NEW: the Ford govt has moved to cancel all summer meetings of the committee that vets PC appointments to provincial boards & agencies.
The move came after opposition MPPs questioned two nominees who had donated a combined $13K to the PCs.
Full story w/ @steve_cornwell to come.
This is 63 year old the_tunegirl, she later in life found analog modular synthesis and loves building every sound live with nothing but Eurorack.
She just made her debut at Awakenings.
This is what never giving up on passion looks like.
This gorgeous machine is the AKAT-1. Constructed in Poland in 1959 by Jacek Karpinski and Janusz Tomaszewski, this was one of the world's first transistor-based analog computers.
If you think the AKAT-1 looks more like a piece of modern art than a computer, you're onto something. The exterior and control panel were actually designed by artists associated with the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
Sadly, this machine never actually went into mass production, but don't you wish it had?
#RetroTech #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory
1968's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at ICA, London (Aug 2 - Oct 20, 1968).
From Visualisation: Art et Cybernétique, French Broadcasting Corp., 1968.
Here's a video of Squirrel Bait performing "Sun God" on May 8, 1985, opening for Hüsker Dü at the Jockey Club in Newport, KY. One of the most fun evenings of my life. The video was shot by Dave Hintz with restoration by Lance Bangs. @dragcityrecords
https://t.co/h2SAAvhqJc
It's release day for the repressings of both Squirrel Bait records! Couldn't be more grateful to the folks at Drag City for shepherding these back into print. We really were children then. (Photo by Gail Butensky of Squirrel Bait at the Cat Club, NYC, July 1986.) @dragcityrecords
Shigeru Suzuki rehearsing 'Suna no Onna (砂の女)' with Haruomi Hosono & Tin Pan Alley, 1975. The core of what would become Japan's defining city pop sound, still taking shape in the room.
This week on Oh! Brother, we’re joined by Brian Turner (https://t.co/faQffOzpSL). Brian talks about discovering The Fall in small-town Pennsylvania, catching the band live in the US, and how that fascination grew into radio specials, archive digging and sleeve-note work. (+)