The Related Work Journal

>1: A Shark Who [maybe] Knew Shakespeare.

Some links, nitwit ideas, and information to change your life:

  1. A famous audio distortion unit, the Thermionic Culture Vulture, seen here on an office chair at ~$2,500. This is what it does to sound. As far as audio effects go, it's legendary, and I am a fan of its twisting and mangling.

    However, I'm a bit of a fake. I’ve never owned the real physical version of it. Jonathan LowFour-time Grammy-winning engineer, mixer, and producer FROM PHILLY! with both Indie street cred, and pop celebrity, working with artists like Taylor Swift, The National, Maya Hawke, Mumford & Sons, Waxahatchee, and Caroline Shaw. said this about the real version,

    “I will use hardware [...] though mainly just two units: the Eventide H3000, because I have not found any plug‑ins that do the same thing, and the [Thermionic] Culture Vulture, for its very broad tone shaping and distortion properties.”

    Well, shit. Instead of the real thing, I’ve loved a digital clone made by Universal Audio. According to Low, with the digital version, I'm missing something. To me, it sounds wonderful. Currently, I'm even without my regular digital cloneThe software version is only usable in tandem with audio interfaces Universal Audio also makes. I have one, but there wasn’t space for it in a recent move. Their interfaces have DSP chips that run their plugins, offloading that load from your computer. Back in the not so distant future, this was a great deal: an audio interface, more power for plugins, and then the plugins themselves. These days, computers are more than powerful enough to run everything natively. , forced to use a competitor's: Arturia’s Dist Tube-Culture. And you know what? I like it also. Should I feel like I am missing the special sauce only the hardware can offer?

    "Do you believe what you hear, or do you hear what you believe?"

  2. Magical Shark. What they've seen, living to 500 years old, is impossible to comprehend and fascinating.

    The sureal Greenland Shark.
    The surreal Greenland Shark.

  3. The 17th Earl of Oxford, this guy, outed himself in his 17th century biography:

    "This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, and said, 'My Lord, I had forgot the Fart"

    That well may be, sir, but are the other rumors true? That you are in fact the famous bard. Indeed, some fringe historians think this man penned Hamlet and the works.

    If only we could ask the Greenland Sharks.

  4. This short documentary about “seeing”. Narrated by, and about Inge Druckrey. Her voice is so soothing. If you’re interested in art, design, typefaces, or education, you will find something in this.

  5. If you, like me, find yourself astonished by AI—cancer vaccines, climate crisis solved—but also wish it would piss off and die, you might enjoy this.

  6. My girlfriend gave me one of these bags as a gift.

    It's evident they have a sense of joy.I recorded this video using the productivity and utility app Vorssaint. Among the 1000 things it does, it has a built-in “studio” of sorts which makes screen recording much more powerful.
    At first, I was uncertain I’d use it. Previously, I had not clicked with compacting bags. My Shupatto changed that. The distinction between compacting (i.e., stuffing into a small pouch), and folding (this bag) proved significant. I love this bag. I put it in my back pocket. Unfolded, my bag is spacious enough that yesterday, after some shopping, I fit a pack of Lacroix’s, a box of protein bars, a shirt, two water bottles, and my wallet.

  7. Do you ever think about concrete?

Until the next, bye-bye!