The vaults are pretty endless, but incredibly well organized. Fumiko stands next to one of the hundreds of very long rows of 35 mm prints that the archive contains.
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV] were proclaimed in 1992 and consist of all Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital. You are currently visiting the KREV digital territory as a citizen or as a tourist. You are encouraged to browse the digital territory of the Kingdoms - follow the links on the right.Elgaland-Vargaland is the largest – and most populous realm on Earth, incorporating all boundaries between other nations as well as Digital Territory and other states of existence. Every time you travel somewhere, and every time you enter another form, such as the dream state, you visit Elgaland-Vargaland.
State-of-the-art technology, abysmal typography.
The Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, as used on New Order’s “Blue Monday”, of course.
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The Tumblr Backup app is ready for its first beta testing.
- Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s content that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.
Seriously, how cool is that!? Icing on the cake: “Sorry, there’s no Windows version yet.” Haha.
Katie Paterson recorded the sound of 3 glaciers (Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull and Solheimajökull) on Iceland. She then pressed those recordings on ice record made of melt water from those glaciers. The records were played on 3 turntables and it took almost 2 hours till they were completely melted. You can listen to onehere.
This is a fantastic article, and not simply for the fact it is the first interview with Fraser in over a decade. It’s very moving, particularly as it gets into her tangled emotional issues with ex-partner Robin Guthrie.
Bad Blake next to Evangelos in Santa Fe.
I love that you can confirm locations in Google Street View
KRAFTWERK 3
“I really love The Mix album… I think it would be incrdibly arrogant to say I can hear New´s Order sound in The Mix but I know that when they heard Blue Monday they got on to us and wanted to know where we´d done it because they wanted the bass drum sounds… I met Ralf and Florian in the Hacienda just after The Mix, introduced myself and they said: “ah, so you are the drummer!” I thought , oh, bloody hell, they´re going to get the probes out and torture me until I tell them how I got the bass drum sounds.”
(Stephen Morris - New Order - Mojo November 2009)
Rotoscoping Prince of Persia. Man, I loved that animation when I was a kid. It was so different from the chunky, broom-up-ass stuff you got in most side-scrollers.
