Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room What websites are you looking at?

New Year, new topic.

I am sure we can keep things sensible.

I have just spent the first of several hours looking at this: http://sleevage.com/

Anyone interested in sleeve design should give it a butcher's.

Great topic - and a great site to start with!

One of my favourites is this, entitled "no longer forgotten music"

http://433rpm.blogspot.com/

Blue Monday Owner\'s Club

..it's what it says. Send your pic with the original sleeve!

Obamicon.me

Bored? Make your own Obama 'Hope' style icon!





..I'm sure you can all do better...

Hilarious! Good one D!

Keep meaning to do this

Re: thread topic.

...er...

This.

One?

Nice!

It's a fair cop. You will naturally forgive me but I have neither the energy nor the know-how nor even the desire to change the title of the thread. I am looking at this website too - it's good, it's very very good!

Its one of those great daft projects that come around every now and then, I beleive the guy doing it is going to exhibit the photos at some point.

'Blue Monday Owners Club' badges were issued to the first few people to send in their pics which was a nice touch.

Virtual Drum Machines

I rather enjoyed this site - A 'purist' friend of mine poo poohed this site as the sound samples were 'low quality', but I had great fun trying out all the old drum machines from yesteryear.

http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/d_machines/vdrums.html

Excellent - even I Who Know Nothing had fun with this last night!

I even managed to recognise some presets from tracks/singles etc I'm familiar with.

Here's another totally useless but really quite arty and fun thing I found. It's called Wordle and "is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide".

I put in some well known texts - cough cough - and came up with these:

Here's the new website by Robin Guthrie

http://robinguthrie.com

includes news of the forthcoming 'Mirrorball' album

Thanks Martin. ooh look there's a mirrorball...

The new look - www.toffeetones.com (ahem)
Were just adding the finishing touches to it - nearly there.

It's looking good, Matt. Love the inclusion of a Clanger. Great choice!

Looking very good Matt,

Also like SID (Space Intruder Detector) from UFO & is that the flying saucer from Forbidden Planet?

Brian

I like the look and feel of it - nice home page.

Bit slow to load at the moment tho?

Glad to see toffeetones movin' on up

Enjoy the drum machines geekyness? Try this!

Matrixsynth

Quite techy but there's something for everyone.
They've even got a forum!

Here's one of my more recently discovered favourites.

http://snow.prohosting.com/crasio/

A real treasure trove of interviews and music related articles from "Musician, Player and Listener".
Really good archive of stuff on The Who, for instance, and loads of stuff I haven't seen anywhere else

A nice collection of record sleeve designs, including 3 P Saville/OMD ones, some Kraftwerk and also Benge's Twenty Systems album.
Maybe some others you may know too. Hard Format

Thanks for posting this, great stuff. As well as some nice sleeves there are many brilliant and unusual packaging ideas.

Some good photographs here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagoo/sets/72157619257359917/

(thanks to Dadge for the link)

One of my favourites

http://mervynpeake.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

This is a great flash applet:

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer.

Here's one I prepared earlier this week.

In between postings I have a small business that doesn't run itself

http://www.hamblevalley.com

Still not quite sure how one actually owns a 'destination brand', but there we are...?

And (just to get the shameless self promotion over with) here's another managed by yours truly...

http://www.hampshireattractions.co.uk

Kraftwerk's Homepage which has remained excatly the same for about 6 years!!!

www.flightradar24.com - a kind of modern computer-age equivalent of geeky 'plane-spotting' but is handy if you're tracking someone who's in the air ... occasionally a plane you're tracking may 'dispappear' but apparently that's nothing to worry about

animated albums on tumblr.

You get this kind of thing:






..haven't spotted any foxxy/voxy ones yet.

I like, I like.

..and speaking of album art . .here's a selection from 'Underwired's blog thing entitled "Best Album Art of All Time" ... but I think they should have called it 'some of the worst...'

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/06/gallery-album-covers/

Here's an ambitious but amazing thing

http://thesmithsproject.blogspot.com/

(Vocal arrangements of every Smiths song ever...)

superb little artworks that should appeal equally to art hounds and analogue equipment style freaks:

http://koikoikoi.com/2009/09/analog-miniature-dan-mcpharlin/

http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/17/interview-with-dan-mcpharlin-analog-miniatures/

more retro futurism, this time its the idea of present day technology as being set in the 70's - ALT/1977.

If you hate the colour of rust and orange then best shield your eyes

http://www.alexvaranese.com/work/alt1977

http://www.alexvaranese.com/

Came across this one today, a set of photographs of rusting, decaying cars in an abandoned California junkyard. Mostly shot at night under a full moon with coloured artificial lights to create a 'painting with light effect'. There are almost 300 photos so probably best if you just check out the thumbnails and look at teh ones that really catch your eye, rather than do as I did. I put on a John Foxx album and tried to watch it as a slideshow but it takes over an hour!

Would love to let John loose here with a camera!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostamerica/sets/72157604798126983/

The official Throbbing Gristle website has had a makeover recently

http://throbbing-gristle.com

A genius idea - the UK Sound map by the Britsh Library

http://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/fusionmap.aspx

more future retroism, of sorts

Vintage style ads for modern technology:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/vintage-advertisement-of-modern-technology/

An ocean we can breathe...

http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/gallery/film/film.htm


As Lucas prepares for 3D future, geek 2D revolutionary strikes back at the empire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_3xbcJBUxY

This one...

Save The 100 Club campaign

Architecture, landscape, Finland

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2010/10/aalto-finlandia.html

Oh WOW! Excellent find, Martin.

Site added to favourites bar.

Could do worse than spend some tmie looking at these two....

My favourite: The Sandpit

And a newer one: Coachelletta

Second one is technically better, but the first has much more.....hmmmm, wow factor. Watch out for "LED man" in the second one. Oh, and pretty good music too.

http://www.metamaticresearch.info/cfe/

Jean Tinguely's inspirational legacy

And then there's these - Apple users don't try this at home!

http://www.fubiz.net/2010/11/15/apple-destroyed-products/

Cool - some of those close-up shots are really abstract. I can just hear Rolf saying "Have you guessed what it is yet?"

Try these on for size then:

http://1800recycling.com/2010/10/rayguns-recycled-materials/

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=606662 (click on the image to see the larger version, it's stunning!)

http://www.crosleyradio.com/Product.aspx?pid=1869

http://www.visualnews.com/2010/11/01/star-wars-mexican-art/

And for afficionados of sci-fi art (I'm sure there must be one or two hereabouts!)...

http://conceptships.blogspot.com/2010/10/traditional-concept-spaceship-art.html

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Wow, there are some seriously good pieces of artwork there! Very inspiring

I've actually been looking at my own art website, which I've just updated...

My latest piece...

Very impressive, Alex, I like it!

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Reminds me a lot of the stuff Angus McKie did!

Put on Your Dress...

http://www.susie-macmurray.co.uk/project_type.php?id=14

The dress of pins Widow is a wonderful and provocative piece

Thanks for posting, I love her garment sculptures and site specific work, and a tiny aspect of her dress work uncannily rings a bell with something that's been on my mind lately.

photographs by Uta Kogelsberger, many of which seem to fit the mood of the present season for me:

http://www.utakogelsberger.com/

the archive of the NASA Fine Arts Programme:

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/spaceart.html

I'd particularly love these up on my wall:

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/shuttle120.GIF

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/shuttle29.GIF

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/shuttle59.GIF

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/blockhouse.GIF

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/firstlite.GIF

Excellent site. I like this one:

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/mersuit.GIF

and the Blockhouse one & all I've seen, so far.
But a special mention has to go to 'First Lite' for the symbolism.

Now that really is good!! Thanks so much for sharing, I have always has a fascination for derelict buildings.

I used to have this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Art-Starlo...96227568&sr=1-1

Got it from mail-order when I was 17 and sold it in my early 20's for 50 pence , but I came across it in a library last year, it has a few excellent full page reproductions of the NASA fine arts paintings, there's a great one by Norman Rockwell with astronauts being suited-up prior to a launch.

Back when I used to own the book I was more interested in the fantasy illustrations of space travel, and I found the NASA fine arts ones rather dull, in fact I found anything to do with NASA extremely disappointing as a child, well, it hardly compared to Gerry Anderson or Star Trek!

But today I have a reversal of that attitude, I'd so love to have a book of all of the NASA works, but if it ever existed it'd likely be on evil-bay at an out of this world price

Whilst looking up some of Robyn Hitchcock's lyrics for Birdsong's 'Birds in songs' thread, I came across this section of Hitchcock's website showing some of his surreal artwork. Probably not everybody's cup of tea but I really like some of it.

http://www.robynhitchcock.com/art/

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Here's one a certain Alex S will be interested in, I'm reasonably sure:

Floating Dream Worlds

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http://www.modelaircraftmuseum.com/

My new website. Metamatic-gentre music, writing, pixx and stuff. I may put a John Foxx tribute area up. Should do. Thanks.

A list of novels and stories about Alternative History fiction, also known as Uchronie - a place that does not exist in time:

http://www.uchronia.net/

Check out my Flickr Stream, I'm a practicing Urban Explorer:

manof2worlds Flickr

My passion for dereliction has taken me to some interesting places and put me into some interesting situations (okay, it could be argued that maybe I put myself into those interesting situations - lol). There are some who would say that a man of my age should be doing more normal things like washing the car on a Sunday morning or playing football. No, that's far too boring. Dodging security, risking life and limb and getting quite mucky in the process is a lot more fulfuilling X-D


Crane's Foundry, Ipswich, Suffolk, U.K. by manof2worlds, on Flickr

a couple of links from Flavourwire -

A countdown of 30 Musicians insulting other musicians (quite an eyeopener!) -

http://flavorwire.com/200333/the-30-harshest-musician-on-musician-insults-in-history

The handwritten lyrics of musicians:

http://flavorwire.com/233933/exploring-musicians-handwritten-lyrics-to-famous-songs

Talk about "ghosts" in photographs ...! Take a look at these vintage photos set against their current backgrounds in Bologna, Italy . .just click on each photo to keep going through them.
Great idea, although I expect it's been done elsewhere

http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/201...nte-25868506/1/

"Kann denn Liebe Synthie sein?"

Now, this is fun...

The Guardian -
Best No 1 singles, 1952-2012 – interactive

sadly, Shaddapa Your Face not featured....