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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
Here’s a 1960s British power station control room - a different (‘space age’) aesthetic but still very much a designed space intended to impress: https://www.powerstations.uk/ferrybridge-c-control-room/
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
Search for Chelonoidis phantasticus (which would not make a good headline)
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What happened to the original monolith from 2001?(londonist.com)
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
Here’s a similar DIY project (at an earlier stage) with a motor drive https://www.instagram.com/p/CTF1_fyNLtz/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
As a music journalist in the 90s-2000s, we were often sent promo records - particularly 12" dance singles - with blank white labels where the title was just written on in sharpie.
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Explaining Deleuze with Drum Machines(youtube.com)
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Brooks: AI “is a few hundred years away from where most people think it is”(rodneybrooks.com)
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Barndominium(en.wikipedia.org)
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
Alternative headline: 75% of UK phone boxes to be removed (now=21k, future= 5k)
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
My favourite Paul Lansky track: https://youtu.be/SFoT3HykaPs recorded in 1988 on an DEC MicrovaxII https://www.popmatters.com/141865-idle-chatter-about-paul-la...
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
Bryan Boyer’s Very Slow Movie Player: https://link.medium.com/KmmRK9wA4jb (And my own Python version: https://link.medium.com/NkrysBDA4jb https://github.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie )
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Paying authors royalties on 2nd hand book sales(thebookseller.com)
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Copies of a British newspaper from 2009 may be worth $1m because Bitcoin(thetimes03jan2009.com)
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“I decided to make a small synthesiser about finance in the year 2020”(gieskes.nl)
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
Custom logic chips, not universal DSP - this was the early 80s
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
“Natrium”=sodium, and it’s salt cooled. This is genius branding. Makes it sound like the nuclear reactor runs on organic oats.
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by TomWhitwell 5y ago
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/sun-and-mail-named-in-europea...
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When is the revolution in architecture coming?(currentaffairs.org)
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Handmade musical instruments of David Tudor(remindedbytheinstruments.info)
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by TomWhitwell 6y ago
Traditional power stations do exactly this - being closed for maintenance or running on low output for days, weeks or months even the interconnector cables between UK and European power suppliers have failed for months at a time. BUT yes, t
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by TomWhitwell 6y ago
I think I'd over compensated - I was surprised to find that Greenland is nearly as big as India.
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Shrunken heads removed from Oxford’s Pitt-Rivers museum(theguardian.com)
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Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices(impracticaldevices.com)
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by TomWhitwell 6y ago
I’d be interested to discuss this: tom@musicthing.co.uk
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by TomWhitwell 7y ago
Musicians would disagree.
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by TomWhitwell 7y ago
Bad Boy of Music by George Anthiel. You know how Hedy Lamarr invented spread spectrum radio in the 1940s? George Anthiel was the avant-garde composer she did it with. This is an amazing book, full of incredible stories but very hard to find
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by TomWhitwell 7y ago
That’s great, thank you
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by TomWhitwell 7y ago
“Pro”
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by TomWhitwell 8y ago
This vertical grand piano - you have to go up a short flight of steps to get to the keyboard - from the same company, is ACE https://www.klavins-pianos.com/products/model-450i/
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Netflix used to make millions from advertising. Here’s why they killed it(medium.com)
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