“First of all, I am a real Minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist, but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating. I really don't do very much.”—Robert Wyatt

BEASTER EVERYWHERE!

There’s some cool stuff at the CityGalleryWellington right now! I particularly liked the work by The Cool Couple which imagines various art movements as football teams. Here’s Dada - with Jean Tinguely as the captain 😁

999!

And it's ready! 📼❤️📜 The FFV1 lossless video encoding format (versions 0, 1 & 3) is now officially documented as an Informational RFC by the @IETF as RFC9043. 👏🥳 Lots of great work by lots of great people on this. #ffmpeg #ffv1 #openstandards rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9043

Listening to the Skeptics … wow I’d forgotten just how awesome ‘Agitator’ is! The piano intro and throughline, the distortion, the buildup … it’s just so cool youtu.be/Tw0-oLFZplM

What software-related things did we learn from Jurassic Park (1993)?

RIP me

GET THE LOOK! Wire, “154”, 1979 (super deluxe extended edition)

isabel sandoval with one of the only ballots i’ve seen with heat, perfect blue and holy motors so far

All I need is one person to tell me this was worth the 20 minutes it took me to photoshop.

thinking of faye wong’s cantonese cover of ‘dreams’ by the cranberries

Yes Michelle!!!!

Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Margit Carstensen (1940 — 2023)

"A very great artist, and one of the most beautiful men I ever saw on the screen. He was also a great director. In the last analysis, no one came near him." Orson Welles talking about Buster Keaton

Truly we are in the reboot era! It’s been exactly 60 years since A Hard Day’s Night launched the OG Beatles Cinematic Universe, and now Phase 2 has been announced. I hope that Phase 3 includes a documentary about Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Not the album. The band