Ryuichi Sakamoto: the avant gardist who became a groundbreaking pop star
"With Yellow Magic Orchestra, he paved the way for electropop and hip-hop but was far happier as a backroom boffin than an electronic pinup"
Alexis Petridis is getting far too many opportunities to display his considerable talent at writing on artists that have sadly left us recently.
A bit aimless at the moment, so thought I'd find out a peaceful photo for a Sunday evening.
Sunset over the islands of Kerrera and Mull, taken from the mainland a couple of years back.
It was a bit lovely.
It shouldn't need to be said, but it does, so saying it on #TransDayOfVisibility feels appropriate.
I hope saying it with a happy, bouncing, fluffball is acceptable.
my pet peeve is when well-meaning progressives say things like "banning lgbt books in schools doesn't make fewer queer kids, it scares the ones we have into silence". like yeah that's what conservatives want. they're into that shit
so, @settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!
I have a bit of a soft spot for penguins.
I couldn't see a creative prompt for a #WellPresentedBird without digging out one of my penguin photos to posh it up a bit.
Obviously it doesn't need much to present a penguin well. They are pre-tuxedo'd for a start.
WHOA whoa whoa whoa hold on there bucko, you've changed it from illegal in Florida to illegal in Tennessee
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.