posted August 10, 2017 #

hey I released a blank song that will play 1st so that *one* song won’t play every time u plug ur phone into ur car https://t.co/FL83YUOOcz

posted August 10, 2017 #

You know, #Halloween jack-o-lanterns were originally made out of turnips. Hmm, neat. I wonder what that looked li-… https://t.co/JGclMFhTs3

posted August 10, 2017 #

Welcome to peak twitter

posted August 10, 2017 #

What if I said Blockchain? What if I said...ENTERPRISE Blockchain? What if I said MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE BLOCKCHAIN? https://t.co/5cVtJPSM92

posted August 10, 2017 #

@yewknee Are we having *fun* yet?

posted August 10, 2017 #

The back-page rant in the new Uline catalog is amazing https://t.co/OGUqrawHXN

posted August 10, 2017 #

Apple Music: Please Add Song Credits to your Platform! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/8zz5riAqqc via @Change

posted August 10, 2017 #

True or false: Autocorrect creates more typos than it fixes

posted August 10, 2017 #

cant get over this newspaper illustration from 1953 https://t.co/FvsyG9YKAq

posted August 10, 2017 #

This thread is fire and gold https://t.co/ul1SRaRswd

Nate Larson + Marni Shindelman

posted August 10, 2017 #

Artists Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman collaborated on the project Geolocation in which they combed through Twitter streams looking for intriguing musings and then paired them with photographs of their actual geographic locations.

What is most striking about the project is the lack of life captured in them. Empty rooms, foggy rooftops and desolate motels really accentuate the sadness in many of the tweets.

All Bad Days

posted August 10, 2017 #

I really love the design aesthetic of All Bad Days, a small business from Portland, Oregon "fueled by sadness, self deprecation, and lots of late night delivery pizza." I'm tempted to say there's a political message running throughout but that's selling it short, as there's clearly a message of equality and anger against injustices; all wrapped in amusingly baroque text and top notch illustrations. Maybe I'm overthinking it but I love how the entire catalog looks and hope the duo running this thing realize what a great thing they've created.

posted August 10, 2017 #

Great. The future is going to be totally cool and chill https://t.co/2Cry48S4bB

posted August 9, 2017 #

@jamiebradley @AshSpurge cool group text

SXSW PanelPicker - Designing Ethical Machine Intelligence for Humans

posted August 9, 2017 #

upvoted! interesting topic and good to see @fluxistrad

posted August 9, 2017 #

I bought Serge Gainsbourg's 1987 synth-rap album from the .99 cent bin and it's such a breathtaking trainwreck I ca… https://t.co/smniemLP6a

Gloria Petyarre

posted August 9, 2017 #

There is no digital representation of the paintings of Gloria Petyarre that can do them justice. The Australian Aboriginal artist creates enormous canvas pieces depicting Bush Medicine Dreaming. A bit more on that:

Bush medicine leaves derive from a particular native shrub which grows abundantly in the desert regions of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. During the life of the plant, the leaves change colour and exhibit different medicinal properties. The artists who paint this story represent the leaves as they float to the ground, and they employ a range of brush strokes and colours to represent the leaves at different times of the year.

Peruse the Leaves collection and you will see intricate, massive, wavelike patterns. It's hard to imagine the process of actually creating these pieces and an immersive experience to see them in person at the scale they were intended.

posted August 9, 2017 #

here it is. the most amazing scene in television history. this was written, filmed, edited and broadcast on actual… https://t.co/l0LAyV1whh

posted August 9, 2017 #

Let's try to redirect the visceral physical panic and fear we feel for ourselves (hi) to the people in, say, Seoul

George Blood, The Great 78 Project

posted August 9, 2017 #

The Internet Archive has undertaken a new endeavor, The Great 78 Project, in which they aim to digitize as many 78rpm records as they are able to. The first batch of results looks to be nearly 26,000 records courtesy George Blood, L.P. digitization. That's an overwhelming amount of music to parse through and I can only hope someone starts compiling playlists to help grapple with the largess of it all.

In the meantime, just cruise through the listings and click whatever catches your eye. Chop Suey Mambo, Pickin' the Chicken, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas and Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition seem like a good a place to start as any. Or you could go a bit more classic with the likes of Baby, It's Cold Outside, Jeepers Creepers, House of the Rising Sun or Over the Rainbow.

The crackle and static of the recordings may be a bit distracting at first but I find it somewhat charming.