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The Music of Yakuza 2

November 9th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »

The original Japanese-langauge version of Siliconera’s interview with Hidenori Shoji and Hideki Sakamoto on Yakuza 2 is now online.  The translation is by Ryojiro Sato, who also worked on the Echochrome music interview with Sakamoto-san. The article is being hosted by the musician’s music studio Noisycroak, whose other game music projects include Yuusha No Kuse Ni Namaikida Or 2 and Aquanaut’s Holiday. See the articles in English and Japanese below.

Yakuza 2 Music Interview - Hidenori Shoji and Hideki Sakamoto

「龍が如く2」 庄司英徳 & 坂本英城 インタビュー

Help Chris Heward of Kronos Laboratory fight cancer

November 7th, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »

John Schloendorn, who is doing scientific research on the LysoSENS project for the Methuselah Foundation, asks you to support Chris Heward’s fight against his Stage IV esophageal cancer. Chris is president of Kronos Science Laboratory and presented talks on longevity research at the most recent Foresight Vision Weekend and Alcor conferences. His chances of surviving a year are said to be less than 1%, even with the best available care.

The current plan to combat Chris’s cancer is based on the granulocyte therapy developed by Zheng Cui, who made headlines throughout the anti-aging communities last year by achieving a complete cure for all types of cancer tested in mice. The most critical resource for this project are granulocyte donors. To help Chris fight his cancer, and further medical research as a whole, consider joining this cause by seeing if you are eligible to donate granulocytes.

A new Facebook group to support Chris in his fight has been created, titled Friends of Chris Heward. The white blood cell donor screening form can be downloaded from the cyonics blog Depressed Metabolism. To learn more about this proposal, Zheng Cui’s presentation from Aging 08, which I filmed and edited, can be viewed below.


Natural Cancer Resistance in Mice and in Humans: basis for a novel cancer therapy.

Nobuooo 10.08

November 6th, 2008 Posted in Music, Uncategorized | No Comments »


Nobuooo 10.08 Update from Jeriaska on Vimeo.

Understanding Aging videos

September 23rd, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »

Videos from the 2008 Understanding Aging conference that I was responsible for editing for the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit organization whose stated purpose is contributing to the elimination of age-related illnesses, have been online for some time.  Only recently have the links been aggregated, thanks to Ben at the MFoundation, so that they can be viewed in sequence.

Unlike the presentations from Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications, which were prepared for a general audience, Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches was a hardcore scientific gathering more closely resembling the three SENS conferences organized by Aubrey de Grey at Cambridge, UK.

More than half the presenters asked not to be filmed because they were presenting unpublished data—a problem that was not encountered at AGI-08, where a journal of the proceeds was published prior to the conference. AGI-09, taking place March 6-9 in Arlington and including technical demos this time around, is shaping up to be rad. In the meantime, here’s Aging ‘08 in video form:

Aging: Disease, Cure, Implications Media
Understanding Aging Media


Before We Can Add Years to Life, We Must Add Life to Years from Jeriaska on Vimeo.

PAX 08 media smorgasbord

September 11th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »

Nobuooo 9.08 Update

Sound Current: PAX 10 Part 1/2

Sound Current: PAX 10 Part 2/2

Remixers on Street Fighter & Final Fantasy

August 16th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »

Two interviews have been posted to Siliconera this weekend on music remix projects for popular game series.  Malcos of OverClocked ReMix has arranged themes from Street Fighter II for the HD Remix version that will appear on the XBox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.  His tracks will be featured during the stages for Ryu, Cammy, Dhalsim and M. Bison.  The musician talks about his participation on OCR, their Street Fighter II compilation “Blood on the Asphalt,” and the downloadable HD title on which he is serving as assistant soundtrack director.  Also this weekend, Ian Hartley gives some background on Final Fantasy Remix, the album of club-style arrangements directed by Nobuo Uematsu.  The DJ discusses his collaboration with Matt Baggiani on their group Ante and performing in Tokyo clubs.  The interviews are available at the following websites.

Remixing Street Fighter II - Malcos music interview:  http://tinyurl.com/5egzlc

DJ Q&A - Ian Hartley on Final Fantasy Remix:  http://tinyurl.com/68b5vp

Aging: The Videos, The Photos, The Transcriptions

July 30th, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »

Videos from the Methuselah Foundation’s free life extension symposium at UCLA are now available online.

Titled “Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications,” the event aimed at putting the postponement of human aging more firmly on the political and social map. It took place at Royce Hall in UCLA on June 27, 2008.

As with AGI-08, 100% of the scheduled presentations have been made available online free of charge.  Also ,visit the flickr set.

Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications Media.

Nobuooo 8.08

July 29th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »


Nobuooo 8.08 Update from Jeriaska on Vimeo.

Nobuooo 7.08

July 10th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »


Nobuooo 7.08 Update from Jeriaska on Vimeo.

Nobuooo 6.08

July 1st, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »


Nobuooo 6.08 Update from Jeriaska on Vimeo.