If you love old film cameras and constantly want to know more about them (like me), then Old Cameras is a YouTube Channel where you can lose hours of time.
Source: Petapixel
Atomic succeeds because of the band’s willingness to dive into their muse and experiment. It’s why they’ve achieved such high status in the sub-genre.
Consequence of Sound reviews Mogwai’s Atomic.
By way of rationale, Hogan dismissed the Red Line as a “wasteful boondoggle,” and the downtown tunnel, in particular, as a costly indulgence — as if it was outlandish for rail lines in cities to run underground. Soon afterward, it would emerge in public-records requests from a pro-transit group that his administration had given the question zero study.
My Governor is an asshole from the country who has made it clear he doesn’t give a shit about Baltimore.
Serial One is a website about a guy restoring a Honda 600. This is not just any guy, though. He restores 600s as his living, and this car is the first one produced.
Underworld’s never had trouble getting listeners to their feet. This gorgeously love-drunk finale makes Barbara a record that can bring them to their knees.
Pitchfork’s review of Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future has good things to say. I’m happy to see them back.
So many good things to find here: A Complete History of the Millennium Falcon, exhaustively researched and illustrated. This is my favorite spaceship design, and what taught me at an early age that careful asymmetry was an excellent design choice.
This lineup totally motivates me for a road trip to North Carolina in June: Chvrches, Death Cab for Cutie Announce Joint Tour. Interestingly, Death Cab is touring with Metric up in Canada right now–another Venn diagram of music I like. Related: M83 is releasing a new album and will be at Meriwether Post Pavilion, about 10 miles from the house, in June.
I had no idea the Maryland Historical Society was writing such excellent pieces. This one is about the lost breweries of Baltimore, from Gunther’s to National.
People say that Trump is an unconventional candidate and that he represents a break from politics as usual. That’s not true. Trump is the culmination of the trends we have been seeing for the last 30 years: the desire for outsiders; the bashing style of rhetoric that makes conversation impossible; the decline of coherent political parties…
Source: The Governing Cancer of Our Time, from The New York Times
Pretty much what it says on the label: Pets That Are Stuck But Pretending Everything Is Fine