Adrian Hon

Oh, and after mysteriously being absent from streaming services for ages, it looks like the main soundtrack finally appeared in the last year or two, somewhat cleaned up?

YouTube video by EA Partners, LLC Sneakers (1992) Soundtrack Score - An Old Friend... An Old Flame (with piano solo) - James Horner

Someone also uploaded the piano solo exit (“An Old Flame”) to Cosmo… Old Friend, ripped from an Academy Awards FYC disc

YouTube video by Mike Bloomfield - Topic Really

At least I found the song that was played while young Marty and Cosmo are hacking at the start

SNEAKERS: EXPANDED & REMASTERED LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET) SNEAKERS: EXPANDED & REMASTERED LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET)

How was there an Expanded and Remastered version of the Sneakers soundtrack in 2023 and I didn’t hear about it?!

Almost 1.5 hours of new music!! 😭

correct, always plenty of stuff to do and interesting people to meet

Participation persists!

Turns out the guy who runs TRMNL is an asshole who loves Elon and Trump, so I just cancelled my order. Oh well!

Voidspace in Conversation: Book Launch Join us to celebrate the launch of Voidspace in Conversation, the Voidspace’s first anthology of essays and interviews. Wine! Nibbles! A Q&A! Join us! You can preorder your copy of Voidsp…

Honoured and excited to be interviewing Katy Naylor for the book launch of the amazing Voidspace in Conversation on Sat 13th Sept in London!

It's a free event with wine and nibbles and the whole @voidspacezine.bsky.social family, come along!

This sounds awesome!

Only if I get to make the tie-in ARG/location-based game

Very much agreed on that!

In other words, I haven’t seen any evidence that there are fewer young people coming to London than before. It’s possible and I would love to see better stats!

Essentially, I don’t think there’s a meaningful drop in foreign/young visitors to London. I think they just aren’t going to the Tate.

It’s not broken down by age or city, however – though I would find it hard to believe that an overall increase in inbound tourism is masking a massive drop in London or 18-24 year old visits.

The article doesn’t give specific numbers but I am pretty sure there hasn’t been a 40% fall in international visits to London, from Europe or elsewhere, or even among young people.

The latest govt data shows inbound visits to the UK are now 5% higher than 2019, and this holds for people on holiday.

FWIW I’ve been a Tate member for ages so I would live them to do well!

Yeah, the physical space feels tired, which is surprising given the extension. Wayfinding is difficult. Permanent galleries haven’t changed for a while, etc.

Good take!

Some of the paid exhibitions are really spectacular, but they cost about the same as your Immersive Van Goghs, which have better promotion and are designed for selfies...

Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)

The NYT argues the Tate Modern pioneered "art experiences" – think the Turbine Hall, massive installation art, etc – and that's what powered its popularity.

In 2025, lots of places offer the same thing. In fact, the Tate Modern looks dowdy in comparison. Maybe the art is better, but do people care?

If I'm visiting London and I have limited time, I have to think very hard about what to see. The British Museum is an easy choice – it has All The Old Stuff and it's massive so you don't need to pay for an exhibition.

But the Tate Modern has a ton of new competition for "art experiences".

In other words, if the Tate maintained its visitor numbers for everyone *above* 16-24, the overall drop in visitors would be negligible.

I don't doubt that there are socio-economic factors involved, but I also wonder if international visitors are simply choosing to go somewhere else.

Tate reveals the main reason for its lower attendance figures The museum group has shared internal research with The Art Newspaper that indicates one key demographic shift

I'm a little skeptical of Tate's explanation for why its visitor numbers dropped so much in 2024.

Visits from people outside the UK dropped by ~40% vs 2019. They highlight a major drop in visits from young people from the EU – but that was also around 40%, which means you can't put it all on them.

another primer to what’s been happening this past week. thanks to all the journalists who’ve been covering this

Apparently!

Here's how to turn it off: Open the Google app on your Android phone. Tap your profile avatar (top right corner). Go to Settings. Scroll down and tap on Other settings. Look for a new toggle option called "Shorten links to web pages: Links you share to pages will be automatically shortened." Turn this toggle OFF. This should prevent the Google app's Chrome Custom Tab from automatically shortening URLs to share.google.com when you use the share button for pages opened from Google Search results or the Discover feed. It's worth noting that, according to recent reports, this setting currently might not apply to Google Discover links that you share directly from the feed without opening them first (they might still appear as search.app links). However, for pages you've opened, this new setting should resolve the issue for you.

Here's how to turn it off on Android! www.reddit.com/r/chrome/com...

I’m guessing it’s part of Google’s multipronged pre-emptive fuckery to get everyone to use the Google app before they’re barred from being Apple’s default search engine

These share.google links infesting social media and chat are driving me up the wall, I need them destroyed with extreme prejudice.

I’m not saying we need a shaming campaign for anyone who shares them, but I’m not not saying that either…

Exciting!

wake me up when they introduce the French system that listens for noisy motor vehicles and instantly fines them

Oh cool!