https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoKPyVVc4FE

Not sure why I didn't have this up on Bandcamp earlier, but here it is: https://rmblrx.bandcamp.com/track/ghastly-shears

Sorry about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNqNx_XK0dQ

I'm not sure which is more jarring: that it's finally coming to a close, or that it's gone on this long. I'm left wondering just how the YPG and the Kurds, generally, will emerge from all this, let alone the rest of the region.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNqNx_XK0d

Dipping my toe into music production for the Sega Genesis using Deflemask: https://soundcloud.com/rmblrx/ghastly-shears

This is woefully unlikely to remain an isolated practice: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eViswN602_k

Truly a thing of beauty: https://youtu.be/_5sTxL-vvGU

@Bevan it might be nice to be able to see if there will be a preview for a link before posting (or an indication that there will not be one). That way, we can either give more context or choose an alternative link which will properly display a preview.

This is such an excellent and beautiful documentary. I grew up in a time when CDs were only in the midst of supplanting cassettes but in the heyday of the mixtape, and I later became a full-blown enthusiast when I got into music production.

https://vimeo.com/127216590

Such a beautiful film, and one that I find myself often revisiting.

Yeah, I posted when I realized that https was screwing things up. This should work for you: http://moonside.eth

To be fair though, https does seem to cause Portal to hang. So actually, this is the address to follow:

http://moonside.eth

It's not DNS, it's ENS: https://medium.com/metamask/metamask-monthly-august-8b409c3fa18

MetaMask 4.9+ will resolve the address through the Portal Network automatically if installed in your browser.

So I imagine most of you use MetaMask and that at least some of you are aware of the recent ENS integration, and so I thought I'd share at least one of the projects I've recently put up through ENS and IPFS: https://moonside.eth

Yes, sir. His work's been a major influence on me since I first discovered him as a teenager. I posted briefly on the matter here: https://beta.akasha.world/#/0x5f444c1cb03ae71377674d89ff4e218b2513223f/0x9873b7a938946613a71a4fdedf750911a3b8524177630d363ac602ac1655405f

https://i.gifer.com/77Be.gif

Ho, ho! Been waiting for this. ENS addresses are now resolved in the browser through MetaMask.

https://gist.github.com/PhyrexTsai/cffcbfa1d752b9cf817d920dfcd1ec9f

Sorry, the last bit of the URL got cut off: https://youtu.be/zWXMo5MW19w

I must be pining pretty hard for my music-making roots... thinking about putting some more stuff up on Ujo.

Anyway, I dug up this video of one of my favorite songs by Heather Nicole Young of Social Junk (under the unsearchable solo moniker, HNY): https://youtu.be/zWXMo5MW19

I don't think I'll ever get over this movie. It was the first anime feature I ever saw and at a very young age, but I'm only now about to obtain and read the full manga series and quite excited about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9q8Oc4dd0

Pining for the revelries of yore when I could still goad folks (as well as goad myself) to pick up an instrument about every week and bang out some raucous tracks. I choose to remember it like this:

https://youtu.be/kmWTZ3KfnXE?list=PLYpyzisv5Ga6HI23F0RhVLDFz7oq2ZGa0

I first encountered her work some years back after getting a cryptic call from a friend who I presume had attended a performance that night. I promptly found this video and immediately ordered the only recording I could get my hands on at the time: https://youtu.be/mj1It0oH7vQ

I can't believe I had missed that she had work up on bandcamp. Now I can stop wearing out that one cassette of hers that I own.

https://stacian.bandcamp.com/

From Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"--an excellent companion piece to Conrad's classic by my reckoning.

"His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay."

I probably should not be permitted exposure to such concepts...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/

With IPFS, I imagine that it's pinning which keeps the post available, so my thinking is that unless someone explicitly pins an old version of a post or otherwise references it in any way on the platform, we should be left with only a record of its existence on the blockchain.

Thanks for pointing that out. My take is that we need to be clear when and that comments might have been made on a previous iteration, give commenters a chance to update or simply re-apply their comments, but beyond that, old versions should possibly be allowed to fade from IPFS.

I've been tossing this over for a while now on Akasha and now here, and I get that the blockchain is forever; what I don't get is why intelligent approaches to iteration are so lacking. Why shouldn't someone be able to edit a post and simply have the old version available?

This keeps crossing my mind, and I'm tending toward the matter from the angle of this quote from "The Gay Science":

"The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type."

https://qz.com/1314111/we-may-have-answered-the-fermi-paradox-we-are-alone-in-the-universe/

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann

Charlie Kaufmann's BAFTA speech only just popped up on my radar. If ever there was a true writer among writers for screen, it's this man:

https://youtu.be/eRfXcWT_oFs