Followup time again! Issue 12 was the last followup issue, and 36 will be the next. Thanks to people who email me about stuff.
In Newsletter 14 I featured an image of a 1944 prosthetic arm from the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Here are more, and more current, items about prosthetics, ranging from “very concerning” to “quite neat”.
The Black American Amputation Epidemic, an article from ProPublica, American’s best nonprofit newsroom.
A tweet:
I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it, an article from Input Magazine.
3D Printing Is Helping Amputees Make Their Own Prosthetics, an article from Vice France.
Ian Davis has a homemade hand and a YouTube Channel.
Print yourself a third thumb. What are you waiting for?
A musical artist I recommended in Newsletter 13, Sean Tillman (“Har Mar Superstar”), turns out to be a chronic sex creep. Sorry about that.
It’s followup time, which means I’m going to take a peek at Antique and Classic Photographic Images ten years ago. Here’s some of my favorites from March-April, 2011.
The best blog on the internet is things magazine. They also put out a literal printed magazine that I would love to someday read. Many of the things I share here, I found there. You’ll find links back and forth with other “elder statesman” blogs like Kottke and boing boing and Metafilter.
They’ve also got a tumblr, if that’s your thing. They are where I find a lot of the tumblr links I share.
Man Arenas, the production designer I linked in Newsletter 6, has been posting the fruits of his early involvement in the new Disney movie Raya and the Last Dragon.
New music: Instant Gratification by Saint Disruption. (Pick your music service, and here’s the above single on YouTube). Newsletter 5 featured Saint Disruption. Their album is now out.
“What’s surprising about this partnership between Schmitt and Medeski is how different the results are from what most people expect of “spiritual music.” The two men may have met in a shaman’s kitchen in the far reaches of the Amazon jungle, but the music they created sounds much more like an American street than that rainforest or a guru’s mountaintop. The predominant flavors are hip-hop, funk, blues-rock and electronica, even if the lyrics are probing issues of systemic oppression, personal identity and barriers to spiritual development” - American Songwriter
That’s my friend (Grammy winner!) Debrissa McKinney in the thumbnail for the video. Turns out if you’re recording an album in Asheville, she’s the saxophone to call.
New music: Last Song for the Road Warrior by exandroid. (Bandcamp or SoundCloud or YouTube). Another one from Newsletter 5. There’s a new exandroid album since Welcome to the Hellclub, called Down Bad.
Alexandra "Sasha" Rosser is, per her twitter bio, “researcher @WiscSurgery | grad student @SyrDataScience | neuroscience BS | cyber bard @exandroidmusic | village idiot @ the land of cheese”.
Old music: Bad Karma by Ida Maria (2010). (Spotify or YouTube).
You better believe in Jesus
'Cause only he can save you now
Throw in a saint or two, why don't ya?
Three Hail Marys and a Hare Krishna
-Thomas