week 139

– The complete works of Walter Benjamin are available as PDFs.  Here’s the big one – thanks to Sam Valenti for the tipoff. – James…

here come the sun

Happy solstice, team.  Oh, let’s go around one more time.

2015: shows of the year

Four Tet x Floating Points @ Sugar Hill Disco The best reasons to live in the UK came to NYC, played two shows, and I…

2015: tracks of the year

Tyler Drift – Style This (*ahem*) cover of Swift’s cultural carpet bomb devoured me for at least first half of the year. Psychemagick – This…

2015: albums of the year

Veeery strong year, here. Africa Express – In C Mali I wanted this album so badly I installed iTunes, bought it, and then uninstalled iTunes….

2015: sets of the year

Objekt – Live at Freerotation, 2014 So last year.  Whatever – this is as joyous and heavy and welcoming and brilliant a DJ set as…

2015: concerts of the year

FKA twigs presents Congregata Oh.  My.  God.  Impossible voice, amazing choreography, undeniable stage presence, mindboggling lights (yes, that’s a laser off a sequined top), show of…

week 138

Back in action. – If you have not read Bret Victor on the climate crisis, do so right now. – In similar heady reads, Kickstarter’s…

week 137

Still on catch-up. – Google has open-sourced their machine learning system.  This is sort of amazing, even if some of my academic pals are not…

week 136

Late, again, but lots to talk about. – Y Combinator is starting a research lab.  Which is interesting in at least six ways.  I, personally,…