Last night I went to a World Music show featuring David Daniell, Mountains and Tim Hecker. I’ve seen Hecker before, when he was touring to promote his album Mirages, and this time he played (“played” – laptop plus a stack of other electronics) a shorter set of a variety of stuff, including pieces from my [...]
Running the footage backwards, of course.
I’m soooo ordering this print when it’s released. (click for the whole thing)
UPDATE: Got it – just need to frame it, along with a bunch of other crazy stuff I picked up recently.
8 more days!
I know, I know – none of you care. But I blog for I!
Cool! The Z now has an audio archive – shows stick around for two weeks.
Can’t download them yet, only stream ‘em… hopefully they’ll turn themselves into a full-on podcast service soon. It’s unfortunate that so many things of value are ephemeral when they don’t have to be.
BFIfilms:
This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it’s a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s – and it looks quite magical.
Its artistic qualities may look a bit old-fashioned to us today; the slow pace, orchestral [...]
Wired:
Amazon will host a media event in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on Feb. 9. The timing and the venue strongly suggest that Amazon will use the event to announce Kindle 2.0, which industry watchers say will likely be a slimmer and better-designed device, aimed at spurring adoption by more mainstream [...]
Bulletflight:
the Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude. After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you where exactly on the sniper scope you should position your target in order to hit it.
Sweet! [...]
Dammit – I’m trying to buy the FLAC release of Kangding Ray’s Automne Fold but boomkat’s down (what a logo, huh?). Wait – it’s back. The internet has trained me to expect instant gratification – I was getting really annoyed for a minute there.
Three things I like! The Fun Years, container shipping, and general weirdness.
More here.
Ordered!
You can listen to what might be the whole thing here.
(Hymn to the idea of night sounds like something Steven Millhauser would write… )
An hour or so ago I drove past an odd-looking guy walking down Garden Street in Harvard Square. Was that…? Yes, it sure was:
Saturday, September 20, 2008
7:00 PM
HARVARD BOOKSTORE
First Parish Church 3 Church ST Cambridge, MA 02138
(the beard was a little less unruly)
Coincidentally, I finally ordered Anathem today.
Tyler: So, here’s the page with the email form. Not sure if it works, though.
Dan: Well, let’s put in a malformed email address. Like, I dunno, how about just “Douchebag”?
Tyler: OK, just “Douchebag” it is.
Tyler: Hmm. It accepted it. Guess it’s broken.
Brian: Hey! I just got an email!
(That Brian kid is hilarious!)