Archive for October, 2004

Lost-n-Found on the Answering Machine

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

“Lost-n-Found Sound,” as far as I can tell, is a project that has public radio stations collecting bits of audio - music, spoken word, even (apparently) answering machine messages. Tonight I heard the story Portrait of An Artist as An Answering Machine on WABE. If you care to listen, and I do recommend […]

Tempted by the Fruit of Another

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

Adam buys a PowerBook.

LeConte Lodge, 2004

Monday, October 25th, 2004

This weekend my dad, brothers, and self hiked up to LeConte Lodge, located high in the Great Smoky Mountains. This trip is something of a tradition for us; I think this may have been my eighth or ninth trip, and it’s probably one of my favorite places in the world to visit.

Get Your Caps Off (Reprise)

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

This is a follow-up to the previous entry, which contained a link to Circuits Discovering… Each Other, a collection of photographs of electrical components emulating hard core. It now occurs to me that what we’re seeing here is folk art. Wikipedia calls folk art “the art of the ignorant.” Perhaps that’s a […]

Get Your Caps Off

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

About 8 years ago, when I was a Freshman at Tech and pornographic websites were coming into bloom, as it were, some friends and I thought it would be funny to have a website of refrigerator porn - dorm refrigerators with their doors open, their cords in compromising positions and places, etc. I’m told […]