AKA: “Tuvan throat-singing.” I think it’s one of the most ‘metal’ things around, and I’ve been a fan of Laibach since their first album came out in the US in the mid 1980s. The lead singer for Laibach doesn’t really do polyphonic overtones, but it’s a similar sound.
Someone sent me this:
This is some artwork that I immediately fell in love with. There’s something interesting going on within it; the artist has managed to embed postural and posing cues to a high degree, which affects this viewer by making me feel that I am looking at emotional displays.
At Frankfurt Airport:
Marketing is an inherently dishonest profession, in my opinion; its purpose is to misrepresent and manipulate. The other day I was at the surviving local hardware store, and ran across a piece of marketing from my distant past.
Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of my favorite places.
One of my many secret vices is NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! [Read more…]
It doesn’t have a bayonet mount, so it’s hardly usable.
There are a bunch of videos of this on youtube; they started showing up in my feed around the time when I was hunting for wire rope for damascus-making.