Here’s a digital version of the programme for this year’s KYTN, which went off to print today.
Sound advice from Put This On.
RIP Nick Dewar, 1973-2010.
Glaciers
Meeting of Tides
Here Come The Glaciers!, forthcoming
Oh, hell. This is beautiful. Glaciers is Nicolas Burrows of Nous Vous. He played a small, perfectly formed set in the Bowery last year (with fellow NVer William Edmonds), and there is an album to come. For the time being there two other live tracks courtesy of The Golden Owl.
Howard Zinn (via nevver, via cliftonburt)
I’m glad this clip of the most recent episode of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe seems to be making the rounds. It’s a downright eerie watch, much like the rest of the show, which does a fine job of cataloguing genuinely shady/unnerving practices in television news.
I’ve been a little quiet lately, and will continue to be for another week or so while I finish off work on another project with Arika, the promoters behind Instal: a festival I created the identity and materials for last year.
Kill Your Timid Notion is a week-long festival of experimental music and film that invites people to test and investigate the concepts that music and sound, film and moving image, are based upon. It is totally fascinating. It also helps me make good on the Tibor Kalman quote about working with people smarter than you.
Until then, you might also want to keep an eye out for me in the forthcoming issue of WIRED (US). More on that soon. Oh! There also might be a new Sing Statistics release in the next few months, though I’m determined not to talk about that too much until it’s out. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Where’d you all come from at once?
Edit: Thanks all! It seems I’m listed in Tumblr’s directory. Thanks Tumblr! Welcome newcomers!
I’ve started a new weekly spot for New Statesman called The Chartist - a little visualisation of a variety of current affairs statistics. Here’s this week’s: a comparison of media sources by how many times they’ve mentioned ‘snow’ in recent weeks.
Congratulations to BBC Online for their commitment to redundancy.
No embedding allowed on these videos sadly, but I highly advise you to spend some time with these animations by a Scottish feller called Davey (I think). Surreal and hilarious. More at swatpaz.net (via @JosieLong)
Woods
