Pnoe hornspeakers: “Little did we know what lay ahead when we received the review solicitation for the Pnoe hornspeakers. We scanned the website of the Greek manufacturer and learned that the Pnoe—pronounced pno ay and meaning wind or breath of life—is a huge and foremost slippery smooth design.”
[First spotted here.]
[Found here.]
Illustrations from Pantomime – Masks and Properties, by Harry How, published in The Strand Magazine, Vol. VIII, July-December 1894, pp. 662-672.
[Found here.]
It’s Bad You Know, R.L. Burnside (1998) The remix album Come On In by Delta blues guitarist R.L. Burnside was released on Fat Possum records in 1998.
Burnside was born in 1926 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He learned from Mississippi Fred McDowell who lived in the next county over. Burnside and his family, tired of the life of sharecroppers, moved to Chicago in the early 50s. Subsequently his father, two uncles and two brothers were murdered there. In 1959 he returned to Mississippi, was convicted of murder himself, and served time at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm.
Bill.
Bug.
Cone pen [via Memo Of The Air].
JAWS – BBC edit [via Everlasting Blört].
Such a pleasant lady [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Movie .gif found here.]
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[Nightmare Perspective by Swedish photographer Erik Johansson
found here.]
If You Were Mine, Otis Rush (1957)From his first hit in 1956 (I Can’t Quit You Baby) Otis Rush was the sound of West Side Chicago electric blues. His vocals and playing style influenced many who followed, including Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn (who named his band after Rush’s 1959 hit Double Trouble).
Wash.
Tubas of history [via Thompson, blog].
Harry Revel’s Music From Out Of Space.
Pruncey-hayshin [via Everlasting Blört].
Hellbent For Safety [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Canadian T-Rex with caption found here.]
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