Retro Tech
Hey,
Knight Rider's cameo in the lec on Wed reminded me of a few retro tech items I stumbled across a few weeks back. Here's a fairly hi-tech cell phone masquerading as a novel brick on trademe, yeah, I know, trademe, but the interest shown kind of ties back to Nabeel's idea of old tech merging with/informing the new. Not too sure about the quality though, haven't heard of the brand the seller mentions, if anyone has any info that would be much appreciated. Here's where you can get your Luddite T-Shirts. I'm not too sure if there's anything like this locally, although there has been a trend here towards ironic-nostalgic fashion over the past 18+ months. My fav shirt would have to be the 'System Disk' even though I only have very faint memories of the floppy. I love the 'Non-Stop Rock X-Press' cassette pop-up on the site, the Luddites sure know how to remediate! I guess I'm a kind of audio-Luddite with my analogue LPs and cassettes, and contrary to popular opinion, some records certainly do sound better than a tinny MP3 or CD transfer, but it depends on the pressing. It's interesting that Luddite Enterprises advertise on the Internet, I guess it's a way of carrying the irony further and maybe even converting a few back to analogue mode...maybe...the Luddite lifestyle has its allure.
And to David W re: your comment on Sarah Mc’s “Sex Sells?” a month back - if you haven’t already, be sure to check out NOW DIG THIS, it’s the rock & roll mag with the most for kool kats in the know!
Stella
Knight Rider's cameo in the lec on Wed reminded me of a few retro tech items I stumbled across a few weeks back. Here's a fairly hi-tech cell phone masquerading as a novel brick on trademe, yeah, I know, trademe, but the interest shown kind of ties back to Nabeel's idea of old tech merging with/informing the new. Not too sure about the quality though, haven't heard of the brand the seller mentions, if anyone has any info that would be much appreciated. Here's where you can get your Luddite T-Shirts. I'm not too sure if there's anything like this locally, although there has been a trend here towards ironic-nostalgic fashion over the past 18+ months. My fav shirt would have to be the 'System Disk' even though I only have very faint memories of the floppy. I love the 'Non-Stop Rock X-Press' cassette pop-up on the site, the Luddites sure know how to remediate! I guess I'm a kind of audio-Luddite with my analogue LPs and cassettes, and contrary to popular opinion, some records certainly do sound better than a tinny MP3 or CD transfer, but it depends on the pressing. It's interesting that Luddite Enterprises advertise on the Internet, I guess it's a way of carrying the irony further and maybe even converting a few back to analogue mode...maybe...the Luddite lifestyle has its allure.
And to David W re: your comment on Sarah Mc’s “Sex Sells?” a month back - if you haven’t already, be sure to check out NOW DIG THIS, it’s the rock & roll mag with the most for kool kats in the know!
Stella
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