And your prize is…
Many hoary old cliches (on that subject, is there much else that gets called ‘hoary’?) have some sort of basis in sense or fact, but one that I saw for about the thousandth time in XXX tonight seems to entirely la[…]

strange geometries ahoy!!
if this “chicago blogmap” works how i think it works, it’s projecting a sector of the blogiverse back onto the stylised planar* real-world projection of the illinois city (move cursor to a station to see w[…]

A few songs into my shift at the Birkbeck end-of-term party a guy came up to the decks. “Do you have a card?” “What?” “I’m getting married this year, I wondered if you had a card, you know, with your mobile on it.&[…]

SOUL DIMENSION – “Trash-An-Ready” (aka PopNose2): I have been able to find out almost nothing about this track! Search parties came back empty-handed save for an offhand reference by the all-knowing Woebot to early hip-hop/dancehall[…]

Zaha Hadid Rules !
The thing with Zaha Hadid is that she does not do much theory, or the theory she does is a bout buildings and not cities. Her buildings are about the logical extensions of material and form–so radical in many ways that she is[…]

I was blown away by this last night. It was stunning in so many ways.
The ENO production pushed the humour to the front and the comic foil; Papageno hammed it up to the crowd. There is a lot of character and location movement in The Magic Flute and t[…]

“There’s a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road – that’s where I’ll always be….” Zatoichi is The Littlest Hobo. With a sword. And lots and lots of bloodshed. The kind of blodshed that would not have been[…]

Much as the Publog keeps a keen eye out for new snack food produce, Proven By Science will occasionally cast its eye at the scientific (and more probably pseudo-scientific) domestic products. And they don’t come more domestic than Domestos Pink[…]

Troubled Diva is playing a game comparing ‘this week in pop’ across the decades, with a sort-of megamix for each day. Great idea, well executed. Currently the 1960s are winning: a shame I think as my own pop researches suggest that 1964 w[…]

PopNose V2.0
NYLPM is four years old today, and it’s time to freshen up the format a little bit. What I’ve decided to do is bring PopNose, our MP3 blog, onto NYLPM. Hits ahoy! But PopNose itself wasn’t without its problems, which is[…]