urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc... and another piece I commissioned for @urbanomnibus.bsky.social dropped—this one's an interview w/Rennie McDougall by @maxy.bsky.social about Rennie's forthcoming book on dance history in NYC!

For Urban Omnibus, I interviewed the great Rennie McDougall about his amazing new book Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Made New York City urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc...

Paul Cadmus initial sketches for Ballet Alphabet (1939)

making a little Conway's Game of Life for the terminal, adapting some 1990s bootleg BBS turbo pascal code

My piece with The HTML Review just came out, on a digital and physical walk I'm planning across the Korean Peninsula. It is about a personal project a few years in the making. Thank you to Max & Shelby for being wonderful, patient editors: thehtml.review/05/tell-umma...

Always funny watching the internet bros think Nietzsche wanted young men to be ruthless, rules-exempt individualists who dominate others, when he actually just wanted them to be dancers

created photos.connie.surf as part of the html review this year!!! so honored :^)

Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/

one of the great pleasures of using discogs to catalog records is the stunning regularity with which you acquire something that is not already part of the database. Tens of millions of releases cataloged, and still human musical production is so great that there are constant gaps

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/

Today marks FIVE YEARS since I started this spreadsheet cataloging the songs stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning. It's the closest thing to a journal I've ever had - docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New Session Issue 4: Upheaval now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com featuring work by: @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social ...and more! web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

look how big our monitors were before the turn of the century! big ol' things that had a degauss button

tonight's deep rabbit hole obsession with a genius artist who had a truncated and underappreciated career is costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg, who only did five films, but absolutely crushed them all

"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 5TH PLAYED BACKWARDS IN A CONCRETE SILO" by Sheet Noise is the best album TITLE of the year

Scully: Four helicopters and a string quartet? Mulder, what are you Mulder: *throws file at her* In 1971, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen reported having dreams where he learned he was from the Sirius system,

I tried to "further the spread" of the World Wide Web as outlined in the original 1992 whitepaper. Outraged it doesn't still work come on

the latest 10k drum machines (by @maxy.bsky.social & friends) are so beautiful kubb.mingus.space 10kdrummachines.com/machines/wor... bmo-mpc.vercel.app they're all so gorgeous, so inventive..!! I wish/dream/would die for a 10kdrumhackthon and yes AM STILL procrastinating on making one.........x

The 7 Habits of People Who Read Books About Habits

where's the HIIT class that blasts Mozart's Requiem

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

2025 and still no Aphex Twin ballet

Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton. What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms! In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here: salexanderreed.com/backbeats

Retrospectively I can see that *Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy* and *M*A*S*H* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Australophobia that was beginning to shape and color Dwarven life...

CHOTINER: So you wrote how many symphonies? BRAHMS: Four CHOTINER: And Beethoven wrote nine BRAHMS: Well, yes, but— CHOTINER: Mozart wrote over forty BRAHMS: Symphony numbering was different then, and also he died at thirty-five— CHOTINER: So you had more time than Mozart

I am grateful to @maxy.bsky.social for including my vintage web based drum machine from 2012 in #10kdrummachines 10kdrummachines.com/machines/sdm...

Just saw an *Iron Maiden boyfriend / Oasis girlfriend* walking hand in hand with their respective band t-shirts and dispositions it was beautiful

absolute geniuses @natanlast.bsky.social and @xor.blue made "fill harmonics" a CROSSWORD EDITOR DRUM MACHINE for the 10,000 Drum Machines project!!!! fillharmonics.com

some recent work! shelby.cool/array-of-arr...

Just a boy reading The Viennese Ballroom In The Age Of Beethoven in Central Park while waiting for a dentist appointment

a perfect website chainmailbasket.com

Hoping someone edits my story down to a tight 0

I think the main lesson I’ve learned from watching a lot of opera vids is that it’s okay to have a lot of merely serviceable music as long as you have a few real bangers

In observance of the recent New Jersey earthquake, please check out my Seismic Activity drum machine and make a fun rhythmic pattern based on earthquake data 10kdrummachines.com/machines/sei...

A drum machine -- created by @maxy.bsky.social -- that plays patterns based on word-occurrence in classic literature Item #2 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here here here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

my harsh noise piece wasn't accepted to the [REDACTED] conference, but my pleasant microtonal soundbath was, so I guess that's cool (can't be too greedy and demand people learn that I contain multitudes)

The best parts of the 10,000 Drum Machines project are not the machines I make, but the contributions from friends new and old. Like check out this absolute MIRACLE by Viola He 10kdrummachines.com

I’ve made a start! 🥁 🥊🥚

DVD Bouncing Logo Drum Machine 10kdrummachines.com

DVD Bouncing Logo Drum Machine 10kdrummachines.com

word search drum machine feat Moby Dick 10kdrummachines.com

word search drum machine feat Moby Dick 10kdrummachines.com

all these years of Love Island, and not a single needledrop of 'Bombshell' by Operation Ivy