I decided to combine two themes that I’ve explored in the past: the blob-like tesselations that I’ve done a lot of and more recently trying to simulate dripping paint with magic marker… and this came out a lot better than I expected…
Really love this piece on the culture of Chinese electronic dictionary games. It’s a whole world I’d never heard of. https://chaoyangtrap.house/s02-episode-9-china-dreams-of-electric-words/
Just found this project that is digitizing old shellac records now in the public domain. You can listen on the site with their neat digital record player or download the flac files.
#music
https://publicdomainpool.org/en/index.html
Absolutely love this interview with radical librarian Sandy Berman. Fantastic read. https://turtleroad.org/2022/03/08/sandy-berman/
Ugh, damn it, I think it’s gone. It was a publicly-hosted archive of *dozens* and dozens of albums by London Ontario-area bands from 1967 through the 2000s. A ton of it was never available anywhere else, by bands that never recorded any other material.
Aw geeze, I only just heard that Maryn Coote passed away last month. If you’ve never heard her music, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. She left behind a great legacy and many fantastic tunes. https://ppudc.bandcamp.com/album/maskeraad
I need each and every one of you to watch live action Mary Worth https://youtu.be/_7zT_agPGyA
Runs digipres.club. Writes software, works on digital preservation on the side. Previously worked at Artefactual.