There is something quite fascinating about the announcements made on trains. Is there any form of public speaking that varies in quality more. Sometimes the announcements can be delivered in an unbelievably apathetic tone, like it’s the last thing the train guard ever wants to do. A lot of it just sounds plain rotten. Sometimes […]
London trip — day one: Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Tate Modern
Last weekend I took a trip to London for the weekend. I arrived on the afternoon of Friday 10 February, and left on the afternoon of Monday 13 February. London is the sort of place I could keep going to. I go about once every two years, and every time I go away feeling like […]
Brilliant fan-made video: plyPhon
This is possibly my favourite fan-made video of all time, for plyPhon by Autechre. It is similar in concept to the official video for Gantz Graf, with the visuals synchronised to the music. Like Gantz Graf, this video made me hear parts of the music that I hadn’t heard before. It has transformed my perspective […]