Since the dawn of time people have been making up their own words, unhappy with the boundaries of the dictionary, urging to describe something in their own personal way. I read an article in the Guardian this week listing their top ten with some beauties like Snozzberry and Heffalump. Made up offerings deserve their own dictionary. This friday please release you personal best to the group and let us spread the good word.... [Read more]

Friends of Type is an online project set up to log daily sketches, ideas and finished pieces in the glorius medium of typography. Set up by four US enthusiasts Aaron Carambula, Erik Marinovich, Dennis Payongayong and Jason Wong the blog/website now plays host to a mammoth collection of real quality. Impressively, despite their monthly guests almost every entry is from one of the four founders. You could lose a full week in there. Do enjoy.... [Read more]

The web has plenty of amazing examples of magical tilt shift video. For the uniniated, tilt shift is a lens that turns the real-life into a miniature. However despite its popularity, to this day I have seen none better than this piece called "The Village" by Pedro Sousa. ... [Read more]

Today's guest mix is from the incomputable Shit Robot aka Marcus Lambkin. Since early 2011 Marcus has been touring his live audio visual spectacular with SEs very own Charlie Doran on the ocular controls, hence our unfettered access to request a contribution. In this mix Marcus consults his back up files and pays homage to one of his biggest musical influences, Andrew Weatherall, as he takes us on a journey back in time, but not that far, through some of Weatheralls early classics. Take it... [Read more]

Francis Ford Coppolla, the legendary director of amongst others Apocalypse Now and the Godfather Trilogy has always been an innovator in film. At the ripe age of 72 he has just announced his vision for a new approach to how we watch film. He wishes to see his new film, Twixt toured like a band and with an improvised version of the film played live in theaters.... [Read more]

London Festival Field Day is almost upon us again. As always it has gathered together a great lineup of old and new. Everyone from John Cale to SBTRKT. To whet the appetite they have prepared a series for mixes for our listening pleasure. Perfect digestion for the weekend.... [Read more]

James Gulliver Hancock is an Australian illustrator living in Brooklyn. In this video Marisa Guzman-Aloia follows James progress on his ongoing project "All the Buildings in New York". On arriving in the city he felt a strong association with the buildings he had seen in films like Westside Story, Rear Window and Sesame Street. He sketches the buildings on various materials - anything from napkins, to sketchbooks, to wood. ... [Read more]

A member of the Spacial Music Collective, Johnathon Nangle has prepared a series of interactive audio installations entitled "Make Some Noise". The exhibition opens today at The Ark in Dublin's Temple Bar. Children and adults alike are invited to come along and discover how to create surround sound music and lighting pieces using handheld devices, bash the drums without laying a finger on the kit and find out what interesting sounds can be made with a can of baked beans.... [Read more]

I have fond memories of cutting up magazines when was younger, swapping heads on bodies etc. In fact I still do it from time to time. New York based Dontsave aka David Kraftsow uses the internet as his pulp content and has built quite a collection of web-based interactive projects that redirect the vast media outlet for his own goals. None more impressive than Yooouuu Tuuube which allows to... [Read more]

Having had the honour of a performance at our Homemade show in 2009, Synth Eastwood are very excited about the return of The Jimmy Rig Slip Jig. The installation is part man, part machine and part engineering, part performance. In creating the installation George Higgs has housed a series of handmade acoustic instruments into a moveable frame and has prepared specific compositions for them. The music is played by 6 machinists whom encourage unworldly sounds... [Read more]