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17-Jul

2020

Spinning Vinyl Records with Peter Goldmark

I wonder what Peter Carl Goldmark would think if he were alive to know about a Record Store Day dedicated to celebrating the 33 ⅓ rpm long-playing phonograph record that he invented? It’s possible he wouldn’t be surprised, since former CBS executives referred to him as “some kind of.

25-May

2020

Adam Harvey, Countersurveillance Fashionista

by Ametvist

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When Adam Harvey attended the Tabula Rasa conference, he was stunned by a prediction Dr. Anders Sandberg presented to the audience: by 2050 it will only cost a country .01% of their Gross Domestic Product to execute total surveillance on their population. "Total surveillance" is more jarring when you put it.

16-May

2020

The Peaceful Nightmares of H.R. Giger

by Ametvist

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In David N. Jahn's documentary on H.R. Giger, the artist ruminates on how he can tell who the most influential families in Prague are by how large their gravestones are in the local cemeteries. If the same holds true for Giger's own resting place, it should be marked by.

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Spinning Vinyl Records with Peter Goldmark

Adam Harvey, Countersurveillance Fashionista

The Peaceful Nightmares of H.R. Giger