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Nifty little trash can thingie that takes your food and composts it. Maybe not revolutionary but extremely well presented. Unclear why you must mail the compost back instead of donating locally but maybe that’s Phase 2. Into this.

The story behind 'Japan's Helvetica.’

an incredibly pleasing portfolio site. This feels incredibly rare these days.

a repository of things to try with your friendly neighborhood AI

Latent Diffusion to Stable Diffusion to Gen-1. AKA, Video-to-video generative AI. This space accelerates very quickly.

It’s a concept album inspired by reading the Bible and letting a Norm character unfurl through the darkness. Shauf is always an interesting dive.

When given the opportunity, watch interviews with Dafoe. He is unbelievably grounded and sweet.

a lovely set of songs about longing

I'm making a very conscious effort this month to release more music on yk Records. Having 3 releases for 2022 isn't bad but I wanna do more! To that end...

Today, The Medium released two new songs today - "She's Got It" / "Moon Rocks". Songwriter Shane Perry says "These songs are dedicated to my wife Kacy, who I love very much, and my dead plant Tori Jade, who I didn’t love enough." I'm going to go out on a limb and say I think these are probably the two best songs the group has released. That's a tough thing to say because I like a lot of their previously released catalog but something about these two really strikes me.

Get it on Bandcamp or on your favorite streamer. Or both!

Sometimes the YouTube Algorithm really just *gets* you. The Atari samples are hard to deny but there isn’t a bad one on the bunch.

Hard to argue against

For the month of February, I've a lot of new music planned for release via yk Records. The first treat drops today - the debut single from General Trust. Before reading further, just go ahead and hit play... Who is General Trust? It's the new pseudonym of Jay Leo Phillips. I've been a fan of Jay for a long time now - from his post-punk band Apollo Up! to his solo full-length to his pair of ambient EPs. He's always been a virtuoso guitar player but with this new project, he's taken on a whole new suite of tools... quite intentionally.

The double single - "Blue Ride" / "Coal Futures" - is much more synth and drum machine based than his previous work but he's still able to work in some of his recognizable guitar sounds. If you wanna put a genre on it, you might call it Synthwave, Cold Wave or Synth Punk. Those are all pretty niche but it gives you an idea of what to expect.

Jay's been working on this for a long time - learning the new instruments, recording, refining and putting together a live show that only requires himself to perform everything. I'm quite excited for this new phase of his output.

Pick it up on Bandcamp or stream it. Most of all, enjoy.

Quick little non-technical piece. Love seeing early synthesizer work like this.

Watched M3GAN recently and rather enjoyed the usage of this song. Love the comment that calls them The Serious Village People.

Imagine if Google was caught so blindsided by AI that it sank them. Seems like click bait but stranger things have happened. Worth a thought or three.

Great series of chats from various actors and comedians. This one is real good but the series is a treat.

Tuned in for Cringe but was genuinely impressed. Also, still got some Cringe.

Unique website builder compatible with mobile drag n drop. Nice little util keeping the web weird.

TRY not to enjoy this. You can’t do it.