Category Archives: ephemera

‘The adidas ‘Future.Craft Strung’ designed by Kram/Weisshaar, a shoe-making robot that pioneers a 3D knitting technology enabling it to produce full shoe uppers on the spot.’ From Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street, coming soon at the Design Museum / 78s … Continue reading →

Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society / Get Offset, a channel about guitars and effects / Wirebird make beautiful guitars / ‘ambient post-rock’ by In Inertia / more music by First Dates / paintings by Stanley Bielen / … Continue reading →

Sisters With Transistors: Pioneers Of Electronic Music, a new documentary (via NPR). See also Electronic Music Experimentation in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock (via Synthtopia). Sort of related, The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), the … Continue reading →

Still no coherent thread / need more screens? Try the Aurora 7. Compare and contrast with Oriol Ferrer Mesià’s modern retro terminal (linked by b3ta / Tape Wizard, a film about Randall Taylor’s Amulets project, which explores the ‘artifacts and … Continue reading →

The 2020 Architecture Drawing Prize includes the epic 737 Max Tower, a project by Victor Hugo and Cheryl Lu Xu, as well as works by Marc Brousse and ‘Spatial Fictions‘ by Clement Luk Laurencio / a constantly refreshed collection of … Continue reading →

Weekend perambulations / a drone tour of a century-old German U-Boat wreck on the Thames Estuary, via Historic Medway / more Kent: the tragedy of the Fireman’s Wedding / isolated drum tracks by Nick Mason / paintings by Fred Coppin … Continue reading →

Old school sounds from the long lost Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element / even more old school, an appreciation of Swervedriver’s Raise from a driver’s perspective (as it was probably originally intended) / Folklore Generator (via BB) / creepy-named forum to change … Continue reading →

The Museum of Curiosities in London / beautiful music by Train Conductor / a collection of pedalboards (a ‘tangle’ of pedalboards? A ‘hum’ of pedalboards?) / saving Coventry, which doesn’t know what it’s got / remodelling a 1970s council house … Continue reading →

Ronaldo Lopes Teixeira Rolt makes miniature synthesizers / My Life is Pointless, art by Joan Cornella / the official guide to Camberwell, 1950s / Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset / epic post-rock from Sidus / Clunk Magazine, a … Continue reading →

A set of abstract soundscapes from Icoro / a short history of the Yamaha DX-7 / urgent, old school minimal electronics at NAIAD. Records / the history of a deadly kit plane / Mud Jam, a photography portfolio by Lyndon … Continue reading →

VR Fireworks by Cai Guo-Qiang / That “Tesla E-Bike” Is Gorgeous, but It Makes No Sense: ‘This is Internet of Shit territory, where a perfectly functional piece of analog technology is ruined by the unnecessary addition of a silicon chip.’ … Continue reading →

This X Does Not Exist, aggregating machine learning’s contribution to stuff that ever so slightly just isn’t real. We like the automobiles / the Record Deal Simulator at Pitchfork (via tmn) / Gwen Sion creates experimental soundscapes / more music … Continue reading →

A short history of Flash & the forgotten Flash Website movement (via MeFi) / a review, nay, teardown of the new Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War / ‘Why Is The Obscure B-Side “Harness Your Hopes” Pavement’s Top Song … Continue reading →

Have rogue orcas really been attacking boats in the Atlantic?. Maybe it’s time to just get a gigayacht. Seems like as good a place as anywhere to link to The 50th Anniversary of the Iconic Exploding Whale, also mentioned at … Continue reading →

MeFi on a roll: Doctor Who Theme Music, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (e.g. Retro Spectrum Gaming) and London’s Viewing Corridors / NASA presents Sinister Sounds of the Solar System / the interviews of Leta Powell Drake, accidental Partridge / a … Continue reading →

More determined distractions. Buy anonymous artwork from a A Letter in Mind / atrocity exhibition, probably out of date already / if you’re lucky you’ll find a Tubman 20 / photographs by Thomas Jorion / retro sounds from High Score … Continue reading →

Mostly distractions today, starting with art and more collated by Csáki László, who also took these images of ‘Tincity‘, observing the ‘life of the inhabitants of an anachronistic microcommunity in a central district of Miskolc, a mid-sized city in Hungary’ … Continue reading →