Ed Grace

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#electronica #warp #rephlex #aphex #90s #music #thedeepark #techno #ambient #ohmygollygosh

The sun is shining, I'm in a good mood and I'm swept along by the last two hours of it but today this feels like the ultimate form and purpose of this music. I wouldn't defend that to the death but I want to stress that this is not just some old tracks banged together.

@amias.net - do you know this? Because I think you may have similar feelings. ❤️

The Deep Ark A powerful and deep world of sound filled with the vibrations of nature.

I am once again listening to thedeepark.com

More people should listen to this staggering 08:08 (hrs:minutes) mix, heavy on the Aphex, Warp and other peak early 90s electronica, carefully structured, de and re constructed so that it feels like a living ecosystem and not an exercise in nostalgia.

My elderly but faithful Mustek A3 scanner's skeuomorphic interface makes a little twinkling Chinese Bell type noise when it opens. It used to enrage me c.2004 but now it's so incredibly dated that I find it charming.

It walks like it's busting for a shit

This is like the Edinburgh that turns up in my dreams sometimes! All stone staircases and jumbled, overlapping bridges. Fantastic painting.

@amias.net dead mouse retrieved! Luckily I got to it before it started making EDM

UH OH time to pull up the floorboards and find that dead mouse.....

WHY DO PATHS BEHAVE SO DIFFERENTLY WHY ARE THE SHORTCUTS ALL DIFFERENT WHY DOES IT REFUSE TO SPEAK NICE WITH ILLUSTRATOR IS A LITTLE INTEGRATION TOO MUCH TO ASK

#Adobe Creative Suite is like a real life family! Photoshop is the Mummy, Illustrator is the Daddy and Animate is a weird bastard child he had with Mummy's sister, After Effects. #notjoking

I'M OPENING A PDF I DO NOT WANT TO 'ASK AN AI ASSISTANT' ANYTHING #adobe #acrobat #bloatware

A drawing of ET waving at us on the cardboard packaging for a 1980s product called "E.T. Punch Balls" As this is a repost of a Feb 2023 tweet of mine, found here https://x.com/DemonTomatoDave/status/1623464715077795840?s=19 , I have taken this photo from the No Context E.T. account who posted it there, and who originally I retweeted.

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

It's a little stressful working late into the night for days, getting into that particular type of solo creative madness, emailing a submission and then not receiving any acknowledgement. It would be soothing to know that it didn't vanish into the ether as emails with attachments sometimes do.

I have found horror to be one of the most polarised genres in comics in terms of quality, and a few recent 'big names' really haven't landed for me but I love the excerpts I've seen of this and I look forward to reading it!

Ordered!

it's an illustration of a european magpie, pica pica, perched inside a flowering horse chestnut tree, eating a cockchafer beetle

Did a comic about magpies, and had a mental block around colouring them until I remembered Batman. #superstitions #comics #illustration

well, that's me buying that then

@faberbooks.bsky.social hi! I entered your Graphic Short Story Competition earlier - now I'm nervous my files might not have arrived as no reply to email - is it possible to find out please?

'ROCK CHAIR' works too :D

my gosh

ISO is the thinking man's WD40 :)
The Amiga vanished at some point but the disks remained - it's been weird looking at old 'demos' and things I made with a skill set which I have completely forgotten! I have however grabbed a lot of the samples I was using and stuck them into my Digitakt.

Anyway, very few people will ever care about this, but here it is. Big up the 3.5" floppy on this glorious sunny day.

I wouldn't risk this with someone else's data- 🎵 NEVER PUT ME IN YOUR DRIVE IF THAT SHIT EATS DISKS 🎵- but it was another testament to the resilience of the format.

" OH NO" I thought "Alignment is everything. I've heard some bad floppies will only read on the drive that wrote them, such are the tolerances involved. I have NO chance of fixing this. But I'll try, as a last ditch method, to hotglue the head back onto the arm'.

THE DRIVE WORKS PERFECTLY AGAIN

This is better than taking the lid off your drive and cleaning the heads by flipping them up. I did this to my only drive and really struggled to get the head back down, bending and eventually separating the head from the arm.

And you should do this frequently if you're dealing with old disk as gunk and mould will accumulate on your heads. It can make an enormous difference to read success.

TIP: you can clean 3.5" floppy drive heads REMARKABLY EFFECTIVELY by taking a junk disk, slitting it open, discarding the media and taping a piece of coffee filter paper inside, across the window. Douse that paper in isopropyl, run a cleaning routine with your disk controller and kapow.

I was even able to retrieve a few files from a disk which had been removed from its sleeve and inserted into a new donor sleeve via an iso bath. Probably not best practice. And in one case I was able to get an image of a disk which absolutely did not boot on my Amiga which runs in WinUAE now.