#sketchbook May 2024. Even when I'm on another leg of #zeruchontour , I try to keep a drawing practice going as best as I can. In this case a bit of a #drinkanddraw session in an absolutely spectacular boutique Hotel I found in San Luis Obispo, called The Granada. I basically broke out a few old sketchbooks and if I couldn't think of anything new to draw I started painting in very skeletal #doodles from the semi distant past. #beer by #ThereDoesNotExist brewery in SLO. #art#artistsofmastodon
Playing with flame #fractals is a perennial joy (and also confusing as hell, as all the tools I've tried over the years are great for exploring ideas in an open ended fashion but I've never found a really linear/'predictable' approach to using them, regardless of how much fun it is, it still feels a lot like video game "button-mashing".) #art
"#USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate."
#TrevorHorn has an autobiography of sorts. It's actually a pretty decent read so far, and it confirms two things I've long thought about horn. One, he's a musically talented producer with a seemingly endless ability to make a hit song who understands how to make something sound good. And two, he's a narcissistic self-absorbed bell end and not always artist friendly. It's a reputation he seems happy to have earned.
#workinprogress#abstractart which started from the working title project of "thermonuclear cassette" has been something I've been obsessing over off and on for the last two plus weeks and I've rebuilt and re-obliterated it several times. I actually released a version of this as part of the #disquiet series (number 46) last week, but I'm still not happy with it. #art#mixedmedia
"I admit I had no idea who #MalcolmX was when I first heard it. I was 10 or 11, and it played a few times on college radio, which I was only just starting to tune into, but for which so much of the messaging in the music was alien."
This track by #KeithLeBlanc was probably the first solo track of his I ever heard, and it still is as listenable as it was in the mid 80s:
@mxtthxw I literally have had an idea for a "Taxcider" illo for years (think Geof Darrow on funky LSD) and I've been fascinated by Keiths whole process for as long as I can remember. I really love his solo LPs.
When I finally saw Tackhead live (circa 2011), I just about fell over sideways. Watching him was just perplexing, because he was clearly playing these wild-ass parts effortlessly.
He was such a singular, un-reproducible sound machine.
@mxtthxw I just kind of realized (or maybe I'm just delu-gin-al) but Keith is the J Dilla of the classic/electro era of hip hop, just far less known among the public.
RIP Keith LeBlanc, one of the greatest drummers , beat mechanics and production gods the world has barely known by name, but absolutely known by sound.
"#HP CEO Says They Brick #Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical."
Statements like that sure don't give you a lot of confidence in the tech skills held by a leadership team of what once was a respectable tech company...
@airwhale pretty much. HP has got through the most staggering decline in reputation I have ever seen in this industry. There are plenty of companies that have maintained some level of respectability even though they are generally garbage (MSFT, Google, and most of Wall St. comes to mind) by periodically trying to not be imbeciles. HP of the other hand, came from laudable bona fides, that has done everything in its power, to projectile defecate furiously all over them.
A love letter to #HP: "They are a poster child for how to become a Kafka-grade punchline of incompetence, venality, and naked mendacity.
In this case I actually took the printer related to this, and dropped it from a decent height into a dumpster. The noise of shattering poor-build quality and poorer CX felt almost post-coital."
"This is a 90s live gig with #VernonReid (Living Colour, Zig Zag Trio), #DennisChambers (#P-Funk, Santana, #SteelyDan), and JP Bourelly (#MilesDavis, Cassandra Wilson) and is an hour of both accessible and experimental jams of original material, as well as some very eccentric covers of The Meters‘ “Cissy Strut” and Sonny Sharrock’s “Dick Dogs”.
"I first noticed Welshman Karl Wallinger as part of the mid-80s lineup of Mike Scott’s The Waterboys...Soon after, he left to form his own band, World Party...I always come back to the title track from their debut LP as a perennial favorite. The album, cut, and video, also was the first appearance of one Sinead O’Connor.
@kevbob Wallinger was one of those guys who I didn't listen to that often, but when I was in that mood would be exactly the trick.
While I liked things from all his output, that first WP album (and the Peter Gabriel all-star jam album 'Big Blue Ball') always always always sounded good.