Alice Coltrane - Charanam (1982)

The whole album is deep and beautiful. Sanskrit lyrics layered with warm synth pads. info for the record : http://www.discogs.com/Alice-Coltrane-Turiya-Sings/release/3747456

McCoy Tyner, Jazz Pianist Who Anchored John Coltrane’s Legendary Quartet, Dead at 81

McCoy Tyner, one of the most distinctive and influential jazz pianists of the past 60 years who became best known for his work with John Coltrane’s legendary 1960s quartet, died at age 81. […] Link

It Doesn’t Matter If Anyone Exists or Not

You encounter so many people every day, online and off-, that it is almost impossible to be alone. Now, thanks to computers, those people might not even be real. […] Link

Aqualung Motherfucker

A Unique Perspective on the Making of Stalker The Testimony of a Mechanic Toiling Away under Tarkovsky’s Guidance

Named by the British Film Institute as one of the fifty greatest movies of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction masterpiece called Stalker is, among many other things, a one-of-a-kind filmwatching experience. […] Link

Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition

Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky. […] Link

Jamais Vu

Jamais Vu

“Making a ‘Horribly Depressed’ Computer” by Alan Watts

“Making a ‘Horribly Depressed’ Computer” by Alan Watts

Netflix’s Maniac has a distinctively retro vibe. The producers wanted to create an actual mainframe that blinked and talked, so they hired Alan to build and animate it in less than a month. His experience was as crazy as the show itself.

This is Not my Beautiful House Examining the Desktop Metaphor 1980-1995

The primary research for this essay was completed with support of the Media Archaeology Lab as an on-site resident in January of 2019. In the 1970s, the personal electronics market was experiencing a revolution. […] Link

AI Dungeon 2

I don’t have much time to write about this at the moment because I’m in finals week, but this is the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time. AI text generation modeling classic text adventures that absolutely works, making the text parser completely reactive and creating dreamlike open-ended game experiences.