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massive organ
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a young person takes a photo of the red-and-gold-painted console of a pipe organ in the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ
"The massive red‑and‑gold console of the Chicago Stadium pipe organ now sits in MIM’s United States / Canada Gallery with six manuals and 800 stop tabs. ... Installed at Chicago Stadium in 1929, the organ was the first of its kind in a sports venue."
I absolutely heard this thing in action at the Barnum & Bailey Circus at Chicago Stadium when I was a kid.
"The instrument, which provided the soundtrack for many opening faceoffs and tips, was the largest built by the Maxcy‑Barton Organ Co. The behemoth cost $250,000 in 1929 dollars, nearly $5 million today."
The Musical Instrument Museum is fully worth the visit if you're ever in Phoenix.
source: https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyl...
I absolutely heard this thing in action at the Barnum & Bailey Circus at Chicago Stadium when I was a kid.
"The instrument, which provided the soundtrack for many opening faceoffs and tips, was the largest built by the Maxcy‑Barton Organ Co. The behemoth cost $250,000 in 1929 dollars, nearly $5 million today."
The Musical Instrument Museum is fully worth the visit if you're ever in Phoenix.
source: https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyl...
dphiffer
Also visit: https://organstoppizza.com/
[Phantom of the Opera theme intensifies]
This is worth seeing if you’re ever in San Diego https://balboapark.org/arts-cul...
A deer I encountered
just grocery shopping
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jayne mansfield in an evening gown in front of grocery store pineapple display holding pineapples
Is that Jayne Mansfield?
what I bring to the conversation
Things I’ve learned about Willem
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A sleeping Lagotto Romagnolo pup resting his head on the shiny tube of a chair.
He likes to sleep. A lot.
Blep.
🍿
Art In The Air
Personification
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A friend called me a Morton Salt girl recently because I was wearing bright and shiny yellow rain boots. Being from Europe I had never heard of her and was disappointed to find out she wasn’t even wearing boots. But apparently the association between rain and yellow made the boots appear in my friend’s mind.
I, too, had imagined her wearing wellies.
@mare don't think I ever clocked what type of shoes she was wearing and have been seeing this since I was a kid
which way is it shifting?
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interior of a british train, looking out the window at a stop. in the foreground is a table with four red seats, a marks & spencer bag on the table, and someone's hands are visible holding a phone. Out the window is a hedge, blue sky, and the signage for the train station that reads "Overton"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
I sent this to a colleague yesterday. He was irritated.
Well, all this cleverness on the web, and none nearby
Whip
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A cute, futuristic looking car.
https://www.tumblr.com/scavenge...
1960 Zar Car — the only one known to exist. Built in Windsor, Ontario by a tiny startup called Zar Auto of Canada
1960 Zar Car — the only one known to exist. Built in Windsor, Ontario by a tiny startup called Zar Auto of Canada
...Windsor is literally across the river from Detroit and might be the center of Canadian auto manufacture (it was at one time, dunno if it still is), so the location for the startup isn't that weird.
That design tho... It's like a 3D rendering of one of those gestural, cartoonish googie-style magazine illustrations from the period, rather than something designed and built by people with experience making cars.
That design tho... It's like a 3D rendering of one of those gestural, cartoonish googie-style magazine illustrations from the period, rather than something designed and built by people with experience making cars.
It looks like a car that cows would drive in a Gary Larson cartoon.
@ardgedee yup, we made a lot of engines and transmissions in Windsor (aka South Detroit). Not sure how it's doing under fuckhead's trade war, but there are a lot of US-made cars that won't be built if Windsor shuts down
doin’
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meta
@MackReed Rip (them tires) In Peace.
Miss him too, my favorite video is him teaching his teenage daughter how to do donuts:
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
Miss him too, my favorite video is him teaching his teenage daughter how to do donuts:
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
@lamnatos dawwwww.
Are we not men?
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A street sign: "This dimension protected by houses who walk like men; For more information call: 1-844-517-4445 Ext: 781". The sign hass ome stickers and graffiti. There are three stylized logos of red houses with little feet and an eyeball.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
Meanwhile in 1982
Lurk.
Me and my mural
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
I did not know anybody with a truck...
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Can confirm: It is delightful.
One of those moments where you realize you need outsiders explaining you to yourself.
A mltshp post of a Reddit post of a series of Twitter screenshots, marveling over neighborliness.
I did a thing yesterday
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A cyclist on a gravel road at dawn with a misty river in the distance
I am visiting Minnesota for a week. Yesterday was the culmination of my year-long bicycle training and my brother and I rode The DAMn - the day across Minnesota gravel bike race. Starting on the South Dakota border at midnight, Aug 1st we had 24 hours to get across the Wisconsin border on a set course consisting of 80% gravel roads through river bottoms and expansive ag fields.
You got to Wowsville! At least in my estimation!
DAMn that's some serious riding, hope it all went smoothly and you're getting some good rest today. I've done many gravel rides, but the longest was just over half of the DAMn, and nothing at all recently. I'm out for a much shorter and easier ride around Mpls today.
It was awesome getting to explore a part of MN that I've not really spent much time in, @wjcstp. The Minnesota River valley is gorgeous and I had the pleasure of being down in there at misty sunrise. And your bicycling community eats sleeps and breathes "Minnesota Nice" really well. Didn't hurt they offer up a cold pint of Spotted Cow at the finish line too.
Lunch
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Bowl of ramen
Niban broth with fresh noodles, tare of mixed fats, tamari, fish sauce and mirin, topped with eel jerky, jalapeno brined egg, and rib meat leftover from last night's grillin', toaster-roasted nori, and nori furikake
DAMNIT
Good golly!
Fun fact: The Devil Wears Prada 2 is exactly the right length for one platelet donation
go for the batteries, robin!
Under the Milky Way tonight
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Nightside view of Earth and Milky Way
Astronaut Don Pettit took this photo from the ISS using a modified tracking camera. See linked comments for more info. Not AI
https://www.threads.com/share...
https://www.threads.com/share...
This is what I’ve always imagined the view to be from Straylight in “Neuromancer.”
@MackReed I can smell the inside of the tug from memory
@MackReed YES! So clear.
And @idogcow, 'Mute be playin' a righteous dub.
And @idogcow, 'Mute be playin' a righteous dub.
endorse me for "bonafide sludgesicle man" on linkedin
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https://www.kexp.org/media/filer_public/6a/6a/6a6ac083-7fe4-434e-8d54-9006d860c030/michael-stipe-scrummy.gif
per my "adventures of pete & pete" rewatching over the weekend (see: https://mltshp.com/p/1RTSB)
of all the wondrous cameos dotting the series (iggy pop! juliana hatfield! marshall crenshaw! kate pierson!) i had completely blanked on the fact that michael stipe himself popped up in one of the (pre-series) specials - "what we did on our summer vacation", which aired in 1991
also, important addendum, i need that "captain scrummy" cap ASAP
of all the wondrous cameos dotting the series (iggy pop! juliana hatfield! marshall crenshaw! kate pierson!) i had completely blanked on the fact that michael stipe himself popped up in one of the (pre-series) specials - "what we did on our summer vacation", which aired in 1991
also, important addendum, i need that "captain scrummy" cap ASAP
"sludgesicle" is a subgenre of metal that deserves to be invented.
IIRC the band at the school dance is Luscious Jackson.
@ardgedee LOL, would 100% be at the forefront of this very gooey movement
why do I feel this way?
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airbrushed illustration of a drink on the rocks with a cherry hovering over it
ARE YOU BEING SEXUALLY AROUSED BY THIS PICTURE?
Because using exacto blades to physically mask an image is hot!
@heyitsal Ha!
This Modern World
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A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow
*sob*
also: FCKING VOTE!!!
also: FCKING VOTE!!!
The RFK quote text looooooooooool
How long before Rump poops out yet another cabinet member, explosively?
No, Wait...
Jurassic nerdery
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Dude in the Jurassic Park office with about 4 computers on his desk
"For a film shot in 1993 — when a lot of households still didn’t have computers — Jurassic Park contained a ton of them. The offices in the movie have everything from Mac powerbooks to high-end graphics-workstations and even supercomputers. Silicon Graphics donated $875,000 worth of computer equipment, Apple donated $350,000, and the filmmakers got another $500,000 of “additional hardware and software”.
Over at his blog, Fabian Sanglard has written a byzantine exegesis of every computer that appears onscreen; he’s got over three dozen screenshots, and he outlines every machine in each."
Source: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic...
Over at his blog, Fabian Sanglard has written a byzantine exegesis of every computer that appears onscreen; he’s got over three dozen screenshots, and he outlines every machine in each."
Source: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic...
It's a Unix system. I know this!
some new-old (old-new?) music next week
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square instagram photo, somewhat low res: OP (left) sitting on a couch, hunched over a nylon string guitar, with one side of a stereo pair of mics in front of him. to his right, a second person fallen asleep on a pile of mic cases on the other side of the couch. behind them is a studio sound diffuser on the wall
something coming down the pipeline, thought i’d let MLTSHP know about it first.
a few months ago, when i moved to a new laptop, i found an intriguing session bounce, labeled only “windmills - nick - acoustic”.
it turned out to be a long, uncut stereo recording of me in 2015, noodling through some song ideas for the windmills drummer while we took a break from recording a full band track. (photographic evidence above; i lulled him to sleep)
in between the noodling, the rambling, and the joking, there were a few songs i played all the way through in somewhat-coherent form. they were rough, but at least somewhat complete, so i thought “why not release ‘em?"
god bless my friend dereck, who engineered the original sessions. (https://www.quiethouserecording.com/) he not only found the original session files in his archives, but he was able to extract them, do some basic mixing/mastering, and turn them into usable tracks in less than an hour. bless him, he’s too good.
so! next week, probably on the next bandcamp friday, i’ll release a few scruffy tracks. listen for free, pay a few bucks for a download if you like ‘em. i’ll consider it motivation to work on new music, which i’ve been kind of missing (and lightly dabbling with again) lately.
will post when they’re out in the wild, but you can keep an eye on my page if you like:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com
a few months ago, when i moved to a new laptop, i found an intriguing session bounce, labeled only “windmills - nick - acoustic”.
it turned out to be a long, uncut stereo recording of me in 2015, noodling through some song ideas for the windmills drummer while we took a break from recording a full band track. (photographic evidence above; i lulled him to sleep)
in between the noodling, the rambling, and the joking, there were a few songs i played all the way through in somewhat-coherent form. they were rough, but at least somewhat complete, so i thought “why not release ‘em?"
god bless my friend dereck, who engineered the original sessions. (https://www.quiethouserecording.com/) he not only found the original session files in his archives, but he was able to extract them, do some basic mixing/mastering, and turn them into usable tracks in less than an hour. bless him, he’s too good.
so! next week, probably on the next bandcamp friday, i’ll release a few scruffy tracks. listen for free, pay a few bucks for a download if you like ‘em. i’ll consider it motivation to work on new music, which i’ve been kind of missing (and lightly dabbling with again) lately.
will post when they’re out in the wild, but you can keep an eye on my page if you like:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com
Meet Willem
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A Lagotto Romagnolo pup, white-brown (roan) curly with a brown head and a white streak on his forehead
Our newest member of the household. He’s 8 weeks old and the cutest.
So cute!!!
Very wiggly I bet!