New Sony PS-F5 website July 5, 2009
Today I launched a website dedicated to my favourite gadget, the Sony PS-F5 portable record player.
London Stopframe April 13, 2009
London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.
The 7 inch is 60. January 5, 2009
“Have a feel of that,” says a passing engineer, handing over a white vinyl off-cut that has just been trimmed from the edge of a newly-manufactured disc.
It is warm to the touch – literally hot off the presses.
“That’ll warm you up on a cold day,” he says. “And we can recycle that and use it again.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7750581.stm
Musical Road September 21, 2008
The BBC has a story on how “a section of Avenue K in a Californian desert town uses grooves cut into the road surface to play the Lone Ranger theme to cars driving along it.”
It’s now been resurfaced as local residents weren’t so happy about the sounds going on all the time.
Here’s one of the originals in Japan:
And an ITN piece on them in Japan, including some shots of the grooves that make the sounds:
Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop September 19, 2008
Mike Allen, who is a former vice president of EMI says, “There’s a reaction against the commoditization of music that downloading represents- With vinyl there’s something that has innate value — a physical object.â€
Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop :: Bodytonic
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin – Los Angeles Times June 13, 2008
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin – Los Angeles Times
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.s latest release “Accelerate” inadvertently entered the “LP” code instead. Soon boxes of vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.
The Portland-based company, owned by the Kroger Co., realized the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.
Other retailers are giving vinyl a spin too.
Joe Farrell’s daughter sueing for the use of Upon This Rock. May 23, 2008
The lawsuit said all the rappers used portions of Farrells 1974 musical composition Upon This Rock in three separate songs – West in Gone, Common in Chi-City and Method Man and Redman in their song Run 4 Cover.
Firrantello is seeking punitive damages of at least $1 million 505,000 pounds and asked that no further copies of the songs be made, sold or performed, according to the lawsuit.
Sanzhi Pods, Taiwan May 8, 2008
4:19 pm, Friday, Sanzhi
Originally uploaded by yusheng.
Amazing set of photos taken of this 70s pod resort in Taiwan, abandoned sometime in the 80s.
Making Cat5/6 LAN Cables April 22, 2008
When making small cables from a reel/ longer cable, following these steps will tell you which plug is bad when a lead doesn’t work.
The only time there’ll be the possibility of 2 bad plugs is in the first step, once that’s sorted the bad plug will be obvious:
- get it working with a plug either end of the whole length first
- mark both of the working plugs
- cut the desired length off
- put plug on new ends
- test both the reel and the short cable
- if either don’t work you know it’s the unmarked plug that’s to blame
- put a plug onto the now plugless end of the reel
- test & replace unmarked plug if bad
- repeat from step 2 for subsequent cables
