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An amazing tabletop synthesizer with some fantastic demonstration videos here.
Via Boing Boing.
The reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or […]

left: Sperman by Cary Kwok; right: Here Cums the Spider by Cary Kwok (2007).
NSFW, as if you need to be told. It’s almost a cliche of contemporary art that there are so many artists around today, producing such a volume of work, that any newcomer (as it were) has to find a niche and stay […]

Björk: ‘I had a little bit of cabin fever.’
Talking about Volta.

Design by Germano Facetti with a detail from Europe after the Rain by Max Ernst.
Is this the start of a new meme? Ace Jet 170 features a number of posts about the history of Penguin and Pelican book cover design. (I won’t link to any specific page as the site is full of other […]

40th Street Shop by Jack Delano (1942).

Locomotive Dreams by Jack Delano (1942).
Just two of many marvellous antique photographs available from the Juniper Gallery that can be viewed in high-res versions. A variety of prints are available from each picture.

Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937).
• The legacy of Guernica (the event)
• Echoes of Guernica (the painting)

Björk’s sixth studio album is released on May 7th and features
contributions from Antony Hegarty and Chris Corsano, among others.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Trinity rendezvous
• Chris Corsano again
• Chris Corsano
• Jack Rose in Manchester

So I finished The Road finally, relishing its ash-strewn bleakness at my own sluggish pace. It’s worth noting (since I missed the event) that McCarthy’s novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction earlier this month, and deservedly so, I’m sure. As if that wasn’t enough, we’re also awaiting the bizarre spectacle of the […]

By an odd coincidence my work manifests in two different forms in Finland this month. Above is the Finnish reprint of ‘King Squid’ by Jeff VanderMeer, part of his City of Saints and Madmen fantasy novel which I designed as a self-contained work. SF magazine Tähtivaeltaja has produced this as a supplement to their latest […]

Lindsay Anderson’s masterpiece, If…., is finally given a DVD release in the UK in June. Anderson’s film—about the dramatic resistance to authority of three boys at an unnamed British school—was made in 1968 but I didn’t get to see it until (as I recall) 1977. I was 15 at the time and feeling increasingly desperate […]