Navigating a way forwards 24 Mar 3:02 AM (7 days ago)
Broken Veil is a new podcast that dips into the weird/psychogeographic/quasi-non-fictional realm / a sad farewell to publishers Unbound / Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library / The Social Media Sea Change, … Continue reading →
Lucky dip click 20 Feb 5:52 PM (last month)
The Inconvenient Astrologer Of MI5 / Twin Peaks donut supercut (via Andrew Womack) / Arcade Marquees, a book that ‘showcases a collection of 600 arcade video game marquees from 1980 to 2020′ / see also this huge digitised library of … Continue reading →
Slopping out 14 Jan 1:14 PM (2 months ago)
Where have all the flowers gone?, a 1978 BBC film that ‘traces the hippies of ten years ago to find out how they are living today. Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, ‘Social Deviant’ Mick Farren, Oz editor Felix Dennis, Dr Timothy … Continue reading →
Mostly harmless 31 Dec 2024 11:32 PM (2 months ago)
All about Elite, including Elite on the 6502, which meticulously pores through the source code of the original BBC Micro game / sort of related, the ISS offers a live-streamed view of Earth / also sort of related, For the … Continue reading →
Year end accounts 21 Dec 2024 4:09 AM (3 months ago)
Utter December randomness follows. The Art of Christmas at the Modern British Gallery / Fear and failing in Chatham, a gonzo art journey / Brick my World, an application that ‘turns your photos into stunning LEGO® models using classic rectangular … Continue reading →
Things thrown out of the pram 12 Nov 2024 6:43 AM (4 months ago)
We all deserve and need random, enjoyable links. Onwards. Modernist Estates, a new agency (not for profit!) looking to make the most of the best bits of 20th century architecture and help get it into the hands of those who … Continue reading →
Things ordered neatly 3 Oct 2024 5:52 AM (5 months ago)
Present and Correct is not just a meticulously presented stationery store, but also a fantastic old school blog, a curatorial treasure trove of the kind that was practically extinguished by the rise of social media. A must visit / see … Continue reading →
Landscape or hellscape 5 Sep 2024 11:40 AM (6 months ago)
Posting is very sporadic right now, apologies. On to the links. The amazing USC Optical Sound Effects Library. Lots to download and sample here / Colossal continues to be so, so good. See, for example, this link to Tapedeck.org / … Continue reading →
Here, there and everywhere 1 Aug 2024 12:11 PM (8 months ago)
Here, there, and everywhere. NASA’s spacesuit problem just got a lot worse / Networking Tips for Music Festivals / art and installations by Takashi Kuribayashi / a tiny house round-up, 12 American icons of design and at home amongst the … Continue reading →
And into the light 20 Jun 2024 2:20 AM (9 months ago)
Design and culture things. An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland, Newly Discovered and Set Forth, Bernard Sleigh’s magnum opus was one of the origins of our ideals of the fantasy world / Logos of the Early Ufology Scene / see also … Continue reading →
Out of the shadows 27 May 2024 2:15 PM (10 months ago)
So, we’re now secure. Apologies for what might well have been several months of downtime for many readers. The mysteries of secure sockets, certificates, caches and domain records has hopefully been sorted by the good people at Nethosted, leaving us … Continue reading →
A round-up of things from here and there 3 Apr 2024 12:22 AM (12 months ago)
Thor, begone! / the story of Impressionism / The Cure, Live in Sydney, 1981 / the LA of Curb your Enthusiasm / but how was it trained? Suno’s music-generating AI makes everyone a musician in seconds. What are the musical … Continue reading →
Online horrorshow 14 Mar 2024 5:31 AM (last year)
Are We Watching The Internet Die? (via MeFi) / related, How Google is killing independent sites like ours / not related: the sounds of horror. The Mega Marvin and the Apprehension Engine (which subsequently inspired the Tension Engine), custom creations … Continue reading →
In search of the vanishing digital sublime 21 Feb 2024 12:40 AM (last year)
Are there any conceivable benefits or useful practical applications of AI generative video? / related, how to automate writing, The Great Fiction of AI, ‘The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction’ / imaginary landscapes, generated the old-fashioned way by … Continue reading →
Art and archives, architectural oddities 4 Feb 2024 1:21 AM (last year)
A collection of covers from the Council of Industrial Design’s Design magazine. There’s also a full collection of Design issues from 1965 to 1974 at the VADS archive. For example, ‘In search of the town car‘, July 1966 / related, … Continue reading →
The daylight almost gone 29 Jan 2024 8:27 AM (last year)
Faircamp is a Bandcamp replacement (via MeFi) – looks tricksy to use, but interesting labels are to be found there, e.g Tryptophonic Records / meanwhile, on Bandcamp: music by Solar Halos / Steve Hillage’s 1973 The Golden Vibe / a … Continue reading →
On loss 25 Jan 2024 2:01 AM (last year)
The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is a Climate Liability: ‘Taking a cruise generates “about double the amount of total greenhouse gas emissions” as flying’ / the sadly departed music journalist Neil Kulkarni selects his favourite writings from The Wire / … Continue reading →
Spinning around 22 Jan 2024 12:13 PM (last year)
The story of the Mellotron / music by Jarkhand Assembly / Emergency Money: Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation 1914-1923, a forthcoming book by Tom Wilkinson, has some eye-opening bank note designs / Porsche Carrera GT owners … Continue reading →
Recovery positions 13 Jan 2024 12:30 PM (last year)
Art and design things. How London Transport’s roundel was nearly a rabbit, at Ian Visits / Controlled Demolition specialise in taking things down / the story of the Teenage Engineering Choir / ‘The Anomalist‘ is a journal and website that … Continue reading →
New year thoughts and fancies 2 Jan 2024 6:06 AM (last year)
A cluster of links and things for 2024. Why [Apple’s] Vision Pro will change photography / a residential modular synthesis course with Tom Whitwell / the landscapes of Stephen Wong. Interview at Artnet / more art, this time a slightly … Continue reading →
Hide and seek 19 Dec 2023 7:19 AM (last year)
Apologies for infrequent posts. How Money Laundering Works In The Art World / A wintry, ghostly Personal Anthology / a New York neighbourhood called The Hole / photography by Chris Mottalini / Booooooom is still going / the Metropole bookshop … Continue reading →
The sands of time 30 Nov 2023 3:43 AM (last year)
Art. Assemblages by Lesley Hilling / NOX, sad self-driving car installation by Lawrence Lek / on David Yarrow, ‘… Ansel Adams run through Midjourney, a Pirelli calendar shot by a Fallout streamer,’ at Plaster Magazine / hmmm. the thing magazine … Continue reading →
On a dusty road 10 Nov 2023 1:42 AM (last year)
The Loneliest Road in Every State in America (via tmn) / add the sound of drama to your day / an interesting musing on living with aphantasia / DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs (via MeFi). See also … Continue reading →
Buzz words 29 Oct 2023 1:20 AM (last year)
Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car. ‘By 1900, a third of all cars on the road in the US were electric’: see Electric Car Charging Stations in Chicago, 1916 / “On the internet, no … Continue reading →
Next time around 22 Oct 2023 9:42 AM (last year)
Photographer Anna Huix’s project, Tales beneath the melting ice / art and film by Rafael Sommerhalder / AI meets Capability Brown / spooky forest / a map of the world of Aleister Crowley / the Index of Aesthetics / a … Continue reading →