What’s the “farm to table” of music making? Unresolved, troubled teenage issues to record player?

I’ve been doing this for 25+ yrs and can still only predict the time it takes to cook a turkey within +\- 2 hours.

I saw a sticker near my home this morning: "Money spent in your neighborhood stays in your neighborhood." It's going to be my mantra for holiday shopping from now on and if I can't find it local, I'll go and support someone on Etsy or Bandcamp etc.

Don’t buy nest or google products. These smoke detectors started beeping at 5am to let us know they’re reached their 10 yr life expectancy and need to be replaced immediately. They’re wired into the ceiling. Which is 10ft and requires a ladder. Assholes.

There's a lot of talk about lack of color from modern movies (and life) but there are also some stunningly chromatic ones: Midsommar Enter The Void The Substance Last Night In Soho Everything Everywhere All At Once I think this is why I prefer thrillers & horror. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

This is a well informed study on why films just don't look good anymore. The idea of haptic or tactile is probably why kids watch youtubes of people crunching candy. It's visceral. They crave it. Films shot wide in deep focus using real backgrounds felt visceral too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...

I've been trying to simulate mixing real paint together and it's not so simple on a computer that uses RGB values i.e. light vs actual pigment. I think i'm close here with the help of #houdini

I spent the morning at Whitney Museum of American Art and was taken to another dimension. There's so much to love but these stood out to me: Linda Lomahaftewa – Untitled (Woman's Faces) Elsie Driggs – Pittsburgh Joan Brown – The Bride #artmuseum #paintings #thewhitney

I’m one of four Dads (that I’ve met) that have kids in the same class and also home recording studios. #BrooklynDad

My daughter has inherited my talent for spotting an actor and naming the other films they were in. I don’t know how useful that is in the real world and it’s also ironic that I can’t remember people’s faces and names or where I met them in the real world.

"JODI" My Aunt did an abstract painting in the sixties based on the halftone print pattern. This is my attempt at making it procedural using #houdini Feed in any image and it'll render nice melty dots. Happy birthday, Jodi Foster! #graphicdesign #portrait #JodiFoster

Mustard #photography #fallcolors #newyork #shotoniphone

This looks fun! www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

Autumn + rain - rain + sunset #photography #fallcolors #naturephotography

Someone played me this at a party in 1987 and I never really listened to it again. I might have owned it on cassette. It still moves me. Great voice. Great guitar and production. Peak eighties. youtu.be/-0QQLRtzNYE?...

“Hot Dog Jumping Frog Albuquerque” Gen X we had it all.

Rising Moon #NaturePhotography #BlueskyPhotographers #Photography #LandscapePhotography #woodstock

This might be one the most Autumnal things I’ve ever heard. youtu.be/JVgO4N8aUd4?...

Words that when you say them correctly people don’t know what you mean so you have to say them wrong and they’re like “ah yes” and then correct you: Pho Björk Ralph Fiennes

I watched the BLACKPINK documentary and I didn't realize that K-Pop artists do an intensive training for 4+ years. Not that it's bad but it falls more in line with classical musicians and athletes take rather than rock musicians who play in a garage and do coke until they accidentally write a hit.

Evening meditation. #simpleminds

I’m proud to be a New Yorker right now even though I’m registered upstate and merely got to vote for the new town clerk and head of highways and roads, I felt like we all made a difference!

What I listen to late at night or when cooking: www.radiofrance.fr/fip

I'm turning into my Grand Uncle Eddie who saw me mucking around with a bass and a distortion pedal at age 17 and told me "Why don't you just play a song? You know, like Frank (Sinatra)!"

Just saw the new Antares thing that changes your voice into a different voice. How about this: Go onto instagram and find one of a million people who can sing and ask them if they want to sing on your tune. Hell, get out of your house, go hear a band and talk to them. What are we doing here?

As I'm listening to a French radio station playing Horace Silver's "A Song For My Father" I'm reminded that there's more music created before I was born that I could ever listen to in my life time. Forget everything since... Such an abundance of beauty. Why would we ever outsource it?

SLOW WATER Shot with an iPhone - 37 handheld shots composited in Photoshop. #longexposure #waterfall #catskills #photography #iphone17

Come on NYC, we got this!

To celebrate the life of Dick Cheney, I managed to find a copy of this short film, "Chicks With Dick", produced by Curious Pictures. It seems to be out of circulation so I thought I'd recirculate it! Music by yours truly. vimeo.com/1133531362?s...

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times, as a GIF

Repost from a few days ago: Here's my Halloween playlist with plenty of Witchy energy. Compiled by Sam and I from Ready, Steady, Die! open.spotify.com/playlist/0Yu...

Work: Can you still manage to do x, y and z before you knock off today? Me: That depends on how many questions you're gonna ask me before I knock off today?

Say what you want about the royals, they don't tolerate Epsteinery. This is how this should work. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Google had a 45 year anniversary web version of Pac-Man up today on their homepage. In case it's not there: doodles.google/doodle/pac-m...

I binged through The Chair Company and it's so much fun. This is the liminal space between corporate office carpet and the small print on a website. It's pure Kafka. Tim Robbinson is a genius.

Here's another experiment with the illusion of motion. It's kinda like hacking your brain, which is already using hacks like edge contrast and motion blur to make sense of the physical universe. @sidefx.bsky.social #houdini

As you're doing your holiday shopping, remember, Amazon doesn't care about people. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

My music taste went in a variety of different directions in the 80s. This was one of them. Missed that 🍌 the first time around. 🤦‍♂️ #spooky #80smusic #DeadOrAlive www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZKN...

Antagonist or role model? I could never quite tell. 💔

I’m not trying to avoid you. I’m only here to drop my kid off at school and haven’t had the required dosage of caffeine yet.

Float / Fall - an optical illusion I made inspired by the mind bending illusions of graphic artist Jagarikin (on X). Nothing is really moving. @sidefx.bsky.social #houdini #illusion

My 5yr old was in bed and came up with a really cool song hook. After 3 lines she stopped. I offered a 4th line that rhymed perfectly. She turned around, looked at me and said, “No.” I think she’s ready to face the music industry now.

My wife was describing a sea scene where there was more than one octopus and she was searching for the plural term. I offered up "Octopussies?" and we agreed that's the term we'll use from now on.

I did a "long exposure" with my iPhone by taking 30 photographs resting on a rock and calculating the 'mean' (average) image in Photoshop. It's pretty cool as the alternative is an SLR, tripod and an 8x ND filter to stop down the daylight. #photography #catskills

Walking in London #photography

Cycling in London #photography

Apple, please give us "delete and report spam" option on the lock screen. Why I clear a text and then go to messages later and see it still unread? I've gotta swipe each "BREAKING NEWS: RACHEL MADDOW DROPS A BOMB ON TRUMP!!!" text twice.

Took my 40 yrs of recording to realize that warm or 'vintage' records don't have no high frequency information. They just have less emphasis on them. It's a gentle roll off but it's still there. Arguably older recordings have more air than new ones.