Like love, music's a mystery...

And we begin with the tunes.

• Check out Generative.fm, a site full of generative, ambient music.
• Asaf Sirkis' album Full Moon is available for free, but why not pay a buck or two?
• ILUITEQ's Soundtracks for Winter Departures is tempting.
• I think I already shared this one but there's no harm in repeating that GAUDI's Psychedelic Future Dub Vol 4. is available to stream on Mixcloud.
• Descending by Motzer & Reuter.

Everything Disney Owns

From the Long Now Foundation comes this article on slow music, Transmissions from the Ambient Frontier. Slow art is a thing (do people really only spend on average 27 seconds looking at a work of art?) and slow music is too, although I find ambient or drone challenges some people immensely. This is a long article but worth a slow read. 

If you're going to be in the neighborhood of the Berkeley Art Museum before July 21st, go see the exhibition Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction. 

Does anyone really care that Mickey Mouse is 90 years old? Cartoon Research shares how he used to be a much bigger deal.

Are you a "small giant," a company that has chosen to be great instead of big.

The Wadsworth Museum is hosting Sean Scully: Landline through 19 May.

Here's a serious and almost academic study of swearing on TV.

The one guy who flew both the F-22 (Lockheed Martin) and YF-23 (Northrop Grumman) says that L-M won because they did a better job of marketing. Regardless, the YF-23 is a beautifully cool aircraft.

Javier Riera, light projection onto trees. source. 

Pixar's Inside Out only featured five emotions (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust) but despite not being able to find a connection I suspect they're based on Robert Plutchik's eight primary emotions (adding Trust, Surprise, and Anticipation) illustrated graphically as a wheel below. Like my fascination with the periodic table, there's something pleasing about this graphical depiction of a "soft" subject.

Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions. source. See more above.

The first web browser was called - no, not Mosaic - WorldWideWeb. Now to celebrate it's 30th anniversary, an in-browser implementation of WorldWideWeb has been developed. Go surf the web like it's 1989.

Somewhere under a rainbow. source. It's been a while since I did some aviation pr0n.

This article says that in future versions of Microsoft Office, you'll be able to convert a photo of a data table into an Excel spreadsheet.

Ellsworth Kelly is coming to a postage stamp near you soon.

The average American - or so this article says - uses 3 rolls of toilet paper per week. This seems high to me.

...when solved, it evaporates. ~Ned Rorem