trash cam

Miroslav Tichý (* November 20 1926 in Nětčice)
is a Czech photographer and painter.


Miroslav Tichý wandered the small Moravian town of Kyjov in rags, pursuing his obsession with the female form by photographing women in the streets, shops and parks with cameras he made from tin cans, children's spectacle lenses and other junk he found on the street.


He would return home each day to make prints on equally primitive equipment, making only one print from the negatives he selected.

His work remained largely unknown until 2005, when he was 79 years old.


some of his work:

apology template

Getting hideously drunk at a (dinner) party and embarrassing yourself is certainly nothing new.

As far back as the 9th Century, the beautifully named 'Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette' insisted that local officials use the following letter template (dated 856) when sending apologies to offended hosts. The guilty party would copy the template text, enter the dinner host's name, sign the letter and then deliver with head bowed.

The letter was discovered, alongside thousands of other documents, in a sealed cave library in western China.
(To read more visit the International Dunhuang Project)

The entire scroll, filled with form letters adapted for various situations, can be seen here.



bonus:
the modern apology template form (+ more template forms): link

the ventures - covered by U900

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. The band, formed by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide, having sold over 100 million records, and are to date the best-selling instrumental band of all time.

one of my favourite surf-music groups from the past covered by

U900: some knitted dolls from japan (!)


The Ventures - Diamond Head


U900 - Diamond Head



The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
(sorry - the visuals seem to be looped but the music is not...)


U900 - Walk Don't Run



bonus stuff:
a nice little bootleg

Man Or Astroman?
Live at Maida Vale BBC Studios (November 1, 2000)



1. Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronic Incurable Tinnitus

2. Theme from EEVIAC

3. Song for the Two Mile Linear Particle Accelerator, Stanford University, Stanford, California

4. Television Fission

5. Preparation Clont

6. Within One Universe There Are Millions

7. Engines of Difference

8. Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick

9. Um Espectro Sem Escala

10. Trapezoid

11. Interstellar Hardrive

12. Curious Constructs of Stem-like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers

tracklist and track downloads here
the complete session as a download (right click and save as)

so: hang loose or you can go hang
good night and good luck

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Turrican! - again...
A classic theme of earlier videogame history reinterpreted by Duracell.

Some programmed synthesizer triggered by snare-hits
plus an amplified, distorted basedrum.

Awesome!!

-> previous vid

(OST for Turrican and moreover: Chris Hülsbeck)