When I wrote about seeing Profondo Rosso in the film thread a while ago, I made special mention of the soundtrack. @popobawa4u and @ChuckV seemed to know a bit about them–Goblin was the group i guess.
heavy, man.
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I’m a double contrarian. I brought Chrome to its knees by opening 20ish youtube videos, five wikia sites, and some other stuff. On a PC with a 6th gen Core i7 and 32 GB of RAM. I didn’t get too far into the RAM before the performance became intolerable. Super unfortunate because I was trying to recreate a Chrome memory issue.
Blame it on Chrome’s javascript engine (I do but in fairness, I was trying to create a problem) or on evil ads … 
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Not to mention Paolo Conte.
(Oh, and if you like modern Italian flicks and want a good comedy to take your mind off the election, I see that the hilarious Bienvenuti al Sud is on the youtube.)
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5 optical drives? I’ve given up on them. I have a portable one and I think one of my laptops still has one, but I’m not certain.
But, yeah, never enough ram or pixels.
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I have two hilarious design books by a visionary and apparently mostly forgotten GENIUS called Philip Garner. There is very little info about him online, just some Pinterest scans of pages from the books, a random few pasted here:
Last two show the book covers. If you ever see them in a second-hand shop, snap 'em up! The few ideas above don’t capture a fraction of the witty, idealist, anarchic, lovingly made or mocked pre-photoshop visual awesomeness this man produced 
STOP PRESS: Just discovered there’s a Wikipedia page since last I looked and that Philip has transitioned to Pippa. Page VERY slight though. She should be a celebrated legend of modern design imho!
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I’ve dubbed the optical drives “the rippenator” as it’s mostly for ripping my wife’s extensive dvd collection to disk.
After that’s all done, I’ll reuse the sata interfaces for MOAR DISKS. Or… other sata devices?
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not sure if it was him, but you’ve triggered a memory of a mock LL Bean-type of catalog I saw in a bookstore when I was maybe 8 or 9. if not Garner, then seemingly similar. sound familiar?
The new wave of observational/perceptual painting.
That is, painters who pay close attention to the way we see a thing as much as to the thing itself.
I would say that I’m part of this field despite not being directly associated with any other painters. Part of my reasoning and process is to pay close attention to the relationship between our orbital vision and it’s relation to Euclidean geometry.
A good jumping off point for this would be this article about the Oakes brothers which shows the one extreme of those perceptual painters who are primarily focused on the physics of how we see perspective:
http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-magic-easel/Content?oid=1105930)
But for me, I have this personal desire to evoke a plausible imitation of the texture of the subject in the image, too.
Some of the painters that are self-admittedly (or not) “perceptual” that I pay close attention to are:
Euan Uglow (deceased) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euan_Uglow
Rackstraw Downes - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackstraw_Downes
Peter Van Dyck -http://www.petervandyckart.com/
Diarmuid Kelley - https://artblot.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/diarmuid-kelley/
Catherine Kehoe - http://catherinekehoe.com/portrait-figure/1
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From the first linked article:
Normally, our two eyes unite what each sees individually into one picture; but the easel is designed to separate what they see. In this case, Trevor’s left eye saw the paper, his right eye Cloud Gate and the plaza around it.
Splitting focus this way doesn’t come naturally.
Holy crap. My strabismus makes it impossible for me not to have split focus. I have a superpower.
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