Delia Darbyshire showing how sounds SHOULD be manipulated.

Been working on the Nazca record this week and found this pretty inspiring. Also show that anyone using computers or synthesizers are complete pussies compared to the BBC Radiophonic workshop.

For more on Delia, check out this classic piece of music which still sounds like the future, 45 years later.



The future was so much cooler before.

Salam Pax appears and disappears

Salam Pax´s Baghdad blog was mandatory reading during the Iraq war and its aftermath. It ended four years ago with these words:

I think Hiatus is the word. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen.

Then he reappeared a month ago, with a pretty great blog post about amusement parks in Baghdad. And then that site went bust.

I´m waiting with bated breath for any new posts from Salam.

If you live in Norway, buy the original The Baghdad Blog-book and not the hastily-put-together-let´s-milk-this-thing-dry-norwegian version with the outstandingly clunky title "Faens Bomber" ("damn bombs").

Kyläytymisopas

Kyläytymisopas, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Legendary squat Annikinkatu in Tampere is getting the pamphlet treatment from Into Kustannus. This is the cover.

Graphic design to die for

Just found this pic out on the glorious intarwebs. Yes, it´s real.

Fighter jets come out from behind giant old man in the sky. The giant old man gaze upon the fighter jets dreamily, while wondering why the colors have gone all fruity. And why the rest of his body is dissolving into thin air. He´s just a giant old head in the sky now. But he has teh wisdom ...OF FIGHTER JETS!

Drammens Tidende

Har en sak om meg i dag.

Evalueringsdag

Vi har evalueringsdag borte på I Fremtiden-bloggen. Ta en tur og si din mening!

Kiva

Here´s an investment tip while world finance is going down the toilet.
Put your cash where it makes a difference!

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Go here for more.

The Washington Post tells us what the War on Terror really is about

Comfort capsules!

Wacom drivers and Leopards in Europe

Just a little shout-out to anyone dealing with the same stuff I had lately.

Short story: The newest OSX update kills Wacom tablet drivers. Making your expensive tablet as handy a drawing tool as a couple of boxing gloves.

After being told by support that I had no problem whatsoever, since I had downloaded the newest driver update + installed it, I still somehow had problems.

After some googling, I found out that Wacom didn´t have the newest drivers on their european site. Quick fix: Go to their american site and download the driver from there.

Jeez.

Moebius redux

[snipped from drawn.ca]



42 minutes on the great master. Music by Karl Bartos.

Description from Googlevideo:

French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most famous and influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time. Achieving his greatest fame as Moebius – not so much a pseudonym as an alter ego – he revolutionized the world of comics. Moebius Redux takes extraordinary visual paths in documentary filmmaking and goes on a mind-bending tour of imagination past, present and future.

Enjoy!

Chronotopic Anamorphosis

Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project on Vimeo.

Get your war on

I just re-read the old Get your war on-strips while having a break from deadline-chasing.

Guess what? They are still hilarious.

Into pamphlet 3 - Pentti Linkola

Into pamphlet 3 - Pentti Linkola, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

The third Into pamphlet is on the street. Here´s the cover done by yours truly.
An image my mate Ville called "wonderfully morbid". That´s how it goes when Linkola is argumenting for ecology through genocide. It needs to be said and Linkola is the man to do it.

Liars

Not only one of the best songs I´ve heard this year, but also the best video.

Helsinki eastern outback up on Flickr

30, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Wildlife, beasts n shotguns. Ride on to Flickr to take it all in.

Truth stranger than fiction part XIV

Neatorama shows us the 10 strangest anti-terror patents filed.
This is for real and not taken from Facts from the world. Promise.



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Moro for barnslige nordmenn

Om du har ingenting bedre å gjøre, stikk til Ruka Rock!

Alt er relativt

Dagbladets rapport fra finsk St.Hans.

Finske YLEs rapport fra finsk St.Hans.

NYC

How bout some highlights from nine days in NYC?

-Munich Airport had a Fabriano outlet. I have never before been able to buy quality cotton cold pressed 300 g watercolor paper at an airport before. Thoroughly amazing to me and no one else.

-Flight from Munich with Lufthansa. Beer and sausage as inflight nourishment. Sehr gut.

-25th floor studio apartment in Jersey, balcony view to Manhattan skyline, rented by these guys. Hugely recommended. Cheap, friendly, practical and cosy.

-One of the first things I saw on street level Manhattan was a puking nun and a midget in a pinstripe suit.

-Good music almost everywhere. Normal coffeeplaces playing Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads and Joy Division. Never had so many "shh, they´re playing THAT song"-moments. Not that I actually shushed people, mind.

-Lady telling me to hide my camera better on the subway, ending with the zinger "I´m your mother".

-Heatwave making aircondition a condition for life.

-Picture box store. Good finds from Taylor McKimens and Matt Leine.

-Mocca. Meeting Keith Knight, Ruben Bolling, Ted Rall and dozens of others. Partying with Falk, Fiske, Holtestaul and Jason. Interesting to see the difference from european festivals. People are far more extrovert. Not sure if that´s always a good thing.
Recommended: Rat fever by Ian Harker. Good guy, good stuff.
Prints by Nik Moore.
Selfpublished, beautiful books by John Mejias
A dummy copy of Pushwagner´s Soft City

-Moma. Highlights:
Suprematist and early russian avantgarde
Ernst and Hilla Becher photos
Diane Arbus

-Feeling like I have entered a cult compound at the Apple store. Blankly smiling, identically dressed twentysomethings slipping words like "voltage independent" into the conversation like it´s the most natural thing in the world.

-Seeing Manhattan getting electrocuted in a fierce thunderstorm from a 25th floor Jersey balcony while drinking Urquell and going "woah" a lot.

-Desert Island Johnny Ryan signing, followed by the open studio afterparty, followed by the warehouse party following that again. Interesting watching a chick crowdsurfing a crowd counting about 50 people. Good band, lovely experience.

Have to get back...

Freedom in the land of the free

Me n Lady Liberty 4 ever, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.