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My Favorite Obsessive Youtube Channels Pt 2

After the pandemic hijinks that was COVID I hyperfocused on more obsessive youtube channels. This is a followup to part ...

Blissville …An Investigation Docu / Poem

For those of you who want dig much much deeper into the concept and reality of Blissville, Queens, a unique ...

My Favorite Obsessive Youtube Channels Pt 1

Who needs cable or satellite when you have these awesomely obsessive youtube channels at your disposal. Each one is it’s ...

Ultra Precog Weirdness from Blissville

I felt compelled to write a follow-up about a short film called Radio Free Blissville, which was produced in 2009 ...

July 4th in Brooklyn with WHOT

This is always worth watching at least once a year. This is back when Brooklyn was more exciting and lawless ...

Awesome Collection of Punk Rock Posters

These were all made before the internet destroyed the WORLD. It's amazing how nostalgic I get sometimes. You could do ...

Les Paul’s Pirate Radio Station in Queens

Les Paul was an innovator on a whole other level. Not only did he build the first solid body electric ...

Steve Jobs and the Strawberry Fields Forever Process

In the  Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson Jobs talks about listening to and being influenced by the complete perfectionism behind ...

Delia Derbyshire

I believe I am smitten with Delia Derbyshire. She was part of the innovative BBC Radiophonic Workshop back in the ...

Maker Faire in Queens NY 2011

This is happening this weekend at the NY Hall of Science. It was pretty tremendous last year. Something for everyone ...

2010 NYC Maker Faire

So the first NYC Maker Faire was last weekend in Queens New York. It was exhausting in a really good ...

Radio Free Blissville – Interview

Interview to soon be published in näkyvyys (Finland) näkyvyys: Where did this idea come from? J.F. Culhane: The idea for ...

Radio Free Blissville at Anthology

Here is the press for this show. The docs they are showing should be cool too. XFP Radio Free Blissville ...

Personal Transmitters

Came across this with schematics. Very cool. I love these crazy antennas reconstituted from other things like parts of fireplaces ...

Circuit Bending Workshop – Bent Fest 2010

This was from a circuit bending workshop in Dumbo in 2010 that was part of Bent Fest. People just brought ...

JUST ADD SWEAT

Circa 1984 The Dead Kennedys headlined a mega-show at the Beacon Theater, with opening acts No Thanks, The New York ...

Beware False Prophets

One blazingly hot Sunday afternoon in 1980-something I went to the Tompkins Square Park bandshell for "Rock Against Redevelopment," a ...

The Osmotic Telegraph – Lenox Rant

Hardcore was certainly named right; although it flew way below the radar it had some of the most rabid and ...

On Learning To Do Without What You Never Needed In The First Place

If I may paraphrase Mick Foley, I'm not Old School; I'm from the school that burned down before the Old ...