Retrofit on Flickr. The return of retrofit from Tokyoflash! This one is from ebay and is gunmetal with blue LEDs. The original one I owned, which ironically I lost in Japan was silver with red LEDS.
Created on an old Tektronix oscilloscope, King achieves ostensibly animate self-organizing wave forms (composed of literal tracers) by fully exploiting the device’s antiquated Rutt Etra video synthesis technology, generating series upon series of ephemeral crystalline light structures that assemble themselves as quickly as they vanish. The video itself is a collage of multiple live-takes of King processing video where all images are generated by the track’s sinewaves, creating completely synced frequency-based-reactions to the opener’s buoyant journey.
“Why diacritical marks are essential” I pay a lot more attention to these now especially when typing on the phone where inserting the correct character is so easy.
Always say yes to seeing friends Eat breakfast every day Recognize that positive change rarely happens overnight Accept the fuck-ups, but try not to let them happen again There is a song to remedy every situation on the planet Appreciate the people in your life Look for the good in everything Try new things and try them often Treat yourself as well as you treat others
A meditation on the surveillance state, interface design, tech culture, and the dangers of thinking you know what will happen next, told through the astonishing life of Lev Termen.
The story is simple: A bunch of black rats almost wiped out a bunch of gigantic bugs on a little island far, far away from most of us. — http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years
