Annual George Michael weekend in Goring today. Tribute bands in pub garden, Careless Whisper drifting on the breeze. Americans in Choose Life t-shirts at the station. A cosy crime plot waiting to happen.
By chance poet Simon Armitage talks about the joys of a slide projector here this week: www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...
I agree - a pain to set up and run, but a joyous mechanical locomotive rhythm to build anticipation as the next glowing scene shuffles into view.
An artist in scotland
Whose uncle lives nearby
And picked it up with relish.
Recruiting! Two core roles in the Practical Politics Platform team.
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We just sold my late Dad's old slide projector with its shuffling, rotating round magazine and red dots on slides to say 'this way up'. I can imagine it as the percussive background to some Jeff slap bass dibbling. Eat that silent PowerPoint!
Too much! Quantum funksics?
This is bouncing over in punk rock linkedin, but repostimg here just in case anyone is staring at the bluesky.
Nice! During Covid home lockdown my guilty friday pleasure was listening with our girls to Scary Pockets on youtube. An incredible, unlikely funkyrabbithole for a child of punk to fall into. One of my faves... m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSh...
Divine intervention confirms that drums/guitar/bass is quite enough.
Too much! Silver funk wings!
Don't forget some gaps between notes!
Ooh.. I hear youtube is 20 years old. I remember my colleague telling me his kids liked 'Charlie bit my finger' & my mind was bent when i found out what that was, & what Youtube is (2007 - late to the party). Infinite choice engines trouble my Calvinist genes. I like bounded choice. A meagre dearth.
And in dungarees! My go-to funking outfit.
1. Heard news item last week about device that artificially helps pianists' fingers play faster, and this effect continues without device... and in other hand.
2.podcast with music at 1.5x could help listener do [x] faster?
Just not sure what [x] is?
Fall off bicycle?
Q: is it possible to get the @mosenkis.bsky.social gang to look at drawings of revenue systems - politics and all?
Come for the toast - stay for the tree...
notthatpeterevans.substack.com/p/picture-th...
If you are interested in systems, political economy, and revenue, but are put off by dense technical analysis - try this for size - explaining Bangladesh's revenue system, and its woes - in a picture.
notthatpeterevans.substack.com/p/picture-th...
I like, tho the AI rendering of the second guitar makes it look like a portable coffee table?
Also just... visualisations of complexity / systems totally beat narrative descriptions! (And there is no 'right' or 'best' way to represent them).
Rohinton Mistry's novel 'A Fine Balance' has a horrifying account of that spike.
Jeff replies 'oh, that's a shaaaaaaaaaame' spanning four octaves and a window breaks, and a passing pigeon drops from the sky?
Mind blown!
*pun only works with british accent.
Well plaid.
I spend fridays just waiting to see what heavy metal curiosity @mosenkis.bsky.social will serve up for my weekend bewildernent.
We <can> party on Bluesky like it is twitter 2018.
A short blog with pictures: reflections on women's visibility and representation in Bangladesh's moment of opportunity. And a painting on my wall.
notthatpeterevans.substack.com/p/representa...
Another week, another blog about drawing (relative) simplicity from complexity, and another fiscal system diagram - in the usual 'policy gonzo' style.
Feedback extremely welcome.
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😀
Jeff! I'm here!
[But please remember I am actually a child of punk (all the heavy metal memes are ironic).]
@mosenkis.bsky.social tells me that nicer things happen in the bluesky place. But it reminds me of my first job with 'the internet' (1995). They showed me a desktop and said 'you can use the web' and i stared at the monitor not knowing what to do. But at least we now have GIFs.
