Radiohead's "Nude" as played by obsolete machinery

This postmodern deconstructed sound of Radiohead's Nude off of their latest album In Rainbows is performed by the following decrepit and sorrow-filled (I am inferring) machines:

  • Sinclair ZX Spectrum Analyzer - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
  • Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
  • HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
  • Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX


Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Even more awesome in HD...

Hat tip to Luke Mayes

Page design neuroses

Great design video of a magazine layout coming into reality.  It just underscores how incredibly neurotic you have to be to be a designer, sometimes. It's just NEVER QUITE RIGHT, is it? Given infinite time, you can come up with infinite iterations, all minutely but subtly improved.

(Hat tip to by my old college roommate Victor)

Observations at an airport

Perhaps the point of life is not to be free, but to be indentured to the people and things in life that you love. Indentured, indebted, ultimately dedicated.

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I look at people around the airport waiting for flights, all ages, shapes and sizes, and I think: we are not so different, you and I.

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The 6am crowd on mass transit is decidedly a different group than the 7am. Moreso glazed, from lack of sleep or silent despair. At least mine were from lack of sleep. :)

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