Serge modular analog synth
This link is just too much fun. It's a little app (Java I suspect) that lets you paste short percussive sounds into freestanding six second loops. Sort of a build your own musical rain patter background. I spent way too much time on it already, and now it's your turn.
Simon Perry ... The Public Purse
Red granite and stainless steel sculpture of an oversized snap-close change pouch. Located in Melbourne, Australia, within the Bourke Street Mall, with what appears to be a money temple in the background.
Here are the longer articles I found during the week. Things that really don't lend themselves to a blog format, but are best realized as links. I have a sense that the magnetic monopoles will be very different than Dirac's. Perhaps they found something structural in nature, but the real deal, short of GUT energies is something of a head scratcher. The next step in physics or a byline in Alternative Energy magazine? As for granular spacetime, it's pretty much accepted by the blackboard crew, but we just can't attain the energies needed for validation. Mom Nature is under no such constraint, however.
I'm not sure I'd like to make a home in someone's conceptual art project, but I can see this as a killer clam shack.
Research, published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function .
Jeez, who let the cat out of the bag.
Saturday, September 5, 415 Records will be having a reunion at Slims. Debora Iyall (Romeo Void) and Peter Dunne (Pearl Harbor), Wire Train, Translator and Ben Bossi (Romeo Void) will be playing.
".. arguably the last time San Francisco boasted a real music scene." Joel Selvin
I think he means the last scene he had any relationship to. There's plenty of music around and lots of fine players. Never the less, it will be nice to see old friends.
Now of course, no one in my family or circle of friends shows any predilection for excessive felinophilia.
