Just spotted: “factory records: the complete graphic album”
TEST…
I was all ready to set off for work today, but Gabes’ cough was too upsetting so here I sit on the sofa, he’s asleep beside me and I’m catching up on my far to many newsfeeds… I’ve just seen this on ILM:
An edited and annotated blurb from the new thames & hudson catalogue:
factory records: the complete graphic album
by matthew robertson
foreword by wilson [1]“This brilliantly rich volume (224pp) documents factory records’ entire visual legacy [2]. wilson’s foreword is followed by an introduction that explores the label’s fundamental role in bringing design to the mainstream [3]. thereafter it is organised as a generously illustrated catalogue, arranged broadly by the famous factory reference system – every item with a fac number is either illustrated in stunning new photographs [4] or listed [5].”
Mouthwatering. £29.95. Out in June.
I occasionally read Stylus magazine, it’s a bit mainstream for me (he says in a horribly sniffy way). They’ve just replaced their dull but readable site design with this abomination. Ugh! Site ‘design’ by one ‘yellow-llama‘ whose homepage states: “The Yellow Llama is a web design company in Port Elizabeth. “Our web designs are usable, beautiful and endlessly creative.” Heh HEH!… I think it might just be slightly less awful than Pitchfork, but it’s a close call. If I’m ever to revisit Stylus I’ll have to spend a bit of time implementing an appropriate Greasemonkey script. Recommendations on which would be welcome (I did have one that replaced animated gifs very nicely, but it’s got lost somewhere). Oh and Stylus still haven’t bothered to implement newsfeeds thereby failing to hook me back at all regularly. Ah, bliss – found it, peace reigns again (both sites continue to look crap – in fact they look worse now that the distractions of animated ads are whited out – but at least the text can now be scanned more easily). The script’s called Adblocker. Thank you ‘Mysterious Unknown’.
Finally on this – what is generally called – (inaugural) linkdump: this fascinating looking post on BoingBoing:
A deaf hacker diligently tinkered with the firmware on his cochlear implant, trying to get it to faithfully render out Ravel’s symphony, Boléro, eventually meeting with success. Michael Chorost was born with partial hearing, and at 15, he discovered that Boléro was audible to him, and it became a touchstone for him, a piece of music that he developed a deep emotional attachment to. In 2001, Chorost experienced the sudden, total loss of the remains of his hearing, and Boléro was lost to him, seemingly forever.
This is the complete Wired article which I’ve saved to read later (…)
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