I'm a developer designer data nerd Texan based in New York.
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- Family, Nostalgia
One does not need photographic evidence
One of the few things I still have that I can treasure from my childhood are the family photos and school papers that my mother lovingly saved for decades.
- Music, Nostalgia
You know what rings my bell? That sound on Anita Ward’s disco classic!
Sometime during that awkward phase in adolescence where I had obtained a learner's permit, but did not yet have "off campus lunch" at high school, I bought a "Best of Disco" CD compilation at Hastings in Wenatchee, Washington.
- Design, Music
Putting the ‘funk’ in Westdeutscher Rundfunk: Das Millionenspiel
If ever there was a moment where all things brilliant converged into one 60 second montage, it would have to be the German made-for-TV movie "Das Millionenspiel" (The Millions Game).
- Music, New York
Two teen movies with great soundtracks and bad plotlines
It seems like the 'serious' teenage runaway movie was almost a trope circa 1980. I can think of two in particular, which featured pretty bland, terrible, melodramatic plotlines, yet contained fabulous music on their soundtracks.
- Photography
A whole bunch of signs
I've always loved road signs - even as a little kid, many of my drawings featured highway signs or billboards. I love them so much because they tell you where to go, and also where you've been. They are the metadata of the physical world, and what they can tell you contextually is priceless.
- Music
Just take your place in the driver’s seat
Backlashes work in all directions, at least they went every which way in the Winter of Discontent in the late 1970's in the UK.
MIXTAPES curated musical journeys
Empire State Human
Songs about New York City from an outsider’s loving perspective.
Sage comme une image
A collection of pop music in the French language, from the late 1960’s through the 1980’s.
Theoretical China (理论中国)
West meets East when you hand a white person a synthesizer – here are all the charming examples of everything that is not Occidental.
Strawberry girls & Banana split ladies
Women around the world at work – female fronted music from the 60’s through the 80’s.
Quiet Storms & Basic Women
Coming soon.
Themes for great cities
Coming soon.
ABBA Obscura
A collection of ABBA’s more obscure releases.
The Morning After
Coming soon.
SCRAPBOOK stuff worth saving
