socks-studio

Hipster fashion cycle

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fashion, go public, pills

links for 2010-06-29

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world weird web

Too distinctive to miss

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sounds, technology, visions

(Related to last post on Socks):
I guessed and it was right: Portishead did use a vintage EMS AVS modular synth on its song, an instrument similar to the one played by Pink Floyd on “On the Run”.

Watch this:

and this:

Portishead single for Amnesty – Chase the tear

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sounds

Despite its horrible name.

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world weird web

Equally loved and hated, (and among the most pirated pieces of software ever), AutoCAD will soon be 30 yo.
The standard software for architecture and engineering offices just announced the on-going development of a Mac porting, eighteen years after the last Apple version was released.
Got to have a R12 release (1992) somewhere in my parents’ house… (pirated, i guess)

Here a (huge!) visual history: Autodesk history on Flickr.

Read this magazine celebrating the 25th in 2007.