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prostheticknowledge: Museum of Endangered Sounds Tongue-in-cheek site features a dashboard of sounds from old technologies: The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt  … I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs. Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone? These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of Endangered Sounds. More Here prostheticknowledge: Museum of Endangered Sounds Tongue-in-cheek site features a dashboard of sounds from old technologies: The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt  … I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs. Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone? These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of Endangered Sounds. More Here prostheticknowledge: Museum of Endangered Sounds Tongue-in-cheek site features a dashboard of sounds from old technologies: The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt  … I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs. Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone? These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of Endangered Sounds. More Here prostheticknowledge: Museum of Endangered Sounds Tongue-in-cheek site features a dashboard of sounds from old technologies: The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt  … I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs. Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone? These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of Endangered Sounds. More Here

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Museum of Endangered Sounds

Tongue-in-cheek site features a dashboard of sounds from old technologies:

The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt  … I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs.

Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone?

These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of Endangered Sounds.

More Here

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Duncan Jones (‘Moon’ and ‘Source Code’) will make the true stories of Ian Fleming his third picture. If you’re unaware of Fleming’s history let’s just say creating James Bond wasn’t the most interesting thing he ever did. Jones is a smart filmmaker that seems dedicated to telling more complex tales. This will be his first non-science fiction film, but considering how his past films are more character pieces set in sci-fi situations, I don’t think it’ll be a huge leap. Very, very excited to see this progress. View Larger

Duncan Jones (‘Moon’ and ‘Source Code’) will make the true stories of Ian Fleming his third picture. If you’re unaware of Fleming’s history let’s just say creating James Bond wasn’t the most interesting thing he ever did. Jones is a smart filmmaker that seems dedicated to telling more complex tales. This will be his first non-science fiction film, but considering how his past films are more character pieces set in sci-fi situations, I don’t think it’ll be a huge leap. Very, very excited to see this progress.

# Ian Fleming history James Bond Duncan Jones film

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smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission. smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission. smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission. smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission. smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission. smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission. smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation. Photos: NASA Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.

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Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration

The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation.

Photos: NASA

Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.

# science history photography

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I think the genius of all Errol Morris films is that he’s never catering too much to his subjects. He allows them to tell us and somewhat tell themselves of what they’ve done, had done to them and perhaps gives us all a better understanding of that person. Seriously if you’ve never seen one of his docs, you’re really missing out on not just great work, but some of the most important and honest films you can see.

I think the genius of all Errol Morris films is that he’s never catering too much to his subjects. He allows them to tell us and somewhat tell themselves of what they’ve done, had done to them and perhaps gives us all a better understanding of that person. Seriously if you’ve never seen one of his docs, you’re really missing out on not just great work, but some of the most important and honest films you can see.

# Robert McNamara documentary errol morris film the fog of war history war

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