nguyên lê

 

beatpella house

 korean next level beatboxing

fanny

 danny sapko in typically exuberant form (and he gets to be because he's right) as he extolls the virtue of jean millington and fanny in general. what a shame that, even now, they don't get the recognition they deserve 

volca keys as drone machine

 

woodcut printing

i've been chopping down some trees of late so, after a bit of drying, this is on the cards  

sharpening gouges

 handy tool. handy tips 

portishead

seeing as beth gibbons was up yesterday here's michael palmisano, who's somehow missed ever hearing portishead, reacting to strangers

beth gibbons

 

pj harvey

 

roland aira s1

 it's taken many decades but i'm finally discovering that reading the manual is a good idea. those for electronics tho, are notoriously scant which, when you're faced with something like the s1, isn't the best. fortunately here's this to sort it out. it's a bit rushed - but there's a pause button! i love my wee s1 but i've found this vid invaluable. great fun to follow along, stop, go down a side alley, have a think and start again. and, i'd guess, a good way to get to grips with what's going on with your electronic gizmos! 

roland drum machines

 it seems likely i'll be adding a tr8 to my box of tricks in the near future even tho i really want a tr8s. space is clearly an issue but i loved the aira s1 so consistently since i've opened the box that the tr8 seems a logical add on. they are compatible with my volcas and interesting things may be done but it's amazing, in just the space of ten years, how dated the volcas feel. all are still 'relatively' cheap tho and if you want to get away from tv/socials/daw etc in the dark nights i can't recommend a wee set up like this enough. even if you're as awfully terrible at actually using them as me! lol 

pinhole photography

 another pinhole basics video from martin henson because.... martin henson! 

albinoni oboe concerto op9 no2

 

this an actual albinoni piece, unlike adagio in g minor, which it turns out was writeen by someone else. every day a learning day!

eduardo galeano

 one of the book groups i'm on in my socials has an unfortunate habit of repeatedly asking for the 'best' translation, to which my answer is always - how would you know? unless you can read in the original. which is an activity, these days, i'm gravitating more and more towards. i'm not there yet in all my target languages but it's an activity i'd massively recommend as the text opens up in a way that's just not possible otherwise. plus not only do you get a better feel for the original btu you see directly into the choices and style of the translator. it's very satisfying!

anyway, my reading of the moment is eduardo galeano's book of embraces, i love galeano and, as my spanish gets better, he's ideal for reading practice. and my spanish gets better! 

drive my car

 

max richter - four seasons

 

les essais

having myself some nice (slow!) parallel reads at the moment and came across this. i don't think i'd have much chance with the original but, on first look, this isn't bad, and i enjoyed a similar approach with don quixote. sh here's montaigne's essays in  modern frenchnull! 

george miller

 really interesting interview with george miller, not least because of the buster keaton references. i had an interesting discussion post, about how one might, these days, develop a visual lexicon when, in these days of streaming, access to these old classics, is almost non existent 

plastic bag

 short film. peak herzog 

kham meslien

 loving this 

aphex twin

 old school aphex outtakes