Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
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You’ve been murdered! Who do you want on the case?
Human-in-the-Loop: pissing about with my phone's generative fill while listening to the new Parts & Labour & waiting for my family to wake up. As your eye settles on the original photo at the centre, the sky itself becomes a hard-edged line between real and mirage, three frames in one looping gif.
I keep wishing that Chris Sievey was alive to see this.
Cracking instrument - the new Music Thing Modular Goldfinger passive six channel matrix mixer, plainspoken instructions printed on the device itself - elegant, useful, beautiful and cheap as chips.
Twenty-five years old this Friday gone. Peak shoegaze.
Rewatched X-Men 97 Season 1 this week. Everyone expected nostalgic fan service. No one expected it to go this hard into the Great Replacement conspiracy, genocide fatigue, AI bootstrapping, permission system targeting, algorithmic management, media manipulation, and online radicalisation.
Irregular crop with impossible angles > generative fill feedback > generative eraser deletes original image. No source for that light, angles are off, nothing in the shot is real, tech is cursed, process is haunted by the ghosts of trillions of images - all that and there is still no art here.
Returned to this masterpiece this week. I have never come across an album that needed to be split across two CDs more than Summertime '06. That's a deliberate Unknown Pleasures reference on the cover.
Looks like it's happening, possibly as soon as August. The leakers are supposedly reliable, they reckon it'll be serialised in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Bleach fan for more than 20 years, with an obsessive's portfolio of unanswered questions. This next arc, more than the last, might actually answer them.
Mary Redcliffe going full-throttle glorious apeshit last night
Only one Holy Bible track on this - Faster. Which is probably their best song. And if you wanted to listen to Holy Bible songs, you wouldn't come to a greatest hits. Still listen to that record at least once a year, nothing else hits like it.
Hard to think of any nineties singer more poignant than James Dean Bradfield singing the word "forever" - which he did quite a lot. Kevin Carter - best post-Holy Bible Manics tune. Tsunami - didn't like it at the time, but "in-between, in-between, in-between, in-between" lands hard.
Tolerate, into La Tristesse Durera. "And on the street tonight an old man plays / with newspaper cuttings of his glory days" "I sold my medal / it paid a bill / it sells at market stalls / parades Milan catwalks" Antifascists volunteering in the Spanish Civil War to discarded veterans - one arc.
Surprised at how much it benefits from the achronological sequencing. Motorcycle Emptiness right after A Design for Life - Motorcycle chronologically comes first by quite a wide margin but here reads like an unpacking of Design, which feels compressed like a dwarf star. They feed off each other.