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The realest and most drool-worthy monthly inspiration stolen and compiled by Moodmail.
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The jazz scene in Japan has intimate connections with the Philippines, believe it or not, and it all started with the Filipino pianist Luis F. Borromeo. As a child, Borromeo was sent to the United States to study music, which led him to take part in an impromptu performance as part of the San Francisco Pan-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. This eventually opened up a multi-year gig with the Orpheum Theater chain and a tour with vaudeville-style stage shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland. In 1920, Borromeo returned to the Philippines and assembled the first Filipino vaudeville company with notable jazz influences drawn from the American military’s occupation. At the time, trading activities with Japan picked up as did immigration between both countries and many Filipino jazz musicians performed in Japan and Shanghai, introducing the Japanese island to the new musical genre.
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Some of the earliest roots of jazz in Japan extend to 1950s Toshiba – one of the three top record manufacturers in Japan at the time – and its pressing of red vinyls. These so-called “Everclean” pressings were created to circumvent the build-up of static electricity and dust to enhance longevity and sound quality. Red vinyl discs were reserved for top recordings, some of which were reissues of American jazz albums, as well as popular performers like Pink Floyd and the Beatles. As rumor had it by Japanese manufacturers, American record production from the 70s and 80s paled in comparison to their tech, as they opted for recycled and cheap vinyl to press recordings which resulted in poor sound quality.
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The hefty of the heftiest playlists around featuring every gig painted, sketched and drawn live by Todd DiCiurcio, the man who lives and breathes music and eats it for breakfast. The over 5-hour musical journey includes New Order, Cat Power, Bat For Lashes, Empire Of The Sun, The Strokes, Band of Horses, The National and many many others.
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Take a walk on the wild side with Todd DiCiurcio, the go-to man for live music encapsulated into one of a kind works of art from legendary acts like The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, New Order and Cat Power.
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“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”
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Gerard K. O’Neill was an American physicist and space activist known for his calls to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O’Neill cylinder. His Space Studies Institute was devoted to funding research into making space manufacturing and colonization a reality. “2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future” authored by O’Neill in 1981 attempted to forecast the state of our being 100 years into the future. He predicted the effects of technologies which he dubbed “drivers of change” on the coming century. Some technologies he described were space colonies, solar power satellites, anti-aging drugs, hydrogen-propelled cars, climate control and underground magnetic trains.
O’Neill also predicted that privacy would be under siege from computers in 2081. For the Wild Card chapter of the book, O’Neill toyed with the less probable ideas of nuclear annihilation, attaining immortality and contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.
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“The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space” is a book penned in 1976 by the space activist Gerard K. O’Neill. It unfurled a road map for what the United States would likely be digging its feet into in outer space following the Apollo program and the drive to place a man on the moon and beyond.
The book envisioned large manned habitats in the Earth-Moon system constructed using raw materials from the lunar surface and from near-Earth asteroids. As for electricity, O’Neill brought in the uber logical solution of solar powered satellites. In 1977, “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space” won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.
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D. M. Thomas was awarded the Los Angeles Times Fiction prize for his novel The White Hotel, an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages; a Cholmondeley award for poetry; and the Orwell Prize for his biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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If you don’t know, now you know. South Korea is a full-blown coffee haven, far exceeding any notions of kimchi-eating, sriracha and tea slugging. In fact, coffee shops in Seoul reached a whopping 18,000 spots in 2016, surpassing the coffee-per-capita in Seattle and San Francisco.
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Sigmund
Freud has been dead for nearly 70 years, but Freud’s provocative theories are still a part of psychology, neuroscience, and culture — this despite the fact that many of his ideas were mindboggingly, catastrophically wrong. Indulge into the world of Penisneid and start your own collection.
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Horn Bowl
This horn bowl is from Madagascar and a timeless good which is enduring in quality. A true classic for design homeware collector.
