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Wed 2 Aug 2006

Knitting Up the Ravell’d Sleave of Care…

Posted by anaglyph under Art, Sound
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Rain


Shameless Self Promotion

I’ve just released a new recording, the first in my Morphium Collection. It’s called ‘Rain’ and is a careful montage of recordings of rain on an iron roof. It’s minimalism at its most profound.

I originally made this recording to help me sleep, and for that purpose I can vouch that it’s very effective. Coming up in the series are ‘Ocean’ and ‘Pine’. I like to think of each as a kind of aural perfume.

Read more about ‘Rain’ on the Perpetual Ocean site.

 

Wed 2 Aug 2006

Bork Bork Bork

Posted by anaglyph under Geek, Laughs, Stupidity
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Swedish Chef

Discussion over at Joey’s place reminded me I hadn’t seen the Swedish Chef in an awfully long time.

Why is something this stupid so funny? Or is it just me?

 

Tue 1 Aug 2006

1 x Picture = 1k x Words

Posted by anaglyph under Philosophy, Signs, Words
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Light Me Up!

The most recent effort in Australia to turn people off the idea of smoking has involved a confronting television campaign, and the printing on the cigarette packets of very graphic images of the effects of the habit; pictures of mouth cancers, rotting teeth, limbs with gangrene and so forth. Here’s a link (not for the squeamish).

Up until now, the packets have carried simple printed warnings, but the new ones are starting to appear on the shelf.

Last night a young woman beside me in the supermarket asked for a pack of Benson & Hedges:

“I don’t mean to be difficult, but can I get a packet without the scary photo? You know, just one with the warning that says ‘Smoking Kills You’?”