BAY AREA RADIO HALL OF FAME I worked on a morning show in 1995 that was bigger than Howard Stern here. Live 105.3 KITS from 1980s or 1990s, and it just got inducted into the bay area radio hall (more…)
1997 MTV’s Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more.
In 1997, a subversive, transgressive, prescient show aired on MTV. From what I recall, it aired randomly. 3 thirty minute episode that aired on non successive weekends on either Saturdays or Sunday, at (more…)
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous (more…)
Ridley Scott’s “Ridleygrams” for Alien, aka his unbelievably detailed and thought out storyboards that is another side to his professional fame.
More about this talent and his process here:
My obsession with the Las Vegas sphere is so unhealthy.
“$2.3 billion MSG Sphere in Las Vegas is almost ready. • 366 feet high • 516 feet wide • 18,000 seats • 164,000 speakers • 580,000 sq ft of LED panels” Happy (more…)
WHAT IS OMEGA MART? YEAH, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS OMEGA MART? WHAT? YEAH.
Omega Mart is a surreal pop culture escape room style experience of complete mind bending madness. Brought to you by Meow Wolf. From my newsletter, and what tipped me off to (more…)
Tim Heidecker’s Strange Brilliance (is a clickbait title but hey it works).
I missed Tim and Eric. And I knew he was involved in some weird improv comedy, but only really first took notice when he was “Howie” in the charades sketch of I Think You Should Leave. Wifey really (more…)
Eerie cosmic sounds meant for film… blossom in the real world as trees & sculptures of fear and terror: Exploring real world and film’s eerie sound instruments
This is a post about sculpture, art, the natural world, eerie sounds for movies, and when they come to the real world and actually sound horrifying for really real… THE SINGING RINGING (more…)
Why physical media might be future proof, but keep that wax cool.
Do We Still Need Physical Media? https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/07/28/do-we-still-need-physical-media/ . THIS IS SUPERB. That’s a philosophical blog that thinks about art. They’ve done amazing (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0012 – “What do you do and how do you know when you’re finished?”
Star Wars Model video is pretty rare and awesome, and I don’t even really care about the franchise vs the filmmaking of the time. Also the new videoconferencing tech is unreal. Also, this is HEAVY (more…)