superfools

 a reminder of what a titanic voice aretha franklin was and what a fabulous drummer black sabbath had in bill ward 

let's get bleeding

 i love that mclintock eases some black sabbath in here just to conform their funk roots. i'm also thinking it's showing my age that i actually prefer marvin gaye's surely bold even for the time stripey green suit to what these metal boys are wearing! lol i'm off to play some power chords! 

electric sex machine

more bill mclintock. and why not!?  rob halford looking like he's walked out of an eighties leather bar in new york. quite why he's not a gay icon i don't know, other than the wrong type of music 

superkill

 like the soundtrack to every bad decision i ever made! lol 

road to resilience

 it's the start of the giro and here's jumbo lease a bike's patchy run in. ouch! 

sebastiao salgado

 love his work. deserves all the recognition 

circle of fifths

ouch, that's all i'm saying. if you can learn about the circle of fifths from this, you're a better person than me. but it's rick beato and it's chock full of interesting language so i'm not complaining. 

pinhole camera

analogue legend martin henson makes a pinhole camera, if you've got a scanner the method for measuring aperture is super useful. i did laugh tho when he was measuring for exposure - my metering is so often patent nonsense that i imagine that, either my meter is entirely wrong, the camera i'm using is somehow vastly different from what the manufacturer says it is, or the user error is so glaring that i can't recognise it! whatever, all my pinhole images are done on instinct, which is why there's such a relatively high failure rate - given the cost of analogue photography this gets irksome really quickly so if you do try it, do so with a budget you can afford to throw away! 

easy bass patterns

i'm an awful bass player, and musician generally it has to be said, but seeing as we only have one word for the doing of music in english, fortunately it has play embedded at its centre. so, with the bass in particular, when i'm playing my instrument, possibly more than any other, i'm at play. which is a roundabout way of saying i love these bass lines! 

adolfo kaminsky

 clearly, 60 minutes didn't want to engage with what kaninsky did post war with various liberation movements but there's slightly more detail in this criminal podcast. not a dull life! 

barigozzi group

 

rabih abou-khalil

 

drawing the head

another one of these. i'm not a figurative drawist by any means but there's a lot to be said for sitting down of an afternoon with a bit of paper and a pencil and drilling some technique  

making a mini exhibition

 ari makes a mini exhibition. so much more satisfying than a session on photoshop! the expense of photo paper these days make it a less frequent pleasure tho! but you could do this sort of thing with any endeavour

claire eleanor fergusson

 another one of these, like a breath of fresh air. i feel the lack of anyone left in my life like this!