🎼 Revisiting orchestration in this winter season, and while my legs are recalibrating this year. 🤔 #art #music #culture #composition

The Unmasked Six: The Men the FBI Tried to Hide youtu.be/cvOuN5KqufE

A good afternoon walking about SF today and stopped in at Sightglass Coffee for a double espresso. This evening, The Musical Art Quintet at Red Poppy Art House. “The LOVE concert” “Valentine’s Day Concert a Love Theme” The music of… www.redpoppyarthouse.org/event/the-mu... #art #music #culture

15 FEB, 11 AM (PT): Quinquagesima Sunday, in the Western Christian Churches, is the last pre-Lenten Sunday, being the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide)... saintannchapel.org/worship/ #StAnnChapel #Quinquagesima #Anglican #PaloAlto #California

Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt

The sky appears to have gone a strange colour. What could this mean?

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Why Stanley Kubrick Was Obsessed With Telling His Last Story (Eyes Wide Shut) youtu.be/j5cy4f4z8Fk #art #film #culture #EyesWideShut

Feast of Saint Valentine (Martyr) Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_V... #FeastDay #SaintValentine #Martyr #ValentinesDay

The Devil Himself! - The Worst of The Epstein Files youtu.be/e-tapKoT1K0

Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story | Amplified youtu.be/w0QvSqKdpYQ #art #music #culture

Dusting off my 4 string fretted electric bass guitar tonight, for a possible recording studio invite session. Been playing it since 1994 (custom model). 🎶 #art #music #culture

Is Tim Cook the Worst of All Tech CEOs with Scott Galloway | The Bulwark Podcast youtu.be/Zi07_fWFBVk

Nirvana music.apple.com/us/album/nir...

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver… bible.com/bible/1/mat....

Catholicism: For Catholics, fasting, taken as a technical term, is the reduction of one's intake of food to one full meal (which may not contain meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Fridays throughout the entire year unless a solemnity should fall on Friday) and… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

Anglicanism: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer prescribes certain days as days for fasting and abstinence, "consisting of the 40 days of Lent, the ember days, the three Rogation days (the Monday to Wednesday following the Sunday after Ascension Day), and all Fridays... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

Fasting is a practice in several Christian denominations and is done both collectively during certain seasons of the liturgical calendar, or individually as a believer feels led by the Holy Spirit. In the traditional Black Fast, the observant abstains from food and… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

It would be nice to have people there to help you and find solutions together here, for a better society. Battling for 53 years, still here… Being 🥸

You missed the real message in Bad Bunny's halftime show… youtu.be/0xax6S3JC8M

Really loved the new series, Small Prophets written by Mackenzie Crook (who previously wrote The Detectorists - which was also wonderful). At times bizarre, hilarious & wistful, it's such a refreshing change to the barrage of unsubtle content that much of modern TV adheres to. Recommended.

Stephen Fry Tells The Real Story Behind Greek Myths youtu.be/wBwBoM11JiM

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Experimenting with the weird & wonderful exFriend synth running through the Boss DD20 & Microcosm. It is a clone of the Ellitone Multi-Synth designed by Maciek Jaciuk and really you never quite know what you're going to get out of it - which can be cool.

👁️ SEEN Vol. 5 is officially underway… www.thetracypiper.com/pages/seen @thetracypiper.bsky.social The first stories are being painted, & the next round of work begins this week. This project exists to hold space for real stories, YOUR stories… I am SEEN in Vol. 3 David 👁️ @davidleikam.bsky.social

Excellent review of HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN95) by d'Voxx in this months issue of @electronicsound.bsky.social. "Rich in atmosphere, drama and genre-defying ambiiton, this is one of d'Voxx's most evocative releases to date".

For our final show of 2025, we rejoined F1 in Abu Dhabi, which also played host to the final race of the season. After a thrilling season, a record crowd packed Etihad Park to join the celebration. Relive the set on nugs.net or grab the CD in The Met Store: metallica.lnk.to/LiveInAbuDhabi2025

Master of Puppets @metallica.com music.apple.com/us/album/mas... #art #music #culture #Metallica

Bill Laswell was born on February 12, 1955 #HappyBirthday

God Bless America youtube.com/shorts/0PvT2...

Most people think AI innovation lives in the cloud. They’re wrong. 🎤 Sam Fok explains how FemtoAI is rethinking computation from the ground up. 👉 Watch: www.sparknify.com/post/2026011... #AIHardware #DeepTech #FutureOfAI #Semiconductors #PhysicalAI #Sparknify

Clifford Lee Burton (10 FEB 1962–1986 SEP 27) was the legendary bassist for the thrash metal band Metallica from 1982 until his untimely death in 1986. Often called the "heart and soul" of the band's… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_B... #art #music #culture #CliffBurton #Metallica @metallica.com

Ancient Lyre in Scandinavia: The ancient Greek lyre travels to Malmö and Copenhagen from Feb 13–17, 2026, for a series of LIVE performances, hands-on workshops, and the… 📍 Copenhagen: www.facebook.com/events/11641... #art #music #culture #lyre #AncientLyre #Malmö #Copenhagen #Scandinavia

Ancient Lyre in Scandinavia: The ancient Greek lyre travels to Malmö & Copenhagen from Feb 13–17, 2026, for a series of LIVE performances, hands-on workshops, & the Augmented Reality… Mallmö: www.facebook.com/events/14488... #art #music #culture #lyre #AncientLyre #Malmö #Copenhagen #Scandinavia

The Making Of 'Once In A Lifetime' By Talking Heads in UNCUT November 2007 #RemainInLight #BrianEno www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_uncu...

Master of the Temple: The Tragedy of Jack Parsons youtu.be/mxfSMcNP_HQ

Radial Symmetry and the Architecture of Freedom open.substack.com/pub/integral...

Live/Dead: The Grateful Dead in 1969 youtu.be/oaXJDPXOAEU #art #music #culture #GratefulDead #TheGratefulDead @abigaildevoe.bsky.social

The Military's Silent Rebellion with Kori Schake | Shield of the Republic youtu.be/cNBeJ4VrjYE

As Sir David Attenborough approaches his 100th birthday, Pete Townshend and Brian Eno talk about his influence (February 6, 2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkuv...

Next combo I'm experimenting with is the Buchla Easel Command with it's Program Manager Card heading through my trusty old Boss DD-20 Delay Pedal & then the Hologram Electronics Microcosm.

A good afternoon walk, after Sexagesima Sunday… ☕️ Sexagesima Sunday, is the name for the second Sunday before Ash Wednesday in the pre-1970 Roman Rite liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, and also in that of some Protestant denominations, particularly… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexages...

Knight, Death and the Devil (German: Ritter, Tod und Teufel) is a large 1513 engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the three Meisterstiche (master prints) completed during a period when he almost ceased to work in paint or woodcuts to focus on engravings. The image is infused with…

Thank you for your family friendship & good company over 50 years, Barby (& Vic)… sanjosepeace.org/barby-ulmer-... Vic & Barby Ulmer were prominent peace and social justice activists based in the SFBA, best known for their roles as educators & founders of the non-profit, Our Developing World.

Avant-Garde Art \ Surrealism Reviewed www.ltmrecordings.com/surrealism_r... Surrealism Reviewed is an audio anthology of historic spoken word recordings by Surrealist artists, writers and poets. Made between 1929 and 1963, the collection includes poetry readings… #art #culture #surrealism

Avant-Garde Art \ Futurism & Dada Reviewed www.ltmrecordings.com/futurism_and... Futurism & Dada Reviewed is a popular primer CD compiling archive sound recordings made by leading figures from both key 20th century avant-garde art movements. Contributors include... #art #culture #dada #futurism

We Need More Punk Aesthetic These Days… Being. 🥸

Anglo-Catholic Fasting & Abstinence Fasting is a practice in several Christian denominations and is done both collectively during certain seasons of the liturgical calendar, or individually as a believer feels led by the Holy Spirit. In the traditional Black Fast… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...