Technology
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avery r. young: local wordsmith publishes opus on facebook
Avery R. Young, local Chicago wordsmith, educator, personality, and friend of darkjive, is in the midst of publishing a series of thirty works (some poetry, some script treatments, and some more visual pieces) in the form of facebook notes. The work plays with notions of language, blackness, and the canon of African-American pop culture as…
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The Turntable goes Minimalist
The little guy pictured above is a Linos Portable USB vinyl record player (never would have guessed it). How does it work, you ask? Hook the wire into your computer. The bar has two parts. Take out the bottom base, place the long play album or single on top, and then sandwich it with the overarching…
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Digital wolves in warm, fuzzy sheep’s clothing
I know a lot of the Darkjive faithful are also among the analog faithful (some, if only in spirit). The clicks and pops old records afford make our hearts skip a beat (even recreated on digitized copies). Well, get ready for a digital wolf in warm, somewhat fuzzy sheep’s clothing: 45iPodcases.com. Their tagline even heralds “Digital meets…
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I’m in love, and his name is TESLA
I love my car. I do. But the above COMPLETELY ELECTRIC car, the Tesla Model S is making me fantasize about a polygamous vehicle relationship. To be clear, when I say electric, I am not referring to those butterflies I feel. I refer to Tesla Motors’ status as the only highway-legal electric car company based…
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