Items of Interest

NAWR #22 - Modern Ritual

This week NAWR welcomed the Modern Ritual tour to Swansea. The concert featured Laura Cannell, Charles Hayward, Roofus, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Luke Turner and special guest Rhodri Davies.Check out other photos from the concert here.

Music

Read more about NAWR #22 - Modern Ritual

Swansea Laptop Ochestra at BBC Radio 1 Academy Swansea

#108

This week The BBC Radio 1 Academy came to Swansea. The Swansea Laptop Orchestra spent a day at The Adademy demonstrating and performing in The Swansea Grand Theatre.The photo above is of one of SwanLork's newly hacked musical interface controllers.You can view some more of my photos of the day here.

Music

Tech

Read more about Swansea Laptop Ochestra at BBC Radio 1 Academy Swansea

Cool Thing Of The Week: 12k New York

#108

Using 3 RED Weapon Monstro 8k VV cameras, Gotham Film works captured aerial footage of NYC in 12k!

Video

Read more about Cool Thing Of The Week: 12k New York

Comic Review: Analog

#108

I picked up Analog issues 1 & 2 recently because of the amazing alternative cover that Declan drew for the first issue. In Analog #1, we are introduced to the main character, Jack McGinnis, a Jack Bauer/John Wick/Transporter type of anti-hero, who transports paper documents for the highest bidder. Paper documents you say? Well, a quick narrative flashback shows us that Jack was somehow instrumental in destroying the internet during "The Great Doxxing" of 2024. Now Jack and others like him help secrets travel the old fashioned, analog way.

Review

Read more about Comic Review: Analog

Podcasts Of The Week: Akimbo Ep.12

#108

In Akimbo episode 12, Seth talks about freelancing, what it takes to become a good freelancer and why to strive to become a category of one. He talks about differentiating your freelance work from the comodity levels of a category.

Read more about Podcasts Of The Week: Akimbo Ep.12

Laws Of UX

#108

Laws of UX is a great site that describes 17 principles that can be used when designing interfaces.

Design

Tech

Read more about Laws Of UX

Greek Whistlers

#108

A fascinating article on theoutline.com about Sfyria, a whistling based language in remote villages on the Greek islands, which is going extinct. The whistling language is/was used to communicate short messages over large distances, such as large farm fields and mountain areas. The higher pitch of a whistle is more distinguishable by the human ear of long distance.

Life

Read more about Greek Whistlers

Fox Vs Eagle

#108

A young fox kills a rabbit and saunters off with its meal, happy out.Enter stage left American bald eagle swooping in to ruin Mr. Fox's dinner plans!This dramatic encounter was captured in a series of photographs by Kevin Ebi and in a video by Zachare Hartje (at the bottom of the page).Watch in the video how fast the eagle comes in!

Photo

Video

Read more about Fox Vs Eagle

HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone

#108

HTC announced a blockchain power smartphone called Exodus at the Consensus 2018 blockchain conference in New York City. The phone is believed to include a hardware wallet and support for cryptocurrency transactions and decentralised apps.

Innovation

Tech

Read more about HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone

EM Drive Mystery Solved?

#108

The EM Drive has previously been touted as proof of a perpetual energy machine, however a recent paper now offers a possible explanation for the magic force detected from the drive.

Science

Read more about EM Drive Mystery Solved?

Pages