Arlo and Billy and some Superbad White Cars

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I miss the Seventies. These guys knew how to make rock-stardom look cool. And did anyone question their credibility for appearing in a car stereo ad? Hell no.

(via Super Seventies)

The Men Who Built The USS Enterprise

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From left: Vern Sion, Mel Keys and Volmer Jensen.

(excerpted from Hemmings Auto Blogs)

You’d have to be a real Trekker to know that the original Enterprise (”No bloody A, B, C, or D!”) model, the 11-footer used for shots in the original series, emerged from the Production Models Shop on Providencia Avenue in Burbank, California, on December 29, 1964. Based on a design by Matt Jefferies and an earlier three-foot proof-of-concept model by the Howard Anderson Company, the construction of the 225-pound model was contracted to Richard Datin, who subcontracted it to Volmer Jensen, Mel Keys and Vern Sion, mostly using wood, sheet metal rolled into tubes (the nacelles) and vacuum-formed plastic (the saucer).

(click here to read the rest of the article at Hemmings Auto Blogs)

(via This Isn't Happiness)

Don't Argue with The Man.

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via Paco Camino

...and in turn via This Isn't Happiness

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Here's a great documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop existed from 1958 to 1998. Its purpose was to create sound effects for BBC programs by using tape loops, oscillators, filters, ring modulators, etc. The Workshop was perhaps best known for its contributions to Spike Milligan's Goon Show and to Doctor Who.

For bonus points, take a few minutes to visit Delia Derbyshire's website. (Don't miss the audio clips.) Delia was employed by the Radiophonic Workshop in the 1960's.

I'm only embedding Part 1 so the page loads quicker. Links to all six parts are below:

The Alchemists of Sound, Part 1

The Alchemists of Sound, Part 2

The Alchemists of Sound, Part 3

The Alchemists of Sound, Part 4

The Alchemists of Sound, Part 5

The Alchemists of Sound, Part 6

Just a reminder...

via We Love Typography
via This Isn't Happiness

Space Collective

(view of gallery at Space Collective. Click to enlarge.)

(view of gallery at Space Collective. Click to enlarge.)


Space Collective is (in its own words) "Where forward-thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today."

Got it? Not quite? That's okay, because Space Collective is pretty hard to describe. It's got essays, articles, videos and artwork, which is all "curated" by Space Collective members (the collective has a lot of "found" content.)

I particularly like the "projects" section which features a number of projects conducted by universities, architecture and design schools. Some projects are public and some by invite only.

It's a fantastic site to get lost in. Give it a go.

(via But does it float.)

Bing says we don't exist.

The Austin Hifi Blog is hosted by Google's Blogger service, so it's no surprise that Google can find the blog in a jiffy. We thought we'd see how easily Microsoft's Bing search engine can find The Austin Hifi Blog.

It seems that Bing can't find it at all. We tried several combinations of search terms, but no go. Bing can't even find The Austin Hifi Blog when we enter the url in the search window. Is it possible that Google and Bing have such incredibly different search algorithms, or is there some skewing going on?

And by the way, Yahoo can't find The Austin Hifi Blog either. Hmm.

edit: to be fair, Bing now says we exist.