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brutalist duane reade

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First-time visitors to NYC sometimes ask the astute question, "Who's Duane Reade?" These pharmacies can be found on every corner and even wedged into Brutalist buildings.
There was never a good answer but it's moot since Walgreens bought the chain. Shortly after that happened (but not before), slick signs appeared in every Duane Reade plugging the chain as a "New York institution." (Walgreens is based in Chicago.)

Update: By word of mouth I learned that the company that became Duane Reade was founded near, and took its name from, a block bounded by Duane and Reade streets in what is now Tribeca.

deep dreamin demon

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demon via grass

Funny how that Google deep dream algorithm ("dog eyes in fractal swirls") became an instant cliche. One of the perils of modernism (the persistent mental attitude, not the historic movement): a signature style, developed quickly, becomes universal, then lapses into exhaustion as a mere marker of a two-week span in culture. Mo becomes PoMo inadvertently; the potential critic of a faux-shamanistic, visually habit-ridden language has too short a window to respond and articulate before it's already "over."

sorry your candidate lost, here's a bunny

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Some Clinton-voting former friends aren't willing to admit that tactics such as "Bernie Bro," "basket of deplorables," and privilege-shaming helped cost them the election.
They are lashing out with renewed fury at "smug" third party voters who escaped the embarrassment of (i) holding-nose-and-voting-for-Clinton followed by (ii) watching her lose.
They want to be pitied and nurtured in their hour of collective sadness. Goading them or saying "I told you so" will only result in more pain, so here's this GIF:

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"SID Pleasant"

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"SID Pleasant" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]

Two versions of the ADDAC Wav Player Eurorack module are used here (101 and 111).
They are played simultaneously. In the first part they are triggered by the Expert Sleepers ES-40 computer-to-cv module (gate outputs, playing in Ableton). In part two they are triggered by the Doepfer A-155 sequencer. Drums, bass, and percussion from Ableton and Octatrack sample kits were added.
The samples in the ADDAC are from NI Battery's "OpaSID" and OpenSource" kits. Commodore 64 game-y sounds predominate here but that was somewhat accidental. Was just running with the samples (haphazardly loaded into the modules) that sounded best.
Arranged and recorded in Ardour (Linux version). Some loop-wrangling was done in Ableton (W7).

Update: Minor tweaks; re-uploaded.