▶ The Reasons Behind the Collapse of the Chinese AI Short Drama Bubble     ▶ BuzzFeed Stock in Free Fall as Pivot to AI Blows Up in Its Face        …

This was the route I took on recent 10 day road trip I try to have a few rules for my road trips: 1. limit maximum driving in one day to 5 hours By the time I add a few…

    ▶ Inside Prince Fatty’s studio     ▶ Overwhelmed Tourist Spot in Japan Closes After Only One Week – Kusatsu’s famous emerald crater lake, Yugama, was finally reopened to visitors in October after more than eight years off-limits.…

Exorcised my democratic right, in a church (yeech!) at Paremata… I split my vote: Party vote Green + Candidate vote Red I want to see the young wahine Labour candidate take out the Kapiti Nat egg! #nzpol    

One thing I often end up doing in a rush, the night before I head off on a road trip is to load up my phone with new music & maybe some audiobooks… But while busy packing I came across…

    ITX047 – Decode Vol.2 by Mia Koden ▶ Mia Koden – ITX047 – Decode Vol.2     ▶ Fish Go Deep & Tracey K – The Cure & The Cause (Acoustic Version)     ▶ Fish Go Deep…

    ▶ love seeing the artistry involved in stop motion! just wish LAIKA would make something darker & more twisted & complex…     ▶ Play a TB-303-style acid line with your face – Github + Browser app  …

Please excuse my lack of posting, I’ve been on a 10 day road trip down South & will document it in lived order over the next week… But someone just got a new car! a mint 1969 Wolsely Hornet mkIII…

I was in Christchurch a few days ago & drove down Sawyers Arm Road & saw this tree!! Respect to the Council arborists for shaping it, presumably over many years, rather than just lopping it off…    

wahoo: SD088 MEGAPHONE is now released!

Its always fun to go to an auction at Central Markets in Lower Hutt, but last week they held an auction of vinyl rescued from a deceased estate which was otherwise being dumped. I do not know who or where…

    (cheers Dylan)     ▶ Who’s your Uber driver on the phone to? Welcome to the long, long diaspora phone call     ▶ Tides BBD resonator synth     ▶ wow this is so great: Location Scout…

Door” (Deadtime Stories for Big Folk) by David Anderson feat Russell Hoban 1990     “Deadsy” (Deadtime Stories for Big Folk) by David Anderson feat. Russell Hoban 1989        

    ▶ Arthur Hnatek – Undertow bc     ▶ Steve Bicknell – The Reassurance Ritual (Rrose Remix)     Nikki Nair – Groundhogs     ▶ Dorian Concept – Uneven Trail     ▶ Fish Go Deep &…

Preparing for summer in NZ! I am a complete noob, so starting off with a fishing kayak & will stick to sheltered shallow Pauatahanui Inlet for the first half of summer, so I don’t have to worry too much about…

Last weekend I did a quick road trip up to Rotorua… The motivation was.. camera gear lol! Someone listed a huge seriously heavy Linhof tripod, so heavy they refused to ship it. They only wanted $100 for it, so I…

    EN PARTE by ALEPH ▶ ALEPH – EN PARTE     ▶ GoGo Penguin Live at AB – Ancienne Belgique     ▶ Groove Armada – Superstylin’ (nostalgia, but also love a music video with some diegetic elements!)…

    ▶ Milt Jackson The Metal Melter Isolated Drums     ▶ Hah! If there is one thing I absolutely loathe about @soundcloud its that there is no permanent default to disable Autoplay. I’ll choose to listen to something,…

BOOK-PAPER-SCISSORS Nobuyoshi Kikuchi is a 75-year-old Japanese book maker, who devoted his life to the design of over 15,000 books. In this intimate documentary with 3 years in the making, director Nanako Hirose, who is an apprentice of a Japanese…

New HISSandaROAR library where I spent many hours destroying an old wardrobe with mics inside it! VERY cathartic! SD087 WARDROBE DESTRUCTION is now released The idea for this library dates back to a horror film I worked on back in…

Creator: Larry Cuba Year: 1982-1985 Medium: 16 mm film Software: Custom written in Z-Grass Programming Language Computer: Datamax UV-1    

    ▶ Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Conversation 1     ▶ Actress – Paris     ▶ FKA twigs : live at the Adidas Arena, Paris – ARTE Concert        

Had to do a sniper bid as the auction closed at 1.30am NZ time, but scored this mint 90mm macro lens for a measly NZ$300… Apart from being super well engineered metal 90mm macro lens with max aperture of F2.5…

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▶ intrusion – 03 tswana dub -phase90 restructure- 12 -mix-     ▶ Sa Pa – Last Dance (Ballroom Dub) [DTL002]     ▶ Deadbeat – Primordia     ▶ The Specials – Racist Friend        

(wish we could have designed & mixed the trailer!)