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nwdsc · 2 years

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Many Worlds Interpretation by Jon Iverson

Many Worlds Interpretation is a collection of cosmic Americana for electronics, guitar, and percussion culled from Jon Iverson’s extensive home-studio archive. 1984, Los Osos, California. In a small cinderblock cottage, hand-painted with bright psychedelic flora, Jon Iverson created vibrant new worlds. He spent long days and nights immersed in sound, perfecting home recording on his 8-track reel-to-reel, combining his love for kosmische and Berlin School electronics with an infatuation with ethnographic sounds and expansive guitar music. In a duo with fellow sonic traveler Thomas Walters, Iverson released missives from the studio on a self-titled LP released on country legend Guthrie Thomas’ Eagle Records. That release featured three electro-acoustic compositions (“Naningo”, “River Fen”, and “Fox Tales”) as well as a gathering of guitar duo tapestries. Many Worlds Interpretation re-imagines those interplanetary works alongside several unreleased compositions that also feature synthesizer, guitar, and percussion, creating a re-visioned album which leans into Iverson’s electronic studio wizardry. All songs have been carefully transferred from analog tape to high resolution digital, retaining their vintage studio warmth, but mixed and mastered for modern ears and audio systems. The album is pressed at 45rpm, further enhancing the audiophile experience. RIYL: Innovative Communication, Eblen Macari, Priscilla Ermel, Popol Vuh, Steve Tibbetts --- Artist Statement I worked in a Harley Davidson parts warehouse in the summer of 1976 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal was to save enough money to buy transportation for college and a Teac 4 track 1/4" reel to reel tape machine. By September there was a rusting monkey-vomit green car in the driveway and shiny new Teac with a Sony condenser microphone in the bedroom. At this point I had been playing guitar for a dozen years and like most children of the sixties, dreamed of joining a band. Went to college instead to study business. But all was not lost. 1978-1979 was spent as Weird Al Yankovic's roommate and we recorded and created enough songs to play shows around San Luis Obispo, California, where we were attending college. Many of those recordings have yet to be heard by the public, including the first performances of My Bologna and many other parodies of pop songs of the day. We sent tapes to Dr. Demento, we auditioned for The Gong Show and were barred from playing at the local college after one memorable performance. Wild times. I, however, was more intent on working on "serious" music, with albums from Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre providing inspiration. DJing at the local college radio station and then public radio outlet provided exposure to an endless stream of obscure albums (Sky Records from Germany was a particular favourite). Most of them would never make it to the air, but my buddies and I would pass them around like exotic treasure. Fast forward a couple more years and I had picked up a Mini-Moog and eventually a Prophet V synthesizer as well as starting a collection of instruments from around the world. The Teac and synths formed the basis for a growing DIY studio that had taken over a modest-size garage (pictured on the cover) that had been converted into a two room cottage in Los Osos, California. The Teac was eventually joined by a rented Otari 1/2" 8-track and then finally a vintage MCI JH-100 2" 16-track. The compositions on this album were recorded on these three machines between 1982 and 1989. At some point an Apple II computer with Alpha Syntauri sound card and keyboard were added and then later the first personal computer sampling hardware/software kit, the Decillionix DX-1. The DX-1 forms the rhythm track for “Fox Tales” and the Alpha Syntauri was programmed to create the pulsing synth for “Naningo”. “River Fen” was tracked with both the Alpha Syntauri and the Prophet V. I knew this music wasn't commercial, but didn't care. It was inspiring working with the first computer-based synths and semi-pro gear. Home studios were still rare in the early 80s until the Tascam Portastudio blew the DIY door wide-open. But I was more interested in sound quality so stuck with reels of tape instead of lower fidelity cassettes. During the time these songs were recorded, I was also collaborating with my good friend and mandolinist, Tom Walters. “River Fen”, “Naningo” and “Fox Tales”, were solo recordings that also ended up on the first Iverson & Walters album, First Collection. The other four pieces on this new LP were never fully finished or released until now. — Jon Iverson, September 2022 クレジット2022年11月25日リリース Written, played, recorded and mixed by Jon Iverson. Mastered by Brandon Hocura Design by Alan Briand 34SC

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automarketking · 4 years

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1976 Cadillac Coupe DeVille (Glastonbury, CT) $27,500 obo

You are looking at a mint condition survivor. Powered by the number's matching 500 V8 with 10,166 original miles, this runs great with no end in sight. Purchased new and kept within same one owner family, it is a clean collision free car. The coupe has been very well maintained and garaged with a full cover. never driven in rain or snow, the quality is actually better than one could expect. Service records with mileage listed are available. This exceptional conveyance is a true survivor car and would make the most welcome addition to any collection. Equipment features include but are not limited to an AM/FM stereo with built in 8-track tape player, power steering, power brakes, power door locks, power seats, power windows, air conditioning, tilt wheel, remote control trunk lock, carpeted floor mats, rear window defroster, passenger side remote control mirror, leather seats, trunk mat and new “Broadway Whites” radial tires. This Caddy has just completed a thorough inspection and service by vintage auto restoration shop.

For more information please give our friend Matt a call at 860-874-3723

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criticalangst · 5 years

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SHAPPY’S 10 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT KINGS ISLAND -- THE BEST AMUSEMENT PARK EVER

10 COOL THINGS ABOUT KINGS ISLAND AMUSEMENT PARK IN THE 70s & 80s

By Shappy Seasholtz

1. When you walk through the entrance, you are greeted by Fred & Barney, Scooby-Doo, Hong Kong Phooey and half of The Banana Splits in front of a dancing water fountain in front of a fake Eiffel Tower!

2. In 1975, Evel Kneivel jumped over 14 Greyhound buses in the parking lot setting a new world record!

"Wooden Roller Coaster - The Beast at Kings Island Theme Park" by Warren County CVB is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

3. It has THE BEAST! The biggest, baddest, longest, fastest, wooden roller coaster in the world! On one of it's test runs it ripped the head off a dummy! (Or was it really a human being?)

4. Both The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family shot episodes there!

5. When you rode The Screamin' Demon, one of the world's first looping roller coasters, it would stop mid-loop and people's wallets and sunglasses would fall out on to a little island full of monkeys in front of the Wild Animal Safari. The monkeys would throw all the tourist flotsam and jetsam at each other like their own poop!

6. Crafty lions and leopards kept finding ways to break out of the Wild Animal Safari which added a real sense of danger to that area of the park!

7. They sold fruit drinks in molded plastic fruit that represented whatever flavor you were drinking. Grape juice in grapes, orange drink in oranges, etc. As a kid I thought this was marketing GENIUS!

In The Happy Land Of Hanna-Barbera they had a ride called the Enchanted Voyage which was an air-conditioned boat ride through a giant television set.

8. They had an old-timey locomotive train ride that took you back in time to the pioneer days and real cowboys and indians used to jump out of the woods and on to the moving train scaring the crap out of little kids (including me)!

9. TimberWolf Theater got cool bands to play! I saw The Four Tops & The Temptations with my mom & dad! My first concert! Over the years I see Huey Lewis & The News, .38 Special, The Go-Go's, Paul Young and Tears For Fears! Shout, shout, let it all out!

10. In The Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera they had a ride called Enchanted Voyage (see a vintage home movie below) which was an air-conditioned boat ride through a giant television set. While you waited in line they played all the theme songs to my favorite Hanna-Barbera shows! I must have taken this Enchanted Voyage a hundred times! When you floated in there were all of your favorite cartoon characters come to life! The Hillbilly Bears! Wacky Races! Squiddly Diddly! At the end of the ride you entered a Scooby-Doo style haunted house and then spat out into some sort of psychedelic circus. Then they changed it to The Smurfs in the 80s and harshed my mellow. But I remember that ride like I just got off the boat and back in line.

It might have been the closest thing to nirvana I have ever experienced.

Shappy Seasholtz has an extensive 8-Track tape collection, an impressive selection of View-Master reels, a vast array of plastic figurines of old advertising mascots and far too many long boxes of comic books. Shappy is a National Poetry Slam Champion and is the creator of the Nerd Slam, a poetry competition that is half nerd poetry, half trivia-off. He has appeared on CNN, MTV and HBO's DEF POETRY. His most recent collection of poems, SPOKEN NERD REVOLUTION was published by Penmanship Books in 2011 and his work has appeared in several WRITE BLOODY PRESS anthologies. He is currently in Michigan working on his poetry memoir -- AMERICAN BUCKEYE.

Enchanted Voyage home video from 1980:

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Commericals from the Smurfin’ Time era:

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my-avworkshop-posts · 5 years

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DVD Transfer - Video to DVD Transfer

Your videotapes will never look the same again!

Long time AV Workshop customer Bernardo M., brought in his distinguished Vintage Racing VHS tape Collection for transfer to DVD. Bernardo recorded these races every season over a 10 year period in the 1990s and 2000s. The VHS tapes were very special to him, for they documented some of the best Races of all time! These tapes were quite a challenge for AV Workshop as they were recorded in the EP (6hr) mode which can present a lot of quality issues such as a weak picture, video dropout, tracking errors, instability and noise. The AV team is always up for the challenge.

Our Video Transfer Process

1) Video Stabilization AV Workshop uses S-Video cables which separate luminance and chrominance (Color from Light). Thus, detail / edges will be a s sharp as possible. The video is stabilized with a TBC to alleviate unstable video and create a rock solid image.

2) Audio Enhancement On VHS we capture the normal audio channel instead of the Hifi channel as it is a dedicated audio channel and not disturbed from video dropout. Then, we raise the gain to approx -6db and apply noise reduction to sweeten the audio!

3) Video Editing We trim the beginning and end of every video removing unwanted dead air / TV Snow. Thus, you only see the recorded portion of your tapes.

4) Encoding / Output We maximize the bitrate of every DVD Transfer to allow the highest quality available.

AV Workshop ran the precious recordings through our freshly updated video transfer equipment. Both AV machine rooms have recently been updated and are setup with a large number of high-end JVC S-VHS VCRs. These decks are the best playback source for VHS tapes, especially VHS tapes recorded in EP. High end JVC S-VHS decks have a built in TBC and Video Stabilization filter to stabilize a weak and unstable video. Once the videotapes were digitized, we applied Level Optimization and Noise reduction to the audio. Each video was then edited to remove unwanted TV snow, and irrelevant content from the beginning and end. Thus, every DVD is just racing!

After the videos were edited, we created separate DVDs maximizing the bitrate capabilities of each disc to allow up to 2hrs of high quality content. We went the extra step for Bernardo, and tried to create a unique DVD for each Race where possible. Finally, the DVDs were labelled and consolidated into a convenient DVD Binder!

Audio Video Workshop 703 Woodside Road, Suite 8, Redwood City, California 94061 650-369-4366 https://av-workshop.com/

#audio transfer #audio video transfer #audio video workshop #video workshop #film transfer #video transfer #image scanning #photo enhance #video to dvd #video to dvd conversion #wedding video services #video editing services #video production services

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thehifiproject · 5 years

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1989: a vintage year for classic albums

What was in the water 30 years ago? Today, in 2019, a surprising number of artists and bands are celebrating the 30th anniversary of some of their greatest albums. Sure, 1988 and 1990 have their fair share of significant releases, but 1989 was a stonker of a year.

Read on to discover our favourite ‘Big Albums’ from 1989.

The decedent 80s drew to a close with landmark releases across all genres. The ‘second summer of love’ had pushed dance music and rave culture into the mainstream, whilst indie guitar upstarts suddenly found themselves playlisted on daytime Radio One. As these contrasting acts rubbed shoulders on TOTP and across NOW compilations, influences began to cross-pollinate, lighting the touch paper for Madchester and beyond.

In the studio, samplers and digital recording kit had become more affordable. Artists could realise ideas without the mortgage-scale budgets of the Fairlight pioneers earlier in the decade (Bush, Gabriel, Horn, Clarke et al).

At home, the CD format was firmly established but still in its infancy compared to its dominance in the late-90s. Cassette tapes sold more than vinyl in 1989, mainly driven by the US market. 1989 was also the year Comet Group bought up all 31 branches of the Laskys hi-fi chain – remember Laskys? You could still buy hi-fi separates in stores like Boots, but the masses mainly wanted neater ‘stack’ or ‘midi’ systems from brands like Aiwa, Kenwood, Technics and Sony.

So, what were we playing on these systems?

If we squint our rose-tinted vision just beyond hits by Jive Bunny, Kylie & Jason and, ugh, Band Aid II, 1989 offers a plethora of genre-defining debut LPs alongside creative peaks from established artists.

Before I ruffle anyone’s feathers, I admit this is a totally subjective piece. I have not been studying sales figures or cross-referencing reviews in Q Magazine, but many ‘89 albums pop up in the ‘Top 10’ lists of Pitchfork, NME or Rolling Stone etc, and they’re frequently referenced as key influences by artists and producers today.

Here’s a selection of my favourites. It’s by no means exhaustive.

Which albums were you cueing up on your Technics linear-tracking deck in 1989, and what type of TDK tape were you recording them onto?

Let us know in the comments.

1. The Cure – Disintegration

Last week the band completed a five-night run of gigs at Sydney Opera House, celebrating 30 years since the release of their landmark Disintegration album. No doubt many of its tracks will also feature when they headline Glastonbury this summer.

I was a big Cure fan as a teenager. I nipped out of school at lunchtime to buy Disintegration on the day it was released. It was a hot, sunny day and I drew the curtains to listen in the dark.

2. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

Before Spike Island or even Fool’s Gold, 1989 introduced us to this genre-defining eponymous Mancunian debut. Nothing quite chimes and grooves like the Roses’ early output and its unrivalled sing-along nostalgia.

3. De La Soul – Three Feet High & Rising

Rhymes, skits and daisies. This funky and humorous collage of samples from the NY trio has been referred to as “genius”, “a hip-hop masterpiece”. It was reissued by Vinyl Me, Please as a double LP in their Essential series earlier this year.

4. Kate Bush – The Sensual World

How do you follow a career-defining work like Hounds of Love? It seems you turn inwards, re-write the closing passages of Ulysses and employ a Bulgarian male choir. You also deliver one of the most heart-breaking performances committed to tape in This Woman’s Work.

The Sensual World may not reach the heights of its predecessor (it was one of the albums Kate reworked significantly for the Director’s Cut project), but it remains a convincing release from such an enigmatic creative talent. It earned her Brit Award nominations for both Best Album and Best Producer.

5. New Order – Technique

Ibiza, Factory, The Hacienda, ecstasy, even sheep sound effects. The stories behind this album have sold thousands of books for each member of the band. It was their first LP to reach No 1 in the UK and still sounds magnificent today.

6. Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love

The band’s third studio album took almost two years and £1million to make. Considering the hugely successful Songs From The Big Chair cost nearer £70,000, this could have led to the end of their record contract and career! Luckily, they had the chutzpah to see it through. Seeds reached No 1 in the UK and achieved platinum status in numerous territories across the globe.

Sadly, the album took its toll on Orzabal and Smith’s relationship. It was the last one they could work on together for over a decade.

Immaculately produced, the album features many established session players (including Phil Collins on drums, who himself released But Seriously… in 1989), but is most noted for introducing the world to the voice of Oleta Adams.

7. Neneh Cherry – Raw Like Sushi

If you came to Raw Like Sushiexpecting nine more tracks like the huge hit Buffalo Stance, you would have been disappointed. The album stood out for its range of styles and depth of influence. When you reflect on Cherry’s debut as an album envision by a ‘musician/artist’, rather than fronted by the ‘rapper/singer’ Buffalo Stancesuggests, it’s no surprise that she is still recording and performing today.

8. Pixies – Doolittle

Back in the late 80s, nothing else sounded quite like The Pixies. With their second full-length, the band perfected their loud-quiet-loud pop blast, offering up a key blueprint for Nirvana’s looming commercial breakthrough Nevermind.

9. Tom Petty – Full Moon Forever

Louder Sound describes Petty’s ’89 release as“a remarkably consistent collection of wonderfully constructed rootsy rock songs. Petty teams up with ELO guru and fellow Travelling Wilbury Jeff Lynne, who does an immaculate production job as well as co-writing the album’s standout tracks, Free Fallin’ and I Won’t Back Down.”

10. Soul II Soul – Club Classics Vol 1

In the summer of 1989, the single Back To Life and its accompanying MTV-friendly video took Soul II Soul’s London slant on R&B/Soul around the world. The album goes deeper (Back To Life features only as an acapella) but brings underground club vibes to the mainstream, going triple-platinum in the UK and Top 20 in the US (No 1 in the R&B chart).

“A happy face, a thumping bass for a loving race.”

11. Paul’s Boutique

Sorry! I couldn’t keep this list to just ten albums! The Beasties’ now-beloved second album was considered a flop at the time, but, in the ensuing years, has been embraced as a landmark of sample-based hip-hop.

The Best Of The Rest

It doesn’t stop there. The list of landmark 1989 albums rolls and rolls.

What have we missed in the list below?

10,000 Maniacs, Blind Man’s Zoo

Elvis Costello, Spike

NWA, Straight Outta Compton

Tracy Chapman, Crossroads

Eurythmics, We Too Are One

Simply Red, A New Flame

Ian McCulloch, Candleland

Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule

The Beautiful South, Welcome to the Beautiful South

The Jesus and Mary Chain, Automatic

Nirvana, Bleach

The B-52s, Cosmic Thing

Queen, The Miracle

Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Mother’s Milk

Lou Reed, New York

The Cult, Sonic Temple

The The, Mind Bomb

The Wedding Present, Bizarro

Pop Will Eat Itself, This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This!

Throwing Muses, Hunkpapa

The Wonder Stuff, Hup

Julee Cruise, Floating into the Night

Simple Minds, Street Fighting Years

The Primitives, Pure

Jesus Jones, Liquidizer

Tin Machine, Tin Machine

Kirsty MacColl, Kite

808 State, 90

Kitchens of Distinction, Love is Hell

#1989 #bestalbum #1989albums #musiclist #Audiophile #vinylcollector #vinyl #best albums #musiclover #80s music #topten

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joehaupt · 1 year

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Vintage Aquatron AM-FM Radio With 8 Track Stereo Tape Player By Brother, Model VX-33A, Brother International Corporation, Made In Japan, Circa 1973 by Joe Haupt

#Vintage Aquatron Model VX-33 8 AM-FM 8 Track Stereo By Brother #Vintage 8 Track Tape Collection #Vintage Tape Players #Vintage Radio Collection #flickr

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sdlee1983 · 1 year

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: VINTAGE 8-TRACK TAPES.

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compactdiscjunky-blog · 6 years

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But, but why??........

I am a cd collector, and proud of it, I think!!

Up until about 1 year ago I was a vinyl collector. Records records records, I was enlightened. I saw collecting records as a way to stay in touch with the many many artists and bands I so love (we will get to my eclectic tastes later). I was going strong about 5 years into my collection and my step away from the intangible iTunes library, I had amassed a really nice collection of about 600-700 albums. Had a decent vintage Pioneer turntable and a decent vintage stereo setup under it. I’m on my way I thought.......or was I?

I realized quickly that I only listen to my records about twice a week and that ,with a full time job, wife and 2 little boys ,it’s a lot of work. I spent most of my listening time cleaning and changing records. It became inconvenient and started to become more task than relaxation. I also started to notice a big focus in my purchases became variants and value. Did I need 3 variants of the same record because of value? Wasn’t I in this for the love of music? And if it wasn’t about value and collection size,why was I constantly on Discogs.com looking at the value of my collection? The whole thing started to seem very bourgeois and in the same moment sort of off putting.

I knew I wanted a tangible medium, not just a list of files on a computer screen, something to hold,something to dig for, something that could produce a smile and that same feeling vinyl gave me when I found that sought after album , something still found in public marketplaces and 2nd hand stores. But it had to be affordable. I want to collect music not valuable pieces of paper and plastic.....reel to reel? More bourgeois than vinyl,that’s a no. Tapes? All beat, stretched and torn to shit....nope. 8 tracks? No. Then I realized, if it was about the music ,it pretty much had to be CDs.

Cheap and readily available just about everywhere! So now here I am about 1 year in with a collection of about 400 CDs. Most found at goodwill and other thrift stores,harder to find stuff paid for at a premium (premium means $8.00 instead of $1.00) at record stores and Discogs .

So here we are! This blog / tumblr will be my journey through a revival of music collecting....enjoy and let me see what you find too!

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jeremystrele · 3 years

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A Designer’s Japanese-Inspired Melbourne Family Home

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by Lucy Feagins, Editor

‘It is so lovely to close the sliding doors and close yourself into this dark room lined with books and the leather-lined box window seat,’ says Kim. Dining table by Dario Zoureff passed down from Lou’s grandparents. Chairs sourced on Gumtree. Armchair from Space Furniture. Tall kentia palms from Lygon Street Nursery. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Kim painstakingly removed the plaster and all of the clumps of glue to expose the original brick fireplace. Couch by Jardan. Log stool by Greg Hatton. Woven lampshade found in hard rubbish. Joinery designed by Kim and built by Woodcraft Mobiliar. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Originally trained in fashion design, many of the values and principles of my interior design practice, stem from my sustainable fashion practice. My personal style philosophy is about supporting independent, local designers and buying second hand, something I also do with all of my interiors,’ says Kim. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The best seat in the house! Joinery designed by Kim and built by Woodcraft Mobiliar. Log stool by Greg Hatton. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

This artwork was a gift from friend Jodie Zutt. ‘In our twenties she lived in Brunswick and I lived in North Fitzroy and we had a daily practice of posting creative snail mail to each other, full of drawings, photos, ideas, sewing. I still have a suitcase full of the years of letters I received from her – each an artwork in its’ own right,’ says Kim. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Low storage is part of three piece stacked vintage kimono storage unit from Kazari + Ziguzagu. Tall shelf from The Junk Company. Fencing mask from Tarlo & Graham. Storage box on shelf from The Hub General Store. Woven bag from Camberwell Market used as planter. Vases from @tombo.co. Trent Jansen for Broached Commissions Pankalangu bowl on dining table. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Dining table passed down from Lou’s grandparents, custom made by Dario Zoureff. Italian 1950’s Stillnovo vintage pendant light sourced through @pamonodotcom. Stellar Works bar stools. Dining chairs sourced on Gumtree. Secondhand vintage frosted deco glass door found. Staircase painting by Laura Lancaster. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Irving Penn photo taken in collaboration with Issey Miyake. ‘Monoliths’ sculptural vases by Broached Commissions are Kim’s favourite piece in the house. The vintage fan in the lounge room has travelled with Kim to every house she’s ever lived in, even overseas. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

The courtyard is planted with shady bamboo. Freestanding Smeg oven. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Timber salvaged from St Kilda pier softens the luxe black granite splashback. The bamboo courtyard and crystal-filled benchtop stone are distinctly Kim, keeping me grounded to my tropical, esoteric roots. Freestanding Smeg oven. Copper pans from Phillip & Lea. Stellar Works bar stools. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Old couch stuffed and re-upholstered after the renovation. Vintage art deco rug from 1stDibs. Broached Recall Monolith side table from Broached Commissions. Wall light by Apparatus studio Criteria Collection. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Part of Kim’s ever-growing collection of English and French stoneware and mustard jars. ‘The skull was from the Coburg Trash and Treasure Market. We became so known to the regular traders as interested in ‘weird things’ that on seeing us they would have already put aside skulls, bones, tribal arrows and other such collectables for us,’ says Kim. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

The study nook under the stairs. ‘Circuit 1’ vertical light by Apparatus Studio available at Criteria Collection. Desk wall light found at Campberwell Markets. Tribal mask and wooden clamp from Rodwell and Astor. Vintage timber draws collected by Bhon Projects. Poliform extendable dining table. Vintage Japanese thread and spool Kazari + Ziguzagu. Blue tape dispenser The Hub General Store. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

‘Our 8-year-old is very curious about science and the natural world. He has spent the last few years thinking he wants to be a Frog Scientist and is an avid collector of bones, skeletons, stones and shells,’ says Kim. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Another corner of Max’s room. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Vintage scallop edged mirror sourced on Gumtree. Taps by CB Ideal. Stone benchtop from a local family business just down the road: Daniels Marble House. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

The green bathroom has onsen vibes! Small Japanese soaking tub from The Japanese Bath Company. Hanging planters from Mr Kitly sprayed with copper coloured paint. Metallic ceramic planter from Rodwell and Astor. Copper tiffins and planter from op shop and market rummages. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Vintage 1960’s Japanese mosaic tiles that Kim found hidden out the back of a tile shop in Preston and bought before they closed their business. Brass tray by Fog Linen from The Hub General Store. Taps by CB Ideal. Timber stool @tombo.co. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Painting by Emily Kame Kngwarreye passed down by Lou’s grandparents. Bed linen from Cultiver. Bed spread from Hale Mercantile. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

‘The stonetop credenza was commissioned by Lou’s grandparents in the late 1960’s by Hungarian Jewish immigrant Dario Zoureff, who is considered one of Melbourne’s important modernist furniture designers. Lou’s brother has the armchairs and coffee table that were part of their furniture commission,’ says Kim. Indigenous sculptures were gifts to the boys from a dear friend who was living and working in Yuendumu, NT. Vintage Japanese abacas from @tombo.co. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

The original Victorian arch in the hallway frames the ever-growing salon hang. The amazing credenza commissioned by Lou’s grandparents in the 60’s along with their dining table – both designed and made by Dario Zoureff. Vintage pendant light from Geoffrey Hatty. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The cedar-clad box addition to the back of our house has extra thick roof and eaves to offer protection from the sun. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

Collingwood colours in the 14-year-old’s bedroom! The Turbo Brown magpie artwork was his birthday gift to him a few years ago -the ‘arts version’ of supporting the game he loves. Photo – Eve Wilson for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli

It’s hard to imagine now, but back in 2013 when this Brunswick East property was for sale, nobody wanted it. Rumour has it the property once had established olive trees along the front, which were removed in the hopes the site would be seen as a worthwhile subdivision for a townhouse development.

‘This was before Brunswick East real estate prices went crazy, and they didn’t succeed in selling the property for what they wanted. Lou stumbled across it when it was off market,’ says designer Kim Kneipp, who purchased the house with her partner Lou Weis, creative director of Broached Commissions.

A quick cosmetic renovation sustained them while Kim was pregnant, before a ‘proper’ renovation commencing in 2014. ‘We were in such a panic to nest that we essentially resigned ourselves to the quickest fabrication process imaginable, that being prefab. We added a new kitchen, dining, lounge room and upstairs parent retreat with an en suite’ says Kim.

With Kim’s styling flair, the home has grown over time to reflect the creative family who live here, including sons Felix, 14, and Max, 8.

Kim’s design explores the ‘wabi’ design philosophy, embracing elegant simplicity, and ‘a love for shadow play’, as described by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in his book In Praise of Shadows. Rather than opening up the house to the bright northern light, large eaves and internal courtyards and zones have been created throughout, providing spaces with a softer, more diffused light, that gently track the sun’s movements throughout the day.

‘The house is mostly white with shadowy, dark zones, which creates a calm backdrop to frame our timber textures and bright green tropical garden,’ Kim says.

Also integrated into the home are details not obvious to the visitor that hold sentimental value. For example, Lou’s love of St Kilda, where he previously lived, is referenced in the salvaged kitchen timbers.

‘I have a good friend who collects recycled timbers, and I knew he had the old St Kilda Pier in his collection, so when we renovated, I bought pieces from him that were then used to make our kitchen shelves and the front face of our kitchen island,’ says Kim. ‘It was the closest I could get to bringing St Kilda to East Brunswick.’

Once appearing as a ‘respectable Victorian dame invaded by a futuristic robot’ (in Kim’s words!), the use of dark exterior paint, combined with the gradual growth of a jungle-like garden all around have softened the edges of this home, and given it a relaxed, lived-in feel. The family have also created a lush nature corridor for birds and insects here, including a frog pond for nature loving Max!

‘All of the vines and plants have softened the exterior relationship of the house and our front deck recreates my country Queensland childhood, encouraging so much conversation and interaction with neighbours and passersby,’ says Kim.

In keeping with Kim’s design philosophy, this home is humble by design, and luxurious by finish. Interiors are built to be perfectly imperfect, using materials that will age and patina over time, and textures intended to soften with wear.

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grinningramma · 3 years

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Lot of 18 vintage magnetic 8-track blank tapes $40 OBO plus shipping #collectible #vintage #8tracktapes #recordable (at Blountville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQMK60Mrkl6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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thetapelessworld · 3 years

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Spitfire Audio and associated London label SA Recordings announce availability of HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS sample library and album namesake

Spitfire Audio is proud to announce availability of HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS — a sample library comprising an extension of the sound palette of Berlin-based electronic music composer and performer Hainbach’s musically mind- blowing Landfill Totems concept album simultaneously released on SA Recordings, the London-based label owned by the British music technology company, allowing access to a truly unique world of one-of-a-kind, bespoke sounds expertly curated by Hainbach himself from long-forgotten, now-obsolete test equipment collected from nuclear research labs, grandfathers’ sheds, and scrap heaps, completely repurposed and given a new lease of life as instruments, meticulously recorded and processed further before being presented in Spitfire Audio’s award-winning, easy-to-use plug-in as many morphing and evolving sounds suited to techno and ambient music production, as well as cutting-edge film scoring — as of April 8… Berlin-based electronic music composer and performer Hainbach (a.k.a. Stefan Goetsch) creates shifting audio landscapes living on the experimental edge of electronica, championed by British independent print and online music magazine The Wire — widely renowned for its coverage of a wide range of global alternative, underground, and experimental musics — as “...one hell of a trip.” The music itself is an abstract yet visceral experience, fashioned from esoteric synthesizers, test equipment, magnetic tape, and idiophones — instruments that totally vibrate when struck, shaken, or scraped. Straddling studio to stage, Hainbach’s immersive live performances are also admired, manifesting more recently through his YouTube Channel, where he has amassed an ever-expanding loyal following, sharing his experimental journeys and expertise with wider audiences.

Appropriately, the Landfill Totems project started life as a performance installation at Berlin’s PNDT — a new art gallery whose purpose is to provide a space for culture and creation, for presentation and appreciation of art in all its forms, expanding exponentially into a full album and accompanying sample library recorded at Patch Point, builders and sellers of unique instruments in Kreuzberg-Berlin — much more than a standard store on account of offering residencies to promote community and education through a free booking room filled with unique synthesizers for everyone to play. Hainbach himself puts it this way: “What I love about Patch Point is that it is a place for those interested in sound and music itself. You don’t go there to buy a box with 999 presets that will make you sound like the industry standard; you go there to find something that speaks to you. You pick up something that will start an intimate process of music creation, and it will sound like you, and only you.” Subsequently stacked into three monolithic towers resembling totem poles, each piece of equipment thereon was carefully chosen by Hainbach for its distinctive tone generation and modulation capabilities before being wired together much like a modular synthesiser. Says the electronic music composer and performer eventually lending his notable name and one-of-a-kind, bespoke sounds to Spitfire Audio’s HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS sample library: “Each tower of equipment took the form of a lifelike statue, and suddenly all these faces started appearing in the machines. They made massive sounds and unfamiliar noises and I thought, ‘I want these to be heard — to sing again.’”

As anyone observing those assembled anthropomorphic figures could conceivably concur, a deep appreciation and affection for the engineering technology of the past is apparent — totally unique machines assembled for one final swan song. Ultimately upcycled and redesigned as pillars and shrines, these totems act as a commentary on the environmental cost of progress; what was once the pinnacle of technology quickly becomes unviable and destined for the scrapheap — if not for the intervention of Hainbach, creating beauty from that which is thought to be obsolete. Carefully chosen to create this towering collection is medical, telecommunication, and scientific research equipment, vintage sound-testing devices, a Nuclear Instrumentation Modular, an outmoded medical signal generator, a mixer previously used by the Stasi — the state security service in former East Germany, and a Brüel & Kjaer 1613 bandpass filter creating the hi-hat, bass drum, and watery sounds.

Simultaneously released alongside Hainbach’s musically mind-blowing Landfill Totems concept album on SA Recordings, Spitfire Audio’s sample library namesake sees those same machines completely repurposed and given a new lease of life in an unforeseen capacity as instruments, producing unpredictable sounds from another world — wide ranging from eerie morse code bleeps and comms signals to flickering bass pulses; deep drones and ominous pads to grainy textural rhythms; visceral clicks, industrial drum hits and loops; and electromagnetic noise to heavenly humanoid ‘voices’. Virtual instrument brilliance is guaranteed as everything is meticulously recorded and processed further as dystopian sounds presented in Spitfire Audio’s award-winning, easy-to-use plug-in providing access to truly one-of-a- kind, bespoke creations, impossible to recreate otherwise.

On the face of it, then, the plug-in provides 40 presets split into four sections: Kling — presets containing elements from all other sections, with a huge range of textures available to explore using the mod wheel; Klang — tonal sounds, from evolving pads to pulsating drones; Knarz — textural and effects-style sounds, from watery to alien-like; and Krach — percussion and drum hits, as well as time-machine loops and patterns. Innovative inbuilt effects and controls provide a wealth of self- explanatory sonic possibilities to drastically control and manipulate each of the presets, including REVERB, DELAY, ATTACK, RELEASE, DISTORTION, and STRETCH, while the dynamics fader controls the processed signal to offer a spectrum of sounds within each preset — velocity-sensitive themselves for varying tones. “Just press one note, and you get a whole spectrum of emotion.” So says Hainbach himself, ending on a high note. As a sample library of stark sonic contrasts — from harsh, futuristic, and dystopian to beautiful and emotive sounds from another world, HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS is an invitation for musicians and producers to reimagine, recreate, or completely pull apart the sound world of an artist like no other to facilitate their own artistic vision. Indeed, it is perfect for creating tension, suspense, and beauty in any musical setting — from electronic tracks to hybrid film scoring or abstract sound design... and all without breaking into a broken bank balance-induced sweat! HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS is available as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible plug-in supporting Native Instruments’ NKS (Native Kontrol Standard) for Mac (OS X 10.10 - macOS 11 minimum) and Windows (7, 8, and 10 — latest Service Pack) that loads directly into any compatible DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for an RRP (Recommended Retail Price) of only £29.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/$29.00 USD/€29.00 EUR (inc. VAT) — from here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hainbach-landfill-totems/ (Please note that the first 1,500 purchasers of HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS will each receive a limited-edition Landfill Totems cassette album for free.)

Hainbach’s musically mind-blowing Landfill Totems concept album is available to purchase either on its own as a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl album for £17.50 GBP (inc. VAT) or as a bundle — comprising a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl album (plus WAV / FLAC digital download) and the HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS sample library — directly from SA Recordings here: https://sarecordings.com/release/220828-hainbach-landfill-totems (Please note that bundle purchasers will each receive a limited-edition Landfill Totems cassette album for free.)

Spitfire Audio’s namesake Spitfire Audio application allows anyone to buy now and download anytime, and is available for free from here: http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/library-manager/

For more in-depth information, including some superb-sounding audio demos, please visit the dedicated HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS webpage here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hainbach-landfill-totems/ Watch Spitfire Audio in-house composer Homay Schmitz’s walkthrough of HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS here: https://youtu.be/i9uJNZwTBgY

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Experience the one-of-a-kind atmospheric electronics embodied by HAINBACH - LANDFILL TOTEMS in its trailer video here: https://youtu.be/5JjBeMGFROM

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obstacleisthepath-blog · 3 years

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“Write yourself a map back to yourself”

February 13, 2021

1. Set the oven in the main house to self-clean. You won’t realize it when you do it, but this will liberate you from spending the afternoon in there cleaning.

2. Take the dogs for a meandering walk in the woods as the snow starts to fall. Walk slowly. Notice the yarrow that has already germinated in the bare spots where the snow has melted. Don’t pay attention to where you are going. Be delighted when you find you have arrived at your favorite spot, where the oldest trees grow mossy in a deep rocky gully. Follow the elk tracks. Watch the snow collect on your hair. Enjoy the brief moment of disorientation when you emerge onto the gravel road again, sooner than you expected.

3. Go back to the main house and switch the laundry. Feel surprised by the thick layer of smoke hanging in the air because you set the oven to self-clean. Open the windows and turn on the fans even though it’s snowing. Hear the voices of children on the cross-breeze that will blow through here in summer.

4. Put your little white dog in your little blue car and drive the wet roads to the UPS store. Hold the brown-paper parcel that your friend sent from Wisconsin. Examine her handwriting. Think about her hands, folding and taping the brown paper, writing your name in black marker. Imagine how her kitchen smelled as she did this. Savor the feeling of anticipation that rises up inside you.

5. Go into the grocery store. Allow yourself to be drawn in by the overflowing displays of Valentine’s Day flowers. Take your time looking at all of them. Give yourself permission to choose two slim bunches of understated flowers, some breathy filler greens and a few stems of stock in a soft romantic pink. Pick out some salad greens and some fancy cheese.

6. When you get home, answer the phone when your sister calls. Tell her how sweet it is to hear her voice. Listen to her laugh at Conor’s jokes. Think about the kringle she will bring with her when she comes to visit next month.

7. Boil water and make yourself a pot of tea in your yellow teapot. Sit down at your desk and write these instructions for yourself. Drink the tea slowly.

8. Walk back to the main house and enjoy the squeaky crunch your footsteps make in the wet snow. Close the windows. Sit in the living room and fold towels and watch the snow fall in the last light of the day.

9. Make a pot of rice, and while it cooks, prepare the ingredients for Lamb Rogan Josh. Sing along with Bonnie Raitt. Scoot around the kitchen in your socks. Save the lamb fat for the dogs’ dinner. Clean up after yourself as you go, lingering a little with the hot soapy water.

10. Take out your favorite vintage bowl. Look up a recipe for lady fingers. While you whisk the egg whites into soft peaks, think about how much you love sliding your hand under the warm wing of a broody hen when you reach beneath her for the eggs. Think about madeleines, and Paris, and perfume. While the lady fingers are baking, rub your favorite rose-scented cream onto your feet.

11. Eat the lamb. Eat it slowly. Let the spices warm your whole body. Sip a cold beer from a small glass.

12. Turn on the radio for the Grateful Dead Hour. Open another beer. Unpack the blue cashmere yarn that came in the mail today. Hold it in your hands and rub it against your face. Choose a pattern for the hat you will make with it. While you knit, think about the friend you are making the hat for. Think about her silver hair under the hat.

13. Place the package from Wisconsin on your altar. Resist the urge to open it. Think of how you will carefully slit the tape and unfold the paper tomorrow morning, in your bathrobe, with coffee and lady fingers. Think of the sweetness of opening a gift from your friend on her birthday. When you call her to say Happy Birthday, she will say Happy Valentine’s Day. After you get off the phone with her, you will call your grandmother to wish her a Happy Birthday too. You will sit on the porch in your robe and your slippers and watch the birds dance in the snow-covered trees while your grandmother tells you about her clever new recipes. She will make you laugh. You will feel grateful for the women who precede you. For now, though: place the package on the altar.

14. Climb into bed, with its two down quilts and freshly-washed sheets. Ask a question to your dreaming self. Tell Conor what was beautiful today. Let him make you laugh. Fall asleep while reading a book. Let the deep silence of snowfall embrace you. Listen to the strange and lovely answers from your dreaming self.

prompt from the Fierce Womxn Writing Podcast, February 9 episode with Sonya Renee Taylor

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labgrownsteaks · 3 years

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Chapter 7

“Ha what were you guys on!?” Guy blurted out as he stuffed his mouth with some fries. We were at The Drumstick, a local diner that was open 24/7. Erin and I loved going there and getting fries and chocolate shakes. Guy was a bit skeptical. I knew this was the response we would get, yet it was still kind of annoying even our best friend didn’t believe us.

“So this beaver. Why was just standing there” he continued with a chuckle.

Erin was laughing too, which didn’t really help our case either. He didn’t even know about the sheet of acid on my table back at the garage.

“We totally saw a monster!” She was giggling, and had been trying to consume a fry for the better part of five minutes now. But she couldn’t stop talking, or giggling so it just stayed in her fingers like a cigarette.

“So Vitamin, what you think this thing was? I’m sure you have a rational explanation for it?!” Guy said smiling.

Erin piped up. “He totally did! He thought it was mass hysteria, something to do with aliens!”

I interjected “I entertained that as a possibility.”

“Man you are the most logical psychonaut I’ve ever met. Your brain is like proof that psychedelics don’t rot your brain. They made you even more logical. It’s crazy! Tell me this. Have you ever got high and just watched the Gummi Bears or something?”

Erin couldn’t resist “Vitamin actually has the worst taste in movies of anyone I’ve ever known!” It was true. I had the worst taste in film on the planet, which actually meant I thought I had some of the best taste.

I had to defend myself “It’s because all the films now are all made by committee. It’s like Aquaman. Who the hell made that?! Who wrote it? Nobody. A committee and some AI spit out a script, and they cast it with beautiful people and made its returns. That’s not how films were in the 80s!”

“I can tell you’re pretty passionate about something at least” Guy said.

“what’s that movie you watch all the time?” Erin asked me.

“Ninja III The Domination” I said with a sigh.

“What the fuck is that shit?!” Guy said with a burp.

I wasted no time. “It’s about a girl, who’s a lineworker, and also an aerobics instructor, she’s working the lines one day”

“Working the lines. what’s that?” Guy asked

“Working the telephone lines!” I responded somewhat annoyed

“Oh I thought maybe that was aerobics thing. Working the lines” Guy said

“Bruh, ok. So she’s a lineworker, and she’s sees this ninja while she’s working the lines. He’s got a sword, and he gives her the sword before he vanishes. He was killing cops”

“Sounds riveting” guy said with a fake english accent.

I got back on track. “She gets the sword, and takes it to her place. But the sword possesses her and makes her start killing cops, but she’s also dating a cop. I hate his character and I recut the film without him. Anyway.”

“I think I got the basics. Sounds dope...” Guy said somewhat sarcastically. He sloshed a fry around in his chocolate shake before gobbling it up and then stating.

“So, let me get this right. You watch goofy as movies with construction workers who get posessed by dead ninja cop killers and..”

“She’s a lineworker” I said.

“Ok, yeah. so you watch these goofy ass films. You take enough psychedelics to make the pope weep. Yet, when you’re completely sober, with your friend, you see a fucking walking beaver wolf demon. And you try to approach it in a logical manner?”

The question actually kind of threw me. I knew how to process weird things, and feelings, and dreams that became reality. And impossible synchronicities. I once thought my head had turned into a gear and part of a giant orange machine in the wall. But when I was sober, and saw this. I simply couldn’t process it.

“I don’t know man. I did see something, and it was weird. I’ll give you that”

“It was weird” Erin said “That should be your quote ““It was weird”” I can imagine it under your picture in the paper in a story about this. Let me get it down to the Chisuwick Tribune I’m sure they’ll get right on the story!”

We all laughed together, and I knew it was all in good fun. We slurped up the rest of our shakes and ate even the little bits of fries.

“Hey Guy, wanna trip with us this weekend? I got some acid.”

“Damn, where’d you get that?” Guy responded.

“Oh, just a girl..” I said, feeling kind of bad I was lying, but I couldn’t let the whole world know I had a drug printing machine.

“A girl?” Guy said Where’d you meet this girl?”

“In the library.” I continued

“How do you meet a girl in the library?!” Guy inquired.

“She just came up to me.” I said. Erin was looking at me smiling with pure delight.

“Why?!” Guy stated

“I had paint on my jeans and she wanted to know how to use the dewey decimal system. She had a big floppy hat on, looked like somebody who go to Burning Bush”

“lawl, what’s that got to do with paint on your jeans” Guy asked in disbelief.

“She...uh..She saw I was a painter, and she liked art, so she wanted to know where the art books were but couldn’t figure out the dewey decimal system”

“And then she gave you acid” Guy said

“Yes” I said with a smile.

“Ok, that definitely never happened. It’s cool, I’m square I get it, I don’t need to know your sources” Guy continued on. “By the way, I got the check” Guy always got the check. One day we were gonna pay him back, when we finally got rich. We walked out of Denny’s and jumped into his 89 Chevette, which was packed full of old Computer textbooks from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Erin and I sat in back together because the front was piled full of crap he had bought at 2nd hand shops. In additional to collecting old computer textbooks, he also collected antiquated technology. Laserdiscs,8 tracks, reel to reel tape machines, you name it. He probably had one. His dream was to open a vintage computer museum and educate people about the benefits of dot matrix printers and CRT monitors. We paged through one of his books and looked at all the funny pictures of Leave it to Beaver moms sitting next to computers. So odd that in the beginning computers were seen as a woman thing. Something for secretaries to use. Now look where its got us. Staring at screens instead of the world in front of us. Which is just begging to be looked at. Ever since the VR headsets came out in conjunction with Lawnmower Man it was all downhill. People were all in their headsets now with their virtual trainers paying 50 bucks for a 30 minute lesson when they could just run around the river, or hop on a bike. These women sitting next to these computers had no idea of the monsters they were unleashing. They thought the computers were just going to listen to their fingers, and type what they wanted them to type. They had no idea, that the computers would tell us what to do.

#lgs

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