Never forget that this little NYC island has its own pneumatic trash system!

“It's often cheaper to build and run solar than to buy gas for an existing plant.” That sub headline is, hopefully, the turning point we need.

Been thinking about getting into hats. This seems like an excellent place to start.

Apollo Up does not play often anymore. but when they do, it packs a punch. Glad this performance was captured in full.

When my friends at the Devalued podcast wanted to start a show discussing the difficult relationship between art and money, I was all for it. Artists of all flavors rarely get to talk about these topics out in the open and it's better for everyone if the hardships of being a creative person are laid out there. For their sixth episode, they managed to land a chat with legendary recording engineer Steve Albini. Albini has always made himself very accessible. His Chicago studio Electrical Audio is not overpriced in a way that only giant artists can work with him - even though he's worked with the likes of Nirvana, Pixies, The Breeders, PJ Harvey. His insights into the benefits of recording in a studio, the strength of community he witnessed back in the early punk days and the troubled relationship between art and commerce are wonderfully insightful.

For just six episodes, the show has managed to nab a lot of great guests. Highly recommend you subscribe and listen to the backlog.

My favorite takeaway from this piece is that GIFs are effective when they are outside the realm of copyright. Giphy struggles b/c it can’t mainstream IP violation.

I don’t even use After Effects but this demo is awesome. So fluid and sensible!

Look, I don't care that much about cryptocurrency but I have to say it feels good to see this kind of change that is tackling one of their biggest issues. It doesn't make crypto less of a grift but it does make it slightly less harmful (I hope).

wild! not entirely unexpected but still wild.

Absolutely wild news. U Love 2 See It

Inspiring me to finally finish the yk redesign

Letterbox list of intriguging, weird, inspiring film posters. I don't care for all of them myself but still some worthwhile views here.

Very interesting read about Jackson's demixing technologies. Honestly, it sounds a bit fishy to me. Is the end result AI / ML filling in blanks or are these the honest recordings the band made?

An excellent read.

Way back in January of 2021, I started working with Beth Cameron to re-issue the second Forget Cassettes record, Salt (originally released 2006 by Theory 8 Records). Truth be told, it's my favorite of the FC records and it was the only one remaining that did not exist on vinyl. So, we took to the task. It took far longer than expected but I am pleased to finally announce that the records are done, in my possession and now available for sale. We started by getting the original premaster mixes from Jeremy Ferguson at Battle Tapes, got John Baldwin at Infrasonic Sound to master the record (and the b-sides) for vinyl and I reached out to the original packaging artist Nick Butcher at Sonnenzimmer for advice on how to remaster the artwork from CD scans to LP size. We submitted the project for production in September of 2021 and have been waiting (and waiting and waiting) ever since. The first round of test pressings came in February but they were rejected. The second round was accepted but pushed our production schedule even further out.

All told, the records arrived at the end of August. Almost a full year just to get the records manufactured and over a year and a half for the project as a whole.

None of that speaks to the creation of the music itself. I've only been involved in getting these wonderful songs from their recorded state into a physical format. Beth and her band - Aaron Ford & Jay Leo Phillips - did an unspeakably great job with the album. It's sixteen years old now but it packs every bit of punch and raw emotion it did when it was released.

It's been a long trip but I'm happy with the results. I hope you'll consider giving it a listen or pickup up the vinyl on Bandcamp.

The tattoos are very good. The critiques are delightful.

“a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face” Creepy and Delightful

helluva headline but the integration to Zoom *does* look more fun than the standard toolset. Curious to give this a whirl.

Legalize Marinara

“this is not a hall of shame. the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers.” Bookmark it