Back in the day, when I was working on 2-3 films a year, at the end of every mix I made a habit/ritual of taking a nice bottle of tequila along to celebrate. Apart from having spent many months working on the film, the final mix is the most intense collaboration, as a small group of people do very focused work in a big dark room for 10+ hours a day. And it always used to amaze me to observe the mood shift. One minute we are all working & listening, making the very last changes to the mix, the last change is done and checked, the mix is declared completed. Tequila opened, shots uploaded, and near-instant party-mode activated!

End of this coming week and we are done!

SIGN/e : Graphic notation for Ableton LIVE
Download the free Max for LIVE device at Github

Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’

AI slop music SUMO find new ways to rip off artists

Ken Rockwell: Why We Love Film

Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search

wow this is quite unreal: Seismic Explorer
zoom the map to wherever you live, hit play bottom left & watch all the quakes from 1980 to now!

How to ask for help from people who don’t know you

especially great as it has no output

Tonal Tuck – Phragments

Vakat – Percussion Work [NWHITE022]

SoulParlor – Dub Works – Season 3

cute EMF sensor: the EMF Explorer Badge

whoah the headline: I make good money. Why do I still feel like this? is like a sucker punch for the byline: “The middle class was a policy project. Every piece of it has been unbundled and repriced — and now two very different groups are living two very different nightmares.”

Japanese symbols that speak without words

Initiation stones, buried recordings, and Ringo Starr’s drumkit:
inside the visionary world of reggae master Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

wow what a gorgeous tiny camera!!
I checked Japan auction site, there’s one available but its like NZ$8.5k!

interesting idea: Vacation With An Artist
Book mini-apprenticeships with master artists around the world. In-person and online.

A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab… & doesn’t care?
WIRED via archive.pl

Need an evil laugh vs bird imitater soundclash!

Thirst trap!

Save as ‘bot responder meme’

Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria
love the camera movement – HOW is the camera rigged!? – screenshots below give a clue…

Downside Up

genius!
Tony Hill – rigs
THIS video demonstrates the rig

Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria 2026

one of my favourite tempos
two legs: baaad!
prime number:good?

Last week was week 1 of predubs for the BLACK SHEEPS film.
Over the course of the week, Supervising Dialogue Editor Ray Beentjes worked in Park Road Dub Stage 2 with DX+MX rerecording mixer Mike Hedges who got through all of the dialogue predub.
In parallel, I was in Dub stage 1 with FX rerecording mixer Lex Feodoroff who got through all of the Ambience predub & Foley predub by the end of Thursday, so Friday we set up & started FX predubs and got half way through Reel 1.

For the coming week, on Dub Stage 2 Mike will start into Music Premix with composer Victoria Kelly while we continue with FX predubs… We’re aiming to finish all predubs by Thursday, and then set up for the final mix…
And then the real fun starts!!

(obviously not our movie on screen)

Visited fave local secondhand bookstore yesterday & got this amongst a few other gems… Any book with “a foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller” is going to be good but some of the photos really justify the books title… Also some fascinating info on cameras used from the early days:

Midori Takada – Through The Looking Glass (1983)

Rrose x Tommy Four Seven – Loam [2.0-1]

cv313 – 01 A1 – seconds to forever (intrusion dub)

Rebecca Horn

Automatic drum and bell machine

More With Less

kentaro – tonemata v.1.0 VST3/AU (works in ProTools via Bluecat Patchwork plugin)

Has AI already killed nonfiction

Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel – fascinating doco from 2022

The motorized instruments of Johannes Kreidler

The rise of the ‘botsitters’

In Conversation: Al Wootton & Valentina Magaletti – No Tags x The Listening Room

Search the Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music and class action those aholes!

“Editing is the final rewrite, where the poetry is written in cinema language. The film is made or broken in the editing room.”

1961 Hillman Husky

First day of predubs today!

I can’t share any photos inside the building, but there are lovely photos of their dub stages on the Park Road Post website

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls – IMDB

Deleted and Extended Footage

the footage from stars wars premieres etc is adorable

WHOS A GOOD BOY?

KNEEL DOWN AND KISS MY RING!

OH MY! I CAN SEE THE MUSIC!

This wont have a lot of relevance if you don’t live in Wellington, but isn’t this a great hobby for some retired dude… Lots of historical research, exploring old locations & documentation…

update: part 3, my hood…

I have a vague plan to drive the little 1928 Chev from Plimmerton into Wellington city using back roads as it has a maximum speed of 40mph so it might frustrate people if I drove it down the usual route, the motorway…

Beastie Boys – Jimmy James

Beastie Boys – Namaste

Beastie Boys – Intergalactic

Beastie Boys – Dr Lee, PhD

Kunstmachine 1 by Horst Pommerenke

Kunstmachine 2 by Horst Pommerenke

so interesting to see the process: Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis

‘Obsession’ Art Director Calls for Industry Reform After Getting Paid Less Than $7,000 as Film Nears $175 Million

Sampleworthy tunes – Samplette – selected at random each time the page loads

How liminalism became the defining aesthetic of our time

Resist the clankers: AI Resist List

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void? Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new

Peter Vogel – Klangwand

Heller’s handwritten plot chart for ‘Catch 22’

dystopian developments in the bird world

If you’re not from NZ you will likely not be aware of a company called WHITES AVIATION. “Leo White was born in Auckland on 4 July 1906…. White captured some of the first images of Auckland from the air in 1921.. By 1945 White established the now famous Whites Aviation Ltd. Apart from the stunning aerial photos he also developed his business by hiring women to hand colour the monochrome photos, and such photos nowadays are highly sought after. Some great examples are available on this site and a number of books have been published…

The interesting aspect of this work is that Whites Aviation hand-titned photos all have a similar & very beautiful aesthetic. They are somehow gently tinted with colour in an understated way and the style is iconic, such that when I visited the Archives Open Day & had a tour of their photo storage, some of the photos they showed us it was instantly obvious it was a Whites photo.

In 2016 a local short doco initiative funded this great short film: “As one of the original colourists for Whites Aviation in the 1950’s, Grace Rawson reminisces and revives the forgotten art of hand-tinted photography for the first time in over fifty years.”

Co-Director: Greg Wood
Co-Director: Peter Alsop

So while all of this is interesting history, why am I blogging about it now?
Well… the last few weeks have been incredibly busy for me, as we start predubs on the film BLACK SHEEPS on Monday, so I have hardly left my studio in weeks… But as I needed to go into Wellington today to transfer data at Park Road Post for the mix, I had a quick look at FB Marketplace and this instantly caught my eye:

They had a few such boxes & only wanted NZ$30 for them, so I messaged & said I’d buy them & could I pickup today… They agreed & by the time I got there six other people had tried to beat me for them! And wow!!

I don’t plan to emulate the work of Whites Aviation – my aims are more experimental… But random coincidences such as this to me always seem like divine intervention. These beautiful sets of old oil paints that have a very very specific use, were waiting….
For me.

Re-edit of a music video I did to tell a narrative on birds in an era of mass extinction.
instagram.com/_eddcarr_
eddcarr.co.uk

Floating Points – Her Gift

Andreas Trobollowitsch // Live @ Erica Synths Garage

Forest Drive West – Mantis 1920

Anthony Howe – Occluded Generosities

Anthony Howe – Hoot Hanky Hoedown

interesting interview with Paul Friedlander
(despite the stupid youtuber shock face thumbnail)

Three YouTubers have ‘theatrical hits’ this year

The New Zealand game development sector has reached its $1 billion revenue target two years ahead of schedule!

wow it would be easy to assume these are AI, but they are ‘real’ aka real weird!
the work of Anya Boz

Enshittification, despotification and the open internet

What could possibly go wrong?
Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy’s guts, use it to make sourdough bread

Great write up on ableton LIVE extentions by Akihiko Matsumoto

needed one of these for the poor little man-babies that can’t cope wearing a mask…

Laurie Anderson: Tiny Desk Concert

Haiku, generative and interactive music album by 大雨-Ooame Giorgio Sancristoforo

William Fields, Algorithmic Art Assembly v3.0, San Francisco 2026

Sa Pa – Girls On Tour EP

Substance – Relish

Substance – Relish (Shed remix)

This is one of the strangest sounding things I’ve heard AI do: “An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce “WWE” as a word and ends up going insane at 15seconds…

Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki (English Sub)

Andy Warhol Visiting Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio (1974)

New Yorker: Our Longing for Inconvenience < this article feels like its written by someone nostalgic for something they didn’t actually experience themselves… It’s not about convenience, it’s about experiencing music unmediated by algorithms.

Ed Zitron – Revenge of The Business Idiot

Jean Pierre Raynaud

interesting read: Florian Hecker interview at Tone Glow

https://x.com/mrcur84

humans as data collection devices?

Rory Blank

Google in 2004

new HISSandaROAR sound FX library just released:
SD085 SWISH WIND FLUTE
Discount available until June 7th

to slice the air…

Originally a silent film, so hit the MUTE button!

Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company – Dance of the Seven Gongs

Pala’wan lute (KUSYAPIQ) palyed by Undu Apäl in Mäkägwaq, Palawan, Philippines

Tribal sounds of the Philippines • T’BOLI

Baka Pygmies – Song for Gathering Mushrooms

Yelli – Baka women “yodellers”

Bayaka – Joy after the Hunt

Three Likembe Players, Forest People’s Music, Ituri Rainforest

Afunakwa Rorogwela Lullaby

The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2024)

Deleted scene from Paris, Texas (1984).
John Lurie in his memoir: “I am sitting next to Wim at the screening of Paris, Texas. The lights go down and he whispers to me, ‘We had to cut the harmonica scene.’ There was a thing in the film where I played harmonica over the phone to Nastassja Kinski, right after Harry Dean Stanton left the booth. When the film played at Cannes it was still in there, and it has come back to me a few times that the scene is great. That it got applause. I’m disappointed that he cut it.”
via Twitter

clever designs by Argentine artist Guillermo Galetti

Striking New Views of the First Atomic Bomb Test

The devolution of Creative New Zealand

One of the old books I got at recent Lions Book Fair is titled ‘Whirligigs & Weathervanes’ and it had photos of this guys work….

ROBERT SKOTAK and PATRICK MCCLUNG – miniature effects masters

love this example in the vid:

a recent auction!

drone wars

Apart from scoring all these great books (best was a book called FILM AS FILM – Experimental Film 1910-1975, as well as some fascinating NZ history photo books)

I also got a couple of DVDs:

Of course the Kong Production Diaries are all available online, and while its funny to skip through the production documentation to see Peter Jackson go from being full of energy on day 1 of the shoot, to the utter exhaustion at the end, its also so good to see the documentation of the sound team, especially dear old Hoppy – Mike Hopkins RIP

Topdown Dialectic – False LP A

Paul St. Hilaire 1 Hour Mix – Steve Barker Selection for The Wire

Machinedrum | carRADIO 114

Cyngs – Copper Head Conference

Trump: “where do you think the WIND comes from?”
me: air has weight
also me: reading is good for brain
may I highly recommend this book:
Eric Sloane’s Weather Book (1974)
available from @internetarchive

wow awesome local job opportunity: TE NGĀKAU RECORDING STUDIOS DIRECTOR

interesting to see inside the old sawtooth building in Shelly Bay

mmm fjord seiche

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

In the Studio with Barker

really enjoyed the series HACKS and great to learn its creators really, really, really hate AI

The Discovery of the Sperm Whale Phonetic Alphabet…

Unfiltered Audio make great plugins and BattleFX is free! – “BattleFX was created to satisfy the common request of a dedicated plugin for the send effects in Battalion. The famous “Shatter Delay” and “Headspace Reverb” can now be used on any track.”

Nifty plugin AUDIOMAP does similar to my HISSandaROAR UI library demo videos using XO Browser

vid is cued to a great ‘drumfill’

that white stripe is actually almond icing

Become Ungovernable!

incredible image by young NZ photographer Tom Rae – his instagram

Kei Truck Garden Contest via twitter

love this idea!

the truth

By Laura Gilpin

An app – I need that 16 step button!

Bass tine set, an octave lower

Physical plugins!

via this video:

read by the poet, Gwendolyn Brooks

https://clipmapapp.com/openbeta

I’ve been scanning photos from my family archive & came across the photo below, taken by Mum or Dad in the garden of our family farm, some time in the mid 1980s…. Marny the cat!
monochrome version via silverefx

looks like Autumn…

Handy to know:
I’m using Silverfast scan software with an Epson V800 flatbed scanner… I got the scanner as it has a good rep for scanning 35mm & 120 film & came with neg holders for each format. But it sure isn’t fast when scanning high rez. So I learnt how to ‘batch scan’ in Silverfast i.e. place 3-6 photos on the scanner, select each, one-by-one & set scan parameters. then batch scan Go!
It means I can queue up a bunch of photos, set it going & forget about it for half an hour….
A good purpose for my old sandboxed Intel iMac. No more updates for you…

Vladislav Delay Quintet – vd5

Laurie Anderson with Sexmob – Gravity’s Angel (Live)

K Wata – Give U Space

I have one of these amongst my tools… but I think I’ll attach a bungy cord to it before trying this or else I might end up recording skull cracks!
We recorded some related sounds for a Samurai film years ago – borrowed a sprung steel prop sword from WETA and suspended it on bungy cord in foley room… Could heavily ‘clang’ it & it would almost over-resonate, similar to those triangles.. but less deadly!

Skippers Canyon – how far can we drive?
(I’ve never driven this vertigo inducing road, but one of these days….

‘Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor’ to win Polymarket bet

Great news: Meta Is Dying

The Camera-Shy Hoodie is a DIY adversarial garment designed to give the user the option to anonymize themselves within the recording of a night vision security camera.

Meng Qi Wing Pinger 2.0 Announced!

Making cymbals #process

mmmm high currents…

unsane

Alaskan SQ-12 landing in strong wind

Dijon – Absolutely

Upwellings – U – 02 V

Meng Qi – Performance Demo 1

The Employment – by Patricio Plaza & Santiago Grasso

such great work at Japan’s Kyotographie Photo Festival

congrats: Abbey Road senior recordist to head NZSO’s new studios in Wellington Town Hall

fascinating roundtable discussion with Japanese band Esquivel (Shinichi Yokoyama, Yuto Ishii) and engineer Kensei Ogata – loved the idea of recording cymbal in front of guitar amp…

What is your blue?

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit: PDF

who knew: Bonsai Styles

Chinese EVs Can Now Project Entire Movies From Their Headlights – this could be great, you could project horror movie scenes if you were stuck behind a slow driver! Or with a camera, play people their own bad driving…

Oh this is bleak AF:
Apocalypse Early Warning System – In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime. The current emergency level is reported on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being an indicator of a likely… imminent… apocalypse…

Oh great!

Nagra with rastafarian colours!

not mine – OMG!! but they still want $1200 for it…

tested out a few ideas – more hits than misses!

this combo is excellent together!
i’ll try & shoot some vid with sync audio to ProTools… need to make some space & setup for it

the interesting thing is that the area outlined in red below, is a single solid metal resonant object – much like the metal frame of a small piano.

If you raise that big slider on the left, all of the 8 contact mics are heard… Near the top will almost feedback at listening volume in my studio, but not like a sudden squeal.. Set back a bit, through the Microcosm its a fun setup for actual ambient use – when its just sitting there, I trigger sounds by using my Mac keyboard or bumping the desk…

there
will
be
squelch!

#korg #phase8 #fsu really lovely triggering sparse phrases into the #microcosm with MIDI clock making the glitches in time, even when i vary tempo… the next session, there will be springs involved!

These all came with the MUTOH drafting desk (the desk was $150, seller mentioned he had these & would take $180 for the lot) – to my brain, they feel like a graphic score kit. So much fun to step away from computer screens & mess with them…

randomnly on twitter:

Stoked to get this – Korg Phase 8 – I’ve only had a couple of jams with it so far, plugged into my bass rig it sounds great!! Having the tines exposed is the whole point although the attack pop if striking them directly is harsh, as per the photo I was trying using 1/4″ tape to dampen them…

As above I had it sitting on a conga, and if I lightly tapped the conga drum skin it would trigger a chord from the Phase 8. Felt a bit like playing RINGS module…

As I did a pre-order for it, Korg included three custom tines. I haven’t installed them yet but they are tiny – that ruler is in mm. I will find my callipers & measure the thickness but I’d suspect they are only 1mm thick, so I’ll scale some of the tongues for the Daxophone from the Daxo font and get some laser cut. But first I need to RTFM – the sequencer has some very fun interactive aspects to it…

Also need to patch it through some distortion and get in the mode of Konono Nᵒ1

A recent retro tech is better than modern acquisition…

I was tipped off to the idea of this, by a friend who had recently started working with a small scale metal lathe & mill. He mentioned he’d picked up a draughting table, as he had always loved tech drawing and had a need when visualising & designing small prototypes, which he then would machine with the lathe etc…

The more I thought about it, the more potential uses I could imagine – even as a solid platform for studio gear – synths & drum machines. This particular angle also gave me a comparative budget – I wasn’t prepared to indulge $500 in the idea, but I could be patient & wait for an opportunity…. Weeks passed. Maybe a month. Randomly looking for something else on, FB Marketplace I see this. Reduced from NZ$250 to NZ$150 (US$88). After being listed for weeks, no interest. They wanted it gone (from their storage space, which was costing them)
.

Easel flat surface is A0 in size – 841 x 1189mm – 33 x 46 inches
Thats a pair of orchestral timpani on left, for scale, that I had to move to make room.
It is MUTOH brand..
can be raised from sit to stand height – foot pedal releases sprung height control.
easel surface can angle from vertical to horizontal
position can be locked off, altered with degrees of accuracy.

its all good if this just ends up covered in synths & drum machines & pedals & stuff…
it is still performing an invaluable role in a very sturdy, multi purpose way.
But I think it might enable other projects…. and ideas…
at least partly from proximity to this particular old school tech.

Rodney Graham: Lobbing Potatoes At A Gong

Sumire Yoshihara – Sound Space Of Percussion Vol. 3
A1 Zyklus – Karlheinz Stockhausen 12:25
B1 Waves – Per Nørgård

(I cant understand what she says, but the movement & physicality of playing is universal!)

Thom Yorke – Live at Sydney Opera House
(cued for a good/less annoying bit)

Artistic research residency seminar – Per Bloland, Richard Causton & Henri Boutin…
present their work their work on the active control of piano strings using electromagnetic transducers.
speaking piano at 18

Photography by the Yard: Drew Tanners Journey into Cirkut Photography

Your Name in Landsat
Your Name in Galaxies

Danilo Raimondo

Béla Tarr interview with ENG subs

glitch-like paintings Emily Kraus

Manabu Kosaka’s realistic paper sculptures of retro tech

Slop Cop is such a good name! It is also a writing editor that flags rhetorical and structural patterns common in generic LLM prose!? Not a problem I have but…

The big business of survival bunkers/tombs – the rich know they will be buried in them, right?

random FB marketplace for sale photo lol

Pernicious Weed

While doing much research & making the many decisions about how to do this I decided to stage it – first I will get my cyanotype and alt print setup working:

So I’m using a powerful UV Grow light, which is suspended over the trays… And I just place a large old canvas frame across them while making exposures, using the contact printing frame or directly

I already had a stainless steel tray which is big enough to hold three large trays – dev, stop, fix… And after much searching I found an old shower tray with the drain outlet to the side (easier to fit & evcentually have plumbed in). There isn’t any existing water or drain to the dark room, but there is to the room next door to it – my foley room. So for now I will do washes in there…

When I bought the DeVere 507 enlarger the price reflected that it had a faulty Dichroic (colour) head. The previous owner said the EPROM needed replacement and they were not available any more. So it did still boot up and I could switch the lamps on but… it was noisy AF with two big fans running constantly to cool the two 250W bulbs, and the colour mixing/filters did not work – the EPROM remote controls them, so you would select eg Magenta, type a number and the correct amount of filtration would be moved in front of the bulbs. While messing around with it, I almost got it going – I could actually make the filters activate etc… But it was unreliable – one day it would work & the next not & it had no memory. Fully working they are a great idea as you can even calibrate them for a batch of paper & store the settings. So I knew I needed to replace the light source.

My plan all along was to replace the Dichroic head with an LED head, and there are a bunch of projects with full build details online showing how people have successfully done this in the past.

Also at one stage, a UK camera company Intrepid, made & released an LED head for the DeVere 504 enlarger as apparently thats what they had in their own dark room. There is an install guide on their site but for some reason they don’t still sell that particular setup anymore, and instead developed their own fully self contained compact enlarger using an LED head.

OK So I ordered in parts – 15 LEDs and an LED driver powerful enough to drive that many LEDs, all from LED Supply and an aluminium block to act as a heatsink, ordered online via Little Metal who were excellent to deal with. I’ve also replaced the two noisy fans in thee Dichroic Head with one very quiet 12V fan.

So as a project, rather than have to design and build an entire new enclosure for the LED head, I am adapting the Dichroic head light mixing box to house the LED panel and driver, so the only visible change is a power cable for the LEDs.

The other benefit is that the head remains a similar weight to the original. This avoids the issue of the weight balanced spring mechanism suddenly wanting to go through the ceiling once the weight of the head is removed or significantly changed…

This version I am only using white LEDs as I do not plan to print colour at all, it doesn’t interest me. But all of the pro LED heads use RGB LEDs and provide control to set levels for them, so as to calibrate for colour but also because blue & green can be used to alter contrast when printing B&W. So while I won’t be able to do that via control of LEDs, I can still use such technique by using filters on the enlargers lens. I’ll see how that goes, and have seen plenty of great prints online using this technique but I can also imagine building v2 of this LED head, with RGB LEDs.

To control the timing of exposures with the LED head, I luckily bought a dark room of gear ages ago and amongst all the gear was an excellent timer – the StopClock LE by RH Designs, who still exist and I found a PDF manual for my timer on their site here

This entire project has been an excellent and endless learning experience. And using this timer is just one example as I had never heard of F Stop printing before. Usually prior to making a print, you would make a test strip print, where you expose say for 5 seconds, then cover a section, expose for another 5 seconds, then repeat.. You would then develop the test strip, check the exposure and say somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds looked good, you’d do another test strip to narrow down the target best exposure.
But density of light is not linear, so making a test strip going 5,10,15,20seconds is not the best way – you should do 5,10,20,40 ie an exponential increase. And not-coincidentally, the same exponential increase we make when changing F Stops on a lens, for the same reason.

So this timer lets you change modes between linear time and F Stop/exponential time! It enables you to switch on the LED head to focus, and to make a timed exposure once the photo paper is in place. And it also controls the safe lights. It also has handy functions such a foot trigger eg if doing repeated exposures to dodge & burn parts of the print.

Anyway, all is great progress! And as with such projects, at times it feels like no progress is being made at all and then lots of progress occurrs all at once!

My plan has been to slowly escalate the types of prints.
So first of all is getting my cyanotype print setup calibrated & working:
UV exposure > wash > tone > wash

Then maybe I’ll make some lumen prints: UV exposure photograms > fix > wash

Then using the LED head with the Devere 507 I will make some photograms:
expose > dev > stop > fix > wash

Then using the LED head with the Devere 507 I will make 35mm prints, then 35mm XPAN prints and then 617 prints!

While some of this will always be experimental eg cyanotypes and lumen prints, the goal with the DeVere 507 is to document enough when making a print to be able to reliably reproduce it. That is the ultimate goal, as per these marked up Magnum prints which show the steps involved in printing each specific negative.

If of use to anyone else, a couple of books I’ve been referencing a lot:

The Darkroom Handbook – a complete guide to the best design, construction and equipment. By Dennis Curtin & Joe DeMaio

The New Darkroom Handbook by Joe DeMaio, Robin Worth and Dennis Curtin

surprised robot?

first power on test – its bright!
the heatsink plate & LEDs will rotate 180deg & point down into the box…
which goes through diffusion to the neg holder & lens…

next step!

Friend scored this at an auction & loaned it to me so I could scan the cover…
Not only is it black & white, but it must also be heavily edited to fit on a roll of Super 8

DJ Marky : Live D&B Sessions – 30th March 2026

DJ Marky : Live D&B Sessions – 7th April 2026

the tune is a bit painful but at least its not banjos, YMMV, but fun to see them wrangle bells…
Whats your fave song or piece of music with bells in it?
I so love this, from the score to Drawing Restraint 9:

the indie internet index

maybe useful: Advanced Search for YouTube
also maybe useful: Chrome plugin Search Fixer for YouTube

This is a great form of multimedia documentary journalism – “Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld have made multiple trips to Tristan da Cunha since 2023 to chronicle the rhythms of daily life. During their time there, NPR published their story “The Okalolies of Old Year’s Night,” which looked at the island’s unique New Year’s Eve tradition. They returned in 2025 to continue their work and help lead the expansion of the island’s community archive.”

Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself

This struck a chord with me: “There is an apparent contradiction at the heart of expertise. Expert judgement is learnable, in the sense that people demonstrably acquire it over time. It is also non-transmissible, in the sense that no expert can transfer their judgement to another person through explanation. If it was once learnable, why can it not be taught?

The resolution lies in a distinction between two fundamentally different modes of learning. The first is instruction: the transfer of explicit models, rules, and relationships from one person to another through language. The second is calibration: the development of internal models through repeated exposure to feedback in a specific environment. Judgement is learnable through calibration. It is not transmissible through instruction. These are different processes operating on different substrates, and conflating them is the source of the apparent contradiction.”

Try interacting with Japan’s power grid: visualizing power plants, substations, and transmission lines

Download hi rez stills from Artemis lunar malarky

Japan has the world’s best railway system. 28% of Japanese passenger-kilometers are by rail. Germany manages 6.4%, and the USA manages 0.25%. Just one Japanese company, JR East, carries more passengers than China’s entire railway system, and four times as many than Britain’s. What is the secret of its success? (if you cant be bothered following the link, the short answer is that the train companies own all the real estate around the stations, and operate very profitable supermarkets & shops to a captive market of commuters, which helps fund the railways that feed them… a win/win compared with the lose/lose of NZs feeble train system & supermarket duopoly)

A Particular Beauty: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed

AI validation is a psyop for the insecure…

love the icons on Aphex Twins controller in current VEIMA auction

Allan King gives us a tour of his darkroom and makes a 42″ x 69″ silver print