Rob Wickings's Blog, page 32
October 23, 2020
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
October 16, 2020
The Cut
We had a link from Wired as the opener this week, on how the work/life balance has become irretrievably skewed (https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/ if you’re interested) but we realised you all know this already. So let’s put that nonsense to one side and instead centre up the nonsense you have come to know and love over the last several months.
This week, scary sound effects, an iconic bus route and a really rather funky musical instrument you can all play.
Now is the time, here is the place. This is The Cut.
Some towns have that one bus route that seems to tie the whole place together. For our home town of Reading it’s the number 17, running right through the middle. In Birmingham it’s all about the circular route taken by the number 11. An interesting bit of psychogeography awaits as Jon Bounds of Paradise Circus takes us up to the top deck…
Rob writes: most of my professional life has been spent working with archive film of all gauges and conditions, from spotless to falling apart. It’s all part of the restoration process, opening a window into times past. Digital techniques have given us opportunities to make the view clearer, moving on from repairing scratches and splices to colouring black and white footage. The question is how far can you take the work? At what point do we move from restoring footage to making up things that were never there in the first place? It’s a complex and fascinating issue speaking to notions of how we view, interpret and use archive material…
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy
In a tastier revisit of old-time technique, we were fascinated by this Atlas Obscura report on a very special circumnavigation of the globe by Spanish sailing ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano—and the even more special cargo she’s carrying…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-aged-at-sea
We’re sliding deeper into spooky season, so we loved this Vice article on how skilled Foley artists create the sounds that add so much to moments of horror in your favourite scary movies. You’ll never look at a stick of celery the same way again…
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7j5wa/horror-movie-foley-artist-sounds
Food delivery services like Just Eat and Deliveroo have banked it big over the months of The Situation. But most of us are cooking much, much more. It’s not just about sourdough bread. For everyone, getting good, nutritious and varied grub on the table every day can be a challenge—which is why the big cube riders have done so well. There are a ton of tips and tricks around to help the newer home cooks out there to make something delicious in a hurry. This New York Times article gives you the framework to get organised and build your own menu!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/dining/cooking-foundations.html
We have alway been big fans of the worlds of Supermarionation. From Thunderbirds to Joe90, the minds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson brought us an exciting vision of a possible future. It was a stylish vision too, largely thanks to the design skills of Sylvia. She gave Tracy Island and W.A.S.P HQ a modtastically chic feel, with every detail considered. MessyNessyChic has more…
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/
A note from the Ninth Art Desk: Comics guru and hedge wizard Alan Moore poked his hirsuit features over the parapet, ostensibly to talk about his new film project The Show. Of course, all the interviewers wanted to know about was how pissed off he was with the comics world he was this week. No-one should have been surprised by the reaction or the headlines it generated. It feel to Alan’s daughter Leah to provide some much-needed context.
We were more interested in this Comics Journal chat with artist Jacen Burrows, whose collaboration with Moore on the dense exploration of Lovecraftian mythos, Providence was viewed by many as a high point for both creators. Burrows has carved a niche as an uncompromising artist who does not flinch from depicting some very dark stuff. But his clarity of visual storytelling and sharply observed characterisation make him much more than a gore hound.
We’re going to finish with a couple of online music links. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has built a community around his Twitter Listening Party. It’s a brilliantly simple idea—he picks an album and a time to start playing it, and everyone is encouraged to listen and chat along. It’s a lovely, inclusive way of using social media and hugely popular. Tim’s just pushed out a Spotify playlist featuring one track from each album that’s been at the party, which gives an idea of the broad range of music on offer. For more, check out https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/
Virtual and soft synths are all over the place nowadays. You no longer need ton of cash and a big back room to build up a fine collection of classic squelches, squawks and beats. They can still, however, be a bit tricky to get your head around. Some are as ferociously complex as the hardware they emulate. We therefore really dig Roland’s new 808303.studio, which places the iconic sounds of their classic drum machine and bass synth in an super-easy to play but authentic-sounding package. But don’t take our word for it. We now hand you over to A Guy Called Gerald.
https://www.musictech.net/news/make-free-acid-beats-in-your-browser-with-rolands-808303-studio/?amp
With the man himself on deck, there can only be one choice for our Exit Music. Old school ravers, front and centre. Get out your big and little fish and also your cardboard boxes. It’s time to get on one. Sorted.
See you in seven.
The Cut
We had a link from Wired as the opener this week, on how the work/life balance has become irretrievably skewed (https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/ if you’re interested) but we realised you all know this already. So let’s put that nonsense to one side and instead centre up the nonsense you have come to know and love over the last several months.
This week, scary sound effects, an iconic bus route and a really rather funky musical instrument you can all play.
Now is the time, here is the place. This is The Cut.
Some towns have that one bus route that seems to tie the whole place together. For our home town of Reading it’s the number 17, running right through the middle. In Birmingham it’s all about the circular route taken by the number 11. An interesting bit of psychogeography awaits as Jon Bounds of Paradise Circus takes us up to the top deck…
Rob writes: most of my professional life has been spent working with archive film of all gauges and conditions, from spotless to falling apart. It’s all part of the restoration process, opening a window into times past. Digital techniques have given us opportunities to make the view clearer, moving on from repairing scratches and splices to colouring black and white footage. The question is how far can you take the work? At what point do we move from restoring footage to making up things that were never there in the first place? It’s a complex and fascinating issue speaking to notions of how we view, interpret and use archive material…
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy
In a tastier revisit of old-time technique, we were fascinated by this Atlas Obscura report on a very special circumnavigation of the globe by Spanish sailing ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano—and the even more special cargo she’s carrying…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-aged-at-sea
We’re sliding deeper into spooky season, so we loved this Vice article on how skilled Foley artists create the sounds that add so much to moments of horror in your favourite scary movies. You’ll never look at a stick of celery the same way again…
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7j5wa/horror-movie-foley-artist-sounds
Food delivery services like Just Eat and Deliveroo have banked it big over the months of The Situation. But most of us are cooking much, much more. It’s not just about sourdough bread. For everyone, getting good, nutritious and varied grub on the table every day can be a challenge—which is why the big cube riders have done so well. There are a ton of tips and tricks around to help the newer home cooks out there to make something delicious in a hurry. This New York Times article gives you the framework to get organised and build your own menu!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/dining/cooking-foundations.html
We have alway been big fans of the worlds of Supermarionation. From Thunderbirds to Joe90, the minds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson brought us an exciting vision of a possible future. It was a stylish vision too, largely thanks to the design skills of Sylvia. She gave Tracy Island and W.A.S.P HQ a modtastically chic feel, with every detail considered. MessyNessyChic has more…
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/
A note from the Ninth Art Desk: Comics guru and hedge wizard Alan Moore poked his hirsuit features over the parapet, ostensibly to talk about his new film project The Show. Of course, all the interviewers wanted to know about was how pissed off he was with the comics world he was this week. No-one should have been surprised by the reaction or the headlines it generated. It feel to Alan’s daughter Leah to provide some much-needed context.
We were more interested in this Comics Journal chat with artist Jacen Burrows, whose collaboration with Moore on the dense exploration of Lovecraftian mythos, Providence was viewed by many as a high point for both creators. Burrows has carved a niche as an uncompromising artist who does not flinch from depicting some very dark stuff. But his clarity of visual storytelling and sharply observed characterisation make him much more than a gore hound.
We’re going to finish with a couple of online music links. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has built a community around his Twitter Listening Party. It’s a brilliantly simple idea—he picks an album and a time to start playing it, and everyone is encouraged to listen and chat along. It’s a lovely, inclusive way of using social media and hugely popular. Tim’s just pushed out a Spotify playlist featuring one track from each album that’s been at the party, which gives an idea of the broad range of music on offer. For more, check out https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/
Virtual and soft synths are all over the place nowadays. You no longer need ton of cash and a big back room to build up a fine collection of classic squelches, squawks and beats. They can still, however, be a bit tricky to get your head around. Some are as ferociously complex as the hardware they emulate. We therefore really dig Roland’s new 808303.studio, which places the iconic sounds of their classic drum machine and bass synth in an super-easy to play but authentic-sounding package. But don’t take our word for it. We now hand you over to A Guy Called Gerald.
https://www.musictech.net/news/make-free-acid-beats-in-your-browser-with-rolands-808303-studio/?amp
With the man himself on deck, there can only be one choice for our Exit Music. Old school ravers, front and centre. Get out your big and little fish and also your cardboard boxes. It’s time to get on one. Sorted.
See you in seven.
The Cut
We had a link from Wired as the opener this week, on how the work/life balance has become irretrievably skewed (https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/ if you’re interested) but we realised you all know this already. So let’s put that nonsense to one side and instead centre up the nonsense you have come to know and love over the last several months.
This week, scary sound effects, an iconic bus route and a really rather funky musical instrument you can all play.
Now is the time, here is the place. This is The Cut.
Some towns have that one bus route that seems to tie the whole place together. For our home town of Reading it’s the number 17, running right through the middle. In Birmingham it’s all about the circular route taken by the number 11. An interesting bit of psychogeography awaits as Jon Bounds of Paradise Circus takes us up to the top deck…
Rob writes: most of my professional life has been spent working with archive film of all gauges and conditions, from spotless to falling apart. It’s all part of the restoration process, opening a window into times past. Digital techniques have given us opportunities to make the view clearer, moving on from repairing scratches and splices to colouring black and white footage. The question is how far can you take the work? At what point do we move from restoring footage to making up things that were never there in the first place? It’s a complex and fascinating issue speaking to notions of how we view, interpret and use archive material…
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy
In a tastier revisit of old-time technique, we were fascinated by this Atlas Obscura report on a very special circumnavigation of the globe by Spanish sailing ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano—and the even more special cargo she’s carrying…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-aged-at-sea
We’re sliding deeper into spooky season, so we loved this Vice article on how skilled Foley artists create the sounds that add so much to moments of horror in your favourite scary movies. You’ll never look at a stick of celery the same way again…
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7j5wa/horror-movie-foley-artist-sounds
Food delivery services like Just Eat and Deliveroo have banked it big over the months of The Situation. But most of us are cooking much, much more. It’s not just about sourdough bread. For everyone, getting good, nutritious and varied grub on the table every day can be a challenge—which is why the big cube riders have done so well. There are a ton of tips and tricks around to help the newer home cooks out there to make something delicious in a hurry. This New York Times article gives you the framework to get organised and build your own menu!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/dining/cooking-foundations.html
We have alway been big fans of the worlds of Supermarionation. From Thunderbirds to Joe90, the minds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson brought us an exciting vision of a possible future. It was a stylish vision too, largely thanks to the design skills of Sylvia. She gave Tracy Island and W.A.S.P HQ a modtastically chic feel, with every detail considered. MessyNessyChic has more…
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/
A note from the Ninth Art Desk: Comics guru and hedge wizard Alan Moore poked his hirsuit features over the parapet, ostensibly to talk about his new film project The Show. Of course, all the interviewers wanted to know about was how pissed off he was with the comics world he was this week. No-one should have been surprised by the reaction or the headlines it generated. It feel to Alan’s daughter Leah to provide some much-needed context.
We were more interested in this Comics Journal chat with artist Jacen Burrows, whose collaboration with Moore on the dense exploration of Lovecraftian mythos, Providence was viewed by many as a high point for both creators. Burrows has carved a niche as an uncompromising artist who does not flinch from depicting some very dark stuff. But his clarity of visual storytelling and sharply observed characterisation make him much more than a gore hound.
We’re going to finish with a couple of online music links. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has built a community around his Twitter Listening Party. It’s a brilliantly simple idea—he picks an album and a time to start playing it, and everyone is encouraged to listen and chat along. It’s a lovely, inclusive way of using social media and hugely popular. Tim’s just pushed out a Spotify playlist featuring one track from each album that’s been at the party, which gives an idea of the broad range of music on offer. For more, check out https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/
Virtual and soft synths are all over the place nowadays. You no longer need ton of cash and a big back room to build up a fine collection of classic squelches, squawks and beats. They can still, however, be a bit tricky to get your head around. Some are as ferociously complex as the hardware they emulate. We therefore really dig Roland’s new 808303.studio, which places the iconic sounds of their classic drum machine and bass synth in an super-easy to play but authentic-sounding package. But don’t take our word for it. We now hand you over to A Guy Called Gerald.
https://www.musictech.net/news/make-free-acid-beats-in-your-browser-with-rolands-808303-studio/?amp
With the man himself on deck, there can only be one choice for our Exit Music. Old school ravers, front and centre. Get out your big and little fish and also your cardboard boxes. It’s time to get on one. Sorted.
See you in seven.
The Cut
We had a link from Wired as the opener this week, on how the work/life balance has become irretrievably skewed (https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/ if you’re interested) but we realised you all know this already. So let’s put that nonsense to one side and instead centre up the nonsense you have come to know and love over the last several months.
This week, scary sound effects, an iconic bus route and a really rather funky musical instrument you can all play.
Now is the time, here is the place. This is The Cut.
Some towns have that one bus route that seems to tie the whole place together. For our home town of Reading it’s the number 17, running right through the middle. In Birmingham it’s all about the circular route taken by the number 11. An interesting bit of psychogeography awaits as Jon Bounds of Paradise Circus takes us up to the top deck…
Rob writes: most of my professional life has been spent working with archive film of all gauges and conditions, from spotless to falling apart. It’s all part of the restoration process, opening a window into times past. Digital techniques have given us opportunities to make the view clearer, moving on from repairing scratches and splices to colouring black and white footage. The question is how far can you take the work? At what point do we move from restoring footage to making up things that were never there in the first place? It’s a complex and fascinating issue speaking to notions of how we view, interpret and use archive material…
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy
In a tastier revisit of old-time technique, we were fascinated by this Atlas Obscura report on a very special circumnavigation of the globe by Spanish sailing ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano—and the even more special cargo she’s carrying…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-aged-at-sea
We’re sliding deeper into spooky season, so we loved this Vice article on how skilled Foley artists create the sounds that add so much to moments of horror in your favourite scary movies. You’ll never look at a stick of celery the same way again…
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7j5wa/horror-movie-foley-artist-sounds
Food delivery services like Just Eat and Deliveroo have banked it big over the months of The Situation. But most of us are cooking much, much more. It’s not just about sourdough bread. For everyone, getting good, nutritious and varied grub on the table every day can be a challenge—which is why the big cube riders have done so well. There are a ton of tips and tricks around to help the newer home cooks out there to make something delicious in a hurry. This New York Times article gives you the framework to get organised and build your own menu!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/dining/cooking-foundations.html
We have alway been big fans of the worlds of Supermarionation. From Thunderbirds to Joe90, the minds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson brought us an exciting vision of a possible future. It was a stylish vision too, largely thanks to the design skills of Sylvia. She gave Tracy Island and W.A.S.P HQ a modtastically chic feel, with every detail considered. MessyNessyChic has more…
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/
A note from the Ninth Art Desk: Comics guru and hedge wizard Alan Moore poked his hirsuit features over the parapet, ostensibly to talk about his new film project The Show. Of course, all the interviewers wanted to know about was how pissed off he was with the comics world he was this week. No-one should have been surprised by the reaction or the headlines it generated. It feel to Alan’s daughter Leah to provide some much-needed context.
We were more interested in this Comics Journal chat with artist Jacen Burrows, whose collaboration with Moore on the dense exploration of Lovecraftian mythos, Providence was viewed by many as a high point for both creators. Burrows has carved a niche as an uncompromising artist who does not flinch from depicting some very dark stuff. But his clarity of visual storytelling and sharply observed characterisation make him much more than a gore hound.
We’re going to finish with a couple of online music links. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has built a community around his Twitter Listening Party. It’s a brilliantly simple idea—he picks an album and a time to start playing it, and everyone is encouraged to listen and chat along. It’s a lovely, inclusive way of using social media and hugely popular. Tim’s just pushed out a Spotify playlist featuring one track from each album that’s been at the party, which gives an idea of the broad range of music on offer. For more, check out https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/
Virtual and soft synths are all over the place nowadays. You no longer need ton of cash and a big back room to build up a fine collection of classic squelches, squawks and beats. They can still, however, be a bit tricky to get your head around. Some are as ferociously complex as the hardware they emulate. We therefore really dig Roland’s new 808303.studio, which places the iconic sounds of their classic drum machine and bass synth in an super-easy to play but authentic-sounding package. But don’t take our word for it. We now hand you over to A Guy Called Gerald.
https://www.musictech.net/news/make-free-acid-beats-in-your-browser-with-rolands-808303-studio/?amp
With the man himself on deck, there can only be one choice for our Exit Music. Old school ravers, front and centre. Get out your big and little fish and also your cardboard boxes. It’s time to get on one. Sorted.
See you in seven.
The Cut
We had a link from Wired as the opener this week, on how the work/life balance has become irretrievably skewed (https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/ if you’re interested) but we realised you all know this already. So let’s put that nonsense to one side and instead centre up the nonsense you have come to know and love over the last several months.
This week, scary sound effects, an iconic bus route and a really rather funky musical instrument you can all play.
Now is the time, here is the place. This is The Cut.
Some towns have that one bus route that seems to tie the whole place together. For our home town of Reading it’s the number 17, running right through the middle. In Birmingham it’s all about the circular route taken by the number 11. An interesting bit of psychogeography awaits as Jon Bounds of Paradise Circus takes us up to the top deck…
Rob writes: most of my professional life has been spent working with archive film of all gauges and conditions, from spotless to falling apart. It’s all part of the restoration process, opening a window into times past. Digital techniques have given us opportunities to make the view clearer, moving on from repairing scratches and splices to colouring black and white footage. The question is how far can you take the work? At what point do we move from restoring footage to making up things that were never there in the first place? It’s a complex and fascinating issue speaking to notions of how we view, interpret and use archive material…
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy
In a tastier revisit of old-time technique, we were fascinated by this Atlas Obscura report on a very special circumnavigation of the globe by Spanish sailing ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano—and the even more special cargo she’s carrying…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-aged-at-sea
We’re sliding deeper into spooky season, so we loved this Vice article on how skilled Foley artists create the sounds that add so much to moments of horror in your favourite scary movies. You’ll never look at a stick of celery the same way again…
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7j5wa/horror-movie-foley-artist-sounds
Food delivery services like Just Eat and Deliveroo have banked it big over the months of The Situation. But most of us are cooking much, much more. It’s not just about sourdough bread. For everyone, getting good, nutritious and varied grub on the table every day can be a challenge—which is why the big cube riders have done so well. There are a ton of tips and tricks around to help the newer home cooks out there to make something delicious in a hurry. This New York Times article gives you the framework to get organised and build your own menu!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/dining/cooking-foundations.html
We have alway been big fans of the worlds of Supermarionation. From Thunderbirds to Joe90, the minds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson brought us an exciting vision of a possible future. It was a stylish vision too, largely thanks to the design skills of Sylvia. She gave Tracy Island and W.A.S.P HQ a modtastically chic feel, with every detail considered. MessyNessyChic has more…
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/
A note from the Ninth Art Desk: Comics guru and hedge wizard Alan Moore poked his hirsuit features over the parapet, ostensibly to talk about his new film project The Show. Of course, all the interviewers wanted to know about was how pissed off he was with the comics world he was this week. No-one should have been surprised by the reaction or the headlines it generated. It feel to Alan’s daughter Leah to provide some much-needed context.
We were more interested in this Comics Journal chat with artist Jacen Burrows, whose collaboration with Moore on the dense exploration of Lovecraftian mythos, Providence was viewed by many as a high point for both creators. Burrows has carved a niche as an uncompromising artist who does not flinch from depicting some very dark stuff. But his clarity of visual storytelling and sharply observed characterisation make him much more than a gore hound.
We’re going to finish with a couple of online music links. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has built a community around his Twitter Listening Party. It’s a brilliantly simple idea—he picks an album and a time to start playing it, and everyone is encouraged to listen and chat along. It’s a lovely, inclusive way of using social media and hugely popular. Tim’s just pushed out a Spotify playlist featuring one track from each album that’s been at the party, which gives an idea of the broad range of music on offer. For more, check out https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/
Virtual and soft synths are all over the place nowadays. You no longer need ton of cash and a big back room to build up a fine collection of classic squelches, squawks and beats. They can still, however, be a bit tricky to get your head around. Some are as ferociously complex as the hardware they emulate. We therefore really dig Roland’s new 808303.studio, which places the iconic sounds of their classic drum machine and bass synth in an super-easy to play but authentic-sounding package. But don’t take our word for it. We now hand you over to A Guy Called Gerald.
https://www.musictech.net/news/make-free-acid-beats-in-your-browser-with-rolands-808303-studio/?amp
With the man himself on deck, there can only be one choice for our Exit Music. Old school ravers, front and centre. Get out your big and little fish and also your cardboard boxes. It’s time to get on one. Sorted.
See you in seven.
