Thor, begone! / the story of Impressionism / The Cure, Live in Sydney, 1981 / the LA of Curb your Enthusiasm / but how was it trained? Suno’s music-generating AI makes everyone a musician in seconds. What are the musical … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/a-round-up-of-things-from-here-and-there/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Broken Veil is a new podcast that dips into the weird/psychogeographic/quasi-non-fictional realm / a sad farewell to publishers Unbound / Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library / The Social Media Sea Change, … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/navigating-a-way-forwards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Architecture things. The lost houses of Arthur Erickson / 70s villa in France (via wowhaus) / High Line-style instant urban regen proposed for South London’s Bricklayers Arms flyover / sort of related, the ‘visions’ of Brixton past at IanVisits / … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/apparently-yes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Architecture and Design. Is this the best McMansion exterior of all time? McTuscan Heaven / speaking of McMansions, we mistook this Presidential non-library for an April Fool / Gravity never left the discussion: Fallingwater’s preservation since 1937 has already cost … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/links-to-click-through-and-enjoy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Are We Watching The Internet Die? (via MeFi) / related, How Google is killing independent sites like ours / not related: the sounds of horror. The Mega Marvin and the Apprehension Engine (which subsequently inspired the Tension Engine), custom creations … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/online-horrorshow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Faircamp is a Bandcamp replacement (via MeFi) – looks tricksy to use, but interesting labels are to be found there, e.g Tryptophonic Records / meanwhile, on Bandcamp: music by Solar Halos / Steve Hillage’s 1973 The Golden Vibe / a … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/the-daylight-almost-gone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Other things. Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI / FBI history in artefacts / how much does the internet weigh? / Based on a True True Story?, a scene-by-scene breakdown of Hollywood films at Information … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/so-were-only-doing-this-every-couple-of-months-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Posting is very sporadic right now, apologies. On to the links. The amazing USC Optical Sound Effects Library. Lots to download and sample here / Colossal continues to be so, so good. See, for example, this link to Tapedeck.org / … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/landscape-or-hellscape/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
All about Elite, including Elite on the 6502, which meticulously pores through the source code of the original BBC Micro game / sort of related, the ISS offers a live-streamed view of Earth / also sort of related, For the … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/mostly-harmless-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
In no particular order. A photograph album from the Boston Elevated Railway Company, approximately 1901 / a selection of Christmas cards by architects / Casio digital watch heritage / a seasonal tradition: The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/twixmas-linkage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Here, there, and everywhere. NASA’s spacesuit problem just got a lot worse / Networking Tips for Music Festivals / art and installations by Takashi Kuribayashi / a tiny house round-up, 12 American icons of design and at home amongst the … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/here-there-and-everywhere/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Design and culture things. An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland, Newly Discovered and Set Forth, Bernard Sleigh’s magnum opus was one of the origins of our ideals of the fantasy world / Logos of the Early Ufology Scene / see also … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/and-into-the-light/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Art and photography / a long-running project by the late artist Tom Phillips, 20 Sites’n’Years / paintings by Claire Sherman / lino cuts by Annie Soudain / ‘Nieves González paints Lily Allen at a turning point’ / the art of … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/a-slow-rhythm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
We all deserve and need random, enjoyable links. Onwards. Modernist Estates, a new agency (not for profit!) looking to make the most of the best bits of 20th century architecture and help get it into the hands of those who … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/things-thrown-out-of-the-pram/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Where have all the flowers gone?, a 1978 BBC film that ‘traces the hippies of ten years ago to find out how they are living today. Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, ‘Social Deviant’ Mick Farren, Oz editor Felix Dennis, Dr Timothy … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/slopping-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Are there any conceivable benefits or useful practical applications of AI generative video? / related, how to automate writing, The Great Fiction of AI, ‘The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction’ / imaginary landscapes, generated the old-fashioned way by … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/in-search-of-the-vanishing-digital-sublime/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
The story of the Mellotron / music by Jarkhand Assembly / Emergency Money: Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation 1914-1923, a forthcoming book by Tom Wilkinson, has some eye-opening bank note designs / Porsche Carrera GT owners … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/spinning-around-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Utter December randomness follows. The Art of Christmas at the Modern British Gallery / Fear and failing in Chatham, a gonzo art journey / Brick my World, an application that ‘turns your photos into stunning LEGO® models using classic rectangular … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/year-end-accounts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
The Inconvenient Astrologer Of MI5 / Twin Peaks donut supercut (via Andrew Womack) / Arcade Marquees, a book that ‘showcases a collection of 600 arcade video game marquees from 1980 to 2020′ / see also this huge digitised library of … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/lucky-dip-click/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
So, we’re now secure. Apologies for what might well have been several months of downtime for many readers. The mysteries of secure sockets, certificates, caches and domain records has hopefully been sorted by the good people at Nethosted, leaving us … <a href="https://www.thingsmagazine.net/out-of-the-shadows/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
