BLACK MIDI

John L

CARL MOON

Photographer and Artist

LUCY THE HUMAN CHIMP

Just two or three genes difference between us and our nearest living ancestor,

but a huge difference. One of those great docs that leaves you wanting to talk about it afterwards

made by Alex Parkinson

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 AMOS NACHOUM

Photographing sharks underwater wasn't dangerous enough for Amos Nachoum -

so he took to recording swimming polar bears instead. And yes, he has been almost eaten a couple of times ...

Probably a tedious git at a party - but the resulting pictures are quite interesting.

LAURA BARTON'S

AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

The perfect radio for one of those code-red heatwave evenings ... if you

can handle the oh-so plummy radio 4 accent (she's from Lancashire, too -

shame on her) Takes you back to those hypnotic American new-wave road

movies of the 70s ...

Laura Baron's American Roadtrip

SHAME

SNOW DAY

(As heard on the sometimes wonderful 'Short Cuts' radio prog)

wanted

STREET PUNKS !

FULFILL YOUR IMPORT DUTY !

LIVING ON AN

ISLAND-FILL

It's pretty horrific ... you finally  clean out that cupboard and find yerself throwing out all sorts of tech

- old set-top boxes, routers, chargers etc. You were thinking of buying a cordless hoover

- I mean vacuum cleaner, until you thought for a moment and remembered that anything with a built-in battery

dies and refuses to take a charge about a week after the warranty runs out.

And then you hear that the next gen of i-phone will come with

software that stops you from swapping the battery over - even to the same exact model

The folks at i-fixit (below) are providing free manuals for thousands of machines -

they only make money from supplying the specialist toolkits

It's worth doing - I fixed the laptop I'm using right now

(an old Lenovo/IBM T61 - Ebay bargain) It was overheating, so

I paid £6 for a new fan and a quick Youtube tutorial later - fixed.

They call it The Right to Repair Movement ... we used to just call it repairs

THE WAY WE LIVED

 Nick Hedges

 A friend who works in publishing brought round some old photo prints one day,

and I found myself getting quite choked up with emotion.

Having moved around a lot,

I had a almost forgotten about my early childhood in inner city Manchester.

These photos by Nick Hedges are from that period (early 70s)

- taken in Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Newcastle and Glasgow

 It wasn't always this way ... once we were wild, free, dangerous ...

                                                                                                                                                Henry Miller, 1936