reverse-engineering suite or hex editor (though ghex doesn't have one!), but don't use either much, don't want to start either to quickly check mental math, and bet GUI conventions will work against how this should work ideally.
Converts between dec/hex/binary and helps to visualize all three at the same time, as well as how flipping bits or digits affects them all.
These days D-Bus is used in lot of places, on both desktop machines where it started, and servers too, with e.g. systemd APIs all over the place.
Never liked bindings offered for it in python though, as it's an extra half-C lib to worry about, and one that doesn't work too well either (had a lot of problems with it in earlier pulseaudio-mixer-cli script iterations).
Which can be a bit more verbose than dbus-python API, but only needs libsystemd, which is already there on any modern systemd-enabled machine.
It's surprisingly easy to put/parse any amount of arrays, maps or any kind of variant data there, as sd-bus has convention of how each one is serialized to a flat list of values.
For instance, "as" (array of strings) would expect an int count with corresponding number of strings following it, or just NULL for empty array, with no complicated structs or interfaces.
Same thing for maps and variants, where former just have keys/values in a row after element count, and latter is a type string (e.g. "s") followed by value.
Whole function is a libsystemd-only drop-in replacement for a bunch of crappy modules which provide that on top of libdbus.
sd-bus api is relatively new, but really happy that it exists in systemd now, given how systemd itself uses dbus all over the place.
systemd-dashboard - systemd unit/machine APIs.
desktop/notifications/power - udev event desktop notification script.
riet - gets local timezone name via org.freedesktop.timedate1.
For small system scripts in particular, not needing to install any deps except python/systemd (which are always there), is definitely quite a good thing.
EMMS is the best music player out there (at least if you use emacs), as it allows full power and convenience of proper $EDITOR for music playlists and such.
All mpv backends for it that I'm aware of were restarting player binary for every track though, which is simple, good compatibility-wise, but also suboptimal in many ways.
For one thing, stuff like audio visualization is pita if it's in a constantly created/destroyed transient window, it adds significant gaps between played tracks (gapless+crossfade? forget it!), and - more due to why player starts/exit (know when playback ends) - feedback/control over it are very limited, since clearly no good APIs are used there, if wrapper relies on process exit as "playback ended" event.
Rewritten emms-player-mpv.el (also in "mpv-json-ipc" branch of emms git atm) fixes all that.
What's curious is that I didn't see almost all of these interesting use-cases, which using the tool in the sane way allows for, and only wrote new wrapper to get nice "playback position" feedback and out of petty pedantry over how lazy simple implementation seem to be.
Having separate persistent player window allows OSD config or lua to display any kind of metadata or infographics (with full power of lua + mpv + ffmpeg) about current tracks or playlist stuff there (esp. for online streams), enables subs/lyrics display, and getting stream of metadata update events from mpv allows to update any "now playing" meta stuff in emacs/emms too.
What seemed like a petty and almost pointless project to have fun with lisp, turned out to be actually useful, which seem to often be the case once you take a deep-dive into things, and not just blindly assume stuff about them (fire hot, water wet, etc).
Hopefully might get merged upstream after EMMS 5.0 and get a few more features and interesting uses like that along the way.
It's been a mystery to me for a while how X terminal emulators (from xterm to Terminology) manage to copy long bits of strings spanning multiple lines without actually splitting them with \n chars, given that there's always something like "screen" or "tmux" or even "mosh" running in there.
All these use ncurses which shouldn't output "long lines of text" but rather knows width/height of a terminal and flips specific characters there when last output differs from its internal "how it should be" state/buffer.
Regardless of how this works, terminals definitely get confused sometimes, making copy-paste of long paths and commands from them into a minefield, where you never know if it'll insert full path/command or just run random parts of it instead by emitting newlines here and there.
Easy fix: bind a key combo in a WM to always "copy stuff as a single line".
Bonus points - also strip spaces from start/end, demanding no select-precision.
Even better - have it expose result as both primary and clipboard, to paste anywhere.
For a while used a trivial bash script for that, which did "xclip -in" from primary selection, some string-mangling in bash and two "xclip -out" to put result back into primary and clipboard.
It's a surprisingly difficult and suboptimal task for bash though, as - to my knowledge - you can't even replace \n chars in it without running something like "tr" or "sed".
And running xclip itself a few times is bad enough, but with a few extra binaries and under CPU load, such "clipboard keys" become unreliable due to lag from that script.
Hence finally got fed up by it and rewritten whole thing in C as a small and fast 300-liner exclip tool, largely based on xclip code.
Found something like it bound to a key (e.g. Win+V for verbatim copy, and variants like Win+Shift+V for stripping spaces/newlines) to be super-useful when using terminals and text-based apps, apps that mix primary/clipboard selections, etc - all without needing to touch the mouse.
Tool is still non-trivial due to how selections and interaction with X work - code has to be event-based, negotiate content type that it wants to get, can have large buffers sent in incremental events, and then have to hold these (in a forked subprocess) and negotiate sending to other apps - i.e. not just stuff N bytes from buffer somewhere server-side and exit ("cut buffers" can work like that in X, but limited and never used).
Looking at all these was a really fun dive into how such deceptively-simple (but ancient and not in fact simple at all) things like "clipboard" work.
E.g. consider how one'd hold/send/expose stuff from huge GIMP image selection and paste it into an entirely different app (xclip -out -t TARGETS can give a hint), especially with X11 and its network transparency.
Though then again, maybe humble string manipulation in C is just as fascinating, given all the pointer juggling and tricks one'd usually have to do for that.
It's one thing that's non-trivial to get right with simple scripts.
I.e. how to check address on an interface? How to wait for it to be assigned? How to check gateway address? Etc.
Has easily-accessible list of interfaces and a MAC for each in e.g. /sys/class/net/enp1s0/address (useful as a machine id sometimes).
Pros: easy/reliable to access from any scripts.
Cons: very little useful info there.
As systemd-networkd is a common go-to network management tool these days, this one complements it very nicely.
Allows to wait until some specific interface(s) (or all of them) get fully setup, has built-in timeout option too.
E.g. just run systemd-networkd-wait-online -i enp1s0 from any script or even ExecStartPre= of a unit file and you have it waiting for net to be available reliably, no need to check for specific IP or other details.
Pros: super-easy to use from anywhere, even ExecStartPre= of unit files.
Cons: for one very specific (but very common) all-or-nothing use-case.
Doesn't always work for interfaces that need complicated setup by an extra daemon, e.g. wifi, batman-adv or some tunnels.
Also, undocumented caveat: use ExecStartPre=-/.../systemd-networkd-wait-online ... ("=-" is the important bit) for anything that should start regardless of network issues, as thing can exit with non-0 sometimes when there's no network for a while (which does look like a bug, and might be fixed in future versions).
Update 2019-01-12: systemd-networkd 236+ also has RequiredForOnline=, which allows to configure which ifaces global network.target should wait for right in the .network files, if tracking only one state is enough.
If iproute2 is recent enough (4.13.0-4.14.0 and above), then GOOD NEWS!
ip-address and ip-link there have -json output.
Parsing ip -json addr or ip -json link output is trivial anywhere except for sh scripts, so it's a very good option if required parts of "ip" are jsonified already.
Pros: easy to parse, will be available everywhere in the near future.
Cons: still very recent, so quite patchy and not ubiquitous yet, not for sh scripts.
Explicitly discouraged by iproute2 docs and a really hacky solution.
Such outputs there are quirky, don't line-up nicely, and clearly not made for this purpose, plus can break at any point, as suggested by the docs repeatedly.
&& ip link set $$dev mtu 1280"
That's example of how ugly it can get with events though - two extra checks around ip-monitor are there for a reason (easy to miss event otherwise).
"ip -brief" output is somewhat of an exception, more suitable for sh scripts, but only works for ip-address and ip-link parts and still mixes-up columns occasionally (e.g. ip -br link for tun interfaces).
Pros: allows to access all net parameters and monitor events, easier for sh than json.
Cons: gets ugly fast, hard to get right, brittle and explicitly discouraged.
E.g. NetworkManager has nice-ish DBus API (see two polkit rules/pkla snippets here for how to enable it for regular users), same for wpa_supplicant/hostapd (see wifi-client-match or wpa-systemd-wrapper scripts), dhcpcd has hooks.
systemd-networkd will probably get DBus API too at some point in the near future, beyond simple up/down one that systemd-networkd-wait-online already uses.
Pros: best place to get such info from, can allow some configuration.
Cons: not always there, can be somewhat limited or hard to access.
Especially for python and such, there's plenty of tools like pyroute2 and netifaces, with occasional things making it into stdlib - e.g. socket.if_* calls (py 3.3+) or ipaddress module (py 3.3+).
Can make things easier in larger projects, where dragging along a bunch of few extra third-party modules isn't too much of a hassle.
Not a great option for drop-in self-contained scripts though, regardless of how good python packaging gets.
Pros: there's a module/lib for everything.
Cons: extra dependencies, with all the api/packaging/breakage/security hassle.
Same python has ctypes, so why bother with all the heavy/fragile deps and crap, when it can use libc API directly?
Tend to use this as a drop-in boilerplate/snippet in python scripts that need IP address info, instead of adding extra deps - libc API should be way more stable/reliable than these anyway.
Same can be done in any other full-featured scripts, of course, not just python, but bash scripts are sorely out of luck.
Pros: first-hand address info, stable/reliable/efficient, no extra deps.
Cons: not for 10-liner sh scripts, not much info, bunch of boilerplate code.
libc.getifaddrs() doesn't provide much info beyond very basic ip/mac addrs and iface indexes, and the rest should be fetched from kernel via netlink sockets.
break # MNL_CB_OK for NLM_F_REQUEST, don't use with NLM_F_DUMP!!!
This specific boilerplate will fetch the gateway IP address to 8.8.8.8 (i.e. to the internet), used it in systemd-watchdog script recently.
Pros: can do absolutely anything, directly, stable/reliable/efficient, no extra deps.
Cons: definitely not for 10-liner sh scripts, boilerplate code.
iproute2 with -json output flag should be good enough for most cases where systemd-networkd-wait-online is not sufficient, esp. if more commands there (like ip-route and ip-monitor) will support it in the future (thanks to Julien Fortin and all other people working on this!).
For more advanced needs, it's usually best to query/control whatever network management daemon or go to libc/libmnl directly.
Bumped into this issue when running latest mainline kernel (4.13) on ODROID-C2 - default fb console for HDMI output have to be configured differently there (and also needs a dtb patch to hook it up).
Old vendor kernels for that have/use a bunch of cmdline options for HDMI - hdmimode, hdmitx (cecconfig), vout (hdmi/dvi/auto), overscan_*, etc - all custom and non-mainline.
With mainline DRM (as in Direct Rendering Manager) and framebuffer modules, video= option seem to be the way to set/force specific output and resolution instead.
When display is connected on boot, it can work without that if stars align correctly, but that's not always the case as it turns out - only 1 out of 3 worked that way.
But even if display works on boot, plugging HDMI after boot never works anyway, and that's the most (only) useful thing for it (debug issues, see logs or kernel panic backtrace there, etc)!
DRM module (meson_dw_hdmi in case of C2) has its HDMI output info in /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/, which is where one can check on connected display, dump its EDID blob (info, supported modes), etc.
More info on this spec is in Documentation/fb/modedb.txt, but the gist is "<ouput>:<WxH>@<rate><flags>" with "e" flag at the end is "force the display to be enabled", to avoid all that hotplug jank.
Should set mode for console (see e.g. fbset --info), but at least with meson_dw_hdmi this is insufficient, which it's happy to tell why when loading with extra drm.debug=0xf cmdline option - doesn't have any supported modes, returns MODE_BAD for all non-CEA-861 modes that are default in fb-modedb.
Such modelines are usually supplied from EDID blobs by the display, but if there isn't one connected, blob should be loaded from somewhere else (and iirc there are ways to define these via cmdline).
Not very straightforward, and doesn't seem to be documented in one place anywhere with examples (ArchWiki page on KMS probably comes closest).
Running Wireless AP on linux is pretty much always done through handy hostapd tool, which sets the necessary driver parameters and handles authentication and key management aspects of an infrastructure mode access point operation.
Its configuration file has plenty of options, which get initialized to a rather conserative defaults, resulting in suboptimal bendwidth with anything from this decade, e.g. 802.11n or 802.11ac cards/dongles.
Furthermore, it seem to assume decent amount of familiarity with IEEE standards on WiFi protocols, which are mostly paywalled (though can easily be pirated ofc, just use google).
Specifically, channel selection for VHT (802.11ac) there is a bit of a nightmare, as hostapd code not only has (undocumented afaict) whitelist for these, but also needs more than one parameter to set them.
I'm not an expert on wireless links and wifi specifically, just had to setup one recently (and even then, without going into STBC, Beamforming and such), so don't take this info as some kind of authoritative "how it must be done" guide - just my 2c and nothing more.
There, important bits are obviously stuff at the top - ssid and wpa_passphrase.
But also country_code, as it will apply all kinds of restrictions on 5G channels that one can use.
ieee80211d/ieee80211h are related to these country_code restrictions, and are probably necessary for some places and when/if DFS (dynamic frequency selection) is used, but more on that later.
If that config doesn't work (started with e.g. hostapd myap.conf), and not just due to some channel conflict or regulatory domain (i.e. country_code) error, probably worth running hostapd command with -d option and seeing where it fails exactly, though most likely after nl80211: Set freq ... (ht_enabled=1, vht_enabled=1, bandwidth=..., cf1=..., cf2=...) log line (and list of options following it), with some "Failed to set X: Invalid argument" error from kernel driver.
When that's the case, if it's not just bogus channel (see below), probably worth to stop right here and see why driver rejects this basic stuff - could be that it doesn't actually supports running AP and/or VHT mode (esp. for proprietary ones) or something, which should obviously be addressed first.
160 MHz or 80+80 MHz (two non-contiguous 80MHz chans) - moar!!!
Most notably, 802.11ac requires to support only up to 80MHz-wide chans, with 160 and 80+80 being optional, so pretty much guaranteed to be not supported by 95% of cheap-ish dongles, even if they advertise "full 802.11ac support!", "USB 3.0!!!" or whatever - forget it.
"vht_oper_chwidth" parameter sets channel width to use, so "vht_oper_chwidth=1" (80 MHz) is probably safe choice for ac here.
Unless ACS - Automatic Channel Selection - is being used (which is maybe a good idea, but not described here at all), both "channel" and "vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx" parameters must be set (and also "vht_oper_centr_freq_seg1_idx" for 80+80 vht_oper_chwidth=3 mode).
"vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx" is "dot11CurrentChannelCenterFrequencyIndex0" from 802.11ac-2013.pdf (22.3.7.3 on page 248 and 22.3.14 on page 296), while "channel" option is "dot11CurrentPrimaryChannel".
Furthermore, picking anything but 36/42 and 149/155 is probably restricted by DFS and/or driver, and if you have any other 5G APs around, can also be restricted by conflicts with these, as detected/reported by hostapd on start.
Which is kinda crazy - you've got your fancy 802.11ac hardware and maybe can't even use it because hostapd refuses to use any channels if there's other 5G AP or two around.
BSS conflicts (with other APs) are detected on start only and are easy to patch-out with hostapd-2.6-no-bss-conflicts.patch - just 4 lines to hw_features.c and hw_features_common.c there, should be trivial to adopt for any newer hostpad version.
crda patch is needed to disable signature check on loaded db.txt file, and alternatively different public key can be used there, but it's less hassle this way.
Note that using DFS/no-IR-marked frequencies with these patches is probably breaking the law, though no idea if and where these are actually enforced.
Also, if crda/regdb is not installed or country_code not picked, "00" regulatory domain is used by the kernel, which is the most restrictive subset (to be ok to use anywhere), and is probably never a good idea.
All these tweaks combined should already provide ~300 Mbits/s (half-duplex) on a single 80 MHz channel (any from the lists above).
Beyond that, I think "vht_capab" set should be tweaked to enable STBC/LDPC (space-time block coding) capabilities - i.e. using multiple RX/TX antennas - which are all disabled by default, and beamforming stuff.
These are all documented in hostapd.conf, but dongles and/or rtl8812au driver I've been using didn't have support for any of that, so didn't go there myself.
There's also bunch of wmm_* and tx_queue_* parameters, which seem to be for QoS (prioritizing some packets over others when at 100% capacity). Tinkering with these doesn't affect iperf3 resutls obviously, and maybe should be done in linux QoS subsystem ("tc" tool) instead anyway. Plenty of snippets for tweaking them are available on mailing lists and such, but should probably be adjusted for specific traffic/setup.
One last important bandwidth optimization for both AP and any clients (stations) is disabling all the power saving stuff with iw dev wlan0 set power_save off.
Failing to do that can completely wreck performance, and can usually be done via kernel module parameter in /etc/modprobe.d/ instead of running "iw".
No patches or extra configuration for wpa_supplicant (tool for infra-mode "station" client) are necessary - it will connect just fine to anything and pick whatever is advertised, if hw supports all that stuff.
Got to reading short stories in Column Reader from laptop screen before sleep recently, and for an extra-lazy points, don't want to drag my hand to keyboard to flip pages (or columns, as the case might be).
Easy fix - get any input device and bind stuff there to keys you'd normally use.
As it happens, had Xbox 360 controller around for that.
Hard part is figuring out how to properly do it all in Xorg - need to build xf86-input-joystick first (somehow not in Arch core), then figure out how to make it act like a dumb event source, not some mouse emulator, and then stuff like xev and xbindkeys will probably help.
This is way more complicated than it needs to be, and gets even more so when you factor-in all the Xorg driver quirks, xev's somewhat cryptic nature (modifier maps, keysyms, etc), fact that xbindkeys can't actually do "press key" actions (have to use stuff like xdotool for that), etc.
All the while reading these events from linux itself is as trivial as evtest /dev/input/event11 (or for event in dev.read_loop(): ...) and sending them back is just ui.write(e.EV_KEY, e.BTN_RIGHT, 1) via uinput device.
Hence whole binding thing can be done by a tiny python loop that'd read events from whatever specified evdev and write corresponding (desired) keys to uinput.
So instead of +1 pre-naptime story, hacked together a script to do just that - evdev-to-xev (python3/asyncio) - which reads mappings from simple YAML and runs the loop.
(see also less /proc/bus/input/devices and evtest /dev/input/event11).
Running the thing with no config will print example one with comments/descriptions.
Given how all iterations of X had to work with whatever input they had at the time, plus not just on linux, even when evdev was around, hard to blame it for having a bit of complexity on top of way simplier input layer underneath.
In linux, aforementioned Xbox 360 gamepad is supported by "xpad" module (so that you'd get evdev node for it), and /dev/uinput for simulating arbitrary evdev stuff is "uinput" module.
Script itself needs python3 and python-evdev, plus evtest can be useful.
No need for any extra Xorg drivers beyond standard evdev.
Honestly didn't think NAT'ing traffic from "lo" interface was even possible, because traffic to host's own IP doesn't go through *ROUTING chains with iptables, and never used "-j DNAT" with OUTPUT, which apparently works there as well.
And then also, according to e.g. Netfilter-packet-flow.svg, unlike with nat-prerouting, nat-output goes after routing decision was made, so no point mangling IPs there, right?
Note the bizarre oifname lo ip saddr $own-ip ip daddr $own-ip thing.
One weird quirk - if "in" (arbitrary name, nat+input hook is the important bit) chain isn't defined, dnat will only work one-way, not rewriting IPs in response packets.
One explaination wrt routing decision here might be arbitrary priorities that nftables allows to set for hooks (and -160 is before iptables mangle stuff).


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"I don't think The Pixies will ever play together again as a band...A reunion gig? It doesn't seem right or something. It seems wrong, so I would say probably we won't do that. I don't know, it just doesn't seem like the thing to do."
Hello again, and welcome - this time for real - to our new server. While we thought we had moved back in November, all that had happened was the files and databases had been copied across. A miscommunication led me to believe that the DNS had been updated so people looking for FB.Net were brought to the new server, but no, it was still pointed at the old one. We went along blissfully until quite recently, when discrepancies started cropping up. And then the move was made for real.
It's taken a bit of time, but most of the site is back and operational. Unfortunately, the heart and soul, our forum, is still suffering from some severe database problems. Not only are recent posts lost, but the ability to post new topics is non-existent for the time being. To avoid further complicating the problem, the forum is closed until we can find a solution. I apologize for the unheard of downtime and hope that it will all be resolved soon, if not for my sanity then for your convenience.
Meanwhile, all the best to everyone in the new year, and you will see us again.
Just a quick note that after a 20-hour straight session on the internet and a 30% reduction in hair, the FrankBlack.Net forum is back. There are still a few kinks and twists perhaps (please let us know if you encounter any), but for the most part everything appears functional. Unfortunately, some conversation has been lost, but we'll make up for that in no time I'm sure. Thank-you for your well wishes and patience, we'll see you on the forums!
"Black Francis payed a Pre-core set outside St Stephens Green Park gates just after 5pm Feb 9th. He had to play outside as park closes at 5pm. Just Frank and acoustic guitar.
"I was very close to him and it was amazing ... Quite a large crowd present and Frank was taken away in a police car afterward for 'safety' reasons! Read the NME report here.
The setlist was mostly Pixies material, perhaps to compensate for an absence of Pixies songs in the show later that evening. A complete list of all precore locations (some with drinks after!) are posted on Black Francis' official site forum.
Those wishing to get a little bit of Black Francis in but unable to make the show may be interested in checking out Frank Black live on BBC 6 Music's Nemone show, Wednesday Feb. 13 from 1-4PM GMT.
Oh, the humanity! Dean and Brian are back in what must be the most-difficult-to-produce podcast of our generation, Podcast 30 of the FrankBlack.Net Podcast. But who cares?! What's more important is that you can now download/buy/etc SVN FNGRS , the new Black Francis release direct from eMusic. Whatsmore, you can download it free as well as the new Seus EP (see below) and a few other tracks to boot if you sign up by clicking on the album art on the left. Not up on the download? You will notice, as well, that the physical disc is available at FrankBlack.Net Store for your pre-ordering pleasure. Whatsmore, the album comes to a local record shop near you on April 15th of this year, and, from all reports, is an exciting addition to the rapidly burgeoning Black Francis catalogue. You can, of course, hear a track from the record on the new podcast.
Oh yeah, the podcast. Recorded over the expansive oceans between New Jersey and New South Wales, edited in Singapore, and uploaded in Malaysia, it is finally ready for consumption the world over. In it? Well, you'll have to check it out and see, but it is our first enhanced podcast to date. This means that finally, finally, you can skip past endless banter and jump right to the song. We like to hope you'll just use it to get to replay your favourite parts of the podcast, but hey, we're realists. You can find the podcast here.
Back to Frank Black Francis discussion (of which there is plenty, by the way, in the new podcast), the mini-LP version of SVN FNGRS has been available for approximately a month in most places. One of the songs on there is called The Seus, a song which, as Mr. Francis puts it, "chronicles his travels as a young man from his home to Athens where his father is. He's come to claim his rightful place next to his father so he has to pass by the six entryways to the netherworld and he has to fight all these thieves, I didn't get to hit all six entries though, because I ran out of time!" You can get this song remixed by Charles Norman, Bloc Party, and Infadeles on a released-yesterday Seus EP. Grab it from eMusic here .
There's so much news that it is daunting to sit and write a news report, but here's something else that stuck out as fascinating. For all the budding videographers the internet has revealed, The Bureau, the faceless behind-the-scenes entity controlling the Black Francis world, has put out the call for treatments for the song When They Come to Murder Me.
"We would like to invite fans to submit treatments for a music video for the song WHEN THEY COME TO MURDER ME from Black Francis' SVN FNGRS mini LP. We can't offer cash for the ideas, but we will fully credit our winner and send them some cool stuff from The Bureau. Please note that that the video clip will be shot guerilla style (like the recent I SENT AWAY video) so keep your ideas in this DIY realm so that we can fully realize your artistic vision! Email treatments to info@blackfrancis.net. There is no deadline, per se, but we'll let you know when we have a winner."
Oh, there's more news, so much more, but that's enough for one round, don't you think? We'll leave you to grab the news albums, EPs, and podcast coming your way at an incredible pace. Don't forget to discuss on our forum and on BlackFrancis.Net.
Violet sends us word that the newest addition to the Frank Black clan has arrived! Jude Oliver Francis Thompson was born May 1st just in time for lunch; he takes his place in the clan as the fifth, after Julian, Annabelle, Jack, and Lucy.
Jude was born 6 pounds 14 ounces, 1'8", and at the Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, Oregon. The hospital keeps baby birth announcements and trivia on its site, and Jude Oliver's can be viewed by clicking on the photo above. Violet and baby Jude are doing fine.
Congratulations to Violet and Charles from all of us here at FrankBlack.Net!
Rumours have been bouncing around on the FrankBlack.Net Forum like a pinball in a rock polisher. Black Francis Opening for Stone Temple Pilots, a barrage of shows in June/July, a fundraising show in Portland, the list goes on and on. Well, we decided it was time to get to the bottom of it. We asked a birdie, who was in turn swallowed whole by the Show Me Your Tears cat, which went to its owner who called a friend that knows somebody, and that somebody's cousin sent us some interesting news indeed, though tentative and subject to change, you heard it here first.
Black Francis will indeed be on tour this summer. This June and July, he will be spending about two weeks touring with the Stone Temple Pilots, interspersing a few solo shows in the mix. I would like to draw special attention to the show on June 12, a show in Portland, OR, to help Duane Jarvis raise funds in his battle with cancer. Details here. If you can't make the show but would like to donate anyway via Paypal, please click here. On behalf of FrankBlack.Net, I would like to wish Duane a speedy recovery.
Again, this is all tenative but comes from a fairly likely source whom, on pain of death, cannot be revealed. Dates will be added to our tour page when they have become official. Stay tuned to our news page as we will be releasing small clips of very exciting news throughout the week!
If you've been counting, you might be thinking, "Sure, eight fingers are great, but what about the other two?" You've played SVN FNGRS until they were each of them Bluefingers and like any rabid fan you still want more. Well, good!
Coming very soon to the BlackFrancis.Net website, in fact it should be out in the next week or two, a USB drive of some BF music should be available from BF.Net only. The Jump drive will contain a live show from Hotel Utah in San Francisco on Oct 19, 2007. Thirty live tracks await. The setlist from the show, in no particular order (thanks moksha23x) is: I Burn Today, Bluefinger, Velouria, Angels Come to Comfort You, Wave of Mutilation, All My Ghosts, Test Pilot Blues, Sister Isabelle*, Cactus, Sir Rockaby, Headache, Space is Gonna Do Me Good, Brackish Boy, I'll Be Blue, She Took All The Money, Your Mouth Into Mine, Bullet, Massif Centrale, Horrible Day, Manitoba, Holiday Song, Nimrod's Son, Tight Black Rubber, The Water, and Deadman's Curve.
And speaking of live web exclusives, BlackFrancis.Net will also be releasing a live disc from his 2007 European tour later this year. No word yet as to which show or a tracklisting, but for those who missed the European tour, this should be a hot ticket indeed.
As for the Golem soundtrack, a score written by Black Francis to an old silent film, details are still coming about its release but it seems likely that it will be towards the end of this year and the beginning of the next. It has received lots of critical acclaim and was produced by EDF, so this too is hotly anticipated. It will most likely be an official release rather than a web-only exclusive.
Finally, what you've all been waiting for: Grand Duchy. A release date is still in the works, but we do have confirmation that "Grand Duchy IS coming out this year". Specifics are yet to come, but you'll be sure to find them here when available. All indications are that this release will come before Golem, but as always on in-progress news of this sort, it is subject to change.
All said and done, it should be an interesting second half of 2008 for Frank Black Francis fans the world over. Two live albums and two new 'fingers' to add to the Black Francis catalogue. Toes soon to follow.
* Sister Isabelle is a cover of a Del Shannon song and may not be included.
Good news for those with both feet firmly in the digital world: loudQUIETloud, the somewhat controversial documentary on the Pixies reunion and cast of characters has now been released by New Video on iTunes. So you can grab it, download it, and never lay a finger on your DVD drive's eject button much less venture to several stores attempting to find it. Unfortunately, it is (for the time) only available in the US, but American Pixies fans can pick it up here.
For those outside America, say Canada or Australia, there is other news. Dates are starting to trickle in for upcoming Black Francis shows in both coutnries and can be expected to continue in the coming days and weeks. Keep a firm eye on our Tour Page for the latest in confirmed shows and dates.
Lots of news from the man himself, via his BlackFrancis.net website!
First of all, the USB drives of the Black Francis gig at the Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco, CA from October 2007 are now available in the Black Francis webstore. The drive contains 30 tracks, ranging from FBF's entire career - be sure to pick this one up. And while you're at it, why not grab a new SVN FNGRS shirt!
We also have learned that Eric Drew Feldman is finishing up a number of mixes on various versions of the score to Der Golem that BF and company debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival a few months back. Plus, BF was kind enough to grace our sister site, Blackolero!, with the first exclusive tune from Der Golem: Bad News! Go to Blackolero to hear the track, and we hope the rest of this album reaches our grubby little hands sooner rather than later!
We have also confirmed that the Grand Duchy CD release will be happening in 2008 and the band is already gearing up to start its second record (as well as contribute a track to an upcoming tribute to The Cure). Also of note: BF is in the studio this week with Pete Yorn - whether this is for a future Yorn or Francis release is yet to be announced.
Plus, we have received a few more tour dates for BF's tour down under - however, we are still waiting for the US full-band tour dates for the fall - as soon as we hear something, we will let you know. Finally - good news for fans of the Catholics! The long-rumored FB &The C's boxed set appears to be happening! We, the fans, have been asked to send in any live photos we have for potential inclusion - so scour your hard drives, closets and photo albums for all those amateur shots of Frank, Dave, Rich, Scott, Dave, Eric and Lyle and send them over via the Black Francis website.
For all the skinny, check out BlackFrancis.net and as always, stayed tuned to FrankBlack.net.
With Brian safely married and Dean in one piece and now back in Canada, there was little for them to do but get back to work on FrankBlack.Net. After some serious work on the forum's core, turning over the keys of the Discopedia to forum member Coastline, passing along tour date management to Franktaper, and most recently our tab section to Lonsesome Fetter, it was finally time to get back to one of our favourite features: The FrankBlack.Net Podcast!
This podcast is our first attempt at including video, specifically an excellent video by forum member moksha32x for the Svn Fngrs song Half Man. As well, it gave us the chance to include small song tidbits and trivia while the song was playing but for the most part, this is still the old audio program you've come to know and love. Haven't you? What?? Not subscribed? Well, visit our Podcast Page and you will find convenient buttons to add us to your iTunes or other popular podcast platforms. You will be treated to exclusive and rare tracks, interviews, hand-selected live performances, and more. Oh yeah, and it's free.
In addition to the new podcast, we are going to make a more concerted effort to bring news here and not just on the forum, where most of our news breaks. You can expect more regular news every few weeks. So while you're busy subscribing to the podcast, you might as well as the FrankBlack.Net News Feed to your favourite news reader or aggregator. And don't forget that lots of our news comes from you, the fans. If you have some news or rumour, please pass it along in our recently revamped news submission page (and again, please note that this is not in anyway a link to Frank Black, the Pixies, or his management).
Finally, we would like to thank a few people for their past help with our site and the overall Frank Black online project. Firstly, our French friends over at the excellent Blackolero (link to site translated in English by Google) for keeping up with the news in our absence and doing some excellent features including a recent 3-part interview with Violet Clark. Secondly, to Tre, who put in a lot of tireless hours working on our Discopedia and moderating the forums on her own for far too long. Thirdly, another nod to the French, Denis for all the years keeping Frank Black's tour schedule up to date and accurate here. And finally, to Derek Olson for his long-time efforts first as ratbert and then ProverbialCereal keeping up with Frank Black in our tab section.
But now we have a new wave of volunteers (we can always use more) and a new era of Frank Black under the moniker of Black Francis, and we are now formally ushering the site into its third era just as the podcast reaches its third season. Suggestions are, as always, welcome, and we look forward to many more years of Frank Black Francis fanaticism.
Frank Black Francis is on tour in Australia at the moment, the first time in a very loooong time without the Pixies. At this very instant, the lucky people of Perth are showering, getting ready, and cranking out their favourite FBF tunes in preparation for a show there tonight.
And woe, what shall become of the rest of the planet? Well, we can tune into RTR FM's pretty cool interview with the man of the hour on the internet on the Breakfast with Barr Show. He talks about beach balls, stage patter, the Pixies ("c'est fini" for those holding on to hope from rumour-monger NME), and more.
Thanks to Avram (enjoy the show, buddy!) for pointing this out and stay tuned in a few days for the second installment of our third season of the FrankBlack.Net Podcast.
Looking to hear something from Frank Black you've never heard before? Well, I bet you've never heard this. In fact, nobody had but a select few up until this evening. Black Francis is 'featured' (according to the credits) with Violet Clark (who is not credited) on the recent Brownies episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! with singing the Brownie Mountain song. And it is, if painfully short, surely worthy of the 'awesome' moniker. And, most importantly patient reader, you can watch it here!
Both FB and Violet are, "big fans of comedians TIM AND ERIC. We were honored to be vocalists at the end of [this last] episode," says Black Francis, fresh from a blistering gig in Perth, Australia which early reports are just beginning to trickle in from. Old standbys like Calistan, Horrible Day, and newer tracks from Svn Fngrs, most of Bluefinger, and even Gary Green's Burnt Out Rock and Roll are making appearances on tour and FB is performing a solo acoustic set before the full band emerges. And pulling out an old trick, he even took crowd requests for a major or minor key.
Black Francis and band are hopping in a rather random fashion all over Australia for the next few days, with an appearance in Adelaide tomorrow, Brisbane, Melbourne, and finally Sydney before returning home to get Grand Duchy and the Der Golem soundtracks out the door. If you have the chance to see him in Australia, this is highly recommended. If not, well, check out the Tim and Eric show and obsess about absentee desserts.
After tuning in, make sure to visit the Podcast Season 3 thread over in our forum and let us know what you think!
At long last, after a year of wonder and wait, we at FrankBlack.Net have received a report from a very reliable - but sworn to anonymity - source. Grand Duchy, at least for the moment, is to be handed from FB and Violet to you on February 1st of next year. Yes, in four months, you'll have Grand Duchy spinning in your player. And, though our source was mum on the topic, Der Golem may well be in your hands by then, too.
That's it from the underground for the moment, but stay tuned for more news we anticipate in the coming weeks.
As you may remember, Grand Duchy - the Frank Black/Violet Clark project that is currently drawing a lot of attention - was slotted to do a cover for the American Laundromat Records' Cure Tribute disc entitled "Just Like Heaven". Well, the cover is blown and out there on the internet along with the rest of the disc, available for your streaming pleasure. Just select the Grand Duchy track, A Strange Day, after you click here.
The track, which is a collaboration between Frank Black and Violet (and nobody else) features some excellent vocals from Violet, a healthy dose of synth, a driving bass line, and of course some nice guitar work. You can listen to the entire album, including the title track from Joy Zipper, and a cover of "The Lovecats" from Tanya Donelly.
As for the album itself, it hits the streets January 27, 2009, but if you preorder you can get an advance copy at a special price and receive it "in time for the holidays" complete with bonus track, promo pin, and a chance to win an FB/Violet autograph on your disc for the pretty great price of $10. And no, we are not in anyway profiting from this particular piece of news, but we know a good deal when we see it.
So get your next dose of Grand Duchy and Cure (you see what we did there?) your anxiety as you await the February release of "Le Petit Fours", the first Grand Duchy album.
Lots of little news tidbits have been trickling in over the past few days, so let's get right to it.
According to BlackFrancis.net, there will be a box-set release of Der Golem! Whether this will be the only format the record is released in, or if there will be a single-disc version remains to be seen. However, we can safely say that the box set will include some sort of document from the screening live performance at the Castro Theater during the San Francisco Film Festival from earlier this year.
Also from BlackFrancis.net, the video for "When They Come to Murder Me" will be released sometime before the end of the year. The video's concept was fan-submitted, so it should be interesting to see what our fellow fan came up with!
Finally, exclusive to Podcast 33 (just released), we have some information about the upcoming Black Francis/Isaac Brock/Larry Norman/Guards of Metropolis collaboration. Trouble is a Lonesome Town, a 1962 album by Lee Hazelwood, has been recreated by the aforementioned cast of characters and is almost complete! Charles Normal, brother of Larry Norman, guitarist in Guards of Metropolis, and guest on Podcast 33, tells us that only one more vocal needs to be recorded, and that we should see the record out in February or March on Slackertone records.
Stay tuned, as always, for all the news that's fit to put into an RSS feed, here at FrankBlack.net.
First of all, we apologize for the delay of Podcast 34 - but we promise it will be worth the wait! We will unveil our delayed Halloween episode on November 15th - it is so good it is SCARY!
Also, friend of the site, Ben Sisario, author of the book Doolittle in the 33 1/3 series writes a fantastic blog called Crimes Against Music. This past week, he wrote a great, hilarious article called "Exposed! The Real Frank Black" - we suggest you check it out!
We will be back with more news soon - including (we hope) a Golem update and, as we approach the Feburary release date of the debut Grand Duchy album, we will do our best to bring you all the pertinent news!


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import Adapter from 'enzyme-adapter-react-16';

import {
  mountHGComponent,
  removeHGComponent,
  waitForTilesLoaded,
  getTrackObjectFromHGC,
  getTiledPlot,
} from '../../app/scripts/utils';

import { oneTrackConfig } from '../view-configs';

configure({ adapter: new Adapter() });

// import FetchMockHelper from '../utils/FetchMockHelper';

describe('Track Resizing', () => {
  let hgc = null;
  let div = null;
  // const fetchMockHelper = new FetchMockHelper(null, 'higlass.io');

  beforeAll(async (done) => {
    // await fetchMockHelper.activateFetchMock();
    [div, hgc] = mountHGComponent(div, hgc, oneTrackConfig, done, {
      style: 'width:800px; height:400px; background-color: lightgreen',
      bounded: true,
    });
    // visual check that the heatmap track config menu is moved
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  });

  afterAll(async () => {
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August 8, 2018 August 8, 2018 Author
Final Round Up: Studio System 2 at TAM
Hagop Najarian in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Final Round Up: Studio System 2
at Torrance Art Museum
By Lawrence Gipe
After spending the month of June creating work, the 12 artists participating in the Studio System 2 residency at the Torrance Art Museum displayed the results of their labors at a closing reception on June 30. It was this author's pleasure and privilege to join this richly-varied group as an artist, and correspondent-at-large, reporting on their efforts for Art and Cake. Scroll down for the "Final Round-Up" of
Samuelle Richardson
Richardson enjoyed taking a break from the solitude of her studio to work in the "positive energy of a group environment" at Studio System. Her current series of sculptures, reflecting "a tongue-in-cheek power struggle between animals and people", were painstakingly fashioned from wood, wire, foam rubber and fabric. She completed 4 of these labor-intensive pieces, depicting an irate flock of birds challenging a group of figures. This coming October, she will participate in a curated show at Castelli Art Space, and on early 2019, she will participate in museum shows at MOAH Lancaster.
Samuel Richardson in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Huo Youfeng
Hailing from Beijing, artist Huo Youfeng labored constantly in his area on an installation called "Refuge". He enjoyed being part of unique programming that "helped bring art into society", and particularly liked when children took time to interact with the piece. "Refuge" changed every 2 or 3 days, through a process of destruction and re-building. Using hay-bales, Youfeng built "a house, a gate, a ruined wall, a castle, the tower of Babel, a tank…" – each part of the work pointed metaphorically and literally to a different type of shelter. During the last weeks, Youfeng back-dropped the entire space with a dramatic charcoal drawing scroll. In the end, he called it "a protest against authority, against brutal power and the distribution of that power and against the powers that ignore human nature".
Huo Youfeng in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Feng Ling
Feng Ling dedicated her space to a performance work called "Tranquil Transformation"; throughout June, she shared a tea ceremony dialogue with over 100 people. Ling chose the name, in her words, "because of the increasingly tense international situation and the need for good communication between cultures". Participants in the piece slowed down their lives for a few minutes to sip tea, have conversation and make various notational marks on paper, and on the walls of the space.
Ling plans to take "Tranquil Transformation" on the road, to other cities and institutions including the Australian National Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and MOCA Bangkok, Thailand.
Feng Ling in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Anna Garner
In Studio System, Garner began a project that had been a few years in the planning – a series of photographs dealing with "mass, physique, strength, and the status of the underdog." In the work, the artist (who stands at 4'11" and weighs in at 95 pounds) positions herself as "a formidable, yet doubtful" opponent of bodybuilders that are 200 pounds heavier. Using the mythic David vs. Goliath duality, Garner's photographs "challenges assumed power dynamics; the body of work aims to address how strength forms conceptions of self-hood and considerations of multi-layered sides to rivalry, opposition, and power". Garner is currently participating in the ACRE Artist Residency in Steuben, Wisconsin, doing further research and planning for this project.
Anna Garner in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Tyler Waxman
Waxman completed multiple drawings and ceramic works in his "studio as workshop", with the conceptual goal of "creating/supporting what the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott termed a potential space -a place where one can develop and explore more complex mental states. It is when one is in this space that there is play, potential, and unknown possibilities." On August 18th, he will be in a show curated by fellow Studio System artist Khang Bao Nguyen called "Dialectic of Being and Becoming" at 18th St. Art Center in Santa Monica.
Tyler Waxman in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Hagop Najarian
Najarian's favorite part of the Torrance residency "was the interaction with the public and having the space to air out new ideas in my work". Often donning headphones as he worked, the painter spent the month going deeper into his "exploration of sound and color, specifically looking at the interactions between atonal musical compositions and its translation to color, shape, line and application of paint as a live act". Najarian will have a solo exhibition of drawings and paintings called "Atonal Chromatics" at Rio Hondo College opening September 4th, 2018. He is also curating a show on the theme of Color for Cerritos College, where he teaches.
Jodi Bonassi
Jodi Bonassi set up a portrait painting studio in her space, inviting museum-goers to sit, chat and model for her dense and colorful compositions – "each visitor could choose to be included in any one of the paintings being worked on and even the choosing of the space for their inclusion". Each painting developed depending on the collaborative choices made – with the ultimate goal of "letting go of ego and allowing energy to flow". Each night, Bonassi worked on the panels after hours, incorporating the sketching of the day, finally completing seven tableaux. She has multiple group exhibitions coming up, including a July 31 "Kamikaze" at PØST and "Bread and Salt" at Hebrew Union College (2018-2019) curated by Anne Hromadka. An exhibition of her paintings from 1998 to the present, continues at The Museum of the San Fernando Valley through August 1, 2018.
Jodi Bonassi in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Chenhung Chen
As many of the artists noted, Chen found the month of commuting between downtown LA and the residency in Torrance "Intense, but I enjoyed every bit of it". Chen continued a series of work "crocheting alloy wire with recycled materials, such as electrical wire and an array of electronic and computer components, into pieces of fabric that are shaped and combined with everyday objects into site-specific installations that address this information age…even with all this technology, man still has to grapple with the consequences of his human condition." In August and September respectively, Chen has a solo exhibition called "I Ching in America 2.0" at Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), and a two-person show at Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery.
Chenhung Chen in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Khang Bao Nguyen
Nguyen completed about 90% of his intricate painting goals. Drawing from a background in Eastern and Western philosophy, his work manifests balance and the dichotomies presented by these cultural themes. Nguyen says each painting reveals "the nature of dualistic perception and the awareness of totality". His most current project is a group show called Dialectic of Being and Becoming, opening this Fall at Highways Performance Space/18th St Art Center (and includes Studio System alum Debby and Larry Kline, and Tyler Waxman).
in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Debby and Larry Kline
Conceptual power-couple Debby and Larry Kline worked on five different projects during SS2 including the crowd-pleasing Poor, Poor Artist, which asked the public for stock tips (the Klines had invested their $500 stipend from the residency into the market). Another, called Tiny Revolutions, is an on-going quotidian project of small graphite "acts of defiance" – drawn "small enough to remove from the frame and carry them in a pocket" – should the politics in the US prove so dire. Upcoming exhibitions include Beyond the Age of Reason at San Diego Art Institute featuring artists who contemplate how faith meshes with contemporary life; and DesEscondido/No Longer Hidden at California Center for the Arts Museum (September 29 – November 18, 2018), an exhibition of members of the artist's group Public Address, will explore how things can be both obscured and visible in a city (Escondido) whose very name means "the hidden place."
Debby and Larry Kline in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Lawrence Gipe
This author made two drawings for Studio Systems 2 this June, U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, 1959 and Titan Missile Launch, 1960. Both are directly sourced from archival material published at the height of the Cold War and were part of an overall project called Cold War, Hot Summer. The shapes in U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, 1959 originally accompanied detailed specifications of each missile in an "Illustrated Guide of Rockets and Missiles" and were the work of an anonymous designer. Detached from their original contexts, they form a line of "text" like an iconographic language. The reality of their deadliness is "flattened out" into a seductive representation, raising questions about the complicit relationship of authority and art. Upcoming projects include a solo show at the Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg, CA and Transiting, a group show co-organized by Kio Griffith and John David O'Brien at the Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (July 27-Aug 18, 2018)
Lawrence Gipe in Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Tom Dunn
Tom Dunn liked the feedback from the general public, as well as his fellow artists, although he did "miss painting at night." He completed ten works on paper, and the sweeping "Floating Downstream Triptych #1), based on "themes and ideas that evolve from the subconscious". The wide swath of wall space allowed him to work on his first large scale triptych, and "being able to stand back and look at them from a distance" was a key benefit from the residency. In the coming year, Dunn is co-curating two shows for Durden and Ray (Nashville and Seattle) and is preparing for a group show at Noysky Projects in Hollywood for September.
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Samuelle Richardson says:
This is a very well documented piece that conveys the real spirit of our residency at TAM. Thank you so much Larry!
Frederikab roeder says:
What a beautiful experience and exhibit!
congratulations to all of the participating artists!!!
Frederika b Roeder

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is a Japanese film director.

Early life
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Funahashi studied directing at the School of Visual Arts.

Career
Funahashi directed Echoes in 2002. He returned with the 2005 road movie, Big River, starring Joe Odagiri, Chloe Snyder, and Kavi Raz.

His documentary film, Nuclear Nation, screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. He also directed Cold Bloom, a drama film set in Hitachi, Ibaraki, in 2013.

In 2015 he directed Nuclear Nation 2.

Filmography
 Echoes (2002)
 Big River (2005)
 Deep in the Valley (2009)
 Nuclear Nation (2012)
 Cold Bloom (2013)
 Nuclear Nation II (2015)
 Raise Your Arms and Twist! Documentary of NMB48 (2016)
 Lovers on Borders (2018)
 Company Retreat (2020)

References

External links

Japanese film directors
People from Osaka Prefecture
University of Tokyo alumni
School of Visual Arts alumni
1974 births
Living people

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Hit-Or-Miss Technology
Robots are Stealing All the Food Service Jobs
Post author By Jake Kilroy
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We'll be lucky if robots only steal our jobs, rather than also enslaving civilization and mocking our weak sacks of soft-muscled frailty. Roughly 47 percent of jobs will be replaced by robots over the next 20 years, says one Oxford University study.
The fast food industry is specifically at risk, since labor and food costs represent 60-70 percent of industry revenues, according to a Cornerstone Capital Group report, while the recent national dialogue about a $15-hour minimum wage for quick service employees may speed things up.
And it's already moving quickly. I mean, it seems like just yesterday I first saw servers using tablets instead of notepads. That's been evolving too. Earlier this year, Olive Garden said it was going to install Ziosk tabletop tablets at all its restaurants by the end of 2015, so right there, tech's limiting servers to basically just food runners.
But now robots are locking down kitchen gigs too! Hell, Momentum Machines went ahead and actually invented a burger-flipping robot—a step hopefully more toward Futurama than Terminator—and the bot can do up a burger every ten seconds. In short, the robot replaces three full-time kitchen employees, which is what the company's founders intend to do. Why make employees more efficient when there's money to be made selling "employees" to restaurants?
And there are a lot of jobs for those robots to take. We're talking 2.4 million servers, about 3 million cooks and food preparers, and 3.3 million cashiers. It hasn't exactly been a booming industry either. Since 1987, fast food eateries have grown at 0.3 percent per year, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That number is about to skyrocket if the government starts tracking robot employees, who never need vacation days, tips, or HR. So I hope you all enjoyed visiting your favorite server at that local country-themed family restaurant or rolling your eyes at every single server at Buffalo Wild Wings, because those days might be over soon.
Tags employment, food industry, jobs, minimum wage, Momentum Machines, Olive Garden, Robots, tablets, terminator
Here's a Look at the World's 'First Smart Restaurant,' Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots
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Earlier this year, we caught wind of a young robotics company out of San Francisco that had created its very own burger making machine. Just insert tomatoes, pickles, onions, lettuce, buns and meat and out the other end pops — you guessed it — a fully-cooked, ready-to-eat, "gourmet" hamburger.
We've already explored the implications a machine like this would have on the QSR market, the human jobs it would replace, but up until a few days ago, all we really had was speculation (and our own over-active imaginations). Well my friends, imaginate no longer! The global robo- takeover is officially upon us.
But it's not as bad as you think.
Momentum Machines — the minds behind the burger maker — have expressed plans to create their own "smart restaurant" chain, serving burgers made by their own crime-fighting cooking robots. According to the company's site, the technology will provide "the means for the next generation of restaurant design and operation."
Single-item menus, zero line cooks and almost no wait times, MM's proposed restaurant would be completely minimalist and tailored to improve guests' experiences. Capable of pushing out approximately 360 burgers an hour, the machine takes up only 24 square feet, allowing for more spacious seating areas and hopefully more time spent improving the overall dining experience.
Best of all, because the staff never really has to touch the food, they also don't have to wear those silly hair nets and non-slip shoes. Finally, all those cute cashier girls can put some effort into actually looking cute. That is, if they're still actually needed at all.
Here's Momentum's official copy:
Fast food doesn't have to have a negative connotation anymore. With our technology, a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.
Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.
It does everything employees can do except better:
It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles only immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
Our next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground after you place your order? No problem.
Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.
It's more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.
The labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better."
Got all that? That's 360 "gourmet" fast food burgers, whipped out in under an hour and made entirely by robots.
(Robo-burger. Robots made this.)
Check out the whole robotic cooking process here:
Granted, a machine-run fast food kitchen might not be as innovative as it sounds (hasn't Krispy Kreme been doing that for years now?), but it'll still be interesting to see exactly what sort of niche MM will be able to carve out for itself, say five years down the road.
After all, how "gourmet" can you get when your cuisinier is made of cold steel and plastic? And how much money can you really save when you remove wages, but you've factored in repair costs and technician training? And why in God's name can't I get fries with that?
What do you guys think? Is Momentum Machine's "Smart Restaurant" the In-N-Out or Five Guys of the future? Or is it just another Wall-E waiting to happen?
Tags Burgers, gourmet, kitchen free, Momentum Machines, restaurant, robot, staff free, the future
Will This Burger Making Robot Change the Food Service Industry Forever?
Post author By Elie Ayrouth
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Science fiction has always positioned the idea that one day our human jobs would be replaced by machines. For those working in burger assembly lines, that day might be sooner than you think.
Introducing a machine that makes burgers. Literally, it's a burger making machine, in prototype, that takes unprepared ingredients like whole tomatoes, onions, uncooked patties, untoasted buns, and spits out a completely assembled burger:
Momentum Machines, the San Francisco-based robotics company responsible for the concept, notes that they are aiming to have a functional demo model by June 1st, 2012.
About a month ago, the company got a quick nod by the tech community and a shaky video by StartupGrind that caught the group during a work day. Jump to 2:38 for the interesting stuff, see company president Alex Vardakostas speak, joke about their CAD model and give a brief explanation about the power of their product:
Shortly after seeing this video, we put a call out to Alexandros Vardakostas, Momentum's founder and president, to shed some light on what was a seemingly understated, potentially game changing burger making robot. Here's the meat (har har):
The machine takes unprepared inputs (including whole tomatoes, onions, pickles, uncooked patties, untoasted buns, etc.) and then, as each order comes in, the device prepares the ingredients (slices tomatoes, char-broils patties, etc.) and assembles the entire burger.
Customization occurs through a simple user interface, allowing the button-pusher to opt out of certain ingredients and add extras of stuff they like. When it's done doing the assembling, it even puts the burger into a bag, if that's what your company needs it to do.
Vardakostas even commented on the possible additions of proteins outside of beef patties. He said they plan on integrating chicken sandwiches and fish sandwiches into the technology, and that their current setup isn't too far off from handling such requests.
"The machine is already capable of handling different sizes of buns, tomatoes, et cetera" explained Vardakostas when asked about the limitations of his machine. "It's also really customizable in that the restaurant owner can tell us the proportion sizes desired of each ingredient and we can very easily modify the machine to suit their demand."
Daily upkeep for potential restaurant users involves reloading the machine with ingredients "every once in a long while."
The anticipated output is currently around 360 hamburgers per hour.
A Robot That Makes Burgers
Pictured above is a hastily taken photo of one of the first burgers made by the machine, the first of what the company hopes is many successful burger assemblies.
The aim of the robot, which remains without a name currently, is to produce food more consistently, with higher quality and at a lower cost.
Ultimately, a sterile machine opens the opportunity for a much more sanitary work environment. For those that think burger making robots sound superfluous, let the ramifications sink in.
Vardakostas notes that their potential customers include "hamburger restaurants of all kinds, food trucks, airports, train stations and other high traffic locations."
Most exciting, as Alex put it, is all the new restaurant concepts that could be unleashed with their technology as the backend.
The utility for a restaurant owner is evident, less people on the line with more output. If Momentum Machines does their due diligence, it may even be beneficial to make available an adaptable API — opening the floodgates to unique visual ordering experiences.
Could this mean a viable, high quality burger ATM — to levels even the Sprinkles Bakery Cupcake ATM never reached? Imagine the possibilities: walk up to a Burger ATM, punch in the ingredients you want, how you want your patty cooked, and a fresh made burger comes out the hole a few moments later?
But Robots Don't Have a Heart, Burgers Should Be Made With Love
While some burger chains thrive on their meticulous line-driven output, there are thousands of eateries that have built their success on their lack of machines and personal touches.
Taking sit down restaurants out of the equation for a moment, take the popular West Coast In-N-Out burger chain, for example.
Their employees work their tails off, peeling potatoes, hand placing buns and patties on the grill, and for years, whether that makes a difference in taste or not, people flock to the restaurant knowing that their food is being made fresh and with care.
Would the presence of a robot doing the work of a group of cheery In-N-Out employees change how you feel about their burgers? If a robot (let's call the robot Patty, for personality's sake) could use all the same ingredients that a quality chain like In-N-Out uses — fresh lettuce, tomatoes, buns and quality meat — does it matter who assembles the end product?
Let's think about it for one last minute. There are some pretty evident pros and cons to having Patty, the burger making robot, creating our meals.
The pros? An employee doesn't touch my burger (as much) during the process. This means less chance for a stray hair, less chance for an employee having a bad day to not wash his hands before working, less overhead for the restaurant owner, and a hopeful lower cost product for the customer.
The cons? Restaurants that once prided themselves on the art of burger making will be tempted to adopt Patty as a kitchen aid. Since she can do the job of many employees, you also run into the inevitable "job stealing" stigma attached to robots like Patty. If Patty doesn't break down and maintains a low margin of error, we'd imagine a franchisee or restaurateur looking after his bottom line would rather pay his robot nothing, than 5 – 10 employees an hourly wage, and paid lunch breaks.
Regardless of where your feelings fall about a burger making robot, this reality is a realistic situation that could befall us in the near future.
A few companies have already expressed interest in having Momentum create food robots for their operation — can you guess who these companies are? Where are some places you could see this machine working?
Are we already losing too many jobs in society to machines like this? Do you have any suggestions for the makers of the machine?
Discuss in the comments below!
[all images used courtesy o Alex Vardakostas]
Tags Burger ATM, Burger Making Robot, cupcake atm, Momentum Machines, robot


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