Over the coming weeks I will share an eclectic lucky dip of music that I discovered and loved via subreddit /r/listentothis, Here is no.5 on the jukebox, Japanese ambient/new age producer Hiroshi Yoshimura’s floaty album Soundscape 1 Surround from 1986. There is something eerily familiar about Hiroshi Yoshimura’s 1986 album Soundscape 1 Surround. It’s soContinue reading “Hiroshi Yoshimura – Soundscape 1 Surround”
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Winter’s Ivory Skies
In a far off field Your animals put away The rustling of bare branches And dagger winds Although an ivory and lemon sky Keeps up the spirits Of a cold valley day
<3 The Internet: Solistice Streets makes pagan worship easy
Solistice Streets is a web-based app that’s the brainchild of some pagan programmers who wanted to make it easier to worship the seasons and the summer solistice (21st of December) and winter solistice (20th June). In particular they wanted to create an online place for collective worship in honour of Stonehenge. A place where onContinue reading “<3 The Internet: Solistice Streets makes pagan worship easy”
Every Picture Tells a Story: City of Dreams
In a far off field Your animals put away The rustling of bare branches And dagger winds Although an ivory and lemon sky Keeps up the spirits Of a cold valley day
<3 The Internet: eSkeletons of primates, monkeys and homo sapiens
eSkeletons is an ingenious online resource that compares the skeletons of primates and including the most notorious of the bipeds homo sapiens. Created by the Department of Anthropology at the Univrsity of Texas in Austin, eSkeletons provides an interactive environment where visitors can examine skeletal anatomy through an osteology database. It’s a very engaging andContinue reading “<3 The Internet: eSkeletons of primates, monkeys and homo sapiens”
Lucy Sparrow’s Fantastical Felt Mountain of Consumable Goods
Lucy Sparrow is a quirky felt artist who mass produces felt replicas of branded goods like grocery store items, fresh fruit and veg, daily papers. She loves to recreate well-known and loved foods from British households and then sell them in quaint corner stores where people can purchase these reasonably priced and bite size piecesContinue reading “Lucy Sparrow’s Fantastical Felt Mountain of Consumable Goods”
Every Picture Tells a Story: Oh child inside
Every Picture Tells a Story: Oh child inside
Every Picture Tells a Story: Winter’s sudden contemplation
When the night scented stock come in And all of the dusk reigns around us A musky smoke Of burning leaves and wet rocks All is cosy, locked in and battened down A sleepy knowingness seeps in A season and reason for movement is over And the winter sits down long and low Her frosty embrace –Continue reading “Every Picture Tells a Story: Winter’s sudden contemplation”
<3 The Internet: Body Talk crowdsources ideas about body shape with surprising results
Bodytalk is a scientific a tool which allows visitors to produce their ideal body shape in terms of female and male form. It’s a crowd-sourced version of a Cosmopolitan magazine, where the collective hive mind can look at linguistic descriptions of 3D shape parameters. There’s something slightly macabre about this idea of crowd-sourcing the idealContinue reading “<3 The Internet: Body Talk crowdsources ideas about body shape with surprising results”
Every picture tells a story: The mother of us all
Every picture tells a story: Into the unknowable
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