The repaving action around here has been insane. Spotted on the walk home.
The repaving action around here has been insane. Spotted on the walk home.
When I read that Hammock had collaborated with The Flaming Lips on their song “Chemicals Make You Small,” I was a bit shocked. Wayne Coyne and The Lips are brash, experimentally noisy, irreverent, sometimes goofy and often oversaturated. They seem to have almost the opposite of Hammock’s ethereal, slow, quiet and completive approach.
Echoes and Dust features an interview with the lads from Hammock in which they discuss the influences for their new album, The Second Coming Was A Moonrise. In it, they explain being inspired by American Head by The Flaming Lips.
With Life in Small Spaces, the upcoming album from Black Marble, the project’s creator, Chris Stewart, taps into one of my semi-obsessions. The album’s description on its Bandcamp page has further details on the clue we are given with the album title.
It is an invitation to accept and consciously agree to a more minimal lifestyle for the sake of creative expression and freedom, and to never need to compromise your values for the tempting illusion of success.
One thing struck me particularly forcefully about Yuval Levin’s recent essay, Idols of the Valley, on the Pope’s recent encyclical. While the previous Pope Leo was able to formulate his philosophy regarding the industrial revolution after its effects had become mostly clear, the current Pope Leo has no such luxury in regard to AI. We are all still grasping at what the future holds for this technology and how we are going to adapt. This puts the Pope at a disadvantage, but it still makes sense for him to tackle the subject now, while we still have a better chance to put up moral and human guardrails to guide the course of events, rather than letting them overwhelm us.
My 18-month-old neice is participating in the “Flamingo Revolution” protests in Albania.
Chamomile tea + magnesium + the new Hammock LP = sleepy boy mocktail
Even my clipboard is getting on the AI train.
Watched Singles 🍿 on Friday night with my lady friend. Like I needed to miss the 90s any more than I already do.
A.I. Art Club button by Matt Windsor (from Cotton Bureau).
I wish Ghost would let you default to not sending your posts as emails because every so often I miss changing the setting and send out a post that is too short to warrant an email.