Okkto ROCKETEER 40th Anniversary watch

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While I've had my eyes on this beauty for awhile, I wasn't prepared how truly stunning Okkto’s work is in person: a marvelous tribute to one of the most enduring (and endearing) creations of the last four decades.

As it's not one of my usual G-Shock rotations, I'm only moderately terrified to wear this whatwith my lifelong history of cracks and smashes…

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Adrift in the nebluous blur that is the as-yet unknown transition from the first bit to the second, the intuition that something's just not there, not right: it's in those transitions that it all comes to life and, while the TBD doesn't have to be perfect – perfect doesn't exist – a glimmer of a scintilla of that life-giving thing would be grand and yes this scrap is part of my process of figuring it out...

internet dinosaur sitrep

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Macro0124 is in subscribers’ inboxes and I'm still, two weeks in, sold on my current dinosaur approach to the internet and to my career: this retreat to writing words and spewing thoughts about books and films and whatever springs to mind. I'm just going to do my thing – whatever that thing may be – and if someone enjoys it (or finds it) fine; the hustle, the network, is over.

Fascinates / disturbs me how I only find this freedom in my own space when I'm not posting / syndicating it to social media. Maybe it's a byproduct of getting rid of that "something extra," as Suzuki would say.

While there are still more things I’d like to do here – both an increased sharing of others' blogs and newsletters, and the realization of seemingly-unshakable notion of a day-ending / curtain closing coda (though it's not in active processing, by any stretch) – I'm happy with the way things are and plan to continue it for the foreseeable future. Until I change my mind but that’s for a later iteration of myself to decide.

The Abacusynth

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Creator Elias Jarzombek on this amazing thing:

Abacuysnth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.

It exists in two forms, one digital and one physical, that are both based on the same primary interaction: placing and manipulating shapes on rods. The visual and tactile control makes it easy and fun to create rich timbres sounds without having to fiddle with lots of knobs and sliders.

Be sure to check out the whole article via Elias’s blog. I’m entranced - and want to hear what EJK and/or Fran would do with it.