The book Right, Down + Circle by Cole Nowicki. Cover art is white and black text on a solid blue background in the Swiss international style.
This arrived in the post today. A pocket sized book by @colenowicki.com all about the social impact of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Cole puts out an excellent skate-focussed newsletter called Simple Magic, which is how I discovered his writing.
Is this the same hamster that already changed colour once before?
Promotional image for the TV show Pantheon. A pixelated anime style image of a teenage girl, rendered in pinks and blues against a black background, distorted as if she is constructed of pixels.
We’re a couple of episodes into Pantheon. Not 100% on board yet, but it seems like a very good high-concept hacker/sci-fi story.
Here's a little fact about Australia's national spread, Vegemite, which is similar to the UK's Marmite: The product was briefly named Parwill, because Ma might, but Pa will.
It's quite insane that Serum 2 has a full featured midi editor built in. It's also quite irritating, because now there's an expectation that every patch will include midi clips.
Screenshot of a multi choice test question. “Listen to this short example. What choice best describes the harmony in the example?” The example audio file is named “non-western.mp3” and the correct answer is “non-Western harmony”.
Sample question for a remote music class my daughter is studying at high school. The audio filenames kind of give the answers away!
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna and I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher
New books! Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna and I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by @molcher.bsky.social
I love it when The Oatmeal does really long comics. This one is all about naked mole rats. He even made a classroom-friendly version for teachers and kiddos.
I'm going to be introducing my offspring to Blade Runner this weekend. I really hope she likes it. Getting her to agree to watch a film from last century is the biggest hurdle, so we're half way there!
Very cool featurette where Tom Southwell, who was one of the production illustrators on Blade Runner talks about designing the film’s graphic props, logos, signage etc. youtu.be/OymtGL327bA?...
My keys are usually in the recycling bin, outside the house. I wish I was kidding.
Poster for the documentary film The Grim & the Dark: The search for John Blanche. Actor Jon Heder is bending down to view a Warhammer miniature soldier.
This popped up on my Tubi homepage too. The Grim and the Dark is a documentary about wargaming and grimdark art. The score by Eric Michael Robertson captured my attention too. trademarkfilms.com/films/d121a6...
1:10 "Fuck! I can't see my turntables."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=caeB...
Following. More reviews that rate films based on the uniqueness of their chord progression, please. 👍
The homepage of Tubi steaming platform, showing featured films including The Rise of the Synths, a documentary about the series synthwave music community.
Look what’s on Tubi!
What a surprise 🙄
Screenshot of VSCode text editor. The user has typed "HELLO" and the AI assistant has suggested "HELLOOOOOOOOO" as an autocomplete.
Although I am stridently opposed to generative AI, AI coding assistants are actually very good at auto-completing code. Prediction is what LLMs do best, right? So I find it amusing that when I type "HELLO", the AI assistant thinks I want to write "HELLOOOOOOOOO", presumably in a sarcastic voice.
Still from the Saturday Night Live "more cowbell" comedy sketch. Will Ferrell is in character as a member of the band Blue Oyster Cult, playing cowbell during the studio recording of the song Don't Fear The Reaper.
The soundtrack of the winter olympics is buzzing drones. 🐝
I had to upgrade my iPhone iOS so I could continue using the NY Times games app. Gawd that liquid glass effect is trashy.
I don't listen to a lot of Vaporwave, so this crowdfunded documentary hadn't crossed my radar until now. It's launching quite soon. nobodyherefilm.com
(I'm 100% sure they do this on purpose, in Australia at least. After cutting away they will remind you that you can watch all the events you want on Stan Sport, their paid on-demand platform)
Sounds like your free-to-air coverage is about as awful as ours! That happened here during the women's slopestyle qualifiers (and many other events I'm sure). I considered signing up for the paid on-demand service, but would have to bundle it with a streaming service I don't want. Grrr.
...reading more closely, that's 50% off with the code february50
Cover of Memories soundset for Repro-5 by Konstantin Klem. Clouds during a sunset.
Konstantin Klim has a new soundset out, for Repro-5, has a '90s electronica vibe (Boards of Canada and their ilk), lots of lovely textures. He also has 50% off all his other products. konstantinklem.pro/works/memori...
I know right! You can sense the relief when RZA adds a bass. "Okay, I can actually nod my head to this... sorta?"
He's either a genius or a madman!
Photograph of the singer Rodriguez sitting on the porch of a dilapidated house in Detroit
Finally ticked Searching For Sugar Man off my watchlist. Total soul food.
Much respect for RZA, but this has me in stitches. youtu.be/59NVvnkJ0Sw
Made me giggle
