sound candy: you can strap it to your dog!

via ../mediateletipos)))

so much awesome, so little time

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zoetrope turntable. or turntable zoetrope?

have a look at this bunch of zoetrope-style animations atop a turntable. you can hear the builder explaining it in the background, seems like it relies on the shutter speed being just right.

it's very lovely.



found via binary load lifter

i've been looking for this for fifteen years

back in the very early 90s someone gave me a card with this picture on it. i loved it and stuck it on my wall. somehow or other i lost it, and have tried many times since then to track down a copy.

anyway: today: great success!

the image is called fantasy castle with men on zebras. the artist is squire vickers. he doesn't have a wikipedia page yet: maybe i'll start one. he is mentioned in the article new york city subway tiles, though: he did a lot of mosaics in the new york subway system.

i found the image in an article called an imagined metropolis, by eli spindel. i haven't read the article yet but i will. i am very very pleased.

i regret that my own weirdness

from william gibson's blog:

I regret that my own weirdness made me a fascist about people who were not weird.

--Lynda Barry, interviewed in Giant Robot #54

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matmos move to baltimore

not only that, they give an interesting interview over at (baltimore music blog) altered states and say things like:

I decided if were to [stop] getting beat up I need to grow my hair long and start listening to heavy metal music. And I did. Oh and smoking. I programmatically embarked on a course of growing my hair long, smoking Marlboro cigarettes, and I was like “I’m going to find out about this rock music thing.” I believe that is what’s called being a poser. But when you’re 15 or 16 you can engage in a pose so sincerely that you are it. So in a year I wasn’t a poser anymore, I was a fucking Hessian, or whatever they call them now.

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wikipedia is a bureaucracy, not a website

People tend to think of Wikipedia as a website, but as Clay Shirky points out, it's better to think of Wikipedia as a bureaucracy for arguing about edits that happens to produce a website as its byproduct.

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