“I take off my glasses & there it is: absolute beauty, surrounded by a sea of lovely analogue blur… and that proximity to something, or more importantly; someone, carries with it an intimacy, the instinct of which is far more important & emotionally valuable than any premeditated intent”
Tim Prebble on lenses and myopia, Lens vs Microphone (& why i love myopia)
the-toast.net has ended. Thanks for a marvellous three years of some of the funniest, most thoughtful writing on the web.
Not a bad view for a European tanzimpro workshop!
Thanks to everyone who came, and to the organisers of Vaka for inviting me. Hope to be back next year!
Words are souls.
They are ourselves, extracted from our bodies, and they live forever.
After death we speak through words. It is the only way — but a potent way. Words live. They are real things in the world, and readers are not a passive audience, they are champions who take these words, our clues and promises, and with them shape the world. It is this, more than anything else, that Ghostwriter illuminates.
Words can touch you — physically alter your body — raise hairs at the nape, hollow the gut, send shivers shoulder to toe — and does this not change our understanding of presence and absence?
I have written these things and you have read them, you have felt my touch, and there is no distance between us at all.
From Abbey Fenbert’s The Pitch Meeting for Ghostwriter. I love The Toast.
This year’s klangrausch earworm: the first part of Altländer 31. I wonder what scandinavian doodle will stick in my head at Vaka next week…
✅ got up early
✅ prepared for camping, musicing and dancing
✅ watered plants
✅ fed pigs
✅ ate breakfast
✅ proofread potential Nature article, including the example phrase “the supernatural soup manifested itself in a bowl”
✅ rolled tyres around
✅ showed mill-mate how to operate the pump
✅ organised more food
can we pleeeasse go to klangrauschtreffen now
@benwerd probably time for an ear irrigation! They’re super fun and afterwards you can hear EVERYTHING.
In a week’s time Philipp and I and Duo Zeller/Suchanek play for dancing in Haus der Sinne, Berlin. There’s even a beginner’s dance course at 19:00 before the concert! Bring your friends, enemies, associates, accomplices, acquaintences and so on.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1276751069008684/
New music from Solarference! Not only amazingly innovative sounds but solid artistic and cultural goals:
“…songs that carry a collective theme of freedom: freedom from the constraints of relationships, gender, poverty, imprisonment and working conditions.”
Sounds good to me. Go support them on indiegogo! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solarference-locks-bolts-album
#wikipedia SVG of the week eternity: English Unit Lengths:
MARVEL AT OUR CULTURE
Edit: more information about Ramsden’s Chains and Gunter’s chains on ramsden.info, “the gateway to all things Ramsden”
Edits! Iceland-specific info about Ells and hand measurement diagram
@aaronpk so are you still planning to blog about the process?